actu.epfl.ch/news/glacier-s… Microbial life will flourish in mountain streams because of ongoing glacier shrinkage. This is what a team of scientists from EPFL-ENAC (@RIVER_epfl ) and Charles University report in a paper published in Nature Geoscience EPFL

February 2024 was the warmest February on record in the ERA5 dataset, at around 1.79C above preindustrial records. It beat the prior record set during the 2016 super-El Nino by 0.12C: pulse.climate.copernicus.eu

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Saul Antarctica is showing up too

Just published! An article using diatoms to trace particulate organic matter movement. This pub is special to me because it’s the final chapter of my PhD thesis. It was foundational for numerous later studies and I’m so happy it’s finally out there. frontiersin.org/journals/micro…

We are looking for a postdoc to join our lab! If you are interested in Alpine ecosystems and microbiomes we would love to have you onboard. Please apply via: careers.epfl.ch/job/Sion-Postd…

This year again, the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science program supported talented female scientists . One of the awardees is microbiologist Kateřina Kopalová, Ph.D. from our Department of Ecology at Charles University. 🌿 Congratulations!🎉👏

Talentované vědkyně i v letošním roce podpořil program L´Oreál – UNESCO Pro ženy ve vědě. Jednou z oceněných je i mikrobioložka Mgr. Kateřina Kopalová, Ph.D. z katedry ekologie PřF UK na Univerzita Karlova . Gratulujeme!👏

With half the month now behind us, June 2024 is very likely to be the warmest June on record. It is on track to beat 2023's record by nearly 0.2C, and may represent an ominous sign that global temperatures are not falling very quickly despite the fading of El Nino conditions.

Global surface temperatures from Berkeley Earth are now out for June. It was the warmest June on record for land, oceans, and the globe as a whole by a sizable margin (~0.14C), and came in at 1.6C above preindustrial levels.berkeleyearth.org/june-2024-temp…

Yay, new research from our lab published in Journal of Phycology! Through an ecophysiological culturing experiment, our Eva confirmed a long-suspected (yet still inconclusive) hypothesis: freshwater cryospheric diatoms cope with freezing far better than temperate ones. Find more below!🥶

With more than half of the month in, its clear that August 2024 will be the warmest or second warmest on record. Our current best estimate is that it will roughly tie August 2023 at around 1.5C above preindustrial levels in ERA5.

Current status: Gobsmacking, but not quite as bananas as September 2023.

Mount Fuji experienced its first snowless October in 130 years.

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🚨🚨🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨🚨🚨 Exciting opportunity to come and do a #PhD tracking #AMR across ecosystems! CENTA PhD based UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, supervised by Gary Bending (University of Warwick), Susheel Busi & me. Application deadline 8th Jan 2024. Link: centa.ac.uk/studentship/20… please share!

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Protecting glaciers 🏔️means securing ecosystems and strengthening resilience 🔄 Safeguard biodiversity, water resources, and communities (including microbial 🦠) for generations to come. 🌍🏔️❄️ #𝗚𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 youtu.be/DCPIclaiMCs

Cerros de la Plaza (4,865 m, PN Cocuy, COL) Another tropical glacier has disappeared this year! 😭 You can't say you didn't know! 🙈 📷 Daniel Zoque / IG

Konkordiaplatz on Great Aletschgletscher is now snow-free... A bit later than 2022 but earlier than 2023 (year with second-most highest ice loss). It hurts to see #glaciers entering a summer with massive ice losses again! And no cooling is in sight GLAMOS VAW Glaciology