#Snow measurement in #Davos – day after day, year after year: since autumn 1936, researchers have been measuring snow data at #Weissfluhjoch every day. #SLF PhD students from the so-called Jochdienst explain what it means to them.
More info: www.slf.ch/en/news/meas...
📹 J. Bettzieche
From measurement to theory: Near #infrared light can be used to determine #snow #density precisely and quickly. #SLF researcher Lars Mewes has developed a new theory on this topic.
Read more in the news article: www.slf.ch/en/news/new-...
📷️ Lars Mewes, SLF / Bruno Augsburger
#SLF PhD student Anja Mödl is back in Switzerland and has brought with her the last logbook entry about her #Antarctic #expedition. In it, she talks about dismantling instruments, filling boxes, weathering storms and waiting for the flight back: www.slf.ch/en/news/good...
📷️ A. Mödl / R. Pirazzini
Operationelle #Schnee Modelle – ein Blick hinter die Kulissen: Letzter Vortrag der Reihe "SLF Einblicke" mit Tobias Jonas.
Donnerstag, 26. Feburar, 19.30 Uhr am #SLF in #Davos – alle Infos: www.slf.ch/de/veranstal...
📷️ White Risk
Cracks in #snow spread faster than previously thought: at more than 100 meters per second 🚀 The new findings of #SLF researchers can help improve #avalanche size forecasts and #risk assessments.
All details: www.slf.ch/en/news/crac...
📹️ SLF
Neu online: 28’000 historische #Fotos zu #Forschung, #Technik und Alltag seit 1902 aus den Archiven von WSL & SLF. Die digitalisierten Glasplatten, Dias und Filmnegative sind auf der #Bildplattform #E-Pics der ETH Zürich verfügbar. Mehr dazu: www.wsl.ch/de/news/hist... @ethz.ch #Fotoarchiv
Sehr kritische Lawinensituation in weiten Teilen der Schweiz, im Wallis teilweise Gefahrenstufe 5 (sehr gross).
Informieren Sie sich über die lokalen Massnahmen und halten Sie sich an die Sperrungen und Anweisungen der Behörden.
Alle Informationen im Lawinenbulletin: whiterisk.ch/de/conditions
Wenn #Berge aktiv werden – #Naturgefahren in #Alpenraum und #Klimawandel
2. Teil der der öffentlichen Vortragsreihe "SLF Einblicke" am Donnerstag, 19. Februar, um 19.30 Uhr am #SLF in #Davos – alle Infos: www.slf.ch/de/veranstal...
📷️ S. Weber
You never get used to #NorthernLights:
#SLF PhD student Pia Ruttner spent six months in the Westfjords of #Iceland. There she observed avalanche runs with a laser scanner.
In the logbook blog, she recounts her incomplete collection of memories and learnings: www.slf.ch/en/news/you-...
📷️ P. Ruttner
#Job at #SLF in #Davos: For our snow processes research group we are looking for a research scientist in snow modelling.
All information: apply.refline.ch/273855/1843/...
Last Monday, the Alpine Drone Consortium (ADC) was founded as a new national initiative to develop a safe, scalable and practical #drone ecosystem under real #alpine conditions. The #SLF is involved alongside numerous other institutions and is contributing its many years of expertise.
📷️ N. Salzmann
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
🧬🧪🥼
#WomenInScience #WomenInStem #FraueninderWissenschaft #FraueninMINT #MintFrauen #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience @women__in__stem @mint_leben
20 Jahre White Risk: eine Lawinen-App mit Award
Kurz vor dem 20-Jahr-Jubiläum zur besten Schweizer App gekürt: #WhiteRisk startete als CD-ROM für #Lawinenprävention und ist heute ein preisgekröntes Planungstool mit über 100'000 Nutzer/innen.
Mehr: www.slf.ch/de/news/20-j...
📷 R. Oester
#SLF
Im arktischen #Eis unterwegs – zwei Monate auf dem Forschungsschiff Polarstern
Start der öffentlichen Vortragsreihe "SLF Einblicke" am Donnerstag, 12. Februar, um 19.30 Uhr am #SLF in Davos – alle Infos: www.slf.ch/de/veranstal...
📷️ M. Jaggi
Avalanche winter of 1951:
They are the cheapest and most important form of avalanche protection in terms of area – and they grow back naturally: forests. What the SLF researched after the avalanche winter of 1951: www.slf.ch/en/news/aval...
