About

Welcome

The EGG is open to any ECS (Early-Career Scientist) in glaciology or related snow and ice sciences. Our aims are to enhance the cryosphere ECS community (socially and professionally), particularly within the IGS, and to provide additional support to ECS in cryosphere-related fields.

We’re planning social events, workshops, and panel discussions at upcoming meetings (IGS and others). Through holding these events, we are hoping to build a better community for us ECS, where we can exchange ideas and discuss problems, foster career development, and get to know each other.
We also hope that through encouraging the IGS to provide more support for ECS, this support will help ECS with become more involved with and benefit more from the IGS.

Send us an email at egg@igsoc.org

Frequently asked questions

Am I an ECS?
We’re happy for anyone self-identifying as early career to get involved. We do want to make sure we’re creating a group for researchers at early stages of their career and therefore working through similar problems, including getting started on publications, learning how to apply for funding, presenting at conferences, and thinking about future career paths. We will likely adapt the IGS definition of early career — being in school or <6 years beyond a degree (with an extra year per child if you took time off to be the primary caregiver) — as we look to include funding opportunities.
How to join the EGG?
Send us an email at egg@igsoc.org or meet us at an IGS conferences!
How can I get involved?
You have an idea or some skills or that you would like to share with other glacier, snow and ice folks. Contact us and we will support you.
Mailing list and Twitter:
We will post information about upcoming events and opportunities on our Twitter @egg_igs, and if you would like to receive emails about news and upcoming events please sign up here.

Let us know if you have any comments or ideas for events!

Brittany Main

Postdoctoral Researcher

Brittany Main is a Postdoctoral Researcher affiliated with the University of Waterloo and Yukon Research Centre, Yukon University. Her research focuses on glacier dynamics in the Yukon, Alaska, and northern British Columbia, with an emphasis on surge-type glaciers and interactions between glaciers and proglacial lakes.

Raven Quilestino-Olario

PhD Researcher (Email Coordinator)

Raven is a PhD scholar of the Antarctic working group of the University of Cologne in Germany, working on Quaternary interrelationships between sea ice, ocean surface temperatures, and polar seabirds (Raven loves penguins!).

Harley R. McCourt

PhD Researcher (Treasurer)

Harley is a 3rd year PhD Researcher at Northumbria University who models the extent and zonation of permafrost at a global scale from 1960-Present in an effort to help predict future permafrost degradation.

Sharman Jones

PhD Researcher (Social Event Coordinator)

Sharman is a PhD researcher at Aberystwyth University, Wales. Her research focuses on the Late Palaeozoic Ice Age in Southern Africa using data analysis at multiple scales. She collects and processes UAV and ground-based photogrammetry for macro-scale geomorphological mapping, as well as processing and analysing geological samples using thin sections and 3D micro CT methods.

Nathaniel Baurley

PhD student

Nathaniel is a PhD Student at the University of Southampton, UK. He is currently investigating the changing dynamics of Fjallsjökull, a lake-terminating glacier in southeast Iceland, using high-resolution UAV imagery.

Tomos Morgan

PhD Researcher (IGS ECR Representative for the IGS British Branch)

Tomos Morgan is a PhD Researcher working on remote sensing the changes in lake-calving glacier area and dynamics through using Google Earth Engine. He is developing an Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA) code that allows the automatic detection in glacial lake area and subsequent changes from satellite imagery Landsat 4-9 and Sentinel 2 in different glaciated regions in the world.

Tirthankar Ghosh

PhD Student (Social Media Coordinator)

Tirthankar is a PhD student at IITB-Monash joint PhD Program and is a part of the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay, and the School of Earth, Atmosphere, and Environment, Monash University, where his research focuses on how the glaciers in the Ladakh region would evolve with climate change using satellite datasets, climate data, and numerical modelling techniques and exciting field works around the high-altitude terrains in the Himalayas.

Javier Norambuena

Master student (Web Coordinator)

Javier is a 1st year master student at the university of Magallanes in Chile, also working as a software engineer at the Chilean Antartic Institute.