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Research group Prof. Schrott - Geomorphology and Environmental Systems

The Research Group Geomorphology and Environmental Systems is focusing on mountain permafrost, sediment budgets, late- and postglacial landscape development, natural hazards and risks as well as Global Environmental Change.

Group photo of the research group
© Friederike Pauk/GIUB

Team

Prof. Schrott talking to students about glaciers.
© Nico Wagner

Teaching

A DGPS set up in the Alps
© Till Wenzel/GIUB

Research

News
RG Schrott Project Seminar in the Austrian Alps4
Researchers from RG Schrott, together with students from the Master’s project seminar Changing Processes in Mountain Systems, conducted fieldwork near the Glorer Hut in the Austrian Alps.
New Publication by Weidt et al. 20255
"Spatial patterns and bridge collapse interactions of erosional processes due to the 2021 Ahr valley flood" by Weidt et al. 2025, published in Environmental Sciences Europe 37, 1. S. 82.
Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility at the University of Bergen, Norway6
How does teaching at other European universities work? Melanie Stammler, a member of our research group, successfully applied for funding through the Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility programme and explored the teaching and research group dynamics in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bergen, Norway, from May 12–19, 2025.
New Publication by Köhler et al. 20257
"Expanding cryospheric landform inventories – quantitative approaches for underestimated periglacial block- and talus slopes in the Dry Andes of Argentina" by Köhler et al. 2025, published in Frontiers in Earth Science Sec. Cryospheric Sciences.

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Lothar Schrott

Head of Research Group

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Meckenheimer Allee 166

53115

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