Personnel changes
Nora Sillanpää, DSc (Tech), was appointed adjunct professor at the end of 2020. Nora is working mainly at Service Manager in the stormwater team of Sitowise’s Water Services. At Aalto, Nora is a part-time stormwater management professor. https://www.rakennuslehti.fi/2021/02/aalto-yliopistoon-suomen-ensimmainen-hulevesiprofessuuri/
Postdoctoral researcher Hanne Laine-Kaulio moved to Academy of Finland in January 2021. Hanne is working as a Science advisor.
Doctoral candidate Ambika Khadka will start working part time at ICEYE as a flood modelling hydrologist. She will continue to finish her PhD work at Aalto alongside with the new job.
Eliisa Lotsari, PhD, was appointed assistant professor of Water engineering. Eliisa will start at her new position in August 2021. She will be joining our team from University of Eastern Finland where she still currently works as a university lecturer. https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/eliisa-lotsari-appointed-assistant-professor-of-water-engineering
Recent publications
Äijö, H., Myllys, M., Sikkilä, M., Salo, H., Salla, A., Nurminen, J., Paasonen-Kivekäs, M., Koivusalo, H. 2021. Vesitalouden hallinta vesiensuojelussa (VesiHave). Loppuraportti 2021. Salaojjituksen tutkimusyhdistys ry:n tiedote 35. https://www.salaojayhdistys.fi/fi/julkaisut/
The final report of the VesiHave (Use of water management in control of water pollution) is now published. The project was coordinated by Finnish Field Association (Salaojayhdistys) and it had both experimental field monitoring and mathematical modelling. Heidi Salo and Aleksi Salla simulated field hydrology in varying meteorological conditions in recent past (2015-2019) and far future (1970-2100) The project was funded by environmental ministry, Drainage foundation sr, Maa- ja vesitekniikan tuki ry and Sven Hallin research foundation.
Caroppi, G., Västilä, K., Gualtieri, P., Järvelä, J., Giugni, M., & Rowiński, P. M. (2021). Comparison of Flexible and Rigid Vegetation Induced Shear Layers in Partly Vegetated Channels. Water Resources Research, e2020WR028243. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020WR028243
Key implications of using natural-like vegetation in the simulation of vegetated flows (from Caroppi et al., 2021).
Conference participation
McS Aleksi Salla attended EGU 2021 Virtual conference. Aleksi had a pico presentation about his master’s thesis study. The presentation was held in session “Hydrological processes in agricultural lands under changing environments” on Monday, 26 April 2021, 09:30 CEST. https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU21/EGU21-14381.html
