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 […]
We are pleased to announce the 12th International Workshop on Sea Ice Modelling, Assimilation, Observations, Predictions and Verification (aka IICWG-DA-12) which will take place in Frascati on 5-6-7 November 2024, at ESRIN, the ESA Centre for Earth Observation. As in previous editions, we welcome contributions in the fields of sea-ice modelling, data assimilation, observations, forecast […]
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'
The Norwegian glacier Blåisen, an outlet glacier of the Hardangerjøkulen, located in southwest Norway close to Finse. The ice cap is the sixth largest ice cap on the Norwegian mainland. Photo taken on 7 Sept. 2024 by Gregoire Guillet. Scope of the workshop This workshop aims to bring together global glacier modelers, providing a platform […]
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'
26th of February 2025 Aditya Khuller from Arizona State University presents a talk on 'Evolution of H2O Ice on Mars: Implications for present-day liquid water'
I'd like to remind you to save the date of the 28th Alpine Glaciology Meeting on 27th and 28th February 2025 in Innsbruck (Austria).
12 March 2025 This week’s IGS Global Seminar, Wednesday 12th March is a presentation and panel discussion: 'Supporting our science colleagues in America: status and suggested actions'. Please note, this session is not be recorded and thus not posted on the IGS YouTube channel.
26th of March 2025 Diego Cusicanqui from Université Grenoble Alpes will talk about 'Glacier, permafrost and thermokarst interactions in mountain enviroments: A seven-decade study of the Chauvet system'.