Picture of the Month

Non-invasive measurement of cardiac output using an inert gas rebreathing method during a constant work load exercise test in an adolescent with minor congenital heart disease (a recent study of Prof. Jean-Paul Schmid from the Swiss Cardiovascular Center Bern at the research station Jungfraujoch).

June/July 2004

Attending to the Spec Inc. Cloud Particle Imager (the gold coloured instrument on the right) on the Sphinx terrace during the CLACE 3 campaign 2004. The instrument was used to record images of the ice crystals (10 μm to a few mm) that were present in the cloud enveloping the laboratory. (UMIST Atmospheric Physics Group, Manchester, UK)

August 2004

Mr. Ueli Frutiger and his crew of mountain guides during their annual snow removal at the top of the Research Station Jungfraujoch.

September 2004

Sunset atmosphere at the Jungfraujoch.

October 2004

A rare guest at Jungfraujoch.

November 2004

The newly refurbished floor in the library at the Research Station Jungfraujoch.

December 2004

Dr. Christian Servais, Université de Liège (Belgium), head of the Laboratory of Atmospheric and Solar Physics research group, also well known as the Migeotte Group.

January 2005

Signs of wind and weather at the Sphinx.

February 2005

View from Jungfraujoch by moonlight.

March 2005

CLACE 4: CLoud and Aerosol Characterization Experiment. A partial view of the installations in the Sphinx.

April 2005

imachination: Science and art project by the German artist Tim Otto Roth
http://www.imachination.net/

May 2005

Students from the Kantonsschule Zürcher Unterland in Bülach (Switzerland) measuring the solar irradiance at Jungfraujoch as part of their "Research in Switzerland" project week with their tutor Kuno Strassmann from the University of Bern.

June 2005

incandescence hivernale -- ice crystal birds -- Wolkenvögel

A moment caught on camera by Julie Cozic.

July 2005

Construction site at Gornergrat

August 2005

Dr. med. Susi Kriemler (ETH and University of Zurich) and a young test person at the Research Station Jungfraujoch during the ALTKIDS experiment.

September 2005

Fascinating cloud formations as seen from Jungfraujoch.

Ocotber 2005

Construction scene at Gornergrat.

November 2005

Astronomic dome of the Observatory Gornergrat North.

December 2005

Sunset at Jungfraujoch.

January 2006

Reopening of Kulm Hotel and the renovated astronomical observatory Gornergrat South.

February 2006

Prof. Luc Delbouille, working at Jungfraujoch in February 2006, and celebrating on site his 50 years of research work at Jungfraujoch in the "Migeotte Group" of the Université de Liège (Belgium).

March 2006

CLoud and Aerosol Characterisation Experiment, CLACE 5, with researchers from seven institutions. These outside installations have to withstand the harsh weather conditions at Jungfraujoch.

April 2006

Evening at Jungfraujoch

May 2006

The spark chamber on exhibit at Jungfraujoch, photographed by Monika Loeffel, freelance artist.

June 2006

Evening view in May from Jungfraujoch.

July 2006

24 hour filter samples of PM10 (particulate matter <10 μm) collected with the high-volume sampler at Jungfraujoch during a strong sahara dust event (on 20 June 2006; filter 076171, on the right; 62.3 μg per m³) and during usual summer conditions (on 04 June 2006; filter 076155 on the left; 2.3 μg per m³).

August 2006

An extraordinary full moon night as seen from Jungfraujoch.

September 2006

Research at Jungfraujoch -- Top of Science
A snapshot from the scientific conference in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Research Station Jungfraujoch, held in Interlaken, September 11-14, 2006.

October 2006

New meteorology installations.

November 2006

View of the Mönch from the Sphinx.

December 2006

Hoarfrost at Jungfraujoch.

January 2007

The best view of the fog is from the top of Europe.

February 2007

CLACE 6 (Cloud and Aerosol Characterization Experiment at Jungfraujoch. Crates of equipment from one of the research groups.

March 2007

CLACE 6 (CLoud and Aerosol Characterization Experiment) at Jungfraujoch. Cloud Particle Imager (CPI) and Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe (FSSP) firmly installed on the Sphinx platform to withstand a snowstorm.

April 2007

The Sphinx coming into view through the clouds.

May 2007

Spring sunrise over the Aletsch glacier.

June 2007

Thunderstorm

July 2007

The annual snow removal work at the Research Station Jungfraujoch by a team of mountain guides.

August 2007

A permanent resident at Jungfraujoch.

September 2007

Snow sampling at Jungfraujoch for Paul Scherrer Institute's investigation of the behavior of mercury in snow.

