Eighth Annual WAIS Workshop

AGENDA


Tuesday, September 18, 2001
2:00 to 6:00 Registration Floyd
7:00 Pizza, beer and snacks (cottage #1) Bindschadler
Wednesday, September 19, 2001
9:00 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST  
10:00 to 5:00 Planning Meeting: US/UK Research in Pine Island Region Anandakrishnan
6:00 DINNER  
Thursday September 20, 2001
8:00 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST  
8:00 Registration Floyd
8:30 Welcome and Agenda Review Bindschadler
8:45 NSF Remarks Palais/Borg
  Question #1: What is going on in the Pine Island/Thwaites Glaciers sector?  
9:00 InSAR studies of Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers: A review of changes and possible causes Rignot
9:15 A model study on Pine Island Glacier, and hypothesis on observed changes Schmeltz
9:30 History of Pine Island Glacier with Landsat Imagery Bindschadler
9:45 Pine Island Bay and the Bottleneck Hughes

10:00

Preliminary simulation of Pine Island Glacier using a general first-order model Payne
10:15 BREAK (30 min.)  
10:30 Discussion of Question #1 (30 min.) PLENARY
11:00 Poster Introductions (1-2 min. each)  

11:45

Poster Viewing (30 min.)  
12:15 LUNCH (1 hr. 15 min.)  
  Question #2:What is the Siple Dome ice core telling us about the last few thousand years in West Antarctica?  
1:30 Siple Dome: Rapid Climate Changes or Accumulation Hiatuses? Taylor
1:45 Variations in Siple Dome Holocene summer temperatures from melt-layer stratigraphy Das
2:00 Holocene Atmospheric Circulation Variability as Recorded in the Siple Dome A-Core Major Ion Chemistry Series Meyerson
2:15 Late Holocene deglaciation of Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica Stone
2:30 Meltwater Input to the Southern Ocean; Evidence of West Antarctic ice sheet drawdown? Burckle
2:45 Discussion of Question #2 (30 min.) PLENARY
3:15 BREAK (30 min.)
  Question #3:What is US ITASE telling us about the last few hundred years in West Antarctica?  
3:45 Spatial and temporal variability of modern Antarctic precipitation Bromwich
4:00 Mass balance, accumulation rates and topography along US ITASE sites Hamilton
4:15 Isochronal Horizons in Firn Revealed by High Resolution Radar Profiling Spikes
4:30 Spatial patterns of climate in Antarctica from satellite data: towards reconstruction of past climate variability from ITASE ice core data Schneider
4:45 Discussion of Question #2 (30 min.) PLENARY
5:15 Poster Viewing  
6:15 DINNER  
7:30 Trip to Cornfield Maze Palais
Friday, September 21, 2001
8:00 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST  
  Question #4: What do we now know about ice streams starting and stopping? (Observations)  
9:00 The Footprint of the Expanded West Antarctic Ice Sheet: Ice Stream History and Behavior Anderson
9:15 Sedimentary and Geophysical Observations fo the Eastern Ross Sea, Antarctica: Implications for Ice Stream Behavior Mosola

9:30

Comparision of basal conditions beneath ice streams glaciers Vaughan
9:45 GPR and RES records of disturbed internal layers on Ridge BC Catania
10:00 Paleo-Ice Stream C0 Conway
10:15 BREAK (30 min.)  
10:45 The Last Thousand Years of Ice Stream Flow in the Siple Coast Scambos
11:00 Variations in flow speed on ice stream B: observation and analysis Joughin
11:15 Velocity Oscillations in Simulations of the Pine Island Glacier Johnson

11:30

The Basal Ice of Ice Stream C Engelhardt
11:45 Poster Viewing  
12:15 LUNCH (1 hr. 15 min.)  
  Question #4: What do we now know about ice streams starting and stopping? (Inference)  

1:30

Ice streams are (almost) forever, because they are all wet Alley
1:45 Thick debris-bearing basal ice layer beneath Ice Stream C, West Antarctica: Are ice stream tributaries a source or a sink of water? Vogel
2:00 Lakes under Antarctica Fastook
2:15 High Geothermal Heat Flow, Basal Melt, and the Origin of Rapid Ice Flow in Central Greenland Fahnestock

2:30

BREAK (30 min.)  
3:00 The search for subglacial water at ice-stream onsets: A model for dielectric absorption at radar sounding frequencies Blankenship
3:15 Cumulative melt beneath the ice-stream catchments: A source of long-term stability for the Siple Coast ice streams? Parizek
3:30 Ice stream width as a primary control on stable and unstable ice stream behavior: results from a numerical ice stream model with time-dependent width Bougamont
3:45 The Recent Pattern of Gould and Siple Coast Ice Stream Discharge and Implications for The Rate of Ross Grounding Line Retreat Hulbe
4:00 Discussion of Question #4 (30 min.) PLENARY
4:30 Funding Opportunities Bindschadler
5:15 Poster Viewing  
6:00 DINNER  
Saturday, September 22, 2001
8:30 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST  
9:00 Outreach Activities  
9:30 Guest Feedback  
10:30 Report on US/UK Science Plan Meeting Anandakrishnan
10:45 Report on North Victoria Land Meeting Berkman

11:00

Funding Opportunities (con't) Bindschadler
11:30 WAIS Program Strategy Bindschadler
12:00 Adjorn  
Posters  
The flow of the ice plain of ice stream D is modulated by the tide Anandakrishnan
Optimal estimation of ice sheet mass balance --
(click here for poster)
Arthern
Unsteady flow inferred for Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica Bamber
Bacteria, diatoms, filamentous algae, fungus, nematodes (?), Tardigrades (?) and incertae sedis from the "marsh ice" just above Lake Vostok Burckle
West Antarctic Ice Stream Till Eroded from the Trans-Antarctic Mountains: Geochemical Evidence from a Decade of Drill Cores Carter
Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf tides from ERS-1 radar Fricker
Relative Sea-Level Changes in the Western Ross Sea Embayment: Part 2, the Northern Scott Coast Gardner
Siple Dome mass balance and accumulation rate Hamilton
Relative Sea-Level Changes in the Western Ross Sea Embayment: Part 1, the Southern Scott Coast Hall
Optimal fitting of radar-detected isochronic layers to models of tracer transport in ice sheets Hindmarsh
Internal Stratigraphy and Bedrock Topography of the 1999-2000 US-ITASE Routes Jacobel
New Ideas On Calving Processes And Rates Kenneally
Preliminary till provenance data for the Ross Embayment Licht
An airborne radar experiment to detect possible migration of the Ross/Amundsen Morse
Past and Present velocities of Pine Island Glacier from Landsat images Rosanova
Snow Pits in West Antarctica Shuman
First results from the Rutford Ice Stream onset region Smith
Results of Laser Altimetry over Ice Streams B1, B2, and C Spikes
The Greenland Crest as a Test Laboratory for Iceshield-Air Interaction Processes Stearns, C.
Siple Dome Snow Temperatures, 1999-2001 Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf tides from ERS-1 radar Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf tides from ERS-1 radar Stearns, C.
Force Budget Estimate for Ice Stream B, West Antarctica Stearns, L.
Marginal dynamics at Ice Stream B Truffer
How Thick was Siple Dome in the Holocene and at LGM? Waddington
RADARSAT-1 Backscatter Variations on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Wuite

Last Updated on 9/7/01
By Robert Bindschadler