Current and recent research projects at the Research Station Jungfraujoch

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Country	Year				Project approved	Institute	Project leader	Name of project
Belgium	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique, Université de Liège	Christian Servais	High resolution, solar infrared Fourier Transform spectrometry. Application to the study of the Earth atmosphere
Belgium	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB)	Dr. M. Van Roozendael	Atmospheric physics and chemistry
Belgium				2011	2012	Société Astronomique de Liège	Benoît Lempereur	Preparing public demonstrations of deep sky objects especially planetary nebulaes
France	2008					iRoC Technologies, France	Anne-Lise Lhomme-Perrot	Soft Error Test of electronic memory devices at high altitude
France	2008	2009				Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand, France	Dr. Karine Sellegri	Study of new particle formation and ion concentration
Germany		2009	2010	2011	2012	Institut für Umweltphysik, Universität Heidelberg	Dr. Ingeborg Levin	Long-term observations of ¹⁴CO₂ and ²²²Radon at Jungfraujoch
Germany	2008					Institut für Umweltphysik, Universität Heidelberg	Ingeborg Levin	Long-term observations of ¹⁴CO₂ and ²²²Radon at Jungfraujoch
Germany	2008					Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt	PD Dr. Andreas Engel	Collection of large volume air sample
Germany	2008					Institut für Umweltphysik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg	Prof. Dr. Klaus Pfeilsticker	Spectroscopic measurements of direct moon light
Germany			2010			Institut für Weltraumwissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin	Dr. Thomas Ruhtz	Calibration of Sun and aureole spectrometer systems within the Cloud and Aerosol Characterization Experiment (CLACE)
Germany		2009				Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany	Dr. Heinz Bingemer	The concentration of atmospheric ice nuclei (IN) at Jungfraujoch during events of Saharan dust transport
Germany			2010	2011	2012	Max Planck Institut für Biogeochemie, Jena	Dr. Willi A. Brand	Flask comparison on Jungfraujoch
Germany		2009				Pelikan Technologies GmbH & Co. KG	Dr. Viola Podsadlowski	High altitude study with glucose biosensors
Germany					2012	Physitalische Chemie / FBC, Bergische Universität Wuppertal	PD Dr. Jörg Kleffmann	Msasurements of NO₂ and 0₃ in the free troposphere by a LOPAP instrument
Germany					2012	Pneumologie, Med. Klinik München	Dr. Rainald Fischer	Effect of gender on high altitude adaptation: Comparison of Angiotensin-Converting-Enzyme 2-activity in plasma between men and women
Greece			2010			Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece	Prof. Alkiviadis Bais	Validation of retrieval of atmospheric trace gases with Phaethon system using differential optical absorption spectroscopy
Italy	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Department of Physics, University of Rome Sapienza	Prof. Maurizio Iori	Measurement cosmic ray flux at large zenith angle
Japan		2009				Institute of Physics, University of Tsukuba	Dr. Masumichi Seta	Experimental operations of the Antarctic 30-cm submillimeter-wave telescope
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010			École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)	Dr. Valentin Simeonov	LIDAR project
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Payerne	Dr. Laurent Vuilleumier	Global Atmosphere Watch Radiation Measurements
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland	Dr. Ernest Weingartner	The Global Atmosphere Watch Aerosol Program at the Jungfraujoch
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, World Radiation Center	Dr. Stephan Nyeki	Remote sensing of aerosol optical depth
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, World Radiation Center	Dr. Julian Gröbner	Longwave Infrared radiative forcing trend assimiliation over Switzerland (LIRAS)
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology	Dr. Brigitte Buchmann	National Air Pollution Monitoring Network (NABEL)
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010	2011		Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Research	Stefan Reimann	Monitoring of halogenated greenhouse gases
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology	Dr. Lukas Emmenegger	Continuous measurement of stable CO₂ isotopes at Jungfraujoch, Switzerland
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010			Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich (IACETH)	Prof. Johannes Staehelin	NOy at the interface of planetary boundary layer and the free troposphere from measurements at Jungfraujoch
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010	2011		Climate and Environmental Division, Physics Institute, University of Bern	Prof Dr. Markus Leuenberger	High precision carbon dioxide and oxygen measurements
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Bundesamt für Gesundheit, Sektion Umweltschutz, Bern	Pierre Beuret	Aerosols radioactivity monitoring (RADAIR) And DIGITEL
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bern	Dr. Rolf Bütikofer	Neutron monitors - Study of solar and galactic cosmic rays
