We are researching the effects of past (since about 1850) climate change on the Alps. For more detailed information about our project and the working groups please have a look at the menu items.
On this page we report about current fieldwork activities and presentations of our research at conferences or in public:
Not only glaciers are melting as a result of climate change, but also rock glaciers, a downslope moving mixture of debris and ice, are changing…. In outer and inner Grastal (Horlach Valley, Tyrol), vegetation analyses were carried out in summer 2020 on undisturbed and by debris flows (different years) disturbed… In Kauner Valley, close to the area of the rock glacier Innere Ölgrube, vegetation analyses were carried out in summer 2020 from the treeline (2135… First impressions are often deceptive: recently ice-free areas are not hostile. As soon as the glacier has released new areas (Fig. 1), one can discover… Katharina Ramskogler from the Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, investigated plant colonisation at the Zufallferner glacier foreland (Martell Valley). Within 5 x 2 m… Our figure (see below) depicts morphodynamics of almost 50 years (between 1970 and 2006, and between 2006 and 2019, respectively) of two lateral moraine sections…
Changing rock glaciers in the Kauner Valley since 1953
Relevés Grastal 2020: disturbed vs. undisturbed plots
Elevation gradient Innere Ölgrube (Kauner Valley, Tyrol) 2020
Rapid colonisation at the Zufallferner glacier foreland of the inner Martell Valley (South Tyrol, Italy)
Colonisation at the glacier foreland
Spatial and temporal surface changes on hillslopes in glacial forefields