The View from Fiescheralp - Our Sampling Site is just below the Chalets

Getting Started on Digging a Snow Pit

Digging the Snow Pit

Measuring the Properties of Snow Layers

Ever wondered what snow measurements look like?
In March 2026, Ross Woods joined University of Birmingham students in Switzerland to study snowpacks: digging pits, measuring the properties of snow layers & exploring water resources in a changing climate.
See what snow research looks like in practice

27 km is the height of a pyramid made of all the ice that has melted from glaciers since 2011. This is about 3 times the height of Mount Everest.

The planet has lost 4,300+ gigatonnes of glacier ice since 2011.

That’s enough to build a pyramid 3× taller than Everest.

📖 Dive into the full Nature interactive to find out more about how the world have differed due to climate change for the last 15 years:
www.nature.com/immersive/s4...

An Unusual Arctic Spring: When Snow Fails to Come in Svalbard.

Bare ground replaces white landscapes, snowmobiles stop, wildlife struggles, and daily life shifts in unexpected ways.

A snowless Arctic spring isn’t just unusual. It’s a glimpse of how quickly our climate is changing.

🌍 Partner spotlight: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Our collaboration with IIT Bombay brings world-class expertise in engineering and environmental modelling.

Led by Prof. Raaj Ramsankaran, the team models the Indus River Basin to assess how climate impacts water availability across regions

Join online or in person ❄️

Bright and funny at the same time. It does not happen often. Highly reccomend Warren's lecture next week

You've got my shovel!

After COP30 Fire and Floods: AMOC Shutdown YouTube video by International Cryosphere Climate Initiative

🎞️ After COP30 fire and floods: AMOC shutdown 🔥🌊

Our event on #AMOC shutdown was interrupted by the fire at #COP30 yesterday – but this is an important message so we wanted to make sure you heard it.

▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-0e...

@rahmstorf.bsky.social @iccinet.bsky.social

⬇️ LAUNCHED TODAY ⬇️

State of the Cryosphere Report 2025

Over 50 leading cryosphere scientists warn that current climate commitments, leading the world to well over 2°C, spell disaster for billions from global ice loss – but that damage can still be prevented.

Read here:

iccinet.org/statecryo25/

Three curves (carbon dioxide, temperature and sea level) showing historical climate changes covering the last 2000 years.

Climate variations over the last 2000 years provide valuable context and help answer questions about how unusual the recent changes are.

Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch...

Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

GEUS and UCPH showed their best ❄️

The Arctic’s strength is key to Europe’s strategic independence.

Europe must be more proactive and invested in the region.

We will partner with like-minded nations for a sustainable, and peaceful future for the Arctic.

Incredible 🤯

ICELINK poster is up at IGS @igsoc.bsky.social Nordic Branch (hosted by GEUS)! Glad to see we're beside our friends LIQUIDICE @eu-liquidice.bsky.social. Next stop for the poster: #GreenlandScienceWeek!

Frontiers | Safeguarding the polar regions from dangerous geoengineering: a critical assessment of proposed concepts and future prospects Fossil-fuel burning is heating the planet with catastrophic consequences for its habitability and for the natural world on which our existence depends. Halti...

#Geoengineering is not the way to address #climatechange in the polar regions!

Our review of the 5 most prominent polar geoengineering ideas concludes that none are viable. Instead, they are environmentally dangerous and have major governance & ethics issues

www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
🧪🌊❄️

Great to meet Gudfinna Adalgeirsdottir and @arcticmit.bsky.social at the Arctic Circle Assembly. @eu-liquidice.bsky.social and @icelink-project.bsky.social are coming together - exciting collaboration ahead!

#LIQUIDICE #ICELINK #ArcticCircleAssembly #PolarResearch

UCPH is hiring a postdoc for the LIQUIDICE project

Proud to present LIQUIDICE at the Arctic Circle Assembly 2025 — one of the world’s key fora on the Arctic, climate, and sustainable innovation.

Representatives of 3 LIQUIDICE partners joined global discussions on how science and technology can shape a resilient future of the Arctic. ❄️💧

Honored and happy to be nominated to the Leadership Academy for Poland by @LAP Alumni Network!
#LeadershipAcademyforPoland #LAP
www.center-for-leadership.org/academy

🌍 As part of the #LIQUIDICE project, scientists from GEUS-Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland are conducting intensive research in the 💙 of Greenland, at the DYE-2 station. They are collecting data that will help us better understand how climate change affects the future of our entire planet.

Do you remember last March?
It was warm! 🥵

❄️ LIQUIDICE & AASCO: Strengthening Arctic Science Cooperation 🌍

LIQUIDICE partners played an important role in shaping the AASCO White Paper, summarizing insights from the AASCO event (Feb 4–5, 2025, Monaco).

We are happy to announce that five LIQUIDICE partners contributed to the paper.

🔴The #StateOfClimate report, released today, reveals key climate change indicators again reached record levels in 2024.

Check out the full report: wmo.int/publication-...

Lodowa bajaderka :)

Exactly one year ago, the LIQUIDICE proposal was submitted

@eu-liquidice.bsky.social

#HorizonEurope #glaciers #snow #permafrost #ESM #ClimateChange

Off we go! 16 milestones ahead!

❄️On Feb. 26-27, we launched #LIQUIDICE during the kick-off at the Institute of Geophysics PAS!
This Horizon Europe project unites 18 top institutions from Europe and India to study glaciers, snow, and water resources using EO, climate models, and in-situ data❄️

A hand drawn poster describing the science of snow.

Day 1 of our amazing 2024 Advent Calendar! Brought to you by the students of Icknield Community College ❄️❄️ follow along throughout December to learn more festive chemistry! ⛄️