Research Project, 1962–2016
A project of the
Academy, since 1759
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
The project focuses on alpine glaciers and their role in the continental hydrologic cycle, as climate indicators and their interaction with the solid earth. In addition to many years of intensive research work on the Vernagtferner, the "house glacier" in the Ötztal Alps, investigations are being carried out in various glacier regions, e.g. Iceland, Norway, the Pamir, and the Karakorum. Along with classical field measurements from geodesy and glaciology, modern satellite methods are also used. Interactions between glaciers and their environment are modelled on the basis of the data obtained in this way as a function of climatic changes. At the same time, geodetic work on geodynamics and reference systems will be carried out as a basis for a variety of further investigations in the geosciences.
The project is funded by the Free State of Bavaria since 2016 under the name Erdmessung und Glaziologie.
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Research Activities
Partners
- Permanent Cooperation Partners
- Alfred-Wegener-Institut
- British National Oceanography Center
- Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie
- Center for Geophysical Investigations of the Shallow Subsurface
- Central Asian Regional Glaciological Centre
- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
- Department für Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften (Laboratorio Glaciologia) Università Milano-Biococca
- Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften LMU München
- Department of Geography University of Idaho
- Department of Geosciences University of Oslo
- Deutscher Wetterdienst
- Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik
- Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam
- Geographisches Institut Universität Zürich
- Geophysikalisches Observatorium Fürstenfeldbruck
- Hydrographischer Dienst
- Icelandic Met Office (Veðurstofnum Íslands)
- Institut für Astronomische und Physikalische Geodäsie
- Institut für Atmosphären- und Kryospährenwissenschaften Unversität Innsbruck
- Institut für Geographie Universität Eichstätt
- Institut für Kartographie TU Dresden
- Institut für Umweltphysik Universität Heidelberg
- Instituto Ardito Desio Università degli studi di Milano
- Landesamt für Digitalisierung, Breitband und Vermessung Bayern
- Mathematics Applications Consortium for Science and Industry
- National Land Survey of Iceland
- Norwegian University of Life Sciences
- Norwegian Water Ressources and Engery Directorate
- Norwegisches Landesvermessungsamt (Kartverket)
- Institut für Kartographie TU München
- School of Mathematics University of Manchester
- Universidad de Concepción
- WSL-Institut für Schnee- und Lawinenforschung
- Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geophysik
Persons
- Dr. Charalampos Charalampidis
- Dr.-Ing. Christian Gerlach
- Barbara Hubertus
- Dr. Astrid Lambrecht
- Carlo Licciulli
- Dr. Christoph Mayer
- Dipl.-Geol. Matthias Siebers
- Torsten Spohnholtz
- Dr.-Ing. Christof Völksen
- Dr.-Ing. Anja Wendt
Contact person for the academies' programme
Sebastian Zwies M.A.
Geschäftsstelle Mainz
Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 2
55131 Mainz
Tel: 06131/218 528-17
E-Mail: sebastian.zwies@akademienunion.de