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International Firn Workshop - Registration open
From Monday 30 May 2022
To Friday 24 June 2022
Location Online
Last September, we cordially invited you to participate in the International Firn Workshop, an online, community driven event that aims to bring together scientists working on firn processes on land ice. We have now finalized our coordinating team and are opening up the second and final phase of registration. Due to a conflict with EGU, our dates have moved: our workshop will take place between 30 May and 24 June 2022. There are no costs associated with attending the meeting. We will provide professional presentation coaching for all interested participants, and we aim to provide a low-stakes, inclusive platform to connect to the global firn community.
 
We use a Slack workspace for all communication and workshop discussions. If you are interested in attending the workshop, please fill out this Google Form, and we will provide you with the access details to the Slack workspace. Please visit the workshop website or read on below for more information. If you would like to participate in the presentation coaching, please register before April 1, 2022; general registration will remain open until the start of the workshop . If you have already registered in the first phase, you should have received an invitation email to join our workshop Slack workspace, and you do not need to register again.
 
Thank you very much, and we hope to welcome many of you in May and June!
 
The workshop organizers,
 
Rajashree Tri Datta
Nander Wever
Devon Dunmire
Megan Thompson-Munson
Tessa Gorte
Jan Lenaerts
 
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Over the last decade, substantial progress has been made on observing and modeling firn processes on land ice, including glaciers and ice caps outside of the large ice sheets. Understanding firn layer processes such as accumulation and water percolation is critical for assessing, for example, mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet, the risk of destabilization for the floating ice shelves that buttress much of Antarctica’s ice and, on the other side of the mass balance equation, the future role of East Antarctica in potentially storing more ice on land. With increasing detail and resolution of ice sheet and climate models, as well as remote sensing products, the time is right to bring together the global research community on firn processes to discuss the current state of our knowledge and identify the future developments which will  serve the broader cryosphere community. To discuss this in a collaborative, collaborative and global framework, we propose to bring together the firn research community in an online workshop, organized during the months of May and June 2022. The workshop is funded by the AntClimNow Scientific Research Program by the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (https://www.scar.org/science/antclimnow/home/).
 
The goals of our workshop are: 
  • To provide an accessible-for-all framework for presenting, sharing, and discussing new research on firn processes on land ice, with a particular focus on early-career scientists.
  • To discuss and synthesize the current state of knowledge and open questions regarding the general theme of firn on land ice. 
  • To enhance collaboration between data-focused (observational) and modeling-focused communities, and entrain expertise from neighboring disciplines such as seasonal snow and ice sheet dynamics, which are essential steps in addressing the next big challenges in understanding firn.
The workshop will be organized throughout May-June 2022, and consists of three phases: 
  • Sharing phase (30 May- 10 June): presenters will share their work online (via pre recorded lightning presentations). Everyone gets a chance to explore the shared work on a cloud based video platform, which will be organized into themes that are defined by the participants. Slack will be used to communicate within the community. 
  • Topical discussion phase (13-17 June): each theme will organize an online discussion focused on the shared work. Each topical discussion will be organized and led by two coordinators, one early career representative and one senior scientist.
  • Joint session phase (21-23 June): overview talks by themes and outlook/summary talks, spread over two sessions:
Session 1: 21 June, 13:00-15:00 UTC
Session 2: 23 June, 19:00-21:00 UTC
Participants unable to attend live sessions will have immediate access to recordings of the sessions.
 
The synthesis phase (June-September) will feature the writing of the workshop outcomes in a review paper by the coordinating team.
 
In addition, we will provide, at no cost to participants, optional presentation coaching provided by Melissa Marshall. The kickoff workshop for those coaching sessions will be live on 3 May, 14:00-15:00 UTC, and will be recorded. Individualized coaching will occur in the second week of May. More information will be provided after registration.
 
If you are interested in participating in our workshop. please fill out this Google Form
Monday 30 May 2022

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