⛰️ Big #MountainResearch news! 🎉AFRI-CAN, a project exploring #EastAfrican mountain social ecological dynamics, has been awarded an #ERCSynergyGrant! 🌍 Headed by MRI colleague @rob-marchant.bsky.social, it will explore how mountain ecosystems & communities can thrive amid change. 🔗 bit.ly/AFRI-CAN

🚀 New from GEO Mountains: Inventory of In Situ Observational Infrastructure — v3 is here! Now with 100k+ entries, improved network links, & mountain range attribution based on GMBA v2. Discover who’s measuring what, where, & how across #OurChangingMountains. 🌍🏔️ 🔗 Explore: bit.ly/InSituInvent...

📢 Call for abstracts! Join our World Biodiversity Forum #WBF2026 session on 'Social Innovation & Collective Action in Socio-Ecological Systems for #TransformativeChange in #Biodiversity Futures in Mountain Regions.' ⏰ Deadline 18 November 🔗 More here: bit.ly/MRIatWBF2026 #OurChangingMountains

✨💻 Check out the new GEO Mountains website! ➡️ geomountains.org 🌏 The refreshed platform provides a more modern, intuitive, & functional experience – making it easier for users to explore activities, access resources, & connect with the growing GEO Mountains community. #OurChangingMountains

📢 Vacancy announcements: ICIMOD is actively hiring for three roles within our Strategic Results, Partnerships and Business Development Unit. 💼Senior MEL Specialist (Project Position) 💼Senior Project Management Specialist (Project Position) 💼Consultant for Project Design and Proposal Development

📣 Last chance to register for the @belmontforum.bsky.social's Resilience CRA! We’re proud to be part of it, supporting #MountainResearch on vulnerability, #resilience, & highland–lowland linkages with up to CHF 20,000 per project. ⏰ Deadline 7 Nov 2025 🔗 bit.ly/4n6Rm04 #OurChangingMountains

🗞️ In case you missed it in your inbox, here are some highlights from our October newsletter. ⛰️ In it, you'll find new research and upcoming events, plus job, funding, and publication opportunities from across #OurChangingMountains. 🔗 Catch up here: bit.ly/MRINewslette...

📢 Final call! Join our coordinated efforts to elevate #OurChangingMountains in the #IPCC #AR7. We welcome all disciplines & areas of expertise. Register your interest now, & help ensure mountains are accurately represented in this key #GlobalAssessment. 🔗 buff.ly/C0S5WNF ⏰ Deadline: 31.10.25

📣 Call for abstracts! 🏔️ Join us at #EGU26 (3–8 May, Vienna & online) for our session on Global Environmental Change in Mountain Social-Ecological Systems: Advances & New Perspectives. ⏰ Deadline: 15 Jan 2026 🤔 Find out more: bit.ly/4njx183 #GlobalChange #OurChangingMountains #CallForAbstracts

📣 Reichen Sie Ihren Beitrag zum Schweizer #Landschaftskongress 2026 bis zum 30. November ein! 🌄 Alle Landschaftsthemen und -disziplinen sind willkommen, das Thema «Berg und Tal – Stadt und Land» bildet dabei den Kern. 👇 🔗 landschaftskongress.ch #OurChangingMountains

❄️ Glaciers are cooling the air around them – for now. 🧊 A new study published in Nature Climate Change shows this “self-cooling” will peak by the 2030s before melting speeds up. 🌡️ "Every bit of a degree counts." 🔗 bit.ly/4oA1b8e #IYGP2025 #Glaciers2025 #OurChangingMountains #VanishingGlaciers

Exciting #JobOpportunity for early-career #climate researchers! 🌍 The #WCRP is offering two Postdoc positions through its Regional Information for Society Project: 1️⃣ Climate Services & Stakeholder Engagement 2️⃣ Robust Climate Info for Adaptation ⏰ Apply by 10 Nov. 🔗 bit.ly/4n68oeP

