Austrian Polar Research Institute

New Article Alert!🧊
What drives young scientists to study the coldest regions on Earth? Polar Talk #17 spotlighted their passion on April 9 in Vienna.🌏

From glaciers to Arctic soils—read the recap now👉 www.polarresearch.at/polar-talk-1...

#PolarTalk #Cryosphere #YoungScientists #ClimateScience

Harmonising digitised herbarium data to enhance biodiversity knowledge: Major steps towards an updated checklist for the flora of Greenland Herbaria worldwide hold centuries of plant data that are key to understanding and protecting biodiversity; however, even with increased digital access, differences in plant naming systems make it dif...

A recent contribution with APRI involvement (Jakob Abermann and Tiago Silva) allows for getting closer towards a harmonized assessment of Greenland flora.🌏🌿

Dive into the paper👉 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Preparations underway at Sermilik Station!🔧❄️

A UNI Graz team is heading north soon to finalize Austria’s first polar research station before scientists arrive in August. Big thanks to all involved!🏔️

📸 © Steinegger & Ruhsam

#SermilikStation #PolarResearch #APRI #Fieldwork #Arctic

#FieldworkFriday from Freya Glacier, Greenland❄️🌎

A Team from Geosphere Austria conducted glaciological fieldwork at Freya Glacier in Northeast Greenland.
They also fixed the Webcams at the Glacier that you can find on our Website 👉 www.polarresearch.at/multimedia

📷 B. Hynek, A. Neureiter

🍽️ Hungry for food & polar connections? Join the APECS Austria Lunch at Uni Graz tomorrow!✨

📆 Fri, 23 May | ⏰ 12:30
📍 KF Erde, ReSoWi 1st floor, Universitätsstraße 15

Let’s meet, eat & chat!🌍

📸 © C. Ruhsam

@polarsecco.bsky.social @florinaroana.bsky.social
#APRI #PolarResearch #ECS #ScienceLunch

2 weeks to go until Polar Talk #18!❄️
Join us on June 4 at NHM Vienna for a talk by Birgit Sattler on glacier melt, microplastics & microbes in ice – part of the UN’s Year of Glaciers. Talk in German, free entry!⛰️

📍18:30 | www.polarresearch.at/polar-talk-18

📸 © B. Sattler

@nhmwien.bsky.social

APECS Austria at the Polar Early Career World Summit!🌍

Florina joined 120 ECRs in Boulder to shape the future of polar science & co-led a workshop on Inclusive Fieldwork. Missed it? Join the online summit on May 28!💬

📸©F.S.

@polarsecco.bsky.social @florinaroana.bsky.social
#APRI #ECR #IPEV2030

Austrian Arctic science meets the screen!🎬
The ZDF Terra X team filmed at Sermilik Station with APRI scientists & actor Sebastian Ströbel.✨
Station Leader A. Trügler also had some networking including the Austrian Embassy in Copenhagen.🌏

📸© A. Trügler

#APRI #PolarResearch #TerraX #ArcticScience

Proud to co-curate “ICE – a vanishing good”, opening May 19, 17:00 at Landhaus II, #Innsbruck. My photos are featured alongside works by Birgit Sattler, Christoph Ruhsam from @austrianpolar.bsky.social & amazing Italian artist Gloria Rech. Hosted by Land #Tirol. On view until June 5. ❄️Please share!!

Polar Talk #18 - APRI

🌟 Save the Date!🌟
Polar Talk #18 at @nhmwien.bsky.social in Vienna: Birgit Sattler explores how glacier microbes reveal links between nature & society.🔬

📅 June 4, 18:30

Free entry, talk in German.

More info 👉
www.polarresearch.at/polar-talk-1...

