2011 WAIS Workshop Agenda

Tuesday, September 20

Time Topic Speaker
4:00 WAIS Steering Group Meeting  
6:30 Dinner (pizza party)  

Wednesday, September 21

Wednesday, September 21

Time

Topic

Speaker

7:15 to 8:30

Breakfast

 

7:30

Registration

 

8:45

Welcome

Ted Scambos

Session 1

Quadrophenia: Multi-discipline system science in WAIS
(PIG, LARISSA, WISSARD, Ice2Sea
)

9:00

Sensitivity studies of ice flow acceleration in response to increased ice shelf melting in the region of Pine Island Glacier
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Eric Larour

9:15

Bedforms and melt beneath Pine Island Glacier, results from the 2011
ground radar survey
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Ed King

9:30

Balancing the water budget of the Whillans Ice Plain: Implications for the nature of the subglacial hydrologic system
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Sasha Carter

9:45

LARISSA: Using integrated system science to understand the impact of climate change on an ice shelf system
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Scott Ishman

10:00

LARISSA Glaciology – The Bruce Plateau Ice Cap: Ice Dynamics across the Antarctic Peninsula
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Erin Pettit

10:15

LARISSA Glaciology: Ongoing studies of borehole-derived surface temperature history, and continuing AMIGOS results and plans
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Ted Scambos

10:30

Panel and open discussion

 

10:45

Break

 

Session 2

Both Sides Now: Modern Climate and WAIS

11:00

The Atmospheric Control Knobs of WAIS Climate
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Ryan Fogt, keynote speaker

11:30

Antarctic sea ice variability and the West Antarctic ice sheet
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Marilyn Raphael, invited speaker

11:45

Modeling the surface mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet using RACMO2: recent progress and remaining uncertainties
[Abstract]

Michiel van den Broeke

12:00

Temperature changes in West Antarctica since the IGY: Perspective from the reconstructed Byrd record
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Julien Nicolas

12:15

Using In-situ Firn Temperatures to Track Melt Water Retention and Firn Densification in Greenland’s Accumulation Area
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Neil Humphrey

12:30

Lunch (90 min) and poster set-up

 

Session 3

Back in Time: Climate, Ice Cores and WAIS

2:00

Tropical forcing of Circumpolar Deep Water inflow and outlet glacier thinning in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, and its relationship to “global warming”
[Abstract]

Eric Steig

2:15

Is West Antarctica running a tropical fever?
[Abstract] [Presentation]

David Schneider

2:30

Interdecadal Climate Variability over Antarctica and Linkages to the Tropics: Analysis of Ice Core, Instrumental, and Tropical Proxy Data for the 19-20th Centuries
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Yuko Okumura

2:45

West Antarctic Ice Sheet temporal and spatial accumulation variability
from five new snowpits and firn cores
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Landon Burgener

3:00

Histories of ice dynamics and climate inferred from ice cores and
radar-detected layers
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Howard Conway, invited speaker

3:15

Panel and open discussion

 

Poster Session

Signs

3:30

Poster session introductions

 

 

Break (15 min)

 

3:30 to 5:30

Poster session (2 hrs) [Abstracts]

Allard, Bauer, Bridgers, Das, Fudge, Fyke, Horgan, Koffman, Larour, Leonard, Lloyd, MacAyeal, Martin, McGrath, Morin, Moussavi, Muto, Porter, Siegfried, Spector, Urasky, Walter, Williams, Zoet

5:30

Free time

 

7:00

Dinner

 

Thursday, September 22

Time Topic Speaker

7:15 to 8:30

Breakfast

 

8:30

Day Two beginnings

Ted Scambos

Session 4

Space Oddity: New Results from Satellite and Airborne Measurements, Satellites

8:45

Initial Assessment of CryoSat-2 Performance
[Abstract]

Andrew Shepherd, keynote speaker

9:15

Antarctic Ice Velocity Mapped from Space: A Game Changing New Product
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Bernd Scheuchl

9:30

Mass Balance of the West Antarctic Ice-Sheet from ICESat Measurements
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Jay Zwally

9:45

Ongoing Changes in Glacier Elevation and Mass, Larsen A and B Embayments, Antarctic Peninsula
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Christopher Shuman

10:00

Viewing a PIG Under a Spaceborne Microscope
[Abstract]

Robert Bindschadler

10:15

Integrating and Combining Ice Sheet Mass Balance Estimates through GRACE and ICESat datasets
[Abstract] [Presentation]

MacFerrin/Colgan

10:30

Panel and open discussion

 

10:45

Break

 

Session 5

Fly Like an Eagle: New Results from Satellite and Airborne Measurements, Airborne

11:00

Under the Antarctic ice: New data in the East, new approaches in the West
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Duncan Young, invited speaker

11:30

Subglacial Rivers and Thermal Structure in Dome A, East Antarctica
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Michael Wolovick

11:45

Basal topography of the Institute and Möller ice streams, West Antarctica: assessing the risk of grounding-line retreat
[Abstract]

Neil Ross

12:00

NASA’s Operation IceBridge: using instrumented aircraft to bridge the observational gap between ICESat and ICESat-2 laser altimeter measurements
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Michael Studinger

12:15

Panel

 

12:30

Lunch (90 min)

 

2:00

“In The Year 2525”
Future of WAIS Science and WAIS Workshop (open discussion)

 

Session 6

The Logical Song: Hi Tech: Radar, Seismic, and Cosmogenic Results

2:30

Radar Results from the Geophysics Site Characterization of
Subglacial Lake Whillans, West Antarctica
[Abstract]

Robert Jacobel

2:45

Dynamics of Subglacial Lake Whillans from WISSARD Radar, Seismic and GPS Surveys and Satellite Laser Altimetry
[Abstract]

