FRISP Workshop 2010

24th International FRISP Workshop in Bad Bederkesa, Germany
21-24 June 2010

This year's FRISP meeting was held at the “Evangelisches Bildungszentrum” in Bad Bederkesa near Bremerhaven – a place that perfectly fulfilled the requirements for a FRISP meeting location: sufficiently remote, limited communication facilities and an 'in-house infrastructure' that nourished discussions among participants even before, between and after the sessions. Informal discussions continued eventually in the bar or the adjacent TV room which was highly frequented during the football world championship matches Slovenia:England and Germany:Ghana. Also the medieval-style conference dinner in the castle of Bederkesa was a successfull social event.

43 participants from 9 countries attended the workshop, representing 21 institutes and giving 28 talks and 6 posters. The talks were grouped in 6 sessions, 'Antarctic Marginal Seas', 'Ice Shelf Observations', 'Icebergs', 'Ocean Modeling', 'Ice Shelf Modeling', and 'Ocean-Ice Shelf Coupling' and distributed over 1 ½ days (June 22 and 23), while the afternoon of the 23rd was dedicated to a poster session. Upcoming field activities and report from ongoing or recently completed ones were presented during the morning of the 24th, when also general organizational matters (regarding e.g. how to enhance efficient communication and distribution of information within the FRISP community, location and time of forthcoming workshops, maintenance of the FRISP homepage and possible publication of FRISP reports) were discussed. As a result of this discussion, a summary of presented upcoming field activities, as well as the up to date ship timetables of the communities’ icebreaking research vessels will soon be found on the FRISP website.

Due to the relaxed schedule, the talks and posters presented could be discussed in appealing length right after they had been presented, a far too seldom luxury!

This year’s conference in Bad Bederkesa was superbly coordinated by Hartmut Hellmer (AWI, Germany) and Malte Thoma (Univ of Muenster, Germany), whereas Adrian Jenkins (BAS, UK) and Svein Osterhus (Bergen, Norway) were as usually in overall charge of the FRISP meeting. - Many thanks!

The forthcoming FRISP workshop will be held as a joint meeting together with the IGS from 5th to 10th of June 2011 at Scripps, California, USA, and is announced as 'International Symposium on Interactions of Ice Sheets and Glaciers with the Ocean'. Moreover, Svein invited the FRISP community to Norway in 2012. A possible location would be the Finse Alpine Research Center in the mountain area Hardangervidda. The center is located near the Finse railway station, which is a well known starting point for trekking tours in the area. The location is served by up to seven trains a day from Bergen and Oslo and provides all necessary facilities for a FRISP meeting, plus a unique atmosphere in the Norwegian “wilderness”. Another opportunity would be the Espegrend Marine Research Station in the proximity of Bergen. Most of the participants were in favour of a meeting in the more exclusive Finse area, although this might require moving the conference from June to September in order to account for the climatic conditions.

Participants at workshop

List of talks

List of posters