2005 WAIS Workshop Agenda
| Wednesday, September 28, 2005 | ||
| 2:00 to 6:00 | Registration | Floyd |
| 7:00 | Pizza, beer and snacks (cottage #1) | Bindschadler |
| Thursday September 29, 2005 | ||
| 8:00 | CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST | |
| 8:00 | Registration | Floyd |
| 8:30 | Welcome and Agenda Review | Bindschadler |
| 8:45 | NSF Remarks | Palais/Borg |
| Session #1. Ice Coring | ||
| 9:15 | US ITASE Phase 2 Taylor Dome - South Pole Update and Opportunities [PPT] | Mayewski |
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9:30
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Signals of climate change and the Southern Annular Mode in Antarctic stable isotope records [Abstract] [PPT] | Schneider |
| 9:45 | A new Deep Ice Sheet Coring (DISC) drill for coring to the bed at the WAIS Divide site [Abstract] [PPT] | Bentley |
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10:00
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ASEP-Coring [Abstract] [PPT] | Alley |
| 10:30 | BREAK (30 min.) | |
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11:00
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In Cold Pursuit: the Devious Designs of NSF Grantee W-218-M [Abstract] [PPT] | Andrews |
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11:15
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Poster Introductions (1-2 min. each) | |
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12:00
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Poster Viewing (30 min.) | |
| 12:30 | LUNCH (1 hr. 30 min.) | |
| Session #2. More History | ||
| 2:00 | Glacial Geology of the Ohio Range, Antarctica: Constraints on Ice Elevation during the Last Glaciation [Abstract] [PDF] | Ackert |
| 2:15 | Post-LGM evolution of Reedy Glacier, Antarctica, as an indicator of current ice sheet stability [Abstract] [PPT] | Bromley |
| 2:30 | Evolution of Reedy Glacier from the last glacial maximum to present [Abstract] [PPT] | Todd |
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2:45
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Glacial history of the ridge between Mercer and van der Veen Ice Streams [Abstract] [PPT] | Conway |
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3:00
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Grounding-line incursion into the southernmost Ross Sea - a comparison of lower Scott and Reedy Glaciers [Abstract] [PDF] | Stone |
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3:15
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Can sulfate signatures in ice cores verify the source volcano? [Abstract] [PDF] | Kurbatov |
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3:30
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ASEP-Terrestrial Geology [PDF] | Stone/Hall |
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4:00
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BREAK (45 min.) | |
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Session #3. Accumulation | |
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4:45
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Impacts of Accumulation Rate on Firn Properties [Abstract] | Courville |
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5:00
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Mapping accumulation rate by observing the characteristic time scale of microwave emission [Abstract] [PPT] | Steig |
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5:15
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Inferred accumulation and thickness histories near the Ross/Amundsen divide, West Antarctica [Abstract] [PPT] | Neumann |
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5:30
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Influence of ice dynamics on firn layers in the WAIS [Abstract] [PPT] | Gray |
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5:45
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Snow Surface Height Change Induced by 2 Decades Surface Air Temperature Variations Over Antarctic Ice Sheet [Abstract][PPT-contact author] | Li |
| 6:00 | Poster Viewing | |
| 6:30 | DINNER | |
| Friday, September 30, 2005 | ||
| 8:00 | CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST | |
| Session #4. Ice Dynamics | ||
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8:30
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WAIS Elevation changes estimated by the ICESat mission so far [Abstract] [PPT] | Smith |
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8:45
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Modeling of Negative Magnetic Anomalies Over the WAIS Partially Constrains Age of Sub-glacial Volcanic Activity [Abstract] [PPT] | Behrendt |
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9:00
