I had the opportunity to meet Julius during my stay at the station in the summer of 2025. He gave me an insight into his daily tasks at the Sermilik station, where temperatures can be extremely low and conditions are…
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Figure: The Mittivakkat Glacier shown here is located near the Sermilik research station in East Greenland. (© Karl Steinegger 2024) The majority of the world’s freshwater is stored in glaciers and ice sheets. If all of Earth’s ice were formed…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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