by Samuel Bohnenblust | Feb 18, 2016
Glacial lake monitoring Plaine Morte Challenge The Plaine Morte is a glacier plateau at the mountain Wildstrubel in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland. The flat glacier drains mainly towards the north over the river Trüebbach and through the touristic village of Lenk....
by Samuel Bohnenblust | Feb 18, 2016
Rockfall on the railway line in Gurtnellen Challenge The rock fall that buried parts of the Gotthard Railway Line of the Swiss Federal Railways took everyone by surprise, even though some smaller falls had been registered from a nearby site three months before. The...
by Samuel Bohnenblust | Feb 18, 2016
Rockfall monitoring in Preonzo May 2012 Situation The area around the Roscera Alp in southern Switzerland has been known to geologists as unstable since decades. The canton Ticino had crack meters placed at cracks visible on the alp and laser distance measurements had...
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