C13B:
Global Climate Change and Cryospheric Systems III Posters

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Jasper Knight, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and Jason P Briner, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States
Primary Conveners:  Jasper Knight, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Co-conveners:  Neil F Glasser, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom, Jason P Briner, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States and Laura Levy, Aarhus University, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus, Denmark
OSPA Liaisons:  Laura Levy, Aarhus University, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus, Denmark

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Middle to late Holocene fluctuations of the Vindue glacier, an outlet glacier of the Greenland Ice Sheet, central East Greenland.
Laura Levy1,2, Sarah K. Hammer2, Meredith A Kelly2, Thomas V Lowell3, Brenda L Hall4, Jennifer A Howley2, Paul Wilcox5 and Aaron Medford4, (1)Aarhus University, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus, Denmark, (2)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)Univ Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States, (4)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Glaciological reconstruction of Holocene ice margins in northwestern Greenland
Sean D Birkel, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States; Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States, Erich C Osterberg, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, Meredith A Kelly, Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States and Yarrow Axford, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States
 
Using Coastal Ice Cap Records to Investigate Maritime Climate and Ice Sheet Processes in West Greenland
Sarah B Das1, Matthew Jared Evans2, Karen E Frey3, Matthew B Osman1,4, Benjamin Eaton Smith5, Laura A Stevens1,4, Luke D Trusel3, Ashley York3 and Matthew Bingham6, (1)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Wheaton College, Norton, MA, United States, (3)Clark University, Graduate School of Geography, Worcester, MA, United States, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)Milton Academy, Milton, MA, United States
 
A 300 Year Surge History of the Drangajökull Ice Cap, Northwest Iceland: Surge Frequency and Little Ice Age Maximum
Skafti Brynjolfsson1,2, Anders Schomacker1,3, Olafur Ingolfsson2,4 and Esther Ruth Gudmundsdottir2, (1)Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, (2)University of Iceland, Institute of Earth Sciences, Reykjavik, Iceland, (3)Geological Museum – University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (4)University Centre in Svalbard, Geology, Longyearbyen, Norway
 
Deglaciation of the Drangajökull ice cap, NW Iceland: preliminary results from 36Cl cosmogenic exposure dating
Anders Schomacker1,2, Skafti Brynjolfsson1, Olafur Ingolfsson3 and Jakob K Keiding4, (1)Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, (2)Geological Museum – University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (3)University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, (4)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark
 
Increasing Freshwater Runoff and Tidal Action Influences on Spatial Mixing Patterns in Søndre Strømfjord, West Greenland
Crystal R Smiley1, Nicholas Kamenos2, Trevor Hoey2, Finlo Cottier3 and Robert M Ellam4, (1)University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12, United Kingdom, (2)University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, (3)Scottish Assoc Marine Science, Argyll, United Kingdom, (4)Scottish Universities Environmental Research Center at the University of Glasgow, East Kilbride, United Kingdom
 
Salt Marshes as Monitors of Late Holocene Outlet Glacier Retreat
Leanne Mary Wake, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE1, United Kingdom, Sarah Woodroffe, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom, Antony J Long, University of Durham, Durham, DH1, United Kingdom and Glenn A. Milne, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
 
Lacustrine Records of Holocene Mountain Glacier Fluctuations from Western Greenland
Avriel Schweinsberg1, Jason P Briner1 and Ole Bennike2, (1)University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States, (2)GEUS, Copenhagen, Denmark
 
Last Glacial - Present Glacial Activity in East Greenland Fjords Inferred from Swath Bathymetry and High-Resolution Seismic Data
Matthias Forwick1, Jan Sverre Laberg1, Katrine Husum2 and Ingrid L. Olsen1, (1)University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, (2)Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway
 
Thermal Regime Change of a Retreating Polythermal Glacier from Repeat Ground Penetrating Radar
David M Rippin, University of York, Environment Department, York, YO10, United Kingdom, Ian C Willis, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Heidi Sevestre, University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway
 
