🌍 Hoe nemen we afscheid van #gletsjers? ❄️ Tijdens #IMC2025 nam ik deel aan de paneldiscussie “The Value of Glaciers”, in het kader van het International Year of Glacier Preservation. We spraken niet alleen over massaverlies, maar ook over de maatschappelijke en psychologische betekenis van gletsjers

Unprecedented mass loss on the Tien Shan glaciers this year – will the Bordu Glacier drop below -2.5 m w.e.? Our mass balance model is still showing an exceptionally high rate of loss for this time of year.

🎉 Congrats to our #VAW colleague & postdoc @landervt.bsky.social, on making HUMO’s 30 under 30 list alongside Remco Evenepoel & Jade Mintjens! 🌍❄️ A well-deserved honor for his scientific achievements. #30under30 #ScienceCommunication #glaciology #HUMO

📢 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿! ❄️🇰🇬 We modeled the #𝗗𝗮𝘃𝘆𝗱𝗼𝘃 𝗚𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗿 (1850–2100) in #Kyrgyzstan. Not just another glacier (>200,000 exist worldwide) — this one is special. 👉 Why? Stay tuned. 👉 Full paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

🚨 Update from #Kyrgyzstan. Our mass balance model shows record glacier mass loss this year (and the melt season isn’t over yet). Causes: little snow 🌨️, high temperatures 🌡️, hardly any summer snowfall ❄️. Our fieldwork confirmed: even at the summit of some glaciers (#Grigoriev), no snow remained.

Exceptionally warm and dry conditions have pushed Bordu Glacier #Kyrgyzstan to its lowest mean specific mass balance for this time of year since monitoring began. Typically, still in its accumulation season, the glacier has already started losing mass since mid-April, an very early onset of melt.

Afgelopen winter was droog, zonnig en zacht in de #Alpen. Het resultaat is minder sneeuw op de gletsjers dan normaal, en dus ook minder bescherming voor aankomende zomer. Wellicht dus opnieuw een slecht jaar voor het ijs in de Alpen. Interview voor VRT NWS via www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...