Event Type
Webinars and Virtual Events
Event Dates
2013-11-05
Location
Online, 16:00 GMT

APECS is pleased to invite you to participate in the Antarctic glaciology webinar highlighting recent glaciological studies in Antarctica on 5 November 2013 at 16:00 GMT.

Presentations and speakers are:

  • Holocene glacial history of the Weddell Sea: the record in the ice rise
    Neil Ross | Lecturer in Physical Geography, University of Newcastle, UK

  • Weakening contract between ice shelves and ice rises caused by fracture
    Christopher Borstad | Post Doc, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA

  • Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf: Bathymetry and Ice Thickness
    Kiya Riverman | Penn State University, USA

  • Geologic control of Whillans Ice Stream grounding lines and the Crary Ice Rise, inferred from ground-based gravity measurements
    Atsuhiro Muto | Penn State University, USA

This webinar is a follow-up of the first International Workshop on Antarctic Ice Rises held in Tromsø late August this year, with support from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), Climate and Cryosphere Project (CliC), Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), British Antarctic Survey and Norwegian Polar Institute’s Center for Ice, Climate and Ecosystems. Presentation video, slides, posters and Frostbytes are available on the workshop web-site: http://www.climate-cryosphere.org/meetings/past-meetings/ice-rises-2013


PRACTICAL INFORMATION:

Date and Time: Tuesday, 5 November 2013 at 16:00 GMT

Check your time zones at: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

TO RESERVE A SPOT FOR THE WEBINAR

To reserve a spot in the webinar, please follow the link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/394912104

TO ATTEND THE WEBINAR

To attend a webinar a computer or smartphone and an internet connection are needed. A headset or headphones and a built-in microphone are recommended but not required. Webcams and telephones will not be used in the presentations and are not needed to participate.

GoToWebinar has been provided as an in-kind contribution from Bredbåndsfylket.

For questions, please email: info [at] apecs.is or pavlov.alexey.k [at] gmail.com