🌍 The MRI has joined @belmontforum.bsky.social's Resilience CRA! We’re supporting #MountainResearch on vulnerability, #resilience, and highland–lowland linkages – with funding up to CHF 20,000 per project. ⏰ Register by 7 Nov 2025 🔗 bit.ly/4n6Rm04 #OurChangingMountains #FundingOpportunity

📢Communicate your #ResearchProject on Social Media! Use it to inform about your research without spending much money. The European Research Executive Agency published a document containing some valuable tips. 🔗https://t1p.de/ncivk #HorizonEU #ResearchInnovation @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu

ICYMI: We are looking for topic editors to join the team! Help shape knowledge for sustainable mountain futures and be part of a unique, not-for-profit, community-supported scientific journal aiming for societal impact! Find out more and apply by 24 Oct: t.ly/PAzBF #AcademicSky #MountainsMatter

💬 "With their clear, cold waters, mountain lakes are exceptionally sensitive to changes in temperature & nutrients.” 🌅 As the #climate warms & nutrient inputs shift, algal communities in lakes in #OurChangingMountains will likely experience seasonal changes, suggests new research. 🔗 bit.ly/4n1qYEV

Call for abstracts! ❄️ 'Cold Altitudes: Knowledge, Imagination, & Experiences of Mountain Ice' 🏔️ ⏰ Deadline: 31 Oct 2025 📍 Univ. of Fribourg, CH. 🔗 bit.ly/42FmkVR Topics include histories of #mountain #glaciology, Indigenous knowledge practices, mountain ice in art, & more. #OurChangingMountains

🔍 Research suggests restoring ancestral lands & traditional food systems could tackle malnutrition among Indigenous families in Attappadi, Kerala 🌱 This work highlights the critical role of food sovereignty & ecological restoration in supporting resilient, healthy communities. 🔗 buff.ly/2euMsuD

📣 ICIMOD is hiring a #Sustainable Settlement Specialist to help shape greener, more resilient #mountain towns across the #HKH region. 🌿 Work at the intersection of science, policy, & practice to support #SustainableUrbanisation in #OurChangingMountains. 🗓️ Hurry! Apply by 12 Oct. 🔗 bit.ly/3VYGK8A

🌡️🌍 Want to contribute to the next #IPCC reports? 💻 Join this Oct 15 webinar (1PM EST / 7PM CEST) to learn how to be an Expert Reviewer! Hosted by @agu.org & presented by USAA-IPCC. 🔗 More here: mountainresearchinitiative.org/events/webin... #IPCCAR7 #ClimateReport #OurChangingMountains

⛰️ Last month, the mountain research community came together in Innsbruck for #IMC2025 – & the MRI was there in force. 💡🌍 From #ClimateModels to community voices, our network led & contributed to sessions on data, futures, & the science-policy interface. 🔗 Full recap:

📣 Final call! You have until ⏰ 17 October to submit your proposals for @belmontforum.bsky.social Collaborative Research Action on ‘Vulnerability & #Resilience Management for Socio-Environmental Systems in Exposed Territories.’ 🔗 Find out more: buff.ly/ydJ3tQa #OurChangingMountains #MountainsMatter

🌄 Last month, the MRI team met to reflect on progress & plan for the future. From #GlacierLoss to governance surveys, we shared insights — & looked to our 25th anniversary next year. Our focus: advancing science, supporting policy, & building capacity for #OurChangingMountains. 🔗

🗞️ In case you missed it in your inbox, here are some highlights from our September newsletter. ⛰️ In it, you'll find new research and upcoming events, plus job, funding, and publication opportunities from across #OurChangingMountains. 🔗 Catch up here: bit.ly/MRINewslette...

