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Daniel Draebing

@draebing.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor for Natural Hazards at Utrecht University | Geomorphology | Paraglacial landscapes | Periglacial Processes | Landslides | Weathering Processes

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Jana Eichel @alpinebiogeo.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
On #mountain slopes, we previously found strong feedbacks between #geomorphic processes, #landforms and #plants. But what about #sediments? Do they matter for #biogeomorphic feedbacks? If yes, which sediment properties should we measure and how? Have a look! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Why sediments matter for mountain biogeomorphology
Grain size distributions, sediment and soil chemistry control feedback between plants and geomorphic processes across alpine hillslopes. With our developed workflow, this key sedimentological data ca...
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
After the heavy thunderstorms, the Spisszug overflowed its banks in St. Niklaus (VS) Source @walliserbote
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Debris flows damaging infrastruture today in Saas Valley / St Niklaus (VS) x.com/paedugasser/... 1/
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Felix Pfluger @felix-pfl.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Recent article and intense photography by #NationalGeographic on #permafrost -related hazards in the Swiss Alps, 2025 - covering the tragedy at #Blatten and potential future failure at #SpitzeStei. www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
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A Swiss village was buried under a mountain. This town could be next.
In the past century, scientists have observed more rockfalls and avalanches in the Alps, a looming threat to nearby villages.
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Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University @uugeo.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
A physical geographer's unexpected journey - monitoring fractures in the rampart near the outer moat of one of our most iconic castles! www.uu.nl/en/news/rock...
Loevestein Castle
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Dave Petley @davepetley.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
On 28 May 2025, the Birch Glacier in Switzerland catastrophically failed, generating a massive landslide that has partially buried Blatten. So what happens next? eos.org/thelandslide...
The front of the Birch Glacier prior to the catastrophic collapse on 28 May 2025. Image from Pomona Media.
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Jan Beutel @janbeutel.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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Drohnenbilder zeigen das Ausmass des Abbruchs - News-Clip - Play SRF
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Jan Beutel @janbeutel.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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Jan Beutel @janbeutel.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Gigantic proportions
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Jan Beutel @janbeutel.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Courtesy of pomona.ch/Alain Amherd
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Jan Beutel @janbeutel.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Another picture of the event from srf.ch
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Jan Beutel @janbeutel.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Swiss Seimological service reports this event as M=3.1 in a very quick first analysis, Cengalo was M=3.0...
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Jan Beutel @janbeutel.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
What an inaugural post on bsky.app. A (the) major glacier collapse at Bichgletscher/Kleines Nesthorn.
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Daniel Draebing @draebing.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
And compared rockfall events to rockfall events from 2016 to 2019 quantified using laserscanning in a previous study. www.nature.com/articles/s43... We found that rockfall is mainly driven by frost weathering processes and permafrost rather than glacier retreat.
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Daniel Draebing @draebing.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
We measured rockfall for 2019-2023 using structure for motion photogrammetry…
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Daniel Draebing @draebing.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
We quantified glacier retreat and the Rothorn cirque Glacier showed an increasing glacier area loss with 0.2 %/year for 1850 to 1973, 2 %/year for 1973 to 2011 and up to 3.7 %/year for the period 2011 to 2023.
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Daniel Draebing @draebing.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
New open access paper on headwall erosion of a deglaciating cirque in the Swiss Alps. In our study we found that headwall erosion is driven by frost weathering and permafrost rather than glacier induced rockfall. @uugeo.bsky.social #glacier #rockfall doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
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Daniel Draebing @draebing.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The Rothorn Glacier is a Alpine cirque glacier that lost 86 % of its size since 1850. As very small glacier are more sensitive to climate warming, its retreat rate of -3.7%/a is much larger than large European Glaciers. Prepint: ssrn.com/abstract=513... #IYGP #VanishingGlaciers #WorldGlaciersDay
A& B) 2023, D) 1882, E) 1929, F) 1964
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Daniel Draebing @draebing.bsky.social · 21/06/2024
In our new paper, we quantified damage by frost weathering in alpine rocks using microCT. With Veerle Cnudde's team at UGhent, we tested the efficacy of different freeze-thaw cycles. Thanks EXCITE Network for funding. tc.copernicus.org/articles/18/28
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Daniel Draebing @draebing.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Our new paper shows that Holocene warming increases erosion in Alpine rockwalls on the short-term but decreases mountain erosion on the long-term. doi.org/10.1016/j.ep... #landslides #glacier #permafrost #weathering #rockfall
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