Navigation mit Access Keys

Menu principal

 

Dr. Manfred Stähli

 

Fonction

chef d'unité de recherche

  

Hydrologie de montagne et mouvements de masse

  

Institut fédéral de recherches sur la forêt, la neige et le paysage WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf

Site

Birmensdorf Bi LG E 08

 

Education and work experience

1986-92: Studies at ETH Zürich, Environmental Engineering

1989-90: Guest studies at the Swedish Univ. of Agricult. Sciences, SLU Alnarp

1993-98: PhD thesis at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, in Agronomy (Environmental Physics)

1998-2001: Postdoc at ETH Zürich, Soil Physics

2001-06: Scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute WSL, Forest Hydrology

since 2006: Head of Research Unit Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements at WSL

2017: CAS Leadership in science (FHNW)

Main expertise and research interests

Hydrology of small sub-alpine catchments (long-term hydrological monitoring in forested catchments)

Early warning of rapid mass movements (triggering of shallow landslides; the role of soil wetness measurements)

Winter hydrology (numerical simulation of snow cover in forests; infiltration of water in frozen soils; permafrost modelling)

Climate change impact on water resources and hydropower production

Supervision of ongoing and future PhD theses:

Anna Leuteritz (Univ. Zürich): The chemical composition of near-surface flow pathways and their effect on stream flow and stream chemistry in a pre-Alpine headwater catchment (2021-2024)

Victor Gauthier (Univ. Zürich): Near-surface flow pathways in a pre-Alpine catchment (2021-2024)

Tobias Halter (WSL): Influence of climate change on the occurrence of shallow landslides in Switzerland (2023-2026)

Supervision of accomplished PhD theses:

Adrian Wicki (WSL): Assessing the potential of soil wetness data for landslide early warning (2018-2022)

Leonie Kiewiet (Univ. Zürich): Spatio-temporal variability of shallow groundwater and its effect on stream water quantity and quality (2016-2019)

Giulia Mazzotti (WSL-SLF Davos): Spatio-Temporal Variability of Forest Snow Processes: Observation and Modelling Approaches (2016-2020)

Cécile Pellet (Univ. Fribourg): Soil moisture dynamics in alpine soils. (2013-16)

Benjamin Fischer (Univ. Zürich): Spatial and Temporal rainfall - runoff measurements in pre alpine catchments extending process knowledge and hydrological modeling (2010-2015)

Michael Rinderer (Univ. Zürich): Patterns of groundwater and soil moisture variability: Hard data, soft data and dominant controls (2010-2015)

Martin Scherler (Uni Fribourg): Sensitivity of mountain permafrost to climate change scenarios: a modelling approach

Markus Hofer (WSL, TU Braunschweig): Structures and processes of the initial ecosystem development in an artificial catchment (2007-2011)

Ingo Völksch (WSL, Univ. Bern): Microwave radiometry for the investigation of hydrological surface processes (2006-2010)

Daniel Bayard (EPFL): The effect of seasonal soil frost on the alpine groundwater recharge (2000-2003)

Peter Waldner (WSL, ETH Zürich): Water and solute release from a subalpine snow cover (1999-2002)

Co-supervision of ongoing Master theses

-

Supervision of accomplished Bachelor and Master theses

Tobias Halter (ETH Zürich): Implementing soil water content information in Landslide Early Warning Systems – a modeling case study with the hydro-mechanical Model STEP-TRAMM (2022)

Céline Kummer (Uni Bern, Geographie): Mehrfachnutzen eines künstlichen Wasserspeichers in einem voralpinen Einzugsgebiet (2020-2021)

Christiane Regauer (Uni Innsbruck): Untersuchung der Klimaänderungen auf die Wasserkraftnutzung in der Schweiz mit Fokus auf die Wintermonate (2016-17)

Marvin Liedtke (F-A-Uni Erlangen-Nürnberg): Ereignisanalyse und Modellierung des Murgangs vom 31.01.2016 im Teufbach (Schweiz) (Sept 2016)

Ingrid Senn (ETH Zürich): Niedrigere Abflusskoeffizienten dank höherem Bewaldungsgrad? (Juni 2013)Seraina Kauer (Uni Zürich): Monitoring soil moisture dynamics on a hillslope prone to slide (Nov. 2010).

Radio interviews/Videos:

Nov. 2014: NFP 61 - Drought-CH: Ausblick Nachhaltige Wassernutzung für die Praxis

24.12.2014: SRF 4 - Info "Wir können uns auf extreme Naturereignisse einstellen"

28.06.2018: SRF 1 Regionaljournal Zentralschweiz "50 Jahre Wildbachforschung Alptal"

Member of the following national/international commissions

LandAware - International Network on Landslide Early Warning Systems

GFA LAINAT - Lenkungsausschuss Intervention Naturgefahren

NADUF - Nationale Daueruntersuchung der Fliessgewässer

 

FURTHER INFORMATION