London - 9pm

Europe - 10pm

East Coast US - 4pm

West Coast US - 1pm

Australia - 6am

Tokyo - 5am

January 26th
Nozomu Takeuchi, Chiba University, Japan - 'Cryoconite: the dark side of glaciers'

Here is a listing of all the seminars, from the beginning up until September.
To watch the video of a talk, please click on the title of the talk and you will be taken to the IGS u-tube channel

Future seminars will feature... your favourite researchers... including YOU! Please volunteer or respond positively to the invite you get sent!

• 15th April, Helen Fricker (Scripps, San Diego) presents her Nye lecture from AGU 2019 that so many of us missed 'Demystifying Antarctica: what have we learned from the past 100 years of observations, and what comes next?'
• 22nd April, Sridhar Anandakrishnan (Penn State) on: 'Stability of Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica, and its potential contribution to sea level rise.'
• 29th April, Caroline Clason, Plymouth University UK, 'The downstream impacts of retreating glaciers on water, food, and energy security: an anthropogenic hangover'
• 6th May, No seminar as it’s EGU week
• 13th May, Neil Ross, Newcastle University UK, 'The Foundation Ice Stream-Academy Glacier complex, Antarctica: what we know & what we should find out'
• 20th May, Erin Pettit, University of Alaska, Fairbanks USA. 'Glaciers are bad swimmers and once entering the ocean find something to hold onto'
• 27th May, Jack Kohler, Norsk Polar Institutt, 'Twenty years of Svalbard fieldwork: a couple of 100 gigatons of ice, lots of surges, two polar bears and one pandemic later'
• June 3rd, Adam Booth, Leeds University UK, 'Fantastic fibre-optics! New technology in glacier seismic surveying'
• June 11th, Frances Butcher, Sheffield University UK, 'Recent glaciation on Mars: stubbornly cold-based or reluctantly wet-based?'
• 17th June, Christine Dow, University of Waterloo, Canada 'The role of Antarctic subglacial hydrology in ice dynamics and stability'
• June 24th, Camilla Snowman Andresen, GEUS Denmark 'Major glaciological changes by the three big ones on Greenland at the onset of the 20th century'
• July 1st, Hester Jiskoot (Chief Editor of Journal of Glaciology and Annals of Glaciology), University of Lethbridge Canada, 'The Journal, the Annals, the glaciologist and the editorial process'
• July 8th, Doug MacAyeal, University of Chicago US, 'Backyard glaciological phenomena: investigation of snow rollers during a Chicago quarantine'
• July 15th, Bernd Kulessa and Cloe Gustafson, Swansea University UK. 'Wet hot rocks and cool geophysics: does groundwater lubricate Antarctic ice flow?'
• July 22nd, three shorter talks:
  • Samira Samini (University of Calgary) 'Meltwater penetration through temperate ice layers in the percolation ice zone at DYE-2, Greenland Ice Sheet”' and
  • Sammie Buzzard (Ice and Climate Group, Georgia Tech) 'A 3-D model for ice shelf hydrology' and
  • Keir Nichols (Tulane University) 'Untangling deglaciation in the Weddell Sea Embayment with in situ C-14 exposure dating'
• July 29th, Christina Hulbe (presenting) University of Otago, NZ for the whole Aotearoa New Zealand RIS programme team, 'Calm, cool and collected: Ice, ocean and sediment in the central Ross Ice Shelf'
• Aug 5th, Talks by the 2020 Graham Cogley Award winners.
  • Carlo Licciulli 'Full Stokes ice-flow modeling of the high-Alpine glacier saddle Colle Gnifetti, Swiss/Italian Alps' and
  • Paul Weber 'Producing an ~1899 glacier inventory for Nordland, northern Norway, from historical maps'
    
