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2007 WAIS/FRISP Workshop (14th Annual WAIS)

AGENDA

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Wednesday, September 5, 2007

4:00 to 6:00

Registration

Main Building

7:00 to 9:00

INFORMAL DINNER (Pizza and Drinks)

Cottage #1


Thursday, September 6, 2007

8:00

BREAKFAST

Main Building

8:00

Registration

Main Building

9:00

Welcomes and Introductions

Main Building

 

Topic #1: Ice Shelves and Oceans

 

9:30

First (1957-58) Geophysical Investigation of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf         [PPT (15mb)]

Behrendt

9:45

Basement architecture and sedimentary cover in the Amundsen Sea Embayment: Parameters for reconstructing ice-sheet expansion?         [PPT (12mb)]

Gohl

10:00

Transient Temperatures and Redoubtable Reticence in the Amundsen         [PPT (1mb)]

Jacobs

10:15

Location and timing of Circumpolar Deep Water intrusions onto the Amundsen Sea continental shelf simulated with an isopycnic coordinate ocean model         [PPT (5mb)]

Jenkins

10:30

The Filchner Ice Shelf Water Overflow         [PPT (57mb)]

Osterhus

10:45

BREAK (30 min.)

 

11:15

Modeling the impact of tidal currents on ocean circulation beneath Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf         [PPT (10mb)]

Makinson

11:30

Oceanographic and Bathymetric Observations at the Ilulissat Ice Fjord

Holland, D.

11:45

The response of ice-shelf basal melting to variation in ocean temperature         [PPT (10mb)]

Holland, P.

12:00

Poster Introductions (30 min.)

 

12:30

LUNCH (90 min.)

 

2:00

Effects of changes in the open ocean on the melting underneath the Ross Ice Shelf in a model of the Ross Sea         [PPT (6mb)]

Dinniman

2:15

A calving law for ice shelves: spreading-rate control of calving rate         [PPT (2mb)]

Alley

2:30

When iceberg calving matters:  An investigation into the feedbacks between iceberg calving and dynamic changes in the flow of inland ice         [PPT (1mb)]

Bassis

2:45

Ice-y Breakups: How I Lost My AMIGOS in Antarctica         [PPT (23mb)]

Scambos

3:00

PANEL DISCUSSION (30 min.)

Plenary

3:30

BREAK (30 min.)

 

 

Topic #2: Ice Stream Grounding Lines

 

4:00

Radar attenuation and temperature near the grounding line of Whillans Ice Stream         [PPT (2mb)]

MacGregor

4:15

Grounding line migration and ice shelf buttressing in a two-dimensional marine ice stream model         [PDF (1mb)]

Goldberg

4:30

A Modern Analogy to Explain Relict Grounding Lines of Kamb Ice Stream, Antarctica         [PDF (8mb)]

Catania

4:45

Treatment of grounding-line dynamics in ice sheet-shelf models         [PPT (30mb)]

Pollard

5:00

PANEL DISCUSSION (30 min.)

Plenary

5:30

BREAK (30 min.)

 

6:00

DINNER

Main Building

 


Friday, September 7, 2007

 

Topic #3: Ice Stream Bases

 

9:00

GPS measurements from Pine Island Glacier         [PPT (11mb)]

Scott

9:15

Basal conditions on Pine Island Glacier         [PPT (5mb)]

Smith, A.

9:30

A recent volcanic eruption in West Antarctica         [PPT (7mb)]

Corr

9:45

Mapping West Antarctic subglacial processes using detailed basal morphology: Implications for Thwaites Glacier, based on knowledge gained from the Siple Coast         [PDF (21mb)]

Young

10:00

The evolution of surface flow stripes and stratigraphic folds within Kamb Ice Stream - why don’t they match?         [PPT (11mb)]

Campbell

10:15

BREAK (45 min.)

 

11:00

Spatial Variation of Basal Conditions on Kamb Ice Stream         [PPT (14mb)]

Jacobel

11:15

How sticky are sticky spots? Constraints from passive seismic         [PDF 8mb)]

Winberry

11:30

Decadal dynamics of basal conditions as viewed from the ice bulge on Kamb Ice Stream

Tulaczyk

11:45

Subglacial lakes: They're (almost) everywhere         [PPT (15mb)]

Smith, B.

12:00

A linked system of lakes on MacAyeal Ice Stream         [PPT (6mb)]

Fricker

12:15

LUNCH (90 min.)

 

1:45

Effects of the ice-stream basal conditions on its surface elevation. Cry for velocity data         [PPT (7mb)]

Sergienko

2:00

Using inverse methods to recover basal velocities         [PDF (0.5mb)]

Truffer

2:15

PANEL DISCUSSION (30 min.)

Plenary

2:45

BREAK (30 min.)

 

 

Topic #4: Ice Sheets

 

3:15

Advances in describing recent Antarctic climate variability         [PPT (4mb)]

Bromwich

3:30

Antarctic ice mass fluxes from satellite observations and a regional climate model         [PPT (14mb)]

Bamber

3:45

WAIS wasting in the Amundsen Sea Embayment since the Last Glacial Maximum         [PPT (7mb)]

Larter

4:00

Solving for a history of ice thickness in the southern Ross Sea Embayment using inverse methods and surface-exposure ages         [PPT (40mb)]

Todd

4:15

BREAK (30 min.)

 

4:45

A preliminary cyclostratigraphic and paleo-environmental analysis of the new high-resolution McMurdo Ice Shelf (ANDRILL) drill core has implications for WAIS history and dynamics         [PPT (50mb)]

Powell

5:00

What can ANDRILL tell us of long-term WAIS history?         [PPT (12mb)]

Scherer

5:15

Antarctic Scientific Drilling: What, Where, and Why         [PPT (5mb)]

Rack

5:30

BREAK (30 min.)

 

6:00

DINNER

Main Building

 


Saturday, September 5, 2007

8:30

Lost, but found: A large WAIS drainage basin existed in the southern Bellingshausen Sea during the last glacial period         [PPT (9mb)]

Hillenbrand

8:45

Boundary conditions for a full-momentum solver: 1) The dilemma of sliding and 2) how do we do embedded models?         [PPT (7mb)]         [PDF (0.5mb)]

Fastook

9:00

Thermal Convection and the Origin of Ice Streams

Hughes

9:15

Tipping points: nonlinearity and hysteresis in ice sheets         [PPT (23mb)]

Schoof

9:30

Millennial versus orbital influences on ice marginal fluctuation: the southern signal         [PPT (1mb)]

Vacco

9:45

Ice sheets in the Community Climate System Model         [PPT (3mb)]

Lipscomb

10:00

PANEL DISCUSSION (30 min.)

Plenary

10:30

GUEST FEEDBACK

 

11:00

WAIS/FRISP business

 

12:00

Adjourn

 


Posters

A Monte Carlo Investigation of Inherited Cosmogenic Nuclides in Moraine Boulders

Applegate

Glacial history of the Ellsworth Mountains, Weddell Sea embayment, West Antarctica

Bentley, M.

Thickness and Structure of the Crust beneath the Thwaites Glacier Catchment, West Antarctica

Diehl

Numerical modeling of subglacial-sediment dynamics

duBois

When the Bough Breaks: Implementing an Empirical Calving Rule in a Dynamic Stream/Shelf Model'

Dupont

Investigations of near-vertical subsurface structures near Swiss Camp, Greenland

Greenbaum

Progress towards an Image-Enhanced 250 m DEM for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Haran

Developing a long term strategy for using AUVs in polar research

Heywood

A model of tidally-dominated ocean processes near ice-shelf grounding lines

Holland, P.

Patterns of glacier response to disintegration of the Larsen B ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

Hulbe

LC-130 Deep Field Capabilities         [PPT (5mb)]

James

First exposure ages from the Amundsen Sea embayment, West Antarctica: the Late Quaternary context for recent thinning of Pine Island, Smith and Pope Glaciers

Johnson

The influence of sea-ice and the Ross Ice shelf on water properties

Klinck

Connections between meteorology and chemistry in surface snow: Clark Glacier, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

Kreutz

Large scale modeling of ice flow for the entire Antarctica continent

Larour

A coupled ice/water flow model for West Antarctica

LeBrocq

Accumulation Rates Over the Thwaites Glacier Catchment, West Antarctica, Using Radar Reflection Layers

Leuro

Potential Vorticity Constraints on Buoyancy-Forced Circulation in Ice Shelf Cavities

Little

Opportunities (?) for Probabilistic Assessment of Ice Sheet Response to Climate Change

Little

Exposure ages from mountain dipsticks indicate little change in East Antarctic Ice Sheet thickness since the Last Glacial Maximum and stability from the mid Holocene

Mackintosh

Detection of in-situ ice fabric anisotropy using polarimetric radar method near WAIS Divide

Matsuoka

A sediment model and retreat history for the Ross Ice Shelf (Sheet) since the LGM

McKay

Sensitivity of ice-shelf/ocean interactions to vertical resolution and thermodynamic parameterizations in the ROMS model

Mueller

Bathymetry of the Amundsen Sea Continental Shelf

Nitsche

Bipolar Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation (BIAC) IPY Cluster # 23

Osterhus

Focused SAR Processing of Airborne Radar Sounding Data from Kamb Ice Stream

Peters

Basal conditions at two sticky spots along Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica

Peters

Cenozoic variations of the Antarctic Ice Sheet: a model-data mismatch?         [PPT (3mb)]

Pollard

High-salinity waters beneath the margin of the West Antarctic ice sheet - evidence from ANDRILL porwater studies

Quintana-Krupinski

ANDRILL's Education and Public Outreach Efforts

Rack

Significant Glacier Thinning (Or Not) in the Larsen B Embayment

Shuman

Ice shelf melting in the Amundsen Sea from oceanographic observations         [PPT (0.5mb)]

Shoosmith

From shelf break to ice shelves: oceanographic observations in the Bellingshausen Sea, Summer 2007         [PPT (0.5mb)]

Shoosmith

Estimating the salinity of subglacial lakes from aerogeophysical data         [PPT (1mb)]

Studinger

Development of an aerogeophysical imaging system for polar applications: Phase I: Gravimeter test flights to the North Pole         [PPT (0.5mb)]

Studinger

Moho topography of the West Antarctic Rift System from inversion of  aerogravity data: ramifications for geothermal heat flux and ice streaming         [PPT (2.5mb)]

Studinger

Optical probing of glacial ice using short-pulse lasers

Talghader

Surface exposure ages from Reedy Glacier, Antarctica

Todd

The Science and Art of LIMA

Vornberger

Long-term Mass Balance of the Pacific Ocean Sector of Antarctica Based on Multisensor Fusion

Yoon

Comprehensive surface elevations for Thwaites Glacier: Results from AGASEA  airborne laser altimetry

Young
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