“…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)

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:

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:

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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