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Discontinuous Sediment Cover and "Fast" Ice Flow: Observations from the Upper Reaches of Tributary C1B [Abstract] [PPT] | Peters |
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9:15
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Sediment transport and erosion, and water redistribution, on decadal timescales beneath Rutford Ice Stream [Abstract] [PPT] | Smith |
| 9:30 | Control of ice stream stick-slip dynamics by frictional healing [Abstract] [PPT] | Winberry |
| 9:45 | Radar Studies of the Trunk and 'Sticky Spot' of Kamb Ice Stream [Abstract] [PPT] | Jacobel |
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10:00
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Subglacial conditions of inland West Antarctica from US-ITASE deep radar reflection analysis [Abstract] [PPT] | Welch |
| 10:15 | BREAK (30 min.) | |
| 10:45 | ScITESEN - a scientific drilling traverse in West Antarctica investigating the influence of ice-ocean-lithosphere interaction on ice sheet stability, by direct means [Abstract] [PPT] | Vogel |
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11:00
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Integrating satellite observations with modeling: basal shear stress of the Filcher-Ronne Ice Streams, Antarctica [Abstract] [PPT] | Joughin |
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11:15
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Glacier changes in Pine Island Bay and the Antarctica Peninsula from Radarsat-1 2000-2005 [Abstract] | Rignot |
| 11:30 | Pine Island Glacier Basin - we have the data, now what does it all mean? [Abstract] [PPT-contact author] | Vaughan |
| 11:45 | The rough and the smooth: what the radar saw in PIG [Abstract] [PPT] | Corr |
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12:00
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Summary of the 2004-05 Airborne Geophysical Survey of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica (AGASEA) with preliminary results for the Thwaites Glacier catchment [Abstract] | Holt |
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12:15
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Boundary conditions on the Thwaites Glacier Catchment and Walgreen Coast of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from the AGASEA survey [Abstract] | Young |
| 12:30 | ASEP-Ice Dynamics [PPT] | Anandakrishnan/Joughin |
| 1:00 | LUNCH (1 hr. 30 min.) | |
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Session #5. Ocean-Ice Interactions | |
| 2:30 | Interaction of the Great Sumatra Earthquake with an Antarctic ice shelf rift: Preliminary results from GPS and seismic observations of a rift on the Amery Ice Shelf 2004-2005 [Abstract] [PPT] | Bassis |
| 2:45 | Subsurface melting on iceberg C16 (Ross Sea) [Abstract] [PPT 1 of 2] [PPT 2 of 2] [MOVIE] | Sergienko |
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3:00
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Icebergs Behaving Shelf-ishly: why wait for the Larsen C? [Abstract] [PPT] | Scambos |
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3:15
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Getting into the Zone: Ice Shelf Margins from ICESat [Abstract] [PPT] | Padman |
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3:30
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BREAK (45 min.) | |
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4:15
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Grounding Line Zone Studies Using a Tethered and Well Instrumented ROV/AUV & The world beneath the ice shelves: Let's have a look! [Abstract][PPT] | Scherer |
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4:30
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IPY in the Antarctic Peninsula-Ice Shelves, Oceans, and Climate [Abstract] [PPT] | Domack |
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4:45
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ASEP-Ocean/Ice Interactions [Abstract] | Holland/Jacobs |
| 5:15 | Poster Viewing | |
| 6:00 | DINNER | |
| Saturday, October 1, 2005 | ||
| 8:00 | CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST | |
| Session #6. Modeling | ||
| 8:30 | Investigating feedbacks between basal sliding, frictional melting, and longitudinal-stress transmission [Abstract] [PPT] | Price |
| 8:45 | Effects of anisotropy on ice flow at Siple Dome, West Antarctica [Abstract] [PPT] | Pettit |
| 9:00 | Wind-Blown Snow Infilling of a Rift in the Ross Ice Shelf [Abstract] [PPT] [MOVIE] | Leonard |
| 9:15 | Recent Antarctic accumulation variability and trends from Polar MM5 [Abstract] [PPT] | Monaghan |
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9:30
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Numerical modelling of ocean-ice interactions under Pine Island Bay's ice shelf [Abstract] [PPT] | Payne |
