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Jul 02

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…

Jan 14

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WEG_RE – The Wegener Reconnaissance-Expedition

By Christoph Ruhsam Climate Change, Cryosphere & Climate

The project application by APRI member Jakob Abermann, University of Graz, which has recently been approved by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, has unique plans: to span nearly hundred years of Greenland's climatology and glaciology by combining Alfred Wegener's original…

Aug 03

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Glacier Elvis from Outer Space – Part II

By Iris Cryosphere & Climate, Field report, Glaciology

"Goodbye Zackenberg" also meant "goodbye sun“ for our time at the campsite because it was in the shade of the surrounding mountains except early night and some hours in the afternoon. In combination with the constant cold air flowing down…

Jul 14

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Glacier Elvis from Outer Space – Part I

By Iris Cryosphere & Climate, Field report, Glaciology

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 from studying for my Bachelor. "Do you want…

Mar 21

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New Greenland Satellite Study

By Christoph Ruhsam Kryosphäre & Klima

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 on the world's largest island that began in the 1980s. Jakob Abermann of…

Jan 22

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Der Standard: Tauende Permafrostböden werden zur globalen Klimagefahr

By Iris Kryosphäre & Klima, News

"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…

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FREYA Glacier: Long time no see!

DNA-degrading microorganisms identified from Greenland sediments

WEG_RE – The Wegener Reconnaissance-Expedition

Glacier Elvis from Outer Space – Part II

Glacier Elvis from Outer Space – Part I

New Greenland Satellite Study

Der Standard: Tauende Permafrostböden werden zur globalen Klimagefahr

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