Time

Topic

Speaker

7:30 a - 8:30

Breakfast in dining hall, registration for late arrivals

9:15

Welcome and the Future of WAIS Workshop

Eric Steig

Session 1

Mcorrhizae: observations and modeling of the base of the ice sheet

9:40

Controls on the Geometry of Accretion Reflectors
[Abstract]

Michael Wolovick

10:00

Subglacial lakes and logical extensions thereof
[Abstract]

Sasha Carter

10:20

Ice stream stick-slip, sticky spots and rate-and-state friction
[Abstract]

Jeremy Bassis

10:40 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00

The role of subglacial drainage and basal freeze-on for ice streams
[Abstract]

Marianne Haseloff

11:15

Evidence for Ice-Flow-Coupled Subglacial Water Systems beneath West Antarctica's Potentially Unstable Thwaites Glacier
[Abstract]

Dustin Schroeder

11:30

Grounding Zone Heterogeneity of Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica
[Abstract]

Knut Christianson

11:45

The influence of stick-slip motion on the present deceleration of the Whillans Ice Stream
[Abstract]

Paul Winberry

12:00 - 1:30

Lunch

1:30

WAIS Divide Ice Core Project: How did we do?
[Abstract]

Don Voigt

1:45

High Basal Melt at the WAIS-Divide ice-core site
[Abstract]

T.J. Fudge

2:00

Subglacial volcanism beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the West Antarctic Rift System, from aeromagnetic and radar ice sounding - Thiel Subglacial Volcano as possible source of the ash layer in the WAISCORE
[Abstract]

John Behrendt

2:15

Panel and Open Discussion

2:50

Coffee Break

Session 2

Riparian Zone: what's new on and under the ice shelves

3:15

Influence of ocean circulation patterns on ocean heat transport to ice shelves
[Abstract]

Pierre St-Laurent

3:30

Ice shelves in cold and warm oceanic environments
[Abstract]

Olga Sergienko

3:45

Increased melting of Pine Island Ice Shelf: Cause or effect?
[Abstract]

Chris Little

4:00

The dynamic response of Pine Island Glacier to a calving event inferred from Elmer/Ice
[Abstract]

Olivier Gagliardini

4:15

Ice-2-O: Interactions between ice shelves, sea ice and ocean
[Abstract]

Laurence Padman

4:30

Panel and Open Discussion

5:00 - 8:00

Poster Viewing

6:00

Dinner

7:30 a - 8:30

Breakfast in dining hall

Session 2

Riparian Zone (cont.)

8:30

Intermittent rift propagation in the Amery Ice Shelf
[Abstract]

Catherine Walker

8:50

Near-continuous monitoring of Antarctic ice shelf and sub-ice shelf ocean temperatures
[Abstract]

David Holland

9:10

Potential Antarctic contributions to future sea level through the eyes of the SeaRISE Project
[Abstract]

Robert Bindschadler

9:30

Changes in Pine Island Glacier from Time Series of ICESat GLAS Data
[Abstract]

Ute Herzfeld

9:45

Panel and Open Discussion

10:00

Coffee Break

Session 3

Understory: surface mass balance and atmospheric variability

10:20

Perspective on the West Antarctic warming from the reconstructed Byrd temperature record (1957-2012)
[Abstract]

Julien Nicolas

10:40

New, High-Resolution Spatio-Temporal Accumulation Rate Measurements and Their Validation of Climate Models and Implication for the Recent Sea-Level Contribution from West Antarctica
[Abstract]

Brooke Medley

10:55

Changing Influences on the Climate of West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula during Austral Spring
[Abstract]

Kyle Clem

11:10

WAIS Divide: recent climate change in West Antarctic in the context of the last 2000 years
[Abstract]

Eric Steig

11:25

The Losers Next Door: Mass loss from Thwaites, Pope and Smith glaciers
[Abstract]

Ben Smith

11:40

Mass Balance of the northern Antarctic Peninsula from image- and ICESat-based dH/dt
[Abstract]

Ted Scambos

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch

Session 4

Canopy: results from satellites, airborne measurements, or state-of-the art models

1:30

Systematic analysis of the resolution of inversions of airborne gravity data for bathymetry beneath floating ice
[Abstract]