    and we can guarantee both talks will be fabulous!
• Aug 12th, summer holidays for the series!
• Aug 19th, Ditto!
• Aug 26th, Heather Purdie, Canterbury University, NZ, 'Morphological changes to the terminus of a maritime glacier during advance and retreat phases: Fox Glacier/Te Moeka o Tūawe, New Zealand'
• Sept 2nd, Frank Pattyn, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 'The uncertain future of the Antarctic ice sheet' or 'The sound and harmony of marine ice sheet instability'.
• Sept 9th, Doug Benn, St Andrews University, UK, 'Icy oscillators: a widescreen view of glacier surges.'
• Sept 16th, Ginny Catania, University of Texas at Austin, USA, 'Topographic control on Greenland outlet glacier retreat and thinning'
• Sept 23rd, Eric Rignot, JPL NASA, USA, 'Keep on rockin' at the grounding line'

• Sept 30th 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'
• Oct 7th Fiamma Straneo, Scripps, UCSD, U.S.A., 'Ahoy Captain is that a glacier up ahead? Lessons learned from working at Greenland's marine margins'
• Oct 14th 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'
• Oct 21st Richard Alley, Penn State University, USA, 'Here be dragons… exploring the long tail of sea-level rise'
• Oct 28th Isabella Velicogna, UC Irvine, 'Ice sheet mass balance, sea level and equity, diversity and inclusion in science'

• Nov 4th 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 the Rutford Ice Stream'
• Nov 11th Steve Warren, University of Washington, and Kevin Hand, JPL, NASA, 'Snow spikes in the dry Andes; maybe not on Europa'
• Nov 18th Martyn Tranter and Alex Anesio, Aarhus University, Liane G. Benning, GFZ Potsdam, 'Biological Darkening of the Greenland Ice Sheet'
• Nov 25th David Shapero, University of Washington, 'A live demo of the glacier flow modeling package icepack'
• Dec 2nd Shin Sugiyama, Hokkaido University, Japan, 'Freshwater calving glaciers in Patagonia'
• Dec 9th Agneta Fransson, NPI, Oslo, 'Glacial water impacts on the chemical characteristics of sea ice and seawater and ocean acidification in Svalbard fjords'.
• Dec 16th – Jan 13th Christmas holiday
• Jan 13th 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'
• Jan 20th Adrian Luckman, Swansea University, 'Larsen C and Brunt Ice Shelves - ice dynamics, rifts and stuff'
• Jan 27th Beata Csatho, University at Buffalo, 'Capturing the Evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet with Remote Sensing; Bridging Past and Future'
• Feb 3rd Three shorter talks:
  • Nate Stevens, University of Wisconsin, 'Tuning into the stick-slip channel: observations of tight linkage between melt-season hydrology and seismogenic sliding at Saskatchewan Glacier'
  • Kate Winter, Northumbria University, 'Radar detected englacial sediments'
  • Jakob Steiner, Utrecht University / ICIMOD(Nepal), 'Vertical ice - ice cliffs in Greenland, the Alps the Himalaya'
• Feb 10th Mike Wood, JPL, 'Melt from below: Ocean warming and the demise of Greenland's glaciers'
• Feb 17th Regine Hock, University of Oslo, 'Assessing and projecting global glacier mass changes'
• Feb 24th Alex Robel, Georgia Tech, 'Beyond the Ice Sheet Stability Binary'

• March 3rd Three shorter talks:

  • Lavanya Ashokkumar, University of Arizona, 'Modelled estimates of mass loss rates from Arctic glaciers'
  • Jullian Williams (U Texas, San Antonio) 'Sea Ice lead detection in the Arctic'
  • Anna Bergstrom, Boise State University, 'The role of sediment on hydrological and biogeochemical connectivity on McMurdo Dry Valley Glaciers, Antarctica'
• March 10th Jon Hawkings (Florida State), Martin Tranter (Bristol), Mark Skidmore (Montana State) 'Glacier Biogeochemistry'

• March 17th Three shorter talks:

