The Dynamics and Mass Budget of Arctic Glaciers. Extended Abstracts. Annual Workshop/Glaciodyn Meeting 7 -10 March 2010, Obergurgl (Austria). IASC Network on Arctic Glaciology

The 2010 annual workshop on the dynamics and mass budget of Arctic glaciers of the Network for Arctic Glaciology was held at the Universitätszentrum Obergurgl, University of Innsbruck, Obergurgl, Austria.

The workshop was proof that an informal setting and a relatively limited amount of partici-pants provide the best opportunities for increasing the collaboration among glaciologists across the Arctic and supports the inclusion of new generations of polar scientists in a way larger scale conferences cannot. Again, we were fortunate to have support from IASC for covering travel expenses for a number of students and young investigators attending the workshop.

Following the change decided at the annual workshop in 2009 in Canada, the National Representatives led an 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 55 registered particpants and featured a total of 34 oral presentations and 9 poster presentations. This volume presents the 25 extended abstracts submitted from the workshop. The extended abstracts have not been reviewed, but provide useful information on the research being conducted and serve as an inspiration for collabo-ration and further studies.

We would to like to thank Dr. Michael Kuhn from the University of Innsbruck for making it possible for the IASC NAG to return once again to the Universitätszentrum Obergurgl. Thanks to Trine Schmidt Jensen for helping with the editorial work.