The #Alps we hike today are changing faster than most people realise. In the latest episode of #Aufgehorcht! – the #podcast from Nationalpark Hohe Tauern – experts unpack how #glacier retreat and thawing #permafrost are destabilising rock faces across the range.

Last week, we headed to the Gosau side of the mighty #Dachstein with one clear objective: measuring the remaining #ice thickness of the Großer Gosaugletscher ("Great Gosau Glacier") using our UAV-borne #GPR.

Fresh off the press: KryoMon.AT Report Nr. 2 is out. ❄️ The new KryoMon.AT report (2022/23 & 2023/24) pulls together the national picture on glaciers, snow, lake ice – and permafrost, where GEORESEARCH contributed long-term borehole data from our Open-Air-Lab Kitzsteinhorn.

We mostly let the drone handle #glacier monitoring and rarely set foot on the ice ourselves – so it was high time to refresh our glacier skills.

How consistently do experts pick reflections in ground-penetrating radar? Help us find out! 👉 anna7br.github.io/radargrams/

It’s that time of the year again... everyone is posting about their #EGU26 session contributions, and we don't want to miss out! 🌍

Permafrost knowledge. Infrastructure resilience. 💡Our Interreg project FROST.INI (2025–2027) has a clear objective: strengthening resilience to the impacts and risks of permafrost degradation in the Austrian–Italian Alps. A key step towards this goal is the close integration of stakeholders.

Validating UAV-based GPR measurements of glacier ice thickness 🎯🧊 Over the past year, we have been mapping glacier ice thickness across Austria using novel UAV-based Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) (by SPH Engineering).

While we missed the Olympic Winter Games in #Milan by just a bit, we arrived exactly on time for the Alpine Glaciology Meeting (#AGM) - intentionally, of course! 🏔️❄️

From a summer storm to 2 million m³ of shifting debris. ⛈️ The #Sattelkar is a striking example of how our changing climate reshapes high-alpine terrain. Our 2025 interim #research report provides fresh data on this 19-hectare active landslide system and its evolving dynamics.

How much #ice is left on Upper Austria's largest #glacier? 🏔️ On behalf of @alpenverein.bsky.social (Section "Austria"), we quantified the ice volume of Hallstätter Gletscher.

🚠 Can a cable car help map snow distribution with centimetre precision? Yes — and it could transform how we monitor snow in alpine regions.

Mid-term Partner Meeting of the Interreg EU project FROST.INI – Salzburg We had a great mid-term FROST.INI partner meeting in Salzburg, with representatives from all partners - OGS, Institute for Earth Observation – Eurac Research, Land Salzburg, and Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano – Land Südtirol.

A frosty throwback to the 16th DACH Permafrost Conference in Potsdam  🧊

🏛️ Desert Rockfall Meets High-Tech Monitoring! 🏜️ We’re excited to share our latest open-access publication, just released in Earth Surface Dynamics: 👉 Full article: esurf.copernicus.org/articles/14/...

📆 As 2025 draws to a close, we’re taking a moment to look back on an incredibly packed year - one that truly had it all: (1) Peat volume measurements using UAV-borne #GPR in beautiful Salzkammergut - a joint effort with the @unisalzburg.bsky.social and Österreichische Bundesforste.

🔙 Flashback to a milestone in #permafrost research in the Eastern #Alps From September 4–6, we supervised the drilling of two 20 m deep #boreholes just north and south of the Erzherzog-Johann-Hut (3,450 m a.s.l.), Austria’s highest alpine hut and a key base for #Großglockner ascents.

❄️ Snowy Publication Alert! ❄️ Winter has already arrived in the #Alps — and we couldn’t have asked for better timing for our latest snow-related paper to be published.

How drones and AI are reshaping glacier research We’re excited to see our work featured in the latest @ct.de article on the future of #glacier #monitoring: 🔗 www.heise.de/select/ct/20...

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Die Gletscher in den Alpen sind als Teil der Kryosphäre ein essenzielles Element des Energiehaushalts der Erde. Derzeit kartieren Forschungsteams diese mithilfe von Drohnentechnik zentimetergenau. KI-...

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📡 Autonomous UAS operations for climate impact research in high alpine regions This autumn, GEORESEARCH received official BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) approval from Austro Control for operating unmanned aerial systems (UAS) from hangar-based systems in two high alpine regions.

Last Thursday – just a few hours before a cold front brought 20 cm of fresh snow – our team climbed into the remote, hard-to-access #Sattelkar cirque (Obersulzbachtal, Hohe Tauern National Park) to collect water-isotope samples and retrieve ground-temperature sensor data.

🎥 Missed the live premiere of ''Brüchige Berge" on ORF1? No worries — we’ve prepared the highlights from the latest Dok 1 documentary featuring our research at the iconic #Großglockner! 🏔️

GEORESEARCH featured in new "Dok 1" documentary on ORF Tune in on Wednesday, 15 October at 20:15 for the latest #Dok1 episode featuring our research at Austria’s highest peak, the #Großglockner. This extraordinary site is one of our key study areas within the #Interreg project #FROST.INI.

How much ice is left in one of Salzburg's largest glaciers? 🧊 Last week, our team conducted fieldwork at Venedigerkees — one of the largest glaciers in Salzburg — to obtain high-resolution surface models and to measure its ice thickness.

Today's #fieldwork day consisted of geodetic mass balance #monitoring of Stubacher Sonnblickkees in the morning, and UAV-borne #LiDAR scans of the recently deglaciated #rockwalls of #Ödenwinkel in the afternoon.

Another day of #glacier monitoring is in the books: #ice thickness measurements with UAV-borne #GPR at Ödenwinkelkees (Hohe Tauern). Heavy packs, but stunning landscapes and interesting data - that's how we like it 🤩

Supporting the #G-MONARCH project this week with GPR, LiDAR, and echosounder measurements — all UAV-based, of course.

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Field work impressions from #Zugspitze: Measuring the remainders of Nördlicher Schneeferner with UAV-borne GPR. Not much ice left apparently ... @georesearch.bsky.social

Permafrost Drilling at #Großglockner - Mission Accomplished! 🗻 ✅ Last week, we successfully drilled two brand-new deep #permafrost boreholes just north and south of the Erzherzog-Johann-Hütte (aka Eagle’s Rest) – Austria’s highest mountain hut at 3,454 m asl.

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