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Mountain Research Initiative
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Global coordination network for #MountainResearch collaboration. We are making connections for #OurChangingMountains.
Season’s greetings from the MRI Coordination Office 🌄❄️

Grateful for a year of collaboration and care for our changing mountains. Wishing you rest, connection, and renewed energy for the paths ahead.

#OurChangingMountains #MountainsMatter #MountainResearch
December 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🏔️ The BeyondIceFutures project has been awarded MRI Synthesis Funding to bring together interdisciplinary expertise on recently #DeglaciatedLandscapes. The project will identify knowledge gaps & develop visions for positive futures beyond ice.

🔗 bit.ly/beyondicefut...

#OurChangingMountains
December 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🌍🌄 #OurChangingMountains are under pressure, & the MRI research community is responding. From #glacier tipping points in the South Caucasus to major cross-border #adaptation programs, our December newsletter highlights some key community insights & achievements.

📖 Read more ➡️ buff.ly/xlCqw8Q
December 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
❄️🌍 Rapid #GlacierLoss is reshaping water, food & livelihoods across Central Asia, the South Caucasus & Pakistan.

🚜 #GlaciersToFarms supports #Adaptation in the face of escalating risks. Proud to see contributions from Maria Shahgedanova, lead of the MRI Mountain Observatories WG.

📖 bit.ly/4aoKh8z
December 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
New MRI co-authored policy brief: South Caucasus #glaciers hitting critical tipping point.

❄️ Dramatic #GlacierLoss over the past two decades.
💧 Rising #WaterInsecurity during summer #droughts.
🚨 Increasing #MountainHazards like #floods & #avalanches.

📖 Read more: bit.ly/CaucasusPoli...
December 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Happy #InternationalMountainDay! ⛰️💛

From snow-covered peaks to glacier-fed valleys, #OurChangingMountains connect & inspire us. Around the globe, the #MountainResearch community is working together to celebrate, understand, & care for these incredible places.

We are proud to be a part of it!
December 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
❄️ Who speaks for #glaciers?

As glaciers retreat, legal frameworks struggle to protect these vital landscapes. This GlacierHub article explores how lawyers are navigating environmental law to represent glaciers & nature.

📖 Full story: buff.ly/4dtymPs

#EnvironmentalLaw #RightsOfNature
Exploring Legal Tools for Glacier Protection: Who Speaks for Glaciers? – Mountain Research Initiative MRI
Michael Bütler can see mountains and glaciers from behind his house. Spurred by his connection with the mountains and the consequences he knows glaciers will face, Bütler became a lawyer specializing…
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December 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
📣 Abstract submission for the EGU General Assembly 2026 is still open!

We invite inter- & transdisciplinary contributions for our session on 'Global Environmental Change in Mountain Social-Ecological Systems: Advances & New Perspectives.'

⏰ Deadline 15 Jan 26
🔗 bit.ly/4njx183
#OurChangingMountains
December 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🌎 “There’s very few glaciers that people have lived with like they’ve lived with the Mendenhall”

The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 shows the Mendenhall Glacier is retreating faster than expected, with significant ecological, cultural, & economic impacts for Juneau & beyond.

📖 bit.ly/4otcv5j
Global report highlights Mendenhall Glacier’s rapid retreat as a catalyst of climate change, warns impacts may speed up
What does it mean for Juneau now that Áakʼw Tʼáak Sítʼ, the glacier behind the little lake, has receded from the icy water?
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December 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
🎥🏔️ At the #Banff Mountain Film Festival, MRI SLC member Ignacio Palomo brought the human dimensions of #GlacierLoss into focus, & shared insights from The Voices of Glaciers — a book that captures stories of #resilience, memory, & hope in #OurChangingMountains.

📚 Read more: bit.ly/VoicesofGlac...
December 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🏔️🤔 What makes governance work in #OurChangingMountains?

📝 A new MRI #MountainGovernance Working Group global survey uncovers where progress soars & where it stalls, from #SpatialPlanning and #LandRights to the availability of Geo/GIS data.

🔗 Find out more: bit.ly/MRIMountainG...

#MountainsMatter
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
🔍🌄 Looking for #ResearchFunding to strengthen monitoring, data, or information in #OurChangingMountains?

💡 The @geomountains.bsky.social Small Grants Call 2026–2027 is now open! 👇 Priority regions: the Andes, Central Asia, East Africa, South Caucasus, & Hindu Kush Himalaya.

⏰ Deadline 20 Feb 2026
📢 GEO Mountains Small Grants Call 2026–2027 now open!
#ResearchFunding up to CHF 10k for projects on mountain monitoring, data, & info. Projects that consolidate the state of knowledge or advance #TransformativeResearch are particularly encouraged.

🗓 Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
🔗 Apply: buff.ly/yQDG01i
December 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
🌍 New research finds #mountain #ClimateChange is accelerating faster than predicted, altering snow, rainfall, & ecosystems – with significant consequences for billions of people.

