Marcia Phillips

Dr. Marcia Phillips
Schnee und Permafrost: Permafrost
Institut für Schnee- und Lawinenforschung, SLF
WSL
Flüelastrasse 11
CH-7260 Davos Dorf
Switzerland

Phone: +41 (0) 81 417 02 18
Phone2: +41 (0) 81 417 01 11
Fax: +41 (0) 81 417 01 10
E-mail: phillips(at)slf.ch
URL Institution: www.slf.ch/
Personal URL: link

Additional functions:
Swiss Glaciological Commission (steering committee)

Key Publications of Marcia Phillips (up to ten) :
PHILLIPS M., WOLTER A., LÜTHI R., AMANN F., KENNER R., BÜHLER Y. (2016). Rock slope failure in a recently deglaciated permafrost rock wall at Piz Kesch (Eastern Swiss Alps), February 2014. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, DOI 10.1002/esp.3992.
LUETHI R, PHILLIPS M., LEHNING M. (2016). Estimating non-conductive heat flow leading to intra-permafrost talik formation at the Ritigraben rock glacier (Western Swiss Alps). Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. DOI 10.1002/ppp.1911
DRAEBING D., HABERKORN A., KRAUTBLATTER M., KENNER R., PHILLIPS M. (2017). Thermal and Mechanical Responses Resulting From Spatial and Temporal Snow Cover Variability in Permafrost Rock Slopes, Steintaelli, Swiss Alps. Permafrost and Periglacial Procceses. DOI: 10.1002/ppp.1921
HABERKORN A., WEVER N., HOELZLE M., PHILLIPS M., KENNER R., BAVAY M., LEHNING M. (2017). Distributed snow and rock temperature modelling in steep rock walls using Alpine 3D. The Cryosphere 11, 585-607. DOI 10.5194/tc-11-585-2017
KENNER R., PHILLIPS M., HAUCK C., HILBICH C., MULSOW C., BÜHLER Y., STOFFEL A., BUCHROITNER M. (2017) New insights on permafrost genesis and conservation in talus slopes based on observations at Flüelapass, Eastern Switzerland. Geomorphology 290, 101-113, DOI 10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.04.011
PHILLIPS, M., HABERKORN, A., RHYNER, H., 2017. Snowpack characteristics on steep frozen rock slopes. Cold Regions Science and Technology, 141, 54-65. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions.2017.05.010
KENNER, R., PHILLIPS, M., LIMPACH, P., BEUTEL, J., & HILLER, M. (2018). Monitoring mass movements using georeferenced time-lapse photography: Ritigraben rock glacier, western Swiss Alps. Cold Regions Science and Technology, 145, 127-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions.2017.10.018
KENNER R., PHILLIPS M., BEUTEL J. HILLER M., LIMPACH P., POINTNER E., VOLKEN M. (2017). Factors Controlling Velocity Variations at Short-Term, Seasonal and Multiyear Time Scales, Ritigraben Rock Glacier, Western Swiss Alps. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. DOI: 10.1002/ppp.1953
Biskaborn, B.K., Smith, S.L., Noetzli, J., Matthes, H., Vieira, G., Streletskiy, D.A., Schoeneich, P., Romanovsky, V.E., Lewkowicz, A.G., Abramov, A., Allard, M., Boike, J., Cable, W.L., Christiansen, H.H., Delaloye, R., Diekmann, B., Drozdov, D., Etzelmüller, B., Grosse, G., Guglielmin, M., Ingeman-Nielsen, T., Isaksen, K., Ishikawa, M., Johansson, M., Johannsson, H., Joo, A., Kaverin, D., Kholodov, A., Konstantinov, P., Kröger, T., Lambiel, C., Lanckman, J.-P., Luo, D., Malkova, G., Meiklejohn, I., Moskalenko, N., Oliva, M., Phillips, M., Ramos, M., Sannel, A.B.K., Sergeev, D., Seybold, C., Skryabin, P., Vasiliev, A., Wu, Q., Yoshikawa, K., Zheleznyak, M., Lantuit, H., (2019). Permafrost is warming at a global scale. Nature Communications, 10(1), 264. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-08240-4
Kenner, R., Noetzli, J., Hoelzle, M., Raetzo, H., and Phillips, M. 2019. Distinguishing ice-rich and ice-poor permafrost to map ground temperatures and ice content in the Swiss Alps. The Cryosphere, 13, 1925–1941, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1925-2019.
Kenner R., Pruessner L., Beutel J., Limpach P., Phillips M. (2019). How rock glacier hydrology, deformation velocities and Ground temperatures interact: Examples from the Swiss Alps. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 1-12, DOI: 10.1002/ppp.2023 Permafrost and Periglacial Process. 2019;1–12.© 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ppp1

Expertise of Marcia Phillips:

Expertise Category	Specific Expertise
Expert Type	Scientific / Fundamental Research
Topic Cryosphere	Cryosphere
	Snow Cover
	Permafrost / Solifluction
Topic Economy/ResourceUse	Tourism
Spatial Zones	Mountain / Highland
Spatial Scale	Regional
Time Frame	Recent / Today
	Future
Statistical Focus	Mean Change / Trends
Time Scale	Seasonal / Annual
	Decadal / Centennial
Methods	Data Collection
	Data Collection - Measurement
	Data Analysis
	Modeling

Specialties of Marcia Phillips:

Nachhaltig Bauen im Permafrost

Monitoring Temperaturänderungen im Permafrost

Monitoring Hangbewegungen im Permafrost

Entstehung Naturgefahren im Hochgebirge

Last update: 9/12/23
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)
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