Mountain Research Initiative

Looking Beyond Glaciers to Understand Mountain Water Security

A new paper rethinks mountain water security, calling for a better understanding of the complex interaction between glacial meltwater and coupled human-natural systems.
State of the Cryosphere 2022

Growing Climate-Induced Changes in Polar and Mountain Regions Causing Increasing Losses Across the Globe
UNESCO Finds That Some Iconic World Heritage Glaciers Will Disappear by 2050

New UNESCO data highlight the accelerated melting of glaciers in World Heritage sites, with glaciers in a third of sites set to disappear by 2050. But it is still possible to save the other…

Nominations open until 1 February 2023.

ICEBIO's mission is to train 11 predoctoral researchers in glacier microbiology and biogeochemistry. The 11 open doctoral positions include:

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'Science leads the future'