Primary Convener:
Thomas Chudley, Durham University

Convener:
Riley Culberg, Cornell University
Ravindra Duddu, Vanderbilt-Civil and Envr Eng
Jessica Mejia, Syracuse University

Early Career Convener:
Naureen Khan, University at Buffalo

Chair:
Thomas Chudley, University of Cambridge
Naureen Khan, University at Buffalo

Ice fracture plays a fundamental role in the evolution of glaciers, ice sheets, and ice shelves. Fractures can act as pre-existing weaknesses that promote calving events; accumulated damage can alter large-scale ice rheology; crevasses can modify surface mass balance and ice dynamics; hydrofracture allows water and energy to enter the englacial and subglacial environment; and rifts play a fundamental role in the breakup of ice shelves. Recent studies have used cutting-edge Earth observation, field, laboratory, and numerical modelling techniques to better understand the distribution, controls, and impacts of ice fracture across the cryosphere, and explore how these processes will evolve under a changing climate. This session aims to unify work across different methods and geographic regions to better understand the fundamental physical processes and consequences of ice fracture. We invite contributions on any aspect of surface and basal crevasses, hydrofracture, ice-shelf rifting, calving, and their interactions with wider glaciological processes.

Index Terms
0720 Glaciers
0726 Ice sheets
0728 Ice shelves
0774 Dynamics

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering