Cryospheric Sciences

Larissa van der Laan

Larissa van der Laan is a postdoc at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is a glaciologist and science communicator, specialized in glacier modelling. Her current project focuses on atmospheric research, looking at the impact of Greenland ice sheet runoff on the North Atlantic Oscillation.

Cryoscientist life stories – an interview with our incoming deputy division president, Daniel Farinotti

Larissa van der Laan May 31, 2024

Credit: Daniel Farinotti & Anita Raimondi (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

We would like to introduce Daniel Farinotti to you, our Cryosphere Division incoming deputy president, who will take over as division president from 2025-2027. For that, our Cryosphere Division outreach officer, Larissa van der Laan, interviewed Daniel at the EGU General Assembly in April 2024, to ask him a few questions about himself and his view of this exciting role within the EGU. Larissa: Hi ...[Read More]

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Welcome to the blog of the Cryospheric Sciences (CR) Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). 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, snow drifts, beautiful mountain glaciers or the vast polar ice sheets. Here, the latest fieldwork programmes, research projects or scientific results will be showcased by bloggers from the cryospheric community. The blog is currently run by Loeka Jongejans, Lina Madaj and Maria Scheel. Would you like to write a blog entry about your research? Please get in touch with the editors, Loeka Jongejans (email: loeka.jongejans(at)live.nl), Lina Madaj (email: l.madaj(at)vu.nl) or Maria Scheel (email: maria.scheel(at)envs.au.dk).