Arid rangelands support all kinds of life 👨‍👩‍👧🦁🐦🍃 but face threats from vegetation loss & invasive species. A GEO Mountains project in Kenya mapped these threats. Warming temps favour invasive species, stressing need for climate change adaptation. geomountains.org/projects-impac…

⛰️ Small Grants Project '23 of the Week: Snow monitoring in the Argentinean & Chilean Cordillera (HR-SCA-SWE-Andes) Led by carlo marin, this project developed daily snow-cover area & snow water equivalent data. 👉 loom.ly/2Gc81CM Eurac Research Swiss Development and Cooperation Adaptation At Altitude

This #Sentinel2 image, captured on 9 August, shows a large discharge of water and sediment in the Arctic Ocean, off the coast of Nordaustlandet (the second largest island in the Svalbad archipelago), caused by the rapid melting of snow and ice. Read more: copernicus.eu/en/media/image…

Today the resolution on the Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences was adopted at the United Nations General Assembly! 👏 Launched in the Paris Call of the #OnePlanetPolarSummit, & co-facilitated with 🇹🇯, the Decade 2025-2034 will focus on needed scientific research on the #cryosphere.

The GEO Symposium and Open Data & Open Knowledge (ODOK) Workshop are coming in September. 📋 Here's everything you need to know 🧵

Higher resolution #climate data boosts 🌨️#snow cover❄️accuracy in models by up to 52%! This shows the importance of fine-scale climate in #climatechange impact studies, especially in 🏔️mountainous regions like Switzerland. WSL Dynamic Macroecology WSL Umweltforschung WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF doi.org/10.5194/esd-15…

⛰️ Explore our Small Grants '23 recipients’ summaries! Over the past weeks, we've featured 10 inspiring mountain projects. 👉 Discover all the 2023 projects here: loom.ly/U3olTKA Mountain Research Initiative Swiss Development and Cooperation Adaptation At Altitude

🌍 Save the Date! Join us for the GEO Mountains General Meeting ⛰️ 📅 26 November 2024 🕑 14:00 - 16:00 CET 📍 Online 🔗 loom.ly/G7LpTxA Mark your calendars for an insightful session on recent activities & future projects! #EO4Impact #EO4Mountains Group on Earth Observations (GEO)

This week in the heart of the 🇨🇭 Alps we held our MRI Governing Body Retreat 🌄🤝 We reviewed progress, celebrated achievements, and aligned future plans to support #OurChangingMountains. Thank you to everyone for making it a success!

Grateful for the fruitful week had with stellar colleagues whose passion and motivation to support our work on #OurChangingMountains is truly inspirational. Looking forward to what we can expect to achieve for the Mountain Research Initiative

🗞 Catch our latest newsletter yet? In it, you'll find new research and upcoming events, plus job, funding, and publication opportunities. 🚨 Subscribe to stay updated on news from #OurChangingMountains! ➡️ loom.ly/JOypEd8

🔍 New in BioScience: Experts propose 7️⃣ Essential Mountain Biodiversity Variables to improve monitoring & reduce gaps between mountain & more accessible regions. This builds on outcomes from the 2020 GEO Mountains workshop ➡️ loom.ly/gzmR8eg 🌱⛰️ #EO4Impact #EO4Mountains

🚨N𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐮𝐭! 📄Our Head contributed to a new paper which identifies seven EBVs of highest relevance for tracking and understanding the most critical drivers and responses of #mountain biodiversity change 👉bit.ly/4cOxRo3 In short 👉bit.ly/4fqUrFT

Need data? Looking for long-term data from the European geo-, hydro-, bio-, atmo-, or socio-ecological sphere - check out the new #eLTERMarketPlace ! Posting a call for data is free and reaches hundreds of European LTER sites and platforms. Try it out: elter-ri.eu/elter-market-p…

🚨 Call for Nominations! 🚨 ipbes is inviting nominations for experts in biodiversity-inclusive spatial planning and ecological connectivity for its upcoming Spatial Planning Assessment. 🗓️ Nominations Submission Deadline: 24 January 2025 ipbes.net/spatial-planni…

Catch up on MRI at #WBF2024! We hosted “Integrating Mountains in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework” and held the Mountain Social-Ecological Futures Working Group workshop: loom.ly/VMicx3E 🌄 #OurChangingMountains UN Environment Programme MountainBiodiversity World Biodiversity Forum

Join us online for the GEO Mountains Task Group Kick-off Meeting on 9 October 2024, from 14:00-15:30 CEST. We’ll introduce the various Task Groups and their initial tasks, offering a great opportunity for you to get involved. Registrations are open ➡️ loom.ly/qq-Mcn8 ⛰️🌍