Thirteenth Annual WAIS Workshop
AGENDA
| Wednesday, September 27, 2006 | ||
| 2:00 to 6:00 | Registration (Pack Hall) | Pack Hall |
6:00 |
DINNER (Dining Hall) | Dining Hall |
| 7:00 | Munchie Reception (Pack Hall) | Pack Hall |
| Thursday September 28, 2006 | ||
| 8:00 | BREAKFAST | Dining Hall |
| 8:00 | Registration | Pack Hall |
| 9:00 | Welcome and Agenda Review | Scott Hall |
| Topic #1. Up, Down and All Around _How is water moving under the ice sheet and what is its effect? | ||
| 9:15 | Bubbling beneath the ice streams: subglacial plumbing mapped from space [Abstract] [PDF (.1mb)] | Fricker |
9:30 |
Finding subglacial water the "ICESat way" in rough terrain [Abstract] [PPT (2mb)] | Bindschadler |
9:45 |
Towards repeat-track elevation rate estimates using ICESat data [Abstract] [PPT (4mb)] | B. Smith |
10:00 |
Discovery of till deposition at the grounding line of Whillans Ice Stream and implications [Abstract] [contact sak@essc.psu.edu] | Anandakrishnan |
| 10:15 | BREAK (30 min.) | |
10:45 |
Radar Studies on Kamb Ice Stream [Abstract] [PDF (7mb)] | Pettersson |
11:00 |
Geothermal controls on a pervasive water sheet at the head of Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica [Abstract] | Blankenship |
11:15 |
Radar evidence for past melting and present water distribution beneath Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica [Abstract] [PPT (9mb)] | King |
11:30 |
Thanks SO Much for ALL the Data: The Amundsen Sea Sector Data Set: Applications with UMISM: Where and How Much WATER? What WILL happen in the future? [Abstract] [PPT (6mb)] | Fastook |
11:45 |
Poster Introductions (1-2 min. each) | |
| 12:15 | LUNCH (1 hr. 45min.) plus view posters | Dining Hall |
| Topic #2. A Wider Shade of Paleo_How have expanding observations increased our knowledge of past West Antarctic size and behavior? | ||
| 2:00 | The RABID Project: Attempts to drill to the bed of Rutford Ice Stream [Abstract] [PPT (29mb)] | A. Smith |
| 2:15 | Glacial History of the Ellsworth Mountains, Weddell Sea Embayment West Antarctica [Abstract] [PPT (2mb)] | Bentley |
| 2:30 | Post-LGM & Holocene accumulation rates in West Antarctica: steady-state or not?[Abstract] [PPT (21mb)] | Welch |
2:45 |
Towards a suite of US ITASE West Antarctic paleoclimate records[Abstract] [PPT (4mb)] | Dixon |
3:00 |
On the effects of ice divide motion on Raymond bumps [Abstract] [PDF (4mb)] | Martin |
3:15 |
BREAK (30 min.) | |
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Session #3. Accumulation | |
3:45 |
Maybe the Siple Dome Ice Core Records Surging Ice Streams? [Abstract] | Taylor |
4:00 |
Statistical properties of Antarctic ice cores [Abstract] [PPT (1mb)] | Steig |
4:15 |
Basement control and history of ice-sheet expansion in the Amundsen Sea Embayment - First results of recent RV Polarstern and RRS James Clark Ross cruises [Abstract] [PPT (6mb)] | Gohl |
4:30 |
Late Quaternary deglaciation in the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic ice sheet: Preliminary results from recent cruises of RRS James Clark Ross and RV Polarstern [Abstract] [contact jaas@bas.ac.uk] | J. Smith |
4:45 |
Numerical modeling of ocean circulation over the continental shelf and beneath the ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica [Abstract] [PPT (5mb)] | Holland |
| 5:00 | Poster Viewing | |
