Zurich, Switzerland
- Investigating the effects of climatic changes, extremes and variability on forest health and tree mortality - Experimenting on trees exposed to drought stress (atmospheric and soil drought) to research their acclimation potential - Developing and coordinating quality assurance/control approaches for meteorological and forest condition observations
- Participation in the project CLIMANDES-1 (Servicios climáticos con énfasis en los Andes en apoyo a las decisiones) - Assessment of the meteorology study programme of a University in Peru by stakeholder surveys (questionnaires, personal and group interviews) - Development of e-learning modules on climatology (containing different materials such as videos, interactive graphics, exercises, etc.) in order to support the study programme - Organisation of several workshops to train the trainers and assess the e-learning materials - Participation in various planning meetings - Co-authoring the proposal for the project DECADE (Data on climate and Extreme weather for the Central AnDEs)
- Modelling the discharge and depletion of contaminant loads in a lake based on measurement data - Forecasting the relevance of the contamination for the drinking water supply for the next decades - Organisation of the Gerhard Jirka Summer School on Environmental Fluid Mechanics - Advising and supporting the summer school participants on organisational matters
- Investigating remote lakes in the Chilean Andes (second fieldwork campaign) - Organizing the logistics and the access to the lakes - Maintaining sediment traps and collecting samples - Measuring various water parameters - Taking sediment cores
- Writing a literature review on the effects of thermal pollution on aquatic ecosystems in lakes and rivers