Remember the catastrophic rock-ice avalanche of Blatten 🇨🇭 this May? This incredible image comparison shows like nothing else the darkening of mountain peaks. And along with the disappearance of snow, ice and permafrost, new hazards come along @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social

🏔️ The Alps are warming faster than the global average & Swiss #glaciers have lost a quarter of their volume since 2015. ❄️ Melting extends to the highest peaks; this summer, the zero degree line exceeded 5,000 metres several times. #OurChangingMountains #IYGP2025 #Glaciers2025

📆 This week, MRI Chair Jörg Balsiger & Executive Director @drcarolinadler.bsky.social have been at the 5th @unesco.org World Congress of #Biosphere Reserves in Hangzhou, China. 🌄 Proud to bring a mountain-focused perspective to this pivotal global dialogue! #OurChangingMountains #MountainsMatter

🌡️🏔️ Hitze erwärmt den #Permafrost – der Untergrund kollabiert, Hänge werden instabil. 🦠 Mikroorganismen aktivieren sich, 🌱 Pflanzen dringen höher vor, ☁️ #CO₂ entweicht. 🖥️ Unsere WebApp #EXtremes zeigt, wie unterschiedliche #Klimaszenarien diese Effekte verstärken könnten. ➡ extremesapp.wsl.ch/de

🌲 Share your expertise on protective forests and #DisasterRiskReduction in mountain regions by contributing to a new global survey. Your insights can help advance international understanding & may lead to co-authorship in the resulting publication. ➡️ buff.ly/DmNlxYs #OurChangingMountains

🌍 Call for abstracts! Our session for the World Biodiversity Forum 2026 explores how social innovation, governance & collective action can halt biodiversity loss in mountain regions. Submit by 18 Nov 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/k1x3I12 #MountainBiodiversity #OurChangingMountains #MountainsMatter #WBF2026

🌍 The IPCC AR7 will include a Cross‑Chapter Paper on “high‑altitude & mountain regions”. MRI invites experts to join coordinated efforts to support mountain-relevant content in the Working Group II report on 'Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability'. 🔗 Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/C0S5WNF ⏰ Deadline: 31.10.25

🔥 #ForestFires are becoming more frequent worldwide, intense, and harder to recover from. 🟢 A new global study shows forests are taking longer to bounce back — especially since 2010, as #ClimateChange accelerates. www.creaf.cat/en/articles/...

More chairs needed! Great to see a good turnout out for our Mountain #Futures session at the International Mountain congress in Innsbruck - clearly demonstrating the need for research that is trying to get ahead of multiple challenges faced across the worlds #Mountains @mtnresearchmri.bsky.social

🏔️ From novel methods to bold futures, the MRI hosted 2 vibrant sessions today at #IMC25! Workshop 3.104 & Focus Session 3.127 sparked rich discussion on advancing integrated mountain research & co-producing just, sustainable transformations. 🙌 Thanks to all who shared ideas and energy! 📸⬇️

⛰️ Today at #IMC25, don't miss Part III of FS 3.127: Mountain futures – Assessing challenges & co-producing solutions to mountain-social-ecological futures 🗓️ 18 Sept | 08:30–10:00 LT 📍 Theologie – MS 🔗 buff.ly/cfP74x2 Join us & help shape a global research agenda for #OurChangingMountains! 🌍✨

🌏 A few impressions of MRI's GEO Mountains Scientific Project Officer Alex Massot presenting "Spatialising international and multilateral environmental agreements across the world's mountains" at #IMC25 this morning! Read more about this talk here ➡️ buff.ly/oVoa7Ox

📢 Don't miss #IMC25 FS 3.127 on 'Mountain futures – Assessing challenges & co-producing solutions to mountain-social-ecological futures' 🗓️ Talks: 17+18 Sept 2025 | 📍 Venue: Theologie – MS 🖼️ Posters: 17 Sept, 15:00–16:00 LT | 📍 Venue: SOWI – Garden 🔗 buff.ly/cfP74x2 👉 Join us! #OurChangingMountains

