| Wednesday, September 25, 1996 |
| 8:30 | Registration | Norris |
| 9:00 | Welcome | Bindschadler |
| 9:15 | NSF Perspective | Sullivan & Peacock |
| History | | |
| poster | Submarine Ridges and Sediment Facies across the Eastern Ross Sea: Correlation
with Western Ross Sea Sediment | Jacobson et al |
| 9:30 | Signature of Expanded Ice During the LGM: Single-Step Deglaciation? | Anderson & Shipp |
| 9:50 | Recessional Rates of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Western Ross Sea | Domack et al. |
| 10:10 | Holocene Environmental Variability along the Victoria Land Coast, Ross Sea,
Antarctica | Berkman |
| 10:30 | BREAK | |
| 10:50 | History of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: some new evidence from southern
McMurdo Sound | Kurz & Ackert |
| 11:10 | Preliminary study of cores from the east-central Ross Sea | Licht et al. |
| 11:30 | Past ice sheet volume from analysis of surface lineaments | Hamilton & Whillans |
| 11:50 | Relict Flow Features of the West Antarctic Ice Streams | Jacobel & Scambos |
| 12:10 | LUNCH | |
| 1:20 | Diatoms as sedimentary tracers in subglacial sediments: recent and ongoing
results from ice stream B and vicinity | Scherer & Tulaczyk |
| 1:40 | Interpretation of Siple Dome and Inland West Antarctic Glaciochemical Records | Kreutz et al. |
| 2:00 | Temperature Proxy Records from Siple Dome: Early 1991 to Late 1994 | Shuman et al. |
| 2:20 | BREAK | |
| 2:40 | Potential of Marie Byrd Land tephrochronology in WAISCORES research | Wilch et al. |
| 3:00 | Removal of late Cenozoic Subglacially Emplaced Volcanic Edifices by the
West Antarctic Ice Sheet May Explain Why Aeromagnetic Surveys Show Vastly
Greater Extent of Subglacial Volcanic Rock than is Exposed | Behrendt et al |
| Current Dynamics | | |
| poster | Preliminary Determination of Ice Flow Velocity in West Antarctica Using
High Precision GPS Measurements | Chen |
| 3:20 | Evidence for current surging of West Antarctica | Bindschadler |
| 3:40 | BREAK | |
| 4:00 | Understanding How Ice Streams Work | Whillans & van der Veen |
| 4:20 | Observations of the Flow Mechanism of Ice Stream B | Kamb |
| 4:40 | Constraints on the Velocity of Ice Streams imposed by their Widths | Raymond |
| 5:30 | DINNER | |
| Thursday, September 26, 1996 |
| Current Dynamics (con't.) | | |
| poster | Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers on Sequential ERS SAR Images | Lucchitta & Rosanova |
| 9:00 | Observation of tidal forcing of basal seismicity of ice stream C | Anandakrishnan & Alley |
| 9:20 | Sediment properties beneath ice stream C calculated from seismically detected,
tidally triggered waves of ice motion (or: Who needs GPS? Detecting 1 mm/day
ice velocity by seismometer) | Alley & Anandakrishnan |
| 9:40 | A Proposed Experiment to determine a Flow Law for Ice Sheets at Low Deviatoric
Stress, and Implications for WAIS Ice Core and Radar Layer Interpretation | Waddington et al. |
| Interactions | | |
| poster | Modeling Reactive Gases over the Ice | Thompson et al. |
| 10:00 | Aerogeophysical Evidence for Geologic Controls on the Onset of a West Antarctic
Ice Stream | Bell et al. |
| 10:20 | BREAK | |
| 10:40 | Lithospheric Controls on the Behavior of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet | Blankenship et al. |
| 11:00 | Katabatic Winds over West Antarctica | Bromwich & Liu |
| 11:20 | Meteorological Support in West Antarctica | Stearns |
| 11:40 | Evidence for Thicker Ice in Interior West Antarctica | Borns et al. |
| 12:00 | LUNCH | |
| Modeling and Prediction | | |
| 1:20 | Effects of Atmospheric Climate Change on Ice Stability | Lindner et al. |
| 1:40 | Predicting Future Behaviour of the WAIS | Burckle |
| 2:00 | BREAK | |
| 2:20 | Detail Topography of Ice Streams D and E using AVHRR-based Photoclinometry | Fahnestock & Scambos |
| 2:40 | Control Methods Applied to Inverse Modeling of Ice Sheets: The Use of Finite-Element
Basis Functions | Fastook |
| 3:00 | Sea Level Rise, Revised | Jacobs |
| 3:20 | BREAK | |
| 3:40 | WAIS Grounding Line Investigations: A Call for Interest | Powell |
| 4:00 | Proposed Field Sites for Future WAIS Research | Hughes |
| 4:20 | Data Coordination and Data Management of NSF-Funded Antarctic Research | Cross et al. |
| Education | | |
| 4:40 | Overview of the GLACIER Curriculum: Tying WAIS Research to the Middle School
Classroom | Shipp & Anderson |
| 5:30 | DINNER | |
| 7:30 | Working Group Meeting | WAIS Working Group |
| Friday, September 27, 1996 |
| Other programs | | |
| 9:00 | Mass balance and dynamics of the Filchner-Ronne-Schelfeis - an overview
of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf Programme | Oerter |
| 9:20 | Ice Shelf-Ocean Interaction Studies in the Southern Weddell Sea | Jenkins |
| 9:40 | The International Trans Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE) "200 Years
of Past Antarctic Climate and Environmental Change" | Mayewski |
| WAIS Project Review |
| 10:00 | Major advances of WAIS | all |
| 11:00 | Objectives review and assessment | all |
| 12:00 | LUNCH | |
| 1:20 | Implementation Plan redux | all |
| 3:00 | BREAK | |
| 3:30 | Strategy for future | all |
| 4:00 | Schedule next workshop | all |
