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News & Events
Stay informed and engaged with our News & Events section, one of the many ways to engage with the latest updates, announcements, and events within the RGIK community. You will find insights into groundbreaking research, upcoming seminars, community initiatives, and other key events that drive our mission forward. Check back regularly to never miss an update!
Events
RGIK community events include webinars, General Assembly meetings, information meetings at scientific conferences, or dedicated workshops. Each event offers you the opportunity to engage and connect with members of the community. Stay up-to-date with all of the latest events by following and you can also RSVP directly through our events calendar. Please note that all times are in the CET/CEST timezone and to adjust accordingly.
Upcoming Events
RGIK Webinar Series
Our webinar series serves as a cornerstone of the RGIK community, offering a valuable platform to share innovative research, foster collaboration, and advance the collective understanding of rock glaciers. These webinars bring together experts, researchers, and community members, creating the space for exchanging ideas, sparking meaningful discussions, and building connections across disciplines and geographical borders. The impact of these sessions extends beyond the presentations and discussions themselves, fueling new ideas, inspiration, and collaborations to drive progress. To see upcoming and previous topics and presentations, refer to the tables below. For upcoming webinars, please click the title of the presentation to join the session at the date and time listed below. To view the recordings of the presentation afterwards, please click the title of the presentation to be taken to our YouTube channel.
Webinar Presentations
Name | Date & Time (CET/CEST) | Title |
|---|---|---|
Kaytan Kelkar | 27 May 2026 at 16:00 | |
To be determined. | 29 April 2026 | To be determined. |
Mishelle Wehbe | 25 March 2026 at 14:00 | |
Soumik Das | 25 February 2026 at 14:00 | An inventory of rock glaciers in the Spiti Basin, NW Himalaya, using high resolution imageries |
Andreas Kellerer-Pirklbauer | 28 January 2026 at 14:00 | |
Stefano Brighenti | 26 November 2025 at 14:00 | Intact rock glaciers as weathering reactors: influence on spring water quality |
Christoph Kohler | 29 October 2025 | Natural acid rock drainage causing hydrochemical variations in rock glacier springs in the Austrian Alps |
Ella Wood | 27 August 2025 | Deciphering transitions within glacier connected rock glaciers in the Northern Tien Shan through remote sensing and geophysical investigations |
Alex Takoudes | 30 July 2025 | Automated Mapping of Rock Glaciers using Image Segmentation |
Melanie Stammler | 25 June 2025 | Absent kinematic response of Dos Lenguas rock glacier (Dry Andes, Argentina, 2016-2024) to warming trend: regional pattern or peculiarity? Insights from UAV and Pléiades imagery |
Jakob Abermann | 28 May 2025 | |
Martín Mendoza | 30 April 2025 | |
Sebastián Vivero | 26 March 2025 | Insights into the geometric changes of rock glaciers from high-resolution, three dimensional spatial data |
Zhangyu Sun | 26 February 2025 | Inventorying rock glaciers for the Tibetan Plateau using deep learning |
Dominik Amschwand | 27 November 2024 | |
Javiera Carraha | 30 October 2024 | |
Tyler Meng | 25 September 2024 | |
Jan Beutel | 21 August 2024 | Observing Slope Movements Using Continuous GNSS - History, Methods, Data Interpretation |
Sebastian Buchelt | 29 May 2024 | |
RGIK Interim ExCom | 24 April 2024 | Information from the Interim RGIK Executive Committee on the transition to an IPA Standing Committee |
Eliseo Flores | 27 March 2024 | Inventory and kinematics of rock glaciers in James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula |
Julie Wee | 28 February 2024 | |
Lea Schmid | 29 November 2023 | |
Chantal Del Siro | 25 October 2023 | Investigating the origin of solutes in rock glacier springs. Case Studies in the Swiss Alps |
Cécile Pellet | 30 August 2023 | Operational monitoring of rock glacier velocity: insights from the PERMOS network |
Thomas Echerlard | 31 May 2023 | A new GIS tool for training the RoGI community: overview and exemplary results |
Lea Hartl/Vivien Zahs | 26 April 2023 | Multi-method monitoring of cyclical destabilisation of Äußeres Hochebenkar Rock Glacier |
Benjamin Lehmann | 29 March 2023 | |
Ben Robson | 22 February 2023 | |
Sebastián Vivero | 07 December 2022 | |
Jan Blöthe | 30 November 2022 | Deriving surface kinematics of Andean rock glaciers from feature tracking in optical imagery |
Alessandro Cicoria | 26 October 2022 | A sensor network for the Swiss periglacial environment and its extension to Disko Island, Greenland |
Mishelle Wehbe | 28 September 2022 | Inventorying rock glaciers and features of interest in Western Canada |
Diego Cusicanqui | 30 June 2022 | |
Yan Hu | 01 June 2022 | |
Fabian Fleischer | 27 April 2022 | |
Line Rouyet | 30 March 2022 |
Interested in presenting during the RGIK Webinar Series?
We invite you to share your work with a dynamic, global community of researchers in the Rock Glacier Inventories and Kinematics (RGIK) Webinar Series. This ongoing series offers a platform to showcase innovative methods, fieldwork insights, applications and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding rock glacier systems in a warming climate. If you would like to present during one of the semesters, please contact us at info@rgik.org!
RGIK Community Surveys
RGIK launched two (2) community surveys to compile a record of worldwide overviews of existing/planned Rock Glacier Inventories (RoGI) and Rock Glacier Velocity (RGV) time-series. The purpose of these surveys is to get an estimate of what exists in the community, as well as an overview of planned initiatives, regardless of their format/content. The surveys are on-going initiative and have no deadline for completion. You can also engage with these surveys to help us determine what the current status of rock glacier products.
Please use the links below to access the surveys:
Rock Glacier Inventory (RoGI) Community Survey
Rock Glacier Velocity (RGV) Community Survey
