IGS Global Seminar Series

September 15th 2021 Ingrid Reiweger, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, 'Snow avalanche release'

September 22nd 2021 David Rounce, Carnegie Mellon University, 'Projecting global glacier mass change through 2100 with the Python Glacier Evolution Model (PyGEM)'

September 29th 2021 Romain Millan, IGE Grenoble, 'Ice velocity mapping of the world's glaciers helps to reconcile the ice thickness distribution with glacier dynamics'

October 6th 2021 Three shorter talks: Denis V. Sharapov, Tyumen State University, Russia. 'Northwest Siberia as a MIS 2 desert? Inferences from quartz morphoscopy and polygonal ice wedges.' Sarah Neuhaus, UC Santa Cruz, 'Mechanism for the Subglacial Formation of Cryogenic Brines' Brianna Rick, Colorado State University, 'Ice-marginal lake evolution in Alaska'

Ralf Greve, Professor at the Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Japan, gave this week’s IGS Global Seminar entitled: “Of cold ice, warm ice and water: thermodynamics of ice sheets and glaciers”. Ralf is an experienced hand in theoretical fluid mechanics applied to glaciers and ice sheets, and worked for many of his early years with renowned […]

October 20th 2021 Gavin Piccione, University of California, Santa Cruz, 'Subglacial precipitates record the East Antarctic Ice sheets response to ocean forcing'

October 27th 2021 Seelye Martin, School of Oceanography, University of Washington and Maria Coryell-Martin, 'Expeditionary art: drawing inspiration from the past to communicate climate science'

November 3rd 2021 Karen Alley, University of Manitoba, 'The role of channelized basal melt in ice-shelf fracture and stability'

November 10th 2021 Early Career Scientist slots Eric Petersen, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 'Heat flux through supraglacial debris - a case study on the Kennicott Glacier, Alaska' Ewa Poniecka, University of Warsaw, 'Anaerobic biogeochemistry of cryoconite holes' Suryanarayanan Balasubramanian, University of Fribourg, 'The surprising weather conditions favouring Icestupa growth'

November 17th 2021 Brad Lipovsky, University of Washington, 'Rifts, Cliffs, and an Achilles' Heel: Perspectives on ice shelf durability from seismology, altimetry, and mechanical models'

November 24th 2021 Bryn Hubbard, Katie Miles from Aberystwyth University, Duncan Quincey from the University of Leeds and Ann Rowan from University of Sheffield jointly present their talk on: ‘Everdrill: Insights from the interior of a Himalayan debris covered glacier’

December 1st 2021 Iceland's National Day: Guðfinna Aðalgeirsdóttir (Tolly), University of Iceland, 'The glaciers in Iceland during the last and current century'