International Glaciological Society
Nordic Branch Meeting 2008
6.-8.11.2008
Finnish Institute of Marine Research
University of Helsinki
International Glaciological Society – Nordic Branch Meeting 2008
Thursday
10:00 – 12:00
Session: Coffee and opening of the meeting
First talks will start 10:20
Olli-Pekka Mattila and Jari Haapala
Welcome words
Magnús Már Magnússon
Report from the IGS
Matti Leppäranta (Dep. of Physics), Matti Seppälä (Dep. of Geography) and
Veli-Pekka Salonen (Dep. of Geology)
Cryospheric and glacial research at the University of Helsinki
Short brake
12:10 – 12:50
Session: Remote sensing
Chair: Kari Kajuutti
Nora Jennifer Schneevoigt , G. Moholdt, C. Nuth and A. Kääb
Optical and SAR glacier observation near Ny Ålesund - first results
Eero Rinne
Ice cap surface elevation change products from EnviSat RA2 and IceSAT GLAS
data
Lunch
14:00 – 15:00
Session: Remote sensing (continues)
Chair: Kari Kajuutti
Jon Endre Hausberg
Remote sensing based assessment of hazards from ice avalanches in southern
Norway
Gier Moholdt
Generation of ice cap DEMs by combining SAR interferometry with ICESat
altimetry
Gerit Rotchky
Spatio-temporal Variability of Snow Melt on Svalbard Derived From Space
borne Radar Data (Qscat)
Break
15:20 – 17:00
Session: Sea-ice and sea-level change
Chair: Jari Uusikivi
Janne Valkonen
The effect of climate change on Arctic sea ice - a challenge for Arctic shipping
Annu Oikkkonen and J. Haapala
Regime shift of Arctic pack ice during 1990s
Jari Haapala and I. Heiler
Modelling recent changes of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean
John Moore and A. Grinsted
Snow season and sea level change in Finland by 2100
Aslak Grinsted, J. C. Moore ands. Jevrejeva
Reconstructing sea level from paleo and projected temperatures 200 to 2100AD
17:00 -
Ice Breaker
Including musical perfomance from Paola Livorsi
Title: “Frozen Water and Land, Sun and Life”
Sounds: ”Rooms of Elements” (Northern textile art exhibition "1:∞ ", Helsinki 2006)
Images: T. Vihma and M. Marnela Editing: R. Pirazzini
International Glaciological Society – Nordic Branch Meeting 2008
Friday
09:00 – 10:20
Session: Meteorology and hydrology
Chair: Carleen Tijm-Reijmer
Dieter Scherer
Generalized wind field patterns over Nordaustlandet
Roberta Pirazzini
Surface albedo heterogeneity under overcast conditions
Martial Duguay
Energy Balance and Hydrological Modelling of Zongo Glacier, Bolivia, Using
ERA-40 Reanalysis Data
Karsten Müller
Relation between GPR, SAR and accumulation rate in dry Antarctic firn
Break
10:40 – 12:00
Session: Glacier dynamics I
Chair: Alun Hubbard
Monica Sund
Surge dynamics in various Svalbard glaciers derived from geometric changes
Veijo Pohjola
Ice velocities and ice surface changes of Vestfonna, Svalbard
Miriam Jackson
Short-term velocity variations on Engabreen
Ruth Mottram
Cracking up under the strain: Models of crevasse formation
Lunch
13:20 – 15:00
Session: Glacier dynamics II
Chair: Miriam Jackson
Thorben Dunse
The Dynamics of Austfonna, Svalbard - a Modelling Approach
Alun Hubbard
Greenland Ice Sheet OR Paleo-modelling of the FIS &/ British Ice sheets
Thomas Zwinger
Simulation of the Shiraze Glacier, East Antarctic Ice Sheet - first steps
Rianne Giesen
An ice dynamical model for Hardangerjøkulen, an ice cap in southern Norway
Monica Sund
Velocity and calving of Kronebreen, Svalbard
Break
15:20 – 16:20
Session: Chemical and physical properties of snow and ice
Chair: John Moore
Helgard Anschuetz
First results from dielectric profiling of four shallow firn cores.
Tönu Martma
Oxygen isotopes in Svalbard ice cores and snow pits
Liss Marie Andreassen
Modelling long term summer and winter balances of Storbreen, Norway challenges and results
17:00 – 19:00
Excursion
International Glaciological Society – Nordic Branch Meeting 2008
Saturday
09:00 – 10:40
Session: Glacials
Chair: Veijo Pohjola
Nuria Marcos, Saanio&Riekkola Ltd.
Glacial periods - a threaten for geological disposal of spent fuel?
Anne Lehtinen, Posiva
Future ice ages in Scandinavia and the challenges related to final disposal of
nuclear waste
Veli-Pekka Salonen
Weichselian glacial sedimentology and stratigraphy in Murchisonfjorden area,
Nordaustlandet, Svalbard
Jaakko Mäkinen, H. Koivula, M. Bilker-Koivula, J. Ahola and M. Poutanen
Gravity change and crustal motion in Dronning Maud Land 1994-2007 : implications
for glacial history and contemporary mass balance
Kirchner
Evolution of continental ice sheets during glacial cycles: do numerical simulations
provide evidence of Tibetan Plateau Ice during the last 125.000 years
Brake
11:00 – 12:20
Session: Snow and supraglacial lakes
Chair: Olli-Pekka Mattila
Matti Leppäranta ja O.-P. Mattila
Observations and modelling of the life history of supraglacial lakes
Sanja Forsström
Soot in Svalbard snow
Emilie Beaudon
Frost flower chemical signature in winter snow on Vestfonna ice cap
Olli-Kalle Kauppinen
Snow manipulations in a boreal forest during winter 2008
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