Ninth Annual WAIS Workshop

AGENDA


Wednesday, September 18, 2002
2:00 to 6:00 Registration Floyd
7:00 Pizza, beer and snacks (cottage #1) Bindschadler
Thursday September 19, 2001
8:00 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST  
8:00 Registration Floyd
8:30 Welcome and Agenda Review Bindschadler
8:45 NSF Remarks Palais/Borg
  Question #1. Road Trip: What contributions are USITASE results making to the WAIS goals of sea-level rise assessment and climate history?  

9:00

Using high-precision kinematic GPS profiling to assess the performance of a satellite-altimeter derived Antarctic DEM with emphasis on derived surface slopes, ice thickness, driving stresses, and mass balance Spikes
9:15 Preliminary Interpretation of Deep-Penetrating Radar Data from US-ITASE 2001 Traverse Welch
9:30 Ice Core Characteristics from the U.S.ITASE 1999 and 2000 West Antarctic Traverses Dixon
9:45 The 1996-1999 ENSO Signal over West Antarctica as Simulated by Polar MM5 Bromwich

10:00

High Resolution Radar Stratigraphy of Firn in West Antarctica Arcone
Question #2. Invest a NICL: What are ice cores telling us about West Antarctica's past behavior and recent climate?

10:15

Composite Ice Sheet Temperature Record from In Situ and Satellite Data Sets, Siple Dome, West Antarctica Shuman
10:30 BREAK (30 min.)  

11:00

Discussion of Questions #1 & #2 (30 min.) PLENARY
11:30 Poster Introductions (1-2 min. each)  

12:00

Poster Viewing (30 min.)  
12:30 LUNCH (1 hr. 15 min.)  
  Question #3. At arm's length: Is a coherent picture emerging of grounded and floating ice behavior in the Amundsen Sea Embayment sector?  
1:45 Melting and Freshening in the Amundsen and Ross Seas Jacobs
2:00 Characteristics and Change in Ice Flow Dynamics of Pine Island Glacier Rignot
2:15 Inland Thinning of the Amundsen Sea sector, West Antarctica Shepherd
2:30 Using an ice-flow model to constrain the cause of the observed thinning of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica Payne
2:45 Discussion of Question #3 (30 min.) PLENARY
3:15 BREAK (30 min.)
  Question #3. There goes the neighborhood: How are recent calving events and ice-shelf disintegrations related to the West Antarctic ice sheet's future?  

3:45

Understanding the Depositional Record of Ice Shelf Collapse: Observations from the Larsen-B Ice Shelf Domack

4:00

Climate Induced Ice Shelf Disintegration in Antarctica Scambos
4:15 Basal Melt Beneath the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf Joughin

4:30

Drift of B15A and other giant icebergs of the Ross Sea MacAyeal

4:45

An airborne radioglaciological survey of iceberg B15a on November 23, 2001 Blankenship
5:00 Discussion of Question #2 (30 min.) PLENARY
5:30 Poster Viewing  
6:00 DINNER  
Friday, September 20, 2001
8:00 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST  

 9:00

Invited Talk: Rapid Sea-Level Rise at 7.8 ka in Chesapeake Bay and Antarctic Ice Sheet Thinning Cronin
Question #5. Hello down there: How is the subglacial environment affecting West Antarctic ice dynamics ?  

 9:15

Shallow Source Aeromagnetic Anomalies Observed over the WAIS inferred to have Volcanic Origin at the Base of the Ice Compared with Coincident Bedrock Topography - Influence(?) on WAIS Behavior Behrendt
9:30 Rough bed topography across Ridge AB Conway
9:45 Using RADARSAT data to improve our ability to visualize the WAIS bed environment and topography Gray

10:00

Response of subglacial sediments to basal freeze-on: ice segregation and dewatering Christofferson
10:15 BREAK (30 min.)  
10:45 Ice streams have wet feet--the importance of a through-going water system Alley

11:00

Application of a Hydrologic Runoff Model to WAIS Johnson
11:15 Subglacial hydrology inferred from analyses of subglacial water and basal ice from the UpC Sticky Spot Vogel
11:30 Flow velocity of ice stream D is strongly modulated by the ocean tide Anandakrishnan

11:45

Tidally driven stick-slip motion in the mouth of Whillans Ice Stream Bindschadler
12:00 Poster Viewing  
12:30 LUNCH (1 hr. 15 min.)  

1:45

Short-term velocity variations on Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica from co-incident GPS and passive seismic observations Smith
2:00 Tidal Currents under the Ross Ice Shelf Padman
2:15 West Antarctic ice stream discharge variability: mechanism, controls, and patterns of grounding line retreat Hulbe
2:30 Ice thickness, isostasy, and sea-level: A numerical study of the Siple Coast grounding line Parizek

2:45

BREAK (30 min.)  
3:15 Duckfoot and Goosefoot: What happened at the lower end of Ice Stream C? Catania
3:30 An Embedded Ice Sheet Model: Application to Amundsen Sector Fastook
3:45 The Life Cycle of Pleistocene Glaciations Stearns, C.
4:00 Discussion of Question #5 (45 min.) PLENARY
5:00 Poster Viewing and Media Event Bindschadler
6:00 DINNER  
Saturday, September 21, 2001
8:30 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST  
9:30 Outreach Activities and Criterion #2  
10:00 Guest Feedback  
10:30 Status of Amundsen Sea Embayment Program Bindschadler
10:45 Planning for International Polar Year Bindschadler

11:00

Summary of Airborne Geophysics Workshop Anandakrishnan
11:15 WAIS Program, WAIS Working Group and future workshops Bindschadler
12:00 Adjorn  
Posters  
Destroying the myth of an aseismic Antarctica Anandakrishnan
High Resolution Radar Profiling of Firn Stratigraphy for Core-Site Selection Arcone
An Overview of the Polar Radar for Ice Sheet Measurements (PRISM) Project Braaten
Form and flow of a paleo-ice stream on the Antarctic Peninsula continental margin Dowdeswell
Lakes under Antarctica Fastook
What do the radiometric signatures in the RADARSAT RAMP mosaic tell us? Gray
Relative Sea-Level Change and Deglaciation of Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica Hall
Is Byrd Glacier Unstable? Hughes
Radar profiles from the onset region of Ice Stream D1, Siple Coast, West Antarctica (late) King
Processes involved in the propagation of rifts across the Ronne Ice Shelf, near Hemmen Ice Rise, Antarctica Larour
Modeling iceberg drift and application to B15A MacAyeal
Development of crystal-orientation fabrics within the Antarctic ice sheet revealed by a multi-polarization-plane/ dual-frequency radar survey Matsuoka
Late Quaternary Antarctic Ice history on the basis of relative sea-level change Miura
Airborne Geophysical Survey of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica (AGASEA) Morse
Stable sulfur isotope ratios (d34S) in a West Antarctic firn core: Assessment of sulfate source and deposition Pruett
Grounded ice flow east of the Antarctic Peninsula; ice streams or not? Pudsey
Applications of Artificial Neural Networks to West Antarctic Meteorology and Climatology Reusch
Pine Island Glacier Velocity Rignot
Isochrones or Not? A Study of Continuous Horizons in US ITASE Radar Surveys of West Antarctic Snow and Ice Spikes
An evaluation of ice shelf changes along the Amundsen Sea coast using ASTER satellite imagery Stearns, L.
Application of control methods for modelling the flow of Pine Island Glacier Vieli
More on recent changes in the Whillans ice plain Vornberger
Anisotropic ice flow leading to the onset of ice stream D, West Antarctica Wang
US ITASE Drill Site Selection Activities for the Proposed Inland WAIS Deep Core Welch
Investigation of the Glacial History of the Glacial History of the Siple Coast Using Radar-Detected Internal Layers and the Ice Core from Siple Dome Winebrenner

Last Updated on 9/6/02
By Robert Bindschadler