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Hi Etienne (Bruce/GLIMS CCed),<br>
<br>
sorry for the slow reply, I hope it will be of help nevertheless:<br>
I've signed the support letter, and asked both WSL's and ETH's
communication offices to engage.<br>
ETH is surprisingly slow in responding (it's 5 days and 1 reminder
by now...) but I have much hope for WSL since the picture of Ricado
shown in Nature's article (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08236-y">link</a>)
shows him with a WSL/SLF bonnet.<br>
<br>
Thank you for bringing this story to cryolist. I very much hope that
the community's support will at least provide some comfort to
Ricardo.<br>
<br>
Daniel<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05.12.2017 00:14, Etienne Berthier
wrote:<br>
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<p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dear cryolisters,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:
Calibri;">“S<em>cientists cannot be sent to jail for their
findings</em>”</span><br>
<br>
We would like to inform you about the unacceptable situation
of our colleague Ricardo Villalba (IANIGLA, Argentina). Many
of you probably know Ricardo for his scientific achievements (<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=27oYl3QAAAAJ"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=27oYl3QAAAAJ</a>).
Now, Ricardo is accused of having favoured mining activities
in his position of director of the National Glacier Inventory
in Argentina. Briefly, he is accused of having mapped only
glaciers larger than 1 ha (0.01 km²) leaving smaller ice
bodies uncharted and, doing so, favouring mining activities.
The coming week will be decisive. <br>
<br>
As a community how can we help? Last August, several members
of GLIMS (Global Land Ice Measurements from Space) and the
WGMS (World Glacier Monitoring Service) wrote two letters to
inform the Argentinian justice that their national glacier
inventory was being performed following state-of-the-art
international standards. As you may know, every glacier
inventory has to defined a minimum area mapping threshold and
the one used by our Argentinian colleagues of IANIGLA (0.01
km²) is among the smallest used so far, illustrating how
detailed and comprehensive their inventory work is. <br>
<br>
These letters did not convince the judge. We believe we should
now support much more loudly our colleague. Several years ago,
the seismological community stood up furiously to support
their scientific colleagues following the Aquila's earthquake.
Several months ago, we <em>marched for Science</em>. It is
now time for the wide cryo-community to express loudly its
support to one colleague, accused of doing his scientific work
as best as possible.<br>
<br>
If, like us, you trust the scientific work produced by our
Argentinian colleague and want to support him, we ask you to:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (i) the sign the support
letter (in which you will find much more details about the
case)<br>
<a
href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHCU7ckSoie1BscOnsfKQO_byFkgx3lTA8A-7LbtLFmxX7cg/viewform?c=0&w=1"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHCU7ckSoie1BscOnsfKQO_byFkgx3lTA8A-7LbtLFmxX7cg/viewform?c=0&w=1</a><br>
Note that you can provide your email in the mandatory field
“Passport / ID” if you prefer.<br>
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(ii) contact journalists
and public media to raise attention of a wide-public around
this unbelievable and unacceptable story. Cryo-blog (from EGU,
Glacier Hub, AGU, etc…) may also want to report on this. <br>
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(iii) Socities, Union and
other organizations such IGS, AGU, EGU, IACS etc... may issue
some official statements to express their support.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(iv) forward the message
beyond the cryolist. All scientists should be fighting
vigorously to help Ricardo. So spread the word in your
institute.<br>
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thanks for your active
support and rapid actions,<br>
<br>
Etienne Berthier, member of the GLIMS core team, reviewer of
the National Glacier Inventory of Argentina<br>
Bruce H. Raup, Director of Global Land Ice Measurement from
Space (GLIMS) <br>
Michael Zemp, Director of the World Glacier Monitoring Service
(WGMS)<br>
Jeffrey S. Kargel, former Director of GLIMS and current member
of the GLIMS core team<br>
Samuel Nussbaumer, WGMS<br>
Adina Racoviteanu, Tobias Bolch, Frank Paul, members of the
GLIMS core team<br>
</span></p>
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