“Nattoralik”: A balloon on a quest to comprehend the mysteries of “Sila”

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).