Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic EngineeringAcronym | D-BAUG | Homepage | http://www.baug.ethz.ch/ | Country | Switzerland | ZIP, City | | Address | | Phone | | Type | Academy | Parent organization | ETH Zurich | Current organization | Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering | Child organizations | |
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. | Extend the recent Marigold in different aspects - Computer Vision
- Master Thesis
| This project aims to develop advanced
earthquake forecasting models using
bio-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs).
By exploiting the inherent flexibility of SNNs,
the project will create sparse, multi-step
forecasting models capable of integrating
data from various sources. These models will
be built and tested using the NEST neural
simulator, emphasizing neuroplasticity,
neuromodulation, and neural Darwinism
principles. The goal is to enhance the
efficiency of earthquake predictions by
learning more effectively from limited and
lower-quality data, potentially leading to
significant improvements in forecasting
methods and ultimately reducing the risks
associated with seismic events. - Earthquake Seismology, Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Genetic Alogrithms and Fuzzy Logic
- ETH Zurich (ETHZ), Master Thesis, Semester Project
| 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. | Calibration and software development of an underwater camera-system, designed to observe small river organisms in flow. The goal is to optimize the image processing pipeline and extend the uninterrupted deployment time from 1.5 hrs to a minimum 5 days. Deployments in a river are possible to test the system and developed software improvements. - Environmental Technologies, Freshwater Ecology, Software Engineering
- Collaboration, ETH Zurich (ETHZ), Internship, Master Thesis
| 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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