Bristol Research Conferences 2014:
IGSBBM and UK Antarctic Symposium
MONDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER
9:30-10:00
Registration
TUESDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER
Palaeo
9:00-9:15
Lauren Gregoire: How much did the N. American ice sheet contribute to the Meltwater Pulse 1a rapid sea level rise?
9:15-9:30
John Hillier: Manual mapping of drumlins in synthetic landscapes to assess operator effectiveness
9:30-9:45
Martin Margold: Ice streams of the Laurentide Ice Sheet: characteristics, controls and timing
9:45-10:00
Shasta Marrero: Buried ice as a possible cause for inconsistent cosmogenic exposure ages
10:00-10:15
Andy Hein: Ice elevation changes in the southern Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica
10:00-10:30
Welcome/Housekeeping
Remote Sensing 1
10:30-10:45
Tom Watts (p): Improved measurement of ice lens densities in snow microwave emission models
10:45-11:00
Richard Hodgkins: Hydrological Inputs to Jökulsárlón, Iceland, Evaluated through Sediment Plume Variability, as Determined from In-Situ Spectrometry and MODIS Satellite Imagery
11:00-11:15
Jonathan Ryan (p): Preliminary results and lessons learnt operating UAVs in Greenland
11:15-11:30
Doug Mair: The importance of long-term records of tidewater glacier change: the case of Kangiata Nunata Sermia (KNS), SW Greenland.
11:30-12:00
Break
12:15-13:15
Lunch and IGSBB AGM
Geophysics
10:45-11:00
Jonathan Kingslake: Measuring englacial vertical velocities and ice viscosity
11:00-11:15
Martin O'Leary: How to build a better bed
11:15-11:30
Noel Gourmelen: Glacier dynamics of the Pamir-Karakoram-Himalaya region over the last 40 years
11:30-11:45
Michael Dallaston: Modelling channelization under ice shelves
11:45-12:00
Satoshi Kimura: Estimation of ice shelf melt rate in the presence of a thermohaline staircase
12:00-12:15
Emma Smith (p): Mapping the Ice-Bed Interface Characteristics of Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica, using Microseismicity
10:15-10:45
Break
IGSBBM SCHEDULE..
Biogeochemistry
12:00-12:15
Marie Šabacká: Glacier Ecology in the Tropics: A Case Study from Uganda
12:15-12:30
Alex Anesio: Microbial succession from ice to vegetated soils in response to glacial retreat in the Arctic
12:30-12:45
Jon Hawkings (p): Sensitivity of solute export from the Greenland ice sheet in a warming climate
12:45-13:00
Lori Ziolkowski: What is causing “dark snow”? Let’s collaborate and find out!
13:00-14:00
Lunch
UKPN Panel for early career researchers - "Life after a PhD: What opportunities
are there outside of academia?"
Hydrology
14:00-14:15
Rachel Carr: Pan-Arctic controls on the rapid retreat of marine-terminating Arctic outlet glaciers
14:15-14:30
Andrew Tedstone (p): Greenland ice sheet annual motion insensitive to spatial variations in subglacial hydraulic structure
14:30-14:45
Tom Cowton: Modelling the impact of glacial runoff on fjord circulation and submarine melt rate using a new parameterisation for glacial plumes
14:45-15:00
Mark Brandon: The oceanic driven decay of the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier into Jökulsárlón lagoon, Iceland
15:00-15:15
Andrew Wells: Parameterising the melting of marine glacier termini and ice shelves with buoyant meltwater plumes in a stratified ocean
15:15-15:30
Donald Slater (p): Submarine melting at tidewater glaciers: identification of key concepts through comparison of numerical modelling, buoyant plume theory and hydrographic data.
Special guest speaker
15:30-16:00
John Nye
Poster Session
16:00-18:00
Ice Sheets
13:15-13:30
Jonathan Bamber: Resolving trends in Antarctic ice sheet mass loss, glacio-isostatic adjustment and surface processes through spatio-temporal source-separation
13:30-13:45
Rob Bingham: The nature and dynamics of the bed beneath Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica
13:45-14:00
Bertie Miles (p): Multi-decadal trends in outlet glacier terminus position in East Antarctica
14:00-14:15
Dan Goldberg: The role of ice shelf processes in the transient evolution of Pope, Smith, and Kohler, West Antarctica from 2001-2011
14:15-14:30
Alison Cook: Drivers of recent glacier area changes on the Antarctic Peninsula
14:30-14:45
Amber Leeson: Greenland's supraglacial lakes advance inland under warming climate
14:45-15:15
Break
Remote Sensing 2
15:15-15:30
Mathieu Depoorter (p): Mass balance of Antarctica
15:30-15:45
Malcolm McMillan: Antarctic ice sheet mass balance, 2010-2013, from satellite altimetry
15:45-16:00
Clare Webster (p): Influence of tree proximity on simulated sub-canopy incoming longwave radiation to the snow surface in mid-latitude boreal forests
16:00-16:15
Eleanor Darlington (p): Quantification of seasonal and interannual variability of proglacial meltwater from Kronebreen glacier, from in situ and remotely sensed data
16:15-16:30
Chris Williams: Surface observations and crevasse evolution at high resolution: Greenland tidewater glaciers
16:30-16:45
Hazel Hartman Jenkins (p): Causes of variable salt deposition in Antarctic snow
Closing and awards
16:45-17:00
Tamsin Edwards: Outreach at a local school and the Polar photo prize
17:00-17:20
Martin Siegert: Closing and Awards
UKPN
Panel!
IGS BB AGM
(p) = postgraduate presentation
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Robert Arthern: Using Tranformation Group Priors and Maximum Relative Entropy for Bayesian Glaciological Inversions
Lavanya Ashokkumar (p): Spatial and temporal dynamic change in Karakoram glaciers
Charlotte Axtell (p): Improved Quantification of Microscale Ice Properties using Borehole Geophysical Surveys
Liz Bagshaw: Development and validation of biogeochemical sensors for subglacial aquatic ecosystems
Heather Bell (p): Decadal-scale dynamic changes on Novaya Zemlya, Russian High Arctic, from remotely sensed imagery
Farjana Birajdar (p): Assessment of changes in the glacierized area of Bhaga Basin, Western Himalaya, India during 2001-2011
Joshua Blacker (p): How does Arctic soil form in response to Arctic deglaciation? Linking bulk and molecular scale mineralogical and geochemical processes
James Bradley (p): Modelling microbial community development in soils in the High Arctic
Samantha Buzzard (p): Mathematical modelling of melt lake formation on an ice shelf
Damon Davies (p): New high resolution views of the bed of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica
Jan De Rydt: Modelling glacier retreat after ice shelf collapse
Morgan Gibson (p): Supraglacial debris distribution, thickness and temperature on Himalaya glaciers from remote sensing and fieldwork observations
Jim Jordan (p): On the conditional frazil ice instability in seawater
Jonathan Kingslake: Spatially variable sub-ice shelf melt regimes beneath the Ronne Ice Shelf revealed by ice-penetrating radar
Peter Lambert: Neutron scattering technique to determine in-situ measurements of annual accumulation across Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica
Harold Lovell: Svalbard surging glacier landsystems
Stefanie Lutz (p): Cryo-life habitability: Diversity and function of Arctic glacial surfaces
Carlos Martin: Self-organization of mega-scale glacial lineations
Ashley Morris (p): Changing tidewater glacier dynamics in Northwest Greenland, 1985-2014
Isabel Nias (p): Instability and sensitivity of the Amundsen Sea ice streams
Brice Rea: Evidence for a grounded ice sheet in the Central North Sea in the early Pleistocene
Kate Reid (p): How continuous is the blue ice climate record at Patriot Hills, Horseshoe Valley, West Antarctica?
Sam Roberson: Glacial sediment transport & erosion at Glacier de Tsanfleuron, Switzerland
Sebastian Roser (p): Insights into ice stream dynamics through modelling their response to tidal forcing
Nick Rutter: Long-wave emission from trees in snow-covered Arctic and Alpine boreal forests: measurement and modelling
Clemens Schannwell (p): Parameterization of Antarctic Peninsula grounding-line retreat using multivariate linear regression
Thomas Shaw (p): Air temperature distribution across melting Alpine glaciers
Sarah Louise-Simmons (p): Investigating the influence of the Greenland Ice Sheet on marine primary productivity
Robin Smith: Physically consistent ice-sheet--climate coupling for the Met Office Unified Model and UKESM1
Sainan Sun: Dynamic Response of Antarctic Ice Shelves to Bedrock Uncertainty
Eric Wolff: What controls sea salt concentrations in polar ice cores?