Research projects


Research projects making use of OGGM

Below is a non-exhaustive list of past and current research projects where OGGM is used (we count 20). We are not aware of all of them! Click here if you’d like to add your own.

  • 2024-2029: Future sea-level rise and freshwater export from Antarctic Peripheral Glaciers and Ice Caps in a warming climate
    PI: Beatriz Recinos (Independent Research Fellowship - NERC IRF)
    Institution: The University of Edinburgh
    Funder: UKRI - Natural Environment Research Council
  • 2024-2026: Evolution des glaciers dans la région de l'Everest durant l'Holocene - EVERESTH
    PI: Vicent Jomelli (collaborator Nicolas Champollion)
    Institution: Centre de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE), Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement (IGE)
    Funder: CNRS INSU
  • 2024-2026: Kerguelen Archipelago gLacier Evolution during the Late Glacial and the HOlocene: glacio-climatic modelling and dating of glacier paleostadials (KALEHO)
    PI: Deborah Verfaillie
    Institution: CEREGE, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université
    Funder: CNRS INSU LEFE
  • 2024-2025: A digital twin component for glaciers (DTCG)
    PI: Fabien Maussion
    Institution: University of Bristol
    Funder: European Space Agency (ESA)
  • 2024-2025: Contribution of avalanches to glacier mass balance at the global scale (CAIRN-GLOBAL)
    PI: Marin Kneib
    Institution: ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
    Funder: Swiss National Science Foundation
  • 2023-2026: Matter of glacial origin and its fate in the ocean: a case study at Kerguelen - MARGO
    PI: Stéphane Blain (collaborator Nicolas Champollion)
    Institution: Centre de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE), Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement (IGE)
    Funder: ANR
  • 2023-2025: HYdro power - iMpact on the ELecTricity sector in Austria due to Climate Change in glaciated high alpine areas (HyMELT-CC)
    PI: Fabien Maussion
    Institution: University of Innsbruck
    Funder: Austrian Climate Research Programme
  • 2023-2024: Contribution of avalanches to glacier mass balance (CAIRN)
    PI: Marin Kneib
    Institution: Institut des Geosciences de l'Environnement (IGE, GRenoble, Framce), University of Innsbruck (Austria)
    Funder: Swiss National Science Foundation
  • 2022-2026: The Big Thaw: gauging the past, present and future of our mountain water resources
    PI: Hamish Pritchard, Beatriz Recinos, Dan Goldberg, Richard Essery
    Institution: British Antarctic Survey, The University of Edinburgh, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and University of Birmingham.
    Funder: UKRI - Natural Environment Research Council
  • 2022-2024: A future-ready Open Global Glacier Model (OGGM)
    PI: Ben Marzeion, Fabien Maussion
    Institution: University of Bremen
    Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
  • 2021-2025: Projecting Sea-Level Rise: from Ice Sheets to Local Implications - PROTECT
    PI: Gaël Durand, Ben Marzeion (collaborator Nicolas Champollion)
    Institution: Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement (IGE), Universität Bremen
    Funder: H2020 Europe
  • 2021-2024: UNCERTAIN - Certainties and uncertainties in the future surface mass balance of mountain glaciers
    PI: Lilian Schuster
    Institution: University of Innsbruck
    Funder: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW)
  • 2021-2024: PROVIDE: Paris Agreement Overshooting - Reversibility, Climate Impacts and Adaptation Needs
    PI: Fabien Maussion
    Institution: University of Innsbruck
    Funder: H2020
  • 2020-2025: Projecting Sea-Level Rise: from Ice Sheets to Local Implications (PROTECT)
    PI: Ben Marzeion (co-lead of WP on glaciers, with Frank Paul)
    Institution: Universität Bremen
    Funder: H2020
  • 2020-2025: Mountains: Water towers for global water use
    PI: Daniel Viviroli
    Institution: University of Zurich (Switzerland)
    Funder: Canton of Zurich
  • 2020-2023: Evaluating simulated centennial climate variability over the past millennium using global glacier modelling - LMGLACE
    PI: Hugues Goosse
    Institution: UC Louvain
    Funder: Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS)
  • 2020-2023: Assessment of the ocean contribution to mass loss of Greenland's peripheral glaciers - a scale-transitioning approach
    PI: Ben Marzeion
    Institution: Universität Bremen
    Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
  • 2020-2023: Ocean-ice Interaction of peripheral Greenland Glaciers
    PI: Ben Marzeion
    Institution: Universität Bremen
    Funder: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
  • 2020-2022: Scaling regional sea-level changes with climate forcings
    PI: Kristin Richter, Fabien Maussion
    Institution: University of Innsbruck
    Funder: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
  • 2018-2021: Predictability and Attribution of Regional Sea Level Change Caused by Glacier Mass Change
    PI: Ben Marzeion
    Institution: Universität Bremen
    Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)