Sixth Annual WAIS Workshop

Agenda

Wednesday, September 15, 1999

   

2:00 to 7:00

Registration Floyd

7:00

Pizza, beer and snacks (Cottage #1) Bindschadler

Thursday, September 16, 1999

   

8:00

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST  

8:15

Registration Floyd

8:30

Welcome and Agenda Review Bindschadler

8:45

NSF Remarks Erb
  Question #1: How does the atmosphere interact with the ice sheet?  

9:00

Stochastic Resonance in the North Atlantic Alley et al.

9:15

The Role of the Tropics in the Astronomical Theory of Climate Change Fairbanks

9:30

The El Nino-Southern Oscillation Modulation of West Antarctic Precipitation Bromwich & Rogers

9:45

Temperature Record Reconstructions and Isotope Paleothermometry Shuman et al.

10:00

BREAK (30 min.)  

10:30

Sampling Snow based on Acoustic Depth Gauge Data Stearns & Weidner

10:45

Effects of Snow and Firn Microstructure on Air-Snow-Firn Exchange at Siple Dome Albert

11:00

Discussion of Question #1 (30 min.) PLENARY

11:30

Poster Introductions (2 min. each)  

12:15

LUNCH (1 hr. 15 min.)  
  Question #2: What caused an ice stream to form?  

1:30

Tributary Flow in West Antarctica Revealed by Radarsat Interferometry Joughin et al.

1:45

Tributaries to West Antarctic Ice Streams: Characteristics Deduced from Observation and Numerical Modelling of Ice Flow Hulbe et al.

2:00

Bulge of thickening at the head of ice stream C: Observations and implications Price et al.

2:15

Geologic controls on the initiation of rapid basal motion for the ice streams of the Southeastern Ross Embayment: A geophysical perspective... Blankenship et al.

2:30

A Geologic Framework for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Bell et al.

2:45

The influence of subglacial geology on the onsets of West Antarctic ice streams B, C and D: constraints from high-resolution airborne geophysical mapping Studinger et al.

3:00

BREAK (30 min.)  

3:30

First results of airborne radar sounding over Ice Stream D, West Antarctica Liu et al.

3:45

A Computationally Efficient Bedrock Isostacy Model Fastook & Johnson

4:00

Further developments in the basal water model Johnson et al.

4:15

Effect of ice-shelf buttressing on the time evolution of Pine Island Glacier: a modelling study constrained by radar interferometry observations Rignot et al.

4:30

A Possible Calving Instability in Pine Island Bay Hughes & Kenneally

4:45

BREAK  

5:00

Discussion of Question #2 (30 min.) PLENARY

5:30

Poster Viewing (60 min.)  

6:30

DINNER  

Friday, September 16, 1999

   

8:30

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST  
  Question #3: What environmental events occurred in West Antarctica duringthe late Quaternary and Holocene?  

9:00

Higher inland ice levels of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet at Mt. Takahe volcano during Early and late Wisconsinan times Wilch

9:15

Circumpolar Environmental Transitions in the Antarctic Coastal Zone since the Late-Quaternary Berkman

9:30

Terra Nova Drift and Middle Pleistocene Raised Beach in the Northern Foothills, Victoria Land Coast Hirakawa

9:45

BREAK (30 min.)  

10:15

Proximal evidence for past deglacial events in West Antarctica Scherer

10:30

Holocene deglaciation of the Ross Sea Embayment: Implications for the Stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Conway et al.

10:45

What can Ice Core Time Scales and Radar Internal Layers tell us about Past Thickness of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet? Waddington et al.

11:00

Discussion of Question #3 (30 min.) PLENARY

11:30

Poster Session (45 min.)  

12:15

LUNCH (1 hr. 15 min.)  
     
  Question #4: How does the subglacial bed interact with an ice stream  

1:30

Sliding and other observations on Ice Stream D Engelhardt et al.

1:45

Slippery when wet: Sub-ice-stream tills as mechanical and hydrological… Tulaczyk

2:00

Antarctic Ice Sheet Advance and Retreat During the Last Glacial Cycle and Substrate Control On Ice Stream Behavior  Anderson

2:15

Sediment fabric as an indicator of subglacial processes  Licht

2:30

Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream and Carlson Inlet: Implications for ice stream flow Smith, A.

2:45

BREAK (30 min.)  

3:15

Basal conditions near the grounding lines of Ice Streams B and C imaged with coherent radar and their implications for ice stream dynamics Morse et al.

3:30

Strong anisotropy in ice stream C detected by shear-wave splitting Anandakrishnan

3:45

Radar detection of basal processes in the Snake of Ice Stream B Raymond & Nereson

4:00

Aeromagnetic and Radar Ice Sounding Evidence for Interaction of Bedrock with the West Antarctic Ice Sheet…... Behrendt et al.

4:15

BREAK  

4:30

Discussion of Question #4 (30 min.) PLENARY

5:00

Poster Viewing (60 min.)  

6:00

DINNER  

Saturday, September 18, 1999

   

8:30

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST  

9:00

Outreach Activities  

9:30

Guest Feedback  

10:30

Joint US/UK Project in Pine Island Sector  

11:00

WAIS Program Strategy  

12:00

Adjourn  

Posters

 
Geological Constraints on Ice Sheet Elevations in Interior West Antarctica Acker et al.
Glaciological Studies at Patriot Hills, Ellsworth Mountains Casassa et al.
Holocene melt layer record for Siple Dome, West Antarctica Das & Alley
Do Ice Shelves Matter? Dupont
Siple Dome: Mass balance and accumulation rates Hamilton
New results from the application of the ocean model MICOM to the southern Weddell Sea Jenkins & Holland
Antarctic Geographic Data Integration (AGDI) Johnstone
Wind-Blown Diatoms in Antarctic Ice Cores: Provenance Indicators of former storm tracks Kellogg & Kellogg
Trace metal deposition in West Antarctica surrounding the 1815 Tambora eruption Kreutz & Mayewski
Observations of a subglacial meltwater channel system in Pine Island Bay, Antarctica and implications on ice Sheet-bed interactions Lowe & Anderson
Is the N.E. Greenland ice stream "WAIS-like"? MacAyeal
Sea Ice Variability and the Extratropical Expression of ENSO as Recorded in a South Pole Ice Core Meyerson et al.
Evidence for a Major Change in Flow Direction at the Head of Ice Stream C Price et al.
New Views of the West Antarctic: An Overview of its Glacio-Morphology from Radarsat, AVHRR, and Landsat Data Scambos & Jezek
Antarctic Data Management Support at the National Snow and Ice Data Center Scharfen & Bauer
Study of ice-rise restraint on ice-shelf flow from a combination of radar interferometry and an ice-shelf model Schmeltz et al.
Global Warming Will Not Raise Sea Level Singer
Radar studies on ice stream C: Accumulation rates and the time of stagnation Smith, B. et al.
Automatic Weather Station Support of WAIS and ITASE Stearns & Weidner
Transfer of basal conditions to the surface Thorsteinsson et al.
Recent changes in ice plain B Vornberger et al.
Late Quaternary Ice Sheet Configuration and Retreat from the Pennell Coast, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica Wellner & Anderson
Stable isotopes at Siple Dome White & Steig