Glaciology (Prof. Farinotti)Open OpportunitiesLandslides are a dangerous natural hazard affecting the lives of people all over the world. This thesis will focus on the detection of paraglacial landslides from a global glacier-velocity dataset. The behavior of these sites throughout time will be analyzed and compared to an existing landslide database. - Geomorphology, Glaciology
- Master Thesis
| Antarctic ice sheets contribute significant uncertainty to sea level rise projections due to processes occurring deep beneath the ice. This project will use existing data from two passive seismic deployments to investigate the ice sheet – ice shelf transition of Kamb Ice Stream in West Antarctica. - Earthquake Seismology, Glaciology
- Master Thesis
| The project will investigate the retreat and collapse of the Gorner-Grenzgletscher junction and quantify the role of englacial melt in the overall ice-loss budget. | The surface mass balance of a glacier is critical in determining its long-term evolution. This thesis will explore the effect that the activities of a gold-mine operating next to a glacier has on the glacier mass balance. The area of interest is located in Kyrgyzstan and the project will make use of both numerical modelling and data collected in situ. | Rapid glacier retreat due to ongoing climate change has a number of impacts, including the destabilization of adjacent mountain slopes. This thesis will analyze seismic data collected at a paraglacial landslide and disentangle various signals due to earthquake activity, iceberg calving events, and rockfall. | Accurate modelling of glacier mass balance requires the representation of wind-driven snow transport. This thesis will investigate the performance of various parameterizations. | Glaciers are an essential freshwater resource, especially during warm and dry periods. Assessing the contributions of glacier melt to downstream discharge at daily to weekly scales is important to understand the susceptibility of mountain water supply to the ongoing and future projected glacier retreat. However, these contributions are difficult to obtain as glacier mass balance observations are typically multi-year, annual or seasonal measurements. Therefore, daily streamflow dynamics will be analysed. - Glaciology
- Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis
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