Last week, PhD student Laura Gabriel and some of our team members ventured onto #Oberaletschgletscher to conduct #GPR and #SNMR measurements in search of subsurface entrained water. Stunning weather but challenging terrain! ☀️🏔️

Another preprint alert! 📄 In this paper co-authored by Matthias Huss, an attempt is made to intercompare glacier models on 21st-century glacier runoff for the world's major river basins. 🌍 Check it out: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2024…

This week, #VAW team members visited #Rhone glacier to install new cameras for our near real-time mass balance stations. We also conducted steam drilling and ice temperature measurements. Thankfully, the weather on the south side was much better! ☀️📷

Can geotextile white blankets stop global glacier mass loss? No, says #VAW member Matthias Huss in Nature Water. The issue is scalability. The real solution lies in reducing greenhouse gas emissions globally to save our glaciers. 🌍 🔗 : nature.com/articles/s4422…

Another exciting update from Marit van Tiel, who recently lectured on glacier hydrology at #Findelengletscher for Inspiring Girls* Expeditions Europe. She captivated a group of curious young girls who might become future mountain hydrologists! 🌍🔬 📸: Fabienne Meier (Girls on Ice 2024)

Last week was packed with fieldwork! 🌍 In Episode 1, PhD student Janosch Beer and several team members visited 4 different glaciers in #Valais, installing englacial thermistors and conducting #GPR surveys.

In Episode 2, colleagues Andreas Bauder and Raphael Moser were out in the field, renewing ground control points for #Swiss #orthophoto imaging. 🗺️📸

In Episode 3, #VAW member Mauro Werder ventured to the Aletsch Glacier to measure supraglacial channels, while Matthias Huss was out on Persgletscher. 🏔️📏

Glacier temperature check! 🧊🌡️Group member Mylène Jacquemart and Ethan Welty (Wold Glacier Monitoring Service) have compiled englacial temperatures from 690 boreholes on 186 glaciers. Check out their 🗒️preprint and 💻dataset at zenodo.org/records/133341… & essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd…

As kilian jornet pushes human limits by climbing #4k peaks in the Alps, the Kilian Jornet Foundation is raising awareness of climate challenges. #VAW member Christophe Ogier and several of our projects are featured on their interactive map. Check it out here: kilianjornetfoundation.org/project/alpine… Go Kilian!

Greetings from our yearly #glaciological #fieldcourse! ❄️☀️ This year, we ventured out with ETH Zurich students to learn about field measurements and data interpretation. Good weather, great mood, and lots of fun! Will you join us next year? 🫵🏔️

Working on glaciers is what we like most. The possibility to work under a glaciers is far more rare. Here is what we encountered during our last trip on #Rhonegletscher!

Preprint alert! #VAW PhD student Marijn van der Meer introduces miniML-MB, a machine-learning model for glacier mass balance. 🏔️ It outperforms simple PDD models in most cases—exciting news for future ML applications in glacier modeling! 💻 Check it out: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2024…

Astounding changes at the #Tschierva #Glacier (GR) captured by Leo Hösli. The glacier has lost about 1 km of its length since 1935. A recent #landslide on April 14th at Piz Scerscen has covered the glacier's tongue in debris, changing its ablation dynamics.

🚨 Paper alert! New research co-authored by #VAW member Mauro Werder introduces GraphSSeT, a model that advances #subglacial #sediment #transport analysis by simulating sediment discharge dynamics, grain size transport, and hydrology interactions. 🔗: tc.copernicus.org/articles/18/41…