The Academy of Finland funding brings six new Academy Research Fellows, 14 Postdoctoral Researchers and 23 Academy Projects to Aalto University. The funded projects strengthen several of Aalto University's research areas, and quantum physics as well as marine and arctic technology were particularly successful The funding granted to Aalto University by the Academy of Finland from the September 2021 call will boost the university’s research with a total of EUR 17.6 million.
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Avalanches are deadly. If you get caught in one, more often than not, rescuers have mere minutes to find you before the odds of survival plummet.
“If rescuers
can locate and uncover the buried person within 10 minutes, the person has an 80% chance of surviving. By 15 minutes, the survival rate drops to 40%, and after 35 minutes it’s less than 10%,” says Anne St. Clair, a public avalanche forecaster for Avalanche Canada and an instructor trainer with the American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education (