Day 1 - Friday, October 11


8:30-9:20 Registration + breakfast/coffee


9:20-9:30 Martin Truffer introduction

Mass balance and related processes

9:30-9:45 Lucy Waghorn - Processes that influence the distribution of air bubbles in temperate glacier ice from formation to melt

9:45-10:00 Claire Wilson - Measuring and Modeling Albedo Evolution on Gulkana Glacier

10:00-10:15 Daniel Otto - Measuring temperature lapse rates on the Juneau Icefield

10:15-10:30 Pascal Buri - On the Importance of Evaporative Fluxes for the Water Balance of a High‐Elevation Catchment

10:30-10:45 Tryggvi Unnsteinsson - Volcanic controls on glacier elevation


10:45-11:15 Coffee break


Ice velocities / Alaska glaciers

11:15-11:30 Louis Sass - Glacier influences on streamflow in Alaska

11:30-11:45 Lynn Kaluzienski - Something about Taku velocity dynamics

11:45-12:00 Martin Truffer & Co. - Seasonality of ice flow at Sit' Tlein (Hubbard Glacier)

12:00-12:15 Journey Berry - Historical Evolution and Future Retreat of a Lagoon-Terminating Glacier in Alaska

12:15-12:30 David Polashenski - Mendenhall glacier outburst flood

12:30-12:45 Brad Lipovsky - DAS


12:45-14:00 Lunch


Theoretical modeling

14:00-14:15 Chris Bezu - A coupled flow-flexure model for shallow ice shelves: Application to marginal rumpling

14:15-14:30 Amy Jenson - Impacts of salinity and density on R-channel evolution

14:30-14:45 Dia Martinez Gracey - Developing a Proxy-based Predictive Model of Glacier Thermal Structure

14:45-15:00 Yoram Terleth - Water storage over the surge cycle

15:00-15:15 Jason Amundson - Continuum modeling of ice mélange


15:15-15:45 Coffee break & Poster Session

Michael Daniel - Snow Water Equivalent Estimates from Airborne Radar in the St. Elias Mountains


Mixed topics

15:45-16:00 Chris McNeil - Accelerating rates of glacier change and topographic controls, Glacier National Park, MT, USA: 1966-2023

16:00-16:15 Ed Bueler - A space-time view of good glacier models

16:15-16:30 Albin Wells - TBD

16:30-16:45 David Rounce - TBD

16:45-17:00 Gwenn Flowers - IGS intro + Firn award

17:00-17:15 Matt Nolan - Free range science on McCall Glacier


18:30-ish: 🎉 PARTY 🎉

Bonfire and dinner at Matt Nolan's place, 1245 Eriophorum Drive (~15min of driving from campus). Bring warm clothing!

Day 2 - Saturday, October 12


8:30-9:00 Breakfast/coffee


Applied modeling

9:00-9:15 Jessica Badgeley - Transient calibration of ice flow models

9:15-9:30 Doug Brinkerhoff - The demise of the world's largest piedmont glacier: a probabilistic forecast

9:30-9:45 Kaya Troyer - Comparing variables at LeConte glacier to a tidewater glacier model

9:45-10:00 John Christian - On initializing glacier models for runoff projections

10:00-10:15 Jennifer Esch - Assessing Atmospheric Impacts on Antarctic Ice-Shelf Stability using RACMO2.3p2


10:15-10:45 Coffee break


Geophysical measurements / Antarctica

10:45-11:00 Meghan Sharp - Passive seismic on Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf, West Antarctica

11:00-11:15 Paul Winberry - Glacier seismology

11:15-11:30 Richard Moser - Measuring Birefringence Effects in Antarctic Ice Sheets

11:30-11:45 Margot Shaya - Understanding old ice preservation at the Allan Hills, Antarctica using phase-sensitive radar measurements of vertical strain rates

11:45-12:00 Will Dienstfrey - Surface Signatures of Deep Ice Properties

12:00-12:15 Lucy Wanzer - Characterizing Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf and Dotson Ice Shelf Basal Morphologies using Ice-Penetrating Radar and Multibeam


12:15-13:45 Lunch


Ice meets water

13:45-14:00 Genevieve Sauret - Melt and deformation of an ice-shelf basal channel on the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf inferred from radar

14:00-14:15 Erin Pettit - Grooves and Pockets: First Thoughts on How Ice Structure, Fractures, Subglacial Discharge, and Ice Melt Sculpt the Ice-Ocean Boundary

14:15-14:30 Alicia Rutledge - Rapid evolution of an emerging englacial esker at Breidamerkurjokull, Iceland

14:30-14:45 Nadia Cohen - Characterizing Submarine Iceberg Roughness

14:45-15:00 Victoria Benson - Exploring the Subaqueous Environment of Alaska's Lake-terminating Glaciers

15:00-15:15 Teaghan Knox - First observations of melting ice and sediment motion at the terminus of a tidewater glacier


15:15-15:45 Coffee break


Antarctica continued

15:45-16:00 Claire Jensen - Evaluating the persistence and spatial distribution of wind-induced scour zones at Dome A, East Antarctica

Remote Sensing

16:00-16:15 Chloé Monty - A Comparison of Sea Ice Roughness in Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet) Using Sentinel-1 SAR and MISR

16:15-16:30 Caroline Wexler - Monitoring and Outreach with UAV-SfM Photogrammetry at Breiðamerkurjökull, Iceland

16:30-16:45 David Shean - TBD

16:45-17:00 Victor Devaux-Chupin - Ice surface dataset analysis

17:00-17:15 Joseph H. Kennedy - 15 minutes to publish: Building a cloud-native, low-latency processing application for ITS_LIVE

Outing - Sunday, October 13


10:00 - 11:00 Tour I of Permafrost Tunnel

11:00 - 12:00 Tour II of Permafrost Tunnel

Please sign up for a tour of the Permafrost Tunnel here .