The University of Graz has published an article about Jakob Abermann’s research on unusual avalanche events on Greenland, using remote sensing and in situ observations. This juxtaposition shows how the landscape looked before and after a heavy rain event and…
The APRI Annual Meeting in Graz was a great success. We had a total of 16 presentations, including two guest lectures. We gained interesting insights into the different members’ research activities, got some updates on upcoming APRI activities and projects,…
University Vienna’s uni:view Magazin made a short video about Sigrid Irene Wentzel’s research in Yakutia. Sigrid is a doctoral student at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna and part of Peter Schweitzer’s research group….
The Annual Meeting of the Austrian Polar Research Institute will take place in Graz, on November 14th and November 15th. As usual, the different working groups will present updates on their current work, and invited guests will present their research…
Andreas Richter was interviewed by the uni:view Magazin about his research on how climate warming affects arctic soils. Check out the interview where he emphasizes the need to act fast if we want to limit climate change (and join tomorrow’s…
Am Mittwoch, dem 23. Oktober findet der Polar Talk #3 im Naturhistorischen Museum Wien statt. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Richter hält einen Vortrag mit dem Titel “Was die Veränderung arktischer Ökosysteme für den globalen Klimawandel bedeutet”. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Richter ist…
In the course of the Polar Film Fest 2019, several short films about polar research are being screened at different universities across the world. The University of Innsbruck is taking part in the action and will host the Polar Film…
The research group EnMoTe – Environments, Mobilities, Technologies invites to a lecture by Michael Bravo (University of Cambridge/Scott Polar Institute) about “What happened to the North Pole in Vienna 500 years ago, and why this still matters today”. Join us at the…
Check out Andreas Richter’s blog on his research on permafrost in the Yukon, published on the media portal of the University of Vienna. You can read the blogpost here.
The European Space Agency recently published an article on Annett Bartsch and b.geos’ research on permafrost using satellite images from space. Read the article here.
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