As post-Covid activities restart, a 4-person team from IGEP is currently working on Hoher Sonnblick, in the Austrian Alps, to study the ice of the Goldbergkees glacier and its subsurface characteristics. In collaboration with TU Vienna, the team is undertaking ground penetrating radar (GPR), transient electromagnetics (TEM), Spectral Induced Polarisation (SIP) and High-Frequency Induced Polarisation (HFIP) measurements to examine the performance of the various techniques in glacial environments.
This collaborative research (TU Braunschweig, TU Wien) has been ongoing on Hoher Sonnblick since 2019, allowing researchers to perform geophysical investigation of Cryospheric elements. The field campaign is made possible by the Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics and the Sonnblick Observatory team.
Our team is situated on the peak for one week and working tirelessly despite the challenging terrain and weather. Although thunderstorms and 80 km/hr wind gusts have slowed down their speed, they aim to collect as much data as possible.
Team:
- Lukas Aigner, TU Wien
- Johannes Hoppenbrock, IGEP
- Madhuri Sugand, IGEP
- Matthias Bücker, IGEP
- Robin Zywczok, IGEP
