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 2026/2027
08.10.2026
Room 2113
12.11.2026
Room TBD
10.12.2026
Room TBD
14.01.2027
Room TBD
Brandon Finley (ICE group)
Towards understanding Greenland’s recent sedimentation rates using 400km of seismic transects and 25 sediment cores
Maxime Bernard (ICE group)
How did Quaternary glaciations impact the morphology of landscapes? Insights from numerical models of glacier erosion and low-temperature Thermochronology
Tomy Doda (LAKES group)
When Ice Meets Water: Convective Dynamics of a Transient Glacial Lake
Mélissa Francey (CRAG group)
TBD
Past Icy Insights
09.01.2025
13.02.2025
13.03.2025
22.05.2025
19.06.2025
11.09.2025
13.11.2025
08.01.2026
12.02.2026
12.03.2026
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
Ian Arburua Delaney (GLACE group): Different geomorphic processes control suspended sediment and bedload export from glaciers
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
Fayez Azizi (AlpWISE group): Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) risk under a rapidly changing climate in the Afghanistan Hindukush Himalaya
Thibaut Duvanel (HMG group): Rock glacier spatial distribution in the Swiss Alps
Andrew Tedstone (ISP group): When slush fields become rivers: four years of observations at the visible runoff limit of the Greenland Ice Sheet