Maria Magdalena Warter
Müggelseedamm 310, 12587 Berlin
Profile
Research Interests:
Isotope Hydrology
Ecohydrological Modeling in drought prone and urban environments across the Soil-Water-Atmosphere Continuum
Urban Water and Resource Management (Groundwater and Surface Water Management, Drinking water abstraction and agricultural usage)
Freshwater Ecohydrology & Biodiversity (Water requirements of vegetation, impact of climate & urbanization on terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity)
Nature-Based Solutions (Interactions and effects on water quality, hydrology, and biodiversity)
Blue-green infrastructures
Methods:
environmental DNA (eDNA): microbial Diversity
Stable water isotopes in precipitation, surface water, groundwater, soil water, vegetation: Estimation of mean transit times, Age, watersources and flowpaths
Hydrochemistry and water quality: Nutrient cycles, physikochemical paramters
Data Assimilation and long-term analysis (Climate, Remote Sensing, Streamflow, Groundwater etc.)
Vegetation and Water Balance Modeling: Soil moisture balance models, Dryland Water Partitioning (DRYP), Phenology Models
Education
2009-2015: BSc in Environmental Engineering (University of Natural Resources and Applied Sciences, Vienna, Austria)
2015-2017: MSc in International Land and Water Management (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
- Major: Irrigation Water Management
- Thesis: Influence of water stress on the water use efficiency and biological nitrogen fixation of soybean by means of stable isotopes (in cooperation with Joint IAEA/FAO Programme)
- Minor: Catchment Hydrology
- Thesis: Influence of moss, litter and soil on forest evaporation by means of stable water isotopes (in cooperation with TU Delft)
2018-2022: PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences (Cardiff University, UK)
Dissertation: Detection of forest water stress and future climate change in drought-prone ecosystems of the Southwestern United States
Funded by the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP)
Memberships
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- European Geosciences Union (EGU)
- Deutsche Hydrologische Gesellschaft
- German Hydrological Society (DHG)
- International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)
- HELPING working group: Urban Water
Publications
Conferences
2024
- AGU Fall Meeting, Washington DC (Invited Talk + Poster)
- Kolloquium Wasserwesen at TU Berlin (Invited Talk)
- Climate Change Days, Berlin (Invited Talk)
- International Workshop on Urbanization and Sustainable Water Management in the Global South, Munich (Keynote)
- Water Research Horizons Conference, Leipzig (Talk)
- Tag der Hydrologie, Berlin (Talk)
- EGU General Assembly, Vienna (Talk)
- 2nd International Conference on Urban Water Interfaces, Berlin (Talk)
2023
- International Symposium on Isotope Hydrology at the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Poster)
- EGU General Assembly, Vienna (Talk)
- Tag der Hydrologie, Bochum (Poster )
2021
- AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans (Talk)
2019
- AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco (Talk)
2017
- EGU General Assembly, Vienna (Poster)
Additional Publications
Warter, M.M., Singer, M.B., Cuthbert, M.O., Roberts D., Caylor, K.K., Sabathier, R., Stella, J.C.(2023). Modeling seasonal vegetation phenology from hydroclimatic drivers for contrasting plant functional groups within drylands of the Southwestern USA. Environmental Research: Ecology, 2 025001. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2752-664X/acb9a0/meta
Warter, M.M., Singer, M.B., Cuthbert, M.O., Roberts D., Caylor, K.K., Sabathier, R., Stella, J.C. (2021). Drought onset and propagation into soil moisture and grassland vegetation responses during the 2012-2019 major drought in Southern California. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25,3713-3729. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-3713-2021