Swiss Commission for Polar and High Altitude Research

This Commission serves as a strategic body for the Swiss community in polar and high altitude research and represents their scientific interests nationally as well as internationally. In order to promote young talents, it awards the Prix de Quervain.

Laureates

2024 (Polar research)

Amy R. Macfarlane, ETH Zurich & WSL

 

Influences of snow microstructure on the Arctic sea ice energy budget

2023 (High altitude research)

Marin Kneib, ETH Zurich & WSL

 

Contribution of ice cliffs to the melt of debris-covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia

 

2022 (Polar research)

Andrea Baccarini, EPF Lausanne

 

Investigation of new aerosol particle formation in polar regions

 

Julie Pasquier, ETH Zurich

 

Towards solving the puzzle of ice crystal formation and growth in Arctic mixed-phase clouds

 

Jens Terhaar, University of Bern

 

Der Südozean: wie gross ist das Tor ins Ozeaninnere wirklich?

 

2021 (High altitude research)

Alexander R. Groos, University of Bern

 

Glacial and periglacial history of the Bale Mountains, southern Ethiopian Highlands

 

Enrico Mattea, University of Fribourg

 

Measuring and modelling changes in the firn at Colle Gnifetti, 4400 m a.s.l., Swiss Alps

 

2020 (Polar research)

Lea Pfäffli, ETH Zurich

 

Das Wissen, das aus der Kälte kam. Assoziationen der Arktis um 1912

 

2019 (High altitude research)

Sandra Brügger, University of Bern

 

FrozenNature: the palynological contribution to reconstruct paleo fire, vegetation, land use, and pollution dynamics from high-alpine ice cores

 

Michael Furian, ETH Zurich

 

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) travelling to altitude: physiological and clinical changes and their prevention

 

2018 (Polar research)

F. Alexander Haumann, ETH Zurich

 

Southern Ocean response to recent changes in surface freshwater fluxes

 

2017 (High altitude research)

Prisco Frei, ETH Zurich

 

Snowfall in the Alps: evaluation and projections based on the EURO-CORDEX regional climate models

 

Emiliano Stopelli, University of Basel

 

Biological ice nucleating particles at tropospheric cloud height

 

2016 (Polar research)

Adrien Michel, University of Bern

 

Transient modeling of borehole temperature and basal melting in an ice sheet

 

Lea Steinle, University of Basel

 

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

 

2015 (High altitude research)

Chrystelle Gabbud, University of Lausanne

 

Remote sensing of the interactions between climate variability and glacier dynamics for an Alpine temperate glacier, from the scale of the decades to hours: the case of the Haut Glacier d’Arolla

 

Steven Paul Sylvester, University of Zurich

 

Reconstructing the potential natural vegetation of the high Andean puna

 

Matthieu Heiniger, University of Geneva

 

Base Camp Circus (special prize)

 

2014 (Polar and high altitude research)

Raphaël Faiss, University of Lausanne

 

Innovations in hypoxic training

 

2013 (Polar and high altitude research)

Lena Hellmann, WSL Birmensdorf

 

Anatomical classification of Arctic driftwood

 

Nicole Inauen, University of Basel

 

The consequences of elevated CO2 and land use in alpine ecosystems

 

2012 (Polar and high altitude research)

Yvonne Nussbaumer-Ochsner, University Hospital Zurich

 

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

 

2011 (Polar and high altitude research)

Michael Matschiner, University of Basel

 

Population genetic and phylogenetic insights into the adaptive radiation of Antarctic notothenioid fishes

 

2010 (Polar and high altitude research)

Beat Schuler, University of Zurich

 

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

 

2009 (Polar and high altitude research)

Maarten Lupker, ETH Zurich

 

A short time-series of dust and ice isotopic composition (Sr, Nd and Hf) from the Dye-3 ice core, Greenland

 

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Swiss Commission for Polar and High Altitude Research

Dr Roger Pfister, Head
House of Academies
Laupenstrasse 7
P.O. Box
3001 Bern

Prix de Quervain