Projects
Ongoing Projects in the Alpine Hydroclimatology Research Group, Institute of Geography
- PROSNOW – Provision of a prediction system allowing for management and optimization of snow in Alpine ski resorts
- CRYOMON-SciPro
- BIAS II
- HydroGeM3 (also with the Atmospheric Dynamics Research Group)
- MUSICALS II – Multiscale Snow/Icemelt Discharge Simulation into Alpine Reservoirs (an alpS/COMET project)
- STELLA – Storylines of coupled socio-economic and climatic drivers for land use and their hydrological impacts in Alpine catchments
Ongoing Projects in the Atmospheric Dynamics Research Group, Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences
- TEAMx (Multi-scale transport and exchange processes in the atmosphere over mountains – programme and experiment)
- DoG - Atmospheric Downscaling for Glacierized mountain environments (also with the Ice and Climate Research Group)
- Forecasting Low Visibility Procedure States and Resulting Capacities of Airports (LowVisCapFX)
- HydroGem3 - meteo (also with the Alpine Hydroclimatology Research Group)
- Investigating spatial inhomogenity of surface layer turbulence in complex terrain (INHOM-TCT)
- Innsbruck Box (i-Box)
- LightningPredict
- PIANO - Penetration and Interruption of Alpine Foehn
- Quantifying exchange processes over mountainous terrain
- Second Generation Model Output Statistics (S-MOS)
- Scale interactions in stable boundary layers over mountainous terrain
- SnowSafeFX
- Turb-i-Box
Ongoing Projects in the Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry Research Group, Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences
Ongoing Projects in the Dendrochronology Research Group, Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences
- Holocene tree-ring isotopes and glaciers
- ALP-IMP - Multi-centennial climate variability in the Alps based on Instrumental data, Model simulations and Proxy data
Ongoing Projects in the Ice and Climate Research Group, Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences
- A physically based regional mass balance approach for the glaciers of Vinschgau – glacier contribution to water availability
- Atmospheric controls on water stable isotopes in Antarctica
- DoG - Atmospheric Downscaling for Glacierized mountain environments (also with the Atmospheric Dynamics Research Group)
- Downscaling of Climate Variability: Towards an Impact Assessment for Glaciers in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru
- Dynamics of debris-covered glaciers in the Hindu Kush-Karakoram-Himalaya
- Glaciers-to-Rivers Sediment Transfer in Alpine Basins (GLORI)
- High resolution spaceborne studies of mass balance processes on glaciers of the Khumbu Himal, Nepal (GlHima-Sat)
- Hintereisferner - an Open Air Laboratory
- Mass Balance of Hintereisferner
- Mass Balance of Kesselwandferner
- Mass Balance of Langenferner
- Modeling of debris-covered glaciers
- Multidecadal to Centennial Climate Variability: Assessing the Conditions for the Glaciation of Tropical Mountains
- Reconstruction and Projecting the Global Behaviour of Glaciers from 1850 - 2300
- Vulnerability to Water Scarcity and Glacier Fed Water Availability in the Tropical Callejón de Huaylas, Peru
Ongoing Projects in the Lake and Glacier Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology
- MicroArctic - Microorganisms in Warming Arctic Environments
- Palaeothermometry of the Middle Würmian (MIS 3) in the Eastern Alps
- Ice and Life in Alpine and Polar Regions
- From myth to reason – Population structure and spawning areas of tropical eels (Anguilla marmorata, A. megastoma, A. obscura) in the western South Pacific
- Chemolithoautotrophic carbon dioxide fixation in lakes
- UV stress in alpine lakes: hsp gene expression in copepods
Ongoing Projects in the Palyonolgy and Archaeobotany Research Group, Institute of Botany
- Holocene vegetation history in the Karwendel. In collaboration with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
- CALICE- Calibrating plant diversity in ice (starting soon)
- C3 Cave's Cryosphere and climate
Ongoing Projects in the Quaternary Research Group, Institute of Geology
- Baumkirchen Paleo Lake
- Conturines Caves
- Cryogenic Cave Carbonates
- Devils Hole Nevada
- Eurasion Isotope Transect
- High and Dry
- Ice Caves
- Marine Isotope Stage 11
- Northeast Greenland Caves
- Out in the Open
- Palaeoflood Record at Hallstätter See
- Quaternary Dynamics of the Riss Valley
- Vindija Cave
Ongoing Projects in the Remote Sensing and Topographic LiDAR Research Group, Institute of Geography
- Process-oriented analysis of erosion dynamics in the Alps with orthophoto time series and multi-spectral close-range sensing
- METyrol – Monitoring of shallow erosion in the montane to alpine elevation zone of Tyrol with remote sensing methods