[GLIMS] GLIMS and other glacier-related meetings a week from today

[Bruce RAUP]

Hello all,

We invite you to participate in a 1-hour GLIMS meeting, to be held next 
Tuesday during the virtual EGU meeting.  This is one of three public
meetings to be held consecutively (and previously announced), all related
to mountain glaciers and ice caps -- brought to you by GLIMS, the World
Glacier Monitoring Service, the Global Terrestrial Network for Glaciers
(GTN-G), and the Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) working group (WG).  All
these meetings are open to all.  Here are the details:

(a) Meeting overview
16:15-17:30 CEST - RAGMAC WG meeting (public, moderator: M. Zemp)
   (10:15-11:30 EDT)

17:30-18:30 CEST - GLIMS Core Team meeting (public, moderator: F. Paul)
   (11:30-12:30 EDT)

18:30-19:30 CEST - RGI WG meeting (public, moderator: F. Maussion)
   (12:30-13:30 EDT)


(b) Login information
Please join these meetings from your computer, tablet or smartphone:
https://www.gotomeet.me/wgms/wgms-at-egu

Note that with Google Chrome you can attend the meeting directly in your 
browser.  With other browsers (e.g., MS Explorer, Mozilla Firefox) you 
might need to download a plugin.

Using GoToMeeting for the first time?  You can check the system 
requirements here:
https://link.gotomeeting.com/system-check

(c) Agenda for each meeting

---------- 16:15-17:30 CEST: Agenda RAGMAC WG Meeting ----------
(10:15-11:30 EDT, 8:15-9:30 MDT, 7:15-8:30 PDT)

This is a public meeting of the IACS working group on “Regional 
Assessments of Glacier Mass Change (RAGMAC)”: 
https://cryosphericsciences.org/activities/wg-ragmac/

Participants: RAGMAC co-chairs, members, and interested colleagues

Moderator and keeper of the minutes: M. Zemp
- Welcome & brief overview of WG goals (M. Zemp)
- WP1 round robin experiment of geodetic methods using DEM differencing (F.
   Brun, M. Braun)
- WP2 white paper on space borne altimetry and gravimetry (B. Wouters, G.
   Moholdt)
- Webinar series (F. Brun)
- Questions & feedback (All)
- Next meetings & close (M. Zemp)

---------- 17:30-18:30 CEST - GLIMS meeting ----------
(11:30-12:30 EDT, 9:30-10:30 MDT, 8:30-9:30 PDT)

This is public meeting of the GLIMS Core Team: 
http://www.glims.org/About/glims_core_team.html

Participants: GLIMS Core Team members and interested colleagues

Moderator: F. Paul, Keeper of the minutes: P. Rastner
- Welcome, introducing the core-team (B. Raup)
- GLIMS status overview and new functions: newly contributed data, planned
   website updates, RGI-on-demand, Earthdata login, etc. (B. Raup)
- Debris-covered glaciers and rock glaciers (T. Bolch)
- Building the database of extinct glaciers (B. Raup)
- Current work of GLIMS contributors
- Initial planning for a GLIMS Review Paper
- Questions and Discussion
- Next meeting & close (B. Raup)

---------- 18:30-19:30 CEST - RGI WG meeting ----------
(12:30-13:30 EDT, 10:30-11:30 MDT, 9:30-10:30 PDT)

This is a public meeting of the IACS working group on “Randolph Glacier 
Inventory (RGI) and its role in future glacier monitoring and GLIMS”: 
https://cryosphericsciences.org/activities/working-groups/rgi-working-group/

Participants: RGI WG co-chairs, members, and interested colleagues

Moderator and keeper of the minutes: F. Maussion
- Welcome (F. Maussion)
- Working group motivations, goals & membership (F. Maussion, R. Hock)
- RGI 7.0 and future versions (F. Maussion, R. Hock)
- “RGI on demand” from GLIMS database, call for testing (B. Raup)
- Call for participation (a) new inventories (P. Rastner, F. Paul)
- Call for participation (b) new tools (F. Maussion, B. Raup)
- Open discussion
- Next meeting & close (F. Maussion)


-- 
Bruce H. RAUP
National Snow and Ice Data Center
University of Colorado
449 UCB,  Boulder, CO 80309
Phone:  303-492-8814
cires.colorado.edu/~braup/
GLIMS:  www.glims.org