Introduction

The 19th International Workshop of the Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes was held on 7th - 8th June 2005 at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Bergen, Norway.

FRISP continues its circumpolar broader focus, and the Ross, Fimbul, and Brunt and Filchner-Ronne ice shelves were adressed, as well as floating ice bergs and Antarcticas role in global ocean models. A majority of the studies were numerical this year, and only two talks given were glaciological. We also had two exitingly different talks covering the circulation on the Arctic shelves and the development of the Rotating Current Meters (RCM's) that were later successfully developed by Aanderaa into the world leading product it has become.

The first horizontal measurements below an Antarctic ice shelf from the "Autosub under ice" programme was also presented, as well as detailed turbulence measurements below melting ice. The new WOCE Southern Ocean Atlas was presented and used as a background to adress the role of the Ross and Weddell Seas in bottom water formation precesses, and we had a future plans session covering the variety of the International Polar Year initiatives within the Antarctic comunity.

Adrian Jenkins will continue as chairman, and the reports will still be printed by the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR). University of Bergen host the FRISP web pages (www.gfi.uib.no/frisp). The participants found the simplicity of the web pages a good policy and the online reports useful in addition to the printed reports. CRYOLIST will still be the recomendation to spread information in the FRISP comunity.

Lars H. Smedsrud