Observing changes in near-polar glaciers in the northern and southern hemispheres

• Main Authors: Barrand, Nicholas E, Machguth, Horst, Hagen, Jon Ove
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2013
• Subjects: Institute of Geography; 910 Geography & travel; General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Arctic; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Patagonia; Greenland; Antarc*; glacier; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/126147/; https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/126147/1/Barrand_Eos_2013.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-126147; https://doi.org/10.1002/2013EO230007

Approximately 50 researchers attended the Ice2sea North/South Glacier Workshop at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS). The aim of the workshop was to highlight the importance of changes in Northern and Southern Hemisphere near-polar glacier systems, which are subject to rapid climate warming from the atmosphere and ocean. Other goals of the workshop were to identify the observations required to understand the changes in these glacier systems and to determine difficulties and opportunities for making future projections. The meeting also served to bring together a new community of researchers working on similar glaciological problems in distinct geographic regions (e.g., the Arctic, including Alaska; Patagonia; and the Antarctic Peninsula). Full details of the workshop agenda and organizing committee can be found in the workshop report at http://www.ice2sea.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Ice2sea_NSWorkshop_FINALREPORT_nosummary.pdf.