Busy times in May

Consultancy continued, plus a few hours of teaching at Fluid Mechanics Department UNIZAR,  
ending with a brief  talk for Peruvian graduates about the articulation of flood monitoring techniques, at the
2nd IAPG-conference on Geotechnics, link to slides (ESP).

By the way, the drone HQ-image illustrates  how bank erosion leads to tree falling, at Alcalá de Ebro, May 2022.

 


 

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