Johannes Schneider - Personal Homepage

Organisational unit: Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements Phone: +41 44 7392 506 Fax: +41 44 7392 215 Room: Bi MG E 36 E-Mail: Address: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Zürcherstrasse 111 8903 Birmensdorf

Research interests

My PhD dissertation is about 'bedload transport in steep mountain streams'. I am interested in the interactions of grain-sizes and streambed roughness with flow hydraulics and sediment transport. The background for my analysis are a broad range of field measurements in steep mountain streams regarding channel morphology, flow conditions and sediment transport, i.e.:

• terrestrial laser scanning of stream bed surfaces
• dye tracer experiments to determine flow discharge and velocity
• tagging natural gravels with RFID transponders and track their movements in the channel to determine transport distances, velocities and residence times
• bedload transport measurements using bedload traps
• bedload transport measurements using geophones
  

Project links

• APUNCH ¹⁾: Advanced Process UNderstanding and prediction of hydrological extremes and Complex Hazards  

Education

• since 2009: PhD student at ETHZürich/WSL Birmensdorf, Switzerland
• 2008-2009: Diploma thesis: "Impacts of climate change on catchment storage, streamflow recession and summer low flows"
• 2003-2008: Degree studies in Hydrology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany