BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6b8d26898d8456d14301e5b420723697 CATEGORIES:Polar Conferences, Meetings and Events CREATED:20220323T093526 SUMMARY:UK Antarctic Science Conference LOCATION:Edinburgh\, UK DESCRIPTION:The School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to be hosting a joint meeting of the International Glaciological Society British Branch (IGSBB) and the UK Antarctic Science Conference (UKASC) from Tuesda y 30 August to Friday 2 September 2022. \nThe IGSBB is an informal two-day meeting at which presentations are welcome on all aspects of ice and snow r esearch, while the UKASC welcomes contributions on any aspect of Antarctic Science. We strongly encourage early-career researchers, including postgrad uate students, to attend and present their work.\nConference website:  (htt ps://edinburghcryosphere.org/ncarigsbb2022/)https://edinburghc ryosphere.org/ncarigsbb2022/\nInterested? What you need to do now:\nBoo k accommodation. Summer is extremely busy in Edinburgh and we encourage ear ly booking of accommodation. Through the conference website there are prese ntly some reduced rates available on university accommodation on a first co me first served basis.\nSubmit your abstract! via the link at the top of th e conference website – deadline 1 August 2022. In doing so you will indicat e a preference between presenting a talk or a poster – more details on this at the foot of this message.\nYou will also need to register in due course but unfortunately our payment system is not yet live. We will send a furth er circular when this is ready. For now, you can view the rates of the meet ings, which are held steady at the rates of previous in-person meetings, fr ee for online attendees and presenters, and with discounted registration an d conference meal rates for ECRs. We have been able to subsidise these cost s with support from the Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and S ociety (https://www.sages.ac.uk/) and the University of Edinburgh’s Global Change Research Institute.\ nFormat of the meetings and talks/posters\nThe meetings will run in hybrid mode as follows:\n\n - IGS British Branch will run from Tuesday 30 August m id morning to Thursday 1 September noon.\n - The UK Antarctic Science Confe rence will run from 9am on Thursday 1 September to Friday 2 September mid-a fternoon.(Both meetings will overlap with presentations that combine the co nference interests in Antarctic glaciology on the Thursday morning.)\n\n - We plan for oral-talk slots that are 12-15 minutes long. Talks may be prese nted in-person or online (live or pre-recorded).\n - For poster presenters, in-person presenters will be able to bring a standard poster for display o n poster boards. We plan also to provide an option for presenting online po sters, the format of which will depend on numbers of abstracts submitted, a nd may vary from simply a space for posters to be shared to a Gathertown sp ace for online attendees. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to be hosting a joint meeting of the International Glaciological Soci ety British Branch (IGSBB) and the UK Antarctic Science Conference (UKASC) from Tuesday 30 August to Friday 2 September 2022. 

The IGSBB is an informal two-day meeting at which presentations are welcome on all aspects of ice and snow research, while the UKASC welcomes contributio ns on any aspect of Antarctic Science. We strongly encourage early-career r esearchers, including postgraduate students, to attend and present their wo rk.

Conference website: https://edinb urghcryosphere.org/ncarigsbb2022/

Interested? What you need to do now:

Book accommodation. Summer is extremely busy in Edinburgh and w e encourage early booking of accommodation. Through the conference website there are presently some reduced rates available on university accommodatio n on a first come first served basis.

Submit your abstract! via the link at the top of the conference website – de adline 1 August 2022. In doing so you will indicate a preference b etween presenting a talk or a poster – more details on this at the foot of this message.

You will also need to register in due course but unfort unately our payment system is not yet live. We will send a further circular when this is ready. For now, you can view the rates of the meetings, which are held steady at the rates of previous in-person meetings, free for onli ne attendees and presenters, and with discounted registration and conferenc e meal rates for ECRs. We have been able to subsidise these costs with supp ort from the Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society and the University of Edinburgh’s Global Change Research Institute.

Format of the me etings and talks/posters

The meetings will run in hybrid mode as foll ows:

(Both meetings will overlap with presentations that comb ine the conference interests in Antarctic glaciology on the Thursday mornin g.)

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