  • Maurice van Tiggelen, Utrecht University, 'The turbulent but predictable relationship between rough Greenland ice and the atmosphere : the story from a drone, ICESat -2 and several eddy covariance stations'
  • Lynn Kaluzienski, University of Maine, 'Modelling Ross Ice Shelf Sensitivity to Changes at its Western Lateral Margin using the Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM)'
  • Riley Culberg, Stanford Radio Glaciology, 'Extreme melt season ice layers reduce firn permeability in Greenland's interior'
• March 24th Dustin Schroeder, Stanford, 'Paths Forward in Radioglaciology'
• March 31st Drew Christ, University of Vermont, 'A multi-million-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century'
• April 14th Joseph Graly, Northumbria University, 'What do we know about subglacial geochemistry?'
• April 21st Lauren Simkins, University of Virginia, 'Landform evidence of persistent subglacial plumbing near grounding lines'
• April 28th Jan Lenaerts, University of Boulder at Colorado, 'Scratching the ice sheet surface: surface processes from observations and numerical models'

• May 5th Three shorter talks:

  • Mickey MacKie, Stanford Radio Glaciology, 'Simulating subglacial Greenland with geostatistics'
  • Emma Pearce, University of Leeds, 'Full Waveform Inversion for glaciological seismic data; Improving the seismic characterisation of glacier firn'
  • Nico Stoll, Alfred Wegener institute Bremerhaven, 'Impurities and deformation in the EGRIP ice core'
• May 12th Martin Schneebeli, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos, 'Seeing snow on sea ice during the MOSAiC expedition'
• May 19th Hilmar Gudmundsson, University of Northumbria, 'Dynamics of large ice masses'
• May 26th Mark Carey, Oregon University, 'The Inequality of Ice Loss: Perspectives from a Social Scientist'

• June 2nd Three shorter talks:

  • Denis Felikson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center & USRA/GESTAR, 'Seasonal tidewater glacier terminus oscillations bias multi-decadal projections of ice mass change'
  • Rajashree (Tri) Datta, University of Colorado, Boulder, 'Capturing Intense Melt Events on Ice Sheets and Ice Shelves'
  • Thomas Hudson, University of Oxford, 'Breaking the ice: Using icequakes to observe hydrofracture-induced crevassing'
• June 9th Robin Bell, Columbia University, New York, 'Connecting Our Science with Coastal Communities'
• June 16th Miriam Jackson, ICIMOD, ´ICIMOD's cryosphere research in High Mountain Asia: past and future´
• June 23rd Olga Sergienko, Princeton University, 'Marine ice-sheet instability is an exception, not the rule'
• June 30th Julien Chaput, University of Texas at El Paso, 'Singing snow: How Antarctic firn traps seismic waves and reveals dynamic environmental forcing'
• July 7th Elisabeth Hafner and Yves Bühler, WSL-Institut für Schnee- und Lawinenforschung SLF, 'Remote sensing for snow and avalanche research: Large scale avalanche mapping with satellites and photogrammetric snow depth mapping'
• July 14th Bastille day - enjoy a nice French wine with Jonathan Bamber, University of Bristol, 'Epistemic uncertainty in projections of ice sheet contributions to future sea level rise'

• July 21st Three shorter talks:

  • John Christian, UT Austin, 'Outlet glacier variability near instabilities'
  • Thomas Chen, Academy for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, 'The Role of Machine Learning in Glacial Assessment'
  • Beatriz Recinos Rivas, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, 'Simulating the ice thickness of tidewater glaciers at a regional scale'
• July 28th Slawek Tulaczyk, Santa Cruz, 'All that glitters is not water: strong radar reflectors are not necessarily subglacial lakes on Earth and Mars'

• August 4th Three shorter talks

  • Will Kochtitzky, University of Ottawa, ‘The calving flux of Northern Hemisphere glaciers’
  • Emily Schwans, Penn State, ‘Bed control on long-term dynamics for Thwaites Glacier’
  • TJ Young, University of Cambridge, 'Characterising ice fabric and flow enhancement from radar sounding'
• Then we will have a HOLIDAY... starting again in the fall/autumn.
• September 15th Ingrid Reiweger, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, 'Snow avalanche release'
• September 22nd David Rounce, Carnegie Mellon University, 'Projecting global glacier mass change through 2100 with the Python Glacier Evolution Model (PyGEM)'
• September 29th Romain Millan, IGE Grenoble, 'Ice velocity mapping of the world's glaciers helps to reconcile the ice thickness distribution with glacier dynamics'

