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

9–12 January 2012

Nordic Geological Winter Meeting

Reykjavík, Iceland

Permafrost and Perglacial Processes session. Conveners: Ivar Berthling [ivar.berthling@svt.ntnu.no] and Bernd Etzelmüller [Bernd.etzelmuller@geo.uio.no]
See meeting website

10–13 January 2012

Workshop on the Dynamics and Mass Budget of Arctic Glaciers/IASC Network on Arctic Glaciology Annual Meeting

Zieleniec, Poland

Details as PDF
Contact Krzysztof Migała [krzysztof.migala@uni.wroc.pl]

20 January 2012

Symposium: The mountain cryosphere – a holistic view on processes and their interactions

University Zurich Irchel, Switzerland

Flyer as PDF
Contact Stephan Gruber [stephan.gruber@geo.uzh.ch]

30 January–1 February 2012

Responding to Arctic Environmental Change: Translating Our Growing Understanding into a Research Agenda for Action

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

See workshop website

2–3 February 2012

6th Alpine Glaciology Meeting

ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Contact: Martin Lüthi [luethi@vaw.ethz.ch] or Martin Funk [funk@vaw.ethz.ch]

See meeting website

6–7 February 2012

Trans-Himalayan workshop: Glaciers, Snow Melt and Runoff in the Himalayas

Kathmandu, Nepal

See meeting website

9–10 February 2012

*The Geophysics of the Cryosphere and Glacial Products: Properties, Processes and Technical Advances: New Advances in Geophysics Meeting 2012
British Geophysical Association/Royal Astronomical Society/The Geological Society

Burlington House, London, UK

See meeting website

13–15 February 2012

*Snow and Ice Research Group (SIRG) New Zealand Annual Workshop 2012

Lake Ruataniwha Rowing Complex, near Twizel, New Zealand

See meeting website

15–17 February 2012

Land Ice Working Group (LIWG) of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) annual winter meeting

Boulder, Colorado, USA

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20–24 February 2012

2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting

Salt Lake City, Utah

Session 008: Arctic Ocean Boundary Currents: Observations, Theory and Modeling. Conveners: Mary-Louise Timmermans [mary-louise.timmermans@yale.edu], Sheldon Bacon [s.bacon@noc.ac.uk], Robert Pickart [rpickart@whoi.edu]
Session 165: Climate Change Impacts on the Bering Sea and Related Polar Seas: From Observation to Prediction. Conveners: Thomas Van Pelt [tvanpelt@nprb.org], Michael W. Lomas [Michael.Lomas@bios.edu], Mike Sigler [mike.sigler@noaa.gov]
See meeting website

24–28 February 2012

2012 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting

New York, USA

Session: Understanding climate in the cryosphere through observations and models. Organizers: Neil P. Barton [barton30@llnl.gov], Gina R. Henderson [ghenders@usna.edu]
Session: A perspective on the changes in Arctic environment. Organisers: Debjani Ghatak [ghatak@marine.rutgers.edu], Allan Frei [afrei@hunter.cuny.edu]
See meeting website

1–12 March 2012

Short Course in Physical Principles of Hydrology

Kananaskas Valley, Alberta, Canada

See course website

5–8 March 2012

German Geophysical Society Meeting 2012

Hamburg, Germany

The conference has three key topics: Geophysical earth system research, Passive seismics in applied geophysics, and Natural Hazards and Geophysics
See meeting website

7–9 March 2012

42nd Annual International Arctic Workshop

Winter Park, Colorado, USA

See workshop website

19–22 March 2012

SLALOM2012 (Sea-Level and Adjustment of the Land: Observations and Models) Conference

Athens, Greece

See conference website

14–18 April 2012

12th International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium

Levi, Finland

See symposium website

19–22 April 2012

Arctic Science Summit Week

Montréal, Canada

In conjunction with the IPY 2012 From Knowledge to Action conference
See conference website

