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 [...]
- The role of lake sediments in the carbon cycle [...]
- Methane emission from lakes and reservoirs [...]
- Methane in alpine hydroelectric reservoirs [...]
- Environmental change in the Danube Delta [...]
- 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 [...]
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 Geochemistry, Aquatic Physics, Biogeochemistry, Microbial Ecology, Radioactive Tracers, Sedimentology, Sensors and Analytic