The theme of the International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences' Third Open Science Meeting is Ice Core Science at the Three Poles.
Due to the worldwide COVID19 pandemic the IPICS OSC intitially planned for 2020 had to be postponed. The local organization committee is now proud to announce that the IPICS OSC will take place in October 2022 and is looking forward to see all of you in person in picturesque Crans-Montana in the midst of the Swiss Alps.
The 3rd IPICS Open Science Conference will now be held in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, 2-7 October 2022.
Ice cores provide information about past climate and environmental conditions as well as direct records of the composition of the atmosphere on timescales from decades to hundreds of millennia. With the pioneering work of Hans Oeschger of University of Bern on carbon dioxide in polar ice cores, a long tradition of ice core research in Switzerland began. Less known is that Hans Oeschger also initiated a high-alpine drilling project on Colle Gnifetti in Switzerland in the 1970s. To acknowledge Hans Oeschger’s important contribution to these two ice core fields and to foster the link between the corresponding communities the theme of the conference is Ice Core Science at the three Poles.
Virtual Participation
We would be very pleased to welcome you in person in Crans-Montana. However, for those of you who can not make it, we offer a virtual participation. If you register for the virtual participation, you are allowed to listen to all talks and to submit an abstract for a virtual talk.
Important dates
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January 1, 2022 |
Submission for abstracts opens |
| April 30, 2022 |
Deadline for abstract submission |
| June 1, 2022 |
Abstract confirmation |
| July 1, 2022 |
Early bird registration closes |
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August 1, 2022 |
Program online |
| September 1, 2022 |
Online registration closes |
| October 1, 2022 | Ice Core Young Scientists (ICYS) Workshop |
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October 2 - 7, 2022 |
IPICS Third Open Science Conference |
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October 8, 2022 |
Post-Conference Excursion |
Scientific Topics
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Glacial / interglacial dynamics, interglacials, and sea level
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Holocene and last 2000 year climate forcings and variability
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Progress in proxy development and interpretation
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Ice dynamics, ice sheet instability and geophysics
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High-alpine ice cores
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Ice biology, basal ice, subglacial lakes
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Pollution records
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Advances in drilling engineering and borehole observations
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Time scales and methods for ice dating
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Rapid changes and teleconnections
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Biogeochemical Cycles in the Earth system – data and models
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New ice archives
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The Oldest Ice challenge, and the preservation of climatic signals in the deepest ice
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Open session
Consult the IPICS website for the tentative conference schedule.
Cover image by Jared Erondu.
