Michael Krautblatter

Prof. Michael Krautblatter
Associate Professor
Monitoring, Analysis and Early Warning of Landslides
Faculty of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering
Technische Universität München
Arcisstr. 21
DE-80333 München
Germany


Phone: +49 (89) 289 - 25866
Fax: +49 (0)89 289 25852
E-mail: m.krautblatter(at)tum.de
Personal URL: link


Key Publications of Michael Krautblatter (up to ten) :
Mechanics in frozen rock:
Pudasaini, M. & Krautblatter, M. (2014). A two-phase mechanical model for rock-ice avalanches. JGR Earth Surface.
Krautblatter, M., Funk, D. & F.K. Günzel (2013): Why permafrost rocks become unstable: a rock-ice-mechanical model in time and space Earth Surf. Process. Landforms 38, 876-887.
Draebing, D., M. Krautblatter, and T. Hoffmann (2017), Thermo-cryogenic controls of fracture kinematics in permafrost rockwalls, Geophysical Research Letters, 44(8), 3535-3544, doi:10.1002/2016gl072050.
Jia, H., K. Leith, and M. Krautblatter (2017), Path-Dependent Frost-Wedging Experiments in Fractured, Low-Permeability Granite, Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 28(4), 698-709, doi:10.1002/ppp.1950.
Jia, H., W. Xiang, and M. Krautblatter (2015), Quantifying rock fatigue and decreasing compressive and tensile strength after repeated freeze-thaw cycles, Permafrost and Perigl. Process., doi:10.1002/ppp.1857.
Mamot, P., S. Weber, T. Schröder, and M. Krautblatter (2019), A temperature- and stress-controlled failure criterion for ice-filled permafrost rock joints, The Cryosphere.

Seismics in permafrost rocks:
Krautblatter, M. and Dräbing, D. (2014). Pseudo 3D - P-wave refraction seismic monitoring of permafrost in steep unstable bedrock. J. Geophys. Res. – Earth Surface VOL. 118, 1–13.
Dräbing, D. and Krautblatter M. (2012). P-wave velocity changes in freezing hard low-porosity rocks: a laboratory-based time-average model. CRYOSPHERE, 6 (5), 1163-1174.
Murton, J., O. Kuras, M. Krautblatter, et al. (2016), Monitoring rock freezing and thawing by novel geoelectrical and acoustic techniques, Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface.

Electrical resististivity tomography:
Magnin F, Krautblatter M., Deline P. & Ravanel L. (2015). Determining the lower sensitive limit of permafrost in vertical rock faces by electrical resistivity tomography (Mont Blanc Massif, F). J. Geophys. Res. – Earth Surface. (i.-f. 3.4) ? http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2014JF003351
Krautblatter, M., Verleysdonk, S., Flores-Orozco, A. and Kemna, A. (2010). Temperature-calibrated imaging of seasonal changes in permafrost rock walls by quantitative electrical resistivity tomography (Zugspitze, German/Austrian Alps). J. Geophys. Res. - Earth Surface.
Krautblatter, M. and Hauck, C. (2007): Electrical resistivity tomography monitoring of permafrost in solid rock walls. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth-Surface, 112.

