In the continuation of the International and Regional conferences convened by the International Permafrost Association, the 5th European Conference on Permafrost (EUCOP 2018) will be held in Chamonix-Mont Blanc, France, 23th June - 1st July 2018. The conference aims at covering all relevant aspects of permafrost research, engineering and outreach on a global and regional level.

The Book of abstracts is now available at this link. More than 400 abstracts, 1060 pages: enjoy and circulate!

Comfortably installed at the Majestic congress center or climbing the challenging slopes of the Mont Blanc massif, our agenda will be the following:

• Saturday 23 ‐ Sunday 24/06: PYRN days (meeting, field trip, and more!)
• Sunday 24/06: IPA council meeting, workshops, ice‐breaker dinner
• Monday 25/06: 1st  day of sessions
• Tuesday 26/06: 2nd  day of sessions
• Wednesday 27/06: 1st  day of local field trips
• Thursday 28/06: 3rd  day of sessions
• Friday 29/06: 2nd  day of local field trips
• Saturday 30/06 ‐ Sunday 01/07: two‐day‐long regional field trips

• Call for abstract submission: 28 August 2017 to 15 November 2017 15 22 December 2017
  
• Decision on abstract (oral/poster): February 2018
• Early-bird registration: until April 1st 2018

The Local Organizing Committee:

• Edoardo Cremonese, Umberto Morra di Cella, Paolo Pogliotti:ARPA Valle d'Aosta
• Christophe Lambiel: IDYST, Univ. Lausanne
• Reynald Delaloye: Dept. of Geosciences, Univ. Fribourg
• Florence Magnin: Dept. of Geosciences, Univ. Oslo
• Philippe Schoeneich: PACTE-IGA, Univ. Grenoble-Alpes
• Philip Deline, Ludovic Ravanel, Xavier Bodin:EDYTEM, CNRS/Univ. Savoie Mont-Blanc