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Researcher
Jan Nyssen
- Disciplines:Quaternary environments, Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Geomorphology and landscape evolution, Hydrogeology, Geoarchaeology
Affiliations
- Department of Geography (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2007 → Today
Projects
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- Advancing Regional climate modeling to High resolution with Worldwide Applications - ARCHWAyFrom1 Oct 2022 → TodayFunding: FED-tWIN
- Modelling topoclimate over the Ethiopian highlands: effects on rainfall distribution, vegetation and hydrologyFrom1 Oct 2020 → 30 Sep 2025Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Equipment sedimentological laboratoryFrom1 Jun 2018 → 31 May 2020Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
- Schools as hotspots safe water and improved sanitationFrom1 Dec 2017 → 31 Aug 2021Funding: Department of Environment
- Land use changes and water balance in the Mt. Guna shield volcano (Ethiopian plateau) since the 1930sFrom1 Oct 2017 → 31 Jul 2023Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- Systemic analysis of dam-driven transitions of downstream alluvial plains in EthiopiaFrom1 Jan 2017 → 31 Dec 2020Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- IUS Bahir Dar University (BDU)Ethiopia - PPPFrom1 Mar 2016 → 31 Dec 2016Funding: VLIR-UOS Institutional University Cooperation Program (IUC)
- Tackling the source of runoff and water erosion: How resilient are our managed headwaters to climate change?From1 Oct 2015 → 30 Sep 2019Funding: FWO fellowships
- Sediment Budget of Lake Tana Basin (Ethiopia): It’s Implication on Lake Volume and Basin ManagementFrom1 Oct 2015 → 29 Feb 2020Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- TropiLakes2015: Tropical lakes in a changing environmentFrom23 Sep 2015 → 29 Sep 2015Funding: VLIR-UOS International Course Program (ICP)
Publications
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- The potential distribution of tree heath (Erica arborea L.) in Tigrai(2025)Published in: TROPICAL PLANTSISSN: 2833-9851Issue: 1Volume: 4
- Landcover change in Tigray’s semi-arid highlands (1935–2020) : implications for runoff and channel morphology(2025)Published in: LANDISSN: 2073-445XIssue: 9Volume: 14
- Undoing the development army : a paradigm shift from transfer of technology to agricultural innovation system in Ethiopian extension(2025)Published in: ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITYISSN: 1573-2975Issue: 3Volume: 27Pages: 6303 - 6329
- The effects of armed conflict on natural resources and conservation measures in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia(2025)Published in: INTERNATIONAL SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION RESEARCHISSN: 2589-059XIssue: 2Volume: 13Pages: 463 - 474
- Spatio-temporal groundwater recharge estimation of Mount Guna, Northwest Ethiopia(2025)Published in: JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY-REGIONAL STUDIESISSN: 2214-5818Volume: 62
- Spatio-temporal groundwater recharge estimation of Mount Guna, Northwest Ethiopia : implications on climate and migration challenges(2024)Pages: 20 - 20
- Climate and conflict as spatial drivers of agroecosystems in Ethiopia(2024)Pages: XX, 179 p.
- Recent dynamics in sediment connectivity in the Ethiopian Highlands(2024)Published in: REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGEISSN: 1436-378XIssue: 3Volume: 24
- Spawning migration and habitat characteristics of Labeobarbus species in the Gumara River and its tributaries, Lake Tana subbasin, Ethiopia(2024)Published in: BELGIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGYISSN: 2295-0451Volume: 154Pages: 97 - 116
- Estimation of spatially distributed groundwater recharge in data-scarce regions(2024)Published in: JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY-REGIONAL STUDIESISSN: 2214-5818Volume: 56
Linked dataset
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- Western Tigray in 165 historical and 33 ethno-linguistic maps (1475-2014)
- Data set: historical and ethno-linguistic maps covering Western Tigray (1607-2014)
- Spatially explicit dataset on crop status of 161 farm plots in Tigray (20-30 August 2021)
- Spatially explicit dataset on crop status of 262 farm plots in Tigray (24-29 August 2022)
- Market prices in Tigray (March 2020 – March 2022)
- Database: the Ethiopian public universities during the Tigray war
- Aerial photographs of Ethiopia 1935-1941