Christoph Wetter

Doctoral student in the research group Mountain Torrents and Mass Movements at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL and the Department of Environmental System Science at ETH Zürich. Project: Detection and Simulation of Roll Waves in Debris Flows.

• Debris flows:
  • Focus on surging behavior and flow dynamics of debris flows (e.g., surge waves).
  • Seismic monitoring of debris flow dynamics using Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) and nodal chains at the Illgraben Debris Flow Observatory.

Since 2024: Doctoral student, Swiss Federal Research Institute of Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland.

2019-2022: MSc in Geophysics at ETH Zurich: Thesis: Seismo-Acoustic Lake Ice Monitoring.

2016-2019: BSc in Earth and Climate Sciences at ETH Zurich. Thesis: Drone-Based Magnetic Prospecting at Archaeological Sites

2023: National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste (NAGRA). Working with DSS (Distributed Temperature Sensing) data of the Mont Terri rock labratory and DAS (Distributed Acoustic Sensing) data (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220230180).

• Wetter, C., Walter, F., McArdell, B. W., Blumenschein, F., Spielmann, R., Aaron, J., Gray, J.N.M.T., Obermann, A., and Fichtner, A.: Formation, propagation, and annihilation of surge waves in debris flows, Engineering Geology, p. 108648,
  https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2026.108648,2026.

   

• Zhang, Z., Walter, F., McArdell, B. W., de Haas, T., & Wetter, C. (2025). Seismic signals monitor debris-flow erosion and channel elevation. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL118801. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL118801

   

• Wetter, C., Walter, F., McArdell, B., Zhang, Z., Aichele, J., and Fichtner, A.: Distributed Seismic Sensing of Debris Flow Dynamics at Illgraben, Switzerland, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-8772, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-8772, 2025.

   

• Wetter, C., Schmelzbach, C., and Stähler, S. C.: Monitoring lake ice with acoustic sensors, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 23–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-10127, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-10127, 2023.

   

• Andreas Wuestefeld, Zack J. Spica, Kasey Aderhold, Hsin‐Hua Huang, Kuo‐Fong Ma, Voon Hui Lai, Meghan Miller, Lena Urmantseva, Daniel Zapf, Daniel C. Bowden, Pascal Edme, Tjeerd Kiers, Antonio P. Rinaldi, Katinka Tuinstra, Camille Jestin, Sergio Diaz‐Meza, Philippe Jousset, Christopher Wollin, Arantza Ugalde, Sandra Ruiz Barajas, Beatriz Gaite, Gilda Currenti, Michele Prestifilippo, Eiichiro Araki, Takashi Tonegawa, Sjoerd de Ridder, Andy Nowacki, Fabian Lindner, Martin Schoenball, Christoph Wetter, Hong‐Hu Zhu, Alan F. Baird, Robin A. Rørstadbotnen, Jonathan Ajo‐Franklin, Yuanyuan Ma, Robert E. Abbott, Kathleen M. Hodgkinson, Robert W. Porritt, Christian Stanciu, Agatha Podrasky, David Hill, Biondo Biondi, Siyuan Yuan, Bin Luo, Sergei Nikitin, Jan Petter Morten, Vlad‐Andrei Dumitru, Werner Lienhart, Erin Cunningham, Herbert Wang; The Global DAS Month of February 2023. Seismological Research Letters 2023;; 95 (3): 1569–1577. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220230180