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…
Read MoreToday, Austria's interest in the polar regions is based on the great relevance of the polar regions for the Earth's climate and the global responsibility of all nations to understand and limit climate change. Historically, this interest is also closely…
Read MoreAm 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 Land der Menschen' bedeutet. Diese Assoziation ist uns fremd, verbinden wir doch mit…
Read MoreSnow2Rain 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…
Read MoreSnow2Rain 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…
Read MoreSnow2Rain project: fieldwork report from Tasiilaq, East Greenland, Part I This report from the field provides an insight into the complexity, challenges and learning opportunities of two early-career scientists during their research for their interdisciplinary research project Snow2Rain. In our…
Read MoreResearchers from the APRI at University of Graz found new evidence of anthropogenic warming beyond the natural climate variability over the Greenland Ice Sheet. The group of researchers from the University of Graz and APRI members, Tiago Silva, Jakob Abermann,…
Read MoreThe project application by APRI member Jakob Abermann, University of Graz, which has recently been approved by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, has unique plans: to span nearly hundred years of Greenland's climatology and glaciology by combining Alfred Wegener's original…
Read MoreThe Austrian Polar Research Institute member Annett Bartsch, managing director of b.geos, has more than twenty years experiences in satellite image processing and focuses on research questions around permafrost and how it is impacted by the warming climate. Her recent…
Read More"Goodbye Zackenberg" also meant "goodbye sun“ for our time at the campsite because it was in the shade of the surrounding mountains except early night and some hours in the afternoon. In combination with the constant cold air flowing down…
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