EGU Cryospheric Science Division

IGS: A Home for the Global Cryosphere Like many glaciologists (in the broad sense – as in, cryospheric researchers, not just those who study glaciers!), my professional “home” has been the International Glaciological Society (IGS) ever si...

Feeling lost in the maze of cryospheric research networks?

In today’s post, @allenpope.bsky.social, new Secretary General of IGS (@igsoc.bsky.social), provides some orientation and explains the role of IGS and how it complements our work at EGU.

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Peak glacier extinction in the mid-twenty-first century Have you ever wondered how many glaciers will still exist in the future? Or how many glaciers we might lose each year in the coming decades? In our new study ( Van Tricht et al., 2025 ), we shift the ...

For our new post, @landervt.bsky.social wrote about simulating the future of glaciers and predicting when each will disappear 🏔️

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How Citizen Scientists mapped Arctic Permafrost Cryosphere scientists know it well; the Arctic doesn’t give up its secrets easily. This is especially true when it comes to exploring permafrost -– frozen soils that store centuries of history undergr...

❄️🧪!! New Blog Alert !! 🧪❄️

In this blog posts, researchers from the @heigit.org explain how mapping permafrost can become a community effort

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#scicomm #permafrost #arctic

Introducing the new chief editors of the cryo blog New year, new team! We have some changes in our editorial team and would like to introduce our new chief editors to you today – please say hi to Mack and Leah! Mack and Leah will be taking over the ro...

New year - new team!
Today we would like to introduce you to the new chief editor team of our #cryoblog: please say hi to Mack and Leah! 🥳❄️

@mack-baysinger.bsky.social @leahsmuhle.bsky.social

We would also like to say thanks to our outgoing chief-editor team! 💙

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Speaking Up for the Cryosphere at COP30 During the climate negotiations at COP30, the global importance of a warming cryosphere was stressed in various formats. The UNFCCC Conference of Parties (this year’s COP30) marks the yearly global cl...

“We cannot negotiate with the melting point of ice.”

Our latest blog post by Fabian Seemann gives a summary of attending COP30 as an Early Career Scientist with the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI).

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Cryo Adventures – Discovering the beauty of polar winter Only one month after starting my PhD, I found myself in a tiny plane flying over one of the most beautiful and breathtaking landscapes I’ve ever seen. I was on the way to the northernmost settlement i...

We are back from our summer break with an icy winter story.

On today's #cryoblog you can follow Mirjam Paasch on her field work trip to Svalbard on the hunt for tiny colourful ice algae living in glaciers.

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Today, instead of a new icy post, we are wishing all of you a nice summer (break). The blog-team will enjoy some time off.

We will be back with a new #cryopost on 05 September. Stay tuned and see you in September.

Did you know: Soot is a melting agent for glaciers in Peru and China Mountain glaciers are melting rapidly due to global warming. This process is being intensified by increasingly extreme natural events, such as forest fires and air pollution from human activities. One...

Did you know the similarities between Tibetan and Peruvian glaciers?

Follow Wilmer Sánchez Rodríguez on his expeditions to both places and find out.

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The Proglacial Puzzle: Sampling of Glacier-fed Lakes in Greenland Would you like to follow the endeavours of a small team working in the ice-marginal terrain in South-West Greenland? They set out to investigate proglacial lakes using sediment coring, water sampling ...

Would you like to know what you can find on the bottom of frozen proglacial lakes?

In today's #cryoblog we follow Joost van Genuchten and his colleagues on their spring field campaign to Southwest #Greenland.

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Women Of Cryo VIII: Natalie Hewit – Documenting Antarctica’s Frozen Voices Antarctica is a unique place where history, adventure, and science collide. It’s a continent that has fascinated explorers for centuries, but much of its story has been told through the lens of men wh...

Want to find out more about the amazing female director behind National Geographic's hit documentary 'ENDURANCE' - have a look at our latest blog? @egu.eu @egu-cr.bsky.social

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Tracking the Footprints of a Vanishing Glaciers in the Greater Caucasus In this week’s blog, Levan Tielidze tells us about his recent glacier study from the Greater Caucasus. By combining geomorphology, remote sensing, and historical cartography, the team reconstructed ne...

Are you interested in the post Little Ice Age glacier-climate changes in the Greater Caucasus? ❄️ ⛰️
Check out my latest @egu-cr.bsky.social blog
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Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them – Episode 4 This miniseries features the tradition of ‘PhD hat’ making in German research institutes and universities. For those of you unfamiliar with this idea (as I once was), this is one of the final mileston...

Today's #cryoblog is another episode of our #cryocaps miniseries, where @mack-baysinger.bsky.social chats with researchers about their PhD hats.

In episode 4 Mack meets @heartmeltingice.bsky.social who tells us all about ice core melt.

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Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them – Episode 3 This miniseries features the tradition of ‘PhD hat’ making in German research institutes and universities. For those of you unfamiliar with this idea (as I once was), this is one of the final mileston...

Today we share another episode of our #cryocaps miniseries with you.

This time @mack-baysinger.bsky.social chats with two researchers, Izabella Baisheva & @rglueckler.bsky.social, who take us to Siberia on a journey about permafrost, lakes, fire, culture and a dog.

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Are you an ECS interested in publishing your geoscience communication activities, but are unsure whether they are “worth it”? Join our “Meet the Editors” session with editors of EGU’s journal Geoscience Communication. No pressure, no wrong questions! Tue, 29 Apr, 14:00–15:00 CEST, EGU booth Hall X2

Look out for @emmapearce.bsky.social and @luzhou.bsky.social who will be hosting this event. ❄️💙❄️

Hello #EGU25 folks! A team of us from Cardiff will be presenting in Vienna next week:

- Monday at 1400 in Hall A (HS1.2.2) - @rolfhut.bsky.social 's MacGyver session. I'll be presenting Cryoegg, Cryowurst and Hydrobean, three wireless instruments for studying glacier and river hydrology.

Monday #EGU25 cryo highlight:

Meet the blog team and learn how to become part of it! Bring your own lunch and join us at the Cryosphere blog lunch:

Today, Mon, 28 April, 12:45 – 13:30 | EGU networking zone, terrace G (Purple Level).

EGU 25 – we’ve got you covered Are you attending this year’s EGU General Assembly virtual or in person? No matter the way you attend or if it’s your first time or you are coming to Vienna for the GA for years, today we share with y...

Who's attending #EGU25?
Please say Hello during one of our cryo events. We would love to meet you.

As every year, we summarised our cryo highlights and general tips and tricks in a #cryoblog. Check it out! ⬇️

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Feeling (un)frozen lands: What we can learn from research on ecological grief Retreating glaciers, shrinking sea ice or thawing permafrost – many of you might have witnessed formerly familiar landscapes being transformed by climate change over the last years, maybe even beyond ...

As scientists, we study predict and inform about rates of thaw and melt.

But what do we feel seeing too early ice-free sea and ecological cascades? In today's post, @leahsmuhle.bsky.social interviewed @inkerimarkkula.bsky.social about her #ecologicalgrief work.

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Today we extend on @mack-baysinger.bsky.social's PhD hat mini-series with an interview on #nitrogen -cycling organisms in Siberian #permafrost and how they found a place on @nitrogentina.bsky.social ' PhD hat! blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr...

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EGU's annual photo competition is OPEN!

If you are registered for #EGU25, you can submit up to 3 photos & 1 moving image related to Earth, planetary, or space sciences by 31 March.

🏆Winners receive a free registration to EGU26!

Submit your photo today: egu.eu/9VTNXM

Scientist for Modeling Ice Sheet–Climate Interaction Are you interested in working with climate and ice sheet models? And motivated by understanding climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic regions? Here is a gr

🚨 New Job alert! 🚨
🚨 Climate and ice sheet modelling at DMI, come and work with me and my colleague Christian Rodehacke on coupled ice sheet - climate models. 3 year position in #HorizonEurope #LiquidIce

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World Water Day & World Glacier Day The this year’s UN World Water Day on 22 March 2025 is under the theme of ‘Glacier Preservation’, a nice opportunity to recall that 2025 is also the UN year on glacier preservation and that this year,...

Did you know 2025 is the UN Year for Glacier Preservation !!

Celebrate #WorldWaterDay on March 22, 2025, under the theme of Glacier Preservation!

Read the new #blog post by #Bettina_Schaefli, Professor of Hydrology at @unibern, to learn more!

#ClimateAction

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🌍 Wishing all attendees of the Arctic Science Summit Week (#ASSW2025) and the @polarsecco.bsky.social Polar Early Career World Summit 2025 a successful and inspiring conference this week! ❄️

Navigating the polar frontier: exploring the effects of sea-ice decline on shipping and sea routes in the Arctic Sea ice is a critical part of the unique Arctic ecosystem, but climate change is becoming a serious threat. Warming in the Arctic has already resulted in the loss of over 4 million km² of sea ice. But...

Did you know about all the different #ArcticShipping routes that exist or could exist?
If you would like to know and also what this would mean for the #Arctic as we know it, check out our newest #cryoblog by Lily Thompson.

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🚨 Applications for the 2025 SCAR Fellowships are now open! 🚨

With up to $15,000 in funding and 4–5 fellowships available, this is your chance to collaborate internationally and advance your research.

➡️ Apply by 31 July 2025
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Last week, the 9th edition of the @egu.eu #SnowScienceWinterSchool took place in Col du Lautaret (France). Of course, digging snow profiles was also on the program, for example to characterize the microstructure of snow using modern techniques.

📷️ B. Walter

#SLF #snow #winter

#JobAlert!

EGU is seeking a full time, fixed term (18 months) #ScienceForPolicy Officer (maternity cover) to work with the EGU Policy Programme supporting researchers to engage with European policy, based in Munich, Germany.

Apply by 19 March: www.egu.eu/7NT1HP/
#scipol #science4policy

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The @egu-cr.bsky.social Blog needs you!

Have you recently published a paper? 📝
Have a story about fieldwork? ⛺
Made something artistic related to cryosphere? ❄️

Come and write a blog for us! ✏️

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Drop a DM if you're interested!

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Photo of a volcanic landscape in blues, white and beige, with a white background a blue text that reads "win free registration to EGU26? Submit your entry to the EGU25 photo competition!" Image credit: Volcano-tectonic interaction by Nicholas Oestreicher.

EGU's annual photo competition is OPEN!

If you are registered for #EGU25, you can submit up to 3 photos & 1 moving image related to Earth, planetary, or space sciences by 31 March.

🏆Winners receive a free registration to EGU26!

Submit your photo today: egu.eu/9VTNXM