October 2007

Observatory Gornergrat South with the KOSMA radiotelescope of the Universität zu Köln at Kulmhotel Gornergrat. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Kulmhotel Gornergrat.

November 2007

Snapshot from a medical experiment carried out in October by the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois CHUV Lausanne and the University Hospital, Berne, at the research station Jungfraujoch.

December 2007

Mass balance measurements on Jungfraufirn using a firn-drill to determine the density in the annual layer.

January 2008

Daytime view of astronomy in winter: Gornergrat South Observatory at Kulmhotel Gornergrat.

February 2008

One of the realities of everyday life of a scientist at the research station Jungfraujoch: the work bench.

March 2008

Installation of a sensor node between the roof of the research station and the Sphinx Terrace. This node is part of a PermaSense wireless sensor network prototype (photo: Andreas Hasler)

April 2008

Study at Jungfraujoch of short-term acclimatization to high altitude in children by the Institute for Sport and Sport Medicine of the University of Basel.

May 2008

New use of the astronomical telescope in the Sphinx cupola at Jungfraujoch with EPFL's UV ozone differential absorption lidar (DIAL) receiver under a clear sky.

June 2008

Sahara dust embedded in ice. Photographed during a recent "föhn" storm at Jungfraujoch.

July 2008

This chamois was sighted one day at the end of June by Joan Fischer, who reacted quickly and informed Martin Fischer, who made this snapshot. Even the employees of the Jungfrau Railway were astonished to hear about this rare sighting. The chamois was passing over Jungfraujoch from Wallis to Bern.

August 2008

Cardiovascular research by a team from the University Hospitals of Bern and Lausanne, Switzerland, during a recent study at the research station Jungfraujoch. (Photo © Gilles Weber cemcav chuv)

September 2008

Watching the Earth rotate and gazing at the still standing stars. Photo from the Sphinx at Jungfraujoch.
(Photo © Christian Waldvogel, June 28th, 2008, www.waldvogel.com )

October 2008

The Spinx rising out of a cloud.

November 2008

A bird's eye view of Observatory Gornergrat South at Gornergrat.

December 2008

The Jungfraubahn's impressive efforts to secure the Sphinx rock above the Aletsch exit.

January 2009

Observatory Gornergrat South (left) on January 10, 2009, shortly before full moon. Retro-reflecting marks on the telescope are visible due to an artifical light source and the moon. (Photo: Martin Miller)

February 2009

The University of Tsukuba, Japan, is testing its 30cm radio telescope at the Research Station Jungfraujoch by mapping the Milky Way in CO and Cl lines. The telescope is equipped with a 4-K cooled 500 GHz sensitive detector. The final destination of the telescope wil be the Antarctic.

March 2009

View of sunrise from Jungfraujoch on a late winter morning.

April 2009

Snow atmosphere interaction experiment: EPFL-EFLUM deployed a 25m long and 2m tall 'fence' consisting of a fiber optical cable to measure a temperature transect in the snow pack with high spatial resolution. Measurements are based on a Raman-optical TDR system. (Photo courtesy of Hendrik Huwald, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

May 2009

Snow probing on Jungfraufirn under harsh weather conditions. Twice a year (spring and fall) snow and firn accumulation on Jungfraufirn is measured as part of the long-term glacier mass balance program of the Grosser Aletschgletscher. (ETH Zürich)

June 2009

Signs of summer on the Aletschgletscher.

July 2009

The solar tracker installed by the UK's National Physical Laboratory that is interfaced with a high resolution FTIR for measuring the radiative transfer through the atmosphere as part of the UK's CAVIAR project on the water vapour continuum. (http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/caviar/).

August 2009

The rector of the University of Bern with his staff and members of the directorate HFSJG on an official visit to the research station Jungfraujoch. The University of Bern joined the Foundation HFSJG this year.

September 2009

Frame installation of the first TAUWER project prototype on the Sphinx terrace by the Physics Dept. of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, together with colleagues from the universities of Bolu and Kafkas Turkey. Data taking of large angle cosmic rays is expected to start in October.

October 2009

Fence of firn cores recovered during a test drilling campaign on Jungfraujoch (team: FS INVENTOR SA, University of Maine and Paul Scherrer Institut)

November 2009

A bold visitor at Jungfraujoch -- looking for a free meal.

December 2009

Winter morning

January 2010

View of the Jungfrau through a frosty window at the research station Jungfraujoch.

February 2010

The poles for measuring snow depth were lengthened in January by 5 meters in preparation for the coming winter months. This system allows the custodians read the snow depth with binoculars from the safety of the research station Jungfraujoch.

March 2010

Dr. Ginette Roland of the Migeotte Group, Université de Liège, Belgium, during a radio interview at Jungfraujoch on March 4, 2010. Madame Roland is a prominent representative of the scientists working at Jungfraujoch and is frequently interviewed by the press, television and radio.

April 2010

Installation of the new 1Gb/second internet connection Jungfraujoch-Bern on the network SWITCHlan that connects universities and research institutions all over Switzerland. Felix Kugler, SWITCH, and Stefan Berger, Informatikdienste Uni Bern, are shown here getting the job done.

May 2010

Dr. Martin Vollmer, Empa, during the installation of a new calibration tank for continuous measurements of halogenated green house gases at Jungfraujoch.

June 2010

On June 2, 2010, a successful 25 year era came to an end: The 3m KOSMA radio telescope was removed from Observatory Gornergrat South and began its long journey to Yang/Lhasa/Tibet. Photos: Dr. Martin Miller, Universität zu Köln

July 2010

Master student Emanuel Hammer working on the sonic anemometer (left, measurement of the windfield and turbulende) and fog monitor (right, cloud droplet size distribution). These measurements are being conducted this summer within an international campaign (CLACE) where the interaction of aerosol particles with cloud droplets is being investigated.

August 2010

A circumhorizon arc -- a very large halo parallel to the horizon. Although rarely seen in much of Europe, this circumhorizon arc was photographed this summer by a researcher at Jungfraujoch.

September 2010

Late summer sunset: the view from Jungfraujoch.

October 2010

On 12 September 2010 a team from Paul Scherrer Institut finished ice core drilling at 57 m depth on Ewigschneefeld near Jungfraujoch. Ewigschneefeld is a temperate glacier, containing a water table at about 21 m depth. The ice core is being analysed in the frame of the SNF-Project "Accelerated release of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from Alpine glaciers" in order to investigate the transport of POPs within temperate ice and and quantify their release by melting.

November 2010

Special research guests from Greece: Prof. Alkiviadis Bais and Dr. Natalia Kouremeti of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with their differential optical absorption spectroscopy instrument (DOAS). They performed spectral direct sun and sky radiance measurements from zenith to about 0° elevation angles for one week in October at the Sphinx.

December 2010

The Sphinx laboratory at Jungfraujoch with special lighting effects by photographer Jeroen Seyffer (Bern)

January 2011

Wintersunset over the Monte Rosa massive -- a view from Gornergrat.

February 2011

A new fire alarm system is being installed at the entire Jungfraujoch site. Here the installation in the Research Station by technicians from Aeschimann and Siemens.

March 2011

Moonlight casts a shadow of the Sphinx on the Kranzberg while Venus shines brightly over the Aletsch glacier.

April 2011

PhD students and post-docs of the Professorship of Renewable Energy Carriers at ETH Zurich (www.pre.ethz.ch) during a recent visit to the Research Station Jungfraujoch.

May 2011

The Jungfrau in the early morning with the moon setting into a sea of clouds.

June 2011

Reconnaissance for the placement of an all-sky camera at Gornergrat with the help of Prof. Didier Queloz and Dr. Bruno Chazelas (picture) from the Université de Genève.

July 2011

A Sonic Anemometer (provided by the University of Basel) in front of a nice summer sunset. This measurement is being conducted within a campaign (CLACE) where the interaction of aerosol particles with cloud droplets is being investigated.

August 2011

Eigergletcher. Photo by Tobias Stadler.

September 2011

The installation of the metal frame and all-sky camera took place on 16 August 2011 at the north tower of the Kumlhotel Gornergrat.

October 2011

Visitors from the observatory "Sternwarte Rotgrueb Rümlang", including Dr. Noël Cramer (3rd from the right), astronomical assistant at the research station Jungfraujoch from 1969 to 1989. The alphorn came along just for fun.

November 2011

Martin Steinbacher (Empa, Dübendorf) making use of every minute while working at Jungfraujoch, even in the researchers' dining room. To the right, a fellow scientist is busy in the kitchen.

December 2011

Reconstruction work in lab 10 at the research station Jungfraujoch during November and December.

January 2012

The Sphinx at Jungfraujoch. Keystone/Gaëtan Bally.

February 2012

Renovation work on the lab 10 cavern is now completed (see Picture of the Month December 2011).

March 2012

This new Switch panoramic camera was recently installed at the Sphinx at Jungfraujoch. Link: http://webcam.switch.ch/jungfraujoch/

April 2012

Inauguration of the new Scientific Exhibition at Jungfraujoch.