Busan IAMAS-IACS-IAPSO Joint Assembly 2025 (BACO-25)
The International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) will hold its next assembly as a joint assembly with the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS) and the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO). The IAMAS-IACS-IAPSO Joint Assembly 2025 (BACO-25) will be held from 20-25 July 2025 at the Busan Exhibition and Convention Center (BEXCO) in Busan, Republic of Korea. The six-day event will bring together atmosphere, cryosphere and ocean scientists from around the globe to participate in scientific presentations and discussions, exchanges of information, and international earth science cooperation. All participants are required to follow the IUGG Code of Conduct.
$27,600 in travel grants and waived registration fees has been awarded to support 24 early career scientists and attendees from less-affluent countries at BACO-25 (the application deadline has now passed). See general information on grants here.
The scientific program will include IACS sessions on the cryosphere and cryosphere-related symposia joint with IAMAS and IAPSO. In addition, there will be a number of IACS events during the week.
24 July, 11:00 in room C205
IACS plenary talk by Ayako Abe-Ouchi (University of Tokyo)
24 July, 18:00 in room M211
IACS Plenary Meeting, open to all. Come to hear about IACS activities and presentations by the IACS Early Career Award winners for 2025
24 July, 19:00 in Kakaotree restaurant
Festa Cryospherica dinner. Places are limited! Please register by 10 July
25 July, 12:30 in Exhibition Hall 2 room M211
IACS Student and Early Career networking lunch, including presentation of the Graham Cogley Awards for outstanding student oral presentation and poster presentation on cryospheric topics at BACO-25. To determine numbers for catering and dietary requirements, please email richard.essery@ed.ac.uk by 14 July if you would like to attend. (The IUGG definition of an Early Career Researcher is “within 10 years, or equivalent full-time working, of receiving highest degree”)
Side meetings
IACS working groups, standings groups, joint commissions and bodies can request rooms for splinter meetings during the assembly. If you would like to reserve a room for a meeting with up to 25 participants during BACO-25, please email richard.essery@ed.ac.uk by 14 July.
Programme of IACS symposia
IACS:
C01 Advances in Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere
C02 Advances in Sea Ice Forecasting and Modelling
C03 Modelling and observations of snow processes
C05 Cryospheric biogeochemical cycles and environmental effects
C07 Glaciers, glacial lakes and water resources in High Mountain Asia
C08 Modelling and observations of glaciers and ice sheets
C13 Societal impacts of changing cryosphere and development of resilience pathways
C14 Special session celebrating the international year of glaciers’ preservation (invited presentations)
IACS/IAMAS:
JCM01 Coupling Between the Atmosphere and Snow/Ice Surfaces: Observations and Modelling
JCM02 Cryosphere changes and potential drivers in High Mountain Asia
JCM03 Permafrost under changing climate
JCM04 Recent Advances in Ice Core Science
IACS/IAPSO:
JCP05 Ice sheet-ocean interactions and impacts
JCP07 Remote Sensing of Sea Ice from Satellite Microwave Measurements and its Applications
IACS/IAMAS/IAPSO:
JCMP08 Connecting Polar to lower latitudes: A global perspective on climate change and impacts for Future Earth Strategies
JCMP09 Ice sheet mass loss: A Driver of Sea Level Rise
JCMP10 The atmosphere, cryosphere and oceans in Earth System Models