It is with great sadness we inform you of the death of John Glen on 15 June 2023. John joined the IGS in 1949 and was one of the oldest IGS members. John Glen is a very highly recognized scientist, having been awarded the Seligman Crystal in 1972. And he is among the...
Gary A. Maykut died peacefully at his home on 10 March 2023. Gary held the position of Research Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington from the early 1970s until his retirement in 2004. Gary pioneered the numerical...
A memorial to celebrate the life of Professor David Vaughan OBE Organised by the British Antarctic Survey
The Second Circular for the International Symposium on The Edges of Glaciology The meeting will be held 2–7 July 2023 at the Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland If you have not already done so, please register your interest to attend...
We are extremely saddend to inform you that our colleague David Vaughan died on 9 February 2023 following a battle with cancer. David was a long standing member of the IGS, he joined the Society in 1984 and has been a member ever since. He was a scientific editor for...
The Second Circular for the International Symposium on Sea Ice across Spatial and Temporal Scales is now online. The meeting will be held 4–9 June 2023, at the Hotel Atlantic Hotel Sail City in Bremerhaven, Germany. If you have not already done so, please register...
Last Tueday/Wednesday, 29/30 November was the very first online meeting the IGS Council has had. We had to amend the IGS Constitution to be able to do this, it has to be specifically stated in there that online meetings are alloweds. We got the final approval of the...
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen Hans Oerlemans 2022 Balzan Prize for Glaciation and Ice-Sheet Dynamics IGS members Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and Hans Oerlemans have been awarded the 2022 Balzan Prize for Glaciation and Ice-Sheet Dynamics for their joint and complementary fundamental and...
Nominations for the International Glaciological Society (IGS) Awards for 2022 are due 15 Nov 2022. The awards include: • The Seligman Crystal (awarded to a single person or a collaborative group/team that has made exceptional scientific contributions to glaciology,...
The Symposium program for the International Symposium on ‘SNOW’ is now online. The meeting is held in Davos, Switzerland, 25–30 September 2022. Please note there are some tabs at the top of the page which have not been activated yet. They will be soon. As is usual for...