PROGRAMME

 

 

 

 

 

THEME

Changes in mountain glaciers have direct impacts on human activities, especially in mid-latitude regions, where high-altitude snow and ice contribute to the hydrological controls of human activity. Therefore, the symposium specifically includes topics pertinent to the Earth’s ‘Third Pole’. To improve our understanding of the dynamics of cryospheric change, interactions with the climate and impact on the living environment of mountainous regions, it aims to provide a general discussion of changes in these components of the global cryosphere with broader issues from recent in situ observations, remote sensing measurements and modelling efforts.

TOPICS

  • Glacier Mass Balance, monitoring and observations
  • Glacier Geophysics
  • Glaciological Hazard
  • Climate driven glacial change
  • Glacier Hydrology
  • Periglacial/permafrost processes
  • Snow processes

KEY LECTURES

  • Wilfried Haeberli: Alpine glaciers as a climate proxy in changing world
  • John John Clague: Hazard and risk in high glaciated mountains
  • Jean Robert Petit: Solar activity, inter-annual to monthly climate variability over the southern hemisphere deduced from Antarctic snow studies
  • Massimo Frezzotti: A synthesis of the Antarctic surface mass balance

PROGRAMME

The symposium will consist of a mixture of oral and poster sessions, with a large amount of free time to allow participants to exchange scientific information in an informal setting. A symposium banquet will be held on Friday evening. Saturday afternoon and Sunday will be reserved for a excursion in Val Veny, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley. The meeting is located in the Historical Building of rectorship of the University of Turin, via Po 17

SEE HERE THE FINAL PROGRAM OF THE SYMPOSIUM

SEE HERE THE ABSTRACTS LIST OF THE SYMPOSIUM

Thursday, 18th september 2014

Icebreaker at 6 p.m. (see details HERE)

Friday, 19th september 2014

  • Welcome and opening remarks
  • Oral communications and posters presented
  • Late afternoon: visit to the Alpine Italian Club “Museo Nazionale della Montagna” (National Mountain Museum) followed by the social dinner to the museum restaurant. (see details HERE)

Saturday, 20th september 2014

In the morning: remaining oral communications and poster presentations In the afternoon travel to Courmayeur, Aosta Valley

Sunday, 21st september 2014

Field trip (see the programme HERE)

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