A tribute by John F. Nye Alan Stewart Thorndike, glaciologist, died in Easton, Maryland, USA on 8 January 2018, aged 72, after a short illness with an aggressive pneumonia. Alan will be remembered as a kind and generous man with a powerful intellect, a scholar, man of...
Charlie Bentley, an IGS member since 1959, a former IGS Vice-President and a Seligman Crystal recipient, has died at the age of 87 Charlie Bentley, Emeritus A.P. Crary Professor of Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, passed away peacefully on 19 August...
Willy Weeks, a long time member of the IGS, a former IGS President and a Seligman crystal recipient died at the age of 88 On a cold February day in Portland likely reminiscent of the Arctic longtime IGS member and former President and Seligman Crystal recipient Willy...
Professor Gordon Hamilton, a long time member of the IGS, died at the age of 50 Remarks presented by Christina Hulbe at the opening of the joint IGS/IASC/CliC Symposium on the Cryosphere in a Changing World in February 2017. Gordon Stuart Hamilton, Research Associate...
Professor David N Collins of the University of Salford has died at the age of 68. 8 September 2016 Society members will be saddened to learn of the passing of Professor David Collins on 8th September 2016. David was an enthusiastic member of the Society, regularly...
Bob Thomas, a longstanding IGS member, has died at the age of 77 Robert H. (Bob) Thomas was born 1 June 1937, in Hoylake, UK. He passed away on 2 February 2015, in Gorzow, Poland, from the effects of a stroke that he suffered in early January. He was 77. Bob is...
Charles Swithinbank, an IGS honorary member and past president of the Society has died at the age of 87 28 May 2014 Charles Winthrop Molesworth Swithinbank was born on 17 November 1926 in Burma and died on 27 May 2014 in Cambridgeshire. His earliest polar work was...
Stan Paterson, an honorary IGS member and Richardson Medal recipient, has died at the age of 89 8 October 2013 Stan Paterson graduated in 1949 with an honours degree from the University of Edinburgh, where he worked as a lecturer prior to his selection for the survey...
Sigfús J Johnsen, a long standing IGS member and Seligman Crystal recipient has died at the age of 73 Sigfús was born 27 April 1940 in Iceland. He completed his BSc degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Copenhagen in 1960 and an MSc in experimental...
Mark Meier, an IGS honorary member and Seligman Crystal recipient has died at the age of 87 25 November 2012 Prof. Mark F. C, prominent American glaciologist, passed away in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday, November 25, 2012. He had been a resident of Boulder since 1985,...