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WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
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#SLF #Snow #Avalanches #AlpineNaturalHazards #Permafrost #MountainEcosystems #AvalancheBulletin #CERC #WSL @wslresearch.bsky.social
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You never get used to #NorthernLights:
#SLF PhD student Pia Ruttner spent six months in the Westfjords of #Iceland. There she observed avalanche runs with a laser scanner.
In the logbook blog, she recounts her incomplete collection of memories and learnings: www.slf.ch/en/news/you-...
📷️ P. Ruttner
February 13, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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#Job at #SLF in #Davos: For our snow processes research group we are looking for a research scientist in snow modelling.
All information: apply.refline.ch/273855/1843/...
February 13, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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Last Monday, the Alpine Drone Consortium (ADC) was founded as a new national initiative to develop a safe, scalable and practical #drone ecosystem under real #alpine conditions. The #SLF is involved alongside numerous other institutions and is contributing its many years of expertise.

📷️ N. Salzmann
February 11, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
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#WomenInScience #WomenInStem #FraueninderWissenschaft #FraueninMINT #MintFrauen #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience @women__in__stem @mint_leben
February 11, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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20 Jahre White Risk: eine Lawinen-App mit Award
Kurz vor dem 20-Jahr-Jubiläum zur besten Schweizer App gekürt: #WhiteRisk startete als CD-ROM für #Lawinenprävention und ist heute ein preisgekröntes Planungstool mit über 100'000 Nutzer/innen.
Mehr: www.slf.ch/de/news/20-j...
📷 R. Oester
#SLF
February 10, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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Im arktischen #Eis unterwegs – zwei Monate auf dem Forschungsschiff Polarstern
Start der öffentlichen Vortragsreihe "SLF Einblicke" am Donnerstag, 12. Februar, um 19.30 Uhr am #SLF in Davos – alle Infos: www.slf.ch/de/veranstal...

📷️ M. Jaggi
February 10, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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Avalanche winter of 1951:
⁠They are the cheapest and most important form of avalanche protection in terms of area – and they grow back naturally: forests. What the SLF researched after the avalanche winter of 1951: www.slf.ch/en/news/aval...
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#SLF #SLFDavos #Snow #Avalanche #Winter #forest
February 9, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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After the #avalanche #winter of 1951, #SLF researchers developed a system for mapping areas at #risk from avalanches. The resulting colour scale for danger zones still forms the basis of the hazard maps produced today.
Part 3 of the series on the avalanche winter of 1951: www.slf.ch/en/news/aval...
February 3, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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Ottimo recupero della neve ❄️❄️ a sud delle Alpi, oggi 14cm a Bosco Gurin (tot 56cm) e Campo Blenio (tot 25cm), 10cm a S. Bernadino (tot 54cm). Siamo fra il 60 e 90% dalla norma. Con le precipitazioni di settimana prossima pareggieremo i conti. 🤩 Mappa neve relativa @slfdavos.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 7:14 AM
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From careful planning to wild experimentation – the SAMD students visited the SLF for a morning focused on avalanche prevention.

#SLF #avanachesafety #WhiteRisk
January 28, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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#Job am #SLF in #Davos: Für die Forschungsgruppe #Schutzmassnahmen suchen wir eine/n neue/n Mitarbeiter/in. Zu den Aufgaben gehören u.a. Gutachter- und Beratertätigkeit und die Planung von Schutzmassnahmen.
Alle Infos und Bewerbung: apply.refline.ch/273855/1836/...
January 28, 2026 at 7:31 AM
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After the avalanche winter 1951, the #SLF stepped up its research into #avalanche protection. The findings led to a move away from walls, the usual defence mechanism until then, towards the #snow bridges and snow nets that remain common today.
Part 2 of the #SLF series: www.slf.ch/en/news/aval...
January 27, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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At today's WEF event organised by the #ETHDomain, the six research institutions @ethz.ch, #EPFL, Paul Scherrer Institut #PSI, @wslresearch.bsky.social, #Empa and #Eawag presented at the #SLF how #artificialintelligence is paving the way for greater #sustainability.
More: www.slf.ch/en/news/rese...
January 21, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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Yesterday, Ruzica Dadic, head of the #Snow and #Atmosphere research unit at #SLF, spoke at a panel discussion at the #WEF Open Forum about, among other things, the impact of #climatechange on the #cryosphere.
Watch the presentation now: www.weforum.org/open-forum/s...
Event sessions
The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape glob...
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January 21, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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#Job in #Davos: The #SLF is looking for a PhD student who helps improving regional #avalanche forecasting by developing and validating data-driven machine-learning methods for spatio-temporal forecasting.
More info and application: apply.refline.ch/273855/1829/...
January 20, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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#Avalanche #winter 1950/51: Far above-average #precipitation led to the disaster. In mid-January alone, it snowed for 88 hours without interruption. This amount of fresh #snow of up to 250 cm only occurs every 50 to 100 years.
Part 1 of the #SLF series: www.slf.ch/en/metanavig...
📷 SLF archive
January 20, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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Feiertage in der Antarktis: Doktorandin Anja Mödl bloggt, wie sie sich bei der Feldarbeit nasse Füsse geholt hat und was das mit dem Klimawandel auf dem Nansen-Einsschelf zu tun hat.

