2006 WAIS Workshop Agenda

Wednesday, September 27, 2006    
2:00 to 6:00 Registration (Pack Hall) Pack Hall

6:00

DINNER (Dining Hall) Dining Hall
7:00 Munchie Reception (Pack Hall) Pack Hall
     
Thursday September 28, 2006    
8:00 BREAKFAST Dining Hall
8:00 Registration Pack Hall
9:00 Welcome and Agenda Review Scott Hall
  Topic #1. Up, Down and All Around - How is water moving under the ice sheet and what is its effect?  
9:15 Bubbling beneath the ice streams: subglacial plumbing mapped from space [Abstract] [PDF (.1mb)] Fricker

9:30

Finding subglacial water the "ICESat way" in rough terrain [Abstract] [PPT (2mb)] Bindschadler

9:45

Towards repeat-track elevation rate estimates using ICESat data [Abstract] [PPT (4mb)] B. Smith

10:00

Discovery of till deposition at the grounding line of Whillans Ice Stream and implications [Abstract] [contact sak@essc.psu.edu] Anandakrishnan
10:15 BREAK (30 min.)  

10:45

Radar Studies on Kamb Ice Stream [Abstract] [PDF (7mb)] Pettersson

11:00

Geothermal controls on a pervasive water sheet at the head of Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica [Abstract] Blankenship

11:15

Radar evidence for past melting and present water distribution beneath Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica [Abstract] [PPT (9mb)] King

11:30

Thanks SO Much for ALL the Data: The Amundsen Sea Sector Data Set: Applications with UMISM: Where and How Much WATER? What WILL happen in the future? [Abstract] [PPT (6mb)] Fastook

11:45

Poster Introductions (1-2 min. each)  
12:15 LUNCH (1 hr. 45min.) plus view posters  Dining Hall
  Topic #2. A Wider Shade of Paleo - How have expanding observations increased our knowledge of past West Antarctic size and behavior?  
2:00 The RABID Project: Attempts to drill to the bed of Rutford Ice Stream [Abstract] [PPT (29mb)] A. Smith
2:15 Glacial History of the Ellsworth Mountains, Weddell Sea Embayment West Antarctica [Abstract] [PPT (2mb)] Bentley
2:30 Post-LGM & Holocene accumulation rates in West Antarctica: steady-state or not? [Abstract] [PPT (21mb)] Welch

2:45

Towards a suite of US ITASE West Antarctic paleoclimate records [Abstract] [PPT (4mb)] Dixon

3:00

On the effects of ice divide motion on Raymond bumps [Abstract] [PDF (4mb)] Martin

3:15

BREAK (30 min.)  

 

Session #3. Accumulation  

3:45

Maybe the Siple Dome Ice Core Records Surging Ice Streams? [Abstract] Taylor

4:00

Statistical properties of Antarctic ice cores [Abstract] [PPT (1mb)] Steig

4:15

Basement control and history of ice-sheet expansion in the Amundsen Sea Embayment - First results of recent RV Polarstern and RRS James Clark Ross cruises [Abstract] [PPT (6mb)] Gohl

4:30

Late Quaternary deglaciation in the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic ice sheet: Preliminary results from recent cruises of RRS James Clark Ross and RV Polarstern [Abstract] [contact jaas@bas.ac.uk] J. Smith

4:45

Numerical modeling of ocean circulation over the continental shelf and beneath the ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica [Abstract] [PPT (5mb)] Holland
5:00 Poster Viewing  
6:00 DINNER Dining Hall
     
Friday, September 29, 2006    
8:00 BREAKFAST  Dining Hall
  Topic #3. Filling the Gap - How can observations better meet the needs of improved predictive West Antarctic models?  

 9:00

Above, below and within the ice: Polar technologies NASA and JPL are developing for Earth and Space Behar

 9:15

Radar Measurements and Results from the WAIS Core Site [Abstract] [PPT (21mb)] Gogineni
9:30 Detection of in-situ ice fabric anisotropy using polarimetric radar method near the WAIS divide [Abstract] [PPT (8mb)] Matsuoka
9:45 Modeling radar attenuation at Siple Dome using ice-core chemistry and temperature data [Abstract] [PPT (1mb)] MacGregor

10:00

How is the Ice Stream C doing on a daily basis? [Abstract] [PPT (9mb)] Tung
10:15 BREAK (45 min.)  

11:00

Basal Shear Stress for Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, Antarctica [Abstract] [PPT (27mb)] Joughin

11:15

Inversion of ice stream surface measurements for basal conditions [Abstract] [PPT (10mb)] Sergienko
11:30 Resolution and informational aspects of surface inversion on ice streams [Abstract] [PPT (2mb)] Gudmundsson
11:45 A high spatial resolution record of near-surface temperature over WAIS during the past 5 decades [Abstract] [PPT (2mb)] Monaghan

12:00

Verifying thermocoupled ice sheet models: whence the warm spokes [Abstract] [PDF (4mb)] Bueler
12:15 LUNCH (1 hr. 45 min.) Dining Hall

2:00

Roosevelt Island - a good place for an ice core [Abstract] [PPT (3mb)] Conway
2:15 Calculating the Floating Fraction of Basal Ice Along Byrd Glacier, Antarctica, Using Only the Force Balance [Abstract] [PPT (2mb)] Ashley
2:30 Calculating the Floating Fraction of Basal Ice Along Byrd Glacier, Antarctica, Using the Force Balance and the Mass Balance Connected by the Flow and Sliding Laws of Ice [Abstract] [PPT (2mb)] Jones

2:45

Tracing past Antarctic ice flow paths and modern transport processes with TAM till [Abstract] [PPT (32mb)] Licht

3:00

A DEM of West Antarctica from MODIS and ICESat -- Method, Accuracy, and Applications [Abstract] [PPT (35mb)] Scambos

3:15

Recent observations show that WAIS is influenced by sea swell generated in tropics and in Northern hemisphere [Abstract] MacAyeal

3:30

BREAK (45 min.) and Poster Viewing  

4:15

What have I learned? Dahl Jensen

4:30

What have I learned? [PPT (16mb)] Andrews
4:45 What have we learned?  
6:00 DINNER Dining Hall
     
Saturday, September 30, 2006    
8:00 BREAKFAST Dining Hall
  Topic #4. Black on White - Joint Proposals, IPY, ASEP and Our Future  

8:30

Ocean-Ice Interaction in the Amundsen Sea: The Keystone of West Antarctic Stability [Abstract] [PPT (2mb)] Bindschadler
8:45 Amundsen Sea Influence on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet [Abstract] [PPT (5mb)] Jacobs
9:00 Flow dynamics of two Amundsen Sea Glaciers: Thwaites and Pine Island [Abstract] [PDF (1mb)] Anandakrishnan

9:15

Deglaciation of the Amundsen Sea Embayment - the Prelude to Recent, Rapid Ice Retreat [Abstract] [PDF (17mb)] Stone
9:30 Amundsen Sea Embayment Project: Glacial Dynamics of Thwaites Tributaries (GlaDTT) [PPT (.2mb)] Tulaczyk

9:45

Constraining the Mass-Balance Deficit of the Amundsen Coast's glaciers [Abstract] [PPT (11mb)] Joughin

10:00

The Next Generation: A Community Ice Sheet Model for scientists and educators, with demonstration experiments in the Amundsen Sea Embayment region [PPT (.1mb)] Johnson

10:15

Are we headed in the right direction? Bindschadler

10:45

BREAK (30 min.)  

11:15

WAIS Program: Activities, Actions and Needs Bindschadler

11:15

IPY Revision of Science Plan-committee needed Bindschadler

11:30

IPY Education and Outreach-web and beyond Comberiate

11:45

IPY Future WAIS workshops Bindschadler
12:00 Adjorn  

12:00

LUNCH Dining Hall

1:00

Depart for Mt. Rainier  
     
  Posters  
  Surface exposure ages from the LGM trimline in the Ohio Range, Horlick Mountains [Abstract] Ackert
  Communicating science to lay audiences Andrews
  National Snow and Ice Data Center: Antarctic Data Management Support [Abstract] Bauer
  LIMA: Progress on the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica: an IPY Project [Abstract] Bindschadler
  Why Don't they Match? The Evolution of Flow Stripes and Internal Layers on Kamb Ice Stream [Abstract] Campbell
  Sea-swell interaction with ice shelves: Observations at a site on the Ross Ice Shelf and a model of swell-excited ice-shelf vibration [Abstract] [PDF (2mb)] Cathles
  Impacts of an accumulation hiatus on the physical properties of firn at a low-accumulation polar site [Abstract] Courville
  What Gravity Can Tell Us About West Antarctica: A Close Look at Thwaites Glacier and a Plan for Future Holistic Studies [Abstract] Diehl
  Basement control and history of ice-sheet expansion in the Amundsen Sea Embayment - First results of recent RV Polarstern and RRS James Clark Ross cruises [Abstract] Gohl
  Crossing the "T" in Antarctica [Abstract] [JPG (3mb)] Hamilton
  Aeromagnetic results from the Thwaites Glacier catchment, West Antarctica [Abstract] Holt
  Analysis of Bed Properties on Kamb Ice Stream with Constant Midpoint Radar Profiles [Abstract] Jacobel
  Surface exposure dating using cosmogenic isotopes: a field campaign in Marie Byrd Land and the Hudson Mountains [Abstract] [PDF (.1mb)] Johnson
  Better physics using full momentum solver in 2D vertical slice domain, where does longitudinal stress really matter? Application to the Thwaites Glacier flowline [Abstract] [PDF (1mb)] Kenneway
  The dynamic drift of mega-icebergs in the Ross Sea [Abstract] Kim
  The delights of DELORES: the new B.A.S. DEep LOok Radio Echo Sounder [Abstract] King
  Histories of Accumulation and Ice Dynamics from Radar Layers and Ice-Flow Inverse Methods [Abstract] [PDF (4mb)] Koutnik
  Mapping the Antarctic's near-surface air temperature trends using satellite and in-situ observations Mitchell
  Rebuilding glacial retreat histories using inverse methods and surface exposure age data [Abstract] Todd
  A Two-Dimensional Coupled Model for Ice Shelf-Ocean Interaction [Abstract] Walker
  Spatial variability in McMurdo Dry Valleys snow and firn - the role of local soil input [Abstract] Williamson
  Grounding zone geometry of Thwaites, Pope and Smith Glaciers, Amundsen Sea Embayment [Abstract] Young