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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 ❄️🧗♂️🧊
December 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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 !
#Avalanches are of key importance to #glaciers worldwide. An international research team led by Marin Kneib (WSL & ETH Zurich) shows that up to 22% of the snow on glaciers comes from avalanches. WSL-News: www.wsl.ch/en/news/aval... @marinkneib.bsky.social @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social
Avalanches are of key importance to glaciers worldwide
An international research team shows that avalanches contribute significantly to the health of many glaciers.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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 !
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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/...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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/...
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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
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
September 2, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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
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
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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...
📄 doi.org/10.5194/egus...
July 8, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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...
📄 doi.org/10.5194/egus...
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🧊 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! 🏔️🛰️
June 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
🧊 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! 🏔️🛰️
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[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/...
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/...
glenglat: a database of global englacial temperatures
Abstract. Measurements of englacial temperatures have been collected since the earliest years of glaciology, with the first measurements dating back to the mid-19th century. Although temperature is a ...
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May 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
[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/...
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/...