Research

Hydrology and Water Resources Management, D-BAUG (http://www.ifu.ethz.ch/hydrologie/)

• Water resources planning & management
• Forecasting of hydrological extremes
• Precipitation analysis & modelling

Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, D-UWIS (http://www.iac.ethz.ch/groups/schaer/)

• Climate & water cycle
• Climate change & extreme events
• Meteorological & hydrological forecasting

Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology & Glaciology (VAW), D-BAUG (http://www.vaw.ethz.ch)

• Numerical simulation of floods originating from dammed lakes
• Numerical simulation of glacier drainage
• Flood induced river protection dyke breaches
• Impact of sediment transport on flood risk estimation
• River training structures
• Drift-wood related processes
• Forecasting breaking off of large ice masses

Institute for Geotechnical Engineering (IGT), D-BAUG (http://www.igt.ethz.ch)

• Rockfall, flooding & liquefaction mitigation
• Surficial rainfall induced landslides
• Stability of alpine permafrost
• Rock avalanches & debris flows
• Inversion analysis of landslides
• Stability of rock masses

Laboratory for Geodesy and Geodynamics, D-BAUG (http://www.ggl.ethz.ch/)

• Seismo-tectonic deformation & strain analysis
• Atmospheric water vapour determination
• Weather modelling (Hydrological extremes)
• Sealevel & geoid determination (Climate change)

Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, D-BAUG (http://www.photogrammetry.ethz.ch/)

• Digital photogrammetry & remote sensing
• Processing of satellite & aerial images
• Automated generation of Digital Terrain Models
• Sensor modelling and processing

Institute of Cartography, D-BAUG (http://www.karto.ethz.ch)

• Hazard mapping
• Spatial databases
• Visualisation using atlas information systems

Institute for Environmental Decisions (IED), D-GESS, D-UWIS, D-AGRL (http://www.ied.ethz.ch)

• Decision analysis and decision support systems
• Integrated risk management
• Ecosystem services and insurance

Land Use Engineering Group ITES, D-UWIS (http://www.lue.ethz.ch)

• Integrated risk assessment & management
• Risk aversion
• Erosion control measures

Engineering Geology, D-ERDW (http://www.engineering-geology.ethz.ch)

• Rockslope failure mechanisms
• Landslide mapping & monitoring
• Earthquake site effects & secondary hazards

Structural Engineering, Design and Conservation, D-BAUG (http://www.ibk.ethz.ch/vo/)

• Impact resistance of rock-shed structures
• Inventory on Swiss rock-shed structures
• Vulnerability & robustness of structures
• Integrated risk management

Risk and Safety, D-BAUG (http://www.ibk.ethz.ch/fa/)

• Management of Earthquake Risks using Condition Indicators
• Spatial Variability of Concrete Properties in Structural Elements
• Natural Hazards in an Alpine Valley
• Generic Approaches to Risk based Inspection planning for Steel Structures
• Failure Consequences and Reliability Acceptance Criteria for Exceptional Building Structures
• Basis for the Design of Timber Structures
• Indicators for the Durability and Service Life of Concrete Structures
• Residual Risks and Acceptance Criteria for Accidental Loading for Infrastructural Facilities
• SAFERELNET: Thematic Network

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, D-BAUG (http://www.ibk.ethz.ch/da/)

• Seismic behaviour of concrete structures
• Assessment of structures under seismic load

Seismology and Geodynamics, D-ERDW (http://www.seg.ethz.ch/)

• Local earthquake tomography
• 3D-refraction modelling
• High resolution teleseismic tomography
• Developing 3D seismic methods

Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, D-BAUG (http://www.ifb.ethz.ch/comphys)

• Shear bands landslides, granular flow
• Colloidal rheology, quicksand, sedimentation, river beds
• Social networks, clogging

Swiss Seismological Service, D-ERDW (http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/)

Department of Surface Waters - Research and Management, Eawag (http://www.eawag.ch/)

• Paleoseismology
• Sediments as flood archives
• Sedimentary records as indicators for environmental and climate change
  
• Sediment budgets of source-to-sink systems
  
• Sediments as archives of human-environment interactions
  
• Petrophysical and geotechnical sediment properties