Awarded Projects

Prix de Quervain 2018

Dr. Alexander Haumann (PhD), ETH Zürich

Southern Ocean response
to recent changes in surface freshwater fluxes

Dissertation (pdf)

Prix de Quervain 2017

Dr. Emiliano Stopelli (PhD), Universität Basel

Biological ice nucleating particles at tropospheric cloud heigh

Dissertation (pdf)

Prix de Quervain 2017

Prisco Frei (Master), ETH Zürich

Snowfall in the Alps: evaluation and projections based on the euro-cordex regional climate models

Masterarbeit (pdf)

Prix de Quervain 2016

Dr. Lea Steinle(PhD), Universität Basel

Environmental controls on marine methane oxidation: From deep-sea brines to
shallow coastal systems

Dissertation (pdf)

Prix de Quervain 2016

Adrien Michel (Master), Universität Bern

Transient Modeling of Borehole Temperature and Basal Melting in an Ice Sheet

Masterarbeit (pdf)

Prix de Quervain 2015

Dr. Steven Sylvester (PhD), Universität Zürich

Reconstructing the potential natural vegetation of the high Andean puna

Dissertation (pdf)

Prix de Quervain 2015

Chrystelle Gabbud (Master), Universität Lausanne

Remote sensing of the interactions between

Climate variability and glacier dynamics

Masterarbeit (pdf)

Prix de Quervain 2015 (Sonderpreis)

Matthieu Heiniger (Master), Universität Genf

Base Camp Circus

Vimeo-Trailer

Prix de Quervain 2014

Raphael Faiss (PhD), Universität Lausanne:

Innovations in hypoxic training

Abstract (pdf)

Prix de Quervain 2013

Nicole Inauen (PhD), Universität Basel:

Alpine Gletschervorfeldpflanzen unter erhöhter atmosphärischer CO2-Konzentration

Abstract (pdf)

Prix de Quervain 2013

Lena Hellmann (Master), WSL Birmensdorf:

Arktisches Treibholz aus Grönland und Spitzbergen – Holzanatomische Artbestimmung

Abstract (pdf)

Prix de Quervain 2012

Yvonne Nussbaumer-Ochsner, UniversitätsSpital Zürich:

Patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome benefit from acetazolamide during an altitude sojourn. A randomized, placebo-controlled double-blind trial.

Abstract (pdf)   Article Chest (pdf)

Prix de Quervain 2011

Michael Matschiner, Zoologisches Institut - Evolutionary Biology, Universität Basel:

On the Origin and Trigger of the Notothenioid Adaptive Radiation.

Abstract (pdf)   PhD Article ME (pdf)   PhD Article PLoS (pdf)

Prix de Quervain 2010

Beat Schuler, Institute of Veterinary Physiology, University of Zurich (Currently: Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom):

Optimal hematocrit for maximal exercise performance in acute and chronic erythropoietin-treated mice.

PhD Article (pdf)

Prix de Quervain 2009

Maarten Lupker, Institute of Isotope Geochemistry and Mineral Resources, ETH Zürich (Currently: Centre de Recherches Petrographiques et Geochimiques - CNRS, Nancy, France):

A new procedure for separating and measuring radiogenic isotopes (U, Th, Pa, Ra, Sr, Nd, Hf) in ice cores.

Abstract (pdf)   MA-Thesis (pdf)   Article (pdf)