2014 Agenda
2014 WAIS Workshop Agenda
Pre-Meeting Wednesday, Sept 24
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Time |
What |
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3:00 to 7:00 |
Workshop check in |
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4:30 - 6:00 |
Open Discussion on the WAIS Science Plan |
Griffin Hall |
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6:30 |
Dinner and icebreaker |
Poster Hall & Dining Hall |
Day 1 Thursday, Sept 25
7:30-8:30- Breakfast and check in
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8:30 |
Welcome and logistics |
Helen Fricker, Ted Scambos, Jason of Camp Cedar Glen |
Session 1 Marine ice sheet instability -- “The Girl’s a Super-Freak”
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8:45 |
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Robert de Conto |
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9:00 |
Hilmar Gudmundsson |
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9:15 |
The influence of sea-level changes on ice-sheet evolution in Antarctic |
Natalya Gomez |
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9:30 |
Daniel Martin |
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9:45 |
Eric Larour |
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10:00 |
Discussion |
Discussion |
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
Session 2 - Observations of West Antarctic Ice Sheet Change “Times they Are A-changing”
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10:45 |
Irreversible changes in the northern part of WAIS: a view from above and below |
Eric Rignot |
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11:00 |
Cryosat: a new perspective on Antarctic ice sheet elevation changes (WAIS & Peninsula) |
Andy Shepherd |
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11:15 |
Recent Changes in Ice Mass Balance of the Amundsen Sea Sector |
Tyler Sutterly |
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11:30 |
Bernd Scheuchl presented by Eric Rignot |
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11:45 |
Eighteen years of height and mass changes in West Antarctic Ice Shelves |
Fernando Paolo |
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12:00 |
Discussion |
Discussion |
12:15-2:00 lunch and posters -- See Poster list at end of document
Session 3 Ice-ocean interaction in Antarctica (“Surfin’ USA”)
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2:00 |
Ocean Variability Contributing to Basal Melt Rate Near the Ice Front of Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica |
Laurie Padman |
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2:15 |
An Oceanic Heat Transport Pathway to the Amundsen Sea Embayment |
Angelica Gilroy |
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2:30 |
Ocean-driven basal melt channels and the stability of Amundsen and Bellingshausen Sea ice shelves |
Karen Alley |
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2:45 |
Modeling the spreading of glacial melt water from the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas |
Yoshihiro Nakayama |
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3:00 |
Ben Galton-Fenzi |
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3:15 |
Discussion |
Discussion |
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee break
Session 4 Grounding zones around WAIS (“I Get Around”)
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4:00 |
The nature and dynamics of the bed beneath Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica |
Rob Bingham |
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4:15 |
The influence of geological fabric on grounding line dynamics in the Amundsen Sea |
Kirsty Tinto |
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4:30 |
Dustin Schroeder |
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4:45 |
Tidal Flexure and Associated Seismic Activity Near the Grounding Zone of Beardmore Glacier |
Paul Winberry |
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5:00 |
Satellite Observations of Ice Thickness and Deformational Properties in Antarctic Grounding Zones |
Oliver Marsh |
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5:15 |
Discussion |
Discussion |
5:30 End of sessions for the day
6:30 Dinner
Day 2 Friday, Sept 26
7:30 Breakfast
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8:30 |
WAIS meeting outlook for 2015 |
Helen Fricker, Ted Scambos |
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8:45 |
NSF Program Officers |
Julie Palais, Lisa Clough, Paul Cutler |
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9:00 |
WAIS Divide Outcomes [Presentation] |
TJ Fudge |
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9:20 |
NAS study [Presentation] |
Laurie Geller NAS |
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9:40 |
Strategic Antarctic Science discussion |
All |
10-10:30 Coffee break
Session 5 Climate, Accumulation (‘It Never Rains in California’)
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10:30 |
Jay Zwally |
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10:45 |
Brooke Medley |
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11:00 |
A Rossby Wave Bridge from the Tropical Atlantic to West Antarctica |
Xichen Li |
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11:15 |
Central West Antarctic Accumulation: annual resolution for the past 31 ka |
TJ Fudge |
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11:30 |
Sharon Stammerjohn |
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11:45 |
Discussion |
Discussion |
12:00-2:30 Lunch, posters, activities
Session 6 Rogue Waves, Rogue Water, and Rogue’s Gallery
(“Wish They All Could Be California Girls”)
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2:30 |
Peter Bromirski |
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2:45 |
J.Z. Miller |
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3:00 |
Observations of sea ice and ice sheet interaction in Greenland and the Antarctic Peninsula |
Twila Moon |
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3:15 |
Climate, Sea Ice, and Ocean Precursors to the Larsen Ice Shelf Disintegrations |
Ted Scambos |
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3:15 |
Gang Qiao |
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3:30 |
Discussion |
Discussion |
3:45 - 4:00 Coffee break
Session 7 Ice Divides and Traverses -- “Truckin’ “
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4:00 |
Richard Alley |
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4:15 |
Holocene stability of the Amundsen-Ross ice divide, Central West Antarctica |
Michelle Koutnik |
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4:30 |
iSTAR: UK ice sheet traverse across Pine Island Glacier drainage basin |
Andy Smith |
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4:45 |
Jonathan Oberreuter |
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5:00 |
Robert Bingham |
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5:15 |
Discussion |
Discussion |
5:30 End of Sessions for the Day
6:30 Dinner
Day 3 Saturday, Sept 27
7:30 Breakfast
Session 8 Subglacial Hydrology -- “Slip-Sliding Away”
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9:00 |
Robin Bell |
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9:15 |
Sasha Carter |
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9:30 |
Surendra Adhikari |
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9:45 |
Shallow Sub-Permafrost Groundwater Systems in a Buried Fjord: Taylor Valley, Antarctica |
Neil Foley |
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10:00 |
Measurements of basal change properties from repeat radar measurements |
Sridhar Anandakrishnan |
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10:15 |
Discussion |
Discussion |
10:15-10:45 coffee break
Session 7 WISSARD stuff (“Witchy Woman”)
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10:45 |
Environment and Processes of Subglacial Lake Whillans, West Antarctica |
Ross Powell |
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11:00 |
Knut Christianson |
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11:15 |
Jacob Walter |
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11:30 |
Grace Barcheck |
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11:45 |
Interruption of the Whillans Ice Stream stick-slip cycle by a subglacial lake discharge event |
Matthew Siegfried |
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12:00 |
Final Discussion |
Final Discussion |
12:30 Lunch and Adjourn (can stay at Camp Cedar Glen all afternoon)
Posters