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Master's thesis topics on research group websites
Master's thesis topics in SiROP
Many research groups in the Department of Earth Sciences advertise Master's theses through the external pagestudent research project website SiROPcall_made.
The feed below shows a selection of currently available projects.
Analysis of paraglacial landslides using a global velocity dataset
Landslides are a dangerous natural hazard affecting the lives of people all over the world. This thesis will focus on the detection of paraglacial landslides from a global glacier-velocity dataset. The behavior of these sites throughout time will be analyzed and compared to an existing landslide database.
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Landslide, glaciology, geospatial analysis
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Published since: 2024-04-16 , Earliest start: 2024-08-01 , Latest end: 2025-03-31
Organization Glaciology (Prof. Farinotti)
Hosts Walden Jane , Farinotti Daniel
Topics Earth Sciences
West Antarctic Ice Sheet subglacial drainage and grounding zone seismicity
Antarctic ice sheets contribute significant uncertainty to sea level rise projections due to processes occurring deep beneath the ice. This project will use existing data from two passive seismic deployments to investigate the ice sheet – ice shelf transition of Kamb Ice Stream in West Antarctica.
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Glaciology, Seismology, Antarctica, Ice Sheet, Ice Stream, Ice Shelf, Geophysics
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Published since: 2024-04-12
Organization Glaciology (Prof. Farinotti)
Hosts Farinotti Daniel , Horgan Huw
Topics Earth Sciences
The role of englacial meltwater in the collapse of the Gorner-Grenzgletscher junction
The project will investigate the retreat and collapse of the Gorner-Grenzgletscher junction and quantify the role of englacial melt in the overall ice-loss budget.
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Glaciology, hydrology, glacier-speleology, mapping
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Published since: 2024-04-12
Organization Glaciology (Prof. Farinotti)
Hosts Farinotti Daniel
Topics Earth Sciences
The impact of a gold mine on Sary-Tor glacier in Central Asia
The surface mass balance of a glacier is critical in determining its long-term evolution. This thesis will explore the effect that the activities of a gold-mine operating next to a glacier has on the glacier mass balance. The area of interest is located in Kyrgyzstan and the project will make use of both numerical modelling and data collected in situ.
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glaciology, glacier mass balance
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Published since: 2024-04-12
Organization Glaciology (Prof. Farinotti)
Hosts Farinotti Daniel
Topics Earth Sciences
Mixing in the atmospheres of other worlds
To interpret new observations of exoplanets using telescopes, a better understanding of how gases at high pressures and temperatures mix in their atmospheres is required. The goal of this project is to develop more accurate models for mixtures of major gases in planetary atmospheres at extreme conditions and apply them to interpret recent spectra collected for sub-Neptune planets.
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Exoplanet, atmosphere, mixing, extreme, spectra
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Published since: 2024-03-26 , Earliest start: 2024-05-01 , Latest end: 2025-08-31
Organization Experimental Planetology
Hosts Sossi Paolo
Topics Earth Sciences , Chemistry , Physics
Analysis of seismic data from a paraglacial slope instability
Rapid glacier retreat due to ongoing climate change has a number of impacts, including the destabilization of adjacent mountain slopes. This thesis will analyze seismic data collected at a paraglacial landslide and disentangle various signals due to earthquake activity, iceberg calving events, and rockfall.
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Seismology, landslide, glaciology
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Published since: 2024-03-12
Organization Glaciology (Prof. Farinotti)
Hosts Farinotti Daniel
Topics Earth Sciences
Consolidating parameterizations of wind-driven snow accumulation over glaciers
Accurate modelling of glacier mass balance requires the representation of wind-driven snow transport. This thesis will investigate the performance of various parameterizations.
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Glaciology, snow sciences
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Published since: 2024-02-16
Organization Glaciology (Prof. Farinotti)
Hosts Farinotti Daniel
Topics Earth Sciences
Examining glacier melt dynamics from streamflow observations
Glaciers are an essential freshwater resource, especially during warm and dry periods. Assessing the contributions of glacier melt to downstream discharge at daily to weekly scales is important to understand the susceptibility of mountain water supply to the ongoing and future projected glacier retreat. However, these contributions are difficult to obtain as glacier mass balance observations are typically multi-year, annual or seasonal measurements. Therefore, daily streamflow dynamics will be analysed.
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Glaciology, Hydrology
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Published since: 2024-02-15
Organization Glaciology (Prof. Farinotti)
Hosts Farinotti Daniel , van Tiel Marit
Topics Earth Sciences