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🏔️💧 How does glacier retreat affect communities in #OurChangingMountains?
GEO Mountains-supported research from the Peruvian Andes explores an often-overlooked #climate challenge: the links between glacier loss, deteriorating water quality, livelihoods, & human well-being.
📖 More: buff.ly/anYHySb
🏔️ New MRI newsletter! 👇
Highlights include a GEO Mountains-supported project in Peru exploring how deglaciation affects water quality, livelihoods, & human health in mountain communities.
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/MRINewslette...
#MountainResearch #OurChangingMountains
🏔️🌍 Thanks to everyone who joined the GEO Mountains & WOCAT session at this week's #GEOSymposium!
Great discussions on #EarthObservation, land restoration, & capacity needs in #OurChangingMountains 🤝
#EarthIntelligenceForAll #MountainsMatter
🌲🏔️ #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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🏔️🌍 Join the GEO Mountains General Meeting on 29 May in Geneva + online!
Updates, community exchange, & collaboration on #mountains & #EarthObservation 🤝
🔗 Agenda & registration: geomountains.org/events/geo-m...
#EO4Mountains #OurChangingMountains
🏔️🛰️ 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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🏔️🌍 MRI-supported mountain sessions brought together researchers from across disciplines at #EGU26!
✨ Discussions explored:
• Elevation-Dependent #ClimateChange ❄️
• Social–ecological systems & #adaptation 🤝
• #WaterSecurity, hazards, & monitoring 💧
🔗 bit.ly/MRIatEGU26
#OurChangingMountains
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📬 Our May Newsletter is out!
This month: new research on #GlacierRetreat & water quality in Peru, updates from MRI Working Groups, & evidence that a 2012 wildfire in the Rwenzori Mountains was the first of its kind in at least 12,000 years.
🔗 bit.ly/MRINewslette...
#OurChangingMountains
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📣 We're hiring! The MRI is looking for a Scientific Project Officer (0.6 FTE).
Role suits a dynamic 'all-rounder' with experience in project coordination, scientific events, & interdisciplinary collaboration.
📍 Bern, CH
🕒 6-month contract
📅 Apply by 5 June
🔗 bit.ly/mri-scientif...
#ScienceJobs
🌎⛰️ Apply now for the CASCADA Workshop on #ClimateModelling across the #Andes.
Hands-on training in km-scale modelling for senior undergraduates, MSc & PhD students, & early-career researchers.
📍 Boulder, Colorado
🗓️ 5-9 October 2026
⏰ Apply by 15 June
🔗 buff.ly/DG1WryL
#OurChangingMountains
This workshop sponsored by the NSF AccelNet-ACCORD program will provide hands-on training in km-scale climate modelling over South America.
📢 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
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