20th April 2026
Glaciers and their retreat pose severe hazards for people and infrastructure in the Arctic. Such risks are climate-dependent and increase with human activities expanding into regions prone to glacier hazards, such as the Arctic. Glacier hazards, such as floods (e.g. glacier outburst floods and collapsing icedammed lakes), retreat-induced land-slides and rockfalls, ice-berg calving and drift, and glacier surges affect Arctic communities, infrastructure, tourism and industry.
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10th April 2026
The Saroma sea ice school (Biogeochemical exchanges at Sea Ice Interfaces - BEPSII - CATCH Sea-Ice School 2026) was held from 28 Feb to 9 March 2026, Saroma, Japan aiming at building capacity for sustainable multidisciplinary science at the Ocean- Ice- Snow-Atmosphere (OISA) interface. The school was designed to equally represent ocean, sea ice and atmospheric science components through lectures, field and laboratory components and modelling exercises.
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27th March 2026
At ASSW2026 in Aarhus, Denmark, IASC Council elected a new president and two new vice-presidents to its Executive Committee. Congratulations to: Matthew Druckenmiller (President, USA), Monika Kędra (Vice-President, Poland) and João Canario (Vice-President, Portugal).
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