Forthcoming meetings
Below are some forthcoming meetings that 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
29 April–2 May 2013
American Meteorological Society: 12th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography
Seattle, Washington, USA
See conference website
30 April–2 May 2013
Arctic Observing Summit 2013
Vancouver, Canada
See meeting website
3 May 2013
XXth GEOSummit Meeting
Vancouver, Canada
Contact Jack Dibb [jack.dibb@unh.edu]
8–18 May 2013
Course: Field techniques in interdisciplinary sea-ice research
Barrow, Alaska, USA
See course website
13–17 May 2013
Palaeo-Arctic Spatial and Temporal (PAST) Gateways International Conference
St Petersburg, Russia
See conference website
14–17 May 2013
AGU 2013 Meeting of the Americas
Cancun, Mexico
Session C02: Cryosphere in a warming climate: Changes, Impacts and Adaptation. Convenors: Tingjun Zhang [zhang0728@gmail.com], Yongjian Ding, Ninglian Wang
Contact Tingjun Zhang [zhang0728@gmail.com]
See meeting website
30 May–2 June 2013
International Association of Geodesy International Symposium: Reconciling observations and models of elastic and viscoelastic deformation due to ice mass change
Ilulissat, Greenland
See symposium website
3–7 June 2013
International Workshop: Understanding the response of Greenland's marine terminating glaciers to oceanic and atmospheric forcing
Near Boston, Massachusetts, USA
See workshop website
4–6 June 2013
70th Eastern Snow Conference (ESC)
Huntsville, Ontario, Canada
See conference website
16–18 June 2013
International Conference on Geology and Geophysics
Beijing, China
See conference website
17–19 June 2013
27th international Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes (FRISP)
Gregynog Hall, Powys, Wales
Contact Adrian Jenkins [ajen@bas.ac.uk]
18–21 June 2014
4th European Conference on Permafrost – IPA Regional Conference (EUCOP4)
Évora, Portugal
See conference website
24–28 June 2013
Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 10th Annual Meeting
Brisbane, Australia
See meeting website
24 June–13 July 2013
Third Forum for Young Permafrost Scientists
Yakutsk, Russia
See forum website
8–12 July 2013
Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly DACA-13
Joint IACS/IAMAS Conference: Air and ice – interaction processes
Davos, Switzerland
Symposium A1: From explaining the Pleistocene to projecting the Anthropocene. Lead convener: André Berger [berger@astr.ucl.ac.be]
Symposium A2: Coupling processes in weather and climate. Lead convener: Shigeo Yoden [yoden@kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp]
Symposium A3: Interannual to decadal climate variability and change. Lead convener: Stefan Brönnimann [Stefan.broennimann@giub.unibe.ch]
Symposium A4: Polar climate change and the cryosphere. Lead convener: Stefan Brönnimann [Stefan.broennimann@giub.unibe.ch]
Session A4.1: Accurately quantifying changes in sea ice using satellite remote sensing. Conveners: Stefan Kern [stefan.kern@zmaw.de], Cathleen Geiger
Session A4.2: Sea ice and ocean-atmosphere interactions. Convenors: James Renwick [James.Renwick@vuw.ac.nz], John Turner, Sharon Stammerjohn, Hiroyuki Enomoto
Symposium A5: Climate change and the mountain cryosphere. Lead convener: Andrew Mackintosh [Andrew.mackintosh@vuw.ac.nz]
Session A5.1: Glacier monitoring from in-situ and remotely sensed observations. Lead convener: Michael Zemp [michael.zemp@geo.uzh.ch]
Session A5.2: The response of glaciers to climate trend and climate variability: modern observations, past reconstructions, and scale dependence. Lead convener: Gerard Roe [gerard@ess.washington.edu]
Session A5.3: Glaciers in a changing climate: a global picture. Lead convener: Rianne Giesen [R.H.Giesen@uu.nl]
Session A5.4: Asian glaciers and climate change. Lead convener: Ramesh Singh [rsingh@chapman.edu]
Session A5.5: Open alpine cryosphere session. Lead convener: Martin Hoelzle [martin.hoelzle@unifr.ch]
Symposium A6: Ice sheets in a warming climate. Lead convener: Konrad Steffen [konrad.steffen@wsl.ch]
Session A6.1: Advances in ice sheet modelling. Convener: Ralf Greve [greve@lowtem.hokudai.ac.jp]
Session A6.3: Ice melt in Antarctica and Greenland and its implication for ice sheet and ice shelf stability in the 21st century. Lead convener: Stefan Vogel [stefan.vogel@aad.gov.au]
Symposium B1: Data assimilation and ensemble forecasting for weather, climate and air quality. Lead convener: William Lahoz [William.a.lahoz@nilu.no]
Symposium B2: High-impact weather, climate extremes, and extremely rare events. Lead convener: Richard Swinbank [Richard.swinbank@metoffice.gov.uk]
Symposium B3: Advances in atmospheric dynamics, and mountain weather. Lead convener: Olivia Romppainen-Martius [Olivia.romppainen@giub.unibe.ch]
Symposium B4: Global monsoon, tropical cyclones and tropical dynamics. Lead convener: Jianping Li [ljp@lasg.iap.ac.cn]
Symposium B5: Atmospheric lightning: physical processes with regional and global impacts. Lead convener: Zen Kawasaki [Kawasaki.zen@just.edu.eg]
Symposium B6: Solar ultra-violet Radiation in mountainous regions. Lead convener: Julian Gröbner [Julian.groebner@pmodwrc.ch]
Symposium C1: Atmospheres and ices in planetary systems. Lead conveners: Athena Coustenis, Sanjay Limaye [Athena.coustenis@obspm.fr]
Symposium C2: Ice, clouds and climate. Lead convener: Tom Lachlan-Cope [tlc@bas.ac.uk]
Symposium C3: Atmospheric-cryospheric chemistry and ice cores. Lead convener: Margit Schwikowski [margit.schwikowski@paul.ch]
Symposium C4: Snow, water, vegetation and the atmospheric boundary layer. Lead convener: Charles Fierz [fierz@slf.ch]
Symposium C4.4: Fluxes of energy and mass over, in and under snow, ice and vegetated surfaces. Lead convener: Ruzica Dadic [ruzica.dadic@vuw.ac.nz]
Symposium C5: Changing mountain water, snow and ice resources. Lead convener: Martin Beniston [martin.beniston@unige.ch]
Symposium C6: Mountain snow cover and avalanches. Lead convener: Jürg Schweizer [schweizer@slf.ch]
Session C6.2. Avalanche formation and forecasting. Conveners: Alec van Herwijnen [vanherwijnen@slf.ch] and Jürg Schweizer
Symposium D1: Economics of weather and climate risks. Lead convener: Antoine Bommier [abommier@ethz.ch]
Symposium D2: A century of international cooperation in geophysics: examples from IACS and IAMAS. Lead convener: Hans Volkert [hans.volkert@dlr.de]
See meeting website
22–26 July 2013
Knowledge for the Future: IAHS/IAPSO/IASPEI Joint Meeting
Gothenburg, Sweden
See meeting website
28 July–2 August 2013
**International Symposium on Changes in Glaciers and Ice Sheets: observations, modelling and environmental interactions
Contact: Secretary General, International Glaciological Society
Links on symposium website
18–22 August 2013
Canadian Quaternary Association (CANQUA) biennial meeting
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Special session: Past and present ice sheet and glacier hydrology. Conveners: Andrew Perkins [ajp7@sfu.ca] and Tracy Brennand [tabrenna@sfu.ca]
See meeting website
19–31 August 2013
Advanced Climate Dynamics Course 2013: The dynamics of the last deglaciation
Nyksund, Vesterålen Islands, Norway
See course website
Flyer as PDF
22–24 August 2013
28th Himalayan Karakorum Tibet Workshop and 6th International Symposium on Tibetan Plateau Joint Conference
Tübingen, Germany
See conference website
25–30 August 2013
Goldschmidt Geochemistry Meeting
Florence, Italy
See conference website
26–30 August 2013
**Workshop on Subglacial Hydrology
Institute of Earth Sciences, Reykjavík, Iceland
See workshop website
27–31 August 2013
8th IAG International Conference on Geomorphology
Paris, France
See conference website
4–5 September 2013
**International Glaciological Society British Branch Meeting 2013
Loughborough, UK
Contact: Richard Hodgkins [r.hodgkins@lboro.ac.uk]
See meeting website
8–12 September 2013
5th Polar and Alpine Microbiology Conference
Big Sky, Montana, USA
9–13 September 2013
**International Symposium on Radioglaciology: advances in radio frequency, microwave and digital technologies
Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Contact: Secretary General, International Glaciological Society
Links on symposium website
9–13 September 2013
*7th International Workshop on Ice Drilling Technology
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
10–21 September 2013
The annual Karthaus course on
Ice Sheets and Glaciers in the Climate System
Karthaus (northern Italy)
See the first poster
18–20 September 2013
Third UK Arctic Science Conference
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, UK
23–28 September 2013
**International symposium: Physics, chemistry and mechanics of snow
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia
29 September–2 October 2013
West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Workshop
Sterling, Virginia, USA
Contact the meeting organizers [waisworkshop@nsidc.org]
29 September–3 October 2013
Earth Cryology: XXI century
Pushchino, Russia
7–11 October 2013
ISSW International Snow Science Workshop 2013
Grenoble and Chamonix Mont-Blanc, France
See workshop website
Download the flyer as PDF
12–19 October 2013
DISCCRS VIII Interdisciplinary Climate Change Research Symposium
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
See DISCCRS website
18–19 October 2013
North West Glaciologists meeting
Vancouver, BC, Canada
31 October –2 November 2013
**International Glaciological Society Nordic Branch Meeting 2013
Lammi, Finland
Contact: Onni Järvinen[onni.jarvinen@helsinki.fi]
See meeting website
10–14 March 2014
**International Symposium on Sea Ice in a Changing Environment
Hobart, Australia
Contact: Secretary General, International Glaciological Society
17–20 March 2014
13th International Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Ice (PCI-2014)
Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
See meeting website
26–30 May 2014
**International Symposium on Observations, Modelling and Prediction of the Cryospheric Contribution to Sea Level Change
Chamonix, France
Contact: Secretary General, International Glaciological Society
22 August – 3 September 2014
XXXIII SCAR Biennial Meetings and Open Science Conference
Auckland, New Zealand
Contact:
Katrina Hall
Gateway Antarctica
Email: gateway-antarctica@canterbury.ac.nz
Phone +64 3 364 2136
18–23 August 2014
**International Symposium on the Changing Arctic Cryosphere
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Contact: Secretary General, International Glaciological Society
Please note that the date of this meeting has been changed!
June 2015
**International Symposium on the Hydrology of Glaciers and Ice Sheets
Iceland
Contact: Secretary General, International Glaciological Society
August 2015
**International Symposium on Contemporary Ice-Sheet Dynamics: ocean interaction, meltwater and non-linear effects
Cambridge, UK
Contact: Secretary General, International Glaciological Society
20–24 June 2016
Eleventh International Conference on Permafrost (ICOP 2016)
Potsdam, Germany
August/September 2016
**International Symposium on Polar Sea Ice, Polar Climate and Polar Change
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Contact: Secretary General, International Glaciological Society