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Workshop Program (PDF, 2.4 MB)
Wednesday, September 5 | Thursday, September 6 | Friday, September 7 | Saturday, September 8
Poster Abstracts
Wednesday, September 5
| Time |
Topic |
Speaker |
| 4:00 to 6:00 |
Registration |
Main Building |
| 7:00 to 9:00 |
INFORMAL DINNER (Pizza and Drinks) |
Cottage #1 |
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Thursday, September 6
Time |
Topic |
Speaker |
| 8:00 |
BREAKFAST |
Main Building |
| 8:00 |
Registration |
Main Building |
| 9:00 |
Welcomes and Introductions |
Main Building |
|
Topic #1: Ice Shelves and Oceans |
| 9:30 |
First (1957-58) Geophysical Investigation of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf |
Behrendt |
| 9:45 |
Basement architecture and sedimentary cover in the Amundsen Sea Embayment: Parameters for reconstructing ice-sheet expansion? |
Gohl |
| 10:00 |
Transient Temperatures and Redoubtable Reticence in the Amundsen |
Jacobs |
| 10:15 |
Location and timing of Circumpolar Deep Water intrusions onto the Amundsen Sea continental shelf simulated with an isopycnic coordinate ocean model |
Jenkins |
| 10:30 |
The Filchner Ice Shelf Water Overflow |
Osterhus |
| 10:45 |
BREAK (30 min.) |
| 11:15 |
Modeling the impact of tidal currents on ocean circulation beneath Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf |
Makinson |
| 11:30 |
Oceanographic and Bathymetric Observations at the Ilulissat Ice Fjord |
Holland, D. |
| 11:45 |
The response of ice-shelf basal melting to variation in ocean temperature |
Holland, P. |
| 12:00 |
Poster Introductions (30 min.) |
| 12:30 |
LUNCH (90 min.) |
| 2:00 |
Effects of changes in the open ocean on the melting underneath the Ross Ice Shelf in a model of the Ross Sea |
Dinniman |
| 2:15 |
A calving law for ice shelves: spreading-rate control of calving rate |
Alley |
| 2:30 |
When iceberg calving matters: An investigation into the feedbacks between iceberg calving and dynamic changes in the flow of inland ice |
Bassis |
| 2:45 |
Ice-y Breakups: How I Lost My AMIGOS in Antarctica |
Scambos |
| 3:00 |
PANEL DISCUSSION (30 min.) |
Plenary |
| 3:30 |
BREAK (30 min.) |
|
Topic #2: Ice Stream Grounding Lines |
| 4:00 |
Radar attenuation and temperature near the grounding line of Whillans |
MacGregor |
|
Ice Stream |
|
| 4:15 |
Grounding line migration and ice shelf buttressing in a two-dimensional |
Goldberg |
|
marine ice stream model |
| 4:30 |
A Modern Analogy to Explain Relict Grounding Lines of Kamb |
Catania |
|
IceStream, Antarctica |
| 4:45 |
Treatment of grounding-line dynamics in ice sheet-shelf models |
Pollard |
| 5:00 |
PANEL DISCUSSION (30 min.) |
Plenary |
| 5:30 |
BREAK (30 min.) |
| 6:00 |
DINNER |
Main Building |
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Friday, September 7
| Time |
Topic |
Speaker |
|
Topic #3: Ice Stream Bases |
| 9:00 |
GPS measurements from Pine Island Glacier |
Scott |
| 9:15 |
Basal conditions on Pine Island Glacier |
Smith, A. |
| 9:30 |
A recent volcanic eruption in West Antarctica |
Corr |
| 9:45 |
Mapping West Antarctic subglacial processes using detailed basal morphology: Implications for Thwaites Glacier, based on knowledge gained from the Siple Coast |
Young |
| 10:00 |
The evolution of surface flow stripes and stratigraphic folds within Kamb Ice Stream -why don’t they match? |
Campbell |
| 10:15 |
BREAK (45 min.) |
| 11:00 |
Spatial Variation of Basal Conditions on Kamb Ice Stream |
Jacobel |
| 11:15 |
How sticky are sticky spots? Constraints from passive seismic |
Winberry |
| 11:30 |
Decadal dynamics of basal conditions as viewed from the ice bulge on Kamb Ice Stream |
Tulaczyk |
| 11:45 |
Subglacial lakes: They're (almost) everywhere |
Smith, B. |
| 12:00 |
A linked system of lakes on MacAyeal Ice Stream |
Fricker |
| 12:15 |
LUNCH (90 min.) |
| 1:45 |
Effects of the ice-stream basal conditions on its surface elevation. Cry for velocity data |
Sergienko |
| 2:00 |
Using inverse methods to recover basal velocities |
Truffer |
| 2:15 |
PANEL DISCUSSION (30 min.) |
Plenary |
| 2:45 |
BREAK (30 min.) |
|
Topic #4: Ice Sheets |
| 3:15 |
Advances in describing recent Antarctic climate variability |
Bromwich |
| 3:30 |
Antarctic ice mass fluxes from satellite observations and a regional |
Bamber |
|
climate model |
| 3:45 |
WAIS wasting in the Amundsen Sea Embayment since the Last Glacial |
Larter |
|
Maximum |
|
| 4:00 |
Solving for a history of ice thickness in the southern Ross Sea |
Todd |
|
Embayment using inverse methods and surface-exposure ages |
| 4:15 |
BREAK (30 min.) |
| 4:45 |
A preliminary cyclostratigraphic and paleo-environmental analysis of |
Powell |
|
the new high-resolution McMurdo Ice Shelf (ANDRILL) drill core has implications for WAIS history and dynamics |
| 5:00 |
What can ANDRILL tell us of long-term WAIS history? |
Scherer |
| 5:15 |
Antarctic Scientific Drilling: What, Where, and Why |
Rack |
| 5:30 |
BREAK (30 min.) |
| 6:00 |
DINNER |
Main Building |
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Saturday, September 8
