Chair of Landslide Research

Tanja Schröder, PhD candidate of the TUM Landslide Research group, was elected as the first doctoral candidate representative of the TUM Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering – Faculty Graduate Center (FGC-BGU) starting November…

The Bavarian TV broadcasted an 8 min documentary in "Gut zu wissen" about the AlpSenseBench project at the Hochvogel on 20.10.2018, 19:00. Link: Gut zu wissen: Felssturz am Hochvogel erwartet (8 min) (German)

After the last lightning strike good weather conditions mid October made it possible to install the new datalogger and prepare the whole measurement system at the Hochvogel for winter. The system now also includes a rain gauge and a webcam. Also…

The German TV Channel ARD broadcasts short report about the work at the Hochvogel (Allgäu) with Prof. Dr. Michael Krautblatter. ARD: Allgäu: Frühwarnsystem soll vor Felssturz warnen  2:40 min (in German)

Daniel Draebing recently published two studies on the development of Alpine lateral moraine slopes in the special issue “Paraglacial processes in recently deglaciated environments” in the journal “Land Degradation and Development” (IF 7.27).…

The 3rd fieldwork season within the project “Alpine Rock Slopes” lead by Daniel Draebing took place one and a half weeks in the Gaisberg Valley, Austrian Alps, and three weeks the Turtmann Valley, Swiss Alps. In the Gaisberg Valley, the fieldwork…

The Bavarian TV (Bayerischer Rundfunk) made a short documentation in German about one day of fieldwork with Benedikt Friedrich and Johannes Leinauer who work at the Hochvogel (Allgäu) within the AlpSenseBench project. BR Mediathek: "Der Hochvogel…

From 09.07. to 11.07.2018 more work has been done at the Hochvogel peak. Members of the TUM Department of Geodesy and Photogrammetry took a detailed record of the summit area. Members of the Landslide Research Group carried out measurements in the…

The Landslide Research Group presented their research at the European Conference on Permafrost (EUCOP) in Chamonix, France, 23 June-07 July 2018. The conference covers all relevant aspects of permafrost research, engineering and outreach on a global…

On Friday the 15.06.2018 a fair weather window was used to geodetically measure the summit area and the summit ridge on the Hochvogel. In addition, the first measurements with a Gravimeter were carried out and more convergence lines were measured. In…