Climate warming causes severe changes in high mountain environments. This is particularly evident by the rapid melting of glaciers, the formation of new proglacial lakes and the increase in rockfalls and rockslides due to slope instability. But how does global warming affect the subsurface on a local scale? And how does it affect the periglacial zone, where the perennially frozen ground, the so-called permafrost, occurs?
To find this out, geography students accompany the research group Geomorphology and Environmental Systems at the University of Bonn, headed by Prof. Lothar Schrott, to the Großglockner region. Almost every year they carry out field measurements that reveal the existence and status of alpine permafrost.
Click on the link below to find out more about our last field trip to the Glorer Hut in September 2023!