Tenth Annual WAIS Workshop

AGENDA


Wednesday, September 17, 2003
2:00 to 6:00 Registration Floyd
7:00 Pizza, beer and snacks (cottage #1) Bindschadler
Thursday September 20, 2003
8:00 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST  
8:00 Registration Floyd
8:30 Welcome and Agenda Review Bindschadler
8:45 NSF Remarks Palais/Borg
  Question #3."In Days of Old..." - What happened, where and when between the LGM and present? Overviews of time and space slices in the ice, ocean and atmosphere (beyond the ITASE horizon of 200-500 years) are invited. The aim is to reach a consensus view and to identify where major knowledge gaps exist.  
9:15 Pliocene-Pleistocene Glacial History of Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica From Cosmogenic Nuclide Measurements on Bedrock [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Cowdery

9:30

West Antarctic Ice Sheet paleo-elevations at Mt Waesche prior to the Last Glacial Maximum [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Ackert
9:45 Evidence for evacuation of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet before the LGM in the eastern Ross Sea [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Mosola

10:00

Ice Sheet Extent, Paleo-Ice Streams and Glacial Retreat History of Antarctic Peninsula during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Heroy
10:15 BREAK (30 min.)  

10:45

Provenance of Ross Sea till and implications for LGM ice flow paths [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Licht

11:00

Holocene Deglaciation of Terra Nova Bay [Abstract] Hall

11:15

Deglaciation of the Weddell Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Todd
11:30 Poster Introductions (1-2 min. each)  

12:00

Poster Viewing (30 min.)  
12:30 LUNCH (1 hr. 15 min.)  
  Question #1."The message within" - The investment in the Siple Dome ice core analysis has returned compounded dividends. Just how old is the bottom ice and what signatures of paleodynamics are implied by analysis of the core?  
1:45 Volcanic ash record in the Siple Dome Ice Core [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Dunbar
2:00 The Ice Isotope Record from Siple Dome, Antarctica [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Schilla
2:15 Bipolar Synchroneity and Latitudinal Timing of Holocene Climate Change [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Meyerson
2:30 Holocene Climate in West Antarctica from the Siple Dome Ice Core Melt-Layer Record [Abstract] Das
2:45 BREAK (30 min.)

3:15

Age of the Ice at the Base of Siple Dome [Powerpoint] Suwa
  Return to Question #3."In Days of Old..."  

3:30

Climate and thickness history near the divide between the Ross and Amundsen Seas [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Conway

3:45

Bedrock and Internal Ice Stratigraphy Along the 2002 US-ITASE Traverse: Byrd Camp to South Pole[Abstract or .pdf] [Powerpoint] Welch
4:00 Discussion of Questions #1 & #3 (45 min.) PLENARY

4:45

International Polar Year (Vision and International Planning)[Abstract] [Powerpoint] Bindschadler

5:00

International Polar Year (US Planning) [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Albert

5:15

Other Reports
5:30 Poster Viewing  
6:00 DINNER  
Friday, September 19, 2003
8:00 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST  
Question #2. "Over the horizon" - How has the climate and atmospheric chemistry changed over WAIS during the past 200-500 years and how did the ice sheet respond?

 8:30

Characteristics of isotopic records in ITASE cores [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Schneider

 8:45

What can we learn from sub-annually resolved West Antarctic ice core sulfate? [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Dixon

 9:00

Reconstruction of Antarctic climate through the Holocene and beyond: methodology, and implications for deep ice core site selection [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Steig

 9:15

Nonlinear Paleoclimatology: Reconstructions in West Antarctica [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Reusch
9:30 Decadal Variability in the ENSO Impact on West Antarctica [Abstract] Bromwich
9:45 Observed variability in Antarctic accumulation rates and implications for mass balance calculations [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Hamilton
10:00 BREAK (30 min.)  

 10:30

Climate Variability in West Antarctica Derived from Annual Accumulation Rate Records from ITASE Firn/Ice Cores [Abstract] Kaspari
10:45 Processes of Memory Loss in Antarctic Firn [Abstract] Albert

11:00

Low Accumulation + Cold = Extreme Firn Metamorphism [Abstract] Courville
11:15 Erosion of Amundsen Sea ice shelves [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Shepherd
11:30 Results of the 2002 CECS/NASA airborne survey of the Amundsen Sea Glaciers in West Antarctica [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Rignot

11:45

Discussion of Question #2 (30 min.)
12:15 Poster Viewing  
12:30 LUNCH (1 hr. 15 min.)  
Question #5. "Wild Child" - Ice stream dynamics continue to amaze glaciologists. What's new in this area?