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010	2011		Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, Freiburg i.Br., Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern	Clemens Schlosser,	⁸⁵Kr activity determination in tropospheric air
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Berner Fachhochschule (BFH), Technik und Informatik (TI), Photovoltaik-Labor	Prof. Dr. Heinrich Haeberlin	Long-term energy yield and reliablity of a high alpine PV (photovoltaic) plant at Jungfraujoch (3454 m)
Switzerland	2008					Labor für Radio- und Umweltchemie der Universität Bern und des Paul Scherrer Instituts	PD Dr. Margit Schwikowski	VIVALDI (Variability in Ice, Vegetation, And Lake Deposits -- Integrated) Within the frame of NCCR Climate
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Versuchsanstalt für Wasserbau, Hydrologie und Glaziologie (VAW), ETH Zürich	Dr. Andreas Bauder	Glaciological investigations on the Grosser Aletschgletscher
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010			Department of Geography, University of Zurich	Dr. Stephan Gruber (lead geo-science in PERMASENSE), Dr. Jan Beutel (lead computer-science in PERMASENSE), Dr. Jeannette Noetzli (lead PERMOS)	PERMASENSE & PERMOS: Measuring permafrost in Alpine rock walls
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Institut für Umweltgeowissenschaften, Universität Basel	Dr. Franz Conen	Measurement of ²²²Rn for atmospheric tracer applications
Switzerland			2010			Institut für Umweltgeowissenschaften, Universität Basel	Dr. Franz Conen	Towards understanding the importance of biological ice nucleators in rising air
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Bundesamt für Landestopografie / Swiss Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo)	Dr. Elmar Brockmann	Automated GPS Network Switzerland (AGNES)
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010	2011		MeteoSwiss, Zürich	Stephan Bader, MeteoSwiss	The weather at Jungfraujoch
Switzerland	2008	2009				Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Inselspital, Bern	Urs Scherrer	Fetal programming of hypoxic pulmonary hypertension
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010	2011		Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg	Mario Meier	Single particle analysis of aerosols from Saharan dust events
Switzerland	2008					Radioactive Tracers, Eawag	Prof. Jürg Beer	Production, transport and deposition of cosmogenic radionuclides (⁷Be, ¹⁰Be, ³⁶Cl)
Switzerland		2009	2010	2011		Eawag	Prof. Jürg Beer	Cosmogenic radionuclides in precipitation
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010			Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich	Dr. Olaf Stetzer, Dr. Berko Sierau, and Prof. Ulrike Lohmann	Field measurements of atmospheric ice nuclei and properties of mixed phase clouds
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010			WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF	Dr. Marcia Phillips (permafrost researcher)	Permafrost monitoring at high Alpine sites
Switzerland	2008	2009				Institute of Exercise and Health Sciences, University of Basel	PD Dr. med. S. Kriemler	Prevalence and pathophysiology of high altitude illness
Switzerland	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Surface Meteorological Networks, MeteoSwiss, Payerne	Dr. Christian Félix	Operation of a meteorological station at high altitude in the Alps
Switzerland		2009				Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation, Swiss Cardiovascular Centre Bern, University Hospital (Inselspital)	Dr. Jean-Paul Schmid	Safety and tolerance of high altitude exposure (3454 m) in non-acclimatized patients with chronic heart failure
Switzerland		2009				gta - D-ARCH, ETH Zürich	Anne Kockelkorn (Assistent, gta - ETH Zürich)	Jungfraujoch - greifbarer Ausblick
Switzerland			2010			Helbling Technik Bern AG	Dr. Karim Haroud	Low-pressure test on optical devices
Switzerland			2010			Institute for Atmosphere and Climate Science, ETH Zürich	Prof. Thomas Peter	Assessment of high altitude cloud characteristics, CLACE 2010 campaign
Switzerland			2010	2011	2012	Institute for Chemical and Bioingeneering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich	Christian Bogdal	Quantitative characterization of the impact of environmental factors on the performance of passive air samplers for semi-volatile organic compound
Switzerland			2010			Institute of Botany, University of Basel	Prof. Ch. Körner	Study of plant temperature
Switzerland			2010			Institute of Geology & Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zürich	Dr. Florian Kober	Altitude dependence of production rates of cosmogenic nuclides in artificial quartz targets
Switzerland	2008					LABOR SPIEZ, Fachbereich Biologie	Marc Avondet (LABOR SPIEZ)	Evaluation of Bioaerosol Detectors for NBC-Reconnaissance
Switzerland		2009				Laboratory of Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology, EPFL	Dr. Hendrik Huwald	Snow thermodynamics and pressure driven air movement in the snow pack
Switzerland			2010			Laboratory of Radiochemistry and Environmental Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute	Prof. Margit Schwikowski	Accelerated release of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from Alpine glaciers. Snow chemistry, reconstruction of palaeo atmosphere and climate fom high-altitude ice cores.
