Dr. Clarissa Glaser
Postdoc for Hydrology/Hydrogeology/Physical geography
Research Areas
- Groundwater-surface water interactions
- Process hydrology
- Catchment hydrology
- Tracer hydrology
- Water quality
- Ecohydrology
- River corridors
- Physical geography
Regional focus: Southwestern German Uplands, Eifel/Ardennes, USA (Northwest), Canada (Yucon)
Dr. Clarissa Glaser
3.011
Meckenheimer Allee 172
53115 Bonn
Mailing address:
Meckenheimer Allee 166
53115 Bonn
Teaching
An overview of current and past courses can be found under teaching.
Meetings can be arranged via Mail.
CV
- August - Oktober 2025: Research stay at McMaster University, Canada (Working group: Prof Sean Carey)
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August - September 2023: Research stay at the Oregon State UniversityWorking group: Prof Adam Ward
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as of 2022: PostDoc
Research group: Hydrology (Universität Bonn)
- 2021-2022: PostDoc
Research group: Environmental Systems Analysis (University of Tübingen, Germany)
- 2017-2020: PhD Student
Project ‘Rivers’ in the CRC ‘Campos – Catchments as Reactors’
Research groups: Environmental Systems Analysis and Hydrogeochemistry (University of Tübingen, Germany)
- 2014 - 2016: MSc Geoecology
Research group master thesis: Department of Hydrology, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
- 2014- 2016:Postgraduate studies Environmental Law (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
- 2012- 2014: BSc. Geoecology
Research group bachelor thesis: Department of Soil Ecology, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
- 2010-2012: BSc. Geosciences (Kiel University, Germany)
- 2026: Preparing for chairing the Gordon Research Seminar Catchment Science: Interactions of Hydrology, Biology and Geochemistry. Link to website
- 2026: Chairing the session “Water balance under pressure” of the “Day of Hydrology”. Link to website (german).
- 2026: Co-Conveneing of the session „Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions: physical, biogeochemical and ecological processes“ at EGU 2026 (European Geosciences Union General Assembly) in Vienna, Austria. Link to website.
- 2026: Tag der Hydrologie, member of the research committee responsible for developing the scientific programme. Link to website (german).
- 2026: Co-Convening the session „Grundwasser-Oberflächenwasser Interaktionen an Fließgewässern, Seen und Küste“ at the 30th FH-DGGV-Convention (Grundwasser und Wassersicherheit im Wandel); Link to webiste (german)
- 2025: Convening the session “Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions: physical, biogeochemical and ecological processes” at the EGU 2025 (European Geosciences Union General Assembly) in Vienna, Austria. Link to website.
- 2024: Conference organizer of the hydrology conference “Intermittency in Headwater Streams – Challenges and Opportunities from an Interdisciplinary Perspective” at the University of Bonn. Link to website.
- Mentor in the CyberMentor programme for girls in mathematics, computer science, natural sciences. Link to website.
- Selected fellow of the Klaus Tschira Foundation (2023) - link to website
- Selected fellow in the 'Athene Program' (2021) - For early female career researchers at the University of Tübingen (2022-2023)
- Financial support from the DAAD (2019) - (‘Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst’; DAAD Rise Program). Supervision of an intern from the USA within the frame of the CRC ‘Campos – Catchments as Reactors’
- Research grant for hydrological field studies of the ‘German Hydrological Association’ (Deutsche Hydrologische Gesellschaft) (2018)
Projects
RABBIT (Reach Attributes, Basin Characteristics, and Breakthrough Curves from Solute Tracer Injections)
Duration:
2026 - 2027
Principle Investigator:
Dr. Clarissa Glaser
Co-worker:
Johanna Niedick, Charlotte Bormann, Alina Sprengel
Funder:
STEP Förderprogramm
Predicting transport processes in streams
Duration:
2025 - 2028
Principle Investigator:
Dr. Clarissa Glaser
Co-worker:
Funder:
Klaus Tschira Foundation
Unravelling ecohydrological separation in the critical zone using multiple tracers and hydrological modeling
Duration:
2024 - 2025
Principle Investigator:
Dr. Clarissa Glaser
Funder:
Transdisciplinary Research Area Innovation and Technology for Sustainable Futures
Intermittency in headwater streams
Duration:
since 2024
Principle Investigator:
Dr. Clarissa Glaser
Funder:
Argelander Academy Grant
Groundwater - surface water exchange in headwater streams of varying intermittency
Duration:
2023 - 2024
Principle Investigator:
Dr. Clarissa Glaser
Funder:
Klaus Tschira Foundation
Groundwater inflow into rivers under changing climate
Duration:
2022 - 2024
Principle Investigator:
Dr. Clarissa Glaser
Co-worker:
Christina Pan & Leonie Pies
Funder:
Argelander Grants
Publications under review
On the advantage of combining radon and chloride to estimate river corridor exchange
Glaser C.; Klaus J.; Krause J.; Ward A. S.
