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.
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!
Thank you to them for their fantastic work!
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 and UNIL. The program funds proposals that deal with current issues in society and technology, associating specialists in the human and social sciences on the one hand, with specialists in the life sciences, natural sciences or engineering on the other.
In their interdisciplinary project, the two Green Fjord researchers will seek to enhance our understanding of climate change in the fjords of southern Greenland by bringing together research on the atmospheric processes that lead to local meteorological perceptions, air pollution issues and climate forcing.
You can find more information about the work and the motivation behind it in a recent news article in UNIL’s magazine l’Uniscope (in French).
A new article on the EPFL website describes the work of Prof Julia Schmale and Prof Jérôme Chappellaz within the framework of the GreenFjord programme.
Read more here: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/from-clouds-to-fjords-the-arctic-bears-witness-t-2/
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The 2024 field campaign focuses on ocean-ice-air interactions and biodiversity in the Nordre Sermilik Fjord on the southwest coast of Greenland. Six GreenFjord researchers are sailing aboard RV Forel, a sailing boat recently refitted for scientific missions and offering an array of specialised equipment for sampling and processing collected data including a sampling rosette, wet, dry, and clean laboratories. Using a sailing boat will allow the research team more flexibility for optimal data collection and, at the same time, to address the environmental footprint of polar research in a sustainable manner.
The crew and the research team set sail in June 2024 from Lorient (France) and are planned to return in August 2024.
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