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 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)