Bristol Research Conferences 2014:
IGSBBM and UK Antarctic Symposium
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