2011 WAIS Workshop Agenda
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 4:00 | WAIS Steering Group Meeting | |
| 6:30 | Dinner (pizza party) |
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Time |
Topic |
Speaker |
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7:15 to 8:30 |
Breakfast |
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7:30 |
Registration |
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8:45 |
Welcome |
Ted Scambos |
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Session 1 |
Quadrophenia: Multi-discipline system science in WAIS |
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9:00 |
Sensitivity studies of ice flow acceleration in response to increased ice shelf melting in the region of Pine Island Glacier |
Eric Larour |
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9:15 |
Bedforms and melt beneath Pine Island Glacier, results from the 2011 |
Ed King |
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9:30 |
Balancing the water budget of the Whillans Ice Plain: Implications for the nature of the subglacial hydrologic system |
Sasha Carter |
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9:45 |
LARISSA: Using integrated system science to understand the impact of climate change on an ice shelf system |
Scott Ishman |
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10:00 |
LARISSA Glaciology – The Bruce Plateau Ice Cap: Ice Dynamics across the Antarctic Peninsula |
Erin Pettit |
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10:15 |
LARISSA Glaciology: Ongoing studies of borehole-derived surface temperature history, and continuing AMIGOS results and plans |
Ted Scambos |
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10:30 |
Panel and open discussion |
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10:45 |
Break |
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Session 2 |
Both Sides Now: Modern Climate and WAIS |
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11:00 |
The Atmospheric Control Knobs of WAIS Climate |
Ryan Fogt, keynote speaker |
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11:30 |
Antarctic sea ice variability and the West Antarctic ice sheet |
Marilyn Raphael, invited speaker |
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11:45 |
Modeling the surface mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet using RACMO2: recent progress and remaining uncertainties |
Michiel van den Broeke |
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12:00 |
Temperature changes in West Antarctica since the IGY: Perspective from the reconstructed Byrd record |
Julien Nicolas |
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12:15 |
Using In-situ Firn Temperatures to Track Melt Water Retention and Firn Densification in Greenland’s Accumulation Area |
Neil Humphrey |
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12:30 |
Lunch (90 min) and poster set-up |
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Session 3 |
Back in Time: Climate, Ice Cores and WAIS |
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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” |
Eric Steig |
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2:15 |
Is West Antarctica running a tropical fever? |
David Schneider |
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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 |
Yuko Okumura |
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2:45 |
West Antarctic Ice Sheet temporal and spatial accumulation variability |
Landon Burgener |
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3:00 |
Histories of ice dynamics and climate inferred from ice cores and |
Howard Conway, invited speaker |
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3:15 |
Panel and open discussion |
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Poster Session |
Signs |
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3:30 |
Poster session introductions |
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Break (15 min) |
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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 |
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5:30 |
Free time |
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7:00 |
Dinner |
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| Time | Topic | Speaker |
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7:15 to 8:30 |
Breakfast |
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8:30 |
Day Two beginnings |
Ted Scambos |
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Session 4 |
Space Oddity: New Results from Satellite and Airborne Measurements, Satellites |
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8:45 |
Initial Assessment of CryoSat-2 Performance |
Andrew Shepherd, keynote speaker |
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9:15 |
Antarctic Ice Velocity Mapped from Space: A Game Changing New Product |
Bernd Scheuchl |
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9:30 |
Mass Balance of the West Antarctic Ice-Sheet from ICESat Measurements |
Jay Zwally |
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9:45 |
Ongoing Changes in Glacier Elevation and Mass, Larsen A and B Embayments, Antarctic Peninsula |
Christopher Shuman |
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10:00 |
Viewing a PIG Under a Spaceborne Microscope |
Robert Bindschadler |
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10:15 |
Integrating and Combining Ice Sheet Mass Balance Estimates through GRACE and ICESat datasets |
MacFerrin/Colgan |
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10:30 |
Panel and open discussion |
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10:45 |
Break |
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Session 5 |
Fly Like an Eagle: New Results from Satellite and Airborne Measurements, Airborne |
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11:00 |
Under the Antarctic ice: New data in the East, new approaches in the West |
Duncan Young, invited speaker |
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11:30 |
Subglacial Rivers and Thermal Structure in Dome A, East Antarctica |
Michael Wolovick |
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11:45 |
Basal topography of the Institute and Möller ice streams, West Antarctica: assessing the risk of grounding-line retreat |
Neil Ross |
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12:00 |
NASA’s Operation IceBridge: using instrumented aircraft to bridge the observational gap between ICESat and ICESat-2 laser altimeter measurements |
Michael Studinger |
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12:15 |
Panel |
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12:30 |
Lunch (90 min) |
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2:00 |
“In The Year 2525” |
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Session 6 |
The Logical Song: Hi Tech: Radar, Seismic, and Cosmogenic Results |
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2:30 |
Radar Results from the Geophysics Site Characterization of |
Robert Jacobel |
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2:45 |
Dynamics of Subglacial Lake Whillans from WISSARD Radar, Seismic and GPS Surveys and Satellite Laser Altimetry |
Knut Christiansen |
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3:00 |
The Micro Subglacial Lake Exploration Device (MSLED) |
Alberto Behar |
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3:15 |
Seismic Analysis of the Subglacial Environment of Thwaites lacier, West Antarctica |
Leo Peters |
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3:30 |
Rapid early- to mid-Holocene thinning of Pine Island Glacier detected using cosmogenic exposure dating |
Joanne Johnson |
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3:45 |
Geophysical evidence of Ice-Magma interactions beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the West Antarctic Rift System |
John Behrendt |
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4:00 |
Panel |
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4:15 |
Free time |
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7:00 |
Dinner – BBQ |
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Time |
Topic |
Speaker |
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7:15 to 8:30 am |
Breakfast |
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8:45am |
Welcome |
Ted Scambos |
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Session 7 |
New Ideas in Ice Dynamics: Pushing the Boundaries - Honoring Barclay Kamb and Keith Echelmeyer |
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9:00 |
Emergence of tidewater and ice shelf calving dynamics using a granular model of ice |
Jeremy Bassis |
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9:15 |
Variability in the mass flux of the Ross Sea ice streams, Antarctica, over the last millennium |
Ginny Catania, invited speaker |
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9:30 |
Englacial Seismic Reflectivity – Imaging Crystal Orientation Fabric in West Antarctica |
Huw Horgan |
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9:45 |
Spatial variations in ice-crystal alignments deduced from englacial radar polarimetry, central West Antarctica |
Kenichi Matsuoka |
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10:00 |
Sea ice and West Antarctic ice-shelf stability |
Kelly Brunt |
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10:15 |
Flow variability and propagation behavior in the Ross Ice Shelf |
Christine LeDoux |
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10:30 |
Panel |
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10:45 |
Break |
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Session 8 |
Somebody to Love: Ice Sheet and WAIS System Models |
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11:00 |
Bumpy beds, what to do about them |
Olga Sergienko, invited speaker |
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11:15 |
Using radar layers to infer migration of WAIS Divide |
Michelle Koutnik |
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11:30 |
Control of the width of West Antarctic ice streams by internal melting in the ice sheet near the margins |
Thibaut Perol |
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11:45 |
A viscoelastic flowline model applied to tidal forcing of Bindschadler Ice Stream, Antarctica |
Ryan Walker |
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12:00 |
Basal Crevasses on the Larsen C ice shelf: Implications for ice shelf stability |
Dan McGrath |
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12:15 |
Panel |
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12:30 |
Lunch /closing remarks |
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2:00 |
Adjourn |
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Topic |
Lead Author |
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History of the Ross Sea ice sheet based on glacial and lake records from Marshall Valley, Antarctica |
Stephanie Allard |
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Long-term Glacial History of the Southern Ross Sea Embayment |
Ann Bauer |
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Temporal Reduction of the ECSU Ice Shelf in Pine Island Bay Antarctica: 1972 - 2003 |
Ya'Shonti Bridgers |
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Surface Morphology Variations over Dome A due to Ice Sheet Bed-Surface-Atmosphere Interaction |
Indrani Das |
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Annual Layers and Irregular Stratigraphy: Electrical Measurements of the WAIS Divide Ice Core |
T.J. Fudge |
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How might the ocean react to loss of the WAIS? |
Jeremy Fyke |
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Subglacial Lake Whillans: A Shallow Active Reservoir Beneath a West Antarctic Ice Stream |
Huw Horgan |
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New radiocarbon dates from glacial deposits in Miers Valley constrain the past behavior of the Antarctic Ice Sheet |
Tobias Koffman |
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JPL/UCI Symposium on ISSM (Ice Sheet System Model) Public domain release |
Eric Larour |
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Snowfall, Redistribution, and Accumulation over Antarctic Sea Ice |
Katherine Leonard |
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Upper Mantle Structure Beneath the Whitmore Mountains, West Antarctic Rift System, and Marie Byrd Land from Body-Wave Tomography |
Andrew Lloyd |
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Viscous buckling on the grounding line |
Douglas MacAyeal |
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The SeaRISE-Antarctica Experiments with PISM |
Maria Martin |
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Basal Crevasses on the Larsen C ice shelf: Implications for ice shelf stability |
Daniel McGrath |
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The State of Sub-meter Commercial Satellite Imagery for the Antarctic, the Arctic and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
Paul Morin |
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Characterizing ICESat-2's response to snow and ice surfaces; theory and experiment |
Mahsa Sadat Moussavi |
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Subglacial bathymetry beneath the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf from airborne gravity, constrained by autonomous underwater vehicle data |
Atsuhiro Muto |
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Using High-Resolution Commercial Satellite Imagery to Advance West Antarctic Ice Sheet Research Goals |
Claire Porter |
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Continuing the Whillans Ice Stream subglacial lake record with GPS |
Matthew Siegfried |
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Glacial-Interglacial History of the Transantarctic Mountains and the Southern Ross Sea Embayment |
Perry Spector |
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Hosting a PolarTREC Teacher: A Method to Facilitate Antarctic Outreach and Dissemination of Research |
Lesley Urasky |
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Starting and stopping basal sliding on ice streams: New insights from Whillans Ice Plain, West Antarctica |
Jacob Walter |
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Spatial and temporal isotopic patterns across the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide from five new snowpits and firn cores |
Jessica Williams |
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Repeating Ruptures at David Glacier Modified by Tidal Influences |
Lucas Zoet |