Manuel Nitsche - Personal Homepage

Organisational unit: Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements Mountain Torrents Phone: +41 44 7392 845 Fax: +41 44 7392 215 Room: Bi MG E 36 E-Mail: Address: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Zürcherstrasse 111 8903 Birmensdorf

Research

In my doctoral studies I am interested in the influence of streambed roughness on flow hydraulics and sediment transport rates. Besides theoretical analysis of physical transport models, I am mainly focused on experiments and measurements in real mountain streams, where I apply and test various methods, i.e.:

• 3D imaging with time-of-flight infrared videocameras for roughness estimations (read more within foen project)
  
• dye tracer experiments to measure flow velocities and discharge
• RFID tagged tracerstones for routing individual sediment grains (read more within apunch project)
• Geophone sensors to indirectly measure sediment transport rates (read more).

Short CV

I studied Physical Geography, Geology and Journalism at the University of Leipzig/Germany and at the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca/Romania and received my degree as "Diplom-Geograph" in 2007. In the following year I worked as graduate assistant at the Leibniz-Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig/Germany. Since 2008 I am enrolled as graduate student at the WSL/ETHZ-UWIS.

Peers and Partners

Here I list some of the people I work with and who are committed to mountain streams, sediments and other dirty things:

• Benjamin Fischer (Hydrology), University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Elowyn Yager (Bedload Transport), University of Idaho, USA
• Eva Gertsch (Mountain torrents), University of Bern, Switzerland
• Jan Magnusson (Mountain Hydrology), Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF Davos, Switzerland
• Jens Turowski (Channel Morphology), WSL Birmensdorf, Switzerland
• Johannes Schneider (RFID Tracer), WSL Birmenddorf, Switzerland
  
• Markus Noack (Ecological Modeling), University of Stuttgart, Germany
• Michi Chiari (Numerical Modeling), University of Natural Resources and applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
  
• Michi Pauli (Database for Sediment Events), University of Bern, Switzerland
• Ramona Baran (Geology,TLS), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich, Germany
• Ronel Barzilai (Flash Floods), Ben-Gurion University Beer-Sheva, Israel
• Tobias Kohoutek (Range imaging), ETH Zurich/Switzerland