Monitoring of Freya Glacier in North East Greenland Someone knocked at the door. I looked up and Bernhard Hynek, one of ZAMGs glaciologists, entered my office. It was January 2011, I was working at the ZAMG as a student-researcher apart...
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New satellite study shows extensive retreat of tidewater glaciers in Greenland since 1980s A large-scale study led by Dominik Fahrner, Liverpool University, that involved the Austrian Polar Research Institute (APRI) provides evidence of a severe Greenland-wide retreat of glacier fronts...
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“Besonders das zunehmende Auftauen von Permafrost sollte uns wirklich Sorgen machen” berichtet APRI Vorstandsmitglied Dr. Andreas Richter (Universität Wien) in diesem Standard-Artikel. In diesem Jahr erlitt Russland eine seiner größten Umweltkatastrophen: Ende Mai gelangten nahe Norilsk, der nördlichsten Großstadt der…
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…
