IGS Global Seminar Series

May 12th 2021 Martin Schneebeli, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos, 'Seeing snow on sea ice during the MOSAiC expedition'

May 19th 2021 Hilmar Gudmundsson, University of Northumbria, 'Dynamics of large ice masses'

May 26th 2021 Mark Carey, Oregon University, 'The Inequality of Ice Loss: Perspectives from a Social Scientist'

June 2nd 2021 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 […]

June 9th 2021 Robin Bell, Columbia University, New York, 'Connecting Our Science with Coastal Communities'

June 16th 2021 Miriam Jackson, ICIMOD, ´ICIMOD's cryosphere research in High Mountain Asia: past and future´

June 23rd 2021 Olga Sergienko, Princeton University, 'Marine ice-sheet instability is an exception, not the rule'

June 30th 2021 Julien Chaput, University of Texas at El Paso, 'Singing snow: How Antarctic firn traps seismic waves and reveals dynamic environmental forcing'

July 7th 2021 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 2021 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 2021 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 2021 Slawek Tulaczyk, Santa Cruz, 'All that glitters is not water: strong radar reflectors are not necessarily subglacial lakes on Earth and Mars'