Critical Zone Hydrology Group

Research interests

• Land use change and hydrology
• Water and nutrient cycling of plantation forests (Fiji)
• Water, nutrient and carbon cycling
• Catchment hydrology and modelling

Current activities

• Agro-hydrology: innovative crop irrigation techniques, subsurface storage of fresh water, water recycling
• Hydrochemistry: peat degradation, nutrient cycling, pesticide degradation and transport through landscapes
• Hydrological modelling: Use of SWAT model to determine effects of climate and land management changes on nutrients and pesticides in surface water
• Dutch Risk Reduction missions for reducing water risks in Tonga and Niger

Publications

• F.B. Zanchi and A.G.C.A. Meesters and M.J. Waterloo and B. Kruijt and J. Kesselmeier and F.J. Luizao and A.J. Dolman (2014). Soil CO2 exchange in seven pristine Amazonian rain forest sites in relation to soil temperature, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2014, 192-193: 96-107. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.03.009.
• Lutz, S. R., van Meerveld, H. J., Waterloo, M. J., Broers, H. P., and van Breukelen, B. M. (2013) A model-based assessment of the potential use of compound-specific stable isotope analysis in river monitoring of diffuse pesticide pollution, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 17, 4505-4524, DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-4505-2013.
• L.A. Cuartas, J. Tomasella, A.D. Nobre, C.A. Nobre, M.G. Hodnett, M.J. Waterloo and S. Mota de Oliveira (2012). Distributed hydrological modeling of a micro-scale rainforest watershed in Amazonia: Model evaluation and advances in calibration using the new HAND terrain model, Journal of Hydrology 462-463: 15-27. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.12.047
• F.B. Zanchi, M.J. Waterloo, B. Kruijt, J. Kesselmeier, F.J. Luizão and A.J. Dolman (2012). Soil CO₂ efflux in Central Amazonia: Environmental and methodological effects. Acta Amazônica 42(2): 173-184.
• A.D. Nobre, L.A. Cuartas, M.G. Hodnett, C.D. Renno, G. Rodrigues, A. Silveira, M.J. Waterloo and S. Saleska (2011). Height above the Nearest Drainage, a hydrologically relevant new terrain model. Journal of Hydrology 404: 13-29. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.03.051
• F.B. Zanchi, M.J. Waterloo, A.J. Dolman, M. Groenendijk, J. Kesselmeier, B. Kruijt, M.A. Bolson, F.J. Luizão and A.O. Manzi (2011). Influence of drainage status on soil and water chemistry, litter decomposition and soil respiration in central Amazonian forests on sandy soils. Ambi-Agua 6(1): 6-29.
• A.C. de Araúujo, A.J. Dolman, M.J. Waterloo, J.H.C. Gash, B. Kruijt, F.B. Zanchi, J.M.E. de Lange, R. Stoevelaar, A.O. Manzi, A.D. Nobre, R.N. Lootens and J. Backer (2010). The spatial variability of CO₂ storage and the interpretation of eddy covariance fluxes in central Amazonia. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 150(2): 226-237. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2009.11.005
• F.B. Zanchi, M.J. Waterloo, L.J.G. Aguiar, C. von Randow, B. Kruijt, F.L. Cardoso and A.O. Manzi (2009). Estimativa do Índice de Área Foliar (IAF) e Biomassa em pastagem no estado de Rondônia, Brasil (Estimate of the leaf area index (LAI) and biomass in pasture in the state of Rondônia, Brazil). Acta Amazôica 39(2): 335-348. DOI: 10.1590/S0044-59672009000200012
• A.C. de Araújo, J.P.H.B. Ometto, A.J. Dolman, B. Kruijt, M.J. Waterloo and J.R. Ehleringer (2008). Implications of CO₂pooling on δ¹³C of ecosystem respiration and leaves in Amazonian forest. Biogeosciences 5: 779-795.
