Accelerated climate change impacts southern Greenland fjord ecosystems and livelihoods profoundly on land and in the ocean. Fjords are particularly vulnerable because they lie at the nexus between the cryosphere, ocean, land, atmosphere and biosphere.
Within GreenFjord, we will explore the socio-cultural and environmental interactions by focusing our research on two different fjord systems: a marine and a terrestrial terminating glacier. Our efforts are organized around six clusters: cryosphere, land, ocean, atmosphere, biodiversity and human.
Accelerated climate change impacts southern Greenland fjord ecosystems and livelihoods profoundly as a result of atmospheric warming, changing vegetation and precipitation patterns, as well as enhanced glacier melt. Increased meltwater fluxes also affect marine ecosystem functioning and nutrient circulation, which in turn affect the marine food-web with cascading effects on biodiversity.
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Watch this amazing put together by GreenFjord member Maxi Castrillejo from UniL. The video shows the 2024 field work of the GreenFjord Ocen cluster on board the Greenlandic research vessel Sanna.
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Congratulations to Rachel Barbara Häubi and Aurélie Coulon who today received the multimedia award of the Swiss Academy for their reportage on Greenland including on the GreenFjord project! https://www.letemps.ch/sciences/environnement/le-prix-multimedia-des-academies-suisses-des-sciences-remis-a-un-long-format-du-temps-et-de-heidi-news-sur-le-groenland Thank you to…
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Green Fjord’s PIs Prof. Julia Schmale and Prof. Laine Chanteloup successfully secured a grant from the 2025 call for Collaborative Research on Science and Society (CROSS), a joint program of EPFL…
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