Conveners:
Guido Pastore (University College London)
Giulia Matilde Ferrante (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS)
Marco Fioraso (Università degli Studi di Siena)
Marco Rabassi (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)
Polar regions preserve some of the most sensitive and informative geological archives of Earth's past climate and environmental change, crucial for future climatic predictions. This session focuses on interdisciplinary studies conducted in the Arctic and Antarctic that investigate the coupled evolution of climate, ice sheets, and topography, and how long-term coupled interactions control landscape development, sediment production, and ice-sheet stability. Contributions are welcome from across high latitudes regions, addressing both continental and marine settings, and spanning temporal scales from deep time to the recent past. We particularly encourage studies that integrate multiple approaches, including geomorphology, sedimentology, paleontology, geo-thermochronology, geophysics, climatology and environmental geochemistry, numerical modelling, geothermal and subglacial hydrology investigations, and analyses of slope stability and geohazards. A central focus of this session is to bring together scientists working with innovative methodologies and interdisciplinary frameworks to discuss recent discoveries and unresolved questions in polar geoscience. We also aim to foster a renewed interest in acquiring in situ data, expanding knowledge of polar systems and supporting scientific research in extreme environments. Long-term climate records and cryosphere-derived evidence provide robust constraints for future climate scenarios and risk assessment with the purpose of informing policymakers and the public.