{"id":59079,"date":"2025-12-16T08:59:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coc.ufrj.br\/water-resources-and-environment-laboratory-labh2o\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T22:27:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T01:27:33","slug":"water-resources-and-environment-laboratory-labh2o","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coc.ufrj.br\/en\/water-resources-and-environment-laboratory-labh2o\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Resources and Environment Laboratory – LABH2O"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Water Resources and Environment Laboratory, which is part of the Civil Engineering Program, was created in 2010 with a view to adopting a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach to training future scientific leaders in the field of water resources. In tune with social demands, the Laboratory works with undergraduate students (Tutorial Education Program – PET\/MEC-SESu – CAPES support and PIBIC Program – CNPq support) and postgraduate students (master’s and doctorate), placing great emphasis on the emerging issue of integrated watershed management. <\/p>

The formation of the new Laboratory brings together and integrates the Laboratories that have historically developed alongside the Civil Engineering Program at COPPE\/UFRJ, namely: Tracers Laboratory (1972); Hydrology Laboratory (1987) and Computational Hydraulics Laboratory (1998).<\/p>

The main mission of the Water Resources and Environment Laboratory is to build a database and develop analysis tools that can be integrated into a decision support system for water resources management, supported by environmental modeling and hydro-meteorological and global climate change monitoring at the basin scale.<\/p>

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Strategic Guidelines<\/strong><\/h5>

The laboratory’s strategy is guided by academic-scientific axes that are worth highlighting:<\/p>

  1. Surface and underground hydrology<\/p><\/li>

  2. Surface-atmosphere interactions, micrometeorology and mesoscale hydrometeorology<\/p><\/li>

  3. Water, air and soil quality<\/p><\/li>

  4. River hydraulics<\/p><\/li>

  5. Sediment transport<\/p><\/li>

  6. Hydraulic structures<\/p><\/li>

  7. Hydrometry<\/p><\/li>

  8. Application of tracers in hydrology<\/p><\/li>

  9. Environmental modeling and water resource management in rural and urban watersheds<\/p><\/li>

  10. Global climate change and its regional effects<\/p><\/li><\/ol>

    These themes encourage the development of remote sensing and geophysical techniques, with the aim of making up for the lack of data and helping to solve problems related to Brazilian river basins. One example of this is the quest to improve the quality, reduce the costs and optimize the acquisition time of basic hydrological data. This is essential for forecasting, control and action strategies during droughts and floods, as well as enabling estimates of the impacts of climate change on the hydrological cycle, river regimes and the identification of hydrological risks and measures to adapt to new environmental conditions. <\/p>

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    Scientific questions<\/strong><\/h5>

    The laboratory seeks to answer fundamental scientific questions such as:<\/p>