Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
Function
Head of Research Unit
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf
Site
WSL Birmensdorf Bi LG E 08
1986-92: Studies at ETH Zürich, Environmental Engineering
1989-90: Guest studies at the Swedish Univ. of Agricult. Sciences, SLU Alnarp
1993-98: PhD thesis at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, in Agronomy (Environmental Physics)
1998-2001: Postdoc at ETH Zürich, Soil Physics
2001-06: Scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute WSL, Forest Hydrology
since 2006: Head of Research Unit Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements at WSL
2017: CAS Leadership in science (FHNW)
Hydrology of small sub-alpine catchments (long-term hydrological monitoring in forested catchments)
Early warning of rapid mass movements (triggering of shallow landslides; the role of soil wetness measurements)
Winter hydrology (numerical simulation of snow cover in forests; infiltration of water in frozen soils; permafrost modelling)
Climate change impact on water resources and hydropower production
Anna Leuteritz (Univ. Zürich): The chemical composition of near-surface flow pathways and their effect on stream flow and stream chemistry in a pre-Alpine headwater catchment (2021-2024)
Victor Gauthier (Univ. Zürich): Near-surface flow pathways in a pre-Alpine catchment (2021-2024)
Tobias Halter (WSL): Influence of climate change on the occurrence of shallow landslides in Switzerland (2023-2026)
Adrian Wicki (WSL): Assessing the potential of soil wetness data for landslide early warning (2018-2022)
Leonie Kiewiet (Univ. Zürich): Spatio-temporal variability of shallow groundwater and its effect on stream water quantity and quality (2016-2019)
Giulia Mazzotti (WSL-SLF Davos): Spatio-Temporal Variability of Forest Snow Processes: Observation and Modelling Approaches (2016-2020)
Cécile Pellet (Univ. Fribourg): Soil moisture dynamics in alpine soils. (2013-16)
Benjamin Fischer (Univ. Zürich): Spatial and Temporal rainfall - runoff measurements in pre alpine catchments extending process knowledge and hydrological modeling (2010-2015)
Michael Rinderer (Univ. Zürich): Patterns of groundwater and soil moisture variability: Hard data, soft data and dominant controls (2010-2015)
Martin Scherler (Uni Fribourg): Sensitivity of mountain permafrost to climate change scenarios: a modelling approach
Markus Hofer (WSL, TU Braunschweig): Structures and processes of the initial ecosystem development in an artificial catchment (2007-2011)
Ingo Völksch (WSL, Univ. Bern): Microwave radiometry for the investigation of hydrological surface processes (2006-2010)
Daniel Bayard (EPFL): The effect of seasonal soil frost on the alpine groundwater recharge (2000-2003)
Peter Waldner (WSL, ETH Zürich): Water and solute release from a subalpine snow cover (1999-2002)
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Tobias Halter (ETH Zürich): Implementing soil water content information in Landslide Early Warning Systems – a modeling case study with the hydro-mechanical Model STEP-TRAMM (2022)
Céline Kummer (Uni Bern, Geographie): Mehrfachnutzen eines künstlichen Wasserspeichers in einem voralpinen Einzugsgebiet (2020-2021)
Christiane Regauer (Uni Innsbruck): Untersuchung der Klimaänderungen auf die Wasserkraftnutzung in der Schweiz mit Fokus auf die Wintermonate (2016-17)
Marvin Liedtke (F-A-Uni Erlangen-Nürnberg): Ereignisanalyse und Modellierung des Murgangs vom 31.01.2016 im Teufbach (Schweiz) (Sept 2016)
Ingrid Senn (ETH Zürich): Niedrigere Abflusskoeffizienten dank höherem Bewaldungsgrad? (Juni 2013)Seraina Kauer (Uni Zürich): Monitoring soil moisture dynamics on a hillslope prone to slide (Nov. 2010).
Nov. 2014: NFP 61 - Drought-CH: Ausblick Nachhaltige Wassernutzung für die Praxis
26.02.2019: SRF 1 - Morgengast
31.08.2023: Terre&Nature - Tribune (Kolumne) "Sécheresse ne rime pas toujours avec chaleur, ...."
LandAware - International Network on Landslide Early Warning Systems
GFA LAINAT - Lenkungsausschuss Intervention Naturgefahren
NADUF - Nationale Daueruntersuchung der Fliessgewässer
