President: Carleen Tijm-Reijmer
(Emailcr@egu.eu)
Deputy President: Daniel Farinotti
(Email)
ECS Representative: Lu Zhou
(Emailecs-cr@egu.eu)
The cryosphere are those parts of the Earth and other planetary bodies that are subject to prolonged periods of temperatures below the freezing point of water. These include glaciers, frozen ground, sea ice, snow and ice. One of the main aims of the EGU Division on Cryospheric Sciences (CR) is to facilitate the exchange of information within the science community. It does so by organising series of sessions at the annual EGU General Assembly, and through the publishing of the open-access journal The Cryosphere. The division awards the Julia and Johannes Weertman medal for outstanding contributions to the science of the cryosphere.
Latest posts from the CR blog
Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them
This miniseries features the tradition of ‘PhD hat’ making in German research institutes and universities. For those of you unfamiliar with this idea (as I once was), this is one of the final milestones a graduate student has before they are officially a “Dr.”. Upon the successful defense of a thesis, the peers of the PhD student craft a graduation hat from a mishmash of scrap cardboard and memorabilia. Hours of work go into these beloved pieces, and you can …
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Field notes from the Chhota Shigri Glacier: A journey of science and survival in the Himalaya
I’m Himanshu Kaushik, a PhD student working under the guidance of Dr. Mohd Farooq Azam at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore (India). Seven years ago, I took my first steps onto the Chhota Shigri Glacier (CSG) in the Indian (Western) Himalaya, and it felt like stepping into another world. Surrounded by the towering peaks, it seemed otherworldly and humbling. After that first expedition, I have visited this glacier about 16 times, each trip uncovering new insights and deepening my …
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Uncovering Antarctica’s hidden subglacial lake network with satellite altimetry
Measuring ice surface elevation changes with satellite laser altimeters flying hundreds of kilometres above Earth tells us where the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are thinning or thickening and how much they contribute to sea level rise. Beyond that though, it can also reveal hidden activity of subglacial lakes filling and draining beneath the ice and meltwater rivers flowing out towards the coast! Read further to find out how this method has been used to detect previously unknown subglacial lakes …
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Happy birthday to the Cryoblog!
The EGU Cryosphere Blog is now 10 years old: Happy Birthday! It all started in December 2014 with this blog post from Nanna Karlsson, and now counts 452 blog posts across 25 blog categories, including winning three Best EGU blog posts (2016, 2019 and 2021). 881 different (hash)tags were used in our blog posts, with way more counts on Antarctica and climate than the Arctic. Since the start, there have been many chief editors, but today we wanted to celebrate …
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Recent awardees
- 2024
- Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal
The 2024 Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal is awarded to
Gwenn E. Flowers for outstanding research in the field of the theoretical and observational hydrology of glaciers, ice caps and continental ice masses.
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- 2024
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to
Katrina Lutz Evaluation of supraglacial lake depth estimation techniques using Sentinel-2, ICESat-2, TanDEM-X, and in situ data, along with an analysis of rapid drainage events over Northeast Greenland
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- 2024
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to
Laura Gabriel Exploring englacial hydrology with surface nuclear magnetic resonance
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- 2024
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to
Nora Krebs Testing four Sentinel (1 and 2) and MODIS Fractional Snow Cover products for the evaluation of five Alpine Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing sites
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- 2024
- Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists
The 2024 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to
Laura A. Stevens for outstanding research into the links between glacial hydrology and ice dynamics, and for their service to the cryosphere community.
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Current issue of the EGU newsletter
In our January issue we take a look at the range of ways that geochemistry, geophysics, mineralogy, petrology and other fundamental geoscience researchers can move their careers in unexpected directions, and learn about how an interdisciplinary perspective took outgoing ERE Division President Viktor Bruckman from forestry to policy!
EGU's Simon Clark is here to help you get started on making personal changes in 2025, in a way that is sustainable, and don't forget to have your say on how we run the Early Career Scientist activities, with the 2025 ECS Survey.
If you need financial support to attend EGU25 due to care-giving responsibilities, a disability, career status or another reason, apply for our new EDI Participation Support by 23 February 2025. The EGU25 Photo Competition is open until 31 March, submit your image to win free registration to EGU26! All this and much more in this month's Loupe!
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