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SLF researcher Anne Kempel explains in the video how she wants to find out in a worldwide project.

After almost thirty years, the acclaimed forest researcher is leaving the WSL and thus stepping down from the Directorate.

From the 6th to 10th February 2023 SLF will be holding another International Advanced Training Course on Snow and Avalanches in English.

The SLF's Mountain Ecosystems research group investigates how climate change and changes in land use are affecting mountain habitats.

Researchers at ETH Zurich and WSL have for the first time reconstructed the extent of Switzerland’s glacier ice loss in the 20th century.

Remote sensing methods like radar, photogrammetry or laser scanning are becoming increasingly important in natural-hazard research.

The International Glaciological Society and the SLF are organising a symposium in Davos in September 2022. The registration is now open.

The SLF has developed large-scale natural hazard maps for Georgia using terrain analyses and modelling.

Slab avalanches cause the highest number of fatalities each year. Researches are now smoothing the way for more effective risk forecasts.

SLF researcher Alec van Herwijnen wants to find out whether an avalanche detection system tested in Switzerland also works in Iceland.

The ETH Board has appointed Manuela Brunner as Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Hydrology and Climate Impacts in Mountain Regions.

The ETH Board has appointed Johan Gaume as Associate Professor of Alpine Mass Movements.

The ETH Board has appointed Thomas Wohlgemuth, Head of the WSL Research Group on Disturbance Ecology, as a new member of the Directorate.

Matthias Huss, glaciologist at WSL and ETH Zurich, provides answers to the main questions.

A new analysis method gives a more detailed picture of unstable mountainsides, enabling better hazard monitoring.

A symposium has paid tribute to Konrad Steffen, who died in an accident in 2020; he leaves a lasting mark on climate and glacier research.

The software package for calculating natural hazard processes and the influence of protective measures has a new website.

Greenland honours the former director of WSL with a glacier named after him.

Human expertise remains essential – but computer assessments based on weather data and other measurements are valuable too.

The snow ablation date at the Weissfluhjoch test site was 6 June 2022 – the second earliest since records began in winter 1936/37.