2008 WAIS Workshop Agenda
AGENDA
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 |
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4:00 to 6:00 |
Registration |
Main Building |
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7:00 to 9:00 |
INFORMAL DINNER (Pizza and Drinks) |
Cottage #1 |
Thursday, October 9, 2008 |
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8:00 |
BREAKFAST |
Main Building |
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8:00 |
Registration |
Main Building |
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9:00 |
Welcomes and Introductions |
Main Building |
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Topic #1: "Mirror, mirror, on the wall" - Looking at the past to see forward |
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9:30 |
History of the grounded ice sheet in the Ross Sea sector, Antarctica, at and since the LGM |
Hall |
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9:45 |
Swinging Gate or Saloon doors: Do we need a new model of Ross Sea deglaciation? |
Ackert |
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10:00 |
Late Quaternary fluctuation of Scott Glacier in response to grounding-line retreat in the Ross Sea Embayment |
Bromley |
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10:15 |
Evidence for Rapid Surface Elevation Changes Around Siple Dome During the Deglacial |
Taylor |
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10:30 |
BREAK (30 min.) |
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11:00 |
Glaciology of the Bottleneck |
Hughes |
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11:15 |
Rapid Early Holocene Sea-level Rise: Laurentide or Antarctic Ice? |
Cronin |
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11:30 |
Mega-scale glacial lineations beneath Rutford Ice Stream |
King |
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11:45 |
Poster Introductions (30 min.) |
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12:15 |
LUNCH (90 min.) |
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1:45 |
ENSO Modulation of West Antarctic Climate |
Bromwich |
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2:00 |
Megapackets and Megapseudosynclines in East Antarctica |
Arcone |
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2:15 |
PANEL DISCUSSION (30 min.) |
Plenary |
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2:45 |
BREAK (30 min.) |
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Topic #2: "ANDRILL" - A Neat Data Recovery Initiative to Learn Lots about WAIS |
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3:15 |
Evidence of long- and short-term responses of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Plio-Pleistocene and theirimplications: ANDRILL-McMurdo Ice Shelf Project |
Powell |
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3:30 |
Plio-Pleistocene evolution and variability and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from the ANDRILL, AND-1B geological record |
Naish |
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3:45 |
WAIS collapse before GIS collapse! (~1 million years ago) |
Scherer |
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4:00 |
BREAK (30 min.) |
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4:30 |
Expanding provenance constraints on Ross Embayment till to assess LGM input of ice from the WAIS |
Licht |
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4:45 |
Climatic forcing of WAIS mass balance on glacial-interglacial and longer timescales |
DeConto |
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5:00 |
WAIS in ANDRILL future planning |
Rack |
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5:15 |
PANEL DISCUSSION (30 min.) |
Plenary |
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5:45 |
BREAK (15 min.) |
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6:00 |
DINNER |
Main Building |
Friday, October 10, 2008 |
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9:00 |
Recent flow history of Pine Island Glacier |
Scott |
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9:15 |
Dynamic glacier thinning in the Larsen B Embayment, Antarctica, 2002-2008 |
Shuman |
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Topic #3: "When you need a friend, I'll be there" - How my model can help your model |
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9:30 |
Modeling West Antarctic Ice Sheet Growth and Retreat through the last 5 million years |
Pollard |
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9:45 |
Modified Morland-MacAyeal model for ice-stream flow |
Sargent |
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10:00 |
Toward a next-generation community ice sheet model: Progress and plans |
Lipscomb |
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10:15 |
BREAK (45 min.) |
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11:00 |
Cyberinfrastructure Opportunities for Antarctic Research |
Lubin |
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11:15 |
Effect of Climate Cycling and Meltwater Plumbing on Ice-Sheet Grounding-Line Migration |
Parizek |
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11:30 |
Hydrostatic equilibrium: a good assumption for the position of grounding lines? |
Nowicki |
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11:45 |
Hydraulic Fracture along Glacier Beds by Turbulent Flow of Meltwater |
Rice |
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12:00 |
Possible Mechanisms for Glacial Earthquakes |
Tsai |
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12:15 |
LUNCH (90 min.) |
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1:45 |
Stick/Slip Behavior of Ice Streams: Modeling Investigations |
Sergienko |
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2:00 |
Simulation of glaciogenic tsunamis generated by the Wilkins Ice Shelf collapse of 2008 |
MacAyeal |
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Topic #4: "Older, yes, but wiser?" - How to improve predictions of future WAIS behavior |
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2:15 |
Springing Forward: The Need for Viscoelastic Ice-Flow Modeling |
Alley |
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2:30 |
How to improve predictions of future WAIS behavior |
Fastook |
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2:45 |
Reaching for the Grail: Predicting Sea-Level Contributions from Dynamic Ice Sheets for 2100 before 2100 |
Bindschadler |
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3:00 |
BREAK (45 min.) |
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3:45 |
PANEL DISCUSSION (30 min.) |
Plenary |
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4:15 |
Report of the FRISP/WAIS Workshop September 18-20, 2008 |
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4:30 |
GUEST FEEDBACK |
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5:00 |
WAIS business |
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5:30 |
Adjourn |
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6:00 |
DINNER |
Main Building |
Posters |
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Megapackets and Megapseudosynclines in East Antarctica [Abstract] |
Arcone |
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Initial Observations and Inferences from New Field Work on Pine Island Ice Shelf [Abstract] [PPT (6mb)] |
Bindschadler |
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Characterization of Internal layers and Basal Conditions at the WAIS Divide Drill Site using a VHF Surface Based Radar [Abstract] |
Blake |
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Reconstructing Holocene ice-marginal fluctuations with relict algal mats at Reedy and Scott Glaciers [Abstract] |
Hall |
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Surface elevation changes at the front of the Ross Ice Shelf; Implications for basal melt [Abstract] |
Horgan |
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Accumulation Patterns and Basal Conditions from Radar Observations Along the US-ITASE Traverse in East Antarctica [Abstract] [PPT (14mb)] |
Jacobel |
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Surface melt magnitude retrieval over Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica using coupled MODIS optical and thermal satellite measurements during the 2002-03 melt season [Abstract] |
Karmosky |
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Evaluating a model of the current dynamical state of the Antarctic ice sheet using the Parallel Ice Sheet Model [Abstract] |
Khroulev |
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Carlson Inlet - fast or slow? [Abstract] |
King |
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How ice shelf morphology controls the longitudinal distribution of basal melting [Abstract] [PPT (3mb)] |
Little |
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Modeling the spatial variation of ice-sheet radar attenuation [Abstract] |
MacGregor |
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Mapping Internal Layers Using a 12-18 GHz Plane Wave Radar [Abstract] |
O'Sadnick |
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A New Digital Elevation Model of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from Altimetry and Images [Abstract] |
Scambos |
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Possible Mechanisms for Glacial Earthquakes [Abstract] |
Tsai |
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Transient subglacial water-flow [Abstract] |
Winberry |