Glaciers and ice caps around the globe are responding rapidly to climate change, with significant consequences for the environment and society. Advancing our understanding of glacier change requires an integrated approach that combines field observations, remote sensing, modelling, and emerging technologies to quantify glacier evolution, improve process understanding, and project future change. At the same time, glacier retreat is driving a wide range of environmental and societal impacts, including contributions to sea-level rise, changes to meltwater availability and resource security, evolving and cascading hazards, and consequences for downstream ecosystems and communities. Changes to glaciers also feed into socio-cultural pressures that modify the ways in which people interact with and benefit from polar and mountain environments.

This session welcomes contributions spanning all aspects of glacier and ice cap research, from observations and modelling of glacier processes, dynamics, and mass balance to studies of past, present, and future glacier change and its environmental and societal impacts. We encourage contributions that explore innovative and integrated approaches to glacier monitoring and modelling, including emerging datasets, data assimilation, machine learning, and other new technologies. We particularly welcome research that spans disciplinary boundaries, linking glaciology with climate science, hydrology, ecology, hazards, risk, and resilience. Contributions addressing communication beyond the scientific community, co-production of knowledge, and strategies to support mitigation, adaptation, and decision-making in glacierized regions are also encouraged.