Medical students at ETH Zurich build a gripper hand for elbow exoskeletons in a crash course lasting just one week. This course has now been honoured with the 2024 Kite Award, the ETH prize for particularly innovative teaching.
This work presents insights on temporal and spatial behaviour of polarimetric scattering properties of snow cover on top of the Great Aletsch Glacier at Ku-band.
Professor Daniel Farinotti investigates the evolution of glaciers and the implications for water resources. On the occasion of his promotion to Associate Professor of Glaciology in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, we asked him what currently drives him in research and teaching.
Interception and evaporation limit the amount of summer precipitation reaching forest soils. As a result, beech and spruce trees are dominantly transpiring precipitation originating from the winter half of the year. Sufficient soil water storage is key during extended summer dry periods.
The podcast series Von der Erde ins All recently interviewed Prof. Irena Hajnsek about the upcoming spaceborne radar satellite mission Biomass.
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Wer einen Beitrag zur Lösung der immer drängender werdenden Herausforderungen im Umwelt- und Klimabereich leisten will, ist im IfU am richtigen Ort. Forschung und Praxis werden in unserem Lehrgang Umweltingenieurwissenschaften zusammengebracht und an technisch interessierte Studierende vermittelt.