C52A:
Deep and Dark: Geophysical Exploration of the Subglacial Environment I

Session ID#: 5081

Friday, 19 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3007 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Alessio Gusmeroli, University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Adam Booth, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Primary Convener:  Alessio Gusmeroli, University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Co-conveners:  Martin Truffer, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Adam Booth, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Martin Truffer, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
Index Terms:

0720 Glaciers [CRYOSPHERE]
0726 Ice sheets [CRYOSPHERE]
0794 Instruments and techniques [CRYOSPHERE]
0994 Instruments and techniques [EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

C52A-01
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: Increased Information Content through a Combination of Ground-Penetrating-Radar and Seismic Methods on Temperate Glaciers. (Invited) (7223)
Lasse Rabenstein1, Hansruedi Maurer1, Kaspar Merz2 and Martin P Luethi2,3, (1)Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)University of Zurich, Geographical Institute, Zurich, Switzerland
C52A-02
Shining a light on the Deep and Dark: complementary seismic and radar measurements of glacier beds (Invited) (16074)
Sridhar Anandakrishnan1, Sivaprasad Gogineni2, Cameron Lewis2, John Drysdale Paden3, Peter Burkett4 and Carl Leuschen2, (1)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States, (3)Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), University of Kansas, Lawrence, United States, (4)The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
C52A-03
Basal Icequakes: Insights into Stick-Slip Motion of the Greenland Ice Sheet (5287)
Claudia Roeoesli1,2, Fabian Walter3, Agnes Helmstetter3 and Eduard H Kissling1, (1)Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology VAW, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)ISTerre Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint Martin d'Hères, France
C52A-04
What have the geophysicists ever done for us? (Invited) (26749)
Martin O'Leary1, Ian Charles Rutt1, Doug Benn2, Adrian J Luckman2,3 and Suzanne Louise Bevan4, (1)Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom, (2)University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway, (3)Swansea University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, (4)Swansea University, Glaciology Group, Swansea, United Kingdom
C52A-05
Channelised Subglacial Hydrology Modulates West Antarctic Ice Stream Basal Conditions and Flow (Invited) (3922)
Martin John Siegert, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Neil Ross, Newcastle University, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom, Dustin M Schroeder, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, United States and NERC-AFI Institute Ice Stream team members
C52A-06
Interpretation of Radar Basal Reflectivity in Ice-Sheet Grounding Zones (8694)
Knut A Christianson1, Robert W Jacobel2, Huw Joseph Horgan3, Sridhar Anandakrishnan4, David M Holland5 and Richard B Alley4, (1)University of Washington, Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, United States, (3)Victoria University of Wellington, Antarctic Research Centre, Wellington, New Zealand, (4)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, United States, (5)New York University, New York, NY, United States
C52A-07
WISSARD at Subglacial Lake Whillans, West Antarctica:scientific operations and initial observations (20535)
Slawek M Tulaczyk1, Jill Mikucki2, Matthew Siegfried3, John C Priscu4, Grace Barcheck5, Lucas Beem1,6, Alberto Behar7, Justin Burnett8, Brent Craig Christner9, Andrew T Fisher1, Helen Amanda Fricker10, Kenneth D Mankoff1,11, Ross D Powell12, Frank R Rack8, Daniel Sampson1, Prof. Reed P Scherer, PhD13, Susan Y Schwartz1 and THE WISSARD SCIENCE TEAM, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)University of Tennessee, Department of Microbiology, Knoxville, United States, (3)Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, (4)Desert Research Institute, Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Reno, United States, (5)Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States, (6)California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, (deceased), Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)University of Nebraska, Andrill SMO, Lincoln, NE, United States, (9)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (10)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, United States, (11)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (12)Northern Illinois Univ., Geology and Environmental Geosciences, De Kalb, IL, United States, (13)Northern Illinois Univ., De Kalb, IL, United States
C52A-08
Subglacial drainage characterization on a small surge type alpine glacier on the St. Elias range, Yukon Territory, Canada. (28193)
Camilo Rada, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Christian Schoof, University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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