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Lander Van Tricht

@landervt.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher @ETH Zurich

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Lander Van Tricht @landervt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The hydrological year has come to an end. Our live modelling for #Bordu Glacier in the Central Tien Shan (#Kyrgyzstan) suggests a fairly average year (in contrast to the Alps!) with a mass balance of ~−1.05 m w.e. by 17 September. ⚠️ Model-based for now, field measurements will follow soon!
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tomyse.bsky.social @tomyse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Together with glaciologist @landervt.bsky.social (VUB, ETH) I climbed Swiss glaciers to measure the effects of another hot summer. And the melting we witnessed was devastating. Reporting today in De Standaard (in Dutch) www.standaard.be/natuur-en-we...
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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🚨New post!🚨Exploring glacier extinction with the Global Glacier Extinction Explorer: www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and... When does your favourite glacier go extinct? This fab tool built by @landervt.bsky.social shows just how much every fraction of a degree matters.
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Future global glacier extinction - AntarcticGlaciers.org
Across the world, as the climate warms, mountain glaciers are disappearing. Not only are they rapidly losing mass, with recent assessments indicating that globally, glaciers lost 273 gigatonnes of ice...
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Lander Van Tricht @landervt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🏔️ When will each glacier on Earth disappear? Very happy to launch the #GlobalGlacierExtinctionExplorer, mapping the projected disappearance of every glacier on Earth under different warming levels. 🔎 Explore your glacier: www.glacierextinction.com
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Lander Van Tricht @landervt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Massive retreat of the #Corvatsch Glacier over the past 57 years. Hard to imagine that summer skiing once took place here for around 30 years. Today, only a small remnant of ice remains.
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Incredible last April drone footage of Morteratsch Glacier's ice cave! 🧊 Impressive collapse feature just behind! 🔥 Stay tuned for more tree ring research at this wonderful (but melting so fast) site! 🌲💍 📽️ by @landervt.bsky.social
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EGU Cryospheric Science Division @egu-cr.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
For our new post, @landervt.bsky.social wrote about simulating the future of glaciers and predicting when each will disappear 🏔️ blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr...
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Peak glacier extinction in the mid-twenty-first century
Have you ever wondered how many glaciers will still exist in the future? Or how many glaciers we might lose each year in the coming decades? In our new study ( Van Tricht et al., 2025 ), we shift the ...
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Wim Thiery @wimthiery.eu · 10/02/2026
Tien Shan glaciers are projected to lose around one-third of their 2020 ice mass before 2040, and 69-93% by 2100, depending on the climate scenario. By the late 21stC, the probability of unmet water demand in summer will increase substantially agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
There are 211,500 glaciers on this planet and we'll lose most of them this century because of human emissions! 🧊🔥 The peak of glacier extinction will occur 2040 to 2055! 📈 But each fraction of degree matters! 🌡️ Some of them can be saved! 🙏 @landervt.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Wim Thiery @wimthiery.eu · 16/12/2025
"In regions dominated by small and rapidly responding glaciers, such as [...] the European Alps, over 50% of the glaciers are projected to disappear within the next two decades." New @natclimate.nature.com study by @landervt.bsky.social @harryzeko.bsky.social @hydr-vub.bsky.social
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International Cryosphere Climate Initiative @iccinet.org · 15/12/2025
Rising temperatures could to lead to the loss of thousands of glaciers per year, with up to ~4,000 vanishing annually under high emissions. 1.5°C could halve this loss 🧵 @landervt.bsky.social @harryzeko.bsky.social @matthias-huss.bsky.social @davidrounce.bsky.social @lilianschuster.bsky.social
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VAW Glaciology @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
🚨 New paper alert! ❄️ How many glaciers will exist by 2100 at +1.5 °C vs +4 °C warming? Our new study led by @landervt.bsky.social , projects the extinction year of ~200,000 glaciers worldwide. 🌍🧊 Can you imagine the Alps with only 20 glaciers remaining? 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Lander Van Tricht @landervt.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
🧊 A glimpse into a collapsing glacier 🧊 On the #Morteratsch #Glacier, we found a large collapsed #icecave just 100 m from the front, a sign of ongoing disintegration. The front cave connects to the collapse zone, letting us document it from above, the sides, and inside. #Cryosphere #ClimateChange
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Lander Van Tricht @landervt.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
In 4 years, the front of the #Morteratsch Glacier retreated sharply due to a very negative mass balance, collapsing ice caves, and a relatively flat bedrock. It now terminates in a ~30 m-high ice cliff. Notice also the central surface collapse in 2025 (ice cave collapse). #climatechange #glaciers
