START-Preisträgerin Gina Moseley (Uni Innsbruck) leitete vor Kurzem eine Expedition durch bisher unerforschte Höhlen in Nord-Grönland. Die Erforschung von Tropfsteinen und anderen Kalkablagerungen in den Höhlen gibt einen Einblick in das Klima der Vergangenheit und trägt somit zur Klimageschichte Grönlands bei. Sie…
Read MoreAdvancing adaptive capacity of Arctic communities. This is the aim for CHARTER, a new EU Horizon 2020 funded project. The European Commission has just signed the papers and work can begin. APRI member b.geos (Annett Bartsch) is a partner in…
Read MoreWe are happy to announce that the Arctic Science Summit Week 2023 will be held in Austria! 2023 is a special year for polar research in Austria since it marks the 150th anniversary of the Austro-Hungarian expedition to Franz Josef Land.…
Read MoreWe are happy to announce that Peter Schweitzer won a European Research Council Advance Grant! The project INFRANORTH – Building Arctic Futures: Transport Infrastructures and Sustainable Northern Communities will investigate existing and planned transport infrastructures in the Arctic and examine their…
Read MoreAPRI member Jakob Abermann just finished teaching snow and ice field techniques at the University Centre in Svalbard, as part of the course Snow and Ice Processes AGF-212. This winter the sea ice conditions on Svalbard are good, like here…
Read MoreWolfgang Schöner and Christoph Ruhsam were invited to the "Torradagar" on the Faroe Islands. In his multi-media talk entitled "Witnessing Global Warming in the High Arctic", photographer Christoph Ruhsam showed pictures from his various expeditions to the High Arctic. Wolfgang Schöner…
Read MoreA paper about the seismic monitoring of jökulhlaups, or glacial outburst floods, at the AP Olsen Ice Cap in North-East Greenland is out. Read the paper in the Journal of Glaciology here.
Read MoreDer ORF gibt in diesem Artikel einen Einblick in die österreichische Klimaforschung. Annett Bartsch (b.geos) und Marion Greilinger (ZAMG) vom APRI erzählen über die Erforschung arktischer Permafrostböden und heimischer Gletscher. Hier geht es zum Beitrag: https://orf.at/stories/3148167/
Read MoreProf. Wolfgang Schöner and Christoph Ruhsam are invited to the cultural Torradagar days to the Faroe Islands to talk about the Arctic and the impacts of climate change. In a multimedia talk (Ruhsam) and a scientific lecture (Schöner), the two APRI affiliates…
Read MoreIn the upcoming EnMoTe Lecture on January 16th, Gunn-Britt Retter will be talking about the Sámi Council. She is Head of the Artic and Environment Unit of the Sámi Council and has been involved in issues related to indigenous peoples and…
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