Category: Completed BSc projects

Perspective view of the Hérémence Valley (south of Sion, VS). Hillslopes responding to long-term fluvial incision are highlighted, with increasingly cooler colours reflecting progressively older waves of incision.

BSc Patricia Hug: Assessment of deep-seated landslide distributions in the Canton Valais

26th January 2017 / kerryleith / 0 Comments

Candidate: Patricia Hug Supervisors: Kerry Leith, Andrea Manconi Institution: ETH Zurich Activity: Beginning Spring 2018 Gaining a better understanding of processes that contribute to the formation of large rock slope failures can provide important insight into their mechanics and future development throughout the Alps. Such instabilities are commonly assumed to be initiated as a result of erosion, seismic activity, or […]

Map of the catchment area or Lake Maggiore (base map derived from a LiDAR greyscale hillshade DEM) which shows the river channels (marked with colours) and the intersections with landslides (marked with black crosses). The black circles mark areas where the intersection would project to the alluvium.

BSc Andrina Vlasek: Assessment of deep-seated landslide distributions in the Alps: Ticino

26th August 2016 / kerryleith / 0 Comments

Candidate: Andrina Vlasek Supervisors: Kerry Leith, Andrea Manconi Institution: ETH zurich Activity: Completed summer 2016 Natural hazards such as landslides happen frequently in Switzerland, more than 6% of Switzerland’s area is prone to slope instability. Not all landscapes are equally prone to landslide instabilities, but depend on various factors, such as geologic (e.g. lithology), topographic (e.g. slope steepness) […]

Conceptual initial stress models of the Zugspitzplatt

BSc Barbara Kessler: Stress changes and fracture development on the Zugspitzplatt as a result of deglaciation.

26th November 2015 / kerryleith / 0 Comments

Candidate: Barbara Kessler Supervisors: Kerry Leith, Michael Krautblatter Institution: Technical University of Munich Activity: Completed summer 2015 The impact of glacier retreat on rock slope instability since the Last Glacial Maximum is the subject of ongoing debate. Rock slope activity since ice retreat is typically attributed to increased kinematic freedom as a result of erosion during glaciation, […]

Location and likely size of the Eibsee and Ehrwald rock avalanches

BSc Felix Hofmayer: Preconditioning of the Eibsee Bergsturz by deglaciation & development of near-surface critical stress

26th November 2015 / kerryleith / 0 Comments

Candidate: Felix Hofmayer Supervisors: Kerry Leith, Michael Krautblatter Institution: Technical University of Munich Activity: Completed summer 2015 Especially in alpine areas with a high density of population there is a huge risk of heavy rockfalls. Most of all in case there is a touristic dependency for the region. The Zugspitze with Garmisch-Patenkirchen at the bottom is a […]

Post-glacial tensile fracture propagating through sub-glacial cementation

BSc Jan Kupp: Sub-glacial cementation and formation of cracks related to the retreat of the Schneeferner Glacier

26th November 2014 / kerryleith / 0 Comments

Candidate: Jan Kupp Supervisors: Kerry Leith, Michael Krautblatter Institution: Technical University of Munich Activity: Completed summer 2014

Tensile failure in response to progressive deglaciation at the Gatterl and Zugspitzplatt

BSc Benedikt Geisenhof: Strukturelle Analyse der Gatterl und Zugspitzplatt Felsstürze

26th November 2014 / kerryleith / 0 Comments

Candidate: Benedikt Geisenhof Supervisors: Kerry Leith, Michael Krautblatter Institution: Technical University of Munich Activity: Completed summer 2014

BSc Theresa Raab: Abschätzung der potentiell durch Hang-Gerinne-Kopplung mobilisierbaren Geschiebefracht im Wildbacheinzugsgebiet des Steigbachtales (Immenstadt,D)

26th November 2013 / kerryleith / 0 Comments

Candidate: Theresa Raab Supervisors: Kerry Leith, Michael Krautblatter Institution: Technical University of Munich Activity: Completed summer 2013

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Category: Completed BSc projects

BSc Patricia Hug: Assessment of deep-seated landslide distributions in the Canton Valais

BSc Andrina Vlasek: Assessment of deep-seated landslide distributions in the Alps: Ticino

BSc Barbara Kessler: Stress changes and fracture development on the Zugspitzplatt as a result of deglaciation.

BSc Felix Hofmayer: Preconditioning of the Eibsee Bergsturz by deglaciation & development of near-surface critical stress

BSc Jan Kupp: Sub-glacial cementation and formation of cracks related to the retreat of the Schneeferner Glacier

BSc Benedikt Geisenhof: Strukturelle Analyse der Gatterl und Zugspitzplatt Felsstürze

BSc Theresa Raab: Abschätzung der potentiell durch Hang-Gerinne-Kopplung mobilisierbaren Geschiebefracht im Wildbacheinzugsgebiet des Steigbachtales (Immenstadt,D)

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