Month: February 2024

06/02/2024

Outreach

Invited talk with the Federal Minister of Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger at the Digital Summit 2023 by Nora Gourmelon

Explaining my research to the Federal Minister of Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger at the Digital Summit 2023 was a great privilege! The Minister impressed me with her eagerness to understand the connections and implications of my research. My research area is green AI, where I am currently focusing on AI-based automation of glacier monitoring.With this automation, it will soon be possible to study the dynamics of glacier calving fronts in the Arctic over the years and during different seasons. This knowledge will help us to better understand the effects of climate change on glaciers. In addition, we will be able to calibrate our glacier and climate models with the extracted front positions and thus further improve them.

by Nora Gourmelon

06/02/2024

Event

Basic Glacier Safety Workshop

The next fieldwork season is coming! Several M3OCCA members will already join a large field campaign at Aletsch-Glacier in February/March 2024. Thus, a self-organized workshop on basic glacier safety was carried out in Erlangen. After repeating some theoretical background, the focus was set on hands-on exercises. Everyone got the chance to get first knowledge or to re-fresh the knowledge in topics like crevasse rescue, self-rescue, repelling…

Special Thanks to Manuel Saigger, who led the workshop.