Promoting sustainable groundwater solutions for rural farming communities in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan

On 16 April 2024, Dr. Catalin Stefan met representatives of Uzbeckhydrogeology and discussed potential collaboration on groundwater dating and stable isotope analysis. Online meeting between TU Dresden, Nazarbayev University and “O‘zbekgidrogeologiya” State Institution, 16 April 2024 The meeting was organised online and attended by representatives of TU Dresden, “O‘zbekgidrogeologiya” State Institution, Department of Hydrogeology and Geoecology of the Ministry of …

Project team members from UNU-FLORES, IICAS and TUD met in Dresden on 29 November 2023 and discussed the research agenda of the joint FARM project (photo: TUD) On 29 November 2023, the project team members from TUD, UNU-FLORES and IICAS met at the TUD campus in Dresden and discussed the research agenda of the FARM project. The onsite meeting was …

On 21 November 2023, a research team from IICAS checked the status of several groundwater monitoring wells in the Karauzyak district. Photos shared by Alim Asamatdinov, Principal Investigator from IICAS.

From 16 to 20 October 2023, Dr. Catalin Stefan joined a German delegation for a one-week trip to Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The trip was organised by the International Office of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the lead of Ms. Gabriele Hermani, Head of BMBF Division 212 “Collaboration with East European states, Southern Caucasus and Central Asia”. …

As follow-up to our recent research activities in Central Asia, we are very glad to share that our group recently started working on a new research project entitled “Promoting sustainable groundwater solutions for rural farming communities in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan – FARM”. The focus of the project is on the region south of Aral Sea in the Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan, …