The 2024 IGS British Branch meeting, will be held at the Moot Room (in the South Campus Teaching Hub, building number 120 in square E2 on the campus map) at the University of Liverpool on Monday 2 September and 3 September, 2024 REMEMBER, we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the British Branch! The meeting […]
The Arctic, Antarctica and High Mountain Asia are considered to be the most sensitive regions to global climate change, driven by cross-spheric interactions. Changes in these regions have a significant impact on the living environment and societal developments. The rapid development of satellite remote sensing technology has facilitated the observation and retrieval of critical environmental […]
25 September 2024 Paul Bierman from the University of Vermont will give his talk on 'New science and old history from beneath Greenland’s ice - the power of sampling the bed of an ice sheet'
9 October 2024 Advik Eswaran from Princeton University, USA and he talks about 'Antarctic 20th-Century Sea Level Mitigation Dominated By Uncertainty in 19th-Century East Antarctic Snow Accumulation' Laura J. Dietrich from the Universityof Bergen & Bjerknes Center for Climate Research, Norway and she talks about 'How can ice record the climate?' Marissa E. Dattler from […]
The Northwest Glaciologists Meeting for 2024 will be held at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA. Details will follow in the summer. Martin Truffer on behalf of the glaciology team
23 October 2024 Doug MacAyeal from the University of Chicago talks about 'A controversial edge of Glaciology: Should research on engineering interventions into ice-loss-driven sea-level rise be banned? Pros and cons, plus a discussion.' A transcript of the discussion that took place during the presentation and discussion on the 'chat'
Snæfellsjökull The next IGS Nordic branch meeting is co-arranged by the Icelandic Meteorological Office and the University of Iceland and held in person on 30 October and – 1 November 2024. The meeting will held at the Röst community centre (Félagsheimilið Röst) in the town of Hellissandur on the Snæfellsnes peninsula. We will be within […]
6 November 2024 Pat Wongpan from the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership (AAPP) gives a talk on 'Gross Primary Production of Antarctic Landfast Sea Ice: A Model-Based Estimate' Natalie Robinson from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research or NIWA, New Zealand, presents an 'Live from the field: Biological and physical properties of sub-ice platelet layers with […]
4 December 2024 Shuai Yan from the University of Washington discusses 'Basal Ice Unit Characterization by Aero-geophysical Surveying and Numerical Iceflow Modeling at the Southern flank of Dome A' View the video at https://youtu.be/STMJFcYhdNA
15th January2025 Liss Marie Andreassen and colleagues will present 'Vanishing glaciers & 2025 International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation'
20 Novbember 2024 Remya SN from the Amrita University, India, will discuss 'Climate Change and Associated Geohazards in the Himalayan Cryosphere System'
12th of February 2025 Alex Crawford from the Centre for Earth Observation Science, University of Manitoba gives her talk on 'Pauses in Arctic-Wide Autumn Sea Ice Expansion'
