The great landslide of Assapaat in June 2021 on the Nuussuaq Peninsula in West Greenland, is a result of thawing permafrost. This is shown in a recent study involving APRI researcher Daniel Binder of the Geological Survey of Denmark and...
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The building of the Sermilik polar station in the Tasiilaq district of East Greenland is finished since fall 2022 and has already proven its polar suitability during the first Autumn-Piteraq. Tasiilaq Construction activities are well advanced thanks to the efforts...
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Gina Moseley is exploring the world’s most northern caves in Greenland looking for clues the past might hold for a warmer and wetter future in the arctic. On the first evening of APRI's 2022 annual general meeting in Innsbruck, APRI...
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The two APRI members Jakob Abermann (Graz University) and Rainer Prinz (Innsbruck University) visited the vertical ice cliffs of Northwest Greenland in 2017 and observed changes in ablation since the 1950's. The impressive near-vertical ice cliff is part of a...
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Exploration and Climate Research in the World's Northernmost (Greenland) CavesBy Dr. Gina Moseley On 24.11.2022 at 18:30 the public lecture will take place in lecture hall 1 at the Faculty of Theology Innsbruck (Karl-Rahner Platz 1). Caves were first documented...
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Another scientific study of our APRI members from the University of Graz and Innsbruck was recently published on the International Journal of Climatology. The collaboration between Tiago Silva, Manuela Lehner and Elisabeth Schlosser produced a thorough analysis of 25 years...
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Austria establishes a permanent polar research station on Ammassalik Island in East Greenland in cooperation with Denmark. Today, Austria's interest in the polar regions is based on the great relevance of the polar regions for the Earth's climate and the...
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Grönland – das ‚Land der Menschen‘ im Zeichen des KlimawandelsVon Dr. Jakob Abermann Am 25.05.2022 um 18:30 Uhr findet der #6 Polar Talk im Naturhistorischen Museum Wien statt. Die grönländische Bevölkerung bezeichnet ihr Land als ‚Kalaallit Nunaat', was übersetzt ‚Das...
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Snow2Rain fieldwork report from Tasiilaq, East Greenland, Part III Now it is my time to report on our walk into the snow. Well, I knew I would be landing in Tasiilaq when winter and the first snow had already arrived...
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Snow2Rain fieldwork report from Tasiilaq, East Greenland, Part II ‘An anthropologist and a snow climatologist walk into the snow...’ This sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but for me, it was the beginning of an interesting collaboration which...
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