organized by
with the patronage of
Sponsored by
and the collaboration of
5th International Workshop on Ice Caves
IWIC-V
Barzio (LC), Valsassina, Grigna, Italy
September 16 – 23, 2012
All correspondence: iwic_v@unimi.it
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“…E i maggiori sassi scoperti che vi si trovano in detto paese son le montagne di Mandello, visine alle montagne di Lecche e di Gravidonia, inverso Bellinzona a 30 miglia di Lecco, e quelle di valle di Chiavenna; ma la maggiore è quella di Mandello, la quale ha nella sua basa una busa di verso il lago, la quale va sotto 200 scalini; e qui d’ogni tempo è diaccio e vento.” (Leonardo da Vinci, end of 1400)
“…And the largest bare rocks that are to be found in this part of the country are the mountains of Mandello near to those of Lecco, and of Gravidona towards Bellinzona, 30 miles from Lecco, and those of the valley of Chiavenna; but the greatest of all is that of Mandello, which has at its base an opening towards the lake, which goes down 200 steps, and there at all times is ice and wind.” (Translated by Richter, 1888)
Ghiacciaia del Moncodeno - Moncodeno Ice Cave
LO LC 1650 Ice Cave
Aims of the workshop:
IWIC workshops are entirely devoted
to ice cave research. We will discuss the state-of-the-art and ongoing
research efforts, and boost international cooperation. We will explore
interest for future ice cave research projects. Furthermore, IWIC-V is an
ideal opportunity to widen the availability of research results, formerly
published only in non-English papers, to a broader international audience.
We
welcome contributions related to any aspect of ice cave research, and
particularly:
- Ice cave climatology and the relationship between hypogean and epigean
environments
- Morphology and mass balance of cave ice deposits
- Stratigraphy and internal structure of cave ice deposits
- Ice sampling methods
- Cave ice crystal fabrics
- Chemical and isotopic studies on cave ice and its fluid inclusions
- Applications of radiometric methods
- Palynology, dendrochronology and other biologically-related studies
applied to ice cave research.
IWIC-V is organized under the auspices of International Union of Speleology's Glacier, Firn, and Ice Caves Commission, and the Italian Glaciological Committee.
Scientific Committee:
President:
Prof. Alfredo Bini 1
Members:
Dr. Zoltàn Kern2
Prof. Valter Maggi
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Dr. Aurel Persoiu
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Prof. Andreas Pflitsch 5
Dr. Stefano Turri 6
Prof. George Veni 7
Scientific secretary:
Dr. Stefano Turri 6
1
Earth
Sciences Department “Ardito Desio”, University of Milano, Italy
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Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern,
Switzerland
3 Environmental
Sciences Department, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
4 Geography
Department, University of Suceava, Romania
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Geography Department, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany
6
GeoSFerA - Studio Associato di Geologia, Varese, Italy
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National Cave and Karst Research Institute, USA
All correspondence: iwic_v@unimi.it
Timelines:
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March 10, 2012 - Deadline for abstract submission |
| _ | April 30, 2012 - Abstract acceptance |
| _ | July 1, 2012 - Second circular |
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until June 30, 2012 - Registration with reduced fees |
| _ | after June 30, 2012 - Registration with full fees |
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August 1, 2012
- Third circular with final program, information on transportation, etc.
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| _ | September 16 - 23, 2012 – IWIC-V |
| _ | November 30, 2012 - Paper submission |
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December, 2012 Papers will be published in a special ice caves issue of Geografia Fisica Dinamica Quaternaria |
Host Administration:
Parco Regionale della Grigna
Settentrionale (Grigna Regional Park)
Comunità Montana Valsassina Valvarrone Val d'Esino e Riviera
Duration of Workshop:
September 16-23, 2012
Conference Place and Accommodation:
Scientific meeting will take place at the congress hall of:
Comunità Montana Valsassina
Valvarrone Val d'Esino e Riviera
Via Fornace Merlo 2,
Barzio (LC)
Italy
Accommodation will be provided in:
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Hotel
Vittoria Via Roma, 31 23816 Barzio (LC) tel.: (+39) 0341910179 fax: (+39) 0341996417 e-mail: albergo.vittoria@tiscali.it web site: http://web.tiscali.it/albergo.vittoria/ |
Hotel
Cristallo Via Roma, 55 23816 Barzio (LC) tel.: (+39) 0341996194 fax: (+39) 0341996124 |
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Hotel
Esposito Via Francesca Manzoni, 33 23816 Barzio (LC) tel.: (+39) 0341996200 e-mail: info@hotel-esposito.it web site: http://www.hotel-esposito.it |
Camping Grigna Residence Via Prato Caminaccio 23811 Balisio di Ballabio (LC) tel.: (+39) 0341232045 fax: (+39) 0341232631 e-mail: campinggrigna@libero.it web site: http://www.campinggrigna.it |
Conference Costs:
Pre-workshop excursion
The pre-workshop excursion fee is 30 €.
Workshop
The workshop fee for
full participants will be
300 €,
for students will be 240 €,
for accompanying persons
180 € and daily fee 60 €
(); all fees will be payable:
Bank tranfer to
Comunità Montana Valsassina Valvarrone Val d'Esino e Riviera
Banca Popolare di Sondrio
BIC CODE: POSOIT22
IBAN CODE: IT56 S 05696 52000 000005900X50
or at the workshop’s registration desk
paying in cash.
The fee includes: conference venue and equipment, travel
from hotels to the conference venue, workshop coffee breaks, travel by
helicopter to Grigna (2410 m), refreshments, lunches, dinners and
accommodations in an alpine refuge during two days of the field excursion in
Moncodeno (Grigna Settentrionale), preparation and printing of the program
with the abstracts and the proceedings, including postage for sending the
proceedings to the participants.
The
accompanying persons fee
includes: travel by
helicopter to Grigna (2410 m), refreshments, lunches, dinners and
accommodations in an alpine refuge during two days of the field excursion in
Moncodeno (Grigna Settentrionale)
Post-workshop excursion (work in progress)
Minimum number of participants: 25 persons
The post-workshop excursion fee will be 500 € and will be payable at the workshop’s registration desk., including travel, refreshment and lunch.
Board and accommodation
Board and
accommodation is booked in the
Victoria, Cristallo, Esposito Hotels
and will be paid
individually in hotel.
The
special IWIC price
for 3 nights, 3 breakfasts,
2 dinners, in hotel is :
single room 150 €
double room 130 € per person
in Camping Grigna Residence:
tent 14 € per day
person 7 € per day
it is possible to book dinner and breakfast in the camping
restaurant
Contributed Papers:
All the participants are invited to send abstract to iwic_v@unimi.it
The Workshop
language is English, and the abstracts should be set up as follows:
The abstracts
written in Microsoft Word for PC should be formatted for paper A4,
single-spaced, 2 cm margins. They should contain the title and name(s),
institutional affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s);
Title:
the title of the abstract should be centered (not justified) and in bold
type size Time New Roman 11. Capitalize only the first word and proper nouns
Author(s):List
the authors, separated by a space from the title. Type size Time New Roman
10.
Affiliation(s):
should be listed according to the numbers added in superscript after the
authors name. Type size for affiliation is Time New Roman 9. All the lines
of the author block should be centered.
Leave one blank line after the authors block.
Text:
is limited to 500 words (excluding title and author details)
in
Times New Roman 10. Text must be justified. SI unit should be used. No
footnotes, tables, figures, maps, or bibliographic references or
acknowledgements should be included in the abstract.
Submitting a paper to
Geografia Fisica Dinamica
Quaternaria the new ISI on-line Journal on Physical
Geography and Geomorphology.
Papers must be submitted no later than 30 November 2012
Instruction to Authors
Maximum poster
dimension: 75 x 120 cm (width x height).