| 6:00 | DINNER | Dining Hall |
| Friday, September 29, 2006 | ||
| 8:00 | BREAKFAST | Dining Hall |
| Topic #3. Filling the Gap_How can observations better meet the needs of improved predictive West Antarctic models? | ||
9:00 |
Above, below and within the ice: Polar technologies NASA and JPL are developing for Earth and Space | Behar |
9:15 |
Radar Measurements and Results from the WAIS Core Site [Abstract] [PPT (21mb)] | Gogineni |
| 9:30 | Detection of in-situ ice fabric anisotropy using polarimetric radar method near the WAIS divide [Abstract] [PPT (8mb)] | Matsuoka |
| 9:45 | Modeling radar attenuation at Siple Dome using ice-core chemistry and temperature data [Abstract] [PPT (1mb)] | MacGregor |
10:00 |
How is the Ice Stream C doing on a daily basis? [Abstract] [PPT (9mb)] | Tung |
| 10:15 | BREAK (45 min.) | |
11:00 |
Basal Shear Stress for Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, Antarctica [Abstract] [PPT (27mb)] | Joughin |
11:15 |
Inversion of ice stream surface measurements for basal conditions [Abstract] [PPT (10mb)] | Sergienko |
| 11:30 | Resolution and informational aspects of surface inversion on ice streams [Abstract] [PPT (2mb)] | Gudmundsson |
| 11:45 | A high spatial resolution record of near-surface temperature over WAIS during the past 5 decades [Abstract] [PPT (2mb)] | Monaghan |
12:00 |
Verifying thermocoupled ice sheet models: whence the warm spokes [Abstract] [PDF (4mb)] | Bueler |
| 12:15 | LUNCH (1 hr. 45 min.) | Dining Hall |
2:00 |
Roosevelt Island - a good place for an ice core [Abstract] [PPT (3mb)] | Conway |
| 2:15 | Calculating the Floating Fraction of Basal Ice Along Byrd Glacier, Antarctica, Using Only the Force Balance [Abstract] [PPT (2mb)] | Ashley |
| 2:30 | Calculating the Floating Fraction of Basal Ice Along Byrd Glacier, Antarctica, Using the Force Balance and the Mass Balance Connected by the Flow and Sliding Laws of Ice [Abstract] [PPT (2mb)] | Jones |
2:45 |
Tracing past Antarctic ice flow paths and modern transport processes with TAM till [Abstract] [PPT (32mb)] | Licht |
3:00 |
A DEM of West Antarctica from MODIS and ICESat -- Method, Accuracy, and Applications [Abstract] [PPT (35mb)] | Scambos |
3:15 |
Recent observations show that WAIS is influenced by sea swell generated in tropics and in Northern hemisphere [Abstract] | MacAyeal |
3:30 |
BREAK (45 min.) and Poster Viewing | |
4:15 |
What have I learned? | Dahl Jensen |
4:30 |
What have I learned? [PPT (16mb)] | Andrews |
| 4:45 | What have we learned? | |
| 6:00 | DINNER | Dining Hall |
| Saturday, September 30, 2006 | ||
| 8:00 | BREAKFAST | Dining Hall |
| Topic #4. Black on White_Joint Proposals, IPY, ASEP and Our Future | ||
8:30 |
Ocean-Ice Interaction in the Amundsen Sea: The Keystone of West Antarctic Stability [Abstract] [PPT (2mb)] | Bindschadler |
| 8:45 | Amundsen Sea Influence on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet [Abstract] [PPT (5mb)] | Jacobs |
| 9:00 | Flow dynamics of two Amundsen Sea Glaciers: Thwaites and Pine Island [Abstract] [PDF (1mb)] | Anandakrishnan |
9:15 |
Deglaciation of the Amundsen Sea Embayment - the Prelude to Recent, Rapid Ice Retreat [Abstract] [PDF (17mb)] | Stone |
| 9:30 | Amundsen Sea Embayment Project: Glacial Dynamics of Thwaites Tributaries (GlaDTT) [PPT (.2mb)] | Tulaczyk |
9:45 |
Constraining the Mass-Balance Deficit of the Amundsen Coast's glaciers [Abstract] [PPT (11mb)] | Joughin |
10:00 |
The Next Generation: A Community Ice Sheet Model for scientists and educators, with demonstration experiments in the Amundsen Sea Embayment region [PPT (.1mb)] | Johnson |
10:15 |
Are we headed in the right direction? | Bindschadler |
10:45 |
BREAK (30 min.) | |
11:15 |
WAIS Program: Activities, Actions and Needs | Bindschadler |
11:15 |
IPY Revision of Science Plan-committee needed | Bindschadler |
11:30 |
IPY Education and Outreach-web and beyond | Comberiate |
11:45 |
IPY Future WAIS workshops | Bindschadler |
| 12:00 | Adjorn | |
12:00 |
LUNCH | Dining Hall |
1:00 |
Depart for Mt. Rainier | |
| Posters | ||
| Surface exposure ages from the LGM trimline in the Ohio Range, Horlick Mountains [Abstract] | Ackert | |
| Communicating science to lay audiences | Andrews | |
| National Snow and Ice Data Center: Antarctic Data Management Support [Abstract] | Bauer | |
| LIMA: Progress on the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica: an IPY Project [Abstract] | Bindschadler | |
| Why Don't they Match? The Evolution of Flow Stripes and Internal Layers on Kamb Ice Stream [Abstract] | Campbell | |
| Sea-swell interaction with ice shelves: Observations at a site on the Ross Ice Shelf and a model of swell-excited ice-shelf vibration [Abstract] [PDF (2mb)] | Cathles | |
| Impacts of an accumulation hiatus on the physical properties of firn at a low-accumulation polar site [Abstract] | Courville | |
| What Gravity Can Tell Us About West Antarctica: A Close Look at Thwaites Glacier and a Plan for Future Holistic Studies [Abstract] | Diehl | |
| Basement control and history of ice-sheet expansion in the Amundsen Sea Embayment - First results of recent RV Polarstern and RRS James Clark Ross cruises [Abstract] | Gohl | |
| Crossing the "T" in Antarctica [Abstract] [JPG (3mb)] | Hamilton | |
| Aeromagnetic results from the Thwaites Glacier catchment, West Antarctica [Abstract] | Holt | |
| Analysis of Bed Properties on Kamb Ice Stream with Constant Midpoint Radar Profiles [Abstract] | Jacobel | |
| Surface exposure dating using cosmogenic isotopes: a field campaign in Marie Byrd Land and the Hudson Mountains [Abstract] [PDF (.1mb)] | Johnson | |
| Better physics using full momentum solver in 2D vertical slice domain, where does longitudinal stress really matter? Application to the Thwaites Glacier flowline [Abstract] [PDF (1mb)] | Kenneway | |
| The dynamic drift of mega-icebergs in the Ross Sea [Abstract] | Kim | |
| The delights of DELORES: the new B.A.S. DEep LOok Radio Echo Sounder [Abstract] | King | |
| Histories of Accumulation and Ice Dynamics from Radar Layers and Ice-Flow Inverse Methods [Abstract] [PDF (4mb)] | Koutnik | |
| Mapping the Antarctic's near-surface air temperature trends using satellite and in-situ observations | Mitchell | |
| Rebuilding glacial retreat histories using inverse methods and surface exposure age data [Abstract] | Todd | |
| A Two-Dimensional Coupled Model for Ice Shelf-Ocean Interaction [Abstract] | Walker | |
| Spatial variability in McMurdo Dry Valleys snow and firn - the role of local soil input [Abstract] | Williamson | |
| Grounding zone geometry of Thwaites, Pope and Smith Glaciers, Amundsen Sea Embayment [Abstract] | Young |
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