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Mountain Research Initiative
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Global coordination network for #MountainResearch collaboration. We are making connections for #OurChangingMountains.
🌍 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
📖🌍 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
📣✍ 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
🌿📢 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
#OurChangingMountains: Where #biodiversity & #ClimateAction meet. 🏔️

Join this #COP30 side event to explore #adaptation solutions & governance models from mountain regions worldwide.

📅 14 November 2025
🕖 18:30 – 20:00 (UTC -03:00)
📍 Side Event Room 7, Blue Zone, UNFCCC COP30
🔗 bit.ly/4qYAQCM
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
⛰️ Big #MountainResearch news! 🎉AFRI-CAN, a project exploring #EastAfrican mountain social ecological dynamics, has been awarded an #ERCSynergyGrant!

🌍 Headed by MRI colleague @rob-marchant.bsky.social, it will explore how mountain ecosystems & communities can thrive amid change.

🔗 bit.ly/AFRI-CAN
November 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
📢 Call for abstracts!

Join our World Biodiversity Forum #WBF2026 session on
'Social Innovation & Collective Action in Socio-Ecological Systems for #TransformativeChange in #Biodiversity Futures in Mountain Regions.'

⏰ Deadline 18 November
🔗 More here: bit.ly/MRIatWBF2026

#OurChangingMountains
November 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
📣 Last chance to register for the @belmontforum.bsky.social's Resilience CRA!

We’re proud to be part of it, supporting #MountainResearch on vulnerability, #resilience, & highland–lowland linkages with up to CHF 20,000 per project.

⏰ Deadline 7 Nov 2025
🔗 bit.ly/4n6Rm04

#OurChangingMountains
November 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🗞️ In case you missed it in your inbox, here are some highlights from our October newsletter.

⛰️ In it, you'll find new research and upcoming events, plus job, funding, and publication opportunities from across #OurChangingMountains.

🔗 Catch up here: bit.ly/MRINewslette...
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 AM
📢 Final call! Join our coordinated efforts to elevate #OurChangingMountains in the #IPCC #AR7.

We welcome all disciplines & areas of expertise. Register your interest now, & help ensure mountains are accurately represented in this key #GlobalAssessment.

🔗 buff.ly/C0S5WNF
⏰ Deadline: 31.10.25
October 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
📣 Call for abstracts! 🏔️

Join us at #EGU26 (3–8 May, Vienna & online) for our session on Global Environmental Change in Mountain Social-Ecological Systems: Advances & New Perspectives.

⏰ Deadline: 15 Jan 2026
🤔 Find out more: bit.ly/4njx183

#GlobalChange #OurChangingMountains #CallForAbstracts
October 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
❄️ Glaciers are cooling the air around them – for now.

🧊 A new study published in Nature Climate Change shows this “self-cooling” will peak by the 2030s before melting speeds up.
🌡️ "Every bit of a degree counts."
🔗 bit.ly/4oA1b8e

#IYGP2025 #Glaciers2025 #OurChangingMountains #VanishingGlaciers
October 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Exciting #JobOpportunity for early-career #climate researchers! 🌍 The #WCRP is offering two Postdoc positions through its Regional Information for Society Project:

1️⃣ Climate Services & Stakeholder Engagement
2️⃣ Robust Climate Info for Adaptation

⏰ Apply by 10 Nov.
🔗 bit.ly/4n68oeP
October 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
🌍 The MRI has joined @belmontforum.bsky.social's Resilience CRA!

We’re supporting #MountainResearch on vulnerability, #resilience, and highland–lowland linkages – with funding up to CHF 20,000 per project.

⏰ Register by 7 Nov 2025
🔗 bit.ly/4n6Rm04

#OurChangingMountains #FundingOpportunity
October 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
💬 "With their clear, cold waters, mountain lakes are exceptionally sensitive to changes in temperature & nutrients.”

🌅 As the #climate warms & nutrient inputs shift, algal communities in lakes in #OurChangingMountains will likely experience seasonal changes, suggests new research.

🔗 bit.ly/4n1qYEV
October 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Call for abstracts! ❄️ 'Cold Altitudes: Knowledge, Imagination, & Experiences of Mountain Ice' 🏔️

⏰ Deadline: 31 Oct 2025
📍 Univ. of Fribourg, CH.
🔗 bit.ly/42FmkVR

Topics include histories of #mountain #glaciology, Indigenous knowledge practices, mountain ice in art, & more.

#OurChangingMountains
October 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
🔍 Research suggests restoring ancestral lands & traditional food systems could tackle malnutrition among Indigenous families in Attappadi, Kerala

🌱 This work highlights the critical role of food sovereignty & ecological restoration in supporting resilient, healthy communities.

🔗 buff.ly/2euMsuD
October 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
📣 ICIMOD is hiring a #Sustainable Settlement Specialist to help shape greener, more resilient #mountain towns across the #HKH region. 🌿

Work at the intersection of science, policy, & practice to support #SustainableUrbanisation in #OurChangingMountains.

🗓️ Hurry! Apply by 12 Oct.
🔗 bit.ly/3VYGK8A
October 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🌡️🌍 Want to contribute to the next #IPCC reports?

💻 Join this Oct 15 webinar (1PM EST / 7PM CEST) to learn how to be an Expert Reviewer! Hosted by @agu.org & presented by USAA-IPCC.

🔗 More here: mountainresearchinitiative.org/events/webin...

#IPCCAR7 #ClimateReport #OurChangingMountains
October 9, 2025 at 7:36 AM
🗞️ In case you missed it in your inbox, here are some highlights from our September newsletter.

⛰️ In it, you'll find new research and upcoming events, plus job, funding, and publication opportunities from across #OurChangingMountains.

🔗 Catch up here: bit.ly/MRINewslette...
October 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM