The International Glaciological Society will hold an International Symposium on the Edges of Glaciology at the University of Limerick in the west of Ireland. This will be an in-person conference.
The edges of glaciology are most obviously those parts of the study of ice and ice masses which involve boundaries: grain boundaries, ice cores, the glacier bed, the glacier surface, shear margins, crevasses, calving. But these and other subjects also sometimes involve philosophical edges, where different presumptions and practices can lead to controversy: for example, theories of drumlin formation or till deformation. And, yet again, there are territorial edges, where glaciology lies at the interface with other disciplines, as for example in ice-shelf–ocean interactions, rheology of granular materials, firn sintering and compaction. The aim of the symposium is to explore and encourage discussion of all such edges. In keeping with this aim, we hope to include some open problem-solving sessions, and will also recover the longlost final open discussion.
Sessions and Topics
Oral and poster presentations will be held on three and a half days. There will be ample opportunity for poster displays. There will be at least one ‘open problem’ session and a final open discussion. The suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
- Subglacial processes
- Supraglacial processes
- Snow, firn and ice at the grain scale
- Calving and crevassing
Participants wishing to present a paper (oral or poster) at the Symposium will be required to submit an abstract by 1 March 2023.