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Fachtagung Wildbäche
Der Sommer 2024 hat es eindrücklich gezeigt: Heftige Unwetter lösten in mehreren Regionen der Schweiz verheerende Murgänge und Wildbachereignisse aus, die Siedlungen, Strassen und Infrastrukturen massiv beschädigten. Wie gross müssen Schutzbauten dimensioniert werden? Mit welcher Häufigkeit ist mit welchen Ereignisgrössen zu rechnen? Genau diesen Fragen widmet sich die zweite Fachtagung Wildbäche.
Image: Alexandre Badoux, 2008
Mountain Commons at SGM 2026 – Call for Abstracts
Mountain regions are facing many challenges related to their environmental and sociopolitical contexts – from reduced agricultural production to natural hazards or difficulty of access. Collective action and commons are ways to cope with these challenges. The Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research (CIRM), the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) and the Forum Landscape, Alps, Parks (FoLAP) are organising a session on this topic at the 24th Swiss Geoscience Meeting (SGM) on 20 and 21 November 2026 in Fribourg. They invite scientists from geosciences and other disciplines to an interdisciplinary exchange around the mountain commons and their multiple characteristics and management challenges in the 21st century.
Image: Loïc Giaccone
WMO: Prepare for El Niño
Fueled by unusually warm ocean waters in the tropical Pacific, El Niño conditions are developing and are set to influence global temperature and rainfall patterns, increasing the risk of extreme weather over the coming months, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
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StuMeTa 2026
StuMeTa (Studentische Meteorologie-Tagung) is an annual meeting of meteorology students from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, dedicated to knowledge exchange and networking.
Call for nomination: Swiss NC IUGG Early Career Prize of interdisciplinary research
The Swiss NC IUGG Early Career Prize is awarded every year to a recent graduate or PhD researcher in Switzerland for research displaying a strong multi-disciplinary component covering aspects of two or more disciplines represented by the scientific associations of the IUGG (i.e., IACS cryosphere, IAG geodesy, IAGA geomagnetism and aeronomy, IAHS hydrology, IAMAS meteorology and atmospheric sciences, IAPSO oceanography, IAVCEI volcanology).
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