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Upcoming Events

International Symposium on Snow

25/09/2022 30/09/2022

Conferences 2022

Event location

Davos Congress Center
Davos

The International Glaciological Society (IGS) and the WSL-Institut für Schnee-und Lawinenforschung SLF, are pleased to announce the ‘International Symposium on Snow’, which will take place in the Davos Congress Centre in Davos, Switzerland, in September 2022.

Snow is a complex material, transient and of singular beauty. While our understanding has improved over the recent decades, it still offers numerous scientific challenges. The snow cover plays a crucial role in the climate of cold regions – from high latitudes to high elevations – and impacts societies and their activities. Because of its high climate sensitivity, snow is declining, with far-reaching consequences for the environment and humanity.

Given these prospects and improvements in advanced technologies for monitoring and modelling, we announce a symposium focused on understanding snow and its impacts on the environment, people and infrastructure. Snow will be examined at all scales – from the microscale of snow structure to the global scale.

This meeting seeks to address various challenges by bringing together scientists from diverse communities engaged in research on snow. We welcome snow-related contributions, including ground-based observations, remote sensing, laboratory experiments, numerical modelling, data compilations and analyses, risk management, water resources, climate and social impact assessment.

Find more information in the first circular.

Program

True to tradition, the symposium will include oral and poster sessions interlaced with ample free time to facilitate interactions between the participants. Additional activities include an opening icebreaker, a banquet dinner and an excursion during the mid-symposium afternoon break.

We offer participants the opportunity to organize small workshops on specific topics, e.g. drone measurements of snow depth, stability tests, new methods to measure snow properties. If you are interested in conducting such a workshop, please contact the Science Steering and Editorial Committee. 

Abstract and paper publication

Participants who wish to present a paper (oral or poster) at the Symposium will be required to submit an abstract by  28 June 2022 (extended deadline!). Accepted abstracts will be posted on the Symposium’s website. The Council of the IGS will publish a thematic issue of the Annals of Glaciology on topics consistent with the Symposium themes. Participants are encouraged to submit manuscripts for this Annals volume.

Please "book" onto this event if you wish to express interest in attending and be notified when abstract submission and event registration opens. You can express your interest here.

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 Cover image by Fabrizio Conti on Unsplash

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