Rockfalls and debris flows
Dietrich, A. & Krautblatter, M. (2019): Deciphering controls for debris?flow erosion derived from a LiDAR?recorded extreme event and a calibrated numerical model (Roßbichelbach, Germany). Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
Voigtländer, A. & Krautblatter, M. (2019): Breaking rocks made easy. Blending stress control concepts to advance geomorphology. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 44(1), pp. 381-388.
Dietrich, A. & Krautblatter M. (2017). Evidence for enhanced debris flow activity in the Northern Calcareous Alps since the 1980s (Plansee, Austria). Geomorphology (i.-f. 2.8).
Voigtländer, A., Leith, K., Krautblatter, M. (2018): Subcritical Crack Growth and Progressive Failure in Carrara Marble Under Wet and Dry Conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 123(5): 3780-3798.
Knapp, S., Gilli, A., Anselmetti, F.S., Krautblatter, M., Hajdas, I. (2018): Multistage Rock-Slope Failures Revealed in Lake Sediments in a Seismically Active Alpine Region (Lake Oeschinen, Switzerland). J Geophys. Res.: Earth Surface 123: 658-677.
De Haas, T. Conway, S. & Krautblatter, M. (2016). Recent (Late Amazonian) enhanced backweathering rates on Mars: paracratering evidence from gully-alcoves. J. Geophys. Res. Planets. (i.-f. 3.3).
Saettele, Krautblatter, Bründl and Straub (2015). Forecasting rock slope failure: How reliable and effective are warning systems? Landslides (i.-f. 3.0)
Krautblatter, M. and Moore, J. (2014). Rock slope instability and erosion: toward improved process understanding. Earth Surface Process. Landforms –Special Issue Review Paper / Editorial for special issue with 15 papers. (i.-f. 3.5) Krautblatter, M., Moser, M., Schrott, L., Wolf, J. and Morche, D. (2012): Significance of rockfall magnitude and solute transport for rock slope erosion and geomorphic work in an Alpine trough valley (Reintal, German Alps). Geomorphology, 167, 21-34. (i.-f. 2.8)
Heckmann, T., Bimboese, M., Krautblatter, M., Becht, M. and Morche, D. (2012): From geotechnical analysis to quantification and modelling using LiDAR data: A study on rockfall in the Reintal catchment, Bavarian Alps, Germany. Earth Surface Process. Landforms 37, 119–133. (i.-f. 3.5)
Siewert, M., Krautblatter, M., Christiansen, H. and Eckerstorfer, M. (2012): Arctic rockwall retreat rates estimated using temperature-calibrated ERT measurements of talus slopes in Longyeardalen, Svalbard. Earth Surface Process. Landforms 37 (14), 1542-1555. (i.-f. 3.5)
Krautblatter, M. and Moser, M. (2009): A nonlinear model coupling rockfall and rainfall intensity based on a four year measurement in a high Alpine rock wall (Reintal, German Alps). In: Nat. Haz.Earth Syst. Sci. 9: 1425–1432. (i.-f. 2.3)
Sass, O., Krautblatter, M. and Morche, D. (2007): Rapid lake infill following major rockfall (bergsturz) events revealed by ground penetrating radar (GPR) measurements (Reintal, German Alps). Holocene 17(7): 965-976. (i.-f. 2.1)
Sass, O. and Krautblatter, M. (2007): Debris-flow-dominated and rockfall-dominated scree slopes: genetic models derived from GPR measurements. Geomorphology 86: 176-192. (i.-f. 2.8) ?
Krautblatter, M. & R. Dikau (2007): Towards a uniform concept for the comparison and extrapolation of rockwall retreat and rockfall supply. Geografiska Annaler, 89 A (1): 21-40. (i.-f. 1.6)




Expertise of Michael Krautblatter:

Expertise Category	Specific Expertise
Expert Type	Expert Type
	Scientific / Fundamental Research
Topic Atmosphere	Global Warming
Topic Cryosphere	Cryosphere
	Permafrost / Solifluction
Topic Lithosphere	Lithosphere
	Sediments: Formation, Dynamics, Metamorphism
	Morphodynamics
Topic Ecosystems	Ecosystems
	Terrestrial Ecosystems
Time Frame	Past
	Recent / Today
	Future
Statistical Focus	Extreme Events
	Variability
Time Scale	Seasonal / Annual
	Decadal / Centennial
	Millenial
	100 kyr
Methods	Data Collection
	Data Collection - Measurement
Mountain Research Initiative	MRI Research area
	Long-term monitoring and analysis of indicators of environmental change in mount
	Integrated model-based studies of environmental change in diff. mountain regions
	Process studies along altitudinal gradients and in associated headwater basins
	MRI Regions (please tick your mountain regions of interest)
	Europe (including Eastern Europe)
	North America
	Latin America

Specialties of Michael Krautblatter:
Rockfall, Mass-movement, Permafrost, Geophysics in bedrock

Last update: 12/18/20
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