The Department of Physical Geography (www) has experience in river basin studies, spatial and stochastic modelling, and the application of GIS and remote sensing techniques. Over the past years several research projects have been carried out that addressed the impact of climate and other envi-ronmental changes to large-scale river basins, such as the Rhine, Elbe, and Volga, as well as the Tana, Torna-Kalix, Pechora and other subarctic rivers in Northern Europe. The department has furthermore been involved in several studies on the application of remote sensing techniques in landscape analysis.

Hans Middelkoop is associate professor at the Department of Physical Geography. He has participated in various climate impact projects on the Rhine, Volga as well as subarctic rivers. He has been supervisor of several MSc and PhD projects within the fields of fluvial morphodynamics, hydrologic modelling and climate impacts.

Rens van Beek is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Physical Geography. He has outstanding expertise in GIS-based modelling of land degradation and hydrological processes. He is currently working on a global-scale hydrological model using GIS techniques.