GEO Mountains

Small Grants, big impact 🌍

With GEO Mountains support, the REACH project delivered a comprehensive regional assessment of rock & ice avalanche risk to hydropower in High Mountain Asia 🏔️⚡

Open data + actionable science for safer infrastructure in #OurChangingMountains.

📖 Read more: buff.ly/A5Oueo2

🌍 The MRI is checking in with the #MountainResearch community.

How are we doing? What should we prioritize next?
Our short, anonymous survey is your chance to help shape our future work for #OurChangingMountains.

⏱️ 10–15 minutes.
⏰️ Deadline 31 March.
👉 Take the survey: buff.ly/JUBFfel

GEO Mountains highlights in this month's MRI newsletter:

🪨 Discover a GEO Mountains–supported assessment of rock & ice avalanche risk to hydropower infrastructure in High Mountain Asia.
💡 Register for our Youth Ideathon.
📆 Join our upcoming events.
🌄 & much more from #OurChangingMountains... 👇

🏔️💧 #OurChangingMountains are the world's water towers. #ClimateChange is disrupting the flow.

A new Perspective in Nature Climate Change shows how changes in the #mountain #WaterCycle cascade downstream, affecting irrigation, groundwater, shipping, #ecosystems, & more.

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4kOHcBP

❄️ Not all #glaciers are retreating. Some suddenly surge forward at up to 60 m per day.

A new global study shows how these events reshape landscapes, trigger #floods, damage infrastructure, & may become more unpredictable with #warming.

📖 Read more: bit.ly/4rTk2fW

#OurChangingMountains #Cryosphere

📢 Postdoc opportunity in mountain #cryosphere #EarthObservation.

Eurac Research (Bolzano, Italy) is hiring a Postdoc (≤3 years post-PhD) to develop innovative EO workflows for monitoring snow & ice.

⏰ Hurry! Deadline is 22 Feb 2026
🔗 Details: bit.ly/46Od2c7

#MountainResearch #OurChangingMountains

Early-career professionals & post-grads! Join our Youth Ideathon on #EarthObservation for #DisasterRiskReduction in Mountain Regions!

💡 Work on real challenges
👥 Get expert mentorship
💬 Present at the Regional Mountain Conference.

📍 Obergurgl, AT (1–8 July). ⏰ Apply by 2 March!
🔗 bit.ly/4twXLGt

A new Nature #ClimateChange Focus Issue on #OurChangingMountains brings together research on:

❄️ Accelerating #GlacierLoss
⛰️ Changing slope vegetation dynamics
💧 #WaterSecurity for billions
⛷️ Tourism & cultural transformation

Read more 📖 bit.ly/4aeccHV

#MountainsMatter #MountainResearch

💡📣 Just two weeks left to apply for our Small Grants Call 2026–2027!

#ResearchFunding up to CHF 10k for projects on #mountain monitoring, #data, & info. Projects that consolidate knowledge or advance #TransformativeResearch encouraged.

🗓 Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
🔗 Find out more: buff.ly/FOkFRZT

New from GEO Mountains 🌄: Global dataset on Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs).

✅ 1,400+ MEAs classified by mountain relevance
✅ Interactive map showing treaty signatories
✅ Mountain-specific coverage for 25 key agreements

Explore: buff.ly/eGrWhWl

#MountainResearch #OurChangingMountains

🌄 New #MeteoSwiss research: Swiss lowlands heat up faster in autumn & winter as fog declines, while mid-elevations warm more in spring due to snow loss.

➡️ Some popular #climate datasets miss these elevation-specific signals entirely. Time-consistent, high-resolution observations matter. 🌍❄️

💡 What could YOU do with a GEO Mountains Small Grant?

Our 2026–2027 call is still open! #ResearchFunding up to CHF 10k for projects on mountain monitoring, #data, and information.

🗓 Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
🔗 Apply: bit.ly/GEOMountains...

#OurChangingMountains #MountainsMatter

🛰🌡 With support from a GEO Mountains Small Grant, researchers have unlocked 20+ years of #climate #data from across Kilimanjaro’s full elevation range.

The project reveals how #ClimateChange is reshaping ecosystems, water supplies & livelihoods.

📖 More: bit.ly/20YearsOnKil...
#OurChangingMountains

📢 Our Small Grants Call 2026–2027 is still 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

‪⏰📣 Last chance! Abstract submission for #EGU26 closes on 15 January.

⛰️ We welcome your inter- & transdisciplinary contributions to our session on 'Global Environmental Change in Mountain Social-Ecological Systems: Advances & New Perspectives.'

🔗 More info: bit.ly/4njx183

#OurChangingMountains

🌄 Save the Date! The Regional Mountain Conference is coming to Obergurgl in 2026! Connect, exchange, & explore the European #Alps with fellow scientists & experts.

📅 Abstract submissions open 19 Jan – don’t miss it!
🔗 bit.ly/RMC2026

#MountainResearch #OurChangingMountains #ScienceConference

🙏 Thank you to everyone who joined our 2nd General Meeting of 2025 back in November!

🌄 Missed it? Catch up on all the updates, member highlights, and plans for 2026 here: geomountains.org/geo-mountain...

#EarthIntelligenceforAll #EarthObservations #OurChangingMountains #MountainsMatter

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

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...

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!

📢 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

📰 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... ⛰️🌍✨

🌄 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

🌿📢 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

⛰️ 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

🚀 New from GEO Mountains: Inventory of In Situ Observational Infrastructure — v3 is here!

Now with 100k+ entries, improved network links, & mountain range attribution based on GMBA v2.

Discover who’s measuring what, where, & how across #OurChangingMountains. 🌍🏔️

🔗 Explore: bit.ly/InSituInvent...

📢 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

We’ve launched our new GEO Mountains website! 🎉

✨💻 Explore our refreshed design, improved project matrix, & new publications & resources sections – all built to make mountain data more accessible & useful.

Check it out 👉 geomountains.org

#OpenData #EarthIntelligenceforAll #OurChangingMountains

📢 Vacancy announcements:

ICIMOD is actively hiring for three roles within our Strategic Results, Partnerships and Business Development Unit.

💼Senior MEL Specialist (Project Position)
💼Senior Project Management Specialist (Project Position)
💼Consultant for Project Design and Proposal Development

📣 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