Christoph Graf

Function

Technical staff member

Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements

Torrents and Mass Movements

Contact

christoph.graf(at)wsl.ch

+41 44 739 2454

Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf

Site

WSL Birmensdorf Bi LG E 15

current activities

Documentation, analysis and numerical simulation of debris flows (RAMMS)
Operation, maintenance and analysis of automated debris-flow observation stations
Application of debris-flow models (RAMMS) on the basis of documented events
Protection concept Illgraben

completed projects

Technical realisation of the Swiss Virtual Campus project "Dealing with Natural Hazards and Risks"
Secretary of the 3rd International Conference on Debris-flow Hazards Mitigation, 2003, Davos, Switzerland
Project manager of RAMMS::Rapid Mass MovementS
Co-developpement and support of DBF-1D
Hazard mapping in Mattertal VS: Data acquisition and numerical modeling of debris flows
Laboratory tests to the behavior of debris flows

Scientific Interests

Natural Hazards
Mass Movements
Debris Flows
Hangmuren
Sediment Transport
Hydrology
Landslides
Modeling
Hazard evaluation
Action and Mitigation planning

Events ¶

news box

www.geomorphology.ch

GH - Theme issue - Mapping, measuring and modeling in geomorphology
Editor(s): P. Greenwood and M. Hoelzle; Coordinator: N. Kuhn

upcoming events

past events

18./19.11.2016: Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Geneva
21./22.11.2015: Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Basel
17.-19.6.2015: Annual meeting SGS 2015, Bernese Oberland
Natural Hazards & Risks
18.6.2015: General Assembly SGS, Innertkirchen

Downloads ¶

Randa Dorfbach 368 KB
Reportage Forschung im Beobachter 17 2007 700 KB

CV ¶

Academic formation

1992 – 1999 University of Berne: Geography, Geomorphology, Geology, media and communication science<br/><br/>Diploma (masters) (Rutschung Stalde, Rutschungsuntersuchung im Testgebiet Leissigen)

research

1997 – 1999 Assistant, University of Berne, Geomorphology and Photogrammetry / survey, Prof. Dr. H. Kienholz, K. Budmiger<br/>1999 – 2000 Research scientist, WSL , floods CH 1999<br/>from 2000 Research scientist, WSL , debris flow and sediment transport

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