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Class infographics on components of the cryosphere

In our class this semester we did an exercise where groups of students created an infographic summarizing what are the known observations of various components of the cryosphere. The data was all taken from the IPCC AR5, which is getting … Continue reading

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Girls on Ice Austria

A team of us are currently trying to set up an Austrian edition of the Inspiring Girls Expeditions “Girls on Ice” learning and mentoring program. So whats it all about? Well, Inspiring Girls Expeditions has a long history of taking … Continue reading

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MSc literature seminar

This semester for the MSc level literature seminar in climate and cryosphere we chose to discuss papers under the broad umbrella of “Applications and implications of climatically forced cryospheric change”. We are almost at the end of the course and … Continue reading

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PhD and Post Doc glaciology jobs at Innsbruck

Come and work with us! The Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences in Innsbruck (ACINN) invites applications for the following academic positions, starting February 1, 2019, for the duration of three years: Postdoctoral Researcher (full time position) Doctoral Researcher (75% … Continue reading

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Lovely climate communication projects

So, I don’t get as many chances to do public communication of climate science as I’d like and its made a bit trickier for me here in Austria as I think (probably correctly) that my German is not good enough … Continue reading

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