#SLF #SLFDavos #Snow #Avalanche #Winter #forest
After the #avalanche #winter of 1951, #SLF researchers developed a system for mapping areas at #risk from avalanches. The resulting colour scale for danger zones still forms the basis of the hazard maps produced today.
Part 3 of the series on the avalanche winter of 1951: www.slf.ch/en/news/aval...
Ottimo recupero della neve ❄️❄️ a sud delle Alpi, oggi 14cm a Bosco Gurin (tot 56cm) e Campo Blenio (tot 25cm), 10cm a S. Bernadino (tot 54cm). Siamo fra il 60 e 90% dalla norma. Con le precipitazioni di settimana prossima pareggieremo i conti. 🤩 Mappa neve relativa @slfdavos.bsky.social
From careful planning to wild experimentation – the SAMD students visited the SLF for a morning focused on avalanche prevention.
#SLF #avanachesafety #WhiteRisk
#Job am #SLF in #Davos: Für die Forschungsgruppe #Schutzmassnahmen suchen wir eine/n neue/n Mitarbeiter/in. Zu den Aufgaben gehören u.a. Gutachter- und Beratertätigkeit und die Planung von Schutzmassnahmen.
Alle Infos und Bewerbung: apply.refline.ch/273855/1836/...
After the avalanche winter 1951, the #SLF stepped up its research into #avalanche protection. The findings led to a move away from walls, the usual defence mechanism until then, towards the #snow bridges and snow nets that remain common today.
Part 2 of the #SLF series: www.slf.ch/en/news/aval...
At today's WEF event organised by the #ETHDomain, the six research institutions @ethz.ch, #EPFL, Paul Scherrer Institut #PSI, @wslresearch.bsky.social, #Empa and #Eawag presented at the #SLF how #artificialintelligence is paving the way for greater #sustainability.
More: www.slf.ch/en/news/rese...
Yesterday, Ruzica Dadic, head of the #Snow and #Atmosphere research unit at #SLF, spoke at a panel discussion at the #WEF Open Forum about, among other things, the impact of #climatechange on the #cryosphere.
Watch the presentation now: www.weforum.org/open-forum/s...
#Job in #Davos: The #SLF is looking for a PhD student who helps improving regional #avalanche forecasting by developing and validating data-driven machine-learning methods for spatio-temporal forecasting.
More info and application: apply.refline.ch/273855/1829/...
#Avalanche #winter 1950/51: Far above-average #precipitation led to the disaster. In mid-January alone, it snowed for 88 hours without interruption. This amount of fresh #snow of up to 250 cm only occurs every 50 to 100 years.
Part 1 of the #SLF series: www.slf.ch/en/metanavig...
📷 SLF archive
Feiertage in der Antarktis: Doktorandin Anja Mödl bloggt, wie sie sich bei der Feldarbeit nasse Füsse geholt hat und was das mit dem Klimawandel auf dem Nansen-Einsschelf zu tun hat.
Zum Blog: www.slf.ch/de/news/weih...
#SLF #SLFDavos
#Eis #Antarktis
#Klimawandel
How can mountain forests survive #ClimateChange? 🏔️🌲 @ETH_en & CERC @slfdavos.bsky.social expand their partnership in Surselva 🇨🇭! With the Canton of Grisons, we’re researching forest adaptation to drought, natural hazards and reforestation.
usys.ethz.ch/en/news-even...
How do avalanches affect pylons and other sensitive #infrastructure? Using detailed #simulations, #SLF researcher @mjkohler.bsky.social shows that the compressibility of #snow initially reduces #avalanche pressure, but that at high speeds this buffer suddenly fails.
More: www.slf.ch/en/news/aval...
#SLF Einblicke: Mit einer Vortragsreihe im Februar 2026 geben Forschende spannende Einblicke in unsere vielfältigen Themen:
🧊 Im arktischen Eis unterwegs / 12.2.
🏔️ Wenn Berge aktiv werden / 19.2.
❄️ Operationelle Schneemodelle / 26.2.
Infos: www.slf.ch/einblicke
📷️ M. Jaggi / S. Weber / White Risk
New method for determining how quickly #heat penetrates deep into #permafrost by #SLF researcher @s-weber.bsky.social: This helps detecting changes in #mountain regions at an early stage + makes it easier to assess instabilities and rockslides.
More: www.slf.ch/en/news/like...
📷️ J. Nötzli / S. Weber
Rapport d'hiver en français: www.slf.ch/fr/bulletin-...
