Dr Aline Meyer Oliveira
- Affiliate Postdoc (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7076-4570Biography
I am a hydrologist born in Porto Alegre, Brazil. I obtained the PhD in Hydrology at the University of Zurich in 2025. During my PhD, I studied about floodplain forests in southeastern Brazil, their water level variation and investigated the sources for tree water uptake using stable water isotopes. I am an Environmental Engineer with a degree from the Federal Univesity of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), where I also obtained a Master's degree in 2020, working at the Large-Scale Hydrology group. During my Master's (and also the beginning of my PhD), I have worked with incorporating remote sensing imagery to calibrate hydrological models. After the PhD, I was awarded a Postdoc Mobility fellowship from the Swiss National Foundation (SNSF) to work on a project about understanding root water uptake in forests during drought conditions using stable water isotopes. This project is also a collaboration with BOKU University, in Austria. The fieldsite is the Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment (SCENE).
Research interests
I am interested in eco-hydrology in general, but more specifically: understanding water and nutrient fluxes in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum, use of stable water isotopes in eco-hydrology, responses of trees to drought conditions, and vadoze zone modeling. More broadly, I am also interested in catchment hydrology, mainly related to using remote sensing to calibrate hydrological models.
Publications
Prior publications
Article
Franziska Clerc-Schwarzenbach, Aline Meyer Oliveira, Marc Vis, Jan Seibert, Ilja van Meerveld (2025) Modelling Brazilian hydrology using various input datasets and model structures Crossref. (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-2765)
Aline Meyer Oliveira et al. (2025) Which water sources do trees on floodplains in southeastern Brazil use for transpiration? Crossref. (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-10527)
Aline Meyer Oliveira, Fernanda Gianasi, Patrícia Vieira Pompeu, Rubens Manoel dos Santos, Ilja van Meerveld (2025) Water level regimes, forest composition, and forest functioning in floodplain forests in southeastern Brazil Crossref. (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-896)
Aline Meyer Oliveira et al. (2024) Inundation dynamics in seasonally dry floodplain forests in southeastern Brazil Crossref. (doi: 10.1002/hyp.15203)
Scandellari, Francesca et al. (2024) Using stable isotopes to inform water resource management in forested and agricultural ecosystems Web of Science Researcher Profile Sync. (doi: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2024.121381)
Gianasi, Fernanda Moreira et al. (2024) Water level regime variation is a crucial driver for taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity in seasonally flooded tropical forests Web of Science Researcher Profile Sync. (doi: 10.1016/J.SCITOTENV.2024.175195)
Aline Meyer Oliveira, Ilja van Meerveld, Marc Vis, Jan Seibert (2023) Assessment of the Value of Remotely Sensed Surface Water Extent Data for the Calibration of a Lumped Hydrological Model Aline Meyer Oliveira. ISSN 1944-7973 (doi: 10.1029/2023wr034875)
Theresa C. van Hateren et al. (2023) Where should hydrology go? An early-career perspective on the next IAHS Scientific Decade: 2023–2032 Aline Meyer Oliveira. ISSN 2150-3435 (doi: 10.1080/02626667.2023.2170754)
Ayan Fleischmann et al. (2021) Synergistic Calibration of a Hydrological Model Using Discharge and Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture in the Paraná River Basin Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. (doi: 10.3390/rs13163256)
(2021) On the contribution of remote sensing-based calibration to model hydrological and hydraulic processes in tropical regions Aline Meyer Oliveira. ISSN 0022-1694 (doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126184)
Meyer, A., Fleischmann, A.S., Collischonn, W., Paiva, R., Jardim, P. (2018) Empirical assessment of flood wave celerity–discharge relationships at local and reach scales Scopus - Elsevier. ISBN 21503435 02626667 (doi: 10.1080/02626667.2018.1557336)
Grants
Understanding root water uptake during drought conditions in beech forests using stable water isotopes.
Postdoc Mobility - Swiss National Science Foundation. Amount: 141,650 CHF. Duration: 01.04.2025 – 31.03.2027.