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Lander Van Tricht @landervt.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
🧊 100 years of change on the #Morteratsch & #Pers glaciers Once deeply crevassed and connected, now separated and thinning fast. Even high in the accumulation zones, ice gives way to rock. 🏔️ #Glaciers #ClimateChange #Switzerland
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Lander Van Tricht @landervt.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
IJsgrotten: de plek om gletsjers van binnenuit te bestuderen, maar ook een teken van een stervende gletsjer. ❄️ Tijdens veldwerk op de #Morteratsch en #Pers gletsjer ontdekten we meerdere ijsgrotten: natuurlijke tunnels gevormd door smeltwater dat het ijs van binnenuit uitholt. 📸👇
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Lander Van Tricht @landervt.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Terug van veldwerk op de #Morteratsch & #Pers gletsjer, aan de voet van de #PizBernina. Sinds 2017 meten we hier jaarlijks de massabalans met #drones. 2025: 4e slechtste jaar ooit in 🇨🇭.❄️ #gletsjer
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Lander Van Tricht @landervt.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Het teken van een “stervende #gletsjer”, maar prachtig om te bezoeken en de binnenkant van het ijs te bewonderen. #VadretPers
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Lander Van Tricht @landervt.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Puur #winter in de #Alpen! De sneeuwgrens is lokaal gezakt tot 1800 m. Volgende week veel zon (Goldener Oktober). Dat wordt genieten :)
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Water and Climate - VUB @hydr-vub.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Excited to be back on the #Morteratsch #glacier complex for our annual fieldwork. Together with colleagues from the Geography department, the coming week we will measure how the glacier is changing. Stay tuned for some updates! @vubrussel.bsky.social #GLAMOS
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Lander Van Tricht @landervt.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🌍 Hoe nemen we afscheid van #gletsjers? ❄️ Tijdens #IMC2025 nam ik deel aan de paneldiscussie “The Value of Glaciers”, in het kader van het International Year of Glacier Preservation. We spraken niet alleen over massaverlies, maar ook over de maatschappelijke en psychologische betekenis van gletsjers
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Lander Van Tricht @landervt.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Unprecedented mass loss on the Tien Shan glaciers this year – will the Bordu Glacier drop below -2.5 m w.e.? Our mass balance model is still showing an exceptionally high rate of loss for this time of year.
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VAW Glaciology @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
🎉 Congrats to our #VAW colleague & postdoc @landervt.bsky.social, on making HUMO’s 30 under 30 list alongside Remco Evenepoel & Jade Mintjens! 🌍❄️ A well-deserved honor for his scientific achievements. #30under30 #ScienceCommunication #glaciology #HUMO
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Lander Van Tricht @landervt.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
📢 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿! ❄️🇰🇬 We modeled the #𝗗𝗮𝘃𝘆𝗱𝗼𝘃 𝗚𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗿 (1850–2100) in #Kyrgyzstan. Not just another glacier (>200,000 exist worldwide) — this one is special. 👉 Why? Stay tuned. 👉 Full paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Modeling the Impact of Mining Activities on the Dynamics and Evolution of a Kyrgyz Glacier
The Davydov Glacier has been reduced by 160 million m3 and shortened by 2 km due to ice excavation for the Kumtor Gold Mine operations Davydov Glacier may briefly advance if mining stops, but cli...
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Lander Van Tricht @landervt.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
🚨 Update from #Kyrgyzstan. Our mass balance model shows record glacier mass loss this year (and the melt season isn’t over yet). Causes: little snow 🌨️, high temperatures 🌡️, hardly any summer snowfall ❄️. Our fieldwork confirmed: even at the summit of some glaciers (#Grigoriev), no snow remained.
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Lander Van Tricht @landervt.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Exceptionally warm and dry conditions have pushed Bordu Glacier #Kyrgyzstan to its lowest mean specific mass balance for this time of year since monitoring began. Typically, still in its accumulation season, the glacier has already started losing mass since mid-April, an very early onset of melt.
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Lander Van Tricht @landervt.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Afgelopen winter was droog, zonnig en zacht in de #Alpen. Het resultaat is minder sneeuw op de gletsjers dan normaal, en dus ook minder bescherming voor aankomende zomer. Wellicht dus opnieuw een slecht jaar voor het ijs in de Alpen. Interview voor VRT NWS via www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
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"We gaan wellicht rampjaar tegemoet": afgelopen winter viel pak minder sneeuw op gletsjers in Zwitserland | VRT NWS: nieuws
De voorbije winter is 13 procent minder sneeuw gevallen op de gletsjers in Zwitserland dan het gemiddelde van de winters van 2010 tot 2020. Daardoor is de verse witte vacht dunner en zal het smeltproc...
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