• October 6th 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'
• October 13th Ralf Greve, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Japan, ´Of cold ice, warm ice and water: thermodynamics of ice sheets and glaciers´
• October 20th Gavin Piccione, University of California, Santa Cruz, 'Subglacial precipitates record the East Antarctic Ice sheets response to ocean forcing'
• October 27th 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 Karen Alley, University of Manitoba, 'The role of channelized basal melt in ice-shelf fracture and stability'

• November 10th 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 Brad Lipovsky, University of Washington, 'Rifts, Cliffs, and an Achilles' Heel: Perspectives on ice shelf durability from seismology, altimetry, and mechanical models'
• November 24th 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 Iceland's National Day: Guðfinna Aðalgeirsdóttir (Tolly), University of Iceland, 'The glaciers in Iceland during the last and current century'
• December 8th Allen Pope and students from the Juneau Icefield Research Program
• December 15th AGU Fall Meeting

Christmas break

• January 12th Ute Herzfeld, University of Boulder, Colorado, 'Lasers big and small -- From ICESat-2 to the surge of Negribreen, Svalbard'
• January 19th No talks - we get the day off

• January 26th Nozomu Takeuchi, Chiba University, Japan - 'Cryoconite: the dark side of glaciers'

• February 2nd Seligman Crystal talks
  • Douglas R. MacAyeal, University of Chicago - 'Who is Gerald Seligman'
  • Richard C A Hindmarsh, University of Durham - 'What we have done'
• February 9th Koji Fujita, Nagoya University 'Behind the Himalayan glacier fields'
• February 16th 3 ECR talks
  • Ugo NanniI, University of Oslo - 'Dynamic imaging of glacial structures with a dense seismic array: active/passive crevasses and subglacial hydrology.'
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• February 23rd Richard Alley, Penn State 'GHOSTly flute music: drumlins, moats, and the bed of Thwaites Glacier'
• March 2nd Alex Fraser, UTAS Tasmania 'Antarctic fast ice: why it matters, what we know, and what's missing?'
• March 9th Shelley MacDonell, Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA) 'Snow and ice in the desert: mountain hydrology and community engagement in the semiarid Chilean Andes'
• March 16th Felicity McCormack, Monash University, Australia 'Recent developments in modelling ice sheet deformation'
• March 23rd 3 ECR talks
  • 3 slots available
• March 30th Andres Rivera Ibanez, University of Chile 'Current status of Chilean glaciers and the discussion of a glacier law'
• April 6th Andy Aschwanden, Fairbanks, Alaska 'Predicting sea-level rise from ice sheets: the good, the bad, and the ugly'

EASTER BREAK

• April 15th = 2 YEARS of SEMINAR
• April 27th 3 ECR talks
  • 3 slots available
• May 4th JEDI-themed talks on Star Wars Day: Helen Amanda Fricker, Julia Wellner, Tavi Murray
  • JW: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) efforts of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC)
  • TM: 'Justice, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) in the climate emergency: how the IGS seminars contribute'
• May 11th Samuel Cook, IGE(CNRS) 'Fully-coupled 3D modelling of a large Greenlandic outlet glacier with evolving subglacial hydrology, frontal plume melting and calving'
• May 18th Donald Slater, University of Edinburgh 'Revisiting the crevasse depth calving law in the presence of submarine melting'
• May 25th Jane Hart, University of Southampton 'Exploring the subglacial environment'
• June 1st Sue Cook, UTAS Tasmania 'Ocean-driven melt of Antarctic ice shelves: integrating field measurements into a model intercomparison
• June 8th 3 ECR talks
  • 3 slots available