![]() I can lead organization of the AGU mini-gathering, but I seek local in-country logistical coordinators/hosts for the proposed Italy and China meetings. Three meeting candidates have been discussed, and I think we should pursue all three. There was significant interest expressed at the Cambridge workshop that GLIMS should start organizing for the next meetings. #Keep my glims on something free#If you would like to discuss a particular situation in advance of making necessary in-country contacts, you may feel free to discuss privately with members of ! Common sense will tend to rule on these matters more than any strict set of criteria. As a related matter, it is important to be careful about issuance of statements indicating that a particular glacier is absolutely safe and free of potential hazard. There are legitimate reasons to produce GLIMS-related publications that pertain to hazards, but these should avoid issuance of warnings that may cause unnecessary public panic, local negative economic impact as an undesired/unneeded consequence, or unnecessary circumvention of the usual routing of important public safety information. It has been decided during a discussion among international participants at the recent Cambridge GLIMS workshop that we must expressly forbid the issuance of glacier warnings in the name of GLIMS. Having said this, of course we accept that it is the individual scientists' duties to bring information related to public safety to the attention of responsible officials, and to the public as needed, so in no way are we discouraging hazards-related glacier research and communications. Also for well established reasons, we strongly encourage information related to hazards be subject to peer review if time permits in all cases, it is helpful and usually crucial that scientists work closely with local/national scientists and civic leaders it is best for all concerned to allow the civic leaders to make responsible decisions and public pronouncements if at all possible. That is, GLIMS does not issue such warnings. But it is really important for the security of the GLIMS project that any such warnings be detached from GLIMS. We do not discourage your involvement in hazards-related glacier research quite the contrary. GLIMS MUST NOT ISSUE GLACIER HAZARD WARNINGSįor well established reasons, it is crucial that anybody involved in issuance of public warnings about glacier hazards not do so in the name of GLIMS. ![]() Thank you for your attention to both issues.ĭepartment of Hydrology & Water Resourcesġ. Advance planning for future GLIMS meetings. A note regarding GLIMS and glacier hazard warnings (don't link the two).Ģ. ![]() Thank you to all who contributed to the recent GLIMS workshop in Cambridge on August 17-18 and to GLIMS presentations at the IGS meeting there this past week. Next message: From Jack Shroder- Fall AGU dinner.Previous message: New URL for GLIMS at NSIDC. ![]()
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