Research services

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The World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) compiles and disseminates standardized data on glacier fluctuations.

Systematic documentation and monitoring of long-term glacier changes in the Swiss Alps.

Systematic documentation of the state and changes of mountain permafrost in the Swiss Alps.

Facilitating comparative analyses of black carbon in diverse environmental matrices.

Geochronology Laboratory: Dating landscape changes and geomorphic surface dynamics.

Optical satellite image data distribution, processing, support and consulting to Swiss stakeholders for any region in the world.

International project office fostering collaborative interdisciplinary activities on biodiversity and ecosystem science.

An integrated research infrastructure to measure terrestrial processes of the Earth system at regional scale.