Forthcoming meetings
Below are some forthcoming meetings which may be of interest to IGS members.
Please send announcements about meetings suitable for inclusion on this page to us at our usual contact details.
Items marked ** are IGS sponsored
Items marked * are IGS co-sponsored
4–8 December 2009
IPY International Early Career Researcher Symposium
Victoria, BC, Canada
See symposium website
Contact: Amy Wiita [cinzaresearch@alaska.net]
14 December 2009
Second Annual Open Meeting: International Study of Arctic Change
San Francisco, CA, USA
See meeting website
Contact: Maribeth Murray [murray@arcticchange.org]
5–8 January 2010
Quaternary Research Association (QRA) – Annual Discussion Meeting
Sea-Level Changes: the Science of a Changing World
Durham, UK
See meeting website
Contact: Sarah Woodroffe [s.a.woodroffe@durham.ac.uk]
13-15 January 2010
EUREKA 2010: Canadian Arctic Science at 80N
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
A flier with complete information can be downloaded by clicking on the 'EUREKA 2010: Canadian Arctic Science at 80N' link on the CANDAC website
18–22 January 2010
2010 Alaska Marine Science Symposium
Anchorage, Alaska, USA
See symposium website
Contact: Carolyn Rosner [carolyn.rosner@nprb.org]
24 January–3 February 2010
Marine Biodiversity Under Change Workshop
For PhD students interested in the pan-Arctic region – registration at the Arctic Frontiers conference also required.
Tromsø, Norway
See workshop website
Contact: Matias Langgaard Madsen [matias.madsen@uit.no]
27–29 January 2010
Arctic Frontiers 2010
Tromsø, Norway
See conference website
Contact: Arntraut Götsch [arntraut.gotsch@akvaplan.niva.no]
1–3 February 2010
*International Glaciological Conference
Ice and Climate Change: A View from the South
Valdivia, Chile
See conference website
Contact: Claudia Flores [vicc2010@cecs.cl]
1–3 February 2010
Polar Climate and Environmental Change in the Last Millennium
Torun, Poland
See conference website– for information in English, please click on the 'english_torun-1-circular.doc' link
Contact: Rajmund Przybylak [rp11@umk.pl] or Andrzej Arazny [andy@umk.pl]
21–24 February 2010
Western Regional Science Association 49th Annual Meeting: Remote Regions/Northern Development sessions
Sedona, Arizona
See conference website
Contact: Lee Huskey [aflh@uaa.alaska.edu]
22–26 February 2010
Climate Change Impacts On the Bering Sea and Related Polar Seas:
From Observation to Prediction
American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting
Portland, Oregon
Contact: Rodger Harvey [harvey@cbl.umces.edu] or
Michael F. Sigler [mike.sigler@noaa.gov]
7–10 March 2010
Workshop on the dynamics and mass budget of Arctic glaciers/GLACIODYN (IPY) meeting
University of Innsbruck, Obergurgl, Austria
Arranged by the International Arctic Science Committee – Network for Arctic Glaciology (IASC-NAG).
Contact: Andreas P. Ahlstrøm [apa@geus.dk];
abstracts to: Martin Sharp [martin.sharp@ualberta.ca] no later than 8 February
9–10 March 2010
2010 Alaska Weather Symposium
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska
See symposium website
Contact: Don Morton [morton@arsc.edu]
10–12 March 2010
40th Annual International Arctic Workshop
Winter Park Mountain Lodge, Colorado
See workshop website
Contact: ArcticWS@colorado.edu
13–20 March 2010
Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research
(an interdisciplinary climate change research symposium)
Mesa, Arizona
See symposium website
Contact: organisers [info@disscrs.org]
15–17 March 2010
AGU Chapman Conference on the Exploration and Study of Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
16–19 March 2010
2010 State of the Arctic Conference
Miami, Florida
Contact: Helen V. Wiggins [helen@arcus.org]
or (for questions about abstract submission) Judy Fahnestock [judy@arcus.org]
25–26 March 2010
6th Annual Polar Technology Conference
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Contact: register@PolarTechnologyConference.org
25–26 March 2010
The 14th ALPINE GLACIOLOGY MEETING
Milano, Italy
Contact Guglielmina (Willy) Diolaiuti [guglielmina.diolaiuti@unimi.it ], Manuela Pelfini or Carlo D'Agata
8–9 April 2010
UK Polar Network Workshop – Investigating variability in polar climates: Past, present and future
Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland
See workshop website
or e-mail: leedspolarnet@polarnetwork.org
11–16 April 2010
Triggering of rapid mass movements in steep terrains – mechanisms and risks
Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland
14–18 April 2010
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
Washington, DC, USA
Sessions (co) sponsored by the Cryosphere Specialty Group include: State and Fate of Frozen Ground and Periglacial Environments; Glaciers & changing environments; Land, Ocean, and Atmosphere in a Changing Arctic; Hydroclimatology; Re-exploring the North
See AAG website
28–30 April 2010
Workshop on Cold Regions Hydrology
Innsbruck, Austria
Organized by the Network of Climate and Cryosphere Research at the University of Innsbruck, the European Space Agency (ESA) and ENVEO IT
The Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Programme of WCRP and ICSIH-IAHS are scientific co-sponsors
See workshop website
29–30 April 2010
**SPIRIT (Spot 5 stereoscopic survey of Polar Ice: Reference Images & Topographies) workshop
Toulouse, France
See meeting website
2–7 May 2010
EGU General Assembly
Vienna, Austria
Session 'Modeling the Spatial Dynamics of Permafrost and Seasonally Frozen Ground at Diverse Scales (CR4.2)'
See session website
Contact: Stephan Gruber [stephan.gruber@geo.uzh.ch]
Session 'Climate of the Polar Regions (CL2.1)'
See session website
Contact: Peter Wadhams [p.wadhams@damtp.ac.uk] or Steve Piacsek [piacsek@nrlssc.navy.mil]
Session 'Boundary Layers in High Latitudes: Physical and Chemical Processes, Observational and Monitoring Programs, Modeling, and Analysis (AS2.4)'
See session website
Contact: William Neff [william.neff@noaa.gov], Gunther Heinemann [heinemann@uni-trier.de], Anna Jones [AEJO@bas.ac.uk], Stefania Argentini [s.argentini@isac.cnr.it] or Philip Anderson [PSAN@bas.ac.uk]
Session 'Sea Ice and Sea Ice-Climate Interactions (CR9.1)'
See session website
Contact: Daniel Feltham [dlf@cpom.ac.uk]
17–20 May 2010
Seventh International Workshop on the Micromorphology of Glacial Sediments
Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Contact: Jaap JM van der Meer [j.meer@qmul.ac.uk]
20 May–4 June 2010
Arctic in a Changing Climate: Physical and Biological Linkages to Permafrost
Summer School program organized by the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
See summer school website
Contact: Tohru Saito [saito@iarc.uaf.edu]
18 May–11 June 2010
Summer Field Course in Arctic Science
University of Alaska Fairbanks and Toolik Field Station
Contact: Anja Kade [ankade@alaska.edu]
31 May–4 June 2010
International Glaciological Symposium: Ice and Snow in the Climatic System
Kazan', Russia
30 May 2010
SCAR/AGCS Antarctic Sea Ice Workshop II
Tromsø, Norway
Contact: Stephen Ackley [Stephen.ackley@utsa.edu]
31 May–4 June 2010
**International Symposium on Sea Ice
Tromsø, Norway
Symposium theme: The role of sea ice in the physical and biogeochemical system
Contact: Secretary General, International Glaciological Society
See symposium website
5–11 June 2010
4th International Workshop on Ice Caves
Obertraun, Austria
Workshop theme: meteorology, glaciology and paleoclimatology in ice caves
See workshop website
E-mail: office@iwic2010.info
8–12 June 2010
International Polar Year open science conference
Oslo, Norway
8–19 June 2010
Advanced Climate Dynamics Course on Ice-Sheet Ocean Interactions
MIT FabLab, Lyngen, northern Norway
See course website
13–17 June 2010
Third European Conference on Permafrost (EUCOPP2010)
Longyearbyen, Svalbard
See workshop website
5–11 June 2010
4th International Workshop on Ice Caves (IWIC-IV)
Obertraun, Austria
See workshop website
Contact: [office@iwic2010.info]
8–10 June 2010
67th Eastern Snow Conference: Here today gone tomorrow, the Eastern North America Cryosphere
Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort, Hancock, MA USA
See conference website
Contact: Mauri Pelto [mspelto@nichols.edu]
8–12 June 2010
IPY Oslo Science Conference
Session T2-3: Snow and ice dynamics and processes
Oslo, Norway
See conference website
Contact: Jon Ove Hagen[joh@geo.uio.no]
14–18 June 2010
The 20th IAHR International Symposium on Ice
Lahti, Finland
21–24 June 2010
24th international Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes (FRISP)
Evangelisches Bildungszentrum, Bad Bederkesa, Germany
See FRISP website
Contact: Adrian Jenkins[ajen@bas.ac.uk]
21–25 June 2010
**International Symposium on Snow, Ice and Humanity in a Changing Climate
Sapporo, Japan
Contact: Secretary General, International Glaciological Society
See symposium website
3–6 August 2010
4th SCAR Open Science Conference: Antarctica – Witness to the Past and Guide to the Future
Buenos Aires, Argentina
See
8–13 August 2010
AGU Meeting of the Americas: Dynamic Cryosphere session
Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil
Convened by Drs.Paul Winberry (CWU), Audrey Huerta (CWU) and Slawek Tulaczyk (UCSC)
See meeting website
12–14 August 2010
International Joint Conference by the CliC and IACS
Cryospheric Changes and Influence – Cryospheric Issues in Regional Sustainable Development
Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China
See conference website
Contact: Xie Aihong [xieaih@lzb.ac.cn]
16–20 August 2010
**International Symposium on Earth's Disappearing Ice: Drivers, Reponses and Impacts
A celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Byrd Polar Research Center
Byrd Center, Ohio State University, USA
Contact: Secretary General, International Glaciological Society
See symposium website
5–10 September 2010
12th International Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Ice
Sapporo, Japan
Contact: Chairperson Yoshinori Furukawa (Hokkaido University)
See conference website
First circular as PDF
12–16 September 2010
6th Canadian Conference on Permafrost
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Contact: Jim Henderson [permafrost@geo2010.ca]
14–25 September 2010
Karthaus course on Ice Sheets and Glaciers in the Climate System
Sponsored by: The Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University, The Netherlands The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Ice2Sea project, European Union
Karthaus, Italy
See announcement
20–23 September 2010
HydroPredict'2010
2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference on Predictions for Hydrology, Ecology, and Water Resources Management: Changes and Hazards caused by Direct Human Interventions and Climate Change
Prague, Czech Republic
20–24 September 2010
11th International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium
Cambridge, UK
Prior to the conference (Monday 20 September 2010), there will be a one-day UK Polar Network Workshop on Circumpolar Remote Sensing
Contact: Allen Pope [allen.pope@polarnetwork.org]
26–30 September 2010
International conference: Global Change and the World's Mountains
Perth, UK
27–30 September 2010
Remote Sensing in Hydrology 2010 Symposium
Snow King Resort, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA
See conference website
Contact: Christopher Neale (VP ICRS) [christopher.neale@usu.edu]
8–9 October 2010
Northwest Glaciologists Meeting 2010
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Further details to be announced. Please note that the date agreed on at the 2009 meeting has had to be changed
29 March–2 April 2011
Arctic Science Summit Week 2011
Coex Center, Seoul, South Korea
ASSW 2011 will have an integrated Science Symposium covering the theme: 'The Arctic: The New Frontier for Global Science'. Further details to be announced
5–10 June 2011
**International Symposium on Interactions of Ice Sheets and Glaciers with the Ocean
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA
Contact: Secretary General, International Glaciological Society
27 June–8 July 2011
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
IUGG XXV General Assembly
Earth on the Edge: Science for a Sustainable Planet
Melbourne, Australia
See Assembly website
Contact: Regine Hock (Regine.hock@gi.alaska.edu)
24–28 October 2011
World Climate Research Programme Open Science Conference: Climate Research in Service to Society
Denver, Colorado
22–27 April 2012
IPY From Knowledge to Action Conference
Montreal, Québec, Canada
See news release
June 2012
**International Symposium on seasonal snow and ice
Helsinki, Finland
Contact: Secretary General, International Glaciological Society
25–29 June 2012
**International Symposium on Glaciers and Ice Sheets in a Warming Climate
Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Contact: Secretary General, International Glaciological Society
Late summer 2012
**International Symposium on Ice Core Science
Location to be determined
Contact: Secretary General, International Glaciological Society