First Annual General Meeting (AGM) in 27 months was held During the IGS Nordic Branch meeting at the beginning of November. New Council elected. New Council Members President Gwenn Flowers (Canada) (2021-2024) Vice President Andrey Glazovsky (Russia) (2021-2024) Petra...
Gorow Wakahama, a professor emeritus of Hokkaido University and an IGS honorary member, passed away on 18th December 2021. Gorow had been an active member of the Society since he joined IGS in 1970. He served as the Vice President from 1988 to 1991 and acted as the...
October 13th, 2021, saw Ralf Greve from the Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Japan, give his talk ´Of cold ice, warm ice and water: thermodynamics of ice sheets and glaciers´. Ralf Greve, Professor at the Institute of Low Temperature Science,...
The new issue of ICE (185) is now available on line. This is an important issue as it outlines the amendments we are making to the constitution. We are hoping the amended IGS constitution will be ratified at the IGS Annual General Meeting scheduled to be held during...
Gerd Wendler passed away from lung cancer at home in Fairbanks, Alaska on Oct. 13, 2021, at the age of 82. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, on June 16, 1939, to Friedrich and Hildegard Wendler. After his father was killed in the war, his mother raised him, along with...
It is with great sadness that we belatedly acknowledge the loss of Dr Renoj J. Thayyen, a valued member of the Himalayan glaciology community and of the International Glaciological Society. Born in Kannur, Kerala State of India on 9 April 1968, Dr. Thayyen was married...
Roger LeBaron Hooke passed away on 10 March 2021, a few days after sustaining severe head injuries in an ice-skating fall. He was 82 years old. As his widow put it to me, the ice finally got him. Roger's scientific contributions covered a wide range of topics, but...
Following a fall and a short illness, Al passed away on 13 February 2021 at age 83, in Seattle, Washington, USA. Al was born in 1937 in Enumclaw, in the foothills of the Washington Cascades near Seattle. He graduated from West Seattle High School, and in 1959 he...
After a long illness, William (Will) Douglas Harrison passed away on 30 October 2020 in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, where he had spent the last 48 years of his life. Will was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1936; the year of Black Rapids Glacier’s last...
Wendell Verner Tangborn passed away on 3 October 2020. He was 93. The cause of death was congestive heart failure. He died peacefully at Mirabella Retirement Community, in Seattle, Washington, USA, where he lived with his wife Andrea Lewis. Born in Sioux City, Iowa,...