Munich Alpine Hazards and Mitigation Cluster (AlpHaz)

Valentin Heimhuber (M.Sc.) was honered with the Heinz-Peter Scholz award for his outstanding master's thesis with the topic „GIS Based Flood Modeling as Part of an Integrated Development Strategy for Informal Settlements, which was supervised by the chair of hydrology and river basin management and… [weiterlesen]

The development of a landslide-dammed lake following the Badakshan tragedy in northern Afghanistan posed a difficult challenge to the already devastated community. The initial landslide events killed more than 350 people, and blocked the main river - creating a lake that inundated buildings in the… [weiterlesen]

An ARD film crew for [w] wie wissen has announced taking video footage at the Zugspitz Kammstollen next week. The project team is pleased to give a large public information about the ongoing research issues. [weiterlesen]

Heavy precipitation (over 200 mm in 3 days) caused by cyclone Tamara as it passed through Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia late last month caused unprecedented debris and earth flows in these areas. Entire sections of villages and smaller towns have been devastated(e.g. Stolice near the… [weiterlesen]

Lukas Paysen-Petersen has been recruited as a new PhD candidate in the TUM Landslide Research group to work on a new TUM - Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt project “Georisiken im Klimawandel - Gefahrenhinweiskarte Alpenvorland” (Georisks in climate change - hazard information map for the Alpine… [weiterlesen]

“Pilot Project Hornbergl – Prevention against alpine natural hazards” (6 ECTS) Zukunftsfähige Wintersportnutzung im Skigebiet Reuttener Seilbahnen [weiterlesen]

The special issue arises from research presented at a recent 'Rockslides, rockfalls, and rock avalanches' session at the annual EGU General Assembly. The special issue was compiled by Michael Krautblatter and Jeffrey Moore (University of Utah), and includes a commentary on drivers of… [weiterlesen]

A large landslide last week was released from just below the peak of Mount Kazbek in Georgia. The failure originated at 4,100 m, well above the regional permafrost limit, but immediately underneath an actively retreating glacier. Debris travelled 10 km down-valley and killed a number of people near… [weiterlesen]

A large landslide over two weeks ago is thought to have killed over 2000 people from the village of Ab Barek in north-eastern Afghanistan. This is one of the worst landslide disasters of recent years, a timely reminder of the power of nature - and in this case, where there was clear evidence for… [weiterlesen]

Exploration for the surveying of the “Kammstollen” between the Schneefernerhaus and the Kammhotel at Zugspitze as preparation of a joint measurement campaign for the monitoring of mass displacements related to local hydrology applying gravimetric, geoelectric and seismic methods. The position of all… [weiterlesen]