Field sites are located in different climatic regions of the Swiss and German Alps and consist of typical permafrost locations and bodies including rock glaciers, moraines, talus slopes, bedrock plateaus, unconsolidated sediments and rock walls.

At two joint research sites all project partners will collaborate closely:

• 20 years mountain permafrost borehole temperature record in an ice-rich permafrost body (longest Alpine permafrost time series)
• complete process chain from debris source of the rockwall to creeping permafrost phenomena around the main rock glacier will be investigated

• poor-ice mountain permafrost summit site and associated talus slopes below the north face with strong sensitivity to climate warming and associated hazard potential
• physical processes involved with degradation phenomena and the potential for instabilities within the rockwall will be investigated

To analyse the sensitivity of different permafrost types additional field and modelling work will be conducted at the following sites in the Swiss Alps:

• Schilthorn (2970 m), Bernese Alps
• Stockhorn (3140 m), Valais
• Lapires (2500 m), Valais
• Turtmanntal (1800 - 3200 m), Valais
• Muragl (2550 m), Upper Engadine