Munich Alpine Hazards and Mitigation Cluster (AlpHaz)

During 2021, despite the extended Covid limitations, the Chair of Landslide Research continued the permafrost monitoring on the Zugspitze on the ridge and in the Kammstollen, 15 years after the first measurements. We are thankful to all the students that worked with us this year: - Jonas Brixle and… [weiterlesen]

“Erosion can significantly increase the destructive power of a landslide by rapidly amplifying its volume, mobility and impact force. The threat posed by erosive-landslides is directly linked to their mobility. However, when, how and how much energy landslides gain or lose by erosion and the state… [weiterlesen]

Prof. Krautblatter was part of the german documentation, broadcasted by ZDF. The part about our research at the Zugspitze starts at 34:10. Link to the mediathek. [weiterlesen]

In September, we organized a stakeholder meeting at the Schneefernerhaus on the Zugspitze within the AlpSenseRely project. The roundtable with the topic "What needs do you see as users in forecasting natural hazards in climate change?" was an important event and received positive feedback… [weiterlesen]

Congratulations to Dr. Sibylle Knapp for her outstanding thesis work on rock-slope failures impacting lakes, which has been awarded the Dissertation Award 2021 of the Munich Geocenter. Through her highly innovative methodological approach, Sibylle can decipher multistage event series of massive… [weiterlesen]

After approval of the AlpSenseRely-project, members of the AlpSense-Team wanted to use the good weather in November for neccessary maintenance work at the measuring system at the Hochvogel summit before the winter. Unfortunately deep clouds made a helicopter transport of the material impossible and… [weiterlesen]

On October 13th and 14th six master students of TUM Geodesy carried out deformation measurements at the Aggenalm, Sudelfeld (BY). The measurements were part of the student project "Monitoring of alpine natural hazards", in which the students learn how to perform geodetic network measurements and… [weiterlesen]

Our work at the Hochvogel was braoadcasted by Servus TV. Here you can watch that spectacular mountain: Servus TV Wissensmagazin (in German, fist feature) [weiterlesen]

BR - Kontrovers: German TV broadcasts a short documentary about "The Alps in difficulties" and how the climate change leaves traces in the Alps with Prof. Krautblatter as expert on permafrost. BR: Alpen in Bedrängnis (6:51 min in German) [weiterlesen]

Beginning of July Johannes hiked up the Hochvogel together with Lukas from TUM Geodesy for some maintenance and smaller installations. After a stay over night at the Prinz Luitpold Haus with its friendly hosts they had to carry heavy backpacks all the way up in the morning and down in the afternoon.… [weiterlesen]