A regular day in Karthaus

Apart from all the singing nights, excursions, sheep and so on, we also had "normal" days. A normal day usually started by waking up by the church bells at 7h in the morning. After that, we tried to get some more moments of sleep before going out of bed. The breakfast started at around 7.45am, but some persons started their breakfast at 8.26am before going to the lecture at 8.27am. The breakfast offered a wide choice of fresh breads, fruits and very nice coffee and tea, which greatly improved our mood, which was ruined by the church bells. At 8.30am, the lectures started and until lunch we had 4 lectures of about 50 minutes each and a (coffee) break in between. At 12.45am we could go eat again, starting lunch with a nice salad, followed by pasta and a heavenly dessert. We had some days on which we could sit outside for lunch, which was also very nice.

The early morning wake up call	Working on the projects

The village community building (Haus der Dorfgemeinschaft) comfortably accommodated all the summer school activities. The afternoon, starting at 2pm and finishing at 5.30pm, was spent making exercises and doing a computer project. Twelve groups of three students each were assigned a computer project. By doing numerical experiments and fiddling with different numbers (making a walk through parameter space), students got a feeling for a certain glaciology-related process.

The complete programme is available as a pdf.

In their spare-time, the participants enjoyed the different outdoor pursuits that the surroundings of Karthaus have to offer. Many went for a hike to the Kreuzspitze (2484m), a mountaintop south of the village. Just below the summit an enormous cross has been erected, visible from the village. The walk could be done in anything between 56m44s (2005 record of Thomas Reerink) and three hours. On many days a football or frisbee match has been played between the end of the official program and dinner (7.30pm).

The groups and names of each projects:
1. Mass balance modelling I (Mölg): pdf (3 Mb)
     Sabine, Lauren and Geir
2. Firn-ice-sheet model (Helsen): pdf (2.7 Mb)
     Maria, Nick and Hrafnhildur
3. Inverse modelling I (Gudmundsson): pdf (0.7 Mb)
     Ryan, Bas, Nicole and Kristin
4. Inverse modelling II (Gudmundsson): pdf (1.7 Mb)
     Leanne, Alex and Jason
5. Ice-sheet model I (Van den Berg): pdf (3.3 Mb)
     Gabi, Becky and Jonny
6. Ice-sheet model II (Van den Berg): pdf (0.7 Mb)
     Anne, Irina and Robert
7. Firn density model I (Helsen): pdf (5.9 Mb)
     Charlotte, Vasileios and Malcolm
8. Firn density model II (Helsen): pdf (5.9 Mb)
     Jan, Giuliat and Mai
9. Mass balance modelling II (Mölg, Kaser): pdf (4 Mb)
     Romain, Raymond and Michal
10. Modelling Jökulhlaupts (Fowler): pdf (3.4 Mb)
     Damien, Johanna and Michael
11. Thermodynamics of ice sheets I (Van den Berg):
     Heike, Ben and Reinhard
12. Thermodynamics of ice sheets II (Van den Berg):
     Mette and Jesper