AGM 2021 – Final Programme

Friday, 26 March 2021

AGM Opening 9:00 – 9:10

Cryo-biology and environment 9:10 – 10:25

9:10 – 9:25	Roberto Ambrosini, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Università degli studi di Milano Ecology of supraglacial habitats
9:25 – 9:40	Andrea Franzetti, Department of Environmental and Earth sciences, Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca Temporal gene transcriptional pattern in supraglacial microbial communities
9:40 – 9:55	Francesca Pittino, Department of Environmental and Earth sciences, Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca Bacterial communities of supraglacial ecosystem of four glaciers of the Ortles-Cevedale group
9:55 – 10:10	Marco Parolini, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Università degli studi di Milano Microplastics in glacial ecosystems
10:10 – 10:25	Beatrice de Felice, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Università degli studi di Milano Macroplastic contamination on glaciers of Italian Alps
10:25 – 10:45	Coffee break

Glacier change, mass balance and glacier hazards 10:45 – 13:10

10:45 – 11:00	Eric Mannerfelt, Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), ETH Zurich Toward a 1930 DEM of the entire Swiss Alps
11:00 – 11:15	Tomás Kroczek, Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague Gurudongmar Lake Complex Development and GLOF Susceptibility Assessment, Sikkim Himalaya, India
11:15 – 11:30	Lander Van Tricht, Earth System Science & Departement Geografie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Estimating surface mass balance patterns from UAV measurements on the Morteratsch-Pers glacier complex (Switzerland)
11:30 – 11:45	Luca Mondardini, Fondazione Montagna Sicura – Montagne Sure Thoula glacier (Mont-Blanc, Aosta Valley, Italy) mass balance reconstruction (2012-2020) through Multitemporal Satellite stereo DEMs and accuracy assessments
11:45 – 12:00	Syed Hammad Ali, Water & Power Development Authority (WAPDA), Identification of potentially hazardous glacial lakes in Chitral catchment using remote sensing / GIS for future hazard and risk assessment
12:00 – 12:40	Lunchtime
12:40 – 12:55	Wolfgang Rainer, Department of Geography, University of Innsbruck Estimating the committed glacier mass loss for the Ötztal Alps
12:55 – 13:10	Philémon Autin, Institut des Géosciences de l’ Environnement, Université Grenoble Alpes Analysis of the Climatic Factors Controlling the surface Mass Balance of Zongo Glacier, Bolivia using nine years of data by application of a Distributed Energy Model

Glaciers in high Asia – 13:10 – 14:10

13:10 – 13:25	Vladimir Aizen, University of Moscow, Idaho Central Asian glaciers passed the warm periods in Holocene
13:25 – 13:40	Martina Barandun, Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg & EURAC Hot spots of glacier mass balance variability in Central Asia
13:40 – 13:55	Eric Pohl, Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg Drivers of heterogeneous glacier mass balance in the Tien Shan and Pamir
13:55 – 14:10	Alexander Groos, Institute of Geography, University of Bern Spatio-temporal variability of snow accumulation on the Biafo and Hispar glaciers in the central Karakoram
14:10 – 14:30	Coffee Break

Francisco Navarro, IGS – The International Glaciological Society 14:30-14:45

Large scale glacier change 14:45 – 15:45

14:45 – 15:00	Lukas Sochor, Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Increased Ice Thinning over Svalbard measured by ICESat/ICESat-2 Laser Altimetry
15:00 – 15:15	Michael Zemp, Department of Geography, University of Zürich, Dwindling Impact of Large Volcanic Eruptions on Global Glacier Changes in the Anthropocene
15:15 – 15:30	Etienne Berthier, LEGOS, Université de Toulouse Accelerated global glacier mass loss in the early twenty-first century
15:30 – 15:45	Melissa Mengert, Institute of Geography, University of Bremen The relevance of the past unsustainable increase of glacier runoff for large-scale basins in different climatological settings