Department of Built Environment

Water Resources Management and Environmental Hydraulics

We promote sustainable use of water and advance the assessment and prediction of the state of the water environment measure. We quantify changes in water and the environment caused by anthropogenic activities in both empirical and laboratory settings. We develop computational hydrology and hydraulics applications, ecohydraulics, nature-based solutions and basin-scale process examination. The watershed basin is our key unit, enabling the study of the effects of land cover and sub-processes related to precipitation, evapotranspiration, water storage and runoff development.

In particular, we focus on:
* Ecohydraulics and nature-based solutions
* Water in cities
* Water in agricultural areas
* Water in forests
WRMRG

Latest publications

Co-developing research-assisting AI for water resources professionals: the Digital Waters Flagship’s digital methods course 

Elizabeth Carter, Mehrdad Rostami, Elsa Culler, Omer Abubaker, Mohammad Imangholiloo, Mia Pihlajamäki, Maija Taka, Harri Koivusalo, Pertti Alo-Aho, Hannu Martilla, Mehdi Rasti, Pyry Kettunen, Marko Keskinen, Ville Mäkinen, Juha Oksanen, Petteri Alho, Björn Klöve 2026

Interoperability Strategies for Process-Based Models in Digital Water Twins: An Architectural and Framework-Based Synthesis

Abubaker Omer, Debasish Pal, Jan Olsman, Elizabeth Carter, Harri Koivusalo 2026

Implications of spatially distributed rainfall design events on urban hydrological response across advection scenarios

V. Lindgren, O. Tamm, T. Niemi, H. Koivusalo, T. Kokkonen 2025 Urban Water Journal

Modelling the Spatio-Temporal Effects of Water Level Control in an Agricultural Collector Ditch Network

Elina Paavonen, Heidi Salo, Aleksi Salla, Harri Koivusalo 2025 Irrigation and Drainage

The Importance of Design Storm Hyetograph on Urban Flood Risk Management and Drainage System Design

Egle Saaremäe, Ottar Tamm, Harri Koivusalo, Toomas Tamm 2025 Journal of Flood Risk Management

How controlled drainage and peat subsidence affect the hydrology of cultivated peatlands under changing climatic conditions

Aleksi Salla, Heidi Salo, Mika Tähtikarhu, Harri Koivusalo 2025 Agricultural Water Management

SWMMLIDopt : a tool for optimization of low-impact development (LID) measures using the SWMM model

Elhadi Mohsen Hassan Abdalla, Edvard Sivertsen, Ottar Tamm, Adrian Werner, Harri Koivusalo, Herman Helness 2024 Journal of Hydroinformatics
More information on our research in the Aalto research portal.
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Fostering Climate Resilient and Smart Water Management In Agriculture
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