Zum Blog: www.slf.ch/de/news/weih...

#SLF #SLFDavos⁠
#Eis #Antarktis⁠
#Klimawandel
January 16, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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How can mountain forests survive #ClimateChange? 🏔️🌲 @ETH_en & CERC @slfdavos.bsky.social expand their partnership in Surselva 🇨🇭! With the Canton of Grisons, we’re researching forest adaptation to drought, natural hazards and reforestation.

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ETH and SLF/CERC join forces in Surselva
For over 50 years, ETH Zurich and the local forestry service have been using the forest in the municipality of Tujetsch in Surselva for research and teaching purposes. This partnership is now being st...
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January 7, 2026 at 8:39 AM
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How do avalanches affect pylons and other sensitive #infrastructure? Using detailed #simulations, #SLF researcher @mjkohler.bsky.social shows that the compressibility of #snow initially reduces #avalanche pressure, but that at high speeds this buffer suddenly fails.
More: www.slf.ch/en/news/aval...
January 7, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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#SLF Einblicke: Mit einer Vortragsreihe im Februar 2026 geben Forschende spannende Einblicke in unsere vielfältigen Themen:
🧊 Im arktischen Eis unterwegs / 12.2.
🏔️ Wenn Berge aktiv werden / 19.2.
❄️ Operationelle Schneemodelle / 26.2.
Infos: www.slf.ch/einblicke

📷️ M. Jaggi / S. Weber / White Risk
December 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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New method for determining how quickly #heat penetrates deep into #permafrost by #SLF researcher @s-weber.bsky.social: This helps detecting changes in #mountain regions at an early stage + makes it easier to assess instabilities and rockslides.
More: www.slf.ch/en/news/like...
📷️ J. Nötzli / S. Weber
December 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Der #Winter 2024/25 war der drittwärmste seit 1864. Wärme und geringe Niederschläge führten zu Schneearmut und es gab überdurchschnittlich viele Lawinenunfälle – ausführliche Informationen dazu im #Winterbericht 2024/25: www.slf.ch/de/lawinenbu...

📷️ A. Godly

#SLF #SLFDavos #Schnee #Lawinen
December 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Switch flipped for conditions conducive to #fire: Dry #weather + low #humidity are the main driving forces behind #forestfires, with #temperature playing less of a role. #Wind + a lack of #snow encourage forest fires in #winter.
More: www.slf.ch/en/news/swit...

📷 LFV Südtirol

@hyclimm.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Weihnachtsgeschenk gesucht? Wie wäre es mit dem Buch «Wandern, wo andere forschen. Davos und Umgebung»? Der Wanderführer begleitet euch auf acht teils hochalpinen Wanderungen in die Bergwelt rund um #Davos und zu Orten, wo das #SLF forscht.
Mehr Infos: www.slf.ch/de/publikati...

📷️ R. Oester
December 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Individual offices at the #SLF were transformed into an open-plan space by Bureau Hindermann. With orange floor lamps as a reference to snow poles, mountain panoramas on the curtains and cloud-shaped acoustic elements on the ceiling.
More info + photos: www.hindermann.ch/en/project/w...
📷️ Tom Bisig
December 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM