The UMB “Glaciology group” at the Mass Balance workshop, Skeikampen,
Cecilie Rolstad/Anne Chapuis
The workshop hold in Skeikampen focused on glacier mass balance methods, assessments and modeling. The workshop was organized by NVE, which monitors glaciers on the mainland of Norway.
Reinsdyr
Foto: ukjent
Glacier mass balance is of interest due to the hydropower production, 98% of power production in Norway is from hydro power and 15 % of the water supply is from drainage basins that contains glaciers. Glacier mass balance is a very good indicator of climate change, it tells how much a glacier has gained or lost mass. Consequently it has become increasingly essential for the scientific community to have a good understanding and knowledge of glacier mass balance all around the world.
Cecilie Rolstad
Foto: Anne Chapuis
This workshop was an attempt to provide the state of the art in the different topics covering glacier mass balance. The meeting was very international since it gathered more than 80 participants from Europe, Canada, Chile, Russia, New-Zealand, Japan and India.
UMB was well represented last month at the Mass Balance workshop that took place at Skeikampen. Indeed five of us presented some piece of work there.
Torbaug Haug
Foto: Anne Chapuis
] PhD student John Hulth could not be present at the meeting because of his field work at Jan Mayen, but Regine Hock, who supervised his Master thesis and with whom John is collaborating for his PhD presented his work dealing with error estimate on the calculation of glacier mass balance.
Master student Torbog Haug gave an oral presentation on her master thesis result about geodetic mass balance estimations on Svartisen, Norway, using aerial photogrammetry.
PhD student Kristian Breili had prepared a poster about the method to estimate the mass loss by a glacier using gravimetry measurements and his first results on Hardangerjøkulen, Norway.
Anne Chapuis
Foto: Torbaug Haug
PhD student Anne Chapuis presented two posters, one on the estimation of the number of melt days on the Greenland Ice Sheet using RADAR data and the other one on the estimation of ice lost by calving on Kronebreen, Svalbard, using terrestrial photogrammetry.
Finaly Cecilie Rolstad presented a poster on the use of a ground based RADAR to study the calving front of Kronebreen, Svalbard.
