Looking for support to host a cryosphere-related event? The IACS offers up to €3000 in funding for workshops & educational activities that align with its objectives. Open to IACS members (free to join). ⏰ Next deadline: 1 October 2025. 🔗 Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/GyKd7l1 @iacscryo.bsky.social

IACS is pleased to announce a new working group (WG) on Compilation and Standardization of Snow on Sea Ice Data. The working group will invite the larger sea ice community to contribute data. See full proposal and more details cryosphericsciences.org/activities/c...

Important updates on the Climate and Cryosphere Open Science Conference 2026: The abstract submission and travel grant application deadline has been extended to August 31st. • Abstract guidelines: clic2026.com/abstracts • Travel Grant info: clic2026.com/travel-grants

#BACO2025: Great science, good networking and very friendly atmosphere! We were warmly welcomed here in Busan, Republic of Korea, by the local organizers. We arranged a special session marking the 🏔❄️ #Glaciers2025 and had a plenary meeting & ECR lunch. IACS also arranged its annual meeting.

The Graham Cogley award is given by IACS to two students to recognize an oral and a poster presentation of exceptional quality at an IACS Assembly (held every two years). At #BACO2025 the awardees were Jung Hyun Park and Kai Man. Read about award & awardees: cryosphericsciences.org/awards/graha...

The IACS president @lissand.bsky.social, Secretary General Richard Essery and Vice-President @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social are participating at the IUGG Business Meeting in Incheon, Korea, this week. In July 2027, the next IUGG Assembly will take place at Songdo ConvensiA.

The IACS president @lissand.bsky.social, Secretary General Richard Essery and Vice-President @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social are participating at the IUGG Business Meeting in Incheon, Korea, this week. In July 2027, the next IUGG Assembly will take place at Songdo ConvensiA.

IACS is one of eight associations of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). IUGG offer Support for Scientific Meetings in 2026. The deadline is in September 2025. See details and guidelines; iugg.org/meetings/gui...

IACS events at BACO-25, Korea, include: -IACS plenary talk by Ayako Abe-Ouchi -IACS Plenary Meeting with activity updates & presentations by the IACS Early Career Award winners -Festa Cryospherica dinner -IACS Student and Early Career networking lunch See details at cryosphericsciences.org/baco-25/

Reminder: Call for Papers for the Annals of Glaciology Collection on #VanishingGlaciers, in observance of the UN 2025 International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation. **Deadline for submissions extended to 30 June 2025** --> www.igsoc.org/publications... #Glaciology #OpenAccess #GlacierPreservation

The Karthaus 2025 Summer School on Ice Sheets and Glaciers in the Climate System took place on 19-29 May in Karthaus, Italy. IACS was one of the sponsors. Totally 36 students and 10 teachers participated representing 30 institutes & 15 different countries. www.projects.science.uu.nl/iceclimate/k...

Deadline for paper submission to the thematic Annals of Glaciology collection on ‘Vanishing Glaciers is approaching: 30 June. See www.igsoc.org/vanishing-gl... for details & author instructions. The focus is vanishing glaciers that are already extinct or threatened to disappear soon.

New co-chairs appointed to the IAPSO / IACS Joint Commission on Ice-Ocean Interactions (JCIOI) sites.google.com/view/jcioi/h.... Yoshihiro Nakayama (Dartmouth College) is new IAPSO co-chair and Lu An (Tongji University) is new IACS co-chair. They replace Isabel Nias & @fsmccormack.bsky.social.

The third circular of BACO-25 is out: baco-25.org/new/down/[BA... with much useful information. Note that 30 April is the deadline for author registration and Early Bird Registration. baco-25.org/new/sub3/sub...

Welcome to gaphaz! Follow us here for all things glacial and periglacial hazards. If this topic interests you, become a gaphaz member by signing up to our mailing list: send an email with the text "subscribe GAPHAZ-members" in the body (no other text or signatures etc.) to [email protected]

IACS is pleased to announce 2025 recipients of IACS Eary Career Scientist (ECS) Award: Marie Bouchet & Giacomo Traversa. The award is awarded to two ECSs who have published best scientific papers on a cryospheric subject as assessed by an evaluation committee. cryosphericsciences.org/awards/early...

Veronica Tollenaar is the Early-career scientist (ESC) representative of IACS. Read her blogpost: iugg-ecs.org/early-career... “ECSNet: the IUGG Early-Career Scientists Network” received funding from IUGG in 2024, aiming to establish a dynamic new network form ECSs across all IUGG Associations.

Blog on the International Day, Year and Decade: The UN Draws Attention to Glacier Preservation by @columbiaclimate.bsky.social #Glaciers2025 news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/03/03/i...

IACS co-sponsors cryosphere-related workshops/events that further IACS Objectives, up to a maximum of 3000 Euros per event. Two deadlines: 1 April and 1 October (to be submitted at least three months prior to the event). See guidelines & application form: cryosphericsciences.org/grants/

New paper out in Nature. Great to be part of this community effort. The GlaMBIE Team. 2025. Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023. Nature. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The abstract Submission and travel grant deadline for BACO-25 has been extended to 25 Feb 2025. baco-25.org/new/sub3/sub...

The abstract Submission and travel grant deadline for BACO-25 has been extended to 25 Feb 2025. baco-25.org/new/sub3/sub...

This week Fabien Maussion presented updates on the IACS Working Groups (WGs) on the “Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) “ and the “Delineation of glaciers, ice sheets and ice sheet basins” at the Global glacier modelling workshop in Oslo, Norway. See also: cryosphericsciences.org/activities/w...

GAPHAZ sessions at: BACO-25: Abstract submission 15 Feb: C-06 Cryospheric hazards and risks: Processes, impacts and adaptations (baco-25.org/new/sub2/sub...) IMC-2025: Abstract submission 20 Feb: FS 3.148 Glacier and permafrost risks in a changing climate (imc2025.info/imc25/sessio...)

HOW TO GET INVOLVED? IACS offers free individual membership. You can become a member by registering here: cryosphericsciences.org/members/memb... For more information please visit our website. You can also follow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/1009...

Today is the launch of the 2025 International Year of Glaciers' Preservation in Geneve and online. IACS organized one event together with @igsoc.bsky.social. www.un-glaciers.org/en/articles/.... See all events and programme of today www.un-glaciers.org/en/official-...

The World Climate Research Programme’s Climate and Cryosphere is proud to announce the Climate and Cryosphere Open Science Conference, coming to Wellington, New Zealand on 9-12 February 2026. More information is available on our official website: clic2026.com. IACS in co-sponsoring the conference.

The IACS Standing Group on Glacier And Permafrost HAZards in mountains (GAPHAZ) has roated officers. Mylène Jacquemart (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) is new GAPHAZ Secretary for 2025-2026. She will join the officer team together with Holger Frey (Chair) and Pratima Pandey (Vice Chair). gaphaz.org

IACS is co-sponsoring the @igsoc.bsky.social Annals Collection of Vanishing glaciers. Deadline for submission of papers is 1 June. www.igsoc.org/publications... Read more about IACS and the 2025 International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation on our website cryosphericsciences.org/activities/i...

Welcome to the new Bluesky channel of the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences!