ClimatiZENs: Past climates for future citizens
The AGORA project “ClimatiZENs” has been funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and will be implemented with colleagues from the Department […]
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The Roman Egypt Laboratory: Climate Change, Societal Transformations, and the Transition to Late Antiquity
Under the lead of Prof. Sabine Huebner at the University of Basel, the C-CIA team will contribute to a Swiss National Science […]
Putting the poorly documented 1998 GLOF disaster in Shakhimardan River valley (Alay Range, Kyrgyzstan/Uzbekistan) into perspective
On July 8, 1998, the deadliest glacier lake outburst flood (GLOF) in Central Asia for at least the last 100 years occurred in […]
Recent flood hazards in Kashmir put into context with millennium-long historical and tree-ring records
Have a look at our new paper focusing on recent and past flood disasters in Kashmir.
MNEMOSYNE: Constructing a Multi-CeNtEnnial Mass balance recOrd of Swiss glaciers with multi-proxY tree-riNg sEries
We have great news ;-)! Or MNEMOSYNE project will be funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
CALDERA – EffeCts of lArge voLcanic eruptions on climate and societies: UnDerstand the impacts of past Events and related subsidence cRises to evAluate potential risks in the future
We have exciting news!!! Our Synergia project will be funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation! This project will help scientists to […]
TURBERAS: Reconstruction of Holocene hydro-climatic fluctuations based on multi-proxy peatland records
We have good news!! We have just received the confirmation that the Swiss National Science Foundation will fund our TURBERAS project.
January 2018 : Living through a future winter
January 2018 was a month of extremes. Not only was it by far the warmest January on record across the Western Alps, […]
Warming increases risk of snow avalanches in the western Himalayas
Often called the Third Pole, the Hindukush-Karakoram-Himalaya region, comprising the Tibetan plateau and the surrounding mountains, is the most glaciated place on […]