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News
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Three BOKU PhD students, led by Patrick Scherhaufer, organised a session at the conference of the Society for Transdisciplinary and Participatory…
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BOKU grants diversity prizes for research at Tulln's inaugural Diversity Day. Discover the strategy behind the awards and meet the winners.
Events
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ABM4Energy conference 2026
The next ABM4Energy conference on Agent-based Modeling for Energy Economics and Energy Policy will be held at BOKU University March 30-31, 2026.
Research
The majority of Alpine river discharge is older than one month
A recently published joint study by the BOKU University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich shows the age distribution of Alpine rivers in Switzerland and Austria and shows that the majority of the annual runoff is significantly older than one month. This means that even in the event of floods, only a small proportion of the runoff consists of recent precipitation.