The International Glaciological Society was founded in 1936 to provide a focus for individuals interested in practical and scientific aspects of snow and ice.
The objects of the Society enshrined in its Constitution are to:
- stimulate interest in and encourage research into the scientific and technical problems of snow and ice in all countries;
- facilitate and increase the flow of glaciological ideas and information
- sponsor lectures, field meetings and symposia;
- publish
- the Journal of Glaciology
- the Annals of Glaciology
- ICE, the News Bulletin of the International Glaciological Society
- other appropriate publications, such as books and monographs
The Core values of the International Glaciological Society
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News
- The First Circular for the International Symposium on 'Sea Ice at the Interface', to be held 18–23 August 2019 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is now available online. As this symposium is normally very popular we ask you to please register your interest to attend as this will help us greatly to plan for the meeting.
- The symposium materials for the International Symposium on ‘Timescales, Processes and Glacier Dynamics’, to be held 3–8 June 2018 in Buffalo, New York, USA, are now available on line.
- It is with great sadness that we have to inform you that Roger Barry passed away on 19 March 2018. Professor Emeritus Roger Graham Barry was born on 13 November 1935. Roger joined the International Glaciological Society in 1978 and thus had been a continuous member for 40 years. He renewed his membership for 2018 this past January. He was one of the longest standing members of the Society. He was active within the IGS and attended several of the Society’s symposia as well as contributing to IGS publications.
A full obituary will appear in the Society’s newsletter, ICE, and on this page, in due course. - It is with great sadness that we have to inform you that Terry Hughes has died. Terry was a long standing member of the International Glaciological Society and one of the ‘grand old men of glaciology’.
Professor Emeritus Terence Joseph Hughes, born 15 February 1938 in Fort Pierre, South Dakota, USA, passed away on 10 March 2018 at his home in Fort Pierre. He was 80. He died from inoperable pancreatic cancer that had spread to his liver, diagnosed in 2010. Educated in metallurgy and materials science, Terry became prominent in glaciology at the Institute of Polar Studies (now Byrd Polar Research Center), Ohio State University, and at the Institute for Quaternary Studies (now the Climate Change Institute) and Department of Geological Sciences (now Dept of Earth Sciences), University of Maine. A full obituary will appear later. - We would like to issue a call for paper for the thematic issue of the Annals of Glaciology on Progress in Cryoseismology. For further information please see the issue website.
- The new issue of ICE (175) is now available on line.
- The IGS position paper regarding glacier inventories in relation to the indictment of Ricardo Villalba.
- The First Circular for the International Symposium on ‘Glacial Erosion and Sedimentation’, to be held 12–17 May 2019 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, and the
First Circular for the International Symposium on ‘Five Decades of Radioglaciology’, to be held 23–28 June 2019 in Stanford, California, USA, are now available. - Visit our IGS merchandise page.