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THURSDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER 

​9:30-10:00

Registration

FRIDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER
Palaeo 2

​9:00-9:15

Richard Hindmarsh: Glaciological and geophysical investigations of the Holocene Retreat of the Antarctic Ice-Sheet in the Weddell Sea area

 

9:15-9:30

Michael Bentley: Post-glacial thinning history of the Foundation Ice Stream, Weddell Sea embayment, Antarctica

 

9:30-9:45

Robert Mulvaney: Climate and deglaciation history of the Weddell Sea ice sheet from deep ice core records

 

9:45-10:00

Martin Miller: Limitations of 17O-excess measurements of ice cores and firn from east Antarctica for reconstructing normalised relative humidity of the oceanic source region

 

10:00-10:15

Tom Jordan: Fingerprinting the processes of Gondwana supercontinental breakup in the Weddell Sea Rift

Welcome/UK Antarctic Research Update

10:00-10:10

Martin Siegert: Conference Welcome/Housekeeping

 

10:10-10:35

Jane Francis: Polar Partnerships and SCAR Scan

 

10:35-10:50

David Vaughan: Antarctic science - funding and fieldwork opportunities

 

10:50-11:00

Ray Leakey: New Polar Icebreaker

Biogeochemistry and Terrestrial Biology

11:30-11:45

Andrew Wells: Modelling fluid flows through porous sea ice: biogeochemical fluxes driven by gravity drainage

 

11:45-12:00

Marie Šabacká: Fluxes of microorganisms and nutrients from snow and ice-bound ecosystems to the marine environment on Signy Island, maritime Antarctica

 

12:00-12:15

Oliver Legge: The seasonal cycle of inorganic carbon at the Rothera Time Series, West Antarctic Peninsula

 

12:15-12:30

Peter Convey: Glacial period refugia – Persistence of terrestrial biota in the Antarctic

 

12:30-12.45

Filipa Cox: Some like it cold: an in depth exploration of Antarctic soil fungal communities

11:00-11:30

Break

12:00-13:00

Lunch 

iSTAR

10:45-11:00

Mike Dinn: Tractor support to Antarctic scientific field campaigns, using a new NERC infrastructure

 

11:00-11:15

Andy Smith: Introduction to the first iSTAR Traverse on Pine Island Glacier

 

11:15-11:30

Povl Abrahamsen: iSTAR: measuring the ocean forcing on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

 

11:30-11:45

Lai Bun Lok: Preliminary Results from Autonomous Phase-Sensitive Radio Echosounders (ApRES) deployed on Pine Island Glacier for the iSTAR mission

 

11:45-12:00

Thomas Flament: Ground Penetrating Radar along the first iSTAR traverse over Pine Island Glacier

10:15-10:45

Break

UK ANT SCHEDULE..

Palaeo 1

13:45-14:00

Eric Wolff: Oldest ice: the prospect of drilling ice beyond a million years in Antarctica

 

14:00-14:15

Tina van de Flierdt: Deciphering the Stability of Antarctic Ice Sheets Through Time

 

14:15-14:30

Bethan Davies: The glacial history of the NE Antarctic Peninsula on centennial to millennial timescales

 

14:30-14:45

John Woodward: How can blue-ice moraines constrain elevation changes of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the southern Ellsworth Mountains?

12:45-13:45

Lunch

UKPN panel for early career researchers - "Fieldwork in Antarctica - advice for early career researchers"

14:45-15:45

Poster Session 

14:45-18:00

Glaciology

13:00-13:15

Rob Bingham: Subglacial conditions and ice flow across the Weddell Sea sector of West Antarctica:  synthesis from recent aerogeophysical surveys

 

13:15-13:30

Tamsin Edwards: Risk of Sea Level Rise from Antarctic Ice Sheet Instability

 

13:30-13:45

Neil Glasser: Ice-stream initiation, duration and thinning on James Ross Island, northern Antarctic Peninsula

 

13:45-14:00

Fausto Ferraccioli: New aerogeophysical survey targets the Recovery frontier in East Antarctica

 

14:00-14:15

Alba Martin-Español: Antarctic glacio isostatic adjustment from an inversion of satellite and in-situ observations

 

14:15-14:45

Break

Oceans/Climate

14:45-15:00

Alexander Brearley: Controls on turbulent mixing processes on the West Antarctic Peninsula Shelf

 

15:00-15:15

Peter Brown: Carbon uptake in the Weddell Gyre: deep water formation and the injection of anthropogenic carbon to the global abyss

 

15:15-15:30

Andrew Russell: The ultraviolet radiation environment during an expedition across the Drake Passage and on the Antarctic Peninsula

 

15:30-15:45

Scott Hosking: Drivers of climate variability over West Antarctica

 

15:45-16:00

Tom Lachlan-Cope: Clouds over the Antarctic Peninsula

 

16:00-16:15

Jeff Ridley: The Southern Ocean in the Met Office climate model

16:15-16:45

Closing remarks

Liz Bagshaw: Processes controlling primary productivity of cold polar glacier surface communities in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

 

Stephanie Bates: Barium-calcium ratios in foraminiferal calcium carbonate

 

Mike Bentley: CosmoDrillWAIS: Novel Application of Cosmogenic Isotopes from Subglacially-drilled Bedrock to determine Direct Evidence of West Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse during Interglacials

 

Elise Biersma: Evolutionary history of bryophytes in Antarctica

 

Damon Davies: New high resolution views of the bed of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica

 

Jim Jordan: Modelling ice-ocean interaction in ice shelf crevasses

 

Anne Jungblut: Cyanobacteria and microbial mats in Antarctic lakes and ponds: diversity, distribution and response to environmental change

 

Amélie Kirchgaessner: Representation of Föhn winds over the Larsen Ice Shelf in measurements and Polar WRF.

 

Peter Lambert: Neutron scattering technique to determine in-situ measurements of annual accumulation across Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica

 

Amber Leeson: Modelling supraglacial lake initiation and growth on an Antarctic ice shelf

 

Kimberley Pyle: Diatoms, seaice, and mixing: What controls Barium cycling in the southern ocean?

 

David Rees Jones: “Underwater Snow” – the micro-physics of frazil-ice formation

 

Rhian L Rees-Owen: A palaeohydrological reconstruction using plant compound isotopes from the Neogene in Antarctica

 

Heather Regan: High resolution modelling of freshwater in the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica

 

Benedict Reinardy: Investigating the dynamics of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet on the continental shelf off the Adélie Coast during the Pliocene

 

Stephen Roberts: Deglaciation and Holocene climate change on the South Shetland Islands, Western Antarctic Peninsula

 

Matteo Vecchi: Biodiversity and adaptive strategy to Antarctica: the tardigrades

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