Future

December 2025: The team prepares an exhibition at Charles University in Albertov named 'Belvedere Glacier: An Environmental Laboratory of Landscape Changes', which will open on 9 December 2025. 

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Past 

July 2025: The team continued in situ sampling at Belvedere Glacier and tackled the challenge of acquiring photographs of the entire glacier, including the East Monte Rosa wall, from a helicopter (M. Nüsser) to reconstruct the full topography of the wall. The month also included research-based teaching for MSc and PhD students.

June 2025: The team presented their results at the ESA Living Planet Symposium in Vienna.

April 2025: The research team met in Milan to plan future activities and met with representatives from the Verbania province to discuss the regional requirements for the research outcomes.

February 2025: Roberto S. Azzoni introduced the GLAM research team and presented the Belvedere research results, “Belvedere, 1951–2023: A Glacier Odyssey,” at the 28th Alpine Glaciology Meeting on February 27, 2025, in Innsbruck, Austria.

January 2025: The GLAM research team established a collaboration with the industry partner TRL Space during the launch of their hyperspectral satellite, Troll.

September 2024: GLAM (Glacier Landscape Analysis and Geohazards Monitoring with Earth Observation) research team web page public launch. 

August 2024: Belvedere glacier in-situ sampling (Macugnaga, Italy).

June 2024: Seminar on in-situ sampling and Monte Rosa drone challenge planning (Charles University, Czech Republic). 

October 2023: Monographic issue of AUC Geographica https://karolinum.cz/casopis/auc-geographica papers preparation at Heidelberg University (Germany).

August 2023: Seminar on Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere Dynamics under the Influence of Climate Change joined with Belvedere glacier in-situ sampling (Macugnaga, Italy). 

December 2022: Prof. Marcus Nüsser (Heidelberg University) presenting at the Charles University Prague (1st December 2022, Prague, Czech Republic). 

December 2022: Seminar on Collaborative research on High Mountain Cryosphere under the influence of Climate Change (4EU+ student mini grant).

July 2021: First meeting of the researchers from the University of Milan, Charles University, and the Heidelberg University in the Italian Alps.

Foto: Charles University, Faculty of Science, Prague, 15th May 2024, ERASMUS+ (Roberto Azzoni)