Daniel Farinotti

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Daniel Farinotti (* 1982 ) is a glaciologist . He is a professor at ETH Zurich and researches at the Federal Research Institute for Forests, Snow and Landscape (WSL).

Life

Farinotti graduated in 2007 from the ETH Zurich as an environmental engineer. He did his doctorate there from 2008 to 2010 at the Research Institute for Hydraulic Engineering, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), where he also worked as a research assistant until 2012 , and at the same time took a degree in applied statistics. Further scientific activities took him to the British Antarctic Survey (2010–2012), to the Hydrology Section at the German GeoForschungsZentrum (2012–2014), to the WSL (since 2014) and to the VAW (since 2016).

Act

Farinotti's areas of work include the hydrology of glaciated areas, the quantification of glacier ice thicknesses, glacier-climate interactions and hydro-glaciological long-term projections and forecasts. In 2019, a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience with Farinotti as the first author caused an international sensation in glaciology , in which, based on a recalculation of the distribution of glacier volumes and thicknesses, it was possible to show that the loss of ice in many regions of the world is caused by global warming is progressing faster than expected.

Publications (selection)

  • Daniel Farinotti, Laurent Longuevergne, Geir Moholdt, Doris Duethmann, Thomas Mölg, Tobias Bolch, Sergiy Vorogushyn, Andreas Güntner: Substantial glacier mass loss in the Tien Shan over the past 50 years. In: Nature Geoscience. Volume 8, No. 9, 2015, pp. 716-722, doi: 10.1038 / NGEO2513
  • Daniel Farinotti, Alberto Pistocchi, Matthias Huss: From dwindling ice to headwater lakes: could dams replace glaciers in the European Alps? In: Environmental Research Letters . Volume 11, 2016, 054022, doi: 10.1088 / 1748-9326 / 11/5/054022
  • Daniel Farinotti, Matthias Huss, Johannes J. Fürst, Johannes Landmann, Horst Machguth, Fabien Maussion, Ankur Pandit: A consensus estimate for the ice thickness distribution of all glaciers on Earth. In: Nature Geoscience. 2019, doi: 10.1038 / s41561-019-0300-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Prof. Dr. Daniel Farinotti. Federal Research Institute for Forests, Snow and Landscape, accessed on February 12, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
  2. ↑ Farinotti et al. (2019), doi: 10.1038 / s41561-019-0300-3
personal data
SURNAME Farinotti, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Glaciologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1982