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Cryospheric Sciences

Art-science

Dialogues between glaciers and humans

May 15, 2026
against a blue, muted sky a saxophone layer in a beanie plays a song
Torben Snekkestad playing his saxophone in the Tellbreen icecave. Svalbard, March 2025. Credits E. Le Cornec and C. Reymond. CC BY-NC-ND.

At the edge of the world, a voice tries to make itself heard, a whisper slipping between the threads of an unstable reality. In the remote lands of Svalbard, a few hundred miles from the North Pole, lie millennia-old entities, relics of a disappearing species. They murmur in a language that humans today no longer know how to decipher. And yet, it is in this deafness to the voices around them that ...[Read More]

Perspective on Listening to Permafrost

February 10, 2023
Perspective on Listening to Permafrost
The Bayelva site (Svalbard, Ny-Ålesund) during polar night (January 28, 2022). Picture by Esther Horvath, Alfred Wegener Institute (Creative Commons Licence CC-BY 4.0)

> Reflections from an ongoing art-science research project Common Grounds < How to visualize thousands of thousands (> 20,000,000) of data points collected in the Arctic atmosphere and subsurface at a permafrost observatory over 25 years? How to tell the story of permafrost, ground that is permanently frozen and an important part of the cryosphere, that is currently warming and thawing at ...[Read More]