LIQUIDICE

We continue our #LIQUIDICErs series. Meet Violet Patterson from Danish Meteorological Institute, one of the modellers. She explains how her work helps develop the coupling between global Earth system models and icesheets models 🎥 Watch now! #IceSheets #EarthSystemScience

“LIQUIDICE is a continuum of long-term snow and ice research under the SIOS umbrella.” 🎥 Heikki Lihavainen from SIOS KC explains how the partnership started at the Svalbard Science Conference 2023. SIOS KC leads project's data management, helping make LIQUIDICE research accessible and sustainable.

Despite unusually warm spring conditions in Svalbard, the ISP CNR team managed to complete most planned LIQUIDICE measurements near Ny-Ålesund. At Austre Brøggerbreen, researchers found the snowpack already fully wet and nearly isothermal in April. It is an important signal of rapid Arctic change.

🧊 Fieldwork at Freya Glacier, Greenland Francisco Navarro & Unai Letamendia from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid were using ground penetrating radar to study polythermal glaciers & their responce to climate change. It helps reveal: • ice thickness • bedrock position • cold vs temperate ice layers

Meet Andrea Spolaor from Istituto di Scienze Polari CNR - Scientific Coordinator of #LIQUIDICE 🧊 He studies ice cores, aerosols & trace elements to understand climate processes, ocean fertilization & sea ice changes. From Arctic to Antarctica his work helps decode Earth’s past & present climate.

🎉 New series: Meet the LIQUIDICErs After introducing our partner institutions, we’re excited to start a new chapter: LIQUIDICErs. We begin with our Project Coordinator, Bartłomiej Luks. And today is a special day…🎂 Happy Birthday, Bartek! We wish you more time spent in the field than on Teams 😉

An Unusual Arctic Spring: When Snow Fails to Come in Svalbard. Bare ground replaces white landscapes, snowmobiles stop, wildlife struggles, and daily life shifts in unexpected ways. A snowless Arctic spring isn’t just unusual. It’s a glimpse of how quickly our climate is changing.

🐻❄️ LIQUIDICE helped bring real Arctic science to life in Piccolo Orso children opera From day one, we: • Translated climate science into story • Co-developed the libretto • Created all teacher materials 🌍ice melting, black carbon, Arctic communities & overtourism Art+science @cnr-isp.bsky.social

The final Anniversary video 🧊✨ In WP3 we’re pushing the boundaries of Earth System Modelling. Our goal? Integrating dynamic ice sheet components to refine global climate projections. As WP3 lead, I’m thrilled to share our progress. Science is a marathon, and we’re just getting started! 🏃💨

🎉 1 year of WP4 Climate Impact & Adaptation Over the past year we have: • Conducted a scoping visit to Ilulissat, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) • Participated in conferences • Engaged with stakeholders and rights holders Qujanaq to everyone who shared their knowledge with us. #ClimateAdaptation

WP1 Anniversary update from LIQUIDICE: • gathering information on 210 datasets, out of which 73% were previously unavailable • New field campaigns completed • New instruments deployed • Data processed and shared for cross-project use Watch video with Andreas Peter Alhstron from GEUS 🚀 #OpenScience

Work Package 2 Earth Observation: 7 partners, 4 tasks, 1 year: → ML + camera data for high-res snow monitoring → ICESat-2 SWE reference data over Svalbard → Albedo records for Greenland & Svalbard extended back to 1986 → Glacier & ice-sheet mass balance time series reaching into the 20th century

One year of LIQUIDICE Diss&Comm 💧 From social media and online lessons to public events and a children’s opera 🎭 Watch our short video summarizing our outreach activities. #Anniversary

❄️ Arctic fieldwork prep – level: parking lot ❄️ LIQUIDICE WP5 leader spotted in the parking lot "preparing" for the fieldwork in Svalbard Training hard for snow measurements in Svalbard by mastering the most dangerous: 👉 icy asphalt 👉 random pedestrians 👉 judgmental coworkers Arctic, we’re coming!