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Making Connections for Our Changing Mountains
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Dear MRI Community,
April continued to see us working, connecting, and collaborating from home, as the global Covid-19 response continues to affect many worldwide. Despite the situation that surrounds us, we are grateful to be on track to make our yearly call for MRI Synthesis Workshops. You can see the call here, as well as our updated Synthesis Workshops landing page that includes a brief overview of all our past synthesis workshops at a glance.
The MRI “Elevation Dependent Warming (EDW)” Working Group is expanding its scope to include additional climate processes specific to mountains, therefore changing its name to “Elevation Dependant Climate Change” - you can visit the new page and read more here. In other MRI news, discover the many contributions published in the Frontiers Research Topic on “Connecting Mountain Hydroclimate Through the American Cordilleras”, co-edited by MRI SLC member Bryan Mark and colleagues. From our network, we are excited to share updates from Conéctate-A+ in Latin America, the upcoming Belmont Forum’s ‘Mountains as Sentinels for Change’ programme valorisation, as well as an interview with the 2019 AGU Ambassador Connie Millar, who sat down with us to talk about her career and her drive for mountain science.
As the ongoing pandemic continues to alter plans and shift goals, we note the recent changes to the IPCC’s AR6 schedule, and invite early career researchers to register and participate in the expert review of the WGII report, which is a unique opportunity to gain experience in IPCC processes (see the call here).
As always, don’t miss newly published job postings, calls for papers, funding opportunities, and news, including an opportunity to showcase your recent climate research on mountains for the 2020 edition of the “10 New Insights in Climate Science” report, led by our partners at Future Earth (see the call here).
Looking forward to May, next week, we are at the EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online event, stay tuned for an announcement on the new Global Climate Change Adaptation in Mountains programme supported by the Swiss Development Agency and Cooperation, and read up on news and a workshop report from GEO-GNOME.
For now, and as we continue to forge ahead through these troublesome times, we encourage everyone to join together in solidarity in following the guidelines and precautions from our respective authorities, to support each other to the best of our abilities, and to reflect on a growing appreciation for interconnectivity and innovation during this period of isolation. Take care, everyone!
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Dr. Carolina Adler
MRI Executive Director
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Coming Up on the MRI's Agenda
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IUCN Congress
(postponed)
11-19 June, Marseilles, France
GEO 17th Programme Board Meeting
15 or 19 June, Geneva (virtual only), Switzerland
GEO Symposium 2020
16-18 June, Geneva (virtual only), Switzerland
SUDAC Assembly Meeting
24 June, Bern, Switzerland
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With new mountain events added regularly, don't forget to check out our online calendar.
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As part of its mission, the MRI provides funding contributions for synthesis workshops that bring together global change researchers to address specific topics of interest to the mountain research, policy and practitioner communities. The deadline for proposals for this year’s call is 3 July 2020.
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The Cluster of Cooperation (CLOC) Conéctate A+ in the Latin American region announces the three selected projects for the network’s first inaugural small grants program in 2020.
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The MRI Working Group “Elevation-Dependent Warming” expands its scope of work to include climate processes in addition to warming, and therefore announces a name change to “Elevation Dependent Climate Change”. Read more about this working group and their activities at the 2019 AGU here. |
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MRI, alongside the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists, the Past Global Changes Early Career Network, the Permafrost Young Research Network and the Young Earth System Scientists community, are calling for early career researchers to participate in a group review of the Second Order Draft (SOD) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).
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In light of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, announcements were issued in April 2020 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC) on the Sixth Assessment (AR6) reporting timelines for Working Groups (WGs) I and II, as well as new experiences with a virtual format for the WG III Third Lead Authors meeting. |
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The open access journal Frontiers features a new compilation of over 10 articles submitted to the Research Topic ‘Connecting Mountain Hydroclimate Through the American Cordilleras,’ co-edited by MRI Science Leadership Council member Bryan Mark, alongside co-editors Alfonso Fernandez (University of Concepción, Chile) and Michel Baraer (École de technologie supérieure, Canada).
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Guest author Levan Tielidze tells us about supra-glacial debris cover change for the Greater Caucasus. His recent study indicates more than a doubling in the area of supra-glacial debris cover for the Elbrus Massif‘s glaciers from 1986 to 2014, the largest glaciered massif in the whole region.
