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Feb 17

Snow2School – Citizen Science in the Arctic and the Alps

By Yannika Baier Climate Change, Social and Cultural Systems

The interdisciplinary citizen science project Snow2School, funded by Sparkling Science (OeAD Center for Citizen Science) brings together climatologists from the University of Graz, social anthropologists from the University of Vienna, and teachers and students from two local schools in Uummannaq,…

Jan 08

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Freya Glacier: Avalanches do matter!

By Yannika Baier Cryosphere & Climate, Field report, Glaciology

While rising temperatures in the Arctic are increasing glacier mass loss by extending the melt season, they may also lead to an increase in snow accumulation as warmer air can carry more moisture. While the first effect dominates overall and…

Sep 08

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Studying the lower troposphere at Villum Research Station

By Iris Climate Change, Cryosphere & Climate, Expedition, Field report

APRI members Wolfgang Schöner and Jonathan Fipper spent three weeks in the High North in August 2023. During this time, they collected data about the vertical temperature structure of the near-surface atmospheric boundary layer in the vicinity of the Villum…

Jul 20

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Revisiting Alfred Wegener’s Work in Greenland after almost 100 Years: The WEG_Re Project

By Christoph Ruhsam Climate Change, Cryosphere & Climate, Klimawandel, Kryosphäre & Klima, News

Since the approval of WEG_Re (Centennial Climate Drivers of Glacier Changes in Greenland) by the Austrian Science Fund FWF in November 2021, the APRI team of the University of Graz together with the Know Center Graz has been working on…

Nov 03

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Exploration and Climate Research in the World’s Northernmost (Greenland) Caves

By Iris Cryosphere & Climate, Events, News

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 in North Greenland during an extensive Arctic Cold War military campaign. Several of…

Jul 02

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FREYA Glacier: Long time no see!

By Iris Climate Change, Expedition, Field report, Glaciology

Glacier Monitoring in Northeast-Greenland in Spring 2022 by Signe H. Larsen and Bernhard Hynek (Copyright: Bernhard Hynek). In Northeast Greenland near Zackenberg research station (74 degrees north), ZAMG in cooperation with the University of Graz and GEUS (Denmark) has been…

Mar 31

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DNA-degrading microorganisms identified from Greenland sediments

By Iris Polar Ecology

An interdisciplinary team of researchers consisting of members of the Austrian Polar Research Institute, the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science of the University of Vienna, the University of Aalborg (Denmark) and the University of Calgary (Canada) succeeded in…

Mar 16

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Immersing into the snow

By Iris Climate Change, Cryosphere & Climate, Field report, Social and Cultural System

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…

Mar 09

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Exploring changes in snow

By Iris Climate Change, Cryosphere & Climate, Field report, Social and Cultural System

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…

Mar 02

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Into the Snowy Realm

By Iris Climate Change, Cryosphere & Climate, Field report, Social and Cultural System

Snow2Rain 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…

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Freya Glacier: Avalanches do matter!

Studying the lower troposphere at Villum Research Station

Revisiting Alfred Wegener’s Work in Greenland after almost 100 Years: The WEG_Re Project

Exploration and Climate Research in the World’s Northernmost (Greenland) Caves

FREYA Glacier: Long time no see!

DNA-degrading microorganisms identified from Greenland sediments

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