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Directory of European Glaciology: Switzerland / Suisse / Schweiz / Svizzera
The research institutions listed here are derived from the glaciology literature and the IGS publication "Ice". See also the SPRI Library Catalogue.
- Academia Engiadina,
Samedan.
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale
Lausanne
- Eidgenössische Anstalt für
Wasserversorgung, Abwasserreinigung und Gewässerschutz, Swiss
Federal Institute for Water Resources and Water Pollution, (EAWAG),
Dubendorf
- Eidgenossisches Technische
Hochschule Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH-Zentrum,
Zurich
- ETH Institute of
Geophysics
- ETH Institut für
Geotechnik (IGT) Division of Geotechnical Engineering
- Research: variations in the behaviour of Alpine permafrost with time and temperature, eg in rock glaciers
- ETH Institut für
Hydromechanik und Wasserwirtschaft (IHW) Institute of
Hydromechanics and Water Resources Management,
ETH-Hönggerberg
- Research: Alpine hydrology and snowmelt modelling
- ETH Institut für Atmosphäre und
Klima Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science (IACS)
- Research: numerical models and hydrology of Alpine glaciers; three-dimensional stress and velocity studies; snow-sea-ice models; Greenland dry-snow zones; palaeoclimatology.
- ETHZ
Versuchsanstalt fur Wasserbau, Hydrologie und Glaziologie
Laboratory for Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology,
ETHZ-VAW
- Research: fern-covered glaciers; Vatnajökull and the 1996 jökulhlaup; flow modelling of glaciers and rock glaciers; basal sediment deformation; ice-core studies in the Altai.
- World Glacier Monitoring Service has two websites, at Geography Department and at ETH VAW-Glaciology
- Laboratorium für Festkörperphysik Institute for Solid State Physics, ETH-Hönggerberg/HPF
- ETH Institute of
Geophysics
- Glaziologische Kommission / Commission de glaciologie, of the
Schweizerische Akademie der
Naturwissenschaften
- Commission homepage (in German)
- La Grande Dixence S.A.,
Champlan-Grimisuat
- Research: links between climate and glacier mass balance. GDSA are a hydroelectric power company.
- Hochalpine Forschungsstationen
Jungfraujoch und Gornegrat, International Foundation Jungfraujoch
& Gornergrat
- Research: high altitude interdisciplinary research at the Sphinx Observatory at Jungfraujoch and at two observatories on the Gornegrat
- Institut Universitaire Kurt
Bösch, Sion
- Research: glacier/permafrost relationships
- Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen
- Research: glaciochemical analyses, 14C dating of glacier ice
- Schweizerische Kommission
für Polarforschung (SKP) / Commission Suisse de Recherche
Polaire (CSP) Swiss Committee on Polar Research, Bern
- Research: international and national collaboration, information exchange, assists in the formulation of scientific policy.
- Schweizerische Meteorologische
Anstalt, (MeteoSchweiz, MétéoSuisse), Zurich
- Schweizerische Stiftung fur
Alpine Forschungen Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research, Zurich
- SLF Davos Institut
federale pour l'etude de la neige et des avalanches / Eidgenossisches Institut
fur Schnee- und Lawinenforschung / Istituto federale per lo studio della neve e
delle valanghe Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research
- Research: properties of ice; snow in the atmosphere; snow precipitation; snowdrift modelling and wind tunnel studies; properties and processes in the seasonal snowpack; avalanches and their control; snow-supporting structures; snow/vegetation/fauna interactions; snow hydrology; skiing kinematics and avalanche rescue beacons; artificial snow pistes.
- The Intercantonal Early Warning and Crisis Information System (IFKIS) project is run from SLF.
- SFISAR has a Centre Régional Valais, Sion
- IFENA is part of Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research:WSL/FNP
- University of Basel.
In the Geographisches Institut are- Institute of
Meteorology, Climatology and Remote Sensing
- Research includes Modelling of Snowmelt and its consequences for Drainage Basins at High Latitudes (MOSAIC)
- Physiogeographie und Landschaftsökologie
- Institute of
Meteorology, Climatology and Remote Sensing
- University of Berne
- Department
of Geography
- Institut für
Geologie
- Research: quaternary geology, Happy Ice Age research, geochronology, luminescence dating, palaeo-glacial reconstruction
- Physikalisches Institut, Institute of Applied Physics includes the Department of Climate and Environmental Physics
- Department
of Geography
- University of Fribourg
- Department
of Geosciences
- Research: permafrost, periglacial hydrology and climatic change in the Swiss Alps
- Department
of Geosciences
- University of Geneva
Section des Sciences de la Terre
- Université de Lausanne
- Institut de
Géographie (IGUL)
- Research: monitoring and characterisation of permafrost, geoelectrical methods, glacier/permafrost relationships
- Institut de
Géographie (IGUL)
- University of Zurich
- Institute of
Geography
- Research: Swiss glacier inventory and historical data; snowmelt energy balance; remote sensing and GIS; slope instabilities and rock-glacier weathering; permafrost; flood protection strategies; global climate effects on winter tourism; ice caves; perennial ice patches; dendrochronology and pollen analysis; dating by cosmogenic isotopes.
- Institute of
Geography
IGS Correspondent - Switzerland
Walter J. Ammann
Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche
Research,
Flüelastrasse 11, Davos, CH-7260, Switzerland
Tel: [41](81)417-02-31
Fax: [41](81)417-08-23
Email: ammann@slf.ch