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Introduction to this Special Issue of Jeeg: The Geophysics of Glacial and Frozen Materials

¹ School of the Environment & Society, Swansea University Swansea SA2 8PP U.K. b.kulessa@swansea.ac.uk
² School of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 8ST U.K. john.woodward@unn.ac.uk

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This Special Issue of the Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics arises from a conference on Geophysics and Glacial Materials, hosted by the Environmental and Industrial Geophysics Group, The Geological Society, UK (http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/template.cfm?name = geogroup12). This conference was held at the School of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University, UK, in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the British Branch of the International Glaciological Society from 14–16 September 2005.

Joint hosting of the two events aimed to foster communication and future collaboration between the near-surface geophysical and glaciological communities. This recognises, in particular, that techniques of applied geophysics have led to many glaciological advances over recent decades, and promise to play a major and indeed growing role in glaciology in the foreseeable future. At present few near-surface geophysicists engage in glaciological research, although it is timely that concerted efforts are focused on adapting the stimulating methodological and technological advances made in near-surface geophysics in recent years to solving glaciological problems.

The contributions to this special issue are ordered according to technique, commencing with state-of-the-science seismic methods (Smith; King and Jarvis), followed by low-frequency (Kulessa) and higher-frequency (West et al.; Bingham and Siegert; Siegert and Vieli; Woodward and Burke; Murray et al.; Barrett et al.) electrical techniques as applied to contemporary ice masses, and concluded by . . . [Full Text of this Article]