Seventh Annual WAIS Workshop

AGENDA


Tuesday, September 26, 2000
2:00 to 6:00 Registration Regul
7:00 Pizza, beer and snacks (cottage #1) Bindschadler
Wednesday, September 27, 2000
9:00 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST  
10:00 to 5:00 Planning Meeting: US/UK Research in Pine Island Region Anandakrishnan
10:00 to 5:00 North Victoria Land Meeting Berkman
6:00 DINNER  
Thursday September 28, 2000
8:00 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST  
8:00 Registration Regul
8:30 Welcome and Agenda Review Bindschadler
8:45 NSF Remarks Palais
  Question #1: The wet & dirty record: What new information has been obtained from the coastal waters of West Antarctica?  
9:00 Geomorphological evidence and cosmogenic 10Be/26Al exposure ages for the Last Glacial Maximum configuration of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet Bentley
9:15 Identifying the Grounding Line Zone from Sediment Cores and Ultra-High Resolution Geophysics, examples from the Ross Sea, Prydz Bay, and the NW Weddell Sea Domack
9:30 Antarctic Shell Records of Marine Environmental Variability Along the North Victoria Land Coast Berkman
9:45 What's happened beneath the Ross Sea? Sediment geochemical and paleontological evaluation of central Ross Sea cores Sjunneskog
10:00 WAIS History During the Last Glacial/Interglacial Cycle Anderson
10:15 Glacial Geomorphic Features on the Antarctic Continental Shelf and Correlation to Substrate: Implications for Behavior of Paleo-Ice Sheets Smith-Wellner
10:30 BREAK (30 min.)  
11:00 Discussion of Question #1 (30 min.) PLENARY
11:30 Poster Introductions (1-2 min. each)  
12:15 LUNCH (1 hr. 15 min.)  
  Question #2:The subglacial condition: What new information has been learned of the subglacial condition that is relevant to West Antarctic ice dynamcs?  
1:30 Volcanoes and Ice - WAIS compared to Iceland Behrendt
1:45 Former Rock-Floored Ice Streams on the Amundsen Sea Continental Shelf Kellogg, T.
2:00 Subglacial bed conditions and glacial history in Pine Island Bay based on geomorphic and sedimentary observations from the continental shelf Lowe
2:15 Sub-Glacial Features and Conditions Derived from Seafloor Images, Ross Sea, Antarctica Shipp
2:30 Marine Geological Record of Ice Sheet - Bed Interaction During and After the Last Glacial Maximum Mosola
2:45 BREAK (20 min.)  
3:05 Direct Observations of Grounding Lines and Zones Powell
3:20 Interpretation of Water-level Oscillations in Boreholes in Ice Stream D Kamb
3:35 High resolution seismic imaging of a profile from UPC to Ridge BC Anandakrishnan
3:50 Radar-detected internal layers across Ice Stream C Conway
4:05 What's new under the ice? An update on paleontologic and geochemical analyses of sub-ice and sub-ice shelf materials Scherer
4:20 BREAK (20 min.)  
4:40 Subglacial Sediments: A Regional Geological Template for Ice Flow in West Antarctica - SLIDES Studinger
4:55 Orgin of Bottom Diffractors and a Surface Lineation on Ridge B1/B2 Clarke
5:10 Onset to ice stream D: force budget results Price
5:25 Relating rock-floored ice streams to calving ice shelves Hughes
5:40 Discussion of Question #2 (30 min.) PLENARY
6:10 Poster Viewing  
6:30 DINNER  
8:00 Calving of Large Icebergs Meeting MacAyeal/Hulbe
Friday, September 29, 2000
8:00 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST  
  Question #3: The frozen record: What new information has been extracted from the Siple Dome core, the US-ITASE program or surveys of internal layers that is relevant to history of the West Antarctic ice sheet?  
9:00 Microfossils in sediments from beneath Siple Ice Dome Burckle
9:15 Stable Isotopes of Ice at Siple Dome White
9:30 The Holocene in West Antarctica Steig
9:45 Clues to changing WAIS Holocene summer temperatures from variations in melt-layer frequency in the Siple Dome ice core Das
10:00 BREAK (30 min.)  
10:30 Evidence of West Antarctic changes in the Siple Dome ice core Alley
10:45 Siple Dome, Near-Surface Studies Shuman
11:00 GPS/Radar profiling of spatial variations in snow accumulation Hamilton
11:15 Discussion of Question #3 (30 min.) PLENARY
11:45 Movie of sea floor underneath former Larsen-A Ice Shelf Domack
12:00 Poster Viewing  
12:30 LUNCH (1 hr. 15 min.)  
