The upcoming abstract deadline for the inaugural CliC Open Science Conference (OSC) is the 31 August 2025.
Abstracts due 31 August 2025: clic2026.com/abstracts
Registration: clic2026.com/registration
Some travel support grants: clic2026.com/travel-grants
Location: Wellington, NZ (09-12 Feb 2026)
In addition to the 4-day conference, a Sea-Ice Day, sponsored by ASPeCt, ASIWG, BEPSII, IICWG and others (i.e., Sunday 08 Feb or Fr 13 Feb) to bring together the sea-ice and sea-ice interested communities has been approved. In addition, CliC will hold our ASPeCt Annual Meeting while in NZ.
Cryosphere in Crisis – Constraining the Uncertainties for Societal Preparedness
As Earth continues to warm, the loss of ice, snow, and permafrost is leading to irreversible consequences on a planetary scale, with the poles and high mountain ranges changing faster than the rest of the globe. These losses have been widespread, with substantial losses of sea ice in both hemispheres, continental ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, Antarctic ice shelves, and mountain glaciers.
Changes in these components of the cryosphere have significant impacts on global sea level, regional water availability, and feedbacks within the climate system. A crucial aspect of CliC’s work involves facilitating cutting-edge research to address the most important recognized knowledge gaps, including efforts to improve predictive models for sea ice concentration and thickness, ice-sheet and glacier mass loss, the thawing of permafrost, and loss of lake and river ice.
CliC also recognizes the urgent need to address emerging challenges that match cryosphere prediction and models to societal impacts. Bridging science and society is of the utmost importance, especially as we head into the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) cycle with key policy-relevant questions concerning the cryosphere yet to be answered and uncertainties remaining in climate projections. Consequently, we aim to facilitate and coordinate international research at the nexus between climate and the cryosphere, bringing together in a once-in-a-decade open science conference members of the World Climate Research Programme working groups and other partner networks to connect the broader cryospheric science and human impacts communities.
Reach out to CliC directly for further information: Climate and Cryosphere is a core project of the World Climate Research Programme. The CliC International Project Office is hosted by UMass Amherst and supported by NASA and NSF.
