Conference and Workshop
Climate Impacts on Glaciers and Biosphere in FuegoPatagonia
July 14th to July 19th, Berlin
The GABY-VASA project, a joint project of University of Magallanes (Punta Arenas), the
Instituto Antártico Chileno (INACH, Chile), and in Germany the Humboldt-Universität zu
Berlin, the Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and RWTH Aachen University on
dendrochronology, climatology and glaciology in Southern Patagonia and the Cordillera
Darwin is pleased to invite you to a conference and workshop to Berlin from 15th to 19th July
2017.
The official program will start with a reception on Friday, July 14th in the evening and
follow-up get-together and organized visiting program in Berlin and its surrounding on the
weekend July 15th/16th, 2017. We will show you some ‘real’ Berlin sites, visit the famous
Telegrafenberg in Potsdam with its world-renowned locations for science and show you
locations of recent glacial history in the area.
On Monday, 17th and Tuesday, 18th July, 2017, an open science meeting will be held, open
to everybody, with potentially sessions on
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dendrochronology
dendro-ecology,
climate variabilityand climate history
climate change
biological responses to climate forcing
glaciology, glacier change
glacio-isotasy and related topics in earth sciences
as well as other related topics.
The regional focus will be Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and adjacent islands, the sub-Antarctic
islands and the Antarctic Peninsula. There will be ample possibilities to discuss contributions
and to elaborate on open scientific issues as well as new project ideas.
There is no conference fee but you must be prepared to individually cover all of your travel,
lodging and catering expenses.
Participants from outside the GABY-VASA project are asked for a contribution of 25 EUR
for the events of the get-together on Friday night (July 15th) and on the weekend of July 16th
and 17th, 2017. In this case you are asked to pay your contribution cash, on-site.
On Wednesday, July 19th, 2017, there will be an internal workshop of the GABY-VASA
group with participants from Chile and Germany.
For abstract submission and registration to the workshop please use the linked PDF
document and send it as an attachment to Christoph Schneider. If you wish to present either a
poster or an oral contribution during the open science meeting please also submit the title
including the list of presenting/first author and co-authors accompanied by an abstract with no
more than 250 words as a MS Word or PDF document. We prefer you use the prepared PDF
formsheet for submitting your abstract.
We are looking forward to meeting you at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in July 2017.
Important deadlines for abtract submission & registration:
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The deadline for abstracts is March 31th, 2017.
Abstract submission template (please send to Christoph Schneider as an attachment to an email) - alternatively just send plain text as a MS Word file via e-mail to Christoph Schneider
Information of authors regarding acceptance of abstracts for oral or poster presentation:
April, 30th, 2017.
The latest registration to the workshop is May, 15th, 2017
Registration template (please send to Christoph Schneider as an attachment to an e-mail) alternatively just send an e-mail to Christoph Schneider
Scientific Committee:
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Matthias Braun, Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg
Gino Casassa, Univ. Magallanes, Punta Arenas
Ricardo Jaña, INACH, Punta Arenas
Juan Carlos Aravena, Univ. Magallanes, Punta Arenas
Christoph Schneider, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Local Organising Committee:
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Christoph Schneider, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
David Steger, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Mahdi Motagh, Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam
The GABY-VASA Conference and Workshop on Climate Impacts on Glaciers and Biosphere
in Fuego-Patagonia, hosted at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is co-funded by and listed
with the International Glaciological Socienty and with Geo.X, the geo-science alliance in
Berlin and Brandenburg and.