Today we welcomed Dia Martinez Gracey to our glaciological seminar at ETH Zurich! She presented a proxy-based framework to assess glacier thermal structure at the regional scale, applied to Alaska and Svalbard, no coupled thermomechanical modelling required.
Thank you Dia!
🧊 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....
VAW Glaciology
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Swiss glacier melt season starts today, and immediately with an early-season #heatwave. 🇨🇭🧊☀️
Snow cover on Swiss #glaciers is currently ~25% below average after a too dry winter, while forecasts show rapid mass loss in the coming week. Bad news for our glaciers :(
#GLAMOS
The #GloGEM team just wrapped up a productive week in Sion: model development, GlacierMIP4 preparation, a sunset hike to Mont Carré, and apparently we are now also music producers. Next up: the global glacier modelling workshop in Obergurgl. We are very much looking forward to it!
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This week we welcomed Samuel Weber from SLF Davos to our glaciological seminar! He presented a physically based framework for understanding permafrost rock slope destabilization, combining lab experiments, field data, and mechanical modelling, with the Matterhorn as study site.
@slfdavos.bsky.social
Last chance to register! 🔔 Mylène Jacquemart is organising a SPI Field & Safety Course this Friday (29 May) at ALPOLE, EPFL Sion. Free, open to all career stages. Topics: field team culture, leadership, decision-making, bystander intervention.
More info: swisspolar.ch/building-a-p...
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VAW Glaciology
🏔️ A new study by Aaron Cremona, @matthias-huss.bsky.social , Marijn van der Meer, Daniel Farinotti and colleagues reconstructs daily mass balance for every glacier in the Swiss Alps from 2010-2024. Swiss glaciers lost ~25% of their ice volume in just 14 years!
🔗 doi.org/10.5194/tc-2...
🏔️ New paper: 2025 saw record-breaking glacier mass loss in #CentralAsia ❄️📉
Glaciers lost ~30 ± 6 km³ of ice in a single year, about 2% of their remaining mass.
Another alarming record after the Alps (2022), Western Canada & USA (2023) and Svalbard (2024).
🔗 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Goodbye Vienna! #EGU26 was the biggest General Assembly ever: 22,497 participants from 125 countries.
We contributed 17 presentations and 9 sessions convened. Thanks to the organizers of @egu.eu for a week of great discussions within the cryo community and beyond.
See you at #EGU27!
