Talk by Bruce Raup (NSIDC), summarizing the thirty-year history of GLIMS, with emphasis on more recent activity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=odWY.... GLIMS (Global Land Ice Measurements from Space) maps Earth's glaciers through time. Use GLIMS Glacier Viewer to explore & download glacier outlines.

See report from special #IMC25 event on the disaster in Blatten in latest Oct newsletter cryosphericsciences.org/wp-content/u... @gaphaz.bsky.social

Note the deadline of 1 October for seeking support for workshops and events from IACS. The coming deadline could be used to request support for events in January 2026 onwards.
Link to guidelines and application form: cryosphericsciences.org/grants/

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.

Frozen, thawed: how Arendelle’s glacier would fare under modern climate change theconversation.com/frozen-thawe... inspired by our JOSTICE papers on Jostedalsbreen.

We have received over many papers already to this collection and looking forward to receive more by the deadline of 30 June. Remember to follow the author instructions when submitting. The focus in this collection is vanishing glaciers that are already extinct or threatened to disappear soon.

Norske breer er i endring, det vet vi. Vi har skrevet en populærvitenskapelig artikkel i Naturen som oppsummerer endringene av norske breer og også omtaler det internasjonale året for brebevaring 🏔❄️
#Glaciers2025 Andreassen, Elvehøy Kjøllmoen. Norske breer i endring. doi.org/10.18261/nat...

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.

Warm congratulations to Marie and Giacomo!! Check out the citations on our homepage and in our IACS newsletter: cryosphericsciences.org/wp-content/u...

New fact sheet on Norwegian glaciers with our results from 2024. Every year we publish a 4 p fact sheet in Norwegian and English: www.nve.no/hydrology/gl...
publikasjoner.nve.no/fakta/2025/f...

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.

I morgen fredag 21. mars er det den første internasjonale bredagen #WorldGlaciersDay og 22. mars er #WorldWaterDay. Vi holder heldagseminar på Klimahuset fredag 21. mars fra 0915. Påmeldinger er avsluttet men du kan følge streaming her:
🏔❄️ #Glaciers2025
www.tekna.no/fag-og-nettv...

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/

Jostedalsbreen is the largest glacier in mainland Europe and Norway. A new paper on its recent history and future demise is now available as preprint under review in EGUsphere under consideration for the Cryosphere. egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

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...

Still chance to submit abstracts to the Busan IAMAS-IACS-IAPSO Joint Assembly 2025 (BACO-25) - the first IACS assembly in Asia. Deadline is 25 Feb for abstract submission and travel grant applications. BACO-25 (www.baco-25.org) will be held from 20-25 July 2025 in Busan, Republic of Korea.

Vi markerer den internasjonale Bredagen & Verdens vanndag fredag 21. mars med seminar på Klimahuset, Oslo. Program og påmelding ute nå, mange spennende foredrag: www.nhm.uio.no/arrangemente...

We are hosting a 1 day seminar on the first world glacier day, 21 March in Oslo.

Vi er en drøy måned inn i det internasjonale året for brebevaring. Men hvorfor har vi dette året og kan vi bevare breene? Se kronikk i forskersonen: www.forskersonen.no/isbre-klima-...

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...

The recording from the @igsoc.bsky.social Global Seminar Series where I and collagues presented 2025 International Year of Glacier's Preservation and the Annals of Glaciology collection on vanishing glaciers is available on you tube. www.igsoc.org/event/igs-gl... youtu.be/styDMY16xtU