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CliC OSC: Abstract Submission Open Now
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The CliC OSC will focus on themes related to The Changing Cryosphere: Science, Impacts, and Adaptation. We encourage abstracts from all cryospheric systems: snow, river and lake ice, sea ice, ice sheets, permafrost, mountain glaciers, polar oceans, social sciences, education and communication, co-production of knowledge and related topics. Abstracts and session proposals from experts and early career scientists as well as practitioners and stakeholders are welcome. ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 31 July 2025.
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Note: The CliC OSC will offer travel grants supported by our sponsors to participate in the conference. Grants may cover part or all of the travel and/or registration costs of the conference. Applications will be considered only upon abstract submission.
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- Graduate students currently enrolled in a Master or PhD program
- Early career scientists, who have obtained a PhD within 7 years of application taking into account career breaks.
- Applicants from regions under-represented in CliC (South America, Africa, Asia, Indigenous communities)
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CliC Working Group Updates
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Antarctic Sea Ice Processes and Climate (ASPeCt)
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Inaugural Sea-ice Theme meeting held for Antarctica InSync: The global Antarctica InSync Sea-Ice Theme held its kick-off meeting on 6-7 March 2025, under the auspices of the SCAR/CliC ASPeCt Expert Group, with about 40 participants from numerous countries.
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Participants reported national committees for Antarctica InSync at different stages, including some national committees fully established, and Antarctica InSync resourcing and implementation plans being worked on. Outcomes include:
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- The Antarctica InSync Global Sea-Ice (Zone) Group will hold monthly meetings: First Thursday of the month 19:00 UTC. Contact stefanie.arndt@awi.de for Webex details.
- Sea-ice theme email list established: Subscribe here.
- Group will develop a community White Paper with focus on key research topics and guiding science deliverables under Antarctica InSync.
ASPeCt invites the wider community to join this group with a view to collaborate on scientific ideas and discussions relevant to Antarctica InSync.
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ASPeCt Email List: ASPeCt is in the process of updating their email list. If your email address changed in recently, or you would like to join the list for the first time, please contact Marilyn Raphael and Petra Heil with your up-to-date details.
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GlacierMIP
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As part of GlacierMIP, an engaging three-day global glacier modeling workshop was held in Oslo from February 10-12, attracting nearly 50 participants (and additional online attendees) from over a dozen countries, including many early-career scientists. The event featured oral and poster presentations and break-out sessions for in-depth discussions. It concluded with the annual GlacierMIP business meeting focused on planning the next phase. Find the GlacierMIP Annual Meeting Minutes here.
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Impacts of Changes in the Mountain Cryosphere
(IC-MontC)
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Submitted by Katie Quigley and Raymond S. Bradley
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The International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP) 2025 began with a hybrid launch event on January 21st. The launch event included a high-level plenary opening and a series of online side events aiming to raise awareness, stimulate action, and attract funding. CliC's Impacts of Changes in the Mountain Cryosphere (IC-MontC) hosted a side event featuring a series of scientists whose presentations highlighted the importance of glaciers worldwide and explored many of the IYGP's key messages. Recordings are available now on our website and YouTube channel.
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Permafrost Carbon Network (PCN)
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The Permafrost Carbon Network recently released a new video titled "A Decade of Synthesis Science." This video project, supported in part by CliC, highlights the importance of PCN's work to investigate how much carbon is being released from permafrost and how these emissions contribute to climate change.
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Available to watch now on our website.
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Submitted by Mine Islar, Miriam Jackson, and Yao Tandong
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As part of the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation 2025, a joint celebration of the World Day for Glaciers and World Water Day was organized to highlight the interconnected challenges of water security and climate change. This combined event served as a platform for dialogue and action regarding the state of the world’s glaciers and the impacts of the melting cryosphere on global water, food and energy security.
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Submitted by Shin Sugiyama
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In a beautiful winter setting in Niseko, Japan, on 21-23 January 2025, glaciologists, social scientists, atmosphere scientists, and terrestrial scientists gathered for the IASC Network on Arctic Glaciology (NAG) meeting and cross-cutting activity on “Impacts of the changing land-based cryosphere on Arctic society”. The 2.5-day meeting was attended by 60 in-person participants from 15 countries, of which about half were early-career scientists.
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Submitted by Raymond S. Bradley
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Submitted by Katie Quigley
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A new study led by CliC Co-chair Edward Hanna found that continued rapid warming in the Arctic may be linked to severe cold-air outbreaks in the UK and nearby parts of Europe as well as North America and Asia. The study was the result of an international workshop held in 2023 in Lincoln and was supported by CliC, University of Lincoln, and the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC).
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Submitted by Petra Heil, Letizia Tedesco, and Jacqueline Stefels
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Following contributions during the first week of events at COP29, members of BEPSII, ASPeCt, CATCH, QuIESCENT, and PACES expressed their deep concerns about the current state of the climate and the insufficient progress observed in ongoing negotiations. Consequently, they drafted a press release to convey these concerns and emphasize the critical need for action to address the escalating climate crisis due to the risk of triggering irreversible global impacts.
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People of CliC
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With each newsletter, CliC will highlight 1-2 members of our leadership - introducing them to the wider community through a brief profile in their own words, including background, research interests, and recommended readings.