1:45

Subglacial landforms and physical properties beneath the onset region of Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica [Abstract] [Powerpoint] King
2:00 Basal accretion ice as a recorder of changes in water availability beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet [Abstract] [Powerpoint and movie] Christoffersen
2:15 Flat ice terrain near the mouth of Kamb Ice Stream [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Catania
2:30 Damage rheology applied to ice stream margin dynamics [Abstract] [PDF] Luthi

2:45

Dilatant till beneath ice stream D [Abstract] [PDF] Anandakrishnan

3:00

BREAK (30 min.)  
3:30 Basal Shear Stress of the Ross Ice Streams from Control Method Inversions [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Joughin
3:45 Time dependent ice flow in West Antarctica [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Harrison
4:00 An explanation for the stick-slip motion of Whillans Ice Stream [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Bindschadler
4:15 Discussion of Question #5 (30 min.) PLENARY
4:45 Ten Years of WAIS Accomplishments Bindschadler

5:30

Poster Viewing
6:00 DINNER  
Saturday, September 20, 2003
8:00 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST  
Question #4. "What would it take?" - A modeler's playground, but others can play, too. Scenarios that would cause significant change in West Antarctica.
8:30 "What would it take?" requires "How would we know?" - Meditations on identifying past WAIS collapse [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Scherer 
8:45 Ten years of development on UMISM: application to advance and retreat of the Siple Coast Region [Abstract] [Powerpoint + movie] Fastook 
9:00 Tooth fairies visit the loose tooth: Results from fieldwork on the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Bassis
9:15 The Impact of Dynamic Till Erosion on Ice Stream Dynamics [Abstract] [PDF] Johnson

9:30

Meltwater feedbacks and acceleration of sea-level rise; likely in Greenland, possible in WAIS? [Abstract] [PDF] Parizek

9:45

BREAK (30 min.)  
10:15 Ice streams and outburst flooding [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Alley

10:30

Conditions for reversal of ice-stream surface slope [Abstract] [PDF] Dupont

10:45

Sensitivity of Ocean Circulation to the Disintegration of West Antarctic Ice Shelves and Ice Sheet [Abstract] [Powerpoint] Tulaczyk

11:00

Discussion of Question #4 (30 min.)

11:30

WAIS Program: Activities, Actions and Needs
12:00 Adjorn  
Posters  
Geological Controls on Ice Stream Dynamics and the History of West Antarctic Ice Streams: Results from Ten Years of WAIS Marine Geological Research Anderson
The Antarctic Master Directory -- a resource for Antarctic Scientists Bauer
Aeromagnetic Anomalies over Ice Stream D-Siple Ice Stream area Indicate very Shallow Volcanic Sources Downstream of the Grounding Line Behrendt
Antarctic Glaciological Data at NSIDC: field data, temperature, and ice velocity Bohlander
Hydraulic geometry of the Rutford Ice Stream reservoir Corr
Polar Radar for Ice Sheet Measurements -- PRISM Gogineni
The zooplankton distribution under the iceberg in 2001 Han
Marine ice modification of fringing ice shelf flow Hulbe
Hercules Dome-An Overview from the US-ITASE Deep Radar [pdf] Jacobel
Drumlin-like bedforms and dilatant till beneath the onset region of Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica King
Snow Microstructure and Permeability in the Near-Surface Firn Core Near a Potential Deep Drilling site in West Antarctica Leeman
A comparison of particle size distributions in Ross Embayment tills Licht
A 3-D Thermomechanical Ice Sheet Model: Preliminary tests with the Goldsby-Kohlstedt Flow Law Lingle
Vertical gradient of radar echo strength from within ice: spatial variation and polarization dependence Matsuoka
Siple Dome Chemistry and Radar Internal Reflections - A Possible Association Meyerson
The reconstruction of sea-level changes and melting history of the Antarctic ice during the Late Quaternary Miura
An Airborne Geophysical Survey of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica Morse
Tidal Control of Ice Shelf Basal Melt Rates Padman
Imaging Subglacial Sediments in the Onset Regions of the Ross Ice Streams: Inferences on how Subglacial Geology Affects Ice Stream Initiation and Flow Peters
A new thermo-mechanical flowline model using the method of control volumes [pdf link] Price
Glaciomarine sedimentation on the continental slope offshore Larsen-A, Antarctic Peninsula Pudsey
Progressive thinning of the Larsen Ice Shelf [Abstract] [PDF-paper in press, please see author] Shepherd
West Antarctic Elevation Profiles from ICESat [Abstract] [PDF] Shuman
Can we extract information from Antarctic marine diamictons that is useful in interpreting past ice-stream and ice-sheet activity in the Ross Sea? Sjunneskog
Aerogeophysical survey over the drainage basin of Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica Smith, A.
Surface features related to ice stream margins revealed by ICESAT/GLAS Smith, B.
On modelling grounding line migration Vieli
Making Sense of the Whillans Ice Plain Data Vornberger
Antarctic crustal structure and sedimentary basin characteristics from receiver function analysis Winberry
Temporal Co-Variation of Surface and Microwave Brightness Temperatures in Antarctica, with Implications for the Observation of Surface Temperature Variability Using Satellite Data Winebrenner

Last Updated on 9/17/03
By Robert Bindschadler