ProfessorWolfgang Rack

IUGG General Assembly, Melbourne, Australia, Earth on the Edge: Science for a Sustainable Planet, 28 June - 7 July 2011 Lead Convener for the IACS Symposium 'Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere - linking and validating measurements from satellite, air, and ground' Co-Lead convener: Jan Lieser (Australia) Co-Convenors: Rob Massom (Australia), Helmut Rott (Austria) One day oral and poster session. Invited Speakers: Dr. Christian Haas, University of Alberta, Canada; Keynote Title: "Stick your nose into the snow - Validation of sea ice observations" Dr. Anne Nolin, Oregon State University; Keynote Title: "Remote Sensing of Snow and Glaciers: Our State-of-the-Art and a Vision for the Future" IUGG: International Union for Geodesy and Geophysics IACS: International Association of Cryospheric Sciences

Member of the SIGNAL (SAR for ice, Glacier, and Globald Dynamics) science team of the German Aerospace Agency (DLR; PI Prof. Dr. Irena Hajnsek) for the SIGNAL mission proposal. (2010)

Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)

Invited keynote: Satellite Observation of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Annual Antarctic Conference, Wellington, New Zealand - Antarctica: 50 Years on The Ice, Just the Tip of the Iceberg; 2-6 Jul 2007.

Invited key note for the '20 Years Antarctic Research Station GARS O'Higgins' Symposium, 12-15 November 2011, Punta Arenas (Chile), organized by the German Aerospace Agency (DLR), the Instituto Antarctico Chileno, and the German Federal Office for Cartography and Geodesy;