22–27 April 2012

IPY From Knowledge to Action Conference

Montreal, Québec, Canada

Session 1.2.1: Atmospheric, physical, and chemical processes in the polar regions. Conveners: Takashi Yamanouchi [yamanou@nipr.ac.jp], Taneil Uttal, Alexander Makshtas, Jenny Fisher
Session 1.2.3: Diminishing snow and ice. Conveners: Martin Sharp [martin.sharp@ualberta.ca], Alexandra Jahn [ajahn@ucar.edu]
Session 1.2.4: Permafrost on a warming planet. Conveners: Hugues Lantuit [Hugues.Lantuit@awi.de], Michael Angelopoulos [michael.angelopoulos@mail.mcgill.ca]
Session 1.3.3: Polar microbes, genetics, and molecular biology. Conveners: Carlos Pedrós-Alió [cpedros@cmima.csic.es], Yoo Kyung Lee [yklee@kopri.re.kr], Trista Vick [trista.vick@msu.montana. edu]
Session 1.5.2: Polar observing systems, including observations from space. Conveners: Marcel Babin [Marcel.Babin@takuvik.ulaval.ca], Gijs de Boer [gdeboer@lbl.gov]
Session 2.2.6: Past, present and future polar climate change. Conveners: Ian Allison [Ian.Allison@utas.edu.au], Michael Fritz [Michael.Fritz@awi.de], Michele Koppes [koppes@geog.ubc.ca]
Session 3.3.2: Polar knowledge in action – the Antarctic. Conveners: Natalia Galin [n.galin@ucl.ac.uk], Colin Summerhayes [cps32@cam.ac.uk]
See conference website

22–27 April 2012

European Geosciences Union: General Assembly 2012

Vienna, Austria

Session CL1.3: Polar continental margins and fjords - glacial and climatic evolution in the Cenozoic. Conveners: Jan Sverre Laberg, H. Brinkhuis, A. Camerlenghi, C. Escutia, F. Florindo, Matthias Forwick [matthias.forwick@uit.no], D. Harwood, C. Hass, B.O. Hjelstuen, K. Hogan, M. Rebesco
Session CL2.1: Arctic climate change: governing mechanisms and global implications. Convener: Richard Bintanja [bintanja@gmail.com]
Session CL4.5/OS1.8: Global and regional sea level rise and variability: from past to future. Conveners: Anny Cazenave. Aslak Grinsted [ag@glaciology.net], Svetlana Jevrejeva
Session CR1.30: Projections of the cryospheric contribution to sea-level rise over the next century: progress in modelling and related observations. Conveners: Sophie Nowicki [sophie.nowicki@nasa.gov], Tony Payne
Session CR1.50: Earth Observations in support of cold regions atmospheric and hydrology research and operational communities.
Convener: Claude Duguay [crduguay@uwaterloo.ca]
Session CR3.10: Remote sensing of the cryosphere. Conveners: Marco Tedesco [mtedesco@ccny.cuny.edu], T. Parrinello, A. Shepherd, T. Painter
Session CR1.90: Modeling, measurements and applications of snow stratigraphy and microstructure. Conveners: Henning Löwe [loewe@slf.ch], Samuel Morin
Session CR3.20: Creating glacier inventories from remote sensing data: Challenges and solutions. Convener: Frank Paul [frank.paul@geo.uzh.ch]
Session CR5.10: Glaciers and ice caps under climate change. Conveners: Jon Ove Hagen [j.hagen@geo.uio.no], Georg Kaser, Matthias Huss, William Lipscomb
Session CR5.20 Modelling ice sheets and glaciers. Conveners: Frank Pattyn [fpattyn@ulb.ac.be]
Session CR5.30 Ice shelves – dynamics, interactions, observations, modelling. Convener: Angelika Humbert [angelika.humbert@zmaw.de]
Session CR6.10: Mass and energy balance of snow and ice. Conveners: Willem Jan van de Berg,[w.vandeberg@uu.nl], Thomas Mölg
Session CR8.20: Debris covered glaciers. Conveners: Lindsey Nicholson [lindsey.nicholson@uibk.ac.at], Doug Benn, Martin Kirkbride
Session CR9.10 Sea ice and sea ice–climate interactions. Convener: Daniel Feltham [dlf@cpom.ac.uk]
Session CR9.20: Interactions among biology, structure and processes in sea-ice. Convenes: Maddalena Bayer [Maddalena.Bayer@awi.de]
Session CR10.10: Ice-sheet and climate interactions. Conveners: Philippe Huybrechts [phuybrec@vub.ac.be], Andrey Ganopolski [andrey@pik-potsdam.de], Thierry Fichefet [thierry.fichefet@uclouvain.be]
Session CR10.20: Climate change impacts on glaciers, permafrost and related hazards. Conveners: Christian Huggel [christian.huggel@geo.uzh.ch], Bruce Raup, Andi Kääb, Christoph Schneider
Session GM3.4: Glaciation as a control on mountain building and topography. Conveners: Frédéric Herman, Pierre Valla [pierre.valla@erdw.ethz.ch], Jean-Daniel Champagnac
Session GM 9.2: Glacial landforms and palaeoclimatic interpretation. Conveners: Tim Davies, Lasafam Iturrizaga, Martin Kirkbride, Stefan Winkler [Stefan.Winkler@uni-wuerzburg.de]
Session HS2.3. Sub-Arctic hydrology: hydrological processes, modelling and change in the Northern Hemisphere. Conveners: Helen Dahlke [helen.dahlke@natgeo.su.se], S. McGrane, H. Laudon, K. Bishop
See conference website

