REPORT FROM THE NORDIC BRANCH MEETING

摘要

On 27-29 October 2011 the 19th Nordic Branch meeting convened in Oslo, Norway. The meeting was jointly organized by the Norwegian Water and Energy Board (NVE) and the University of Oslo. The work of the organizing committee, Liss M. Andreassen, Heidi H. Pikkarainen, Solveig H. Winsvold and Thomas Schuler, made the meet-ing a very successful event. It attracted nearly 100 participants from (in reverse order of attend-ance numbers) the USA, Germany, Belgium, the UK, the etherlands, Poland, Iceland, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway. We were particu-larly happy to see both the IGS President, Doug MacAyeal, and the IGS Secretary General, Mag-nus Mar Magnusson generously sharing their time with us and helping to maintain the strong IGS connection. The support from IGS for this meet-ing quenched our thirst in the best way. Additional support for the meeting was supplied by NVE, the University of Oslo, and the Nordic Centre of Ex-cellence Stability and Variations of Arctic Land Ice (SVALI) programme.