#PolarResearch #Glaciers #Microbiology #APRI

#FieldworkFriday from Greenland!❄️

Snow2School & WEG_Re joined forces in Uummannaq—workshops, exhibitions for Snow2School & glacier monitoring for WEG_Re in Qaamerujup. A succesful spring mission made possible by great local support! 🌏

📸© Trügler & Abermann

#PolarResearch #Greenland #APRI

Research Expedition to the Sermilik Station: How Eduard Orel's Great-Great-Grandson is Learning Polar Research - APRI

🧭 From Franz-Josef-Land to East Greenland: 150 years after Eduard Orel’s discovery of Franz-Josef-Land, his great-great-grandson joins an excursion to Austria's first Polar Research Station Sermilik.❄️
Read his story
👉 www.polarresearch.at/research-exp...

#PolarResearch #GlacierMonitoring

Great vibes at the APECS networking event at EGU Vienna! 🌍❄️
We loved connecting with polar ECRs from around the world. Big thanks to APECS Germany for organizing together with is. Enjoy the last days of #EGU25! ✨

@polarsecco.bsky.social

#PolarResearch #ECRcommunity #APECS #APRI

🌍❄️ Yesterday’s #PolarTalk17 brought APECS Austria on stage! Young researchers shared fresh insights on glaciers, Arctic microbiomes & political science perspectives on Digital Twins. ✨
Big thanks to all speakers & guests!😍

📸 © C. Ruhsam
@polarsecco.bsky.social
#PolarResearch #APRI #PhDLife #Arctic

Join us at @nhmwien.bsky.social tomorrow!

@twinpolitics.bsky.social @austrianpolar.bsky.social
@polarsecco.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @erc.europa.eu

#APECS #APECSAustria #Polarresearch #DigitalTwin

🚨 Next APECS Austria Meeting! 🚨
Are you an #ECS in Austria into polar research? ❄️ Join us Tuesday, 8 April, 15:00 on BigBlueButton to connect, share & get involved!✨

👉 webconference.uibk.ac.at/rooms/gfl-4m...

@polarsecco.bsky.social

#APECSAustri​a #PolarResearch #PhDLife #APRI #Arctic

Join the APECS Austria Polar Talk next week at @nhmwien.bsky.social in Vienna✨🌎

📅 09.04. 18:30
📍Natural History Museum Vienna
Free Entry - in German

@apecs-science.bsky.social @polarsecco.bsky.social

#APRI #viennaevents #polarscience

Another #FieldworkFriday from Svalbard!✨

APRI member J. Abermann co-taught AGF-212 Snow & Ice Processes for the 14th time! Hands-on training in climatological & geophysical methods with 19 students—after a record melt season & deep snow, it's been exciting!❄️

📸©J. Abermann

#APRI #Svalbard #UNIS

Glaciers matter: APRI in the UN International Year for Glaciers´ Preservation - APRI

🌍 2025 is the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation – and glaciers are vanishing fast. Why does it matter? ❄️

APRI scientist Birgit Sattler explains the impact of glacier loss & what we can do. 🏔️✨

Article👉 www.polarresearch.at/glaciers-mat...

#GlacierPreservation #IYGP #Glaciology #APRI

Startschuss für internationales Gletscherschutz-Projekt Die Universität Innsbruck ist federführend am Glacier Stewardship Program beteiligt, einem internationalen Projekt, dessen Ziel es ist, die noch bestehenden Gletscher zu schützen, die ökologischen und...

March 21 marked the World Glacier Day🌍
APRI Scientist B. Sattler & colleagues launched the Glacier Stewardship Program - it aims to slow glacier melt, reduce risks, and preserve microbial biodiversity. 🌱🔬

More🔗 www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/...

@uniinnsbruck.bsky.social
#IYGP #APRI #WorldGlacierDay

APRI - Austrian Polar Research Institute The APRI is a research consortium that promotes and coordinates research and education in the area of polar sciences. It involves about 50 scientists.

📅 Save the Date for Polar Talk #17❄️
Join APECS Austria ECR as they share insights on Greenland’s glaciers, Arctic soil microbiology & life in Arctic communities! 🤩

🗓 09.04. | 🕕 18:30 | 📍 NHM Vienna | 🎤 Talk in German | Free entry!

