Glacier melt and its consequences

A fascinating article by the @BBC shows that the melting of Alpine glaciers can have unexpected consequences on site as well far away from the ice masses.
For her research, the author visited the Bella Vista refuge within LTER Rofental and interviewed colleagues from the LTER Austria network monitoring the glacier retreat. Read the article here: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241213-climate-change-how-melting-alpine-glaciers-are-redrawing-europes-borders.
#LTER, #alpine_research, #LTER_Austria, #oeaw, #lfu, #uibk, #BBC

Like #alpine zones and high mountain landscapes? I just published an #openaccess paper using ground penetrating radar to look beneath the gently sloping surface of high ridgelines in the Uinta Mountains of #Utah. It turns out that the bedrock surface beneath that smooth cover of soil is surprisingly rough, which has implications for #soil formation, #water storage, and #landscape evolution.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15230430.2024.2322334

#alpine_research #alpine_forschung #dustsquared #geophysics #gpr

New Project: The low temperature limit of tree xylem

Congratulations to Gilbert Neuner from the Department of Botany of the @uniinnsbruck, his research team and the project partners of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna on the successful submission of the project "The low temperature limit of tree xylem", which will be funded by the @fwf
For more information on this project, please read the project description: https://www.uibk.ac.at/fakultaeten/biologie/alpine-forschungsstaetten/pdf/project-description_the-low-temperature-limit-of-tree-xylem.pdf
#alpine_research