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IGS_logoSIRG operates as the New Zealand branch of the International Glaciological Society.

 

Welcome to the SIRG website

The Snow and Ice Research Group, New Zealand (SIRG-NZ) is an informal association of people interested in snow and ice research.

To participate in the group simply register with the SIRG email list.

First announcement:

The SIRG 2011 meeting will be held in Fox Glacier Township on the 9.-11. February 2011.
In addition to the SIRG presentations, we are organising a public talk and a workshop with the local glacier guides for one of the evenings. The fieldtrip may be a half day guided tour of Fox Glacier with stops for interpretation and discussion.
Please pencil in the dates. A call for abstracts will be made in a few months.
An electronic copy of the first announcement is available here.
Please contact me (Alice Doughty) for any questions regarding the planning for next year's conference.

Monthly video meetings

Video meetings are held every month over the Access Grid. Video rooms are sited at most universities.

Currently, the video meetings are held on the first Tuesday of the Month from 1-1:50pm.

If you would like to present to the group, please contact Wolfgang Rack (wolfgang.rack@canterbury.ac.nz)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date

Speaker

Institution

Topic

7th September

TBA

TBA

TBA

5th October

Dr. Nicolas Cullen

University of Otago

TBA

2nd November

TBA

TBA

E-mail Wolfgang Rack if you want to give a talk!

The locations of the video conference rooms for each campus are:

Auckland: Room 429, Level 4, Human Science Building, University of Auckland, 10 Symonds St., Auckland

Canterbury: Room 164, Level 1, Geography-Psychology Building, Canterbury University, Christchurch

Massey: Room 4.40, Social Sciences Tower, Massey University, Palmerston North

Otago: Teaching Facilities South West corner, Information Services Building

Victoria: Library RB106

The annual meeting of the NZ Snow and Ice Research Group was held from the 15th to the 17th of February in Queenstown.

This photo is from the SIRG2010 meeting This photo is from the SIRG2010 field trip – near Bob's Cove

The meeting was proudly sponsored by:

The University of Otago Polar Environments Research Theme

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Abstracts and programme from the 2010 meeting in Queenstown

Abstracts and programme from the 2009 meeting at Albert Town

Abstracts and programme from the 2008 meeting at Cass

Abstracts and programme from the 2007 meeting at Mt Ruapehu


Previous talks given at the video meetings:

Date

Speaker

Institution

Topic

March ‘07

Wendy Lawson

University of Canterbury

The 2007 aerial survey of the glaciers of the Southern Alps, New Zealand

April ‘07

Brian Anderson

Victoria University of Wellington

Climate sensitivity of a high-precipitation glacier in New Zealand

May ‘07

Stephanie Mandolla

Massey University

Reconstructing debris transport pathways on constructional ridges: Wahianoa Glacier, Mt. Ruapehu

June ‘07

Andrew Mackintosh

Victoria University of Wellington

Exposure ages from mountain dipsticks in Mac. Robertson Land, East Antarctica, indicate little change in ice-sheet thickness since the Last Glacial Maximum

July ‘07

Sean Fitzsimons

 

Errol Lewthwaite

University of Otago

 

NIWA

John Evans glacier, Canadian Arctic

 

CliFlo climate database

August ‘07

Jordy Hendrikx, Martyn Clark

NIWA

Snow research at NIWA

September ‘07

Erin Nolan

Massey University

Relative age dating of the Wahianoa moraines, Mt. Ruapehu

October ‘07

Daniel Tovar, Jamie Shulmeister

Jeremy Pugh

 

Olivia Hyatt

University of Canterbury

An alternative origin to the Waiho Loop

 

Glacial History of the Lake Heron Region

 

Glaciation in the Rakaia

November ‘07

Tim Naish,

Pascal Sirguey

Victoria Univ. / GNS Antarctic drilling - ANDRILL
University of Otago

Satellite derived snow cover mapping

May ‘08

Jordy Hendrickx

NIWA

The scale triplet and its application for avalanche forecasting: Findings from field work in Montana

July ‘08

Tim Kerr, Ian Owens, Wolfgang Rack

University of Canterbury

A ground based laser survey of the Rolleston Glacier

August ‘08

Trevor Chinn

Hawea Institute of Cryology

A short history of the EOSS programme

October ‘08

Dorothea Stumm

University of Otago

Mass Balance of the Brewster, Glenmary, Park Pass and Rolleston Glaciers

December ‘08

Martin Brook

Massey University

Glaciation in the Tararua Ranges, Mt. Taranaki and Stewart Island

April ‘09

Pat Langhorne

University of Otago

Platelet ice: Antarctica’s clandestine ice

May ‘09

Christina Hulbe

Portland State University

Grounding Line Forensics: West Antarctica - Discharge Variability in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

June ‘09

Kate Sinclair

National Ice Core Laboratory, GNS Science

Using the isotopic fingerprints of winter storms to understand vapour pathways

August ‘09

Kat Lilly

University of Otago

Pleistocene dynamics of the deep interior East Antarctic ice sheet

September ‘09

Anne Nolin

Oregon State University

It's a rough place: satellite mapping of the Greenland ice sheet

October ‘09

Wolfgang Rack

University of Canterbury

Grounding line detection and ice discharge in Antarctica measured by remote sensing

November ‘09

Andy Mahoney

University of Otago

Watching ice grow in the dark

June ‘10

Craig Stevens

NIWA

Ocean mixing next to a glacier tongue

August ‘10

Stefan Winkler

University of Canterbury

Recent glacier dynamics at the outlets of Jostedalsbreen, West Norway

 

 

 

News

February 2010 – “SIRG 2010” was held in Queenstown from the 15th to 17th.
A copy of the programme and abstracts is available here.

February 2009 – “SIRG 2009” was held in Albert Town from the 16th to 18th. A copy of the programme and abstracts is available here. An overview of the “Glacial history of the Upper Clutha” field trip is available here care of David Barrell.

June 2008 – Jamie Shulmeister advances the Franz Josef with a moraine blanket.

 

29th May 2008 – Glacial change in the Aoraki/Mt Cook region is well demonstrated through viewing these two historic photos in Google Earth: Fyfe 1894 and Teichelman 1904

 

April 2008 – Martin Brook melts the Tasman Glacier

 

4th-6th February 2008 - The 2008 SIRG meeting was held at Cass. Programme and abstracts.

 

15th January 2008 - An online bibliography of snow and ice related publications is now available through www.geog.canterbury.ac.nz/aigaion/index.php

User name: aigaion

Password: snowandicebooks

21st September 2007 – 29 people undertook an intensive snow depth and density survey of the Upper Jollie Catchment in Canterbury today. The measurement locations and values can be viewed on Google Earth through this Jollie Fieldwork file google_earth_link. Links to media portrayal of the fieldwork can be accessed through the Media page.

28th August 2007 – SIRG features in the next issue of ICE, the news bulletin of the International Glaciological Society. A copy of the article is available here.