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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.

SIRG Annual Workshop:
Queenstown 15th - 17th February 2010

Be there!

Monthly video meetings

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

Times and program for the video meetings are yet to be established.

If you would like to present to the group, please contact Inga Smith (inga@physics.otago.ac.nz)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date

Speaker

Institution

Topic

5th August

Dr. Kat Lilly

University of Otago

TBC

9th September

TBC

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7th October

TBC

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

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

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

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 16th to the 18th of February at Albert Town.

SIRG2009

The meeting was proudly sponsored by:

Niwa_NZ

Antarctica_NZ_logo

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

 

 

 

News

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.