#OurChangingMountains
The October MRI Newsletter is out! 🏔️📬

🧊 Glacier governance & #cryosphere data
🌍 Fifth International Polar Year
🤝 #IPCC #AR7 & upcoming events
📢 Jobs, funding & more

Plus, reflections on the invisible work sustaining scientific collaboration.

📖 bit.ly/MRIOctober26NL

#OurChangingMountains
October 30, 2026 at 1:06 PM
🏔️ GEO Mountains features in the October @mtnresearchmri.bsky.social newsletter!

🧊 #Cryosphere monitoring in Central Asia
🌍 2026 #GEO Symposium Report
🤝 GEO Mountains General Meeting, 26 Nov

Plus more research news & opportunities from #OurChangingMountains!

📬 Read: bit.ly/MRIOctober26NL
October 30, 2026 at 1:58 PM
🏔️❄️ Valuable #cryosphere data is often scattered & hard to combine.

A new preprint co-authored by MRI community members explores how better data sharing & collaboration can help unlock its potential.

💬 Open for public review until 3 Dec!

🔗 buff.ly/nEqyNSu

#OpenScience #OurChangingMountains
October 29, 2026 at 1:01 PM
⏰🏔️ One week left to register for #SGM2026!

Join the Swiss Geoscience Meeting in Fribourg, 20–21 Nov, for research exchange across the geosciences.

We'll be co-convening a session on #MountainCommons! 🤝

📅 Register by 30 Oct
🔗 mountainresearchinitiative.org/events/24th-...

#OurChangingMountains
October 23, 2026 at 12:52 PM
🏔️ Mountain disasters are outpacing current #risk approaches.

A new Nature Comment, co-authored by former MRI PI Christian Huggel, calls for plausible extreme scenarios, analysis of cascading impacts, & inclusive decisions on risk in #OurChangingMountains.

🔗 doi.org/10.1038/d415...
Nepal’s disaster is an urgent wake-up call
Record-breaking avalanches and floods are signs of things to come. Scientists must evaluate and respond to growing risks in mountain regions.
doi.org
October 21, 2026 at 3:22 PM
🏔️💧 How are glaciers, periglacial environments, & water protection connected in the Andes?

Join the first #AccelNetACCORD seminar with Lucas Ruiz on changes in Argentina's Glacier Law.

📅 3 Nov | 16:00 CET
💻 Online, open to all

🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4seuShO

#OurChangingMountains #MountainResearch
October 20, 2026 at 11:42 AM
🏔️ Mountain researchers: Help shape the evidence assessed in #IPCC #AR7!

Expert Review of the WGII draft is open, including a Cross-Chapter Paper on Mountains. 🌍

📅 Review until 4 Dec
⏰ Register by 20 Nov

🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/DKlGgd3

#MountainResearch #ClimateChange #OurChangingMountains
October 15, 2026 at 6:30 AM
⏰🏔️ Last call! Abstracts due by TOMORROW 15 Oct for #ACPM2027.

Researching atmospheric chemistry or physics in #OurChangingMountains? 🌬️☁️

Join the symposium in Tenerife, 13-15 April 2027, exploring #observations, #modelling, & atmospheric processes.

🔗 mountainresearchinitiative.org/events/sympo...
October 14, 2026 at 1:11 PM
⏰ Apply by 15 Oct!

🌍 Bachelor's & Master's students: Join the @cdeunibe.bsky.social online #WinterSchool on #SustainableDevelopment.

🌱 Explore #climate, #biodiversity, & social challenges through #interdisciplinary teamwork.

📅 1–5 Feb 2027
🔗 buff.ly/6KYTTDV

#OurChangingMountains
October 9, 2026 at 6:15 AM
🏔️ Let's connect, share ideas & look ahead!

Join our 2nd GEO Mountains General Meeting of 2026 for updates, exchange & opportunities to collaborate. All welcome!

📅 26 Nov | 14:00–15:30 CET
💻 Online

🔗 Register: geomountains.org/events/geo-m...

#OurChangingMountains #EarthIntelligenceForAll
October 8, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Catch up on the latest from GEO Mountains in the MRI Newsletter!

Including:
📆 An invitation to our General Meeting on 26 November.
🏔️ A chance to discover our Small Grants recipients 2026-2027.

Find it all in the newsletter below. 👇
📖 buff.ly/HjQ8laW

#OurChangingMountains
🏔️ Our September newsletter is out!

Inside: MRI Retreat reflections 🤝, new GEO Mountains Small Grants 🌍, research on accelerating plant extinctions 🌱, BeyondIceFutures 🧊, mountains at CBD #COP17 + opportunities to contribute to #HorizonEurope & #IPCC #AR7.

📖 buff.ly/HjQ8laW

#OurChangingMountains
October 6, 2026 at 9:48 AM
🏔️⛺ Head to Base Camp!

Join the Adaptation at Altitude #KnowledgeNetwork for an informal global exchange on #ClimateAdaptation in #OurChangingMountains.

🤝 Connect, share & learn
💻 Online
📅 20 Oct, 13:00 UK time
🎤 Want to present? Express interest by 7 Oct!

🔗 buff.ly/BU6EqkM
October 3, 2026 at 7:45 AM
🏔️ Our September newsletter is out!

Inside: MRI Retreat reflections 🤝, new GEO Mountains Small Grants 🌍, research on accelerating plant extinctions 🌱, BeyondIceFutures 🧊, mountains at CBD #COP17 + opportunities to contribute to #HorizonEurope & #IPCC #AR7.

