Institute of Geological Sciences

Research Groups

Research

Active participation in ICDP Lake Drilling Projects:
- Lake Petén Itzá (Guatemala)
- Lake Potrok Aike (Southern Patagonia, Argentina)
- Lake Van (Eastern Anatolia, Turkey)
- Drilling Overdeepened Alpine Valleys (DOVE)
Lake Tsunamis: Causes, Controls, and Hazard
Climate and environmental history of the Alps and its foreland
Human-environment interactions
Swath bathymetric investigations of Swiss Lakes. Implications for lake floor processes and natural hazards
Glaciation history and environmental evolution of overdeepened valleys in the northern Alpine Foreland
Intensity and frequency of strong precipitation events in the Alpine realm (FloodAlp)
Slope instabilities and tsunamogenic potential of lateral and delta slopes in Swiss lakes
Paleoseismology based on lake sediments
The climate record of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego
BANBU: Holocene climate change in the Mediterranean Basin across an East to West gradient
Release of persistent organic pollutants from melting Alpine glaciers
Climate change and flood hazard in the Alps