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Senior Editor of GlacierHub.org Peter Deneen presents an aggregation of coronavirus news stories from global glacier regions. |
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MRI Scientific Project Officer Aino Kulonen talked with AGU Ambassador Award winner Connie Millar about her career and the importance of interdisciplinary research in tackling global change challenges in mountain environments.
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In this webinar experts Bernadet Overbeek and Isadora Jimenez will show examples on the use of visualization in short presentations followed by a discussion on the do’s and dont's in visualization of climate information, good examples of visualization, and more.
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The 2015 Belmont Forum call on Mountains as Sentinels of Change aimed to foster research on climate, environmental and related societal change in mountain regions by facilitating research with respect to drivers of change, ecosystems and biodiversity, water, hazards, vulnerability, risks, adaptation and resilience. The awarded projects are coming close to their final stages.
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The 2021 Regional Conference on Permafrost now calls for session abstracts and proceeding paper abstracts for presentation and paper to be included in the Conference Proceedings Publication Volume. The submission deadline for the proceeding paper abstracts is 27 May 2020, and the submission deadline for the session abstracts is January 2021.
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In this article by lead author Joanne Morris, et al (including MRI Science Leadership member Rob Marchant), stakeholders in pastoral and mixed crop-livestock communities in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, and Tanzania used a simulation tool and board game as “boundary objects” to explore the implications of changing livestock stocking and management practices for the environment and for actors’ future socio-economic priorities. |
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This special issue features five new papers that highlight ways in which the tourism sector in mountain regions is adapting to climate change, including a paper co-authored by MRI SLC member Samuel Morin. |
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Authors Katharina Albrich, Werner Rammer, and Rupert Seidl chose a mountain forest landscape in the Eastern Alps to investigate its resilience to climate change with a computer simulation model.
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Vice Head of the Institute for Earth Observation at EURAC Dr. Claudia Notarnicola presents new findings into snow cover changes and their consequences across sectors. |
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More New Publications
Agricultural risks from changing snowmelt
Drought less predictable under declining future snowpack
Sustainability of Agritourism Activity. Initiatives and Challenges in Romanian Mountain Rural Regions
Alternatives to genetic affinity as a context for within-species response to climate
Insights into the effect of spatial and temporal flow variations on turbulent heat exchange at a mountain glacier
Research on tourist’s attitudes on the potential of Goč Mountain for development of eco-tourism
Evidence of elevation-specific growth changes of spruce, fir, and beech in European mixed-mountain forests during the last three centuries
Use of bathymetry and clay mineralogy of reservoir sediment to reconstruct the recent changes in sediment yields from a mountain catchment in the Western High Atlas region, Morocco
On the Green's function emergence from interferometry of seismic wave fields generated in high-melt glaciers: implications for passive imaging and monitoring
Emerging Patterns of Mountain Tourism in a Dynamic Landscape: Insights from Kamikochi Valley in Japan
Accelerated changes of glaciers in the Yulong Snow Mountain, Southeast Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
Innovation development in forest ecosystem services: A comparative mountain bike trail study from Austria and Switzerland -
Some (do not) like it hot: shrub growth is hampered by heat and drought at the alpine treeline in recent decades
Advances in understanding large‐scale responses of the water cycle to climate change
Winter atmospheric nutrients and pollutants deposition on West Sayan mountain lakes (Siberia)
Geomorphic adjustments to multi-scale disturbances in a mountain river: A century of observations
Primary causes of total hamlet abandonment for different types of hamlets in remote mountain areas of China: A case study of Shouning County, Fujian Province
Long-term changes in central European river discharge for 1869–2016: impact of changing snow covers, reservoir constructions and an intensified hydrological cycle
Trace Metal Stream Contamination in a Post Peak Water Context: Lessons from the Cordillera Blanca, Peru
Multi-physics ensemble snow modelling in the western Himalaya
Mountains of the Mist: A first plant checklist for the Bvumba Mountains, Manica Highlands (Zimbabwe-Mozambique)
Functional spatial units are fundamental for modelling ecosystem services in mountain regions
Characterizing the Water Storage Capacity and Hydrological Role of Mountain Peatlands in the Arid Andes of North-Central Chile
Identifying Paths to Successful Higher Education for Girls in the Solukhumbu District, Nepal
Spatial-temporal changes in ecosystem services and the trade-off relationship in mountain regions: A case study of Hengduan Mountain region in Southwest Chinas
The influence of water percolation through crevasses on the thermal regime of a Himalayan mountain glacier
Floristic analysis of semi-arid mountain ecosystems of the Griqualand West centre of plant endemism, Northern Cape, South Africa
The benefits to climate science of including early-career scientists as reviewers
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Have an idea for a blog post or mountain news to share?
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eco.mont heartily invites you to contribute a manuscript to this special issue aimed at celebrating "50 years UNESCO-MAB and its World Network of Biosphere Reserves".
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The Open Access Journal sustainability by MDPI is now calling for submissions for a Special Issue on fostering sustainable development in inner areas with a special focus on mountain regions. Deadline for manuscript submissions is 1 June 2020.
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This special issue of the MDPI journal Atmosphere invites observation, proxy reconstruction, and projection-based analytical and modelling studies and their reviews that advance our knowledge about the past, present, and future of the Himalayan climates, their shifts, and their subsequent impacts on all dimensions of life at local and regional scales. Deadline to submit is 31 October 2020. |
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With their unique mixes of varied contributions from original research to review articles, the 'Research Topics' by the online journal Frontiers unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings, and historical advances in a hot research area. The current research topic 'Climate Change in Mountainous Areas and Related Health Effects' is now calling for abstracts and manuscripts. The submission deadline for abstracts is 4 May 2020, and for manuscripts is 2 September 2020.
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The MDPI welcomes manuscripts that document and analyze transformations of alpine glacial and periglacial environments for its special issue of Water 'Transformation of Glacial and Periglacial Environments in Mountain Regions.' Deadline to submit is 31 July 2020.
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The Seed Money Grants offered by the Universität St. Gallen aims to strengthen or initiate scientific exchange between researchers from Swiss and Latin American institutions in all disciplines by enabling them to jointly undertake preliminary research and organize meetings, conferences, or workshops.
Deadline to apply is 3 June 2020.
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The Mobility Grants offered by the Universität St. Gallen aim to promote research in all Latin American countries and to support fieldwork in the region.
Deadline to apply is 25 May 2020.
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SANDEE invites concept notes in any area of environmental and resource economics relating to the development of South Asia and the HKH. Deadline to apply is 31 May 2020.
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Sinergia promotes the interdisciplinary collaboration of two to four applicants who propose breakthrough research. Deadline to apply is 1 June 2020.
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It provides outstanding academic researchers with the skills, approaches, and theoretical frameworks for catalyzing change to address the world’s most pressing sustainability challenges. Deadline to apply is 29 May 2020.
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The Geo-ecosystems in Transition on the Tibetan Plateau (TransTiP) department of the Technische Universitat Braunschweig is seeking highly motivated and qualified early career researchers holding a M.Sc. or equivalent degree with a suitable background in geophysical sciences, environmental sciences, biological sciences, or related fields. Application deadline is 31 May 2020.
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This edition of the Alpine Convention Young Academics Award focuses on the issue of "Emissions in the Alps: climate change and air quality, measurement and measures". The application deadline is 30 June 2020.
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The Ecography journal announces an open competition for The Ecography Award for Excellence in Ecology and Evolution (The E4 Award) aimed at an early career research scientist who sends an exceptional Review manuscript to Ecography. Deadline to apply is 25 May 2020.
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The GAIA Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society journal invites Masters students to apply for their Masters Student Paper Award which recognises research for important societal transformations and transdisciplinary environmental and sustainability science. Deadline to apply is 19 October, 2020.
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The Summer School aims to provide an in-depth understanding of the concepts, approaches, and available data infrastructure of forest long-term monitoring. Deadline to apply is 1 May 2020.
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The PHUSICOS project is organizing a 10-day-long, hands-on summer school focused on Nature Based Solutions in mountain areas, 5 – 15 September 2020. The training program will consist of three days at the demonstrator case in the Pyrenean and 7 days at the concept case in the Bavarian Alps. Deadline to apply is 31 May 2020.
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Join the MRI Expert Database
The MRI Expert Database contains over 10,000 people involved in mountain research, management, governmental and non-governmental institutions, and the private sector. Don't forget to add or update your details for a chance to connect with colleagues all around the world!
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