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Between 8 and 12 September 2025, spatial planners from Avannaata Kommunia in Greenland participated in a week-long workshop dedicated to “Integrated Risk Management” of mass-movement processes. The event was organised in the framework of Swiss Polar Institute’s Konrad Steffen Grant. The core idea of the workshop was to share first-hand […]

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Access to AWI-operated polar aircraft

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Access to AWI-operated polar aircraft

In view of the MoU signed between Swiss Polar Institute (SPI) and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and the close collaborations between our respective scientific communities, we are pleased to relay the following information from AWI about access to their POLAR 5 and/or POLAR 6 aircraft for scientific operations. The […]

From the Arctic fjords of Greenland to the high-mountain glaciers in the Pamir Mountains: Swiss Polar Class launches two new modules

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From the Arctic fjords of Greenland to the high-mountain glaciers in the Pamir Mountains: Swiss Polar Class launches two new modules

In collaboration with SPI Flagship Initiatives GreenFjord and PAMIR, Swiss Polar Class published two new bilingual modules. Activity sheets, podcasts and videos offer an accessible and engaging introduction to interdisciplinary research in cryospheric sciences. Available in French and German, the content is tailored to primary classes (5H to 8H / […]

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PAMIR Team secures two ice cores over 100 metres long from the Kon Chukurbashi Ice Cap in Tajikistan

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PAMIR Team secures two ice cores over 100 metres long from the Kon Chukurbashi Ice Cap in Tajikistan

During their last field campaign in Tajikistan at the end of September 2025, the SPI Flagship Initiative PAMIR succeeded in securing two ice cores over 100 metres long from the Kon Chukurbashi Ice Cap. The coring expedition was conducted at an extraction site located at an altitude of 5,800 metres. […]

SPI and ICIMOD sign a Memorandum of Understanding

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SPI and ICIMOD sign a Memorandum of Understanding

Following the international workshop on glacier-related hazards and community safety held on 2 October 2025 in the Bhutanese capital Thimphu, Swiss Polar Institute (SPI) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) signed an MoU to federate forces in addressing cryosphere-related hazards. The signing took place in the presence […]

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Experts meet in Bhutan on glacier-related hazards and community safety

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Experts meet in Bhutan on glacier-related hazards and community safety

From 30 September to 2 October 2025, the “Cryosphere and People at Risk in Bhutan and the Hindu-Kush Himalaya Workshop” took place in the Bhutanese capital Thimphu. Organised by the National Center for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM), the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (MoENR), the Royal Government of Bhutan […]

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Polar Access Fund: Artificial ice reservoir (ice stupa) built to enhance water management in Ladakh

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Polar Access Fund: iceberg fill the Narsarsuaq fjord in Greenland.

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SPI Exploratory Grant: Fieldwork on vegetation patterns above Zackenberg Research Station in Greenland

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Calving iceberg on Sermeq Kujalleq glacier, summer 2023. The scale is hard to capture, but this iceberg is rising up more than twice the height of the calving front which is approximately 130-150 meters high.

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A Polar Access Fund grantee is recovering GPS data in order to monitor a landslide near the Portage glacier (Alaska).

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SPI Technogrant: Prototype for a low-cost and robust electrical resistivity tomography monitoring system for remote permafrost environments

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Polar Access Fund: Challenging access to fieldwork site on a debris-covered glacier in the Garhwal mountain range in northern India

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Field & Summer School: International Geochronology Summer School, Switzerland

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Integrated Risk Management training in Greenland

Integrated Risk Management training in Greenland

Access to AWI-operated polar aircraft

Access to AWI-operated polar aircraft

From the Arctic fjords of Greenland to the high-mountain glaciers in the Pamir Mountains: Swiss Polar Class launches two new modules

From the Arctic fjords of Greenland to the high-mountain glaciers in the Pamir Mountains: Swiss Polar Class launches two new modules

PAMIR Team secures two ice cores over 100 metres long from the Kon Chukurbashi Ice Cap in Tajikistan

PAMIR Team secures two ice cores over 100 metres long from the Kon Chukurbashi Ice Cap in Tajikistan

SPI and ICIMOD sign a Memorandum of Understanding

SPI and ICIMOD sign a Memorandum of Understanding

Experts meet in Bhutan on glacier-related hazards and community safety

Experts meet in Bhutan on glacier-related hazards and community safety

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