2012 WAIS Workshop Agenda
This year's abstracts (1 file, ~1 mb)
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 7:00 p | Dinner | |
| 8:00 | WAIS Committee Meeting |
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Time |
Topic |
Speaker |
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7:30 a - 8:30 |
Breakfast in dining hall, registration for late arrivals |
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9:15 |
Welcome and the Future of WAIS Workshop |
Eric Steig |
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Session 1 |
Mcorrhizae: observations and modeling of the base of the ice sheet |
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9:40 |
Controls on the Geometry of Accretion Reflectors |
Michael Wolovick |
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10:00 |
Subglacial lakes and logical extensions thereof |
Sasha Carter |
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10:20 |
Ice stream stick-slip, sticky spots and rate-and-state friction |
Jeremy Bassis |
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10:40 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00 |
The role of subglacial drainage and basal freeze-on for ice streams |
Marianne Haseloff |
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11:15 |
Evidence for Ice-Flow-Coupled Subglacial Water Systems beneath West Antarctica's Potentially Unstable Thwaites Glacier |
Dustin Schroeder |
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11:30 |
Grounding Zone Heterogeneity of Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica |
Knut Christianson |
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11:45 |
The influence of stick-slip motion on the present deceleration of the Whillans Ice Stream |
Paul Winberry |
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12:00 - 1:30 |
Lunch |
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1:30 |
WAIS Divide Ice Core Project: How did we do? |
Don Voigt |
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1:45 |
High Basal Melt at the WAIS-Divide ice-core site |
T.J. Fudge |
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2:00 |
Subglacial volcanism beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the West Antarctic Rift System, from aeromagnetic and radar ice sounding - Thiel Subglacial Volcano as possible source of the ash layer in the WAISCORE |
John Behrendt |
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2:15 |
Panel and Open Discussion |
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2:50 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 2 |
Riparian Zone: what's new on and under the ice shelves |
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3:15 |
Influence of ocean circulation patterns on ocean heat transport to ice shelves |
Pierre St-Laurent |
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3:30 |
Ice shelves in cold and warm oceanic environments |
Olga Sergienko |
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3:45 |
Increased melting of Pine Island Ice Shelf: Cause or effect? |
Chris Little |
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4:00 |
The dynamic response of Pine Island Glacier to a calving event inferred from Elmer/Ice |
Olivier Gagliardini |
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4:15 |
Ice-2-O: Interactions between ice shelves, sea ice and ocean |
Laurence Padman |
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4:30 |
Panel and Open Discussion |
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5:00 - 8:00 |
Poster Viewing |
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6:00 |
Dinner |
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| Time | Topic | Speaker |
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7:30 a - 8:30 |
Breakfast in dining hall |
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Session 2 |
Riparian Zone (cont.) |
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8:30 |
Intermittent rift propagation in the Amery Ice Shelf |
Catherine Walker |
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8:50 |
Near-continuous monitoring of Antarctic ice shelf and sub-ice shelf ocean temperatures |
David Holland |
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9:10 |
Potential Antarctic contributions to future sea level through the eyes of the SeaRISE Project |
Robert Bindschadler |
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9:30 |
Changes in Pine Island Glacier from Time Series of ICESat GLAS Data |
Ute Herzfeld |
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9:45 |
Panel and Open Discussion |
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10:00 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 3 |
Understory: surface mass balance and atmospheric variability |
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10:20 |
Perspective on the West Antarctic warming from the reconstructed Byrd temperature record (1957-2012) |
Julien Nicolas |
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10:40 |
New, High-Resolution Spatio-Temporal Accumulation Rate Measurements and Their Validation of Climate Models and Implication for the Recent Sea-Level Contribution from West Antarctica |
Brooke Medley |
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10:55 |
Changing Influences on the Climate of West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula during Austral Spring |
Kyle Clem |
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11:10 |
WAIS Divide: recent climate change in West Antarctic in the context of the last 2000 years |
Eric Steig |
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11:25 |
The Losers Next Door: Mass loss from Thwaites, Pope and Smith glaciers |
Ben Smith |
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11:40 |
Mass Balance of the northern Antarctic Peninsula from image- and ICESat-based dH/dt |
Ted Scambos |
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12:00 - 1:00 |
Lunch |
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Session 4 |
Canopy: results from satellites, airborne measurements, or state-of-the art models |
