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Research 30.07.2024

Lasers for more road safety

This winter, the SLF tested a new system to better assess the risk of avalanches on traffic routes.

Institutional 01.07.2024

First spin-off at the SLF

The RAMMS software for modeling avalanches, debris flows and rockfalls is being incorporated into a specially founded AG.

Research 25.06.2024

Snow or plant

Machine learning helps researchers to use weather stations to investigate the consequences of climate change for the growth of alpine vegetation.

Research 17.06.2024

Drone flights for photovoltaics

Solar parks in the Alps present project planners with special challenges. The SLF supports them with precise data on snow depth.

Research for people and the environment in a changing world ¶

Logbook

29.08.2024

SLF doctoral student Patricia Asemann writes about her work on the Silvretta glacier, melting ice, falling winds and pasta with pesto.

Events

20.08.2024

From 17 to 21 February 2025, SLF will once more organise an advanced training course on snow and avalanches in English.

Research

06.06.2024

After two years of little snow and hot summers, the permafrost remained warm in 2023, according to the Swiss Permafrost Monitoring Network.

Services and products

05.06.2024

Understanding and improving biodiversity in the city: Read in the new DIAGONAL magazine how WSL is contributing to this.

Research

30.05.2024

Interview with Johan Gaume, leader oft the SLF-researchgroup alpine mass movements, about his model of the Brienz-landslide.

Research

08.05.2024

How much water is in one cubic metre of fresh snow? Why is the answer to this question important? SLF researcher Tobias Jonas explains.

Our experts analyze the avalanche situation.

4 June 2024