📖 buff.ly/HjQ8laW

#OurChangingMountains
October 1, 2026 at 6:45 AM
🏔️ What happens after the ice retreats?

📺 Tune in to five livestreamed keynotes from the MRI-funded #BeyondIceFutures synthesis workshop, exploring soils, plants, sediment dynamics, & #PostglacialEcosystems.

🔗 Learn more: mountainresearchinitiative.org/events/beyon...

#OurChangingMountains
September 30, 2026 at 10:41 AM
🏔️ Meet the @geomountains.bsky.social Small Grants recipients 2026-2027!

Eight projects across Africa, Asia, & the Americas will tackle critical data gaps in #OurChangingMountains, from #ClimateData rescue & #GlacierMonitoring to hydrology & #biodiversity.

Discover the projects 👇
🔗 buff.ly/StIBZWu
September 28, 2026 at 6:15 AM
🏔️ What can a Small Grant unlock?

#ClimateRecords rescued. Glaciers mapped. Monitoring networks connected. Mountain #biodiversity revisited 15 years later.

Discover the 8 projects supported by our #GEOMountains Small Grants Programme 2026-27 👇

🔗 buff.ly/StIBZWu

#EO4Mountains #OurChangingMountains
September 28, 2026 at 6:00 AM
🏔️🌬️ #CallForAbstracts!

#ACPM2027 welcomes research on #AtmosphericChemistry & physics at mountain sites, from gases, aerosols, & clouds to transport, #meteorology, & #observations + modelling.

📍 Tenerife
📅 13–15 Apr 2027
⏰ Submit by 15 Oct
🔗 buff.ly/LBloQWW

#OurChangingMountains #MountainResearch
Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics at Mountain Sites – Mountain Research Initiative MRI
Registration and abstract submission for the Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics at Mountain Sites 2027 (ACPM 2027) is now open. This event will be held 13–15 April 2027 in La Laguna city,…
buff.ly
September 18, 2026 at 10:27 AM
🏔️🌬️ #CallForAbstracts!

#ACPM2027 welcomes research on #AtmosphericChemistry & physics at mountain sites, from gases, aerosols, & clouds to transport, #meteorology, & #observations + modelling.

📍 Tenerife
📅 13–15 Apr 2027
⏰ Submit by 15 Oct
🔗 buff.ly/LBloQWW

#OurChangingMountains #MountainResearch
Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics at Mountain Sites – Mountain Research Initiative MRI
Registration and abstract submission for the Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics at Mountain Sites 2027 (ACPM 2027) is now open. This event will be held 13–15 April 2027 in La Laguna city,…
buff.ly
September 18, 2026 at 10:27 AM
❄️🏔️ #PhDOpportunity!

Join the Mountain #Hydrology Research Group at the University of Wyoming to study melt dynamics in mountain snowpacks.

💧 Modelling + optional fieldwork / #RemoteSensing
🎓 Funded research assistantship
📅 Review starts 16 Nov
🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4dDARqo

#OurChangingMountains
September 16, 2026 at 3:22 PM
🌿 #ResearchFunding: How do we navigate #ecosystems becoming fundamentally different from those of the past?

#BiodivFuture supports transnational research on #biodiversity, novel ecosystems & socio-ecological change.

📅 Pre-proposals: 10 Nov
🔗 bit.ly/4h6BOIV

#MountainResearch #OurChangingMountains
September 15, 2026 at 1:40 PM
🌱🏔️ More plant species are reaching European summits. But that’s only half the story.

Research across 62 summits finds local plant #extinctions are also accelerating, particularly among high-elevation specialists.

More species can mask #BiodiversityLoss.

📖👉 buff.ly/eP358V8

#OurChangingMountains
September 14, 2026 at 7:04 AM
🏔️🛰️ #MountainJob opportunity at ICIMOD!

Seeking a Senior Specialist to lead Regional Information Services across the Hindu Kush Himalaya, spanning #EarthObservation, GIS, data, AI & digital tools for decision-making.

📍 Kathmandu
📅 Apply by 4 Oct
🔗 More: buff.ly/8PeXJHS

#OurChangingMountains
September 10, 2026 at 6:15 AM
🏔️🛰️ #MountainJob opportunity at ICIMOD!

Seeking a Senior Specialist to lead Regional Information Services across the Hindu Kush Himalaya, spanning #EarthObservation, GIS, data, AI & digital tools for decision-making.

📍 Kathmandu
📅 Apply by 4 Oct
🔗 More: buff.ly/8PeXJHS

#OurChangingMountains
September 10, 2026 at 6:15 AM
🎓 #ResearchFunding opportunity!

Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships are open to ECRs from 183 countries wishing to conduct research in Switzerland.

🔬 Research & PhD scholarships
💰 CHF 2,450/month
⚠️ Deadlines vary
🔗 mountainresearchinitiative.org/funding-oppo...

#OurChangingMountains
September 9, 2026 at 2:50 PM
⏰ Funding deadline approaching!

Community-based organisations in the East African Community & South Caucasus can apply for up to USD 30,000 through #MountainsADAPT 🏔️🌱

Supporting locally led, ecosystem-based #ClimateAdaptation.

📅 Deadline 15 Sept
🔗 More: buff.ly/GyisJlv

#OurChangingMountains
September 3, 2026 at 7:03 AM