Meeting Summary – Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Workshop 2025
The “2025 Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Workshop: Advancing Models and Observational Constraints” was held in Sidney, BC, Canada, June 2-6, 2025. The workshop was hosted by Natural Resources Canada and held jointly at the research facilities of the Institute of Ocean Sciences and the Pacific Geoscience Centre. The last such workshop on GIA was held in Ottawa, Canada, in 2019.
The meeting brought together 76 attendees in-person, representing 16 countries. An additional 60 participants joined online during the week, for a combined attendance of 136 registrants representing 23 countries. The participation of early career researchers benefited greatly from the support of IUGG, IACS, NSF and SCAR-INSTANT – an impressive 58% of the in-person participants were early career researchers.
The meeting consisted of oral and poster presentations on topics including Earth rheology, ice sheet evolution and dynamics, modern sea-level change, and geodetic observational techniques. A one-day field trip to local sites offered participants a unique view of the area’s geology and geomorphology, including neotectonic and glacial erosional and depositional features. Topical workshops on the final day provided in-depth discussions on issues of high interest to the GIA community. Among the initiatives and outcomes of the meeting are the ongoing development of a database for GIA model outputs, the planning of a tutorial on an open-source GIA code by the code developer, and the creation of a new mailing list for the GIA community. Detailed information on the workshop program, including the abstract book, can be found on the event’s website:
Author: Karen Simon (GIA)
