Georg Kaser
Phone: +39 335 871 6458
Georg Kaser is a retired Professor for Climate and Cryospheric Research at the University of Innsbruck. His studies started on the role of sublimation for the mass balance of Hintereisferner and led him later to become an expert in tropical glaciology. By pushing the process understanding to the limits of instrumental observations at very high altitudes with his team, they decided to take the open and detailed questions back home to Hintereisferner. This is how the SCHISM project idea was born.
Tobias Sauter
Phone: +49 9131 85-22013
Tobias Sauter is a senior scientist at the Climate System Research Group at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His research focuses on the physical processes governing the climate system, boundary layer processes in polar and high mountain regions, and orographic mesoscale phenomena.
Rainer Prinz
Phone: +43 512 507 54415
Rainer Prinz is a senior scientist at the ACINN having experience in mass and energy balance monitoring and modelling on tropical, alpine and arctic glaciers. Rainer manages the Hintereisferner infrastructure and supports the project with designing, consulting and preforming field experiments.
Annelies Voordendag
Phone: +43 512 507-54404
Annelies Voordendag is a PhD student at the Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN). She holds a master’s degree in Geoscience and Remote Sensing (University of Technology Delft, The Netherlands) and in the project she is mainly occupied with the terrestrial laser scanner (TLS). The aim of her PhD thesis is to assess the uncertainty of the TLS system and to study snow distribution and glacier mass balance with the use of the TLS data.