Vernagtferner/ Ötz Valley 2007


Ascent from the Austrian alpine village Vent to the Vernagtferner. First destination: the Vernagtbach gauging station built in 1973. Tour of the climate gauging station, one of the worldwide leading research facilities for long-term glacier observation. Highly sensitive equipment continually measures air pressure, temperature, humidity, wind velocity, precipitation, solar radiation and runoff. The data is sent to the Munich Commission of Glaciology via SMS text messages on a daily basis. Second destination: the glacier itself, which already clearly manifests changes caused by climate warming. (Calling the Glacier by Kalle Laar)

Participants

Curators: Juan Carlos Betancourt (Latein America), Ark Fongsmut (Thailand), Serafine Lindemann (Germany), Marianne Maasland (Netherlands)
Artists: Kalle Laar (Germany), Rúrí (Iceland)
Filmmaker: Frank Sauer (Germany)
Photography: Mila Pavan (Italy)
Technology: Bernd Wiemann and Christian Rauch (Vodafone Group R&D)
Design: Peter Trautwein (ergon3 design)
Science: Ludwig Braun and Matthias Siebers (Commission for Glaciology of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
Media: Sven Ricklefs (Bayerischer Rundfunk)
Iris Rodriguez (freelanced Journalist)
Mountain Climber: Gerhard Moser Pirpamer