Organizers

• Far East Geological Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Science (FEGI FEB RAS).
• The government of the Sakhalin region.
• The International Glaciological Society.
• The International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS).

Co-chairman:

• Academician RAS Khanchuk A.I., First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the FEB RAS, director FEGI FEB RAS, Vladivostok, Russia;
• Dr. Khoroshavin A.V., Governor of the Sakhalin Region, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia;
• Dr. Magnússon M., Secretary General, International Glaciological Society, Cambridge, Great Britain;
• Dr. Fierz C., President, International Association of Cryospheric Sciences, Davos, Switzerland.

Deputy chairmen:

• Dr. Kazakov N.A., Laboratory of Avalanches and Debris Flow Research, Sakhalin Department of FEGI FEB RAS, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia;
• Dr. Sokratov S.A., Laboratory of Nature risk estimate, Laboratory of Snow Avalanches and Debris Flows, Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia;
• Dr. Khotochkhin S.V., Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Sakhalin region, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia.

Senior secretary:

• Dr. Gensiorovskiy Yu.V., Sakhalin Department of FEGI FEB RAS, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia.