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Research interests
HydroPF: Detecting and modelling fluid flow and critical hydrostatic pressure in permafrost/cryospheric rock walls.
1. Field sites
- Zugspitze, D
- Gemsstock, CH
- Steintälli, CH
- Hochvogel, D
2. Methods
- Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT)
- Temperature logging
- Gravimetry
- Induced Polarization (IP)
- Automatic crackmeters and manual tape-extensometer
- UDEC
- SNOWPACK
- Isotope analysis of water from springs
- Active Seismic
- Weather station and cameras
3. Cooperation
- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF – Dr. Marcia Phillips
- Technical University of Denmark – Prof. Thomas Ingeman-Nielsen
- University Bonn – Prof. Andreas Kemna
- University of Vienna – Dr. Sabine Kraushaar
- Bavarian Avalanche Service
4. Student supervision
- Gravimetric measurements for rockslide detection. Case study: Hochvogel – Stoll Verena – study project (10 ECTS) – February 2019
- Temporal and spatial variations of permafrost affected rock on the Zugspitze using a combined approach of ERT and gravimetry – Averdunk Sebastian – study project (12 ECTS) – April 2019
- Neue Ergebnisse aus den elektrischen Widerstandsmessungen im Kammstollen der Zugspitze - Reese Frederik – Bachelor thesis (9 ECTS) – March 2019
- Permafrost degradation at the Steintälli ridge, Switzerland. Analysis of ERT measurements from summer 2019 and comparison with former measurements by Julia Petzi – study project – February 2020 (12 ECTS)
- UDEC-Modelling of hydrostatic water pressure and its effects on rock slope stability – Case study Hochvogel and Zugspitze (Northern Calcareous Alps, Germany/Austria) by Verena Stoll – Master thesis – February 2020 (30 ECTS)
- Permafrost monitoring using time-domain induced polarization – Gil Guberman – Master thesis (30 ECTS) – March 2020