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Research Projects

Recent projects

  • AKSU-TARIM-RS: Spaceborne Glacier Monitoring of the Aksu-Tarim Catchment (Xinjiang/China, Kyrgyzstan), founded by DFG; PI: T. Bolch
  • Ice2sea, WP 3.3, Inventories of Glaciers and Icecaps, EU-Project, PI: Frank Paul, Universität Zürich
  • Dynamic Response of Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau to Climate Change (DynRG-TiP), founded by DFG, PI: Dieter Scherer (TU Berlin), Christoph Schneider (RWTH Aachen), Manfred Buchroithner (TU Dresden)
  • RapidEye Daten zur Ableitung von Gletscher-, Schnee und Vegetationsdynamik für die verbesserte hydrologische Modellierung in Zentralasien, PI: Gerd Rücker (DLR)

Earlier Projects

  • Western Canadian Cryospheric Network (WC²N , 2007/2008, CFCAS-funded, PI: B. Menounos, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada).
  • Monitoring von Gletschern und Gletscherseen am Mt. Everest (2004 – 2007, DFG-funded, PI: M. Buchroithner, TU Dresden)
  • Geographie und Visualisierung (GeoVis): Interaktive 3D-Visualisierung von Oberflächenformen und Klimaparametern zur Veranschaulichung in der Lehre (2001-2004, HU Berlin, Uni Göttingen und TU Dresden, BMBF-funded)
  • Business Guide Jordanien (2000, Forarea-Project)
  • Periglazialmorphologie der Atacama (1998, DFG-Project)