LIQUIDICE

WP1 Anniversary update from LIQUIDICE:

• gathering information on 210 datasets, out of which 73% were previously unavailable
• New field campaigns completed
• New instruments deployed
• Data processed and shared for cross-project use

Watch video with Andreas Peter Alhstron from GEUS 🚀
#OpenScience

Final day of the LIQUIDICE General Assembly in Venice 🇮🇹

Reporting ✔️
Exploitation activities ✔️
Cross-WP discussions ✔️

Strong alignment, vivid discussions, and hands-on activities. A productive and forward-looking closing with great alignment across partners. Excited for the next phase! 🚀

LIQUIDICE General Assembly in beautiful building of Palazzo Loredan in Venice 🇮🇹

30 participants in person + several online for a full day of:
• Project updates
• Publication strategy
• WP discussions
• Societal impact session

Strong collaboration and great progress across the consortium 💧❄️

“Glacier melt should worry all of us, not just scientists.”

In an interview with Polish Press Agency, Bartek Luks, LIQUIDICE coordinator, explains how glaciers and snow cover regulate Earth’s climate, store freshwater, and support ecosystems.
Interview (in Polish): youtu.be/J9hWPUdPwKY?...

Work Package 2 Earth Observation: 7 partners, 4 tasks, 1 year:

→ ML + camera data for high-res snow monitoring
→ ICESat-2 SWE reference data over Svalbard
→ Albedo records for Greenland & Svalbard extended back to 1986
→ Glacier & ice-sheet mass balance time series reaching into the 20th century

YouTube video by Instytut Geofizyki PAN ONLINE LESSON: Unfrozen: Who Gets the Water When the Melt Begins?

Watch the recording: youtu.be/qYP4A2SzkN4?...

YouTube video by Instytut Geofizyki PAN ONLINE LESSON: Unfrozen: Who Gets the Water When the Melt Begins?

Watch the recording from the online lesson: youtu.be/qYP4A2SzkN4?...

✨ International Day of Women and Girls in Science ✨🔬

Since 2016, February marks this UN-proclaimed day promoting participation of women in STEM.

At LIQUIDICE, 34% of our staff are women (25 in total) contributing across research, and innovation.

🎓 To mark the day, we hosted an online lesson!

🚨 New LIQUIDICE data deliverable now available!
It presents collection of 210 published, available online and unpublished data sets of:
👉 Surface mass balance
👉 Snow cover
👉 Meteorology
👉 Catchment discharge
👉 Subsurface state

Covers sites in the Alps, Norway, Greenland, Svalbard & Ladakh.

One year of LIQUIDICE Diss&Comm 💧
From social media and online lessons to public events and a children’s opera 🎭
Watch our short video summarizing our outreach activities.
#Anniversary

Bartlomiej Luks standing on the left and presenting his work at the stage. On the screen the first slide of his presentation with the title "Assessment of Snow Depth in Fugleberget Catchment, Hornsund, Svalbard Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning and A-Melt Snowmelt Modeling." is visible.

Bartlomiej Luks standing on the left and presenting his work at the stage. Chairmen of the session sitting on the right. On the screen the last slide of his presentation with "Thank you" text and the photo of two bears looking through the window in Hornsund station are visible.

LIQUIDICE at #SnowHydro ❄️

Our coordinator Bartek Luks presented work on snow depth and melt dynamics in Svalbard:
TLS + in situ data + satellite imagery + A-Melt modeling to study snowpack evolution in the Fuglebekken catchment

SnowHydro 2026 with rich scientific program:
🔗 snowhydro.unirioja.es

For Polish schools: ZAPISY: preview.mailerlite.io/forms/148390...

Enroll: program.edu-arctic.eu/lessons/984

Any teachers here? 📢 Online lesson for secondary schools – International Day of Women and Girls in Science

On 11 February, 10:00 join us for LIQUIDICE: Unfrozen – Who Gets the Water When the Melt Begins?

The lesson explores glaciers, snow, and why frozen water matters for our future water security

Welcome to LIQUIDICE, Asta Mønsted! 🎉
Asta joins as a postdoc in WP4, researching the green transition, melting glaciers & climate adaptation in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland).
Based at the Arctic House, University of Copenhagen.
We’re thrilled to have you on board, Asta! ❄️🌍

YouTube video by Instytut Geofizyki PAN LIQUIDICE - 1 Year #shorts

🎉 LIQUIDICE 1st anniversary!

