Organizers invite registration for the International Glaciological Society Annual Symposium titled Timescales, Processes, and Glacier Dynamics. This symposium will be held 3-8 June 2018 in Buffalo, New York.


Symposium Overview:


The physical processes controlling glacier dynamics form the basis of modern glaciology. In spite of the rapid growth in observational data, the ultimate scientific challenge continues to be relating observations to processes. Time-series observational data are essential to understanding processes; however, their analysis often reveals processes operating on timescales ranging from diurnal to millennial. Individual processes may underpin long-term glacier stability, promote instability, or drive natural variability in the glacier state. For example, gravitationally-driven flow is among the most fundamental processes in glaciology and is controlled by ice-surface slope and thickness. The evolution of the ice surface, in turn, reveals processes related to the mechanical controls on ice flow, firn compaction, development of supraglacial meltwater flow networks, basal melt, isostasy, and surface mass balance. Each of these processes alters the surface elevation and is characterized by a different timescale. Assessment of the processes producing changes over a particular time interval poses a major challenge. Hence, even routinely acquired data are difficult to reason about. Interpretation of other data, such as surface velocity, climatological data, radar stratigraphy, glacier history, ice core records, paleoclimate proxies, and in-situ observations, are also confounded by relations between processes and timescales.


Important information:

- Abstract submission is open until 23:59 GMT April 9 2018.
- Early registration deadline is extended until April 22, 2018.
- Application deadline for early career support is 12 April, 2018.
- Book your accommodation ASAP


We have been able to negotiate some extensions on deadlines for booking accommodations. The deadlines for when we have to release the rooms are as follows.

Hilton Garden Inn April 13th
The Hotel Lafayette – April 8th
The Holiday Inn Express – May 3rd, 2018
Embassy Suites – May 3rd

The symposium venue is the Hotel Lafayette so presumably it will be popular


Please go to https://www.igsoc.org/symposia/2018/buffalo/ to register online, submit your abstract, view the second circular and get the information on the student funding


For more information, go to:
Symposium homepage


To submit an abstract, go to:
Abstract submission webpage


To register, go to:
Symposium registration webpage