Knut Christiansen

3:00

The Micro Subglacial Lake Exploration Device (MSLED)
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Alberto Behar

3:15

Seismic Analysis of the Subglacial Environment of Thwaites lacier, West Antarctica
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Leo Peters

3:30

Rapid early- to mid-Holocene thinning of Pine Island Glacier detected using cosmogenic exposure dating
[Abstract]

Joanne Johnson

3:45

Geophysical evidence of Ice-Magma interactions beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the West Antarctic Rift System
[Abstract] [Presentation]

John Behrendt

4:00

Panel

 

4:15

Free time

 

7:00

Dinner – BBQ

 

Friday, September 23

Time

Topic

Speaker

7:15 to 8:30 am

Breakfast

 

8:45am

Welcome

Ted Scambos

Session 7

New Ideas in Ice Dynamics: Pushing the Boundaries - Honoring Barclay Kamb and Keith Echelmeyer

9:00

Emergence of tidewater and ice shelf calving dynamics using a granular model of ice
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Jeremy Bassis

9:15

Variability in the mass flux of the Ross Sea ice streams, Antarctica, over the last millennium
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Ginny Catania, invited speaker

9:30

Englacial Seismic Reflectivity – Imaging Crystal Orientation Fabric in West Antarctica
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Huw Horgan

9:45

Spatial variations in ice-crystal alignments deduced from englacial radar polarimetry, central West Antarctica
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Kenichi Matsuoka

10:00

Sea ice and West Antarctic ice-shelf stability
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Kelly Brunt

10:15

Flow variability and propagation behavior in the Ross Ice Shelf
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Christine LeDoux

10:30

Panel

 

10:45

Break

 

Session 8

Somebody to Love: Ice Sheet and WAIS System Models

11:00

Bumpy beds, what to do about them
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Olga Sergienko, invited speaker

11:15

Using radar layers to infer migration of WAIS Divide
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Michelle Koutnik

11:30

Control of the width of West Antarctic ice streams by internal melting in the ice sheet near the margins
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Thibaut Perol

11:45

A viscoelastic flowline model applied to tidal forcing of Bindschadler Ice Stream, Antarctica
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Ryan Walker

12:00

Basal Crevasses on the Larsen C ice shelf: Implications for ice shelf stability
[Abstract] [Presentation]

Dan McGrath

12:15

Panel

 

12:30

Lunch /closing remarks

 

2:00

Adjourn

 

Poster Session (Wednesday, September 21)

 

Topic

Lead Author

 

History of the Ross Sea ice sheet based on glacial and lake records from Marshall Valley, Antarctica
[Abstract]

Stephanie Allard

 

Long-term Glacial History of the Southern Ross Sea Embayment
[Abstract]

Ann Bauer

 

Temporal Reduction of the ECSU Ice Shelf in Pine Island Bay Antarctica: 1972 - 2003
[Abstract]

Ya'Shonti Bridgers

 

Surface Morphology Variations over Dome A due to Ice Sheet Bed-Surface-Atmosphere Interaction
[Abstract]

Indrani Das

 

Annual Layers and Irregular Stratigraphy: Electrical Measurements of the WAIS Divide Ice Core
[Abstract]

T.J. Fudge

 

How might the ocean react to loss of the WAIS?
[Abstract]

Jeremy Fyke

 

Subglacial Lake Whillans: A Shallow Active Reservoir Beneath a West Antarctic Ice Stream
[Abstract]

Huw Horgan

 

New radiocarbon dates from glacial deposits in Miers Valley constrain the past behavior of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
[Abstract]

Tobias Koffman

 

JPL/UCI Symposium on ISSM (Ice Sheet System Model) Public domain release
[Abstract]

Eric Larour

 

Snowfall, Redistribution, and Accumulation over Antarctic Sea Ice
[Abstract]

Katherine Leonard

 

Upper Mantle Structure Beneath the Whitmore Mountains, West Antarctic Rift System, and Marie Byrd Land from Body-Wave Tomography
[Abstract]

Andrew Lloyd

 

Viscous buckling on the grounding line
[Abstract]

Douglas MacAyeal

 

The SeaRISE-Antarctica Experiments with PISM
[Abstract]

Maria Martin

 

Basal Crevasses on the Larsen C ice shelf: Implications for ice shelf stability
[Abstract]

Daniel McGrath

 

The State of Sub-meter Commercial Satellite Imagery for the Antarctic, the Arctic and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
[Abstract]

Paul Morin

 

Characterizing ICESat-2's response to snow and ice surfaces; theory and experiment
[Abstract]

Mahsa Sadat Moussavi

 

Subglacial bathymetry beneath the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf from airborne gravity, constrained by autonomous underwater vehicle data
[Abstract]

Atsuhiro Muto

 

Using High-Resolution Commercial Satellite Imagery to Advance West Antarctic Ice Sheet Research Goals
[Abstract]

Claire Porter

 

Continuing the Whillans Ice Stream subglacial lake record with GPS
[Abstract]

Matthew Siegfried

 

Glacial-Interglacial History of the Transantarctic Mountains and the Southern Ross Sea Embayment
[Abstract]

Perry Spector

 

Hosting a PolarTREC Teacher: A Method to Facilitate Antarctic Outreach and Dissemination of Research
[Abstract]

Lesley Urasky

 

Starting and stopping basal sliding on ice streams: New insights from Whillans Ice Plain, West Antarctica
[Abstract]

Jacob Walter

 

Spatial and temporal isotopic patterns across the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide from five new snowpits and firn cores
[Abstract]

Jessica Williams

 

Repeating Ruptures at David Glacier Modified by Tidal Influences
[Abstract]

Lucas Zoet