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Month: August 2021

Field work in the glacier forefield

Field work in the glacier forefield

The next survey of the glacier forefield took place after an heavy precipitation event. Changes in the glacier forefield were documented not only by the UAV survey, but also be measuring channel depths. After the high runoff with high load of suspended sediments we changed the bottles of the water sampler at Getschnerbrücke.  

Paper published in Frontiers

Paper published in Frontiers

The first Open-Access reserach article in the framework of the Hidden.ice is published by Hohensinner et al. in Frontiers in Environmental Science – Land Use Dynamics. The presented long-term investigation of the Alpine landscape in “Tracing the Long-Term Evolution of Land Cover in an Alpine Valley 1820–2015 in the Light of Climate, Glacier and Land Use Changes” reveals that the transformation processes  have accelerated in recent decades such that the deglaciation process is much faster than the colonization process by…

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