{"id":853,"date":"2022-08-19T14:53:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T12:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/?p=853"},"modified":"2022-08-19T14:53:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T12:53:11","slug":"fieldwork-in-the-swiss-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/2022\/08\/fieldwork-in-the-swiss-alps\/","title":{"rendered":"Fieldwork in the Swiss Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the end of June, Leif, Xiaoxia, Audrey and Kathy went to the Vispa valley, Switzerland, for the first fieldwork of this year (which was also Kathy\u2019s first geological expedition!) for Xiaoxia\u2019s PhD research. Xiaoxia\u2019s project is part of the ERC supported ICED project, which aims to investigate the timing of overdeepened valley formation and relate it to glacial\/interglacial cycles using novel OSL and ESR thermochronometry. Samples were collected along the\u00a0 Saas and Matter Vispa rivers to determine the\u00a0 timing of valley incision. The trip started at the conjunction of the Rhone and Vispa valleys before migrating towards the Saas Vispa river valley- which is characterized by a deep valley. Although the original aim was to collect samples as close to the river as possible, most of the place were inaccessible. In the end, the team managed to successfully collect 11 samples which will be processed at the University of Lausanne in the next few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"617\" height=\"825\" data-id=\"859\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/files\/2022\/08\/Picture-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Saas Vispa River (Photo by Xiaoxia)\n\" class=\"wp-image-859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/files\/2022\/08\/Picture-1-1.jpg 617w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/files\/2022\/08\/Picture-1-1-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><figcaption>Saas Vispa river<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"385\" height=\"513\" data-id=\"860\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/files\/2022\/08\/Picture-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Vispa river (Photo by Xiaoxia)\n\" class=\"wp-image-860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/files\/2022\/08\/Picture-2-1.jpg 385w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/files\/2022\/08\/Picture-2-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><figcaption>Vispa river<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"389\" height=\"518\" data-id=\"858\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/files\/2022\/08\/Picture-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/files\/2022\/08\/Picture-3-1.jpg 389w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/files\/2022\/08\/Picture-3-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><figcaption>Audrey taking notes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"861\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/files\/2022\/08\/Picture-4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/files\/2022\/08\/Picture-4-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/files\/2022\/08\/Picture-4-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Leif and Xiaoxia walking along the Matter Vispa river<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of June, Leif, Xiaoxia, Audrey and Kathy went to the Vispa valley, Switzerland, for the first fieldwork of this year (which was also Kathy\u2019s first geological expedition!) &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001880,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-httpwp-unil-chice"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}