Dr. Thom Bogaard
Thom Bogaard obtained his MSc degree in 1993 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam studying surface erosion on terraced agricultural fields and sediment transport in small catchment in central-Java, Indonesia. Additionally he worked on micrometeorological research in relation to the desertification in central Spain. His PhD degree followed in 2001 at Utrecht University on the ‘Analysis of hydrological processes in unstable clayey slopes’. In 2007 he moved to Delft University of Technology department of Water management with main focus on experimental and hillslope/landslide hydrology. He also is affiliated with IHE Institute for Water Education.
Thom’s main research interest can be summarized as the interaction between water and environmental processes and their impacts on human society. Hereto, Thom focuses on hillslope and landslide hydrology as well as on development and application of innovative measurement techniques for hydrology. His main research topics are:
- Hydrology: Hillslope and catchment hydrology, isotope hydrology, tracer application in water resources
- Innovative monitoring in hydrology: Applying Fibre Optic Cable for distributed temperature and pressure measurements in hydrological systems; WaterTagging - developing nanoparticles with DNA-tag that can be used as water flow path tracer
- Landslide hydrology: Hydrology and slope stability, reactivations and feedback mechanisms, vegetation & slope stability
- Natural hazard and risk management and communication: regional hazard assessment
- Hydrological and water quality observations and monitoring networks, citizen science
- Capacity building: Myanmar, Rwanda, Ecuador
See also:
Selected publications
Landslide hydrology
Bogaard T.A., R. Greco (2018). Invited perspectives: Hydrological perspectives on precipitation intensity-duration thresholds for landslide initiation: proposing hydro-meteorological thresholds. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 31–39. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-31-2018
Peres DJ, A Cancelliere, R Greco, T.A. Bogaard (2018). Influence of uncertain identification of triggering rainfall on the assessment of landslide early warning thresholds Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 633-646. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-633-2018
Sidle, RC, T.A. Bogaard (2016). Dynamic earth system and ecological controls of rainfall-initiated landslides. Earth-Science Reviews 159, 275–291. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2016.05.013
Shao, W, T Bogaard, M Bakker, M Berti (2016) The influence of preferential flow on pressure propagation and landslide triggering of the Rocca Pitigliana landslide. J. of Hydrology, 543 Part B, 360–372. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.10.015
Bogaard, TA, R Greco (2015) Landslide hydrology: from hydrology to pore pressure. WIREs Water 2015. doi: 10.1002/wat2.1126
Bogaard,TA, R Greco 2014. Hillslope hydrological modeling for landslides prediction. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 18:4185-4188. doi:10.5194/hess-18-1-2014
Wei Meng, T.A.Bogaard, L.P.H. van Beek (2014). How the stabilizing effect of vegetation on a slope changes over time: a review. 3rd WLF, Beijing 2014. Landslide Science for a Safer Geoenvironment, 363-372. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-04999-1
Krzeminska, DM, TA Bogaard, J-P Malet, LPH. van Beek. (2013). A model of hydrological and mechanical feedbacks of preferential fissure flow in a slow-moving landslide. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 17, 947-959, 2013
Van der Spek, JE, M Bakker, TA Bogaard (2013): Characterization of groundwater dynamics in landslides in varved clays. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.,17, 2171-2183,. doi:10.5194/hess-17-2171-2013
Barij, N, A Stokes, TA Bogaard, LPH van Beek (2007). Does growing on a slope affect tree xylem structure and water relations? Tree Physiology, 27, pp.757-764
Van Asch, ThWJ, LPH. van Beek, TA Bogaard (2007). Problems in predicting the rate of slow moving landslides. Engineering Geology, 91, pp.46-55.
