Project Overview

Currently we concentrate on the following projects:

Basin-scale and integrated water resources projects 

• African Dams Project (ADAPT) [...]
  
• RECORD - Restored corridor dynamics [...]
• Yangtze River pollution project [...]
• Water Quality and Pollution Dynamics in Rivers of the Dry North and Wet South of China (WAPORICH) [...]
• Hydropower and residual flow [...]
• Re-oligotrophication of Lake Brienz [...]
• Particle dynamics in a proglacial alpine hydropower lake (Grimsel Lakes, Switzerland) [...]
• Human-environment interactions [...]
• Sources and fate of Antibiotic resistance in a mid-sized lake [...]

Climate projects 

• Solar Forcing and Climate Change of the last 1000 years [...]
• Be-10 and Cl-36 in polar ice cores [...]
• MAIOLICA: Modelling And experIments On Land-surface Interactions with atmospheric Chemistry and climAte [...]
• HYPOX - In situ monitoring of oxygen depletion in hypoxic ecosystems of coastal and open seas, and land-locked water bodies [...]
• Microbial biodiversity in alpine streams (MICROLINK) [...]
  

Methane in aquatic environments

• Methane and carbon cycling in Lakes Kivu [...], Baikal [...] and Black Sea [...]
• Methane oxidation pathways at oxic-anoxic boundaries in lakes [...]
• Mechanisms for methane release from hydropower reservoirs and river deltas [...]
• Methane in the Rhone River Delta, Lake Geneva [...]
• Methane in alpine hydroelectric reservoirs [...]
• Anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) in freshwater systems – Lake Rotsee, Lago Cadagno [...]

Process studies at molecular scales

• Microbial diversity and function in Urine Waste treatment reactors and Microbial Fuel Cells (DUNOX/ECUT) [...]
• Specific enrichment of DNA fragments (GeneBeads) [...]

Sediment-water interface, BBL and deep water processes  

• Degradation and transformation of organic nitrogen compounds in the water column and sediments (DONLAC) [...]
• Degradation and transformation of lacustrine organic nitrogen compounds: microbiology and biogeochemistry [...]
• Turbulence and fluxes in stratified waters: Alpnach [...] Baikal [...]
• Lake sediments and sub-aquatic sources [...]
• Double diffusion in Lake Kivu [...]
• Double diffusion in Lake Nyos [...]
• Diagenetic evolution and mineral composition of Fe/Mn layers in the sediments of Lake Baikal [...]

Sediments as archives of environment and climate

• Active participation in ICDP Lake Drilling Projects [...]:
  Lake Petén Itzá (Guatemala)
  Lake Potrok Aike (Southern Patagonia, Argentina)
  Lake Van (Eastern Anatolia, Turkey) [...]
• Intensity and frequency of strong precipitation events in the Alpine realm (FloodAlp) [...]
• The climate record of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego [...]
• Glaciation history and environmental evolution of overdeepened valleys in the northern Alpine Foreland [...]
• Lacustrine Sediments: High Resolution Archives for Geomagnetic Field Behavior and Paleoclimate [...]
• BANBU: Holocene climate change in the Mediterranean Basin across an East to West gradient [...]
  

Sedimentation processes and natural hazards

• Swath bathymetric investigations of Swiss Lakes. Implications for lake floor processes and natural hazards [...]
• Slope instabilities on lateral and delta slopes in Swiss lakes [...]
• Paleoseismology based on lake sediments [...]
• Release of persistent organic pollutants from melting alpine glaciers [...]

For a complete list of projects, see the webpages of the research groups:
Aquatic Chemistry, Aquatic Physics, Biogeochemistry, Microbial Ecology, Radioactive Tracers, Sedimentology, Sensors and Analytic