Tinted detail of a photo: Huge block of blue and white ice collapsing from a glacier front, shattering into fragments and throwing up a large white splash where it hits the dark water.
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Cryospheric Sciences

Janosch Beer

Janosch Beer is a doctoral researcher in glaciology at ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Switzerland. He combines borehole thermometry, ground-penetrating radar and numerical modelling to study the thermal structure of small Alpine glaciers, and is one of the developers of the Global Glacier Evolution Model (GloGEM). You can follow his work on LinkedIn Janosch Beer, Instagram @beerjanosch and Bluesky @beerjanosch.bsky.social. Contact email: beer@vaw.baug.ethz.ch

Cooling glaciers in a warming world?

Cooling glaciers in a warming world?

Small glaciers are often written off: too small to matter, and soon gone anyway. Yet recent disasters in the Alps show that they can still pose a threat. And some are doing something rather unexpected: while the climate warms, the ice inside them has turned cold. We drilled into six small Swiss glaciers to find …[Read More]