Welcome to the blog of the Cryospheric Sciences (CR) Division of the European Geosciences Union. The aim of the blog is to get you, the reader, excited about all things related to ice, whether it be the tiniest ice crystals, permafrost, snow drifts, beautiful mountain glaciers or the vast polar ice sheets. Here, the latest fieldwork programmes, research projects, and scientific discoveries will be showcased by authors from within the cryospheric community.
Are you interested in writing a blog entry or wanting to get more involved in the CR Division? Contact our chief editors, Leah Sophie Muhle (email: leah-sophie.muhle (at) student.uni-tuebingen.de) and Mack Baysinger (email: mackbaysinger (at) gmail.com).
Dr Emma Pearce is a glacier geophysicist at the British Antarctic Survey and Chief Editor of the EGU Cryosphere Blog. Her research focuses on how, why, and when ice shelves fracture, using geophysical field data to understand change in Antarctica. Emma is passionate about science communication and making the cryosphere community more inclusive. She founded the “Women of Cryo” series to spotlight the work and experiences of women in a traditionally male-dominated field.
I am Giovanni Baccolo, a postdoc in glaciology at the University of Milano-Bicocca. I am particularly interested in geochemical processes occurring on the surface of glaciers, within their obscure depths and in ice cores. I love ice and everything around it, probably because the more I study it and the more I discover amazing stories to explore!
Lina Madaj is a postdoctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Her research focusses on coastal erosion along the Canadian Beaufort Sea Coast and the fate of organic carbon discharge into the ocean through thawing permafrost. For her field work she spent a few weeks in Tuktoyaktuk. A side project of hers is investigating the impacts of increased sediment input into Tuktoyaktuk Harbour. You can find her on Bluesky @groenlina.bsky.social.
Contact email: lmadaj@marum-alumni.de
Maria Scheel is a Postdoc at Aarhus University (Denmark), working at the Wageningen University (Netherlands). Her current postdoc focuses on identifying permafrost microbial life and its impact on carbon fluxes when that permafrost thaws. She uses genetic tools to discover how Arctic life responds to climate change related stressors. During #EGU24, she was a press assistant besides being a regular author and chief editor for the EGU CR blog. Please contact her via maria.scheel@envs.au.dk.
Sophie Berger is a postdoc at the Alfred Wegener Institut, Germany. She is using various remote sensing data and techniques to investigate the dynamics and stability of the ice shelves in Dronning Maud Land (East Antarctica). She completed her PhD at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
She tweets as @SoBrgr.
Violaine Coulon is a PhD student at the glaciology unit, at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium. She is using a numerical ice sheet model to assess the long-term sea-level contribution from the Antarctic ice sheet as part of the H2020 PROTECT project. She also investigates the sensitivity of the Antractic ice sheet to the incorporation of lateral variability in the viscoelastic Earth structure across Antarctica.
