Month: October 2025

16/10/2025

Allgemein Outreach

Nora Gourmelon’s research on AI technology for glacier changes featured in FOCUS article

Nora Gourmelon, a PhD student at the Pattern Recognition Lab and part of M3OCCA, was recently featured by FOCUS in an article highlighting her research on monitoring glacier retreat with artificial intelligence. The feature, titled “Deutsche Forscherin entwickelt Technologie, die das Sterben der Gletscher offenbart”, presents her work on developing AI-based methods to automatically analyze radar satellite imagery and reveal changes in Arctic glaciers.

Her research contributes to the broader effort of using “green AI” technologies to support climate science and environmental monitoring.

Read the full article here: focus.de

15/10/2025

Outreach

Guest Talk at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru, India 2025

In 2025, Akash Patil presented his research on “Investigating firn structure and density in the accumulation area of Aletsch Glacier using Ground Penetrating Radar” in the monthly seminar series organized by Dr. Brahma Dutt Vishwakarma at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research (ICWaR), Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. The seminar brought together PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from a wide range of disciplines, including gravimetry for groundwater monitoring, glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs), and remote sensing and geophysical approaches to glacier mass balance. This was a great opportunity to share Akash’s work, exchange ideas across fields, and build possible collaborations aimed at advancing our understanding of Himalayan glaciers, which are increasingly affected by glacier‑related flood events in recent years.