Georesearch Forschungsgesellschaft

Name: Georesearch Forschungsgesellschaft
Address: Urstein Süd 15, Puch bei Hallein, 5412, AT
Telephone: +43 662 65965

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Wir entwickeln Grundlagen einer erfolgreichen Klimawandelanpassung. Der Klimawandel ist die größte globale Herausforderung unserer Zeit. Wir sind nicht alleine.

Weltweit kommt es durch den Temperaturanstieg zu tiefgreifenden landschaftlichen Veränderungen. Besonders sichtbar sind die Klimawandelfolgen in den alpinen Regionen der Erde, die im Mittelpunkt unseres Forschungsinteresses stehen. Wir sind eine gemeinnützige Forschungseinrichtung und wir kombinieren Forschungsfragen aus den Bereichen GEO, MONITORING und ENGINEERING zur Förderung der nachhaltigen

Entwicklung in alpinen Regionen. Dafür untersuchen wir klimaabhängige Oberflächen-, Untergrund- und Naturgefahrenprozesse sowie deren Auswirkungen auf Mensch und Infrastruktur. Wir unterstützen öffentliche Einrichtungen und private Unternehmen mit innovativer Forschung und gezieltem Wissenstransfer beim Aufbau ihrer Klimaresilienz. Wir kooperieren mit über 50 nationalen und internationalen Partnern um die Vielschichtigkeit und Komplexität des Klimawandels inter- und transdisziplinär zu erforschen.

06/08/2026

Last week, we headed to the Gosau side of the mighty with one clear objective: measuring the remaining thickness of the Großer Gosaugletscher ("Great Gosau Glacier") using our UAV-borne . With this campaign, we've now surveyed the three largest in the Dachstein Massif – building on the ice-thickness data we collected at the Hallstätter and Schladminger Glaciers last year.

The results will help the Alpine Club (Alpenverein Austria ) plan ahead and adapt their trails and routes as these glaciers continue to retreat.

We were lucky to have Thorsten Seehaus ( from FAU ) and Tobi (tobiasbuettel.de) join us in the field – not only did they help lighten our backpacks, they were fantastic company too.

And as a cherry on top, tobias is a brilliant photographer, so we came home with some stunning footage from our days out there. 📸

On to the next field campaign – it's shaping up to be a busy summer! ☀️

01/08/2026

We don't always do breakfast TV, but when we do, we prefer to bring drones, monitoring systems and a mountain. 😉

Yesterday's edition of ORF 2's 'Guten Morgen Österreich' featured GEORESEARCH at the Kitzsteinhorn with a behind-the-scenes look at our monitoring infrastructure on the mountain.

Watch the full broadcast via the link below and jump to:
📈 Inclinometer inspection (00:13:35)
🚁 Live drone launch from our hangar (01:05:12)
🔍 Future perspectives for alpine monitoring (01:50:30)

Link: https://lnkd.in/edm9MARM

Many thanks to the ORF team and our partners at the Kitzsteinhorn from the Gletscherbahnen Kaprun AG for the opportunity to present our work.

15/07/2026

Fresh off the press: KryoMon.AT Report Nr. 2 is out. ❄️

The new KryoMon.AT report (2022/23 & 2023/24) pulls together the national picture on glaciers, snow, lake ice – and permafrost, where GEORESEARCH contributed long-term borehole data from our Open-Air-Lab Kitzsteinhorn.

Two numbers from our corner of the report that stuck with us:

🌡️ At the Kitzsteinhorn, the active layer (the seasonally thawed layer above the permafrost) reached a record 4.4 m in 2024 – and it's been deepening by roughly 0.8 m per decade.

❄️ 30 m down, seasonal swings completely disappear – but the long-term trend is still unmistakably upward.

Permafrost doesn't grab headlines the way retreating glaciers do – it's invisible and slow, but it's exactly the kind of environment where consistent, decade-spanning measurements pay off. That's what this chapter – and our philosophy – is built on.