A year of hard work, numerous meetings, and fruitful scientific discussions and networking activities, whitch brought:
✔️ 8 deliverables
✔️ 4 scientific papers
✔️ presentation on conferences

🎥 Hear more from our Project Coordinator:
👉 www.youtube.com/shorts/TVPe-...

❄️🐻 Little Bear and the Ice Mountain - children's opera debuts after two years of work!
A powerful opera where fairy tale meets climate science.

Proud to see CNR ISP and the LIQUIDICE project as scientific partners in this artistic bridge to environmental awareness 🌍🎶

❄️ Arctic fieldwork prep – level: parking lot ❄️

LIQUIDICE WP5 leader spotted in the parking lot "preparing" for the fieldwork in Svalbard
Training hard for snow measurements in Svalbard by mastering the most dangerous:
👉 icy asphalt
👉 random pedestrians
👉 judgmental coworkers

Arctic, we’re coming!

✨Do you know what day it is today?
❄️It’s #WorldSnowDay!
🌍#Snow plays a crucial role in Earth’s #energy #balance, #water #resources and #permafrost stability.
☃️Our project leader will explain why snow matters more than ever in a changing #climate️.

Read more about this study on our website: eu-liquidice.eu/article-on-a...

New paper relevant to and supported by #LIQUIDICE published in Journal of Glaciology.
The study by University of Oslo looks at advanced data assimilation of albedo and snow depth for surface mass balance simulations for Kongsvegen glacier in Svalbard.

❄️ Dr Bartłomiej Luks, Project Coordinator of LIQUIDICE was a guest in the latest episode of the #LeadersInHorizon #podcast series, produced by #NCBR.
🎧 bit.ly/4qGDN9O

Read more about what the study did and key scientific insights on our website: eu-liquidice.eu/new-liquidic...

New paper published in Remote Sensing on glacier albedo modelling!
The study develops elevation-dependent glacier albedo models using machine learning and multi-algorithm satellite validation in Svalbard, advancing tools for Arctic glacier monitoring.
Full paper: www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/18...

Andrea Spolaor (CNR-ISP, on the left) and Silvia Terzago (CNR-ISAC, on the right) discussing and presenting the LIQUIDICE project at the event “Il contributo della ricerca scientifica per la comprensione e la salvaguardia della criosfera”, held in Rome. The event aimed to bring together researchers from different scientific fields with an interest in cryosphere-related studies.

On 12 Dec 2025 at CNR HQ, scientists and civil society gathered to celebrate the International Year of Glacier Preservation and the UN Decade of Action for Cryospheric Science.

Andrea Spolaor (CNR-ISP) & Silvia Terzago (CNR-ISAC) presented the LIQUIDICE poster, sharing project insights.

🌍 🇬🇧 Dr. Bartłomiej Luks, #LIQUIDICE project coordinator, took part in the III NAWA Internationalisation Congress, discussing #science #diplomacy and the internationalisation of #research in Poland. 🔬🇵🇱

🌍 Abstract submission is now open for the session CR6.8 at the #EGU2026

📌To reduce uncertainties in future projections, we need stronger integration of observational datasets with numerical models across scales.

👉 We encourage submissions from #HorizonEurope projects

🔗 www.egu26.eu/session/58025

💦 Building on 2024 appeal, we issue this renewed call as the signs of cryosphere destabilisation have only grown clearer and more alarming.
❄️ Open Letter "An S.O.S. from the Cryosphere to World Leaders at COP30"
👉 Sign here: forms.gle/Z6UkhSCijF6t... - Only institutional signatures

🌍 From 29–32 Oct 2025, #LIQUIDICE researchers joined the IGS Nordic Branch Meeting hosted by GEUS.

🎓 Great exchange for glaciology scientists & students!

❄️ Talks by Lill Bjørst, Andreas Peter Ahlstrøm & Jason Box covered sea ice, climate adaptation & Greenland mass balance.

Find out more at: eu-liquidice.eu/liquidicers-...