Mobiliar Lab for climate risks and natural hazards at the Oeschger Centre

22 April 2013

The Swiss Mobiliar cooperative insurance company has decided to substantially expand its existing collaboration with the Oeschger Centre for Climate Research (OCCR) of the University of Bern. A "Mobiliar lab for climate risks and natural hazards" is to be established as part of the Mobiliar Chair for Climate Impact Research in the Alpine Region at the OCCR. The research conducted by the Mobiliar lab will concentrate on quantifying climate risks and natural hazards, particularly wind, hail, water and mass wasting with very high spatial resolution.

The planned research projects will study the recent past, for which instrumental measurements are available, the present and the next few decades. Extreme events from the last millennium, which are of great importance for the present and the future, will also be investigated. In conjunction with the Mobiliar Chair and other research groups both inside and outside the OCCR, the Mobiliar lab is to combine pure research, interdisciplinary practical research and implementation projects. Financing for the Mobiliar lab is initially secured until 2020. The lab will come into operation in autumn 2013.

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Olivia Romppainen-Martius
olivia.romppainen@giub.unibe.ch
+41 31 684 33 37

Prof. Dr. Martin Grosjean
martin.grosjean@oeschger.unibe.ch
+41 31 684 31 47