Venue

Like every year, we were welcomed at the hotel Zur Goldenen Rose, run by Paul Grüner (just like almost everything else in Karthaus).

Karthaus

Entertainment

Traditionally, several musical events are organised during the summer school. Unfortunately there were no tango lessons this year, but there was a lot of piano music and two songs. Find more at the music page.

Social media

Karthaus There is a Facebook group created by the summer school students.

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
Ian Hewitt
University of Oxford
Topic(s):
  • Rheology of ice
  • Thermodynamics of ice
  • Sliding
  • Glacier hydrology
  • Basal processes and geomorphology
Teresa Kyrke-Smith
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge
Topic(s):
  • Continuum mechanics
  • Commonly used approximations in ice flow modelling
Francisco Navarro
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Topic(s):
  • Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) methods in glaciology
  • Internal structure and physical properties of glaciers from GPR
  • Combining GPR and remote-sensing with glacier dynamics modelling
Faizeh Nick
University Centre in Svalbard
Topic(s):
  • Tidewater glaciers
Hans Oerlemans
IMAU, Utrecht University
Topic(s):
  • Analytical models of ice sheets
  • The response of glaciers to climate change
  • Minimal glacier models
  • Ice sheets and the climatic history of the Earth
Frank Pattyn
Laboratoire de Glaciologie, Université libre de Bruxelles
Topic(s):
  • Numerical modelling of ice sheets and ice shelves
Carleen Reijmer
IMAU, Utrecht University
Topic(s):
  • Climates of ice sheets and glaciers
  • Modelling glacier surface and near-surface processes
  • The mass budget of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets
Fiamma Straneo
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Topic(s):
  • Ocean processes and land ice
Giorgio Spada
Università degli Studi di Urbino
Topic(s):
  • Introduction to geodynamics
  • Geodynamics, glacial isostasy and sea level
Arjen Stroeven
Stockholm University
Topic(s):
  • Introduction to glacial geomorphology
  • Geomorphology and mapping of paleo-ice sheets