Submitted to Hydrological Processes
Exploring the Effects of Tracer Mass and Detection Limits in Stream Experiments with Instantaneous Tracer Injections on Solute Transport
Glaser, C. & Klaus, J.
Submitted to Hydrological Processes
Assessing causal drivers of diurnal streamflow fluctuations using convergent cross mapping
Glaser, C.; Schultze, P.; Bogena, H.; Klaus, J.
Submitted to Hydrological Processes
Publications
Partitioning Water Storage in Stream Reaches: Implications for Solute Transport under Varying Hydrological Conditions (2026)
Glaser, C.; Bonanno, E.; Blöschl, G; Klaus, J.
Water Resources Research, WRCR70568. DOI: 10.1029/2025WR040372
Streamflow (de)generation - how do streams lose flow? (2025)
Glaser, C.; Gannon, J.P.; Godsey, S. E.; Grande, E.; Klaus, J.
Hydrological Processes 39 (10). DOI: 10.1002/hyp.70258
Different tracer, different bias: using radon to reveal flow paths beyond the Window of Detection (2025, preprint)
Bacher, J.; Klaus, J.; Ward, A. S.; Krause, J.; Segura, C.; Glaser, C.
Submitted to Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2025-1625
One-Dimensional Transport with Inflow and Storage to Simulate Radon Activity (OTIS-R), Software (v1.0.0) (2025)
Bacher, J.; Klaus, J.; Glaser, C.
Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17593146
Predicting the duration of stream tracer experiments (1.0) (2025)
Glaser, C. & Klaus, J.
Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15000106
Spatio‐Temporal Variability of Hyporheic Exchange Processes Across a Stream Network (2024)
Glaser, C.; Gilfedder, B. S.; Zarfl, C.
Hydrological Processes 38 (12). DOI: 10.1002/hyp.15337.
Particle-associated organic contaminant and cytotoxicity transport in a river during storm events (2023)
Glaser C.; Escher B. I.; Engelhardt M.; Liu Y.; Krauss M.; König M.; Schlichting R.; Zarfl C.; Spahr S.
Journal of Hydrology 621 (129600). DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129600
Anthropogenic activities significantly increase annual greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes from temperate headwater streams in Germany (2023)
Mwanake R. M.; Gettel G. M.; Wangari E. G.; Glaser C.; Houska T.; Breuer L.; Butterbach-Bahl K.; Kiese R. (2023)
Biogeosciences 20, 3395–3422. DOI: 10.5194/bg-20-3395-2023
Swabian MOSES 2021: An interdisciplinary field campaign for investigating convective storms and their event chains (2022)
Kunz, M.; Abbas, S. S.; Bauckholt, M.; Böhmländer, A.; Feuerle, T.; Gasch, P.; Glaser, C.; Groß, J.; Hajnsek, I.; Handwerker, J.; Hase, F.; Khordakova, D.; Knippertz, P.; Kohler, M.; Lange, D.; Latt, M.; Laube, J.; Martin, L.; Mauder, M.; Möhler, O.; Mohr, S.; Reitter, R. W.; Rettenmeier A.; Rolf, C.; Saathoff, H.; Schrön, M.; Schütze, C.; Spahr, S.; Späth, F.; Vogel, F.; Völksch, I.; Weber, U.; Wieser, A.; Wilhelm, J.; Zhang, H.; Dietrich, P.(2022)
Frontiers in Earth Science 10 (999593). DOI: 10.3389/feart.2022.999593
Modeling the Dynamics of Mixture Toxicity and Effects of Organic Micropollutants in a Small River under Unsteady Flow Conditions (2022)
Wei, R.; Escher, B. I.; Glaser, C.; König, M.; Schlichting, R.; Schmitt, M.; Störiko, A.; Viswanathan, M.; Zarfl, C.(2022)
Environmental Science and Technology 56 (20). DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c02824
Groundwater-surface water exchange and hydrologic turnover as key controls for in-stream and groundwater nitrate concentrations in first-order agricultural stream catchments (2022)
Jiménez Fernández, Ó.; Schwientek, M.; Osenbrück, K.; Glaser, C.; Schmidt, C.; Fleckenstein, J. (2022)
Hydrological Processes 36 (2). DOI: 10.1002/hyp.14507
A full list of all peer reviewed publications can be found below to download.
An overview of all publications can also be found on Google Scholar.