• C. van der Tol, A.G.C.A. Meesters, A.J. Dolman and M.J. Waterloo (2008) Optimum vegetation characteristics, assimilation, and transpiration during a dry season: 1. Model description. Water Resources Research 44(3): 14 p. DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006241
• C. van der Tol, A.G.C.A. Meesters, A.J. Dolman and M.J. Waterloo (2008). Optimum vegetation characteristics, assimilation, and transpiration during a dry season: 2. Model evaluation. Water Resources Research 44: W03422. DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006243
• J. Tomasella, M.G. Hodnett, L.A. Cuartas, A.D. Nobre, M.J. Waterloo and S.M. Oliveira (2008). The water balance of an Amazonian micro-catchment: the effect of interannual variability of rainfall on hydrological behaviour. Hydrological Processes 22(13): 133-2147. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6813
• M.J. Waterloo, J. Schellekens, L.A. Bruijnzeel and T.T. Rawaqa (2007). Changes in catchment runoff after harvesting and burning of a Pinus caribaea plantation in Viti Levu, Fiji. Forest Ecology and Management 251(1-2): 31-44. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.06.050
• L. A. Cuartas, J. Tomasella, A. D. Nobre, M. G. Hodnett, M. J. Waterloo and J. C. Munera (2007). Interception water-partitioning dynamics for a pristine rainforest in Central Amazonia: Marked differences between normal and dry years. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 145(1-2): 69-83. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.04.008
• C. van der Tol and A.J. Dolman and M.J. Waterloo and K. Raspor (2007). Topography induced spatial variations in diurnal cycles of assimilation and latent heat of Mediterranean forest. Biogeosciences 4: 137-154. DOI: 10.5194/bg-4-137-2007
• M.K. van der Molen and A.J. Dolman and M.J. Waterloo and L.A. Bruijnzeel (2006). Climate is affected more by maritime than by continental land use change: A multiple scale analysis. Global and Planetary Change 54(1-2): 128-149. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.05.005
• M.J. Waterloo and S.M. Oliveira and D.P. Drucker and A.D. Nobre and L.A. Cuartas and M.G. Hodnett and I. Langedijk and W.W.P. Jans and J. Tomasella and A. C. de Araújo and T.P. Pimentel and J.C.Múnera Estrada (2006). Export of organic carbon in run-off from an Amazonian rainforest blackwater catchment. Hydrological Processes 20: 2581-2597. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6217
• C. von Randow, A.O. Manzi, B. Kruijt, P.J. de Oliveira, F.B. Zanchi, R.L. Silva, M.G. Hodnett, J.H.C. Gash, J.A. Elbers, M.J. Waterloo, F.L. Cardoso, and P. Kabat (2004). Comparative measurements and seasonal variations in energy and carbon exchange over forest and pasture in South West Amazonia. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 78(1-3): 5-26. DOI: 10.1007/s00704-004-0041-z
• J. Gu, E.A Smith, H.J. Cooper, A. Grose, G. Liu, J.D. Merritt, M.J. Waterloo, A.C. de Araújo, A.D. Nobre, A.O. Manzi, J. Marengo, P.J. de Oliveira, C. von Randow, J. Norman, and P. Silva Dias (2004). Modeling carbon sequestration over the large-scale Amazon Basin aided by satellite observations. Part 1: Wet- and dry-season surface radiation budget flux and precipitation variability based on GOES retrievals. Journal of Applied Meteorology 43(6):870-886. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(2004)043<0870:MCSOTL>2.0.CO;2
• M.J. Waterloo, P.H. Spiertz, H. Diemont, I. Emmer, E. Aalders, R. Wichink-Kruit, and P. Kabat. Criteria, potentials and costs of forestry activities to sequester carbon within the framework of the Clean Development Mechanism. Report 777, Alterra, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands, October 2003.
