Summer School on Mass Balance Measurements and Analysis 2015
2-8 August 2015, Central Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences, Bishkek and Golubin Glacier, Ala Archa Range, Kyrgyzstan
About
In 2015, the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) organizes a Summer School on Mass Balance Measurements and Analysis. The course is restricted to about a dozen participants from Central Asia who are involved in ongoing mass balance programmes in their region. The participants are trained in both field and office work by an international team of experts in glacier monitoring and capacity building.
This summer school is carried out within the framework of the project “Capacity Building and Twinning for Climate Observing Systems” (CATCOS) which is led by MeteoSwiss and supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The event is co-sponsored by UNESCO through its Almaty Cluster Office for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
Programme
The summer school will be held from 2-8 August 2015 in the region of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Theoretical training will take place in the city of Bishkek in the Central Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences (CAIAG). Training in field work and safety aspects will be done on nearby Golubin Glacier (Ala Archa) including an overnight camp stay in the Ala Archa Range.
Theoretical course contents will be:
Internationally coordinated glacier monitoring and related strategies
Theoretical background of glacier mass balance measurements
From point measurements to glacier-wide mass balance
Uncertainties and reanalysing of glacier mass balance measurement series
The use of computer modelling for mass balance analysis
Terrestrial and space borne snowline monitoring
Exercises and discussion of exercises
Course evaluation and summary
The field work training will consist of:
Mountaineering equipment and safety training on clean ice
Construction of ablation stake and network concept, GPS survey of frontal and stake positions
Drilling of ablation stake with Heucke Ice Drill and manual auger
Snow probing, digging and coring
A detailed programme will be made available in time before the beginning of the course.
Costs
Summer school fees, accommodation costs and meals as well as travel costs (depending on country of origin, up to a maximum of 1000 CHF, reimbursed against receipt) are covered by the CATCOS project. Beverages and lunch might have to be covered by the participants.
List of selected participants
More than 30 valid applications were received by the end of the application period (28 February 2015). From these, a total of 14 training positions are offered to candidates from the following Central Asian countries: Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. During the selection process, priority was given to candidates involved with established mass balance programmes.
The following candidates were selected for participation in the WGMS Summer School 2015:
• AF: Abeer Ahmad Sajood, Earth Science Faculty, Kabul University
• AF: Mariam Sajood, Earth Science Faculty, Kabul University
• IR: Sara Sheshangosht, Water Research Institude, Shahid Abbaspour St., Hakimieh, Teheran
• IR: Neamat Karimi, Water Research Institude, Shahid Abbaspour St., Hakimieh, Teheran
• KZ: Cherniyazova Gulshat, National Hydrometeorological Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana
• KZ: Vassiliy Kapitsa, Institute of Geography, Almaty
• KZ: Nikolay Kasatkin, Institute of Geography, Almaty
• KG: Ruslan Kenzhebaev, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi
• KG: Kayrat Abdyzhakypov, Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University, Bishkek
• PK: Syed Hammad Ali, Kathmandu University and Glacier Monitoring and Research Centre (Water and Power Development Authority)
• PK: Muhammad Yasir, Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Aboottabad
• TJ: Zemfira Lablabunova, Institute of water problems, hydropower and ecology, ASRT
• TJ: Bibigul Yorova, Institute of water problems, hydropower and ecology, ASRT
• UZ: Eleonora Semakova, Astronomical Institute, Tashkent
• UZ: Farruh Kattakulov, Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration, Tashkent
International teacher team
Martina Barandun, Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, CH
Martin Hoelzle, Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, CH
Horst Machguth, Centre for Arctic Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, DK
Nico Moelg, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, CH
Victor Popovnin, Cryolithology & Glaciology Dept., Geographical Faculty, Moscow Univ., RU
Antoine Rabatel, Laboratory of Glaciology, Univ. Grenoble Ales - CNRS, FR
Ryskul Usubaliev, Central-Asian Insitute for Applied Geosciences CAIAG, Bishkek, KG
Sergiy Vorogushyn, German Research Center for Geoscience GFZ, Potsdam, DE
Questions
Questions can be sent to: marlene.kronenberg@unifr.ch
More information here:http://www.wgms.ch/mb_summerschool_2015.html
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