Dr. Clarissa Glaser
Postdoc for Hydrology/Hydrogeology
Research Areas
- Groundwater-surface water interactions
- Process hydrology
- Catchment hydrology
- Tracer hydrology
- Water quality
- Ecohydrology
- River corridors
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
- 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.
- Tag der Hydrologie, 2026: member of the research committee responsible for developing the scientific programme. Link to website (german).
- 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)
- 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.
- Conference organizer of the hydrology conference “Intermittency in Headwater Streams – Challenges and Opportunities from an Interdisciplinary Perspective” at the University of Bonn (2024). Link to website.
- Mentor in the CyberMentor programme for girls in mathematics, computer science, natural sciences. Link to website.
- 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)
Projects
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
Fellowships and grants
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
Publications under review
Exploring the Effects of Tracer Mass and Detection Limits in Stream Tracer Experiments
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 (2025)
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. L.; 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. L., 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.