On November 11th 2020, the APRI General Assembly elected a new APRI Management Team: Wolfgang Schöner (University of Graz): Director Birgit Sattler (University of Innsbruck): Vice-Director Andreas Richter (University of Vienna): Executive Secretary Peter Schweitzer (University of Vienna): Vice Executive Secretary…
A research group including Petra Heinz and Patrik Bukenberger discovered a new foraminifera species and named it after the paleonthologist Peter Pervesler: Turrispirillina pervesleri. You can read more about the foraminifera found on the Gakkel Ridge in the Arctic Ocean and…
We cordially congratulate Annett Bartsch (b.geos) and her colleagues from the Max-Planck-Institute and the University of Helsinki with the ERC Synergy Grant for the project Quantify disturbance impacts on feedbacks between Arctic permafrost and global climate – Q-ARCTIC! The project…
As part of this year’s APRI annual meeting, which will be held online, Annett Bartsch (b.geos) will give a presentation entitled Arctic monitoring across disciplines – APRI members’ contributions. The presentation will take place on zoom, from 3-3:50 pm on…
The Saami Council in collaboration with Arctic researchers, including Gertrude Saxinger (APRI), has published a public note on co-designing research projects in the Arctic. The authors share their reflections on their experiences with co-creating proposals and research projects and highlight…
We 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…
APRI 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…
Wolfgang 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…
A 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.
Der 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/
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