Past Events

We are pleased to announce that the 13th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Science (ISAES 2019) will be held during July 22-26, 2019, at the Songdo Convensia in Incheon, Republic of Korea. The symposium aims to bring together Antarctic earth scientists from different areas in order to gather and highlight their outstanding expertise and ideas.

Major themes of the symposium include:

1. Continental evolution of Antarctica
2. Antarctic solid earth structure and interactions with the cryosphere
3. Past and present permafrost changes in Antarctica
4. Glacial history of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
5. Antarctic surface processes and landscape
6. Changes in the Southern Ocean
7. Climate change in the 21st century
8. Antarctica and the evolution of life
9. Remote sensing and satellite imagery
10. General Antarctic earth sciences

The abstract submission for the forthcoming 27th IUGG General Assembly to be held July 8-18, 2019, at the Palais des Congrès in Montréal (Québec, Canada) is now open.

We are encouraging submissions to the following IACS session:

C06 "New Frontiers in Paleoclimate Reconstructions and Proxy Interpretations from Ice Cores".

Session Description

This symposium welcomes contributions of state-of-the-art ice core science from both polar regions as well as mid and low latitude glaciers. We invite contributions on, but not limited to, the following topics:

• results from new drilling campaigns
• new analytical and drilling techniques
• advances in ice-core proxy interpretations
• paleoclimate reconstructions which may integrate other natural archives and / or develop array reconstructions
• climate model simulations, including isotope enabled models
• ice/bedrock investigations from ice core and fast access drilling projects

Contributions on different temporal scales spanning the past decades to glacial-interglacial cycles are encouraged.

Convener: Barbara Stenni (Italy)
Co-Conveners: Anais Orsi (France), Nancy A. N. Bertler (New Zealand), T.J. Fudge (USA

The abstract submission closes on 18 February 2019.

Abstract submission, online registration and accommodation reservation are all now open at: http://iugg2019montreal.com/abstract-submission.html

More information about the event is available at: http://iugg2019montreal.com/index.html

The full list of cryospheric symposia is here http://iugg2019montreal.com/c.html

Travel Grants: IACS and IUGG will together support a large number of travel grants to enable students, early career scientists, female scientists and attendees from less-affluent countries to come to Montreal. More information is available here http://iugg2019montreal.com/travel-grant.html

We inform you that the third edition of STRATI Conference (STRATI2019) will be held in Milano (Italy), 2-5 July 2019, and we cordially invite you to contribute to this special session dedicated to the ice core community.

Deadline is the 10 March 2019, at www.strati2019.it

Topic – T6: Antarctic and Arctic

Title of the Session: Ice core stratigraphy: regional to global paleoclimatic reconstruction

Polar and high mountain glaciers provide information about past climate and environmental conditions on timescales from decades to hundreds of millennia, as well as direct records of the composition of the atmosphere. Ice cores contain highly detailed continuous stratigraphic records extending from the present to 800 ka BP. A large variety of climate proxies, related to atmospheric and climate changes can be analysed and dated with an accuracy ranging from a few years, for recent centuries, to a few millennia for older records. Over the past two decades, the contribution of ice core studies to the reconstruction and interpretation of past climate changes became fundamental: they allowed the direct measurement of greenhouse gas changes in the past and the detection of rapid climatic changes.

You can reach the Second Circular at this link: http://www.strati2019.it/documents/SecondCircularSTRATI2019.pdf

Valter Maggi, Robert Mulvaney, Samuel Albani, Jefferson Simoe

ICESat-2 Cryospheric Science Hackweek is a 5-day hackweek to be held at the University of Washington. Participants will learn about technologies used to access and process ICESat-2 data with a focus on the cryosphere. Mornings will consist of interactive lectures, and afternoon sessions will involve facilitated exploration of datasets and hands-on software development.

The Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) was initiated by IASC in 1999 to provide opportunities for coordination, cooperation and collaboration between the various scientific organizations involved in Arctic research and to economize on travel and time. Over the years the summit evolved into the most important annual gathering of the Arctic research organizations. The summit is organized by an International Coordination Group and any organization engaged in supporting and facilitating Arctic research may participate.

More information will be available soon.

Please consider submitting an abstract to the dedicated ice core session at EGU in 2019:
CL1.11/CR5.6 The state-of-the-art in ice coring sciences (StatICS).

EGU will be held from 7-12 April 2019 in Vienna, Austria. The session programme is here: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/sessionprogramme

The abstract deadline is 10 January 2019.

On behalf of the session convenors,
Paul Vallelonga, Anja Eichler, Thomas Blunier, Rachael Rhodes and Vasileios Gkinis

The state-of-the-art in ice coring sciences (StatICS)

The half-century since the first deep ice core drilling at Camp Century, Greenland, has seen extensive innovation in methods of ice sample extraction, analysis, and interpretation. Ice core sciences include isotopic diffusion analysis, multiple-isotope systematics, trace gases, and their isotopic compositions, ice structure and physical properties, high-resolution analysis of major and trace impurities, and studies of DNA and radiochemistry in ice, among many others. Many climate and geochemical proxies have been identified from ice cores, with ongoing effort to extend their application and refine their interpretation. Great challenges remain in the field of ice coring sciences, including the identification of suitable sites for recovery of million-year-old ice; spatial integration of climate records (e.g. PAGES groups Antarctica2k and Iso2k); and deeper understanding of glaciological phenomena such as streaming flow, folding of layers and basal ice properties. This session welcomes all contributions reporting the state-of-the-art in ice coring sciences, including drilling and processing, dating, analytical techniques, results and interpretations of ice core records from polar ice sheets and mid- and low-latitude glaciers, remote and autonomous methods of surveying ice stratigraphy, and related modeling research.

The EGU General Assembly 2019 will bring together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience. The EGU is looking forward to cordially welcoming you in Vienna.

The Arctic Workshop is an annual meeting dedicated to all aspects of high-latitude Earth science and environmental research. Running since 1970, the workshop is an informal meeting space for scientists at all career stages working in fields encompassing high- latitude climate, hydrology, glaciology, oceanography, ecology, archaeology, solid Earth processes and hazards in past, present and future environments.

We welcome research contributions on any of these themes, and we particularly encourage student and early career scientist participation (reduced student fees).

We look forward to seeing you in Stockholm!

The 2019 Alpine Glaciology Meeting (AGM) will be hosted in Innsbruck, Austria. The meeting serves as informal exchange platform for researchers working on snow, glaciers, permafrost and glacial geomorphology in all regions of the world. Oral and poster presentations are welcome, and young researchers are especially encouraged to present their work in progress!

There is no registration fee to the meeting, but we recommend to book your accommodation in advance, since Innsbruck is a beloved tourist destination this time of year.

The meeting will be held in the Aula of the main building of the University of Innsbruck, in close vicinity of the town center.

The Workshop on the Dynamics and Mass Budget of Arctic Glaciers & the IASC Network on Arctic Glaciology Annual Meeting will host a cross-cutting activity of the Marine and Cryosphere working groups of IASC: “The importance of Arctic glaciers for the Arctic marine ecosystem”.

The purpose of the meeting is:

• Present and discuss new results on observations and modeling of the dynamics and mass budget of Arctic glaciers, including the Greenland ice sheet.
• Provide a forum for glaciologists to present and discuss their work and to stimulate future collaborations.
• Plan and coordinate field work with the aim of using available infrastructure and logistics in the most efficient way.

Participation:
Participation is open to everyone interested in Arctic glaciology and proglacial marine ecosystems. The cross-cutting activity aims at bringing together people from glaciology, marine ecology and oceanography.