Wallace S. “Wally” Broecker died on Monday February 18, 2019 in Manhattan, New York. He was 87. Broecker was a leading climate scientist who coined the terms “Global Warming,” “Abrupt Climate Change,” and commented on the “unplanned, man-made climate experiment.” He...
John Nye died peacefully on 8 January 2019 following heart failure. John would have have become 96 next month. His funeral will take place in Bristol on 26 January. For more details contact the IGS office at igsoc@igsoc.org. John joined the IGS in 1950 and was thus...
It is with great sadness that the New Zealand branch of the International Glaciological Society and wider snow and ice research community acknowledge the passing of Dr Trevor Chinn. Trevor died on the morning of 20th December 2018 following a recent stroke. Trevor was...
On December 10, 2018 Dr. Almut Iken died peacefully at the Johanniter Haus in Bremen, Germany. Almut was born on 1 October, 1933 in Bremen. Shortly afterwards her family moved to Leipzig where her father operated a book store. In 1945 with the approach of the Red...
Dr. Lorne Gold, a respected member of Canada’s “Ice Research” community, and a long-time member of IGS, died in Ottawa on December 11, 2018 at the age of 90. He was recognized by both engineers and scientists for his contributions to northern engineering and more...
It is with great sadness that we inform you that Dr Keiji Higuchi has died on October 19th at the age of 92. He was made an honorary member of the Society in 2016. His contribution to glaciology has many aspects, but notably in the polymorphic characteristics of snow...
It is with great sadness that the IGS reports the passing of Johannes Weertman, Walter P. Murphy Professor Emeritus in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University. Hans passed away on 13 October 2018 after a brief, unexpected illness...
J Graham Cogley, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography, Trent University, Canada. Graham passed away on 4 October 2018 in Peterborough, Ontario, at the age of 70. Graham has made substantial and enduring contributions to glaciology in particular to the...
Professor Emeritus Terence Joseph Hughes, born 15 February 1938 in Fort Pierre, South Dakota, U.S.A., passed away on 10 March 2018 at his home in Fort Pierre. He was 80. He died from inoperable pancreatic cancer that had spread to his liver, diagnosed in 2010....
A tribute by John F. Nye Alan Stewart Thorndike, glaciologist, died in Easton, Maryland, USA on 8 January 2018, aged 72, after a short illness with an aggressive pneumonia. Alan will be remembered as a kind and generous man with a powerful intellect, a scholar, man of...