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 2026/2027  

08.10.2025
Room 2113


12.11.2025

10.12.2025

Brandon Finley (ICE group)
Towards understanding Greenland’s recent sedimentation rates using 400km of seismic transects and 25 sediment cores

TBD

Tomy Doda (LAKES group)


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