Icy Insights

Icy Insights – IDYST/ISTE Glaciology Seminar Series

A seminar series dedicated to fostering inter-group interaction among IDYST/ISTE members involved in glacier-related research.

The seminar takes place monthly on the second Thursday of the month from 11:30 to 12:15 in Geopolis building.

Icy Insights Seminar Schedule 2025/2026  

11.09.2025
Room 2224


09.10.2025
Room 2208

13.11.2025
Room 2879


18.12.2025
Room 2207

08.01.2026
Room 2224

12.02.2026
Room 2224

Ian Arburua Delaney (GLACE group)
Different geomorphic processes control suspended sediment and bedload export
from glaciers

Cancelled


Ben Robson (HMG group)
Investigating hanging glaciers and permafrost conditions on an Alpine summit: insights from the Pointes du Mourti, 3563 m a.s.l., Valais Alps, Switzerland

Mattia Gianini (AlpWISE)
Bedload transport histories in heterogeneous Alpine glaciated catchments




Thibaut Duvanel (HMG group)
Rock glacier spatial distribution in the Swiss Alps


Past Icy Insights

09.01.2025 


13.02.2025


13.03.2025


22.05.2025


19.06.2025

Tancrède Leger (ICE group): A data-consistent, high-resolution model of the Alps’ last glaciation achieved with physics-informed machine learning

Audrey Margirier & Léa Rodari (ICE group): Constraining sediments dynamics in a glacial catchment using luminescence dating and glacier modelling

Johanna Klahold (CRAG group): Using high-density 3D GPR to map glacier hydrology: A case study of the Otemma glacier

Stuart Lane (AlpWise group): The mechanics of subglacial bedload transport : how do glaciers evacuate coarse sediment?

Tamara Gerber (ISP group): Ice sheet diaries: Field report from Greenland