Switzerland	2008					LBMPS, Université de Genève	Prof. W.J. Broughton	Life in Darwin's Dust
Switzerland			2010			Mammut Sports Group	Lars Paschek	Test-station for outdoor materials
Switzerland	2008	2009				Remote Sensing Laboratories, Department of Geography, University of Zurich	Dr. Erich Meier	Geometric Validation of TerraSAR-X High-Resolution Product
Switzerland			2010			University Hospital Lausanne, Department of Internal Medicine CSEM Neuchâtel	Prof. Claudio SARTORI	Long-Term Medical Survey System (LTMS-3)
Switzerland	2008					Christian Waldvogel, artist	Christian Waldvogel, artist	«As if the Stars were countless» A simulation of the view of Space from Space according to Astronaut Jim S. Voss
Switzerland		2009				Christian Waldvogel, Artist	Christian Waldvogel	Space from Space #3: Suspended Eternity
Switzerland				2011		University of Zurich, Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP)	Prof. Dr. Carsten Lundby	Influence of isocapnic breathing on hypoxic exercise
Switzerland				2011	2012	Department of Geography, University of Zurich	Dr. Stephan Gruber	PERMOS: Permafrost monitoring as part of the Swiss Permafrost Monitoring System
Switzerland				2011	2012	Department of Geography, University of Zurich	Dr. Stephan Gruber	PERMASENSE: Permafrost measurements (temperature, conductivity, acoustic emission) with wireless sensor networks
Switzerland					2012	Climate and Environmental Division, Physics Institute, University of Bern	Prof Dr. Markus Leuenberger	Combined oxygen and carbon dioxide concentration measurements
Switzerland					2012		Dr. Peter E. Zingg	High altitude migration of bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) over the Jungfraujoch
Switzerland				2011	2012	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)	Dr. Chritian Bogdal	Background air monitoring of gaseous elemental mercury at the High Altitude Research Station Jungfraujoch - Source apportionment of atmospheric mercury and emission estimates in Europe
Switzerland				2011		Spaelti-TS AG, Gebenstorf, Switzerland	Christoph Spälti	Study to identify a measurement uncertainty contribution due to different altitude test sites
Switzerland				2011	2012	Institute for Environmental Geosciences, University of Basel	Dr. Franz Conen	Flux of biological ice nucleators to cloud altitudes (using Rn-222 as a tracer for atmospheric transport and mixing)
Switzerland				2011	2012	WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF	Dr. Marcia Phillips	Evolution of high mountain permafrost rockwalls (Jungfrau Ostgrat)
Switzerland				2011	2012	Institut für Veterinär Bakteriologie, Universität Bern	Prof. Joachim Frey	Transport and survival of desert soil- and rock surface inhabiting micro-organisms in atmospheric mineral dust
Switzerland				2011		MeteoSwiss, Payerene	Dr. Yves-Alain Roulet	SMN project: renewal of the ground-based meteorological measurement network of MeteoSwiss
Switzerland				2011		Climate and Environmental Division, Physics Institute, University of Bern	Prof Dr. Markus Leuenberger	Water isotope measurements with a PICARRO laser instrument
Switzerland				2011		Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich	Prof. Thomas Peter	Assessment of high altitude aerosol and cloud characteristics by in-situ and remote sensing techniques (GAW plus)
Switzerland				2011		ETH, Institut für Atmosphäre und Klima (IAC)	Dr. Olaf Stetzer, Dr. Berko Sierau, and Prof. Ulrike Lohmann	CLACE 2011
Switzerland					2012	ETH Zürich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science	Dr. Olaf Stetzer	The microstructure of ice crystals and cloud droplets in mixed-phase clouds measured with HOLIMO II. The microstructure of crystals clouds The time series of ice nuclei number concentration and properties measured with PINC.
