EPFL

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

The main activities of the Hydrology and Land Improvement Laboratory (HYDRAM), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) are research, teaching as well as expertise in the field of water and land improvement, with special focus on sustainable management of natural and man-made water systems, management of water resources, prospective studies of the impacts of potential global changes in the society and the environment.

The laboratory's staff is composed of two professors, 16 research associates and 5 technical and administrative collaborators.

Research activities developed at HYDRAM/EPFL mainly focus on three domains:

1. surface hydrology and water resources management,
2. subsurface hydrology, solute and pollutant transport, 
3. land improvement and its impacts.

HYDRAM has brought significant contributions, which have an international reach and recognition, namely in the fields of:

• catchment hydrology, environmental tracing
• deterministic and stochastic rainfall-runoff modelling
• parameter estimation and uncertainty analysis
• stochastic rainfall modelling
• flood regionalisation
• erosion and flood inundation mapping and modelling
• flood forecasting in mountainous
• climate change impact on hydrological regime
• soil physics
• GIS and land management