Ever wondered what a #glacier looks like from the inside? Last weekend our postdocs Christophe Ogier & Marin Kneib descended 60 m into a moulin on the #PlaineMorte glacier for surveying englacial melt channels. Photographer Pierre Jeanneret captured the stunning hidden world below ❄️🧗‍♂️🧊

Very happy to see our study published in Nature Communications! We quantified the current and future contribution of avalanches for all glaciers in the world, highlighting their importance for glaciers in regions such as the European Alps, New Zealand, North America or the Himalaya !

A New study by Léon Russel et al. (with #VAW member Marin Kneib) shows Saharan dust boosted melt on Argentière Glacier 🇫🇷 by ~10%, and up to 13% in 2022. Desert dust darkens the ice, lowers albedo, and can thereby accelerate glacier loss. ❄️ tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/... @meteofrance.com

Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of the last resilient glaciers? Glaciers in Central Asia seemed to resist climate change, but the fall of the Soviet Union meant no data for decades. A new study in @commsearth.nature.com​ shows a likely tipping point in 2018. 🔗 https://bit.ly/3UVN28s

What drives seasonal glacier mass balance in the Swiss Alps? A new preprint by #VAW PhD student Aaron Cremona (et al.) explores 2010–2024 trends using remote sensing, modeling & ML. 🇨🇭 Swiss glaciers lost an astonishing 25% of their 2010 ice volume! 🧊 📄 doi.org/10.5194/egus...

🧊 Welcome to Antoine Sévenier, our new MSc student! He will be working on englacial & subglacial melt quantification using repeat LiDAR, in collaboration with UNIL & EPFL. Yesterday, Antoine joined Marin to survey the #Morteratsch glacier cave, diving right into glaciology! 🏔️🛰️

[1/2] 🚨 Paper alert! Introducing #glenglat, the first-ever Global Englacial Temperature Database! 🌍❄️ Compiled by #VAW's Mylène Jacquemart & #UZH_geo's Ethan Welty, it features ice temperature data from 700+ boreholes across 186 glaciers. 🔗 : essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...