The registration deadline is 30 April 2025. To register, please fill out this form: REGISTRATION FORM

You need to provide following:

• Motivation Statement for Participation (max. 200-300 words)
• Short description of your research project, also state to what extent you are familiar with hydrological models, handling hydrological data sets, as well as Matlab/Octave and Python programming, 
• Your affiliation 
• Contact information and affiliation of your supervisor

By mid-April you will receive notification about the acceptance of your application. For updates, please check  the Summer school website - Here

26TH-28TH AUGUST 2025

The venue for The Summer School is the ‘CREATE’ campus building, at Aalborg University, located in the heart of Aalborg and right on the harbour front.

DEPARTMENT OF SUSTAINABILITY AND PLANNING
AALBORG 

Rendsburggade 14, Level 3, 9000 Aalborg

Participation is free of charge if accepted to the summer school. Food, coffee, tea and water is included during the day at the university, however dinner is not included.

Accomodation in and travels to Aalborg is paid by the participant. 

Department of Sustainability and Planning - Geodesy Research Group

Local Committee

• Ehsan Foorotan
• Maike Schumacher

• Day 1 – Introduction to global hydrology, modelling and monitoring, and operational challenges - Gravity based terrestrial water storage monitoring - Soil remote sensing – Introduction to ensemble-based data assimilation – Practical session 
• Day 2 – Global hydrology modelling and human water use – Calibration and data assimilation against Altimetry measurements – Hydrogeology and challenges of validations against in-situ measurements – GRACE(-FO) data processing – Practical session
• Day 3 – Multi-sensor data assimilation - PyGLDA (https://gmd.copernicus.org/preprints/gmd-2024-125/ & https://github.com/AAUGeodesyGroup/PyGLDA) for hydrological data assimilation - Practical session – Current and Future gravity data assimilation - Hydrological data assimilation case studies

The school is open to MS.c. and Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers interested in large scale hydrology. The registration is free and includes course material. Accommodation costs need to be paid by the participants.

• Dr Henrik Madsen (DHI)
• Professor Peter Bauer-Gottwein (Copenhagen University)
• Professor Gabrielle De Lannoy (KU Leuven)
• Professor Petra Dӧll (University of Frankfurt)
• Professor Jürgen Kusche (University of Bonn)
• Dr Anke Fluhrer (German Aerospace Center, DLR)
• Dr Guillaume Ramillien (French National Centre for Scientific Research, CNRS)
• Professor Mohammad Shamsudduha (University College London) 
• Professor Maike Schumacher (Aalborg University)
• Professor Ehsan Forootan  (Aalborg University)

GeodesyDA@plan.aau.dk