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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
3
Dr. Aurel Persoiu
4
Prof. Andreas Pflitsch 5
Dr. Stefano Turri 6, 7
Prof. George Veni 8
Scientific secretary:
Dr. Stefano Turri 6, 7
1 Earth
Sciences Department “Ardito Desio”, University of Milano, Italy
2
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
5
Geography Department, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany
6
GeoSFerA - Studio Associato di Geologia, Varese, Italy
7
Parco Regionale della Grigna Settentrionale (Grigna Regional Park), Italy
8
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 |
| _ | May 30, 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. |
| _ | 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
Minimum number of participants: 25 persons
The pre-workshop excursion fee is 30 €.
Workshop
The workshop fee for
full participants (registration
after 30 June, 2012) will be
300 €, reduced fee with
registration until 30 June 2012 will be 240 €,
for students (registration after
30 June, 2012) will be 240 €,
reduced fee with
registration until 30 June 2012 will be 190 €, and
for accompanying persons
180 €; 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.
All the
information for full papers contribution will be communicated in the next
circular.
Maximum
poster dimension: 75 x 120 cm (width x height).
Preliminary programme:
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Pre-workshop excursion
14.00 –
18.00
excursion on Como Lake by boat
19.00 – 21.00
ice breaker party
21.00 –
23.00 speleological presentations
Monday, September 17, 2012
09.00 –
09.15 workshop opening
09.15 –
10.30 papers
10.30 –
11.00
coffee break
11.00 –
12.30
papers
12.30 –
13.30 lunch
14.00 –
16.00 papers
16.00 –
16.30
coffee break
16.30 –
18.30 posters
19.00 –
21.00 dinner
21.00 –
23.00 speleological presentations
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
09.00 –
10.30 papers
10.30 –
11.00
coffee break
11.00 –
12.30
papers
12.30 –
13.30 lunch
14.00 –
16.00 papers
16.00 –
16.30
coffee break
16.30 –
18.30 posters
19.00 –
21.00 dinner
21.00 –
23.00 speleological presentations
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
08.00
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.
19.00
dinner,
discussions
and accomodation in Rifugio Bogani (Bogani Refuge)
(1816 m)
Thursday, September 20, 2012
09.30
The second day of field excursions 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
19.30
dinner,
discussions,
closing ceremony of IWIC V
and accomodation in Rifugio Cainallo (Cainallo Refuge)
(1290 m)
September 21 - 23, 2012
It will be possible to visit the "Ice Lab" in Environmental Sciences Department, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Post-workshop excursion (work in progress)
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.
A complete program, and final price, of excursion will distribute with the
second circular
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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