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Shrinkage of Glaciosphere: Facts and Analysis

XIII GLACIOLOGICAL SYMPOSIUM

St. Petersburg, Russia

24 - 28 May 2004

Co-sponsored by:
Glaciological Association (GA)
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Roshydromet (AARI)
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences (IGRAS)

Regular XIII Glaciological Symposium organized each 4 years by Glaciological Association will be held at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) in St. Petersburg from May 24 to May 28, 2004.

Congress Location

Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute http://www.aari.nw.ru
Bering Street, 38
199226, St. Petersburg, Russia
Underground station (metro): Primorskaya

Registration

Registration of the participants will be held on 23 May during the accommodation in the hotels from 9.00 till 21.00 and on 24 May from 8.00 in the AARI building. Participant's registration fee is 350 euro. Payment will be accepted in cash directly on place during your registration. The participant's registration fee covers organization costs, a set of abstracts, banquet, mid-day lunches and coffee-brakes during scientific sessions, three issues of "Data of Glaciological Studies" with Symposium papers, mid-week excursion (Pushkin town, Wednesday).
By 1 March 2004 all persons intended to participate in Symposium should send by e-mail vladimir@mikhalenko.ru or fax : [7](095) 959 00 33 the pre-registration note that includes:

Surname, given name, scientific degree, place of work and occupation
Title of the paper
Demonstration means required for oral paper presentation
Accommodation information - please, indicate the dates of arrival and departure; the type of accommodation from the list below. If you expect to share lodging, please, specify if possible, the names of others
Your desire to participate in the mid-week excursion to Pushkin town on Wednesday
Your desire to participate in the excursion on Saturday

Theme

The symposium will cover a wide range of glaciological problems under the general motto "Shrinkage of glaciosphere: facts and analysis". Papers on recent studies of various snow-and-ice objects and phenomena are welcome. Entirety of natural ice and snow on the Earth surface known as a glaciosphere combines a high sensitivity to environmental change with a strong control over these variations, giving rise to the complex interactions in broad spatial and temporal scales. In the last decades great progress has been made in understanding of ice-ocean-land-atmosphere interactions in changing climate. Meanwhile the many and varied studies of glaciers, ice caps, snow cover, sea and fresh ice provide the evidences of general glaciosphere shrinkage in increasing numbers. This problem needs in-depth and manifold investigation. The Symposium will offer glaciologists a forum to present and discuss the results of studies of snow cover and avalanches, sea and fresh-water ice, icings and ground ice, glaciers and ice sheets, that are relevant to the Shrinkage of Glaciosphere problem.

Topics

The suggested topics include:

Methods of identification and analysis
Records of glaciosphere shrinkage from direct observations, remote sensing, long-term records derived from ice cores and proxy data, glacial and periglacial geomorphology
Pattern and temporal regularities of glaciosphere shrinkage: extent, duration and tendencies; variable trends and scales
Analogies in the past: similarity and difference
Causes, mechanisms and effects of glaciosphere shrinkage
Instability features and phenomena
Forecast, scenarios, future response, modelling

Sessions

The scientific sessions will be held in two flows on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Time limit for an oral paper presentation including discussion is about 20 minutes. Posters should be installed on the first day of Symposium (statndard size of poster is 80 x120 cm). Each poster should be also presented in a brief oral presentation (no more than 2 minutes). The complete texts of oral and poster papers should be prepared in accordance with the style instructions for the Data of Glaciological Studies (in Russian or English), and are to be sent by e-mail to: Vladimir N. Mikhalenko,vladimir@mikhalenko.ru by 1 April 2004 . Send abstract ready for publication (up to 250 words in Russian or English) by same e-mail, if you have not sent it yet, by 1 March 2004. Only having the complete text of the paper, we can include it in the final program of Symposium. You will be informed about reception of your paper and form of its presentation in the middle of April. The final program of sessions with abstracts will be provided to the participants at registration.
The following demonstration equipment will be avaliable: overheads, multimedia and slide projectors. Please, inform the organizing committee on device required in advance.

Publications

Selected papers from the Symposium will be published by Association in the Data of Glaciological Studies. All papers (including those based on posters) will be refereed and edited according the Association's regular standards before being accepted for publication.

During Symposium the participants will have a chance to purchase the World Atlas of Snow and Ice Resources at special price - only 150 euro (including postage), compared to a usual price of 500 euro.