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Mountain Research Initiative

🏔️🛰️ The #GEOSymposium was a great platform for this key discussion highlighting the challenges of monitoring land degradation in #OurChangingMountains. Understanding change in mountain landscapes requires more than satellite data alone – local knowledge, field observations, & context matter too. 👇

🧊🤖 Call for Papers! The International Glaciological Society is preparing a special Annals of Glaciology collection on #ArtificialIntelligence in #Glaciology. 📅 Submissions open 1 July ⏰️ Manuscript deadline 1 December 🔗 More: buff.ly/6qKeL3h #OurChangingMountains #Cryosphere #AI #MachineLearning

📢 Call for Abstracts! MRI, CIRM, & FoLAP invite submissions for our session at the 24th #SwissGeoscienceMeeting: 🏔️ Mountain Commons: Historical Development, Transformations & New Forms of Commons in Mountain Regions 📅 Deadline 28 Aug 📍 Fribourg, Switzerland 🔗 buff.ly/cNstOJh #OurChangingMountains

🏔️💧 As glaciers retreat, newly exposed rocks can release acidic compounds & metals into rivers. New @geomountains.bsky.social supported research in the Peruvian Andes links glacier loss to declining water quality, with implications for ecosystems, livelihoods, & health. 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/gD9KDUM

🏔️🌿 Free online event on mountain heritage & #ClimateResilience. Join Montage + UK National Commission for #UNESCO to explore cultural heritage, UNESCO #Biospheres & community #adaptation. 🗓️ 5 June | 10:30am-12:30pm CEST 🔗 mountainresearchinitiative.org/events/cultu... #OurChangingMountains

🏘️🏔️ #ClimateChange is helping drive the "emptying" of rural #Bhutan. New research shows increasingly unpredictable weather and agricultural challenges are adding pressure to mountain livelihoods & influencing #migration decisions. 📖 Read more: buff.ly/8IJT67L #OurChangingMountains #MountainsMatter

🌿📢 IPBES has opened the external review of its assessment on biodiversity-inclusive spatial planning & ecological connectivity. 🗓️ Review open until 26 July 2026 🔗 Learn more & register: buff.ly/jL15s2j #OurChangingMountains #IPBES #Biodiversity

🧊 New paper! A new study co-authored by @matthias-huss.bsky.social looks at why glacier mass-balance estimates are often difficult to compare across methods, regions and time periods, and provides recommendations for more transparent and reproducible reporting. Read more: doi.org/10.1017/jog....

🔥🏔️ A #wildfire in Africa’s Rwenzori Mountains was the first large-scale alpine fire there in at least 12,000 years, new research shows. 🌍 A stark reminder of how #ClimateChange is reshaping ecosystems in #OurChangingMountains. 📖 Read more: buff.ly/bdK38Ns

🌲🏔️ #PhdOpportunity at EPFL! Work on #AI, #RemoteSensing & ecological modelling to study forest treeline change in the Swiss Alps. 📆 Contract Start Date: 9 September 2026 📍 EPFL Valais Wallis, Sion, Switzerland 🔗 Learn more & apply: buff.ly/IYh9xeN #OurChangingMountains #ResearchJob

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🏔️🛰️ Monitoring #LandDegradation in mountain regions isn't always straightforward. A GEO Mountains & WOCAT event explored why combining EO data with field observations & local knowledge is key to understanding change in mountain landscapes. 🔗 geomountains.org/geo-mountain... #OurChangingMountains

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