'Logbook' blog ¶

A WSL doctoral student joined a scientific expedition to Nepal to study the fast-melting glaciers there. Read more in the Logbook.

SLF biologist Christian Rixen writes about his expedition to Greenland in the footsteps of historical botanists - and climate change.

SLF biologist Christian Rixen writes about his expedition to Greenland in the footsteps of historical botanists - and climate change.

Manuela Brunner, head of the group Hydrology and Climate Impacts in Mountain Regions, on consequences of climate change for Switzerland’s water.

WSL microbiologist Beat Frey travelled to East Greenland to collect plastic waste. You can read about why in the new WSL logbook.

SLF scientists Michael Haugeneder and Dylan Reynolds report from the USA on snow research in times of climate change.

SLF-scientists Joel Caduff and Yves Bühler trained scientists and practitioners in drone-based snow depth mapping in the Kyrgyz mountains.

WSL glaciologists repeated a Himalayan expedition by Swiss explorers to collect updated data on the glaciers.

SLF researcher Alec van Herwijnen wants to find out whether an avalanche detection system tested in Switzerland also works in Iceland.

WSL doctoral student Joël Rüthi spent five weeks aboard an icebreaker. A logbook contribution about the search for Arctic soil microbes.

In the Pamir Mountains, many glaciers are stable or even growing. In the logbook, WSL glacier researchers talk about their expedition there.

How it came about that a WSL device is measuring the earth’s surface microwave radiation in Tibet; Mike Schwank reports in the WSL blog.

For one month, tree-ring scientists braved the harsh conditions of Northern Siberia to find old wood. Patrick Fonti is taking us along on the trip.

Yann Vitasse painted the buds of saplings for an experiment on leaf emergence in spring. He explains why in the blog.