Media coverage
Selection of press coverage of scientific work:
2025, ZDF Heute Journal: “Das Eis wird immer dünner”, Mar 20, 2025 (TV news segment, link)
2025, NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day: “The cloudy waters of Kachemak Bay”, Feb 25, 2025 (link)
2024, Juneau Empire: “Ice fog not often a part of northern life”, Feb 15, 2024. (News article, link)
2023, orf: “Dok 1Österreich ohne Gletscher - Na und?“ (TV documentary, link)
2023, orf.at: “Erwärmung macht Blockgletscher instabil” (News article, link); standard.at: “Tiroler Blockgletscher fließt immer schneller“ (News article, link); various other Austrian news outlets (Tiroler Tageszeitung, Heute, Wiener Zeitung, Die Presse, Krone), March 2023.
2022, servus TV: “Wie schmelzen unsere Gletscher?” (TV documentary, link), Sep 2022
2022, standard.at: Forschung unter Zeitdruck an schmelzenden Gletschern, Juniy 2022 (News article, link)
2021, orf.at: “Österreichs Gletscher zerfallen” (News article, link); Kronenzeitung, print and online “Gletscher zerfallen und stürzen in sich zusammen” (News acrticle, link), August 2021
Outreach and invited talks
2025: Im Schatten des Klimawandels. Public event with talks and discussion for UN Day of Glaciers. URBI Science Talks, March 21, 2025. Graz, Austria.
2024: Symposium "The Future of Tourism in the Alpine-Adriatic Region", key note: Observing deglaciation: Glacier change in the Alps from 1850 to 2050 (with A. Fischer, Oct. 22, 2025) Tröpolach, Austria
2023: Future evolution of glaciers in Austria (with P. Schmitt, Interdisciplinary seminar “Climate change on long and short timescales”, University of Innsbruck)
2023: Multi-method monitoring of cyclical destabilization of Äußeres Hochebenkar rock glacier (with V. Zahs, Rock glacier inventories and kinematics (RGIK) seminar series)
2021: Rock glacier monitoring in the Austrian Alps: Past, present, and future. Overview of rock glacier monitoring at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. (Event: Cryosphere Forum 2021, ICIMOD)
2021: Glaciers - perfect thermometers. General interest talk on glacier fluctuations and climate change (Event: Sofia Science Festival)
2021: Lecture on glaciers and climate for high school students (Veranstaltung: ÖAW-Schulvorträge, 25.11.2021, BG Dornbirn) Dornbirn, Austria.
2021: Lecture on general glaciology & monitoring at the Dachstein glaciers for La Strada, Signal am Dachstein (Veranstaltung SIGNAL AM DACHSTEIN - Ouvertüre „Glaziologie“, 18.-19. September 2021, link) Gosau, Austria.
2020: Lecture on climate, glaciers and glaciology for the German Alpine Club (Referentin Glaziologie bei der Veranstaltung “200 Jahre Erstbesteigung Zugspitze” des DAV München-Oberland, 26.-27.8.2020, link) Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
2019: Introductory avalanche awareness class for Nenana Highschool, March 7, 2019. Nenana, USA.
2018: Presentation on climate and climate change for K-12 teachers in Alaska, UA REACH Up program, April 20, 2018. Fairbanks, USA.
Selected conference presentations
2024, IASC Network on Arctic Glaciology: “Snow observations in Alaska: The need for continued in situ monitoring.” Obergurgl, 2024 January 22-24 (Poster)
2023, IUGG: “Exploring the potential of airborne hyperspectral imagery for cryospheric monitoring.” Berlin, 2023 July (Talk)
2023, Arctic Science Summit Week: “What color is Alaska’s ocean?” Vienna, 2023 February (Talk)
2023, Alpine Glaciology Meeting: “Summer 2022 at Jamtalferner, AT” Zurich, Switzerland, 2023 February (Short talk)
2021, EGU: “Clustering patterns of volume change to classify glacier states and fates.” online, 2021 April (Virtual poster, link)
2020, AGU: “Patterns of Glacier Change in Austria: Variability Assessment and a New Classification Scheme for Glacier State.” online, 2020 December (Virtual poster, link)
2020, EGU: “Small scale spatial variability of spectral Albedo on Jamtalferner, Austria.” online, 2020 May (Virtual contribution, link)
2018, American Association of State Climatologists Annual meeting: “Alaska Climate Report” Nebraska City, USA, 2018 June. (Talk)
2016, ICOP XI: ”Recent speed-up of an Alpine rock glacier: An updated chronology of the kinematics of Outer Hochebenkar rock glacier based on geodetic measurements.” Potsdam, Germany, 2016 June (Poster)
2014, EGU: “Differences in response of flow velocities of an adjacent Alpine blue ice-and rock glacier to climate warming.” Vienna, Austria, 2014 May (Poster)
2014, EUCOP 4: “Investigating the thickness of Hochebenkar rock glacier with ground penetrating radar and a simple rheological model.“ Évora, Portugal, 2014 June (Talk)