Time |
Topic |
Speaker |
| 8:30 |
Lost, but found: A large WAIS drainage basin existed in the southern |
Hillenbrand |
|
Bellingshausen Sea during the last glacial period |
| 8:45 |
Boundary conditions for a full-momentum solver: 1) The dilemma of |
Fastook |
|
sliding and 2) how do we do embedded models? |
| 9:00 |
Thermal Convection and the Origin of Ice Streams |
Hughes |
| 9:15 |
Tipping points: nonlinearity and hysteresis in ice sheets |
Schoof |
| 9:30 |
Millennial versus orbital influences on ice marginal fluctuation: the |
Vacco |
|
southern signal |
| 9:45 |
Ice sheets in the Community Climate System Model |
Lipscomb |
| 10:00 |
PANEL DISCUSSION (30 min.) |
Plenary |
| 10:30 |
GUEST FEEDBACK |
| 11:00 |
WAIS/FRISP business |
| 12:00 |
Adjourn |
|
Poster Session (Wednesday, September 21)
Topic |
Lead Author |
| A Monte Carlo Investigation of Inherited Cosmogenic Nuclides in Moraine Boulders |
Applegate |
| Glacial history of the Ellsworth Mountains, Weddell Sea embayment, West Antarctica |
Bentley, M. |
| Thickness and Structure of the Crust beneath the Thwaites Glacier Catchment, West Antarctica |
Diehl |
| Numerical modeling of subglacial-sediment dynamics |
duBois |
| When the Bough Breaks: Implementing an Empirical Calving Rule in a Dynamic Stream/Shelf Model' |
Dupont |
| Investigations of near-vertical subsurface structures near Swiss Camp, Greenland |
Greenbaum |
| Progress towards an Image-Enhanced 250 m DEM for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
Haran |
| Developing a long term strategy for using AUVs in polar research |
Heywood |
| A model of tidally-dominated ocean processes near ice-shelf grounding lines |
Holland, P. |
| Patterns of glacier response to disintegration of the Larsen B ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula |
Hulbe |
| LC-130 Deep Field Capabilities |
James |
| First exposure ages from the Amundsen Sea embayment, West Antarctica: the Late Quaternary context for recent thinning of Pine Island, Smith and Pope Glaciers |
Johnson. |
| The influence of sea-ice and the Ross Ice shelf on water properties |
Klinck |
| Connections between meteorology and chemistry in surface snow: Clark Glacier, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica |
Kreutz |
| Large scale modeling of ice flow for the entire Antarctica continent |
Larour |
| A coupled ice/water flow model for West Antarctica |
LeBrocq |
| Accumulation Rates Over the Thwaites Glacier Catchment, West Antarctica, Using Radar Reflection Layers |
Leuro |
| Potential Vorticity Constraints on Buoyancy-Forced Circulation in Ice Shelf Cavities |
Little |
| Opportunities (?) for Probabilistic Assessment of Ice Sheet Response to Climate Change |
Little |
| Exposure ages from mountain dipsticks indicate little change in East Antarctic Ice Sheet thickness since the Last Glacial Maximum and stability from the mid Holocene |
Mackintosh |
| Detection of in-situ ice fabric anisotropy using polarimetric radar method near WAIS Divide |
Matsuoka |
| A sediment model and retreat history for the Ross Ice Shelf (Sheet) since the LGM |
McKay |
| Sensitivity of ice-shelf/ocean interactions to vertical resolution and thermodynamic parameterizations in the ROMS model |
Mueller |
| Bathymetry of the Amundsen Sea Continental Shelf |
Nitsche |
| Bipolar Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation (BIAC) IPY Cluster # 23 |
Osterhus |
| Focused SAR Processing of Airborne Radar Sounding Data from Kamb Ice Stream |
Peters |
| Basal conditions at two sticky spots along Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica |
Peters |
| Cenozoic variations of the Antarctic Ice Sheet: a model-data mismatch? |
Pollard |
| High-salinity waters beneath the margin of the West Antarctic ice sheet -evidence from ANDRILL porwater studies |
Quintana-Krupinski |
| ANDRILL's Education and Public Outreach Efforts |
Rack |
| Significant Glacier Thinning (Or Not) in the Larsen B Embayment |
Shuman |
| Ice shelf melting in the Amundsen Sea from oceanographic observations |
Shoosmith |
| From shelf break to ice shelves: oceanographic observations in the Bellingshausen Sea, Summer 2007 |
Shoosmith |
| Estimating the salinity of subglacial lakes from aerogeophysical data |
Studinger |
| Development of an aerogeophysical imaging system for polar applications: Phase I: Gravimeter test flights to the North Pole |
Studinger |
| Moho topography of the West Antarctic Rift System from inversion of aerogravity data: ramifications for geothermal heat flux and ice streaming |
Studinger |
| Optical probing of glacial ice using short-pulse lasers |
Talghader |
| Surface exposure ages from Reedy Glacier, Antarctica |
Todd |
| The Science and Art of LIMA |
Vornberger |
| Long-term Mass Balance of the Pacific Ocean Sector of Antarctica Based on Multisensor Fusion |
Yoon |
| Comprehensive surface elevations for Thwaites Glacier: Results from AGASEA airborne laser altimetry |
Young |
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