Huge thanks to Iris Hansche and Wolfgang Schöner (University of Graz) for editing and steering this report to completion – no small feat with dozens of contributors and two full years of data.

📖 Full report (open access): doi: 10.25364/402.2026.1

06/07/2026

We mostly let the drone handle monitoring and rarely set foot on the ice ourselves – so it was high time to refresh our glacier skills.

The Seethaler Hütte was the perfect base. A gorgeous (😉) randkluft crevasse made it ideal for practicing and other essential techniques. Huge thanks to mountain guide Eva Schider for the excellent training! 🧗

And thanks to Marie's team at Seethaler Hütte, who kept us well fed and rested after intense days on the ice. 🙏

🤞 Fingers crossed we'll never need these skills for real. Here's to a safe season! 🏔️☀️

30/06/2026

No better way to escape the current heat wave than heading to the to meet our 'Frost.ini friends' for some early-season fieldwork! ❄️ Last week took us to the Adlersruhe, Austria's highest mountain hut, where we joined our Interreg VI-A Italia-Austria project partners from the Province of Salzburg and OGS to kick off several key activities.
We conducted preliminary Electrical Resistivity Tomography ( ) surveys near the hut, paving the way for a comprehensive ERT campaign scheduled for the last week of July. We also climbed the summit to identify suitable locations for installing Austria's highest bedrock temperature sensor later this season. ⛰️ At our two boreholes close to the hut, we retrieved data recording deep permafrost temperatures (>10 m) of -3.2 °C at the southern borehole and -4.3 °C at the northern borehole. Finally, we selected a perfect site for installing a LoRaWAN gateway, which will enable real-time transmission of borehole temperature and monitoring data to our servers. 📡
A big thank you goes to our host, the fantastic hut manager Toni Riepler, for the warm hospitality, logistical support with the cable car, and the excellent food at Adlersruhe! 🙏

23/06/2026

How consistently do experts pick reflections in ground-penetrating radar? Help us find out!

As part of the -AI project, our PhD researcher Anna Siebenbrunner is running a short inter-analyst experiment on UAV-borne GPR data from Alpine glaciers – and we're looking for glaciologists and GPR analysts to take part.

The task runs entirely in your browser: draw the glacier surface and bed on a set of radargrams. No install, no sign-up – about 15-20 minutes of picking that directly supports our work on ice-thickness uncertainty.

Every additional analyst sharpens the result. Pick as you naturally would:

👉 https://anna7br.github.io/radargrams/

Please with colleagues who know their way around a radargram!

20/04/2026

Permafrost knowledge. Infrastructure resilience.

💡Our Interreg project FROST.INI (2025–2027) has a clear objective: strengthening resilience to the impacts and risks of permafrost degradation in the Austrian–Italian Alps. A key step towards this goal is the close integration of stakeholders — those who ultimately have to make decisions on the ground.

Last week, we attended a comprehensive stakeholder meeting in Cortina d’Ampezzo, bringing together experts and practitioners from tourism, infrastructure, business, and science. Following last year’s meeting in Kaprun, this marks the second major stakeholder exchange within the project.

The discussions focused on methodological approaches — from in situ monitoring and geophysical surveys to digital modelling — and how these tools can support more informed, forward-looking decisions. Building on this, initial project outcomes were presented, including new permafrost boreholes at Großglockner as well as upgrades to key monitoring infrastructure at Grawand and Kitzsteinhorn.

An especially forward-looking topic was the active preservation of permafrost using cooling systems — as already implemented at Tofana within the “Rescue Permafrost” initiative. Approaches like this may become increasingly relevant at high-alpine infrastructure sites in the future.

👉 One thing is clear: Understanding permafrost is no longer a purely scientific task — it is becoming a prerequisite for safe and sustainable infrastructure in mountain regions.

Many thanks to Chiara Crippa from Institute for Earth Observation - Eurac Research and Antonio Bratus from OGS for organizing a wonderful stakeholer meeting.

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