Short Description
The Core Facility includes environmental measuring stations with remote transmission for continuous observation;
Temperature data logger for permafrost monitoring;
Automatic water collector with multi-parameter probe for hydrological monitoring;
Various environmental measuring instruments and probes for the detection and recording of chemical, physical and biological parameters;
Hydraulic sounding equipment for taking soil and sediment samples;
GPS – equipment for geomorphological mapping and accurate
Touthbooks for data acquisition and processing in the field as well as for use in mapping;
Hydroherb - device system for simultaneous long-term detection and data transmission of the state variables of water and climate;
Measuring instruments for urban climatological investigations on trees such as: LAI measuring device, tree height measuring device, microclimate sensors, temperature - surface measuring devices etc. Physiogeographical laboratory equipment: Laser particleizers, devices for physical and chemical sediment and soil investigations;
Contact Person
Dr. Veronika Tenczer
Research Services
Recording and observation of current landscape changes, especially in high mountain valleys, summit areas and glacier aprons
Quantification of sediment flows
Exploration and modelling of permafrost distribution
Detection and monitoring of rock instabilities and mass movements
Construction of monitoring stations for climatological and hydrological applications Urban climatological measurements and modelling
Methods & Expertise for Research Infrastructure
Recording and observation of current landscape changes, especially in high mountain valleys, summit areas and glacier aprons.
Quantification of sediment flows.
Exploration and modelling of permafrost distribution.
Detection and monitoring of rock instabilities and mass movements.
Climatological and hydrological monitoring with remote transmission in the area of the research stations of the department.
Urban climate togic measurements and modelling
Equipment
Institut für Geographie, Universität Innsbruck
Institut für Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften, Universität Potsdam
alpS GmbH
Institut für Geographie, Universität Wien
2020 - 2023
Andreas Ewald (PhD Student
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Phusicos - Large-scale demonstrators on nature-based solutions for hydro-meteorological risk reduction
2018 -2022
Jan-Christoph Otto, Robert Junker, Sabine Kraushaar
EU Commission Horizon 2020
Glacier-Headwall Interaction and its Influence on Rockfall Activity (GlacierRocks)
2017-2020
Dr. Markus Keuschnig, Dr. Kay Helfricht
Austrian Academy of Sciences, ÖAW
Stadtbäume als Klimabotschafter
2017 -2019
Angela Hof, Sandra Stiegler
Sparkling Science Projekt
Formation and future evolution of glacier lakes in Austria (FUTURELAKES)
2014-2017
Jan-Christoph Otto, Markus Keuschnig
Austrian Academy of Sciences ,ÖAW
Permafrost-Glacier Interaction - Process Understanding of Permafrost Reformation and Degradation
2010-2012
Jan-Christoph Otto
Austrian Academy of Sciences , ÖAW
SedyMONT - Sediment budgets of glacier forefields
2008-2011
Lothar Schrott, Jan-Christoph Otto
FWF
permalp.at - Permafrost distribution in Austria
2008-2011
Lothar Schrott, Jan-Christoph Otto
Verschiedene Quellen
MOREXPERT 1 – Developing a Monitoring Expert System for Hazardous Rock Walls
2010-2014
Markus Keuschnig, Ingo Hartmeyer
FFG – Austrian Research Promotion Agency; alpS Centre for Climate Change Adaptation
MOREXPERT 2 – From Climate Change Impact Monitoring to Dynamic Risk Management
2014-2017
Ingo Hartmeyer, Markus Keuschnig
FFG – Austrian Research Promotion Agency; alpS Centre for Climate Change Adaptation
SourceSink - Quantifying Late and Postglacial sediment fuxes and storage in nested alpine catchments
2008-2011
Lothar Schrott
ESF, FWF
2019
Helletsgruber, C., Stanley, C. & Hof, A.
GI_Journal 2019, 7, 10-17
Mutual Influences of Urban Microclimate and Urban Trees: An Investigation of Phenology and Cooling Capacity
2019
Stanley, C. H., Helletsgruber, C. & Hof, A.
Forests, 10(7), 533.
Facilitating citizen science in the classroom: Learning with and about urban trees. Proceedings of the Austrian Citizen Science Conference 2018
2018
Hof, A., Stieger, S. & Helletsgruber, C.
Frontiers Media SA, pp. 59-62.
Long-term monitoring of permafrost-affected rock faces – A scale-oriented approach for the investigation of ground thermal conditions in alpine terrain, Kitzsteinhorn, Austria
2012
Hartmeyer I., Keuschnig, M., Schrott L.
Austrian Journal of Earth Science, Vol. 105/2, pp. 128-139
Postglacial sediment storage and rockwall retreat in a semi-closed inner-alpine sedimentary basin (Gradenmoos, Hohe Tauern, Austria)
2013
Götz, J., Otto, J.-C. & L. Schrott
Geografia Fisica e Dinamica Quaternaria Vol. 36/1, 63-80
DOI: 10.4461/GFDQ.2013.36.5
Detection of mountain permafrost by combining high-resolution surface and subsurface information – An example from the Glatzbach catchment, Austrian Alps
2012
Otto, J.-C., Keuschnig, M., Götz, J., Marbach, M. and Schrott, L.
Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography, 94, 43-57
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0459.2012.00455.x.
Modelling alpine permafrost distribution in the Hohe Tauern region, Austria
2012
Lothar Schrott, Jan-Christoph Otto, Felix Keller
Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, 105/2, 169-183.
Development and Construction of a Self-sufficient Working Device for Recording, Controlling and Regulating of the Resource “Qanat Water”
2012
Marbach, M., Georgi, O.
Landscape and Sustainable Development, Volume 4, 113 – 118
Methodische Potentiale der modernen Geomorphologie für die Analyse, Quantifizierung und Rekonstruktion von Erdoberflächenprozessen.
2015
Götz J., Otto J.-C., Salcher B & J. Buckel
GW-Unterricht (Fachwissenschaft) 138, 5-26
Hof, A., Stieger, S. & Helletsgruber, C. (2018): Facilitating citizen science in the classroom: Learning with and about urban trees. Proceedings of the Austrian Citizen Science Conference 2018, Frontiers Media SA, pp. 59-62.