Anna Leuteritz

HS Hydrological Sciences

The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Anna Leuteritz for the poster/PICO entitled:

Celerity, velocity and length of near-surface flow pathways: insights from tracer experiments (Leuteritz, A.; Gauthier, V.; van Meerveld, I.)

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Anna Leuteritz is a PhD candidate in the Hydrology and Climate group at the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research focuses on runoff generation processes on hillslopes in a pre-Alpine headwater catchment in Switzerland and is supervised by Ilja van Meerveld. 

At the 2025 General Assembly of the EGU, Anna presented findings from artificial rainfall simulation experiments on two large vegetated runoff plots conducted together with Victor Gauthier, another PhD candidate in the TopFlow project. A combination of tracer-, dye-, and water-pulse experiments demonstrated the rapid downslope transport of water and solutes via short overland flow pathways and repeated infiltration and exfiltration of water from the topsoil. The study also highlighted the importance of preferential flow, the difference between celerity and velocity, and is important for understanding the fast runoff response in pre-Alpine catchments with gleysols.