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5 th Int. Workshop on Ice Caves (IWIC – V) Barzio (LC), Valsassina, Grigna and Milano, September 16 – 23, 2012 Volume of Abstracts FOREWORD Dear Participants, As decided in 2010 during IWIC-IV in Austria, we are glad to host you in Italy at the fifth International Workshop on Ice Caves. IWIC-V is focused on all aspects of ice cave research and particularly: cave glaciology and ice dynamics, cave meteorology and climatology, cryomineralogy and cryo-crystallography, paleoclimatology and global change, chemistry and geochemistry of ice caves, and ice cave management and technologies. IWIC-V will include many oral and poster presentations, and also a two-day field excursion to the Moncodeno karst area on the northern side of Grigna Mountain, which is the principal location of ice caves in this area. With your participation, we expect IWIC-V will be a successful and important event for the scientific community interested in wide-ranging topics of ice caves. We wish you a pleasant stay in Italy Sincerely yours, 11 Prof. Alfredo Bini Dr. Zoltàn Kern Prof. Valter Maggi Dr. Aurel Persoiu Prof. Andreas Pflitsch Dr. Stefano Turri Prof. George Veni
Dear Participants, we are very pleasured to welcome to the Fifth International Workshop on Ice Cave (IWIC-V). The Comunità Montana Valssassina, Valvarrone, Val d'Esino e Riviera is honoured to receive delegations of scientists coming from several nations around the world involved in the study of the ice caves; these cavities are precious and fragile archives of climatic and environmental data and can be also an important geo-touristic resource. In this period of economic crisis and dramatic climate changes, we are conscious that scientific research in environmental themes is one of the most important investments. We want also underline that this workshop is a link with the history of Valsassina, because the ice caves of this area were described by Leonardo da Vinci and one century ago a field trip of the XXX Congress of the Italian Geological Society was performed in this area. We are conscious that this international congress will be also an occasion to show the natural beauties of this region and the culture and hospitality of the Valsassina communities. President of Comunità Montana Alberto Denti Dear Participants, the importance of the studies about ice deposits is well documented from several years and the fifth edition of an International Congress devoted to a so specialized theme confirms this fact. We are particularly impressed for the number and the quality of the participants; more than 40 presentations from 15 countries show that the scientific research still lives and the enthusiastic work of researchers, professors and students can survive in this difficult period. IWIC-V is a unique occasion for the Parco Regionale della Grigna Settentrionale to demonstrate its vocation to the preservation of the environment and to the scientific research. More than ten years ago, before the creation of the Parco, in the same territory an ice core was drilled in the cave LoLC 1650 by the staff of the Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra Ardito Desio and Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Ambiente e del Territorio. From this year lots of activities were performed in order to promote scientific activities, environmental protection and the diffusion of the scientific and basic knowledge, because the only way to develop a sustainable future is understand in toto the mechanisms that control our world. The Parco Regionale della Grigna Settentrionale can offer to congress members an intriguing setting for their works; different themes of geosciences are present, like karstic features both superficial and hypogean, paleontological sites, glacial morphologies and, naturally, ice cave deposits. We hope that during the field excursion all these features can be observed and can be a spur for future researches. Director of Parco Regionale della Grigna Settentrionale Giacomo Camozzini
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