Talks on GIA
The online seminar series “Talks on GIA” focuses on the broad topics of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), cryospheric deformation and their interactions with sea-level change. It aims to be a low-barrier online exchange format for the highly multifaceted community around GIA. The online seminars are an offer for the entire global community and allow the community to exchange without financial barriers. The design of the individual seminars was chosen in such a way that, wherever possible, a tandem of a more experienced researchers and an early career scientists give a coordinated presentation. This makes it possible to offer a stage to early career researchers to present their work and put it up for discussion, alongside people who are already better known in the community. In addition, the presentations in this format allow aspects to be presented in more detail than is possible, for example, with oral presentations at conferences.
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Series 2 (ongoing)
Recording for most of the presentations from Series 2 are available on request. Please contact Matthias Willen, if you are interested to watch one of the talks of Series 2.
2026:
- 2026-05-12 (upcoming): Tamara Pico (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) and Allie Coonin (Brown University, Providence, USA)
“Solid Earth feedbacks on Last Glacial Maximum ice sheet grounding lines” and “Transient Earth Rheology Temporarily Slows West Antarctic Ice Retreat in Future Climate Projections”
- 2026-03-04/05: Paul Tregoning (Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)
“A tool to assess the accuracy of glacial isostatic adjustment predictions of present-day crustal uplift rates”
- 2026-02-03: Mirjam Bilker-Koivula (Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI), Espoo, Finland) and Holger Steffen (Lantmäteriet, Gävle, Sweden)
“The Whys and Hows of Dealing with Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in a Mapping Authority”
2025:
- 2025-12-05: Helio Guerra Neto (Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA) and Jeff Freymueller (Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA)
“GIA in the Great Lakes Basin: A Geodetic Perspective on Vertical Motion and Hydrological Loading”
- 2025-11-06: Terry Wilson (Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA) and Erica Lucas (UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA)
“Community Priorities for GNSS Measurements to Constrain GIA – Results of a Survey” and “Constraining Glacial Isostatic Adjustment where the mantle is heterogeneous”
- 2025-05-22: Wouter van der Wal (Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands) and Caroline van Calcar (Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands)
“Antarctic mantle viscosity” and “Bedrock uplift reduces Antarctica’s future contribution to sea level rise when using 3D mantle viscosity maps”
- 2025-02-25: Valentina R. Barletta (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark) and Danjal L. Berg (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark)
“GNSS constraints for GIA in Greenland”
- 2025-01-29: Lambert Caron (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA)
“Modeling mantle rheology between the seismic and post-glacial rebound time scales: the Extended Burgers Material”
2024:
- 2024-11-19: Sophie Coulson (University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA) and Roland Bürgmann (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
“Climate-Driven Solid-Earth Deformation and Earthquake Activity: The Case for GIA-Modulation of Recent Seismicity along the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge”
- 2024-10-24: Meike Bagge (Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany) and Volker Klemann (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany)
“Motives to model GIA – foci, ingredients and current research directions”
- 2024-06-20: Mirko Scheinert (TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany) and Eric Buchta (TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany)
“Three decades of continent-wide geodetic GNSS observations to support GIA and geodynamic research in Antarctica”
Series 1 (2021-2022)
The talks in the series can be found here: https://mediaspace.msu.edu/playlist/dedicated/1_wic2n936/
2022:
- 2022-06: Sally Brown (Environmental Agency, Bristol, UK) and Ivan Haigh (University of Southampton, UK)
“Impacts and adaptation to sea-level rise” and “The impact of sea-level rise on storm surge barriers”
- 2022-05-10: Terry Wilson (Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA) and Doug Wiens (Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA)
“Cryosphere – Solid Earth Interactions in Antarctica: Insights from Geodetic and Seismic Measurements”
- 2022-04-12: Nicholas Golledge (Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand)
“Climate forced changes of the Antarctic Ice Sheet: Evidence, inference, and speculation”
- 2022-03-08: Georgia Grant (GNS Science, New Zealand) and Jo Brendryen (University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway) – theme: rates and amplitudes of Pleistocene ice sheet and sea level variations
“Continuous record of sea-level change during the intensification of North Hemisphere Ice Sheets (3.3 – 1.7 Ma)” and “Rates of Deglacial Ice Sheet Retreat”
2021:
- 2021-07-13: Nicole Khan (University of Hong Kong) and Stephen Chua (Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) – Paleo sea level records
“Holocene paleo sea level records”
- 2021-06-08: April Dalton (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) and Drew Christ (University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA) – Records of paleo ice sheet variability
“The marine d18O record overestimates continental ice volume during Marine Isotope Stage 3” and “Camp Century revisited: an ecosystem under the ice reveals Greenland’s warmer past”
- 2021-05-11: Aimée Slangen (Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), and a lead author of the IPCC AR6 report) and Fiamma Straneo (SCRIPPS Institution of Oceanography (UCSD), La Jolla, California, USA) – Perspectives from the modern sea level and ice sheet modeling communities
“Advances in modern sea level research and coastal risk and the ISMIP6 effort and perspective on how to facilitate cross-disciplinary collaboration”