🌍 Happening this morning at #IMC25! WS 3.121: The science-policy interface for regional mountain governance 🗓️ 17 Sept | 10:00–12:00 LT 📍 Theologie – MS 🔗 buff.ly/EDvDIrX A chance to explore how science supports cross-border cooperation & governance in #OurChangingMountains. ⛰️ #MountainsMatter

🙏 Sincere thanks all who joined WS 3.117 at #IMC25! Lively discussions on integrated monitoring & policy links, with insights from global experts & GEO Mountains projects. Your contributions help strengthen mountain science & practice worldwide. 🌍⛰️

Are you at #IMC25? Come visit us at SOWI, 2nd floor! We have a shared MRD/IMS table and are happy to chat about - publishing your research, - the possibility of your becoming an MRD topic editor, - our special issue from #IMC25, - and anything else you’d like to discuss! #MountainsMatter

🌄 Fantastic to see such rich discussions at #IMC25. The contributions of participants made for an inspiring dialogue on interdisciplinary data and mountain policy. 👏 #OurChangingMountains #EarthIntelligenceForAll #EO4Impact #EO4Mountains

🏔️ Today at #IMC25... WS 3.111: Elevating mountains in the #IPCC #AR7: addressing assessment-relevant knowledge needs 🗓️ 16 Sept | 18:00–19:30 📍 Theologie – MS 🔗 buff.ly/VQvldHF Convened by MRI's @drcarolinadler.bsky.social. How can #OurChangingMountains be best represented in global assessments?

🌄 Don’t miss FS 3.204 at #IMC25 today: Transformative changes towards Living Well in mountains 🗓️ 16 Sept | 13:30–15:00 & 16:00–17:30 LT 📍 Theologie – SR VI 🔗 buff.ly/Mc199mH What does living well in #OurChangingMountains mean to you? To different mountain communities worldwide? Join us to discuss!

📡 Don’t miss WS 3.117 at #IMC25 this morning! 'Exploring opportunities & best practices to enhance integrated monitoring & policy interaction.' 🗓️ 16 Sept | 10:00–12:00 | Theologie – SR VI 👉 Join us to bridge data, practice & policy! 🔗 buff.ly/ShZaGYx #OurChangingMountains #EarthIntelligenceForAll

👏 Great talk by Aida Cuni-Sanchez at #IMC25 today! Drawing on 1,500 farmer interviews across 10 African mountain regions, she shared insights on #climate impacts & #adaptation needs, including: 🌱 Access to credit, technical skills, & markets 🤝 Better knowledge exchange 📜 Policies that promote equity

Always challenging to see the waining of majestic glaciers but clearly the Stubaier, like many glaciers around the world, is on the way out. The challenge is on how we deal with this new space, the greater water (in the short term) and the rapidly changing landscape @mtnresearchmri.bsky.social

⛰️ Are you at #IMC25 today? Join us for FS 3.192: Generating & integrating interdisciplinary data for mountain socio-ecological dynamics & policy. 🖼️ Posters: 15:00–16:00, SOWI – Garden 🎤 Talks: 16:00–17:30, Theologie – SR VI 🔗 buff.ly/YzQ4IiJ 👋 See you there!

📢 Happening today at #IMC25! Keynote by Aida Cuni-Sanchez: The overlooked climate change impacts in African mountains – how can we help local farmers? 🗓️ 15 Sept, 09:05 📍 CCI – Saal Tirol 🔗 buff.ly/0cpFiWS Don't miss it!

🌄 Great to be in Innsbruck for #IMC25 this week! The MRI is hosting sessions on mountain futures, socio-ecological dynamics, transformative change & more. Come join us! ☺️ Full list of our sessions 👉 buff.ly/RabUSdK #OurChangingMountains

🌄 The 8th #ForumCarpaticum took place this week! MRI SLC member Marina Melnykovych was a key contributor to this inspiring event, where researchers came together to advance #sustainability in #OurChangingMountains & rural areas. 📷👇 MRI Chair Jörg Balsiger's video welcome address at the Forum.