Programme:
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Sunday, September 16, 2012 |
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12.00 |
Open IWIC registration desk |
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14.30 - 20.00 |
Pre-workshop excursion on Como Lake by boat. "The geological setting of Grigne Massif and the evolution of Como Lake" by Zuccoli and Bini |
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20.00 - 22.00 |
Ice-breaker party in Comunità Montana Valsassina Valvarrone Val d'Esino e Riviera |
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Monday, September 17, 2012 |
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09.30 - 10.00 |
Welcome Ceremony |
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INTRODUCTION TO ITALIAN ICE CAVES |
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chairman: Paola Tognini |
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10.00 - 10.20 |
Turri, Bini, Maggi - Ice caves scientific research history: from Leonardo da Vinci to the end of 1800 |
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10.20 - 10.40 |
Menichetti, Salvatori, Poderini - Ice caves in Central Italy |
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10.40 - 11.00 |
Coffee Break |
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CAVE GLACIOLOGY AND ICE DYNAMICS |
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chairman: Zoltán Kern |
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11.00 - 11.20 |
Grebe, Pflitsch - Ice cave research - from a phenomenon to modern research |
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11.20 - 11-40 |
Colucci, Forte, Guglielmin - Underground cryosphere in the Monte Canin Massif, Alpi Giulie (Italy) |
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11.40 - 12.00 |
Pflitsch, Schörghofer, Smith - Exploration of Ice Caves on Mauna Loa, Hawaii |
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12.00 - 12.20 |
Yang, Shi - The numerical simulation of a saving mechanism of Ice Cave in Ningwu, China |
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12.20 - 14.00 |
Lunch |
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14.00 - 14.20 |
Stepanov, Kichigin, Tainitsky - Investigation of ice thickness in the Urals caves using Georadar |
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CRYO-MINERALOGY AND CRYO-CRYSTALLOGRAPHY |
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chairman: Andrej Mihevc |
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14.20 - 14.40 |
Kalinina, Tchaikovskiy, Kadebskaya - Mineral crusts at the surface of lakes of warm and cold zones in the Kungur Ice Cave |
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14.40 - 15.00 |
Kadebskaya - Cryogenic minerals of some ice caves of the Urals |
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15.00 - 15.20 |
Coffee Break |
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GLACIAL CAVES |
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chairman: Valter Maggi |
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15.20 - 15.40 |
Tognini - Role of subglacial caves in the evolution of glacier in the snout area: two examples on the Forni Glacier (Valtellina, I) and Morteratsch Glacier (CH) |
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15.40 - 16.00 |
Mavlyudov - Glacial caves of the Bellingshausen Dome and adjacent areas, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica |
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16.00 - 16.20 |
Ferrario - A new register for the glacial caves |
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16.20 - 16.40 |
Tognini - Evidence of a subglacial lake in a contact cave on the Forni Glacier (Valtellina, I) |
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16.40 - 18.00 |
Discussion and poster session |
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19.00 |
Dinner in hotel |
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21.00 - 23.00 |
SPELEOLOGICAL PRESENTATION (video and photo) |
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"Underground Lombardy: a trip inside the main Lombard cave systems" by FSLo Federazione Speleologica Lombarda |
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012 |
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CAVE METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY |
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chairman: Andreas Pflitsch |
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09.20 - 09.40 |
Böckler, Pflitsch, Killing-Heinze - A comparison of temperature data loggers and measuring sensors of different price levels and construction types to test their reaction time, accuracy and applicability in cave research |
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09.40 - 10.00 |
Kosutnik - Temperature monitoring in Slovene Ice Caves examples, results and discussion |
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10.00 - 10.20 |
Holmgren, Pflitsch - Talus & Gorge Glacier past to present - A historical and microclimatological research in the Northeastern United States |
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10.20 - 10.40 |
Korzystka, Piasecki, Sawiński, Zelinka - “Chimney effect” and its influence on the thermal conditions of the Dobšinská Ice Cave |
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10.40 - 11.00 |
Coffee Break |
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11.00 - 11.20 |
Morard, Bochud, Delaloye - Ice mass and frozen ground in permeable ventilated systems: comparison between a dynamic ice cave and overcooled talus slopes in western Switzerland |
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11.20 - 11.40 |
Mihevc - The influence of the ice caves on climate of karst depressions – case of low altitude permafrost at Smrekova draga, Trnovski gozd, Slovenia |
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| 12.00 - 12.20 | Rojšek - Cave ice in Velika ledena jama v Paradani, Slovenija |
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Favaron, Alberici - Measuring airflow, turbulence and micro-climate in glacier caves: a technology and data processing experience. |
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12.40 - 14.00 |
Lunch |
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PALEOCLIMATOLOGY AND GLOBAL CHANGE |
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chairman: Aurel Perşoiu |
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14.00 - 14.20 |
Perşoiu, Bojar - δ13C in cave ice: a new proxy for palaeoprecipitation reconstructions |
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14.20 - 14-40 |
Shu, Jin, Huang, Zhang, Wu - China’s anti-season ice caves |
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14.40 - 15.00 |
Maggi, Turri, Bini, Perşoiu, Onac, Stenni, Udisti - Two millennia of natural to antropogenic effects in Transylvania from Focul Viu ice core |
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CHEMISTRY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF ICE CAVE |
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chairman: Birgit Sattler |
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15.00 - 15.20 |
Kern, Széles, Bočić - Lead concentrations and stable lead isotopes from a Croatian cave ice profile |
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15.20 - 15.40 |
Coffee Break |
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15.40 - 16.00 |
Sattler, Standhartinger, Hoover, Wendlinger, Spötl, Psenner - Microbiology in Alpine and Antarctic Ice and Glacier Cave |
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16.00 - 16.20 |
Trushkova - Research of air ion composition of Kungur Ice cave atmosphere |
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ICE CAVE MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGIES |
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chairman: Manuel Gómez Lende |
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16.20 - 16.40 |
Byun - Advanced use of ice caves as water storage |
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16.40 - 17.00 |
Korzystka, Piasecki, Sawiński, Zelinka - Human impact on the ice cave climatic environment - case study from entrance area of the Dobšinská Ice Cave |
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17.00 - 17.25 |
Pflitsch - Presentation of IWIC-VI in USA |
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17.25 - 18.00 |
Discussion and poster session |
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19.00 |
Dinner in hotel |
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21.00 - 23.00 |
SPELEOLOGICAL PRESENTATION (video and photo)) |
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"Grigna caves: the deep heart of the mountain" by In Grigna! |
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012 |
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FIELD EXCURSION* |
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7.30 |
Helicopter travel from Barzio to Rifugio Brioschi (Brioschi Refuge) (2410 m). The first day of field excursions will be in the Moncodeno karst area in the northern side of Grigna Mountain. This is the principal location of ice caves in this area. It may be possible, for those with vertical caving equipment, to enter some shafts. “The karst of Moncodeno area, Italian Alps” by Bini, Pellegrini and Zuccoli Remember mountain equipment, Moncodeno is a high mountain Karst area. |
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19.00 |
Dinner, discussions and accommodation in Rifugio Bogani (Bogani Refuge) (1816 m) |
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Thursday, September 20, 2012 |
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FIELD EXCURSION* |
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09.30 |
Second day of field excursion is also in the Moncodeno karst area. We will visit Moncodeno Ice Cave, the famous cave visited and described by Leonardo da Vinci and Stenone |
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19.30 |
Dinner, discussions, closing ceremony of IWIC-V and accommodation in Rifugio Cainallo (Cainallo Refuge) (1290 m) |
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Friday, September 21, 2012 |
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8.00 |
Tranfer to Milano - Bicocca University during the morning |
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Other Scientific talks and visit the new "Ice Lab" in Milano. |
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12.30 |
Lunch in Milano – Bicocca University |
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16.00 |
Closure of workshop |
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Possible start for post-Workshop field trip |
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*organize your backpack for two days of field excursion. Your baggage will reach you at the end of the second day in Rifugio Cainallo |
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September 21 - 23, post-workshop Excursion |
Post-workshop excursion
We are organizing a post-workshop excursion to the Altipiano di Asiago Karst area where
will be possible to visit other ice caves.
Altipiano di Asiago is a plateau in Veneto region. The price of the
excursion will be around 500 Euro and minimum number of participants are 25.
1) If you arrive in Italy by airplane you can arrive in one of the three airports near Milan:
a) Linate
(LIN): in this case you will arrive at Milano Centrale railway Station
(CENTRALE FS) by bus (AIR
BUS)
b) Malpensa (MXP): in this case you will arrive at Milano Centrale railway
Station (CENTRALE FS) directly by train (MALPENSA
EXPRESS) or at Milano Cadorna FNM Station by train and then from Cadorna
to Central Station (CENTRALE FS) by underground (underground
green line M2, direction Cascina Gobba/Cologno/Gessate)
c) Orio al Serio International Airport (BGY): in this case you will arrive
at Milano Centrale railway Station (CENTRALE FS) by bus (ORIO
SHUTTLE)
from Milano Centrale Station (CENTRALE FS) to Lecco by train
from Lecco
(PIAZZALE STAZIONE) to Pasturo (PASTURO BIVIO) (Valsassina) by Bus
2) if you arrive in Italy by train you will arrive at Milano Centrale
Station (CENTRALE FS)
from Milano Centrale Station (CENTRALE FS) to Lecco by train
from Lecco
(PIAZZALE STAZIONE) to Pasturo (PASTURO BIVIO) (Valsassina) by Bus
Participation form:
If you are interested in the workshop, please fill in the registration form and send it as soon as possible to the workshop secretariat: iwic_v@unimi.it
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