23–26 April 2012

Interpraevent 2012 – 12th Congress: Protection of Living Spaces from Natural Hazards

Grenoble, France

See conference website

26–27 April 2012

David C. Sego Symposium

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

See symposium website

14–18 May 2012

12th International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium

Levi, Finland

See symposium website

28 May–1 June 2012

**International Symposium on Seasonal Snow and Ice

Lahti, Finland

Contact: Secretary General, International Glaciological Society
Links on symposium website

3–8 June 2012

XV Glaciological Symposium: Past, Present and Future of the Cryosphere

Arkhangelsk, Russia

Contact: Stanislav Kutuzov [s.kutuzov@gmail.com]
See symposium website

5–8 June 2012

Canadian Geophysical Union Annual Meeting

Banff, Alberta, Canada

See meeting website

11–15 June 2012

21st IAHR International Symposium on Ice

Dalian, China

Contact: Pat Langhorne [pat.langhorne@otago.ac.nz]
See symposium website

12–14 June 2012

26th International Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes (FRISP)

Utö, Stockholms Archipelago, Sweden

Contact: Adrian Jenkins [ajen@bas.ac.uk]
See workshop website

24–29 June 2012

Goldschmidt Conference

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Session 10e: Geochemical approaches to reconstructing ice sheet history: modern processes and paleo-perspectives. Conveners:Alberto Reyes [avreyes2@wisc.edu], Anders Carlson [acarlson geology.wisc.edu]
See conference website

25–29 June 2012

**International Symposium on Glaciers and Ice Sheets in a Warming Climate

Fairbanks, Alaska, USA

Contact: Secretary General, International Glaciological Society
Links on symposium website

25–29 June 2012

Tenth International Conference on Permafrost

Salekhard, Russia

See: conference website

2–6 July 2012

International Training Workshop: Micromorphology of Glacigenic Sediments

Centre for Micromorphology, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK

Details as PDF
Contact: Simon Carr [s.carr@QMUL.AC.UK]

13–25 July 2012

SCAR 2012: Antarctic Science and Policy Advice in a Changing World

Portland, Oregon, USA

Session 6: Status and trends in Antarctic sea ice and ice shelves. Conveners: Marilyn Raphael [raphael@geog.ucla.edu], Steve Ackley [Stephen.Ackley@utsa.edu], Laurie Padman
Session 29: Advancing clean technologies for exploration of glacial aquatic ecosystems. Conveners: Jemma Wadham [J.Wadham@bristol.ac.uk], Peter Doran [pdoran@uic.edu], Warwick Vincent [Warwick.Vincent@fsg.ulaval.ca]
Session 32: Observing Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Convener: Louise Newman [Louise.Newman@utas.edu.au]
Session 40: Antarctic education, outreach and training. Conveners: Jenny Baeseman [jbaeseman@gmail.com], Jose Xavier, Erli Costa
See conference website

13–17 August 2012

Asia Oceania Geosciences Society/American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly

Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore

See assembly website

26–30 August 2012

IGU 32nd International Geographical Congress

Cologne, Germany

IGU Cold Regions Environment (CRE) Commission Sessions – see website

5–6 September 2012

**International Glaciology Society British Branch Meeting 2012

Aberdeen, UK

Contact: Douglas Mair [d.mair@abdn.ac.uk]

11–22 September 2012

Karthaus course on Ice Sheets and Glaciers in the Climate System

Karthaus, Italy

See course website

16–23 September 2012

5th International Workshop on Ice Caves

Barzio and Milano, Italy

See workshop website

24–29 September 2012

Symposium: 20 years of Progress in Radar Altimetry

Venice-Lido, Italy

See symposium website

1–5 October 2012

*International Symposium on Ice Core Science

Giens, France

See: conference website

13–20 October 2012

Interdisciplinary Climate Change Research Symposium

Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

To apply see DISCCRS website

10–12 November 2012

International Conference on the Cryosphere: Changes, Impacts and Adaptation

Sanya, China
See conference website

8–13 July 2013

Joint IACS/IAMAS Conference: Air and ice – interaction processes

Davos, Switzerland
Contact: Charles Fierz [fierz@slf.ch]