Joint Commissions with other IUGG Associations
IACS currently has three joint commissions. Please contact the commissions directly if you would like to get involved.
Joint IACS-IAG Commission on Cryospheric Deformation
IAG Co-Chair: Karen Simon (Canadian Geodetic Survey, Ottawa, Canada)
IACS Co-Chair: Matthias Willen (TU Dresden, Germany)
Vice-Chair: Carsten Ludwigsen (DTU Space, Lyngby, Denmark)
IACS bureau liaison: Regine Hock
Commission website: IACS-IAG Commission on Cryospheric Deformation
This commission joint with the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) was established in spring 2020.
Annual reports: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Joint IACS-IAPSO Commission on Ice-Ocean Interactions
IACS Co-Chair: Lu An (Tongji University, China)
IAPSO Co-Chair: Yoshihiro Nakayama (Dartmouth College, USA)
IACS bureau liaison: Sophie Nowicki
Commission website: IACS-IAPSO commission on Ice-Ocen Interactions
This commission joint with International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO) was established in October 2020. See Terms of Reference (ToR)
Annual reports: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Joint IACS-IAVCEI Commission on Volcano-Ice Interactions
IACS leaders: Maximillian Van Wyk de Vries (Cambridge University, UK), Tryggvi Unnsteinsson (University of Aberdeen, UK)
IAVCEI leaders: Iestyn Barr (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Linda Sobolewski (University of Iceland, Iceland)
IACS bureau liaison: Andrew Mackintosh
Commission website: IACS-IAVCEI Commission on Volcano-Ice Interactions
Following on from the Standing Group on Volcano-Ice Interactions (2010-2019), this commission joint with the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI) was established in 2020 and formulated Terms of Reference (ToR) (pdf) in 2021.