WSL-Institut für Schnee-und Lawinenforschung SLF

River Water Temperatures

Installing water temperature sensors in the Dischmá.

Hello, or as we say here: Grüezi!

I am a former Environmental Engineering and Atmosphere and Climate Science student, now trying to figure out what drives water temperature. 

 

I am both interested in small scale changes in a single mountain catchment close to Davos, which I will be observing closely over the next tree years. I will try to understand and quantify the impacts that different aspects of a catchment have on water temperature here. 

 

Further I am a fan of big data sets and am currently working on one for water temperature over all of Europe! This project will allow some large scale analysis of water temperature extremes and riverine heatwaves across the continent.

 

Whether you are working on water temperatures on catchment scales, on continental scales, or not at all, I am happy to have a chat!

CV

09/2021 - 08/2024  MSc Atmosphere and Climate Science, ETH Zürich

01-2024 - 08-2024 Research Assistant in Hydrology & Climate Impacts in Mountain Regions (HYCLIMM), SLF, Davos

01-2021 - 08-2024 Research Assistant in the Waldlabor, IFU, ETH Zürich

02/2023 - 09/2023  Master Thesis on Physical Ice Shield Modelling, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

09/2017 - 08/2020  BSc Environmental Engineering, ETH Zürich

Projekte

Riverine heatwaves under climate change

Extremely high river water temperatures introduce thermal stress to aquatic species and reduce the thermal cooling efficiency of power plants, in particular if they persist over time. Despite the potentially severe impacts of such river heatwaves, there exists limited understanding of their occurrence, drivers, future changes, and impacts. The objective of this project is to fill this research gap and improve our understanding of riverine heatwaves in the Alps and Europe.

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