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Susan Ivy-Ochs

Susan Ivy-Ochs

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Earth Science

D-Index
67
Citations
15752
World Ranking
1231
National Ranking
34

Overview

Susan Ivy-Ochs is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research spans numerous subfields including Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Anthropology, Geophysics, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies

Publications by Susan Ivy-Ochs frequently appear in venues such as:

  • Geosciences
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Geomorphology
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Among the recent papers are:

  • "Atmospheric circulation over Europe during the Younger Dryas," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Deciphering the evolution of the Bleis Marscha rock glacier (Val d'Err, eastern Switzerland) with cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating, aerial image correlation, and finite element modeling," 2021, The Cryosphere
  • "Glacial erosion by the Trift glacier (Switzerland): Deciphering the development of riegels, rock basins and gorges," 2020, Geomorphology
  • "Tracking rockglacier evolution in the Eastern Alps from the Lateglacial to the early Holocene," 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Latest Pleistocene glacier advances and post-Younger Dryas rock glacier stabilization in the Mt. Kriváň group, High Tatra Mountains, Slovakia," 2020, Geomorphology

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Susan Ivy-Ochs' work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Christof Vockenhuber
  • Marcus Christl
  • Giovanni Monegato
  • Naki Akçar
  • Jürgen M. Reitner

Best Publications

  • Latest Pleistocene and Holocene glacier variations in the European Alps

    Susan Ivy-Ochs;Susan Ivy-Ochs;Hanns Kerschner;Max Maisch;Marcus Christl

  • Chronology of the last glacial cycle in the European Alps

    Susan Ivy-Ochs;Hanns Kerschner;Anne Reuther;Frank Preusser

  • Production of selected cosmogenic radionuclides by muons: 2. Capture of negative muons

    B. Heisinger;D. Lal;A.J.T. Jull;P. Kubik

  • Holocene glacier fluctuations

    Olga N. Solomina;Raymond S. Bradley;Dominic A. Hodgson;Susan Ivy-Ochs;Susan Ivy-Ochs

  • Production of selected cosmogenic radionuclides by muons 1. Fast muons

    B Heisinger;D Lal;A.J.T Jull;P Kubik

  • Near-Synchronous Interhemispheric Termination of the Last Glacial Maximum in Mid-Latitudes

    Joerg M. Schaefer;George H. Denton;David J. A. Barrell;Susan Ivy-Ochs

  • Erosion and Exhumation in the Himalaya from cosmogenic isotope inventories of river sediments

    Derek Vance;Mike Bickle;Susan Ivy-Ochs;Peter W. Kubik

  • Regional Synthesis of Mediterranean Atmospheric Circulation During the Last Glacial Maximum

    J. Kuhlemann;Eelco Rohling;I. Krumrei;Peter Kubik

  • Glacier variations in the European Alps at the end of the last glaciation

    S. Ivy-Ochs

  • Timing of deglaciation on the northern Alpine foreland (Switzerland)

    Susan Ivy-Ochs;Jörg Schäfer;Peter W. Kubik;Hans-Arno Synal

  • Glacier response in the European Alps to Heinrich Event 1 cooling: the Gschnitz stadial

    Susan Ivy-Ochs;Hanns Kerschner;Peter W. Kubik;Christian Schlüchter

  • Surface exposure dating with cosmogenic nuclides

    Susan Ivy-Ochs;Florian Kober

  • A GIS tool for automatic calculation of glacier equilibrium-line altitudes

    Ramón Pellitero;Brice R. Rea;Matteo Spagnolo;Jostein Bakke

  • Cosmogenic noble gas studies in the oldest landscape on earth: surface exposure ages of the Dry Valleys, Antarctica

    Jörg M. Schäfer;Susan Ivy-Ochs;Rainer Wieler;Ingo Leya

  • Low slip rates and long-term preservation of geomorphic features in Central Asia

    Ralf Hetzel;Samuel Niedermann;Mingxin Tao;Peter W. Kubik

  • Modelling last glacial cycle ice dynamics in the Alps

    Julien Seguinot;Julien Seguinot;Susan Ivy-Ochs;Guillaume Jouvet;Matthias Huss

  • Chemical and Biological Gradients along the Damma Glacier Soil Chronosequence, Switzerland

    Stefano M. Bernasconi;Andreas Bauder;Bernard Bourdon;Ivano Brunner

  • 10BE AND 26AL PRODUCTION RATES DEDUCED FROM AN INSTANTANEOUS EVENT WITHIN THE DENDRO-CALIBRATION CURVE, THE LANDSLIDE OF KOFELS, OTZ VALLEY, AUSTRIA

    Peter W. Kubik;Susan Ivy-Ochs;Jozef Masarik;Martin Frank

  • Surface exposure dating of the Flims landslide, Graubünden, Switzerland

    S. Ivy-Ochs;A.v. Poschinger;H.-A. Synal;M. Maisch

  • The limited influence of glaciations in Tibet on global climate over the past 170 000 yr

    Jörg M. Schäfer;Silvio Tschudi;Zhizhong Zhao;Xihao Wu

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Schlüchter
Christian Schlüchter University of Bern
Naki Akçar
Naki Akçar University of Bern
Peter W. Kubik
Peter W. Kubik ETH Zurich
Marcus Christl
Marcus Christl ETH Zurich
Irka Hajdas
Irka Hajdas ETH Zurich
Rainer Wieler
Rainer Wieler ETH Zurich
Jeffrey R. Moore
Jeffrey R. Moore University of Utah
Fritz Schlunegger
Fritz Schlunegger University of Bern
Joerg M. Schaefer
Joerg M. Schaefer Columbia University
Manuel Rigo
Manuel Rigo University of Padua

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