Bogaard, TA, ThWJ. van Asch (2002). The role of the soil moisture balance in the unsaturated zone on movement and stability of the Beline landslide, France. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, vol.27, pp. 1177-1188
Catchment Hydrology
Hulsman P, TA Bogaard, HHG Savenije. (2018) Rainfall-runoff modelling using river-stage time series in the absence of reliable discharge information: a case study in the semi-arid Mara River basin. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 5081–5095. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-5081-2018
Giuditta E, AMJ Coenders-Gerrits, TA Bogaard, J Wenninger, R Greco, FA Rutigliano. (2018) Measuring changes in forest floor evaporation after prescribed burning in Southern Italy pine plantations. Agricultural and forest meteorology 256-257, pp. 516-525
Coenders-Gerrits, AMJ., RJ van der Ent, TA Bogaard, L Wang-Erlandsson, M Hrachowitz, HHG Savenije (2014). Uncertainties in transpiration estimates, Nature 506, dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature12925
Ehret,U., HV Gupta, M Sivapalan, SV Weijs, SJ Schymanski, G Blöschl, AN Gelfan, C Harman, A Kleidon, TA Bogaard, D Wang, T Wagener, U Scherer, E Zehe, MFP Bierkens, G Di Baldassarre, J Parajka, LPH van Beek, A van Griensven, MC Westhoff (2014) Advancing Catchment Hydrology to deal with Predictions under Change. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 649–671. doi:10.5194/hess-18-649-2014
Hrachowitz, M, HHG Savenije, TA Bogaard, D Tetzlaff, C Soulsby (2013). What can flux tracking teach us about water age distribution patterns and their temporal dynamics? Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 17, 533-564, 2013
Westhoff, MC, M Gooseff, TA Bogaard, HHG Savenije (2011). Quantifying hyporheic exchange at high spatial resolution using natural temperature variations along a first-order stream. WRR Vol. 47, W10508, doi:10.1029/2010WR009767
Jongschaap, REE, RAR Blesgraaf, TA Bogaard, EN van Loo, HHG Savenije (2009). The water footprint of bioenergy from Jatropha curcas L.. Comment Letter to the editor. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106:E92.
Tracer hydrology and measurement techniques
Agliata R, TA Bogaard, R Greco, A Minardo, L Mollo SC Steele-Dunne (2019) Non-invasive water content estimation in a tuff wall by DTS. Construction and Building Materials 197, 821–829
Agliata R, TA Bogaard, R Greco, L Mollo, EC Slob, S Steele-Dunne. (2017) Non-invasive estimation of moisture content in tuff bricks by GPR. Construction and Building Materials 160, 698–706. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2017.11.103
Dong J, R Agliata, S Steele-Dunne, O Hoes, TA Bogaard, R Greco, NC van de Giesen (2017) The impacts of heating strategy on soil moisture estimation using Actively Heated Fiber Optics. Sensors. 17(9). pii: E2102. doi: 10.3390/s17092102.
Foppen, JW, J Seopa, N Bakobie, TA Bogaard (2013) Development of a methodology for the application of synthetic DNA in stream tracer injection experiments. Water Resources Research, Vol. 49, 5369–5380, doi:10.1002/wrcr.20438, 2013
Krzeminska, DM, S Steele-Dunne, TA Bogaard, MM Rutten, P Sailhac, Y Géraud (2012) High resolution temperature observations to monitor soil thermal properties as a proxy for soil moisture condition in clay shale landslide. Hydrol. Process. 26, 2143–2156 DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7980
Westhoff, MC, TA Bogaard, HHG Savenije (2011) Quantifying spatial and temporal discharge dynamics of an event in a first order stream, using distributed temperature sensing. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. doi:10.5194/hess-15-1945-2011
Steele-Dunne, SC, MM Rutten, DM Krzeminska, M Hausner, SW Tyler, JS Selker, TA Bogaard, NC van de Giesen (2010). Feasibility of Soil Moisture Estimation using Passive Distributed Temperature Sensing. Water Resour. Res., 46, W03534, doi:10.1029/2009WR008272, 2010
Penna, D, B Stenni, M Sanda, S Wrede, TA Bogaard, A Gobbi, M Borga, BMC Fischer, M Bonazza (2010). On the reproducibility and repeatability of laser absorption spectroscopy measurements for δ2H and δ 18O isotopic analysis. doi:10.5194/hess-14-1-2010. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 14, 1551–1566, 2010.
Miscellaneous
Charrière, MKM, SJ Junier, TA Bogaard. J-P Malet, NC van de Giesen (2017). The impact of an exhibition on risk awareness of the general public in mountainous areas. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.07.011
Charrière, MKM, TA Bogaard (2016). Smartphone applications for communicating avalanche risk information – a study on how they are developed and evaluated by their providers. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 1175–1188. doi:10.5194/nhess-16-1175-2016
Cortes Arevalo, VJ, S Sterlacchini, TA Bogaard, S. Junier, N. van de Giesen (2016). Decision support method to systematically evaluate first-level inspections of the functional status of check dams. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering. DOI: 10.1080/15732479.2016.1144619
Cortes Arevalo VJ, M Charrière, G Bossi, S Frigerio, L Schenato, TA Bogaard, C Bianchizza, A Pasuto, S Sterlacchini (2014). Evaluating data quality collected by volunteers for first-level inspection of hydraulic structures in mountain catchments. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 14, 2681-2698. doi:10.5194/nhess-14-2681-2014
