The International Workshop on Ice Caves (IWIC) is held every two years, and previously has been organized in Cluj-Napoca (Romania, 2004), Demanovská Dolina (Slovakia, 2006), Kungur (Russia, 2008), Obertraun (Austria, 2010), Grigna-Milan (Italy, 2012), Idaho Falls (USA, 2014), Postojna (Slovenia, 2016) and Picos de Europa (Spain, 2018). In 2020, IWIC-IX was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation.

IWIC-IX Topics:

• ice cave climate, cave glaciation, morphology, and mass balances of cave ice deposits,
• stratigraphy and structure of cave ice, cryo-mineralogy, palaeoclimatological studies,
• ice cave biota and biodiversity,
• ice cave management and protection.

Full details are on the workshop website.