The Cryosphere in a changing climate - A scientific symposium in the memory of Koni Steffen

Beginn:

21. Oktober 202121 Oktober 2021, 10:00

Ende:

22. Oktober 202122 Oktober 2021, 16:00

Ort:

Kongresszentrum Davos

Organisator/in:

WSL

Referent/in:

several invited talks

Moderator/in:

tbn

Sprache:

english

Veranstaltungstyp:

Kongresse und Tagungen

Zielpublikum:

everybody interested in this topic

The Cryosphere in a changing climate - A scientific symposium in the memory of Koni Steffen

The Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL announces that the registration to the above mentioned symposium in the memory of our past Director, Koni Steffen, is now open.

Konrad Steffen – or Koni, as everyone knew him – was a passionate researcher and teacher, who dedicated his life to science through the study of the cryosphere and the climate of cold environments. Koni was driven by the mission of informing about the ongoing, rapid human-driven changes and the resulting impacts on human and natural systems these changes could impose. This scientific symposium will honour Koni’s scientific legacy, covering a wide range of topics, including the study of Arctic sea ice, the dynamics of polar ice sheets, the quantification of climate-driven ice losses in Antarctica and Greenland, the effects of melting ice on global sea level, as well as more generally the impacts of climate change on polar and high mountain environments. By bringing together long-term colleagues that accompanied Koni over the years and early-career researchers that have recently embarked in the related disciplines, the event will aim at building a bridge between generations of cryosphere and climate scientists – a task in which Koni excelled.

The program will consist of invited talks, posters sessions (based on submitted abstracts) and ample networking time. A conference dinner will be organised in the evening of the Day 1.

We are very much looking forward to seeing you in Davos.

The Symposium Organizing Committee

Further information

Programme

20 October 2021	Informal ice-breaker and welcome event (evening)
21 October 2021	Symposium opening at 10.00 am (Reception starting 08.30 am) Apéro and and joint dinner in the evening
22 October 2021	End of symposium around 03.30 pm

Confirmed speakers (status 08.03.2021):

Waleed Abdalati	CIRES, University of Colorado
Daniel Farinotti	Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape / ETH Zurich
Stefan Flückiger	Deputy State Secretary, State Secretariat for International Finance SIF, Federal Department of Finance FDF
Nicolas Gruber	Environmental Physics Group, ETH Zürich
Regine Hock	Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo
Valerie Masson Delmotte	Co-chair of IPCC Working Group I / Université Paris-Saclay
Bianca Perren	British Antarctic Survey
Eric Rignot	Department of Earth System Science, University of California
Ted Scambos	Earth Science and Observation Center, University of Colorado
Margit Schwikowski	Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut
Thomas Stocker	Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern
Julienne Stroeve	Centre for Earth Observation Science, University of Manitoba

In view of this rich programme and of the interactive nature of this symposium, the event will be held in person in Davos and not as an online event.

The organizing committee is closely monitoring local regulations and the global situation. All necessary measures will be taken to deliver a safe conference and will be communicated to all participant. Should the pandemic situation worsen or take an unexpected turn to the worse, all participants will immediately be informed of any necessary restrictions or decisions. While individual remote talks could be organized in case travel restrictions are still be in place for certain countries/regions in October, the event will be postponed to 2022 should the pandemic situation not allow the symposium to be held as an in-person event.

Registration

Please follow this link for registration: Registration via Conftool

The registration includes admission to the symposium, lunches, dinner and receptions. Travel and accommodation are not included.

The registration fees are as follows:

Regular	CHF 100 per person
Students, PhDs, Postdocs	CHF 50 per person

Please also note that the available places will be limited.

Congress Center Davos

Accomodation

A contingent of single rooms has been reserved in various hotels from 20 to 22 October 2021:

Basic hotels:	Youth Hostel, Davos (single, double, multi-bed rooms)
Middle-class hotel:	Spenglers Inn, Davos (single, double, multi-bed rooms)
	Dischma, Davos (single rooms)
First-class hotels:	Kongresshotel Davos (single rooms, double-rooms upon request)
	Morosani Schweizerhof, Davos (single rooms, double-rooms upon request)

To benefit from a special rate, please book your accommodation by quoting "SymposiumKS". For a shared room, pre- or post-extension, please enquire directly at the hotel.

Please note that in case of a cancellation, the individual hotels might have different refunding policies.

Postersession

The poster session will be an important part of the event. It will enable direct interaction between meeting participants, particularly fostering the exchange between early career and more senior scientists. In the event's overall spirit, the programme will provide ample room for this important networking activity. Don't miss the chance!

Technical information:

Posters boards will have dimensions100 x 150 cm. The format "A0 portrait" (841 mm wide x 1189 mm high) is thus best suited. Bigger posters or posters in landscape format cannot be mounted.
Posters will need to be printed beforehand, as no printing facility will be available on site.
The presenters will be responsible for attaching their poster to the corresponding display-boards in the morning of the day the poster is displayed, and for removing them in the evening. We will also give you Scotch Power Strips to mount your
poster; please do NOT use nails, pins or other material to attach your poster to the poster boards.

Travel Grant for Early Career Researchers (ECRs)

Early Career Researchers (PhD students and scientists who have earned their PhD after 01.01.2018) and who present a poster are eligible to obtain a travel grant to cover their participation in the symposium. ECRs wishing to obtain a travel grant must request it in the registration form. Grant awardees will be informed before 31 August 2021, together with the confirmation of the poster’s acceptance.

Travel grants for Swiss-based ECRs amounts to CHF 200. For ECRs based outside Switzerland, the travel grant amounts to CHF 450. The grants will be paid as a lump sum after the conference.