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
- Consultancy to handle the data and professionalising of the database of civilian casualties in the Tigray War and to update the Tigray Atlas of the Humanitarian SituationFrom1 Sep 2021 → 31 Dec 2021Funding: Foreign Nonprofit organisations and equivalents
- Modelling topoclimate over the Ethiopian highlands: effects on rainfall distribution, vegetation and hydrologyFrom1 Oct 2020 → TodayFunding: 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)
- Sediment Budget of Lake Tana Basin (Ethiopia): It’s Implication on Lake Volume and Basin ManagementFrom1 Oct 2015 → 29 Feb 2020Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- 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
Publications
581 - 590 of 688
- Human impacts on the hydrogeomorphology of Gumara River, Upper Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia
Authors: Mengiste Abate, Jan Nyssen, Tammo Steenhuis, Michael Mehari, Seifu Admassu, Temesgen Enku, Enyew Adgo, Mekete Dessie Wosenie
Pages: 48 - 53 - Role of alluvial plains in buffering floods and sediment
Authors: Mekete Dessie Wosenie, Valentijn Pauwels, Jean Poesen, Enyew Adgo, Jozef Deckers, Jan Nyssen
Pages: 70 - 73 - Long-term landscape changes in relation to rainfall variability and natural resources management in the northern Ethiopian highlands
Authors: Tesfaalem-Ghebreyohannes Asfaha, Mitiku Haile, Amaury Frankl, Amanuel Abraha, Jan Nyssen
Pages: 228 - 228 - Sediment flux dynamics as fingerprints of catchment rehabilitation : the case of western Rift Valley escarpment of northern Ethiopia
Authors: Tesfaalem-Ghebreyohannes Asfaha, Amaury Frankl, Mitiku Haile, Amanuel Zenebe, Jan Nyssen
Pages: 220 - 235 - Understanding the Environmental Changes in Tigray, Ethiopia: a photographic record over 30 years.
Authors: Jan Nyssen, R MUNRO, H MITIKU, K DESCHEEMAEKER, NIGUSSIE HAREGEWEYN, J MOEYERSONS, G GOVERS, J DECKERS
Number of pages: 1 - Transhumance and landscape dynamics in northern Ethiopia
Authors: Jan Nyssen, Tesfaalem-Ghebreyohannes Asfaha, Kelemework Tafere, Veerle Van Eetvelde
Pages: 18 - 18 - Analyzing long-term gully erosion evolution and environmental change in North EthiopiaU+2019s semi-arid mountains
Authors: Amaury Frankl, Stephanie de Mûelenaere, Ellen Meire, J Poesen, Mitiku Haile, Alain De Wulf, J Deckers, Jan Nyssen
Pages: 29 - 30 - Soil and irrigation water management : farmer’s practice, insight, and major constraints in Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia
Authors: Desale Kidane Asmamaw, Pieter Janssens, Mekete Dessie, Seifu A. Tilahun, Enyew Adgo, Jan Nyssen, Kristine Walraevens, Derbew Fentie, Wim Cornelis
- Soil and water conservation: problems and research needs for improving predictions
Authors: Jean Poesen, W Maetens, T Smets, E Verachtert, M Vanmaercke, Jan Nyssen
Number of pages: 1 - Rural marketing in Tigray: the case of Hagere Selam market
Authors: Abebe Ejigu, E Mathijs, M Maertens, Kidanemariam Gebregziabher, Jan Nyssen, Jozef Deckers, Hans Bauer, K Amare, Asfawossen Asrat, Francesco Dramis, et al.
Pages: 97 - 101
Linked dataset
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- Data set: historical and ethno-linguistic maps covering Western Tigray (1607-2014) (Creator)
- Western Tigray in 165 historical and 33 ethno-linguistic maps (1475-2014) (Creator)
- Market prices in Tigray (March 2020 – March 2022) (Creator)
- Spatially explicit dataset on crop status of 161 farm plots in Tigray (20-30 August 2021) (Creator)
- Spatially explicit dataset on crop status of 262 farm plots in Tigray (24-29 August 2022) (Creator)
- Database: the Ethiopian public universities during the Tigray war (Creator)