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- Climate-glacier modelling of the last glaciation in the Alps (2:40 minutes, 2023)
Large parts of the European Alps were covered by ice during the last glaciation. What places have been glaciated? When and for how long? This 2-min-long film shows the result of a recent climate-glacier modelling of the last glaciation in the Alps starting 120'000 years ago. This film is a reworking of a prior video, featuring new results based on climate modelling and a new AI-based visualization.
- Glaciers in the Alps from the last ice age to 2100 (2:40 minutes, 2019)
This film presents a state-of-the-art simulation showing the multiple advances and retreats of glaciers in the European Alps
starting 120'000 year ago, followed by the retreat of the Aletsch Glacier expected during the 21st century.
Simulations by J. Seguinot and G. Jouvet.
- Drop and recovery of GPS stations on glaciers by UAV (3:00 minutes, 2019)
Measuring glacial movements in-situ is a challenging, but necessary task to model glaciers and predict their future evolution.
However, installing GPS stations on ice can be dangerous and expensive when not impossible in the presence of large crevasses.
In this project, the ASL develops UAVs for dropping and recovering lightweight GPS stations over inaccessible glaciers to record
the ice flow motion. This video shows the results of first tests performed at Gorner glacier, Switzerland.
- Sun2Ice project (3:30 minutes, 2017)
This short video presents ETH Zurich's Sun2Ice project, a collaborative research project between glaciology and autonomous systems.
The project aims to use a state-of-the-art, solar-powered UAV "AtlantikSolar", for multi-days surveys of glaciers in the Arctic.
- Drone in Greenland (5 minutes, 2017)
This film shows how we use drones to monitor and model the detachment of icebergs (calving) from the Bowdoin Glacier in Northwest Greenland.
It was part of the official selection of the 2017 Science Film Festival.
For more information about the scientific content, see the paper
"Initiation of a major calving event on Bowdoin Glacier captured by UAV photogrammetry".
- Glacial Mystery (5 minutes, 2014)
First prize among 62 films of the film science competition "Fast Forward Science 2014" in the category "Substanz".
(Synopsis: In March 1926, four young men did not return from a mountain hike at the Aletsch Glacier. It was not until 2012 that their
remains were found. The film explains how scientists reconstructed the accident of the mountaineers using a mathematical model,
which describes the motion of the ice.) For more information about the scientific content, see the paper
"Modelling the trajectory of the corpses of mountaineers who disappeared in 1926 on Aletschgletscher".
- The future of glacier (5 minutes, 2013)
Third prize among 29 other participants of the competition "Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013",
and selected in the category "Science" of the international film festival inspired by science (organised at CERN)
"Cineglobe".
The film shows how mathematicians and glaciologists work together to produce realistic estimates of the future evolution of glaciers.
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