Happy first-ever World Glacier Day! 🧊🌍 At bglacier, we study how #glaciers shape water resources and contribute to sea level rise in a changing climate.

Now, analysis begins. Stay tuned! 🔬📊.Huge thanks to: .🔹@belspo for funding #FROID .🔹 @VUBrussel & @ULBruxelles for support .🔹 @PolarFoundation for logistics .🔹 Adventure Weather Support for daily forecasts .🔹 Starpole Outdoor for keeping us warm.🚀 #Antarctica

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📍 12 PRES measurements (vertical velocity) .📍 15 ice cores (160m of ice!) .📍 9 blue ice patches studied .📍 400 toilet bags filled (real fieldwork!) .📍 28 repairs, 1 averted catastrophe (0 accidents!) .📍 19 days in the open, 11 in a container .📍 6 people, 2 birds, 4 halos🌤️

🚨 Antarctic Fieldwork: Mission Accomplished! ❄️🌍.After weeks of intense research, the #FROID team has wrapped up fieldwork in Antarctica! Here’s what they achieved:.📍 1100 surface samples.📍 180 km of radar transects.📍 81 ablation stakes.📍 12 GPS points for ice flow velocity

After 30 days in a field container, team #FROID is heading back to the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Station (#IPF)! They've gathered valuable data to pinpoint a site for recovering ancient ice. Thanks for your support! ❄️🔬 Read more 👉

❄️🌍 News from #Antarctica! Our team is currently in the stunning Belgica Mountains and found already 11 meteorites & 15 ice samples for the #Froid project (@belspo ). They also discovered the remains of a 1958 Belgian expedition plane! Check out their breathtaking photos! 🌌🧊

Tomorrow, they will head out into even colder, remote blue ice zones to map ice thickness and collect near-surface samples. Tough work in ideal conditions. Best of luck to the team on this inspiring mission! 💪#ClimateResearch #Fieldwork #BlueIce #PolarScience

Four researchers from @VUBrussel and @ULBruxelles are in #Antarctica, exploring blue ice areas to uncover old ice as part of the #FROID project, funded by @belspo. They calibrated instruments near the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Station and trained in field safety and first aid.

🌍❄️ Glaciers in the Patagonian #Andes are shrinking: 34% reached peak melt by 2020, and 68% may lose >50% of their volume by 2100. New study led by @rodaguayo1 using 1920 scenarios finds reference climate is the key uncertainty in runoff projections 🏔️🔬.

RT @SPARCCLE_EU: Previous work by SPARCCLE researchers highlighted the increased exposure of younger generations to hazards like heatwaves,….

It gets warmer and #glaciers melt. We knew that, right?.But it seems that it may be more than we thought so far (e.g. latest #IPCC report). Find out more in our latest study:

This study reveals that there is more area being burnt in many regions due to climate change despite human interventions. #ClimateChange.

🎉 Huge congratulations to @SeppeLampe , a doctoral researcher in our Department of Water and Climate, for his recent paper making it to the cover of Nature Climate Change! .

Exciting news! 🎉This month @AmauryLaridon joins our Department of Water and Climate as a doctoral researcher. Welcome aboard, Amaury!.

Thrilled to announce 🎉 that Chris Smith (@chrisroadmap) has joined our Department of Water and Climate at @VUBrussel as a Senior Scientist! With a strong background in climate science, we're excited to have him on board. Welcome, Chris!.

🚨 Paper alert. New research by Etienne Legrain: How do the fastest, most intense natural CO2 variations over a century compare to human emissions? Analyses of Antarctic ice cores show they are at least 10 times slower and 10 times less amplified. 👇👇

RT @MarijkeHuysmans: Wat een heerlijke dag: stralende afgestudeerden, trotse ouders en professoren, het prachtige stadhuis van Brussel en z….

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Last week, part of the BGlacier team conducted fieldwork in #Switzerland, measuring the mass balance and surface height of the #Morteratsch and #Pers glaciers. After a warm summer, mass loss is again significant, but less severe than the past years due to heavy spring snowfall,

RT @lander_vt: Final temperature and precipitation data are in. The mass balance season of 2023/24 ended for #Bordu #glacier in #Kyrgyzstan….