Past Events

The AGU 2018 Fall Meeting will mark another dynamic year of discovery in Earth and space science, serve as the advent of AGU’s Centennial year, and provide a special opportunity to share our science with world leaders in Washington, D.C. As the largest Earth and space science gathering in the world, the Fall Meeting places you in the center of a global community of scientists drawn from myriad fields of study whose work protects the health and welfare of people worldwide, spurs innovation, and informs decisions that are critical to the sustainability of the Earth.

The Geological Society of America (GSA) will hold its 130th Annual Meeting from 4-7 November 2018 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

GSA is a global professional society with a growing membership of more than 26,000 individuals in 115 countries. GSA provides access to elements that are essential to the professional growth of earth scientists at all levels of expertise and from all sectors: academic, government, business, and industry. The Society unites thousands of earth scientists from every corner of the globe in a common purpose to study the mysteries of our planet (and beyond) and share scientific findings.

The Antarctic, Arctic and Tibetan Plateau are located in the furthest ends and the highest peak of the Earth. The climate systems of the three regions greatly influence the weather and environment of the world through interactions between the five spheres of the Earth, and the research related to those regions takes an important scientific status in the global change research.

Wuhan University and Beijing Normal University would like to invite you to Wuhan, China for the International Symposium on Remote Sensing and Global Change: The Antarctic, Arctic, and Tibetan Plateau. The symposium will focus on the latest result and development in theory, technology and application of remote sensing in the Antarctic, Arctic and Tibetan Plateau, promoting the participants to exchange their innovative thoughts.

Topics:

1) Surveying, mapping and remote sensing in the Antarctic, Arctic and Tibetan Plateau
2) Sea ice in the Antarctic and Arctic
3) Ice sheet mass balance
4) Climate and environment in the Antarctic and Arctic
5) Climate and environment in the Tibetan Plateau
6) Cooperative observation in the Antarctic, Arctic and Tibetan Plateau

The PhD course is aimed at PhD students and junior postdocs who conduct ice core analysis or are users of ice core data (glaciological, oceanographic, climate modelers, earth scientists). ICAT aims to educate a new generation of ice core researchers and foster a collaborative environment for future glaciological projects.

This course will educate young scientists regarding new methods developed for the analysis of ice cores with regard to climate research, with dedicated theoretical and laboratory exercise sessions.

LECTURES INCLUDE:
Margit Schwikowski, Carlo Barbante, Johannes Freitag, Thomas Blunier, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Christine Hvidberg, Paul Vallelonga, Mai Winstrup, Sune Olander Rasmussen, Bo Vinther, Helle Astrid Kjær, and more…

APPLICATION:
Submit your application by June 1st 2018. You will be notified of the decision of the Selection Committee by July 1st, 2018.

The 25th annual West Antarctic Ice Sheet Workshop will be held this September at Stony Point Center in Stony Point, NY, followed seamlessly by the Thwaites Glacier Program meeting. The WAIS Workshop begins Sunday late afternoon, September 16 and ends with a 1-1/2 day section on Thwaites and Pine Island Glacier and the planned Thwaites Glacier Program. On Wednesday afternoon, the discussion will turn to the Thwaites Program preliminary research and coordination, concluding Thursday with discussion on logistics for the future proposed field seasons. Please consider the relevance of these later sections to your own work when planning your stay.

Registration fees have not yet been determined, and we welcome people to attend both meetings or the one of most interest. More information will be shared in the coming months through this list.

Best regards,
Ted Scambos and Betsy Sheffield
University of Colorado Boulder

The 25th annual West Antarctic Ice Sheet Workshop will be held this September at Stony Point Center in Stony Point, NY, followed seamlessly by the Thwaites Glacier Program meeting. The WAIS Workshop begins Sunday late afternoon, September 16 and ends with a 1-1/2 day section on Thwaites and Pine Island Glacier and the planned Thwaites Glacier Program. On Wednesday afternoon, the discussion will turn to the Thwaites Program preliminary research and coordination, concluding Thursday with discussion on logistics for the future proposed field seasons. Please consider the relevance of these later sections to your own work when planning your stay.

Registration fees have not yet been determined, and we welcome people to attend both meetings or the one of most interest. More information will be shared in the coming months through this list.

Best regards,
Ted Scambos and Betsy Sheffield
University of Colorado Boulder

We are looking forward to host the 2018 NWG Meeting at the University of Alaska Fairbanks on 7/8 September. Please mark your calendars. Details will follow at a later date.

The date is a bit earlier than usual; we hope it will enable you to enjoy some beautiful fall weather in addition to a lot of exciting glaciological news.

Martin Truffer <mtruffer2@alaska.edu>

FRISP is a subcommmittee of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Working Group of Glaciology. For several years the work of the FRISP parties was focused on the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf (FRIS). But meanwhile the geographical restriction to FRIS was widened up and other ice shelves have been included into the investigations. FRISP started out as an European forum, but now welcomes any scientist working on ice shelves and related issues. FRISP remains a focus on glaciology, but the scope is extended to include continental shelf oceanography, meteorology, and quaternary paleoclimatology to encourage discussion between these disciplines. More info can be found on FRISP website. Workshops are regularly organised, and this year workshop, FRISP-2018, is organised by JB Sallée and N. Jourdain.

This is a side meeting at the POLAR2018 conference in Davos, Switzerland. This side meeting will be held on 20 June at 18:30-21:30, Room A Dischma. The primary purpose of the meeting is to discuss priorities and possibilities for international cooperation in Antarctic subglacial exploration. Contact Pavel Talalay (ptalalay@yahoo.com) if you are interesting in attending or giving a talk, or if you simply want to know the outcomes from the side meeting.

POLAR2018 is a joint event from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research SCAR and the International Arctic Science Committee IASC. The SCAR meetings, the ASSW and the Open Science Conference will be hosted by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL under the patronage of the Swiss Committee on Polar and High Altitude Research. The WSL-Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF is organising POLAR2018,  which will take place in Davos, Switzerland from 15 - 26 June 2018.