IGS Global Seminar Series

September 30th 2020 Three shorter talks: William Harcourt, University of St. Andrews, 'New opportunities for glacier mapping using millimetre-wave radar' Michalea King, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, 'Nonuniform response of Greenland Outlet glaciers to seasonal meltwater working' Lauren Vargo, University of Wellington, 'Anthropogenic warning forces extreme annual glacier mass loss'

October 7th 2020 Fiamma Straneo, Scripps, UCSD, U.S.A., 'Ahoy Captain is that a glacier up ahead? Lessons learned from working at Greenland's marine margins'

October 14th 2020  Ellyn Enderlin, Boise State University, USA, 'Exploring controls on glacier dynamics: What remotely-sensed iceberg calving, submarine melting, and frontal ablation datasets tell us about ocean forcing'

October 21st 2020 Richard Alley, Penn State University, USA, 'Here be dragons… exploring the long tail of sea-level rise'

October 28th 2020 Isabella Velicogna, UC Irvine, 'Ice sheet mass balance, sea level and equity, diversity and inclusion in science'

November 4th 2020 Three shorter talks: Melissa Diaz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 'Change at 85 Degrees South: Shackleton Glacier Region Proglacial Lakes from 1960 to 2020' Ben Davison, University of St. Andrews, 'Iceberg melting substantially modifies oceanic heat flux towards a major Greenlandic tidewater glacier' Rebecca Schlegel, Swansea University, 'Rapid subglacial erosion and bed properties under […]

November 11th 2020 Steve Warren, University of Washington, and Kevin Hand, JPL, NASA, 'Snow spikes in the dry Andes; maybe not on Europa'

November 18th 2020 Martyn Tranter and Alex Anesio, Aarhus University, Denmark, 'Biological Darkening of the Greenland Ice Sheet'

November 25th 2020 David Shapero, University of Washington, 'A live demo of the glacier flow modeling package icepack'

December 2nd 2020 Shin Sugiyama, Hokkaido University, Japan, 'Freshwater calving glaciers in Patagonia'

December 9th 2020 Agneta Fransson, NPI, Oslo, 'Glacial water impacts on the chemical characteristics of sea ice and seawater and ocean acidification in Svalbard fjords'.

January 13th 2020 Francisco Navarro, Madrid, 'Hiatus of mass losses from Hurd and Johnsons glaciers, Livingston Island, during the regional cooling period 2002-2016 of the Northern Antarctic Peninsula'