Format and program

The workshop will be organized as a hybrid meeting, with presentations, fieldwork and cave visits combined. Apart from presentations, participants will be working on different ice caves-related projects in Scarisoara Ice Cave. These include climate monitoring, geomorphologic mapping, faunal studies, ice/water/calcite sampling and geophysical measurements; however, all participants are free to propose studies to be conducted in the cave during the meeting. The schedule and daily program are as follows:

Sun (Feb 08) Arrival in Ghetar or in Cluj-Napoca, transfer to Ghetar (departure at around 16.00)

Mon (Feb 09) Introduction, oral and poster presentations

Tue-Thu (Feb 10-12) Morning - visits and work in Scarisoara Ice Cave (details below)

Evening – daily presentations, discussions and roundtables on different topics (cave climate, ice dynamics, paleoclimatology etc)

Fri (Feb 13) Surface karst-themed field trip (1/2 day), workshop wrap-up with discussions on future studies, publications strategy etc.

Sat (Feb 14)   Departure from Ghetar, transfer to Cluj-Napoca (arrival at ~12.00)