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1:30 |
Systematic analysis of the resolution of inversions of airborne gravity data for bathymetry beneath floating ice |
James Cochran |
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1:45 |
Bed topography of the Byrd Glacier trunk from airborne radar soundings of the ICECAP Project |
Jack Holt |
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2:00 |
Along-stream evolution of melt under the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, West Antarctica |
Pierre Dutrieux |
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2:15 |
Evolution of Antarctic Ice Sheet surface elevation and thickness changes from ICESat laser altimetry, 2003-2009 |
Bea Csatho |
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2:30 |
Model‐Based Analysis of Ice Sheet Thinning in the Amundsen Sea Embayment |
Ian Joughin |
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2:45 |
Sub-meter imagery status of WAIS |
Paul Morin |
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3:00 |
Coffee, Panel and Open Discussion |
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3:30 |
Linkage between Grounding Line Dynamics and Geological Observations in the Weddell Sea Sector of Antarctica |
Kat Huybers |
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3:45 |
Insights on WAIS history from a high-resolution Eemian record collected at the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area, Antarctica |
Nicole Spaulding |
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4:00 - 4:30 |
Wrap-up Discussion |
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4:30 - 8:00 |
Poster Viewing |
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6:00 |
Dinner |
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Time |
Topic |
Speaker |
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7:30 a - 8:30 |
Breakfast |
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9:00 |
WAIS Committee Meeting |
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Topic |
Lead Author |
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Analyzing the Sensitivity of Grounding-Line Dynamics in Response to Periodic Forcing |
Erkut Aykutlug |
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An observed negative trend in West Antarctic accumulation rates from 1975 to 2010: evidence from new observed and simulated records |
Landon Burgener |
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Late Cenozoic glacial history of Shackleton Glacier, Antarctica |
Elizabeth Dengler |
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Detailed basal topography of the floating portion of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica |
Pierre Dutrieux |
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Ice mechanics, basal water and the stagnation of Kamb Ice Stream, Antarctica |
Mason Fried |
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Glacial Geomorphology of the Pensacola Mountains, Weddell Sea Sector, Antarctica |
Matthew Hegland |
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Effects and feedbacks of the basal sliding parameter on ice and water flow beneath an ice-stream |
Justin Hiester |
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Big or little? Patterns of change on the Ross Ice Shelf |
Christina Hulbe |
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History of the Ross Sea Ice Sheet in Salmon Valley During the Last Glaciation |
Margaret S. Jackson |
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Propagation of an active rift in the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica |
Christine LeDoux |
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A community model for transient thermo-mechanical evolution of firn density |
Jessica Lundin |
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Subglacial till body underneath a contemporary grounding zone |
Kenny Matsuoka |
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Gravity survey on the Ross Ice Shelf at the mouth of Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica |
Atsuhiro Muto |
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Sea-ice ocean interactions in a high-resolution global climate model |
Emily Newsom |
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Nested ice-sheet modeling of long-term variations in the Pine Island-Thwaites Glacier basins |
David Pollard |
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Automated Production of High Resolution Commercial Imagery Mosaics of Antarctica |
Claire C. Porter |
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Antarctic Data at NSIDC: Continued Data Collection, Archiving, and Distribution of Results of NSF-OPP Funded Research in Antarctic Glaciology |
Ted Scambos |
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Thermal migration of ice stream shear margins |
Christian Schoof |
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Quantifying Ice-sheet/Ice-shelf Dynamics and Variability with Meter-scale DEM and Velocity Timeseries |
David Shean |
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A comparison of grounding zone features and flexure dynamics in two geometries over a 12-hour tidal range |
Matthew Siegfried |
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Long-term glacial history of the central Transantarctic Mountains |
Perry Spector |
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Physical Properties in Thin Sections from WAIS Divide Core WDC06A; Fabric, Bubbles, Grains and More |
Don Voigt |
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Ice-shelf tidal flexure and subglacial pressure variations |
Ryan T. Walker |
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Inferring the seasonality of past precipitation from ice core impurity records |
Mai Winstrup |
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GIMBLE: Geophysical Investigations of Marie Byrd Land Evolution: a new airborne survey of the linchpin of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
Duncan Young |