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Sergi Gonzàlez Herrero: CliC SSG Member
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"We need to understand the current climate complexity to drive future changes”
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I am an atmospheric and cryosphere scientist at the WSL Institute for the Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF). My professional career began as a weather forecaster at the Spanish Meteorological Service, a position I combined with my PhD research on mesoscale weather systems in mountain regions. During my time in AEMET, I participated in two Antarctic campaigns as weather forecaster at the Spanish Juan Carlos I station, and in an Antarctic Campaign as a scientist in the interdisciplinary MICROAIRPOLAR project on aerobiology over Antarctica, eventually serving as president of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists in Spain (APECS-Spain).
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Since 2022, I am working at the Snow Processes group at SLF, focusing on snow-atmospheric interactions and impacts of extreme events on the mountain and polar cryosphere in the context of climate change. In the coming years, I aim to further develop climate change attribution science in polar regions, drawing insights from observations and climate-cryosphere coupled modelling.
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Recommended Reading
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I want to highlight two recent articles on polar extreme events. The first is a two-part multidisciplinary study examining the drivers and impacts of the March 2022 East Antarctica heatwave. I selected this work because of its comprehensive approach, bringing together multiple scientific perspectives to analyze a single extreme event.
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Wille, J. D., and Coauthors, 2024: The Extraordinary March 2022 East Antarctica “Heat” Wave. Part I: Observations and Meteorological Drivers. Journal of Climate, 37(3), 757–778, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0175.1.
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Wille, J. D., and Coauthors, 2024: The Extraordinary March 2022 East Antarctica “Heat” Wave. Part II: Impacts on the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Journal of Climate, 37(3), 779–799, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0176.1.
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The second article is the first to quantify the influence of climate change on an extreme heatwave event in Antarctica. I chose this study for its significant implications—demonstrating that human-driven warming is already affecting extreme weather in one of the most remote regions on Earth.
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González-Herrero, S., Barriopedro, D., Trigo, R.M. et al. Climate warming amplified the 2020 record-breaking heatwave in the Antarctic Peninsula. Commun Earth Environ 3, 122 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00450-5
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Mine Islar: CliC SSG Member
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"The UN Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences provides us an opportunity to make CliC’s role even more visible. This project is particularly important now in fostering efforts to connect scientific community to policy circles in the context of climate change."
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Dr. Mine Islar is an associate professor in sustainability science at Lund University, Sweden and Institute of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO), Copenhagen University. Her expertise is on social sciences of transformative change, environmental justice as well as collective action in high mountain environments.
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Apart from this, she is an expert in biodiversity governance. She acts as a scientific expert in UN Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem services (IPBES) as a Lead Author (2017-2020) for policy tools and instruments for the Values Assessment and Global Assessment of Biodiversity where she led sections on governance challenges of SDGs and potential implications of this on biodiversity. Currently she leads a research project Swedish Research Council (FORMAS) funded NATURICE that investigates the changing human-nature relationship in glacier environments by mapping cryospheric ecosystem services across the Himalaya. This project aims to expand the sociocryospheric research by identifying social impacts of climate change in glacierised regions. She is also a board member of European Society of Ecological Economics (ESEE) and a member of the Scientific Steering Group for CliC (Climate and Cryosphere, a Core Project of the World Climate Research Programme).
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Recommended Reading
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Linkages between multiple crises are my interests, therefore I share the following articles that can inform us about the intersections of biodiversity change and cryospheric change:
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Shrestha, U. B., Lamsal, P., Ghimire, S. K., Shrestha, B. B., Dhakal, S., Shrestha, S., & Atreya, K. (2022). Climate change‐induced distributional change of medicinal and aromatic plants in the Nepal Himalaya. Ecology and Evolution, 12(8), e9204. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9204
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International Winter School for Young Scientists
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Where: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Workshop on Polar Winter Climate and Processes
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Where: British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge UK
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EGU General Assembly 2025
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Where: Vienna, Austria and Online
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18th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography
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Where: Denver, Colorado and Online
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International Conference on Glaciers’ Preservation
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Where: Dushanbe, Republic of Tajikistan
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Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM 47 - CEP 27)
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Arctic Repair Conference 2025
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BACO25: Busan IAMAS-IACS-IAPSO Joint Assembly 2025
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Where: Busan, Republic of Korea
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- Keith Alverson (CliC IPO Director) is attending as a member of the BACO-25 Scientific Program Committee.
- Sandra Barreira (CliC SSG) is convening C02 Advances in Sea Ice Forecasting and Modelling and co-convening JPC06 Understanding and predicting the Arctic Ocean and Sea Ice states: Insights, Challenges, and Future Directions.
- Regine Hock (GlacierMIP co-chair) and Lauren Vargo (CliC SSG) are convening C08 Modelling and observations of glaciers and ice sheets, alongside co-convener Sophie Nowicki (ISMIP6/7 co-chair).
- Amy Lauren Lovecraft (CliC SSG co-chair) is co-convening C13 Societal impacts of changing cryosphere and development of resilience pathways.
- CliC will also attend session C14 Special session celebrating the international year of glaciers’ preservation, convened by Liss M. Andreassen (Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, Norway) and co-convened by Anil Mishra (UNESCO) and Rodica Nitu (WMO).
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International Mountain Conference 2025
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Where: Innsbruck, Austria
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CliC and the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) will hold a joint workshop on high-resolution climate modelling in areas of complex mountain topography, where seasonal snow and ice commonly cover the land surface. This workshop is the first activity of CliC's Impacts of Changes in the Mountain Cryosphere (IC-MontC) working group, which addresses scientific uncertainties associated with the loss of the mountain cryosphere as anthropogenic climate change continues. Workshop details below.
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Acknowledgments
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