Tentative list of sessions:

Time periods

• The Anthropocene: Anthropogenic history, Pollution records

• Holocene and last 2000 year climate forcing and variability

• Glacial-interglacial dynamics, Mid-pleistocene transition, and the oldest ice

• Past warm periods (**new topic**)

Earth system processes

• Abrupt climate change and tipping points

• Teleconnections, climate modes, tropical-polar interactions

• Biogeochemical cycles in the Earth system, data and models 

• Ice cores as constraints for Earth system modeling: data syntheses, assimilation, model-data comparison (**new topic**)

Proxies and method developments

• Glacial microbiology

• Progress in proxy development and interpretation including signal preservation

• Age scales and methods for ice dating

Ice and rocks

• Mass balance and firn

• Ice cores for ice dynamics, physical properties

• Geophysics and site selection 

• Basal ice and geology

Field methods and updates

• Drilling engineering, rapid access tools

• Field and project updates

Non polar ice

• New ice archives (ice wedges, stranded ice, etc), and planetary ice 

• Low latitude and alpine ice cores

Science Community

• Diversity in ice core science

• Field safety and best practices

• Outreach and education

• Outreach movie screening

The following information will be published in May 2026:

• Daily schedule

• Special events

• Invited Speakers

Special Collection

• We’re excited to announce that papers from IPICS 2026 will be eligible for submission to a joint special collection of Climate of the Past and The Cryosphere, emerging from the IPICS Fourth Open Science Meeting.

• All conference participants are welcome to submit original research presented at IPICS 2026 for peer-reviewed publication. More details on submission deadlines and guidelines will be provided closer to the conference.