Switzerland				2011		Institute of Geography, University of Bern	Dr. Stefan Wunderle	Hyper-Swiss-Net (https://hyperswissnet.wiki.geo.uzh.ch/Project), Module Snow and Climate
Switzerland					2012		Walter Bersinger	"In der Helle der Nacht" (In the Brightness of the Night): Single frame time-lapse video.
Switzerland					2012	Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology	Dr. Lukas Emmenegger	Direct and continuous measurement of NO₂, NO and NO_y in ambient air using quantum cascade laser absorption spectroscopy
Switzerland					2012	Institut für Atmosphäre und Klima, ETHZ	Erika Kienast-Sjögren	Lidar measurements of cirrus cloud properties in the midlatitudes
Switzerland					2012	Swiss Cardiovascular Center Bern, Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation	Prof. Jean-Paul Schmid	"Safety and exercise tolerance of acute high altitude exposure (3454 m) in adolescents with congenital heart disease"
Switzerland					2012	Institute of Applied Physics, microwave Physics, University of Bern	Axel Murk	STEAMR
Switzerland					2012	Paul Scherrer lnstitut, Labor für Radio- und Umweltchemie	Chemist, prof. Dr. MargitSchwikowski	Climate reconstruction from high-alpine ice cores
Switzerland					2012	Department of Medicine. Unit of Anatomy. University of Fribourg	Assistant Professor. MD, PhD Enrike G. Argandoña	Effects of physical exercise and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor on the neurogliovascular adaption to hypoxia
Switzerland				2011		Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, World Radiation Center	Julian Gröbner	Cloud Climatology and Surface Radiative Forcing over Switzerland (CLASS)
Switzerland					2012	Institute of Physiology, University of Zurich	Prof. Dr. Carsten Lundby	Cardiovascular adjustments to prolonged altitude exposure
Switzerland					2012	Paul Scherrer Institute, Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry	Dr. André Prévot	Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor (ACSM) measurements on the Jungfraujoch within the frame of the EU project ACTRIS (Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace gases Research Infrastructure Network)
Switzerland					2012	Institute of Physics, University of Zurich	Dr. rer. nat. Marc Schumann	Measurement of cosmogenic activation of ultra-pure xenon
The Netherlands			2010			Centre for Isotope Research (CIO), Groningen	Dr. Rolf Neubert, Groningen	Flask comparison on Jungfraujoch
The Netherlands		2009				EKO Instruments Europe B.V.	Dr. Alexander Los	Langley calibration of EKO spectroradiometers at the high-altitude research station Jungfraujoch
The Netherlands		2009				Electronic Instrumentation Lab, Delft University of Technology	Prof. Dr. Albert Theuwissen	Ageing effects on solid state image sensors due to terrestrial cosmic radiation
The Netherlands				2011	2012	Centre for Isotope Research (CIO), Groningen	Prof. Dr. Harro Meijer	Flask sample takings for intercomparison between UBERN (Prof. Dr. M. Leuenberger), MPI_BGD Jena and Univ. Groningen (Prof. Dr. H. Meijer) regarding CO₂ and O₂ and other species
UK		2009				National Physical Laboratory, UK	Mr Tom Gardiner	Continuum Absorption in the Visible and Infrared and its Atmospheric Relevance (CAVIAR)
United States		2009					Christopher James and Florian Maier-Aichen	«An Atlas of the Sun,» by Christopher James, «Untitled,» by Florian Maier-Aichen