• J. Grace, B. Kruijt, A. Freibauer, R. Benndorf, R. Carr, M. Dutschke, S. Federici, D. Mollicone, M.J. Sanz, B. Schlamadinger, E. Sezzi, M.J. Waterloo, R. Valentini, J. Verhagen, and B. van Putten. Scientific and technical issues in the Clean Development Mechanism. Workshop discussion paper 1, European Commission, DG Research, Programme Environment and sustainable development, Viterbo, Italy, May 2003. Editor: R. Valentini.
• M.O. Andreae, S. S. de Almeida, P. Artaxo, C. Brandão, F. E. Carswell, P. Ciccioli, A. Culf, J. L. Esteves, J.H.C. Gash, J. Grace, P. Kabat, J. Lelieveld, Y. Malhi, A. O. Manzi, F. X. Meixner, A.D. Nobre, C.A. Nobre, M. A. de Lourdes Ruivo, M.A.F. da Silva-Dias, P. Stefani, R. Valentini, J. von Jouanne, and M.J. Waterloo (2002). Biogeochemical cycling of carbon, water, energy, trace gases, and aerosols in Amazonia: The LBA-EUSTACH experiments. Journal of Geophysical Research 107(D20, 8066):LBA 33-1-33-25. DOI: doi:10.1029/2001JD000524.
• R.C.S. Alvalá, R. Gielow, H. R. da Rocha, H. C. Freitas, J. M. Lopes, A.O. Manzi, C. von Randow, M. A. F. S. Dias, O. M. R. Cabral, and M. J. Waterloo. Intradiurnal and seasonal variability of soil temperature, heat flux, soil moisture content, and thermal properties under forest and pasture in Rondonia. Journal of Geophysical Research 107(D20, 8043):LBA 10-1-10-20, August 2002. DOI: 10.1029/2001JD000599
• R.A. Feddes, P. Kabat, A.J. Dolman, R.W.A. Hutjes, and M.J. Waterloo. Large scale field experiments to improve land surface parameterisations. In J.C.I. Dooge and E.E. Kuusisto, editors, Climate and Water: A 1998 perspective. Second International Conference on Climate And Water, Espoo, Finland, August 1998.
• M.J. Waterloo, L.A. Bruijnzeel, H.F. Vugts, and T.T. Rawaqa (1999). Evaporation from it pinus caribaea plantations on former grassland soils under maritime tropical conditions. Water Resources Research 35(7):2133-2144. DOI: 10.1029/1999wr900006
• M.J. Waterloo, J. Schellekens, L.A. Bruijnzeel, H.F. Vugts, P.N. Assenberg and T.T. Rawaqa (1997).Chemistry of bulk precipitation in southwestern Viti Levu, Fiji. Journal of Tropical Ecology 13(3): 427-447. DOI: 10.1017/S0266467400010609
• M.J. Waterloo, J.C. Ntonga, A.J. Dolman and A.B. Ayangma (1997). Impact of land use changes on the hydrology and erosion of rain forest land in South Cameroon. Technical Report 134, DLO Winand Staring Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
• M.J. Waterloo (1994). Water and Nutrient Dynamics of Pinus caribaea Plantation Forests on degraded grassland soils in Southwest Viti Levu, Fiji. VU University PhD Dissertation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 478 p.
• M.J. Waterloo, F.J. Beekman, L.A. Bruijnzeel, K.F.A. Frumau, E. Harkema, H. Opdam, J. Schellekens, H.F. Vugts, and T.T. Rawaqa (1993). The impact of converting grassland to pine forest on water yield in Viti Levu, Fiji. In J. S. Gladwell, editor, Hydrology of Warm Humid Regions, pages 149-156. IAHS Publication No. 216.
• H.F. Vugts and M.J. Waterloo and F.J. Beekman and K.F.A. Frumau and L.A. Bruijnzeel (1993). The temperature variance method: a powerful tool in the estimation of actual evaporation rates. Hydrology of Warm Humid Regions. Proc. of the Yokohama Symp. J. S. Gladwell (Ed.). IAHS Publication No. 216: 251-260.
• L.A. Bruijnzeel, M.J. Waterloo, J. Proctor, A.T. Kuiters and B.Kotterink. Hydrological observations in montane rain forests on Gunung Silam, Sabah, Malaysia, with special reference to the 'Massenerhebungeffect'. Journal of Ecology 81: 145-167. 1993. DOI: 10.2307/2261231

Links

• Acacia Water web site