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Lena Tallaksen was awarded the 2024 Dooge Medal (International Hydrology Prize) by the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), UNESCO, and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). She was recognized for her exceptional and groundbreaking contributions to advancing the understanding of…
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Around 1250 achievements have been reported by the IHP Family during UNESCO Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme, phase VIII (IHP-VIII, 2014-2021) on “Water Security” (https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000391752). Most achievements were reported under the theme “Water-related disasters and hydrological change”. The FRIEND-Water flagship was a…
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The European Drought Risk Atlas (EDRA) (https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC135215) represents a significant advancement in impact-based drought assessment. It assists in the development and implementation of drought management and adaptation policies and actions. Following two different approaches, the atlas characterizes how drought hazard,…
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We recommend a new paper in review (discussion), on the 2022 drought in Europe which is available as a discussion paper in EGUsphere: EGUsphere – The 2022 Drought Needs to be a Turning Point for European Drought Risk Management

The Drought Resilience +10 Conference was held from 30 September to 2 October 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland, at the WMO Headquarters. The event brought together countries, experts, and practitioners to review progress and lessons learnt since the High-Level Meeting on National Drought Policy (HMNDP)…
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The GroundedExtremes project “Understanding and governing groundwater to reduce risk of hydrological extremes” (2024-2027) aims to investigate groundwater and hydrological extremes, and design improved groundwater management as a powerful adaptation strategy to both droughts and floods, avoiding long-term unintended consequences…
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A new Nature Scientific Report paper has been published by EDC members, Sigrid J. Bakke, Monica Ionita and Lena M. Tallaksen. You can find the paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-48861-4

Elsevier webshop: https://shop.elsevier.com/books/hydrological-drought/tallaksen/978-0-12-819082-1 Description Drought is a worldwide phenomenon that originates from a prolonged deficit in precipitation, often in combination with high evaporation, over an extended region. The resultant meteorological water balance deficit may cause a hydrological drought to develop…
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As part of the EURO-FRIEND project 3 on “Large Scale Variations in Hydrological Characteristics”, it will be running a workshop/training series between April and December 2022. Once a month, it will be proposed either a seminar or training on the…
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For those who are at EGU, we would like to highlight the following events.   Meeting Panta Rhei Drought in the Anthropocene meetup. This is an informal get-together for researchers part of (or interesting in) the Panta Rhei working group…
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