| 9:45 | BREAK (30 min.) | |
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10:00
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Embedded Models: Application to the Ross Sea and Amundsen Sea Sectors, Retreat from LGM [Abstract] [PPT] | Fastook |
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10:30
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Better Physics in Embedded Models: Iceberg arcing and Lake-surface profiles [Abstract] [PPT] | Sargent |
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10:45
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ice streams stop and start: numerical model interpretation of Ross Ice Shelf surface [Abstract] [PDF][MOVIE-contact author] | Hulbe |
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11:00
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Elevation Change Anomalies in West Antarctica - New Windows Into Dynamics of Subglacial Water Flow [Abstract] [PPT] | Tulaczyk |
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11:15
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ASEP-Modeling [Abstract] [PPT] | Johnson/Hulbe/Payne |
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11:45
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Comments by Invited Guests | |
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12:00
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WAIS Program: Activities, Actions and Needs | Bindschadler |
| 12:30 | Adjorn | |
| Posters | ||
| New High-resolution VIS/NIR Satellite Image Mosaics of Greenland and Antarctica: MOG and MOA [Abstract] | Bohlander | |
| Evidence for rapid ice stream margin migration and sudden narrowing of Kamb Ice Stream, Antarctica [Abstract] [TIF] | Catania | |
| IC, ICPMS and Water Isotope Measurements From the 2002 and 2003 US ITASE [Abstract] [PPT] | Dixon | |
| Progress on Radiocarbon Dating of Antarctic Marine Sediments [Abstract] | Domack | |
| The Importance of Small Ice Shelves to Inland Ice [Abstract] | Dupont | |
| New aeromagnetic and aerogravity survey over the drainage basin of Pine Island Glacier [Abstract] [PPT] | Ferraccioli | |
| An ultra wideband plane wave radar for mapping near-surface isochronous layers [Abstract] | Gogineni | |
| Tectonics and glacial-marine sedimentation in Pine Island Bay: Survey plan of an upcoming RV Polarstern cruise [Abstract] | Gohl | |
| The Holocene Radiocarbon Reservoir Effect in the Western Ross Sea [Abstract] | Hall | |
| Relict Algal Mats at Reedy Glacier: Radiocarbon Dating at 86S; [Abstract] | Hall | |
| Headwall Initiation of Ice Stream and Outlet Glacier Onsets: Evidence from Satellite Imagery [Abstract] [PDF] | Hamilton | |
| Comparing velocity profiles of Byrd Glacier with a simple 2D flow model [Abstract][PPT] | Hofstede | |
| Dynamics of the Grounding Line of Whillans Ice Stream [Abstract] | Horgan | |
| Relating Longitudinal Tension, Basal Shear, and Side Shear To Ice-Bed Coupling Beneath Ice Streams[Abstract] | Hughes | |
| Global Ice Sheet Mapping Orbiter [Abstract] [PDF] | Jezek | |
| NRC Decadal Survey [DOC] | Jezek | |
| Seismic Studies of the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica [Abstract] [PPT] | McMahon | |
| Wideband Radars for Imaging the Bed and Mapping Internal Layers [Abstract] | Paden | |
| Radar Wave Speed and Attenuation Studies Using Constant Midpoint Profiles on Kamb Ice Stream [Abstract] | Pettersson | |
| Ice-flow sensitivity to sticky spots, side shear, and buttressing [Abstract] | Parizek | |
| Proposal for a Collaborative REU Site Program: REAL ICE - Research Experience in Antarctica Linking Ice and Climate Education [Abstract] [PPT] | Pettit | |
| Flow and thickness history of Siple Dome, West Antarctica [Abstract] [PDF] | Price | |
| Laboratory Study of Till Rheology [Abstract] | Rathbun | |
| Self-organizing maps in review: recent applications in polar (paleo)climatology [Abstract] | Reusch | |
| What ever happened to the Byrd "Snow Cruiser"? [Abstract] | Scambos | |
| Forget WAIS, Totten is submarine too [Abstract] | Shepherd | |
| ICESat Altimetry - Lots of Data, Lots of Details [Abstract] | Shuman | |
| ASTER Imagery of Antarctica: Geographic Coverage, Data Availability and Glaciological Applications [Abstract] [PPT] | Stearns | |
| Deglaciation of the southern Ellsworth Mountains, Weddell Sea Sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet | Todd | |
| Will Kamb Ice Stream Restart or Get Captured by Whillans Ice Stream? Preliminary Insights From Changes in Ice Surface Velocities in the UpC Area Between 1996 and 2004 [Abstract] | Tulaczyk | |
| A most beautiful view of Antarctica for the IPY: the Landsat-7 mosaic [Abstract] [PDF] | Vornberger | |
| Transition Flow of Ice Surrounding Subglacial Lake Vostok [Abstract] | Wang |