|
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 Workshop 2012
The SIRG 2012 workshop will be held at the Lake Ruataniwha Rowing Complex near Twizel on
13th – 15th February 2012.
The fieldtrip will take place on Tuesday afternoon (14th) and will include a boat trip on Lake Tasman.
An electronic copy of the second announcement containing more details and the application form can be found here.
Registration is now closed.
The Preliminary Workshop Programme is now available.
Please email sirg2012@gmail.com for any questions regarding the planning of the conference.
Another related conference opportunity:
The Australasian Quaternary Association (AQUA) Biennial Meeting
Get the best value out of your travel to the SIRG meeting:
Attend Days 4 and 5 of the AQUA Meeting on 16th and 17th February at nearby Lake Tekapo (45 mins north by car).
A special concession registration has been provided for SIRG participants at only $40 for students and $60 for professionals.
The registration form can be downloaded here.
For more information on the conference go to:
www.aqua.org.au/AQUA/frames_conf.html
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 Wednesday 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
|
|
Summer/Fieldwork
Break...
|
|
|
...talks will resume in March or April 2012!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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 9th to the 11th
of February in Fox Glacier.
The meeting was
proudly sponsored by:
Abstracts and
programme from the 2011 meeting in Fox Glacier & updated schedule
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
|
|
October ‘10
|
Kimberley Hageman
|
University of Otago
|
Why I like snow: an environment chemist’s perspective
|
|
November ‘10
|
Michael Hambrey
|
University of Otago / Aberystwyth University
|
Sedimentological, geomorphological and dynamic context of debris-mantled glaciers, Mount Everest (Sagarmatha) region, Nepal
|
|
June '11
|
Nicholas Golledge
|
Victoria University of Wellington
|
Geometry and dynamics of an East Antarctic Ice Sheet outlet glacier, under past and present climates
|
|
August '11
|
Gavin Dunbar
|
Victoria University of Wellington
|
Ocean temperature and the collapse of the Ross Ice Shelf
|
|
October '11
|
Nicolas Cullen
|
University of Otago
|
The Shrinking Glaciers of Kilimanjaro: Can Global Warming Be Blamed?
|
|
November '11
|
Julian Dowdeswell
|
Scott Polar Research Institute
|
The marine geophysical signature of past ice sheets: a view from the sea
|
|
