The 26th international Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes (FRISP) will be held at Utö Värdshus in the Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden from 12 - 14 June 2012. The meeting includes a geological excursion on the island of Utö (half day).

The program is now available here!

Important dates:

• Deadline registration for accommodation: 29 February 2012
• Deadline abstract submission: 2 April 2012
• Deadline payments: 2 April 2012
• Deadline registration for the geological excursion (free of charge): 2 April 2012
• Notification of abstract acceptance and assignment as talk or poster: 28 April 2012
• Icebreaker: 11 June 2012
• Conference: 12-14 June 2012

Please note that the venue requires early booking of accommodation, as it is located in one of the most popular places in the Stockholm Archipelago.
The conference comprises 3 days and welcomes presentations (oral and posters) on all aspects of ice shelf research and ice-ocean interaction, in both hemispheres , including, but not limited to:

• Formation, flow and disintegration of ice shelves;
• Response of ice shelves and tidewater glaciers to past, present and future climate variability;
• Surface and basal mass balance of ice shelves;
• Ice-ocean interaction at the calving front of ice shelves and tidewater glaciers;
• Mass transport across the grounding line;
• Ocean circulation and water mass transformation beneath ice shelves and within pro-glacial fjords;
• Impact of ice shelves on the global ocean;
• Processes controlling the delivery of ocean heat to glaciated coastlines;
• Climate records from on or near current or former ice shelves;
• Iceberg calving, drift, melting, and decay.

Conference Organizers:

• Nina Kirchner, Stockholm University, Sweden (nina.kirchner@natgeo.su.se)
• Richard Gyllencreutz, Stockholm University, Sweden (richard.gyllencreutz@geo.su.se)
• Anna Wåhlin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (anna.wahlin@gu.se)