NS34A:
Applications of Near Surface Geophysics in Cold Regions II

Session ID#: 1726

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
302 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Reginald R Muskett, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Steven A Arcone, Dartmouth College, Thayer School, Hanover, NH, United States
Primary Convener:  Martin A Briggs, USGS Water Mission Area, Hydrologic Remote Sensing Branch, Storrs, United States; U.S. Geological Survey, Observing Systems Division, Hydrologic Remote Sensing Branch, Storrs, United States
Co-conveners:  Seth W Campbell, University of Maine, Earth and Climate Sciences, Orono, United States; U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, United States and Steven A Arcone, Dartmouth College, Thayer School, Hanover, NH, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Martin A Briggs, USGS Water Mission Area, Hydrologic Remote Sensing Branch, Storrs, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • C - Cryosphere
Index Terms:

0702 Permafrost [CRYOSPHERE]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
0925 Magnetic and electrical methods [EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS]
1835 Hydrogeophysics [HYDROLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Mapping permafrost with airborne electromagnetics (Invited) (3986)
Burke J Minsley1, Lyndsay B Ball1, Benjamin R. Bloss2, Andy Kass3, Neal J. Pastick4,5, Bruce D Smith6, Clifford I Voss7, David O Walsh8, Michelle A Walvoord6 and Bruce K Wylie9, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, United States, (2)USGS, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, CO, United States, (3)Aarhus University, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus, Denmark, (4)Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (5)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Forest Resources, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (6)USGS, Denver, CO, United States, (7)USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (8)Vista Clara Inc., Mukilteo, WA, United States, (9)USGS, EROS Data Center, Baltimore, MD, United States
Aerial EM Survey Reveals Groundwater Systems Beneath Taylor Valley, Antarctica (30679)
Jill Mikucki, University of Tennessee, Department of Microbiology, Knoxville, United States, Esben Auken, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark, Slawek M Tulaczyk, University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States, Ross A Virginia, Dartmouth College, Department of Environmental Studies, Hanover, United States, Cyril Schamper, Sorbonne Universités - UPMC - Paris 6, Metis, Paris, France, Kurt Sørensen, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Peter T Doran, Univ Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, Hilary Dugan, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States and Neil Foley, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Subsurface Ice Detection via Low Frequency Surface Electromagnetic Method (23154)
David E Stillman, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, Robert E Grimm, Southwest Research Institute, Planetary Science Directorate, Boulder, United States and Ronald N Mcginnis, Southwest Research Institute, San Antionio, TX, United States
Magnetotelluric and Surface Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Measurements of Regional and Local Variability of Deep Saline Permafrost in Adventdalen, Svalbard (15866)
Victor Bense, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4, United Kingdom, Andrew M Binley, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom, Kristina Keating, Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, United States, Remke L Van Dam, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, Hanne H. Christiansen, University Centre in Svalbard, Arctic Geology Department, Longyearbyen, Norway, Sara Cohen, University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway and Casey McGuffy, Rutgers University Newark, Newark, NJ, United States
Characterizing Rayleigh Wave Velocity and Amplitude Anisotropy in an Alpine Glacier (31731)
Christina Ann Eilar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Dylan Mikesell, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, Alison E Malcolm, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Earth Sciences, St John's, Canada and John Holloway Bradford, Boise State Univ, Boise, ID, United States
Integration of geophysical, ground surface, and remote sensing methods to identify ice features in discontinuous permafrost near Fairbanks, Alaska (18984)
Thomas A Douglas1, Kevin Bjella2, Christopher A Hiemstra1, Stephen D Newman3, John W Anderson4, Jarrod Edwards4, Steven A Arcone5, Anna M Wagner6, Robyn Barbato7, Jacob Berkowitz8 and Elias J Deeb3, (1)U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fairbanks, United States, (3)U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)Remote Sensing and Fluorescence Spectroscopy Lab, Richmond, VA, United States, (5)Dartmouth College, Thayer School, Hanover, NH, United States, (6)Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), Fort Wainwright, AK, United States, (7)USACE-ERDC CRREL, Vicksburg, United States, (8)Engineer Research and Development Center Vicksburg, Vicksburg, United States
Determining Firn Compaction Rates Using Repeat-Track Radar Surveys in West Antarctica and Greenland (Invited) (6132)
Brooke Medley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Stefan Ligtenberg, University Utrecht / IMAU, Utrecht, Netherlands, Peter Kuipers Munneke, Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, Ian R Joughin, Univ Washington, Seattle, United States, Michiel R van den Broeke, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, Sivaprasad Gogineni, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States and Sophie Nowicki, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
Using Radar Layer Data in Ice-Sheet Models. (Invited) (4402)
Richard C A Hindmarsh, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, CB3, United Kingdom, Hugh F J Corr, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Olga V Sergienko, Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton, United States and Louise C Sime, Ice Dynamics and Paleoclimate, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom