Research
Turgen region, Mongolia, July 2017, as seen in Sentinel-1 amplitude (left), coherence (center), and line-of-sight-displacement (right) Topics
- Climate change adaptation of mountain glaciers, particularly morphometry, changes in volume and velocity, mass balances, transient snow line and equillibrium line altitude measurements
- Changes in Earth surface processes since the Little Ice Age and projections in the context of future warming
- Topoclimatic forcing in high mountain environments and their role in controlling sensititve process-response systems
Methods
- Remote sensing: SAR interferometry, multispectral satellite imagery, UAV-based strucutre-from-motion, LiDAR
- GIS: DEM-based spatial analysis, Google Earth Engine processing
- Computing: Python-based data analysis, parallelized high-performance computing
- Field methods: geomorphological mapping, sedimentology, land form dating, meteorological measurements, drone flights
Focus regions
- High Mountain Asia: Tibet, Tien Shan, Himalayas
- Central Europe
Research projects
- TopoCliF - Topoclimatic forcing and non-linear dynamics in the climate change adaption of glaciers in High Mountain Asia, funded by DFG, 2018-2020
- MORSANAT - Model- and remote sensing-based analysis of glacier-related natural hazards in the Tien Shan mountains, funded by Geo.X, 2016-2018