The EGU Cryosphere Blog is now 10 years old: Happy Birthday! It all started in December 2014 with this blog post from Nanna Karlsson, and now counts 452 blog posts across 25 blog categories, including winning three Best EGU blog posts (2016, 2019 and 2021). 881 different (hash)tags were used in our blog posts, with way more counts on Antarctica and climate than the Arctic. Since the start, there have been many chief editors, but today we wanted to celebrate with you by interviewing four of th...| Cryospheric Sciences
Friday the 10 October, was World Mental Health Day, a day that was founded by the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) in 1992. This year’s official theme focuses specifically on mental health in the work environment. So let’s take a look at what this means for the field of academia and the cryosphere specifically. With this post, we aim to not only raise awareness of the mental health crisis within the workplace, but to also focus on solutions and tools to help address these issues....| Cryospheric Sciences
On this September 13th, coinciding to be a “Friday 13th”, we wanted to scan the cryo-history for expeditions started, sunken ships that day , and mountain myths. And we did find that. But as autumn approaches in the Northern hemisphere, the spookiest story of all was this one: the unlucky timing of the Arctic sea ice in September. TGIF – but not for sea ice Although the median minimum Arctic sea ice extent is on September 14th , a few times in the last decades, the minimum extent occurr...| Cryospheric Sciences
As we are starting into our annual blog summer break, we reflect on what summer can mean for polar researchers (including some fieldwork saudades ). As an Arctic or Alpine cryo-scientist, chances are that you are somewhere in between vacation, fieldwork or trying to work through data while everyone else is free. If you, like us, did not have your vacation yet or do not have any fieldwork coming up this summer (or it’s been a while because you do your fieldwork on the Southern hemisphere), l...| Cryospheric Sciences