  Question #4: The prediction effort: What progress has been made modeling the dynamics of West Antarctica and what major impediments in data or physical understanding remain?  
1:45 BEDMAP - Bed topography of the Antarctic Vaughan
2:00 Mesoscale modeling of the atmospheric circulation over Antarctica Bromwich
2:15 When do ice shelves matter to ice streams? Dupont
2:30 Ice streams go or don't Whillans
2:45 West Antarctic ice sheet: Are we afraid of the right thing? Tulaczyk
3:00 BREAK (30 min.)  
3:30 A Computationally Efficient Bedrock Isostacy Model: Extension to visco-elastic and non-linear material properties Fastook
3:45 The Trouble With Temperature Hulbe
4:00 Marine ice-sheet dynamics with a dynamically consistent coupled ice/earth model Hindmarsh
4:15 Changes in Ice Stream Elevations Using Laser Altimetry Spikes
4:30 Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Constraints on WAIS History Peltier
4:45 Discussion of Question #4 (30 min.) PLENARY
5:15 Poster Viewing  
6:00 DINNER  
7:15 Trip to Cornfield Maze Palais
Saturday, September 30, 2000
8:30 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST  
9:00 Outreach Activities  
9:30 Guest Feedback  
10:30 Report on US/UK Science Plan Meeting Anandakrishnan
10:50 Report on North Victoria Land Meeting Berkman
11:10 WAIS Program Strategy Bindschadler
12:00 Adjorn  
Posters  
Effects of Snow & Firn Ventilation on Sublimation Rates Albert
Ice Core Data Management at the Antarctic Glaciological Data Center Bauer
Holocene Instability of the George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula
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A preliminary relative sea level curve for the Marguerite Bay region, Antarctic Peninsula
Bentley
Antarctic Treaty Searchable Database - 1959-1999 Berkman
Landsat-7 imagery of Antarctica Bindschadler
Latest Results on ENSO signal in West Antarctica Bromwich
Direct measurement of ice-shelf bottom melting rates by phase sensitive radar Corr
The case for a large meltwater contribution from Greenland during the last interglacial Cuffey
Swath mapping imagery from the Antarctic Peninsula:Fjord to ice Steam Transitions (scours and bundles) Domack
Use of RADARSAT InSAR data. for ice motion mapping upstream of the Crary Ice Rise. Gray
Bedrock and Internal Stratigraphy along the ITASE-1 Traverse Jacobel
A sub-glacial water model: Preliminary results Johnson
Velocities of West Antarctic Ice Streams Joughin
Diatoms in the South Pole Water Well Kellogg, D.
Digital glacio-geological database of Antarctica for ice sheet modelling at the British Antarctic Survey Kluiving
Monitoring The Weddell Sea Icebergs: A-38 and A-43/A-44 - POSTER.JPEG Lazzara
Ross Sea Glacial History And Its Relationship To Global Sea Level Licht
Ross Sea Iceberg Furrows: Morphology and Patterns of Distribution Meyer
Site characterization for a new deep ice core in interior West Antarctica Morse
An Ocean Tidal Inverse Model for the Antarctic Ice Shelves and Seas Padman
Ice Flow and Flux changes in Ice Stream D and the Institute Ice Stream, Antarctica, determined by satellite images Raup
Enhancing the West Antarctic AWS Record With Artificial NeuralNetworks: Early Results Reusch
Pine Island Glacier: a brief review of historical data Rignot
Pine Island and Thwaites Glacier Velocities and Acceleration: Comparing Landsat and ERS SAR Data Rosanova
Modelisation of Pine Island Glacier ice flow Schmeltz
Annual snow temperatures at Siple Dome - POSTER JPEG Stearns, C.
RADARSAT Imagery of Pine Island and Thwaites Glacier Stearns, L.
Late Holocene deglaciation of Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica Stone
Geophysical Constraints on the Tectonic Structure of Central West Antarctica - POSTER JPEG Studinger
A Method of Combining ICESAT and GRACE Satellite Data to Constrain Antarctic Mass Balance Wahr
GPS measurements of crustal motion in Southern Victoria Land Willis
Risk estimation of collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet - Results of contracted work for the UK Department of Transport Vaughan
Tectonic evolution of Marie Byrd Land,West Antarctica: Disassembly of the Mesozoic margin and Cenozoic activity related to the West Antarctic Rift System EXTENDED ABSTRACT Siddoway

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By Robert Bindschadler