Dr. Manfred Stähli - Personal Homepage

head of research unit Organisational unit: Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements Phone: +41 44 7392 472 Fax: +41 44 7392 215 Room: Bi LG E 08 E-Mail: Address: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Zürcherstrasse 111 8903 Birmensdorf

Head of Research Unit "Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements" (since 1 July, 2006)

Current research projects:

	TRAMM - Triggering of Rapid Mass Movements in Steep Terrain in the frame of the ETH competence centre for environment and sustainability (CCES) - phase 1: 2006 - 2010;  phase 2: 2012 - 2014 (approved)
	BigLink (CCES) - Hydrology of a glacial forefield Climate change and hydropower (SwissElectric Research, BfE, FMV, Canton Valais) - case studies project duration: 2007 - 2011;
	Longterm hydrological monitoring in forested torrential catchments - Alptal (SZ), Sperbel-/Rappengraben (BE)

DROUGHT-CH (in the frame of NRP 61 "Sustainable Water Management") - project duration: 2010 - 2012

Ongoing PhD thesis (Co-supervisor):

Benjamin Fischer (Univ. Zürich): Spatial and Temporal rainfall - runoff measurements in pre alpine catchments extending process knowledge and hydrological modeling (2009-2012)

Accomplished PhD thesis

Markus Hofer: Structures and processes of the initial ecosystem development in an artificial catchment (2007-2011)

Ingo Völksch: Microwave radiometry for the investigation of hydrological surface processes (2006-2010)

Accomplished Masters thesis:

Seraina Kauer (Uni Zürich): Monitoring soil moisture dynamics on a hillslope prone to slide (Nov. 2010).

Recent publications:

(extension publication)

Stähli, M., Raymond-Pralong, M., Zappa, M., Ludwig, A., Paul, F., Bosshard, T., Dupraz, Ch. 2011. Auswirkungen auf die Wasserverfügbarkeit und Stromproduktion an den Beispielen Oberhasli und Mattmark. Wasser Energie Luft, 4/2011, 285-291.

Kruse, S., Seidl, I., Stähli, M. 2010. Informationsbedarf für die Früherkennung von Trockenheit in der Schweiz - Die Sicht potenziell betroffener Nutzergruppen. Wasser Energie Luft, 4/2010, 305-308.

(ISI-publications)

Hofer, M., P. Lehmann, M. Stähli, S. Seifert, and M. Krafczyk. 2011. Two approaches to modeling the initiation and development of rills in a man-made catchment. Water Resour. Res., doi:10.1029/2011WR010719, in press.

Bernasconi, S., and BigLink consortium (incl. M. Stähli). 2011. Chemical and biological gradients along the Damma Glacier soil chronosequence, Switzerland. Vadose Zone J. 10:867–883. (doi:10.2136/vzj2010.0129)Hofer, M., Lehmann, P., Biemelt, D., Stähli, M. and Krafczyk, M. 2011. Modelling subsurface drainage pathways in an artificial catchment. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 36 (1-4): 101-112. (doi: 10.1016/j.pce.2010.04.020)

Stähli, M., Badoux, A., Ludwig, A., Steiner, K., Zappa, M., Hegg, Ch., 2011: One century of hydrological monitoring in two small catchments with different forest coverage. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 174: 91-106 (DOI 10.1007/s10661-010-1757-0).

Member of the following commissions:

GHO - Gruppe für operationelle Hydrologie

NADUF - Nationale Daueruntersuchung der Fliessgewässer

Atlaskommission HADES - Hydrologischer Atlas der Schweiz