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Adam Emmer is affiliated with the University of Graz in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Environmental Science. The main subfields of study include Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's work covers several key research topics:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Emmer has published extensively in several scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Geomorphology
  • Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Water

Their recent papers include:

  • 70 years of lake evolution and glacial lake outburst floods in the Cordillera Blanca (Peru) and implications for the future, 2020, Geomorphology
  • A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya, 2021, Science
  • Reconstruction of the 1941 GLOF process chain at Lake Palcacocha (Cordillera Blanca, Peru), 2020, Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Future Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) hazard of the South Lhonak Lake, Sikkim Himalaya, 2021, Geomorphology
  • The 2020 glacial lake outburst flood at Jinwuco, Tibet: causes, impacts, and implications for hazard and risk assessment, 2021, The Cryosphere

Emmer collaborates frequently with other researchers in the field. Their most common co-authors include:

  • Martin Mergili
  • Holger Frey
  • Ashim Sattar
  • Christian Huggel
  • Simon J. Cook

Best Publications

  • Importance and vulnerability of the world's water towers

    W W Immerzeel;A F Lutz;M Andrade;M Andrade;A Bahl

  • A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya

    D. H. Shugar;M. Jacquemart;M. Jacquemart;M. Jacquemart;D. Shean;S. Bhushan

  • Climate Change and the Global Pattern of Moraine-Dammed Glacial Lake Outburst Floods

    Stephan Harrison;Jeffrey S. Kargel;Christian Huggel;John M. Reynolds

  • Inventory and recently increasing GLOF susceptibility of glacial lakes in Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya

    Suruchi Aggarwal;Suruchi Aggarwal;S.C. Rai;P.K. Thakur;Adam Emmer;Adam Emmer

  • 882 lakes of the Cordillera Blanca: An inventory, classification, evolution and assessment of susceptibility to outburst floods

    Adam Emmer;Adam Emmer;Jan Klimeš;Martin Mergili;Martin Mergili;Vít Vilímek

  • How well can we simulate complex hydro-geomorphic process chains? The 2012 multi-lake outburst flood in the Santa Cruz Valley (Cordillera Blanca, Perú).

    Martin Mergili;Martin Mergili;Adam Emmer;Adam Emmer;Anna Juřicová;Alejo Cochachin

  • THE CAUSES AND MECHANISMS OF MORAINE-DAMMED LAKE FAILURES IN THE CORDILLERA BLANCA, NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA, AND HIMALAYAS

    Adam Emmer;Alejo Cochachin

  • Review Article: Lake and breach hazard assessment for moraine-dammed lakes: an example from the Cordillera Blanca (Peru)

    Adam Emmer;Vit Vilímek

  • Reconstruction of the 1941 GLOF process chain at Lake Palcacocha (Cordillera Blanca, Peru)

    Martin Mergili;Shiva P. Pudasaini;Adam Emmer;Jan-Thomas Fischer

  • Future Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) hazard of the South Lhonak Lake, Sikkim Himalaya

    Ashim Sattar;Ashim Sattar;Ajanta Goswami;Anil.V. Kulkarni;Adam Emmer

  • New method for assessing the susceptibility of glacial lakes to outburst floods in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru

    A. Emmer;V. Vilímek

  • Progress and challenges in glacial lake outburst flood research (2017–2021): a research community perspective

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  • The 2020 glacial lake outburst flood at Jinwuco, Tibet: causes, impacts, and implications for hazard and risk assessment

    Guoxiong Zheng;Guoxiong Zheng;Martin Mergili;Adam Emmer;Simon Allen;Simon Allen

  • 70 years of lake evolution and glacial lake outburst floods in the Cordillera Blanca (Peru) and implications for the future

    Adam Emmer;Stephan Harrison;Martin Mergili;Martin Mergili;Simon Allen

  • Characteristics and changes of glacial lakes and outburst floods

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  • GLOFs in the WOS: bibliometrics, geographies and global trends of research on glacial lake outburst floods (Web of Science, 1979-2016)

    Adam Emmer

  • Anthropogenic climate change and glacier lake outburst flood risk: local and global drivers and responsibilities for the case of lake Palcacocha, Peru

    Christian Huggel;Mark Carey;Adam Emmer;Holger Frey

  • Spatiotemporal patterns of high-mountain lakes and related hazards in western Austria

    Adam Emmer;Adam Emmer;Adam Emmer;Sarah Merkl;Martin Mergili;Martin Mergili

  • Geomorphologically effective floods from moraine-dammed lakes in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru

    Adam Emmer;Adam Emmer

  • Landslides in moraines as triggers of glacial lake outburst floods: example from Palcacocha Lake (Cordillera Blanca, Peru)

    Jan Klimeš;Jan Novotný;Jan Novotný;Ivona Novotná;B Jordán de Urries

  • Morphological analysis and features of the landslide dams in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru

    C. Tacconi Stefanelli;V. Vilímek;A. Emmer;A. Emmer;F. Catani

  • Glacier Retreat, Lakes Development and Associated Natural Hazards in Cordilera Blanca, Peru

    Adam Emmer;Vít Vilímek;Jan Klimeš;Alejo Cochachin

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Mergili
Martin Mergili University of Graz
Christian Huggel
Christian Huggel University of Zurich
Holger Frey
Holger Frey University of Zurich
Stephan Harrison
Stephan Harrison University of Exeter
Simon J. Allen
Simon J. Allen University of Zurich
Umesh K. Haritashya
Umesh K. Haritashya University of Dayton
Neil F. Glasser
Neil F. Glasser Aberystwyth University
Anil V. Kulkarni
Anil V. Kulkarni Indian Institute of Science
Matthias Huss
Matthias Huss University of Fribourg
Richard Betts
Richard Betts University of Exeter

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