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2024 WAIS Workshop
November 11–14, 2024
Hilton UF Conference Center
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL USA
The 2024 West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Workshop will be an in-person workshop at University of Florida's Hilton UF Conference Center in Gainesville, FL, with an opportunity for off-site livestreaming of the conference agenda. Registration and abstraction submission are now closed! You can view the 2024 conference booklet here. Please visit the 2024 WAIS Workshop webpage for more information.
We are soliciting feedback from the WAIS Workshop community about the framework for our next community and science plan. Please see this form for more information.
We are excited to host the 2024 WAIS Workshop November 11–14, 2024, at our third new venue in as many years: the University of Florida's Hilton UF Conference Center. This autumn will be the first time WAIS Workshop has been hosted in the southeastern US, a region uniquely vulnerable to the impacts of marine ice-sheet change. As has been typical, the conference will kick off with an informal dinner on Monday 11/11, and the formal science agenda will conclude by lunch on Thursday 11/14. For 2024, we hope to have a set of Thursday afternoon workshops ranging in topic, likely including reproducible research, ice-sheet education, cloud computing, data archiving, and more. Registration, abstract submission, and early-career travel funding application are now open. Sponsored by the NSF and NASA, the workshop will focus on marine ice-sheet and adjacent Earth systems, with particular emphasis on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Please contact the Organizing Committee if you have any questions or concerns regarding the WAIS Workshop by emailing wais@mines.edu.
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The Organizing Committee invites nominations for future WAIS Workshop Organizing Committee members. If you would like to submit a self- or peer-nomination, please fill out this form.
Questions? Please contact us at wais@mines.edu.
Current science plan: How Much, How Fast? (PDF)
Past Science Plans
2014 WAIS Science Plan
Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASEP) Science and Implementation Plan (February 2002)
WAIS Initiative Science Plan 2013-2016 (PDF)
Related Information
The following links provide information related to the WAIS Initiative. They will take you to outside Web sites.
Pine Island Glacier (PIG) Ice Shelf (2007 - 2010 and beyond)
Who, what, where, why, how, and when ...
LIMA: Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (November 2007)
View and Download Data | Information and Resources
International Polar Year, 2007-2008
U.S. Committee to the IPY, and much more ...
Royal Society Scientific Discussion Meeting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet(October 2005)
Programme (PDF) | Read Details
Glaciologists Honored by ACAN: Ross Sea Ice Streams and Ridges Renamed (January 2003)