The Dynamics and Mass Budget of Arctic Glaciers. Abstracts. Annual Workshop/Glaciodyn Meeting 2-4 February, Winter Park, Colorado, USA. IASC Network on Arctic Glaciology

The 2011 annual workshop on the dynamics and mass budget of Arctic glaciers of the Network for Arc-tic Glaciology was held at Winter Park, Colorado, USA, 2-4 February, 2011.

The planning of the workshop was unfortunately delayed substantially due to unexpected illness in the organizing committee. Accordingly, attendance was lower than normal. The silver lining to the reduced attendance was that the discussions were highly engaging and inspiring, with everyone on the front row.

The support from IASC covering travel expenses for a number of students and young investigators at-tending the workshop was crucial for the international attendance of young researchers and students. The fortunate grant recipients experienced and participated in the true spirit of sharing scientific insights among a group of top scientists in the field of glaciology.

The National Representatives present led the Open Forum discussion open to all participants in the workshop. The minutes from the Open Forum are included in this volume.

The workshop was attended by 17 registered participants and featured 8 talks and 3 poster presenta-tions. This volume presents the abstracts submitted for presentation at the workshop. It was judged that a volume of extended abstracts would not be substantial enough and thus only the regular abstracts are published in this volume.

We would to like to thank Prof. Tad Pfeffer from INSTAAR, University of Colorado, for taking on the local organizing of the meeting at Winter Park, Colorado and giving us an opportunity to bring the IASC-NAG to the US for the first time.