👉 www.polarresearch.at/polar-talk-1...

@polarsecco.bsky.social

URBI Science Talk: Im Schatten des Klimawandels Was bleibt vom ewigen Eis? Status und Zukunft der Gletscher der Welt Freitag, 21. März 2025, 16 Uhr Festsaal Meerscheinschlössel, Mozartgasse 3, 8010 Graz Der Klimawandel setzt Gletscher weltweit mass...

No plans Friday afternoon?✨

Join us on Glacier Day for the URBI Science Talk in Graz! 🏔️❄️ APRI scientists share insights on glacier change in Austria & the Arctic.

📅 March 21, 16:00
📍 Meerscheinschlössel, Graz

More info👉 urbi.uni-graz.at/de/neuigkeit...

📸©J. Abermann

#IYGP #GlacierChange #APRI

Events for World Day for Glaciers in Innsbruck🚨

📅 March 20: Ice matters – Panel discussion in Galtür with APRI experts!
📅 March 21: Requiem in White – Outdoor documentary at Metropol Kino Innsbruck!🎥

Join us! 💬✨

📸©C. Ruhsam

#IYGP #GlacierProtection #APRI #ClimateChange

New paper out! ✨
APRI scientist A. Bartsch & colleagues review how Earth observation helps detect climate tipping points in ice sheets, permafrost, the Amazon & AMOC. They highlight data gaps & call for improved satellite monitoring!🌍

Paper👉 rdcu.be/eceAU

#ClimateResearch #TippingPoints #APRI

It’s #FieldworkFriday!❄️
Florina taught at UNIS in Svalbard over the last weeks during polar night 🌑, teaching students on weather stations in the field and how to analyse data. They even skied through the darkness! 🎿✨

📸©Florina Schalamon

#PolarResearch #ArcticScience #Glaciology #ClimateChange

Sermilik-Fjord wird neuer Stützpunkt für Österreichs Polarforscher

🌍 Since 2024, the University of Graz operates a polar research station at Sermilik Fjord, East Greenland! 🧊
Station leader Andreas Trügler shares his vision for the station's future in a new article.

Check it out 👉 science.apa.at/power-search...

#PolarResearch #ClimateChange #ArcticScience #APRI

„Gletscherschutz-Jahr“ wird in Österreich mit vielen Events begangen

New article features many APRI events as part of the International Year of Glaciers 2025!✨

Read 👉 science.apa.at/power-search...

#Glaciers #Preservation #PolarResearch #APRI

Join the Earth Hour Webinar: Give an Hour for Water on Mar 13, 08:00–09:00.✨
Jakob Steiner from Uni Graz will share insights on how climate change affects glaciers and water resources.🌐

📸: ©C. Ruhsam

🔗 Register: lnkd.in/epbZBfCG

#EarthHour #WaterSecurity #ClimateChange

Polar Talk #17 - Young perspectives on the Polar World - APRI

Join us at Polar Talk #17 on April 9, 2025, 18:30 at the Natural History Museum Vienna.
APECS Austria ECR share insights on Greenland’s climate, polar soils and arctic communities.
Free entry, talk in German!❄️
👉 www.polarresearch.at/polar-talk-17/

@polarsecco.bsky.social @nhmwien.bsky.social

Call for Papers “Beyond Infrastructure? (Un-)built Environments in the Anthropocene” - InfraNorth International Conference, September 22 - 24, 2025, at the University of Vienna. Deadline for submissions: April 6, 2025. Infrastructure is often seen as solid, fixed, and inevitable while shaping the ...

🚧 Call for Papers! Join us at “Beyond Infrastructure? (Un-)built Environments in the Anthropocene” in Vienna, Sep 22–24, 2025. Explore how infrastructures shape politics and futures. Submit by Apr 6, 2025!✨

🔗 More: infranorth.eu/news/call-fo...

#arctic #science #conference #polarresearch