🌄💧 Stemming from an MRI-funded workshop, the research calls for urgent monitoring & #ClimateAction: buff.ly/2LTqhSu
December 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
📰 Our November newsletter is live!
It’s packed with updates from across the global #MountainResearch community — from a major ERC-funded project in East Africa to new research on accelerating mountain #ClimateChange.

Discover what’s happening across #OurChangingMountains:
bit.ly/MRINewslette... ⛰️🌍✨
November 28, 2025 at 11:41 AM
🚨 Deadline approaching!
APN 2025 Call for Proposals open for CRRP & CAPaBLE programmes. Funding starts Oct 2026. Early career researchers encouraged!

⏰ Summary Proposals due 30 Nov
🔗 mountainresearchinitiative.org/funding-oppo...

#ResearchFunding #OurChangingMountains #AsiaPacific #EarlyCareer
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Reposted by Mountain Research Initiative
🌄 Glacier retreat in Peru is changing mountain water – & human health.

Join the NexGLAS project’s closing event, where researchers will share new findings on acid rock drainage in the Negro River Catchment in Peru.

🗓 Fri 21 Nov
⏰ 9–10:30am Peru / 15–16:30 CET
📍 Zoom: tinyurl.com/4uzsb5xd
November 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🌄 MRI Chair Jörg Balsiger is among the guest editors of this MRD focus issue, which explores innovation in mountains as multidimensional & context-specific.

📖🌿 Articles examine how social, institutional, tech, & scientific innovations can advance – or hinder – sustainable mountain development. 👇
1/2 How can innovation contribute to sustainability in mountains? Articles in this focus issue explore the question from different angles, providing insights from China and various European mountain contexts and showcasing the diversity of the concept. Have a look: bioone.org/toc/mred/45/3
November 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
📖🌍 New global report highlights why disaster-resilient infrastructure in #OurChangingMountains is essential for protecting people, #ecosystems, & downstream communities.

🔗 tinyurl.com/c7kkszma

⛰️🛣️ Engineering + #NatureBasedSolutions + Indigenous knowledge = a more #resilient future.

#ClimateAction
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Reposted by Mountain Research Initiative
Pavan 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. (2024) look at mammalian diversity in the eastern Andean slopes, a biodiversity hotspot with high conservation priority, with high endemicity and new species of mammals revealed through DNA barcoding. Read the full study here: buff.ly/GLwWblD #Didelphimorphia #Peru #Rodentia #Yungas
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
📣✍ Apply now!

@belmontforum.bsky.social’s Advancing Leadership Program is open for applications – a 1-year transdisciplinary fellowship for researcher–societal actor “TD Pairs.”

⏰ Deadline 24 Nov 2025
🌍 Open worldwide
🔗 bit.ly/48lkSek

#FundingOpportunity #Transdisciplinary #OurChangingMountains
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
🗨️ "For us to be taken seriously, the flood has to be huge or the entire village has to be carried away."

⛰️ Til, a remote village on the Tibetan border, was already seeing population decline. Now, recent #NaturalDisasters have many questioning their future there: bit.ly/4o5lcT7
#OurChangingMountains
This Nepal village has survived for 1,000 years. Now recurring floods threaten its future
Til, the remotest of three villages in the Limi valley on the Tibetan border, was already wrestling with a dwindling population but a series of natural disasters has led many to consider where their f...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
🌿📢 Expert reviewers needed!
IPBES has opened the external review of its assessment on monitoring biodiversity & nature’s contributions to people.

🐛 Review period: 5 Nov 2025–7 Jan 2026
🦋 Register: bit.ly/4pBchKH

#Biodiversity #IPBES #SciencePolicy #OurChangingMountains #MountainsMatter
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🌄 Attending #COP30 in #Belém?

Don't miss this key discussion on how communities in #OurChangingMountains are building #resilience 💪, creating #watersecurity 💧, & shaping global #adaptation policy 🌎.

🗓️ 15 Nov 2025
⏰ 10:00–10:45 (UTC -03:00)
📍 COP30 Cryosphere Pavilion & Online
🔗 bit.ly/4hWnCSI
November 14, 2025 at 9:06 AM
🚨 Call for papers!

🍃 Nature Humanities & Social Sciences Communications is seeking contributions for an Article Collection on #TransdisciplinaryResearch for #TransformativeChange.

⏰ Deadline 31 Dec 2026
🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4p7UgDe

#OurChangingMountains
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
📣 Don't forget to submit your abstract for our #EGU26 session on Global Environmental Change in Mountain Social-Ecological Systems: Advances & New Perspectives.

⏰ Deadline: 15 Jan 2026
‼️ IMPORTANT ➡️ To apply for financial support, submit by 1 Dec 2025.
🔗 bit.ly/4njx183

#OurChangingMountains
November 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM