Upcoming Events

The Englacial and Subglacial Access Working Group (ESAWG) of the NSF Ice Drilling Program (IDP) will hold a meeting to initiate U.S. long-term science planning for subglacial science on Sunday, December 8, from 8:00-5:00 at the Residence Inn Alexandria Old Town/Duke Street, Alexandria VA. The outcome of the meeting will be drafts for a new set of white papers focused on future drilling locations, technology, and science requirements. The targets discussed in this meeting and these white papers will be added to the IDP Long Range Science Plan 2025-2035. Please register for the workshop before November 30 with an indication of any ‘pitch’ you would like to make for future science. Registration is free but we need a head count to finalize arrangements for the meeting.

Science has always been about the new. The now. The next. It’s what propels us, feeding our questions and inspiring our work. The constant question and answer form a rhythm, a cadence, a story. Science is a story. A story of infinite possibilities. A story of continuous discoveries. A story of hopeful solutions. 

It’s the story of our journey; we create what’s next. What’s next for our community. What’s next for discoveries. What’s next for our planet. What’s Next for Science. 

Each year, AGU’s annual meeting, the largest gathering of Earth and space scientists, convenes 25,000+ attendees from 100+ countries to share research and connect with friends and colleagues. Scientists, educators, policymakers, journalists and communicators attend AGU24 to better understand our planet and environment, opening pathways to discovery, opening greater awareness to address climate change, opening greater collaborations to lead to solutions and opening the fields and professions of science to a whole new age of justice equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging. 

This December, AGU24 returns to Washington, D.C. with the theme “What’s Next for Science.” We can’t wait to see you there.

The NSF Ice Drilling Program (IDP) will hold the AGU Town Hall on Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions on Wednesday, 11 December 2024, from 18:00 - 19:00 Eastern Standard Time (EST) in 202 A (Convention Center). We hope to see you there!

Abstract: Ice sheets, glaciers, and the underlying bedrock, sediment and permafrost hold crucial evidence of past climate, ice sheet dynamics, and cratonic geology. National and international collaboration for drilling in the remote Polar Regions requires strategic coordination between science, technology, and logistics. This meeting will provide the research community with brief updates from IDP, ICECReW, COLDEX, GreenDrill, Hercules Dome, and RAID. Opportunities for community involvement will be showcased, and input from the audience will be solicited.

Date: Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Time: 18:00 - 19:00 Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Location: 202 A (Convention Center)
Moderator: Mary R Albert, Dartmouth College
AGU meeting website: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/meetingapp.cgi/Session/227487

Dear Cryolisters, before you enjoy your boreal summer holidays and/or fieldworks, I'd like to remind you to save the date of the 28th Alpine Glaciology Meeting on 27th and 28th February 2025 in Innsbruck (Austria). More information will be provided after a hopefully relaxing summer and successful field trips. 

Kind regards 
Rainer Prinz

Universität Innsbruck 
Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences 

Rainer Prinz, PhD 
Senior Scientist, Glaciologist 

Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria 

phone +43 512 507-54415 
e-mail rainer.prinz<@>uibk.ac.at 
web www.rainerprinz.info | www.uibk.ac.at/en/acinn/people/rainer-prinz/

The EGU General Assembly 2025 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience.

The NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration (NSF COLDEX) and the Ice Core Early-Career Researchers Workshop (ICECReW) are partnering to host a writing workshop and retreat on May 15 and 16, 2025, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after the US Ice Core Community Meeting (May 12-14). The theme of this year’s workshop is science writing, including making figures to communicate results, responding to peer reviews, how to structure papers, and deciding on journals and authorship. The workshop will also provide time for writing and peer review, and participants should bring materials they would like to work on (e.g., papers, dissertations, fellowship and grant applications). We will also have an evening social event on Sunday, May 11, before IceCOMM. Application Deadline: February 6, 2025.

For more information, visit the workshop website at https://herculesdome.org/icecrew-2025.