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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

See conference website

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

See conference website

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

See conference website

23–28 September 2013

**International symposium: Physics, chemistry and mechanics of snow

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia

See symposium website

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

See conference website

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

See conference website

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

See conference website

August/September 2016

**International Symposium on Polar Sea Ice, Polar Climate and Polar Change

Boulder, Colorado, USA

Contact: Secretary General, International Glaciological Society