Friends, former colleagues to gather June 14 at 3 p.m.                                                                                                                                             

With climate change causing the arctic ice pack to melt, more and more northern waters are opening up to shipping each summer. Sea ice in the region is a major hazard, warns Hajo Eicken, a geophysicist and sea ice expert at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. According to Eicken, better forecasts are urgently needed and will require a new network to manage and distribute sea ice data. Eicken’s ideas were published in a Comment piece in Nature.

Carl Benson speaks on traverses, studies of snow                                                                                                                                             

GI is official ticket outlet for race