Image of the Week

An excursion photo shot by Ilkka was elected EGU Image of the Week!


Isabel's EGU blog

Isabel wrote a guest blog about her 2015 Karthaus experience, read it here.

Entertainment

Traditionally, several musical events are organised during the summer school. This year we had three: two musical performances and one tango lesson. From the performances photos and audio recordings have been made.

Karthaus

Social media

Karthaus This year's students started a Facebook alumni group.

Lecturers

This year we had 11 lecturers, their names, affiliations and lecture topic(s) are listed below.

Thomas Blunier
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Topic(s):
  • Ice cores
Olaf Eisen
Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI)
Topic(s):
  • Geophysics
  • Remote sensing methods in glaciology
G. Hilmar Gudmundsson
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge
Topic(s):
  • Continuum mechanics
  • Commonly used approximations in ice flow modelling
  • Inverse modelling
Adrian Jenkins
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge
Topic(s):
  • Interaction of ice shelves with the ocean
Nanna Karlsson
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Topic(s):
  • Rheology of ice
  • Ice on Mars
Felix Ng
University of Sheffield
Topic(s):
  • Thermodynamics of ice sheets
  • Drainage
  • Sliding
Hans Oerlemans
IMAU, Utrecht University
Topic(s):
  • Analytical ice-sheet models
  • The microclimate of glaciers
  • The response of glaciers to climate change
Frank Pattyn
Laboratoire de Glaciologie, Université libre de Bruxelles
Topic(s):
  • Numerical modelling of ice sheets and ice streams
Carleen Tijm-Reijmer
IMAU, Utrecht University
Topic(s):
  • Polar meteorology
  • Mass budget of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheet
  • Modelling glacier near-surface processes
Arjen Stroeven
Stockholm University
Topic(s):
  • Geomorphology
  • Reconstruction of paleo glaciers and ice sheets
Roderik van de Wal
IMAU, Utrecht University
Topic(s):
  • Interaction between ice sheets and the solid Earth
  • Ice sheet modelling through the Cenozoic