James Cochran

1:45

Bed topography of the Byrd Glacier trunk ­from airborne radar soundings of the ICECAP Project
[Abstract]

Jack Holt

2:00

Along-stream evolution of melt under the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, West Antarctica
[Abstract]

Pierre Dutrieux

2:15

Evolution of Antarctic Ice Sheet surface elevation and thickness changes from ICESat laser altimetry, 2003-2009
[Abstract]

Bea Csatho

2:30

Model‐Based Analysis of Ice Sheet Thinning in the Amundsen Sea Embayment
[Abstract]

Ian Joughin

2:45

Sub-meter imagery status of WAIS
[Abstract]

Paul Morin

3:00

Coffee, Panel and Open Discussion

3:30

Linkage between Grounding Line Dynamics and Geological Observations in the Weddell Sea Sector of Antarctica
[Abstract]

Kat Huybers

3:45

Insights on WAIS history from a high-resolution Eemian record collected at the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area, Antarctica
[Abstract]

Nicole Spaulding

4:00 - 4:30

Wrap-up Discussion

4:30 - 8:00

Poster Viewing

6:00

Dinner

Time

Topic

Speaker

7:30 a - 8:30

Breakfast

9:00

WAIS Committee Meeting

Topic

Lead Author

Analyzing the Sensitivity of Grounding-Line Dynamics in Response to Periodic Forcing
[Abstract]

Erkut Aykutlug

An observed negative trend in West Antarctic accumulation rates from 1975 to 2010: evidence from new observed and simulated records
[Abstract]

Landon Burgener

Late Cenozoic glacial history of Shackleton Glacier, Antarctica
[Abstract]

Elizabeth Dengler

Detailed basal topography of the floating portion of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica
[Abstract]

Pierre Dutrieux

Ice mechanics, basal water and the stagnation of Kamb Ice Stream, Antarctica
[Abstract]

Mason Fried

Glacial Geomorphology of the Pensacola Mountains, Weddell Sea Sector, Antarctica
[Abstract]

Matthew Hegland

Effects and feedbacks of the basal sliding parameter on ice and water flow beneath an ice-stream
[Abstract]

Justin Hiester

Big or little? Patterns of change on the Ross Ice Shelf
[Abstract]

Christina Hulbe

History of the Ross Sea Ice Sheet in Salmon Valley During the Last Glaciation
[Abstract]

Margaret S. Jackson

Propagation of an active rift in the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
[Abstract]

Christine LeDoux

A community model for transient thermo-mechanical evolution of firn density
[Abstract]

Jessica Lundin

Subglacial till body underneath a contemporary grounding zone
[Abstract]

Kenny Matsuoka

Gravity survey on the Ross Ice Shelf at the mouth of Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica
[Abstract]

Atsuhiro Muto

Sea-ice ocean interactions in a high-resolution global climate model
[Abstract]

Emily Newsom

Nested ice-sheet modeling of long-term variations in the Pine Island-Thwaites Glacier basins
[Abstract]

David Pollard

Automated Production of High Resolution Commercial Imagery Mosaics of Antarctica
[Abstract]

Claire C. Porter

Antarctic Data at NSIDC: Continued Data Collection, Archiving, and Distribution of Results of NSF-OPP Funded Research in Antarctic Glaciology
[Abstract]

Ted Scambos

Thermal migration of ice stream shear margins
[Abstract]

Christian Schoof

Quantifying Ice-sheet/Ice-shelf Dynamics and Variability with Meter-scale DEM and Velocity Timeseries
[Abstract]

David Shean

A comparison of grounding zone features and flexure dynamics in two geometries over a 12-hour tidal range
[Abstract]

Matthew Siegfried

Long-term glacial history of the central Transantarctic Mountains
[Abstract]

Perry Spector

Physical Properties in Thin Sections from WAIS Divide Core WDC06A; Fabric, Bubbles, Grains and More
[Abstract]

Don Voigt

Ice-shelf tidal flexure and subglacial pressure variations
[Abstract]

Ryan T. Walker

Inferring the seasonality of past precipitation from ice core impurity records
[Abstract]

Mai Winstrup

GIMBLE: Geophysical Investigations of Marie Byrd Land Evolution: a new airborne survey of the linchpin of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
[Abstract]

Duncan Young