PhD Candidate

Alexander Maschler

Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences
Alexander Maschler
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Sogndal
HB H-1055-B
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Field of work

I am a civil engineer researching innovative monitoring for unstable rock slopes and glacier hazards. I focus extensively on using camera systems and automated drones and drone docks for monitoring of glaciers, glacier hazards, and unstable rock slopes. My casestudies are located in Norway, the European Alps, the Peruvian Andes, and Greenland.

Teaching 

I teach Natural Hazards within the M.Sc programme Climate Change Management and the international semester program Geohazards and Climate Change. In the B.Sc programme Geology and Geohazards, I teach GIS and Cartography.

Courses Taught:

  • GE-488 Natural Hazards

  • GE-413 Cartography and GIS

  • GE-491 Bachelor thesis in Geology

Research Interests:

  • Rock slope instabilities & Glacier hazards

  • Remote Sensing &Photogrammetry

  • Drones, Drone Docks & Camera systems

  • Monitoring & Early warning

Research Groups:

  • Landslides

Projects:

  • GeoPixel (2026-2027) & From Pixels to Prediction (2025-2026): Principal Investigator. NFR-funded Qualification project (HVL & VIS)

  • Chapaq Cocha: Low-cost early warning system (SAT) for glacial hazards in collaboration with INAIGEM (lead), PUCP, UNASAM, HVL, and Universidad Austral de Chile. (ProCiencia Peru)

  • UAV Monitoring: Conducting UAV monitoring of several glaciers and landslides in the Alps, Andes, and Greenland, and part of the JOSTICE UAV Team.

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