Venue

The Karthaus summer school was accomodated in the luxurious hotel Zur Goldenen Rose, run by Paul Grüner.

Karthaus

Entertainment

Traditionally, several musical events are organised during the summer school. Unfortunately there were no tango lessons this year, but there was a lot of piano music.

Social media

Karthaus The summer school students started a Facebook group.

Lecturers

All lectures, affiliations and lecture topic(s) are listed below.

Thomas Blunier
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Topic(s):
  • Ice cores
Olaf Eisen
Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven; University of Bremen
Topic(s):
  • Geophysical and remote-sensing methods in glaciology
Ian Hewitt
University of Oxford
Topic(s):
  • Continuum Mechanics
  • Sliding
  • Glacier hydrology
  • Basal processes and geomorphology
Adrian Jenkins
British Antarctic Survey; Natural Environment Research Council, Cambridge
Topic(s):
  • Interaction of ice shelves with the ocean
Nanne Karlsson
GEUS, Copenhagen
Topic(s):
  • Rheology of ice
  • Thermodynamics ice
  • The use of radar data in glaciology
Hans Oerlemans
IMAU, Utrecht University
Topic(s):
  • Analytical models of ice sheets
  • Minimal glacier models
  • Calving glaciers
  • The response of glaciers to climate change
  • Glacier engineering
Frank Pattyn
Laboratoire de Glaciologie, Université libre de Bruxelles
Topic(s):
  • Numerical modelling of ice sheets and ice shelves
Carleen Reijmer
IMAU, Utrecht University
Topic(s):
  • Climates of ice sheets and glaciers
  • Modelling glacier surface and near-surface processes
  • The mass budget of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets
George Roth
Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø
Topic(s):
  • Quantarctica workshop
Giorgio Spada
Università degli Studi di Urbino
Topic(s):
  • Introduction to geodynamics
  • Geodynamics, glacial isostasy and sea level
Arjen Stroeven
Stockholm University
Topic(s):
  • Introduction to glacial geomorphology
  • Geomorphology and mapping of paleo-ice sheets