Assessing the influence of sea ice conditions on outlet glacier retreat in Disko and Uummannaq Bays, West Greenland
Ashley York1, Karen E Frey1, Sarah B Das2, Matthew Jared Evans3, Alex S Gardner4, Benjamin Eaton Smith5 and Luke D Trusel1,6, (1)Clark University, Graduate School of Geography, Worcester, MA, United States, (2)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Wheaton College, Norton, MA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
1,350,000 Year History of Siberian Permafrost Based on U-Pb Chronology of Speleothems
Anton Vaks1, Andrew J. Mason2, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach3, Alexander M. Kononov4, Alexander V. Osintcev5 and Gideon Mark Henderson2, (1)University of Oxford, Earth Sciences, Oxford, 0X1, United Kingdom, (2)University of Oxford, Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (3)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Climate Geology, Zurich, Switzerland, (4)Institute of Earth’s Crust, Russian Academy of Science, Siberian Branch, Irkutsk, Russia, (5)Arabica Speleological Club, Irkutsk, Russia
 
Ice Elevation Changes in the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica Using Multiple Cosmogenic Nuclides
Shasta Marrero1, Andrew Hein1, David Sugden1, John Woodward2, Stuart Dunning2 and Kate Reid2, (1)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (2)Northumbria University, Geography, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
 
Several Firn Core Records of Accumulation over the Past Two Millennia in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica
Brooke Medley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Tom Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States, Joseph R McConnell, Desert Res Inst, Reno, NV, United States, Michael Sigl, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States and Sepp Kipfstuhl, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
 
Observations on Ventifacts and Wind-Polished Boulders in Pleistocene Coversands, Ice-Marginal New Jersey
Mark N Demitroff, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
 
The Southern Annular Mode (SAM) in PMIP2 Simulations of the Last Glacial Maximum
Seong-Joong Kim1, Junmei Lu2 and Baek-Min Kim1, (1)KOPRI Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea, (2)National Climate Center, Chinese Meteorological Administration, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Patterns in Polar Climate Change: How Well Do GCMs Capture Melt-Season Variability?
David B Reusch, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States, David P Schneider, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Christopher Charles Karmosky, University of Tennessee Martin, Department of Agriculture, Geosciences and Natural Resources, Martin, TN, United States and Derrick Julius Lampkin, Univesity of Maryland, College Park, United States
 
Compromises between Circumpolar Vortex and Cryospheric Extent
Gwangyong Choi, Jeju National University, Jeju, South Korea, David A Robinson, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States and Junsu Kim, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
 
Are Glaciers and Ice Sheets Carbon Sources or Carbon Sinks?
Joseph A Graly, James I Drever and Neil F Humphrey, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
 
Towards Better Integration of Climate Models and Models for the Terrestrial Cryosphere (Permafrost and Glaciers)
Bernd Etzelmuller1, Sebastian Westermann2, Kjersti Gisnas1, Kjetil Schanke Aas1, Thomas Schuler1, Thorben Dunse3, Torbjorn Ostby1, Terje Berntsen1, Jon Egill Kristjansson1 and Frode Stordal1, (1)University of Oslo, Department of geosciences, Oslo, Norway, (2)University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, (3)University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences, Oslo, Norway
 
Antarctic Pumpdown---a New Geoengineering Concept for Capturing and Storing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
James E Beget, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Glacistore: Understanding Late Cenozoic Glaciation and Basin Processes for the Development of Secure Large Scale Offshore CO2 Storage (North Sea).
Heather Ann Stewart1, Maria Barrio2, Maxine Akhurst1, Per Aagaard3, Juan Alcalde4, Andreas Bauer2, Tom Bradwell1, Andrew Cavanagh5, Jan Inge Faleide3, Anne-Kari Furre5, Stuart Haszeldine4, Berit Oline Hjelstuen6, Sam Holloway7, Harald Johansen8, Gareth Johnson4, Wolfram Kuerschner3, Nazmul Haque Mondol3, Etor Querendez2, Philip S Ringrose5, Hans Petter Sejrup6, Margaret Stewart1, Daniel Stoddart9, Mark Wilkinson4 and Heleen Zalmstra3, (1)British Geological Survey, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (2)SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway, (3)University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, (4)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (5)Statoil ASA, Trondheim, Norway, (6)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (7)British Geological Survey Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom, (8)Institute for Energy Technology, Kjeller, Norway, (9)Lundin Norway AS, Trondheim, Norway
 
Future Global Cryosphere: Impacts of Global Warming
Thian Yew Gan, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Roger G Barry, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Regional Climate Change in the Northern Hemisphere
Kang Wang, LZU Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China and Tingjun Zhang, LZU Lanzhou University, College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou, China; University of Colorado, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Assessing Antarctica’s Ice Shelves for Vulnerability to Surface-Melt-Induced Collapse Using Scatterometry
Karen E Alley, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Theodore A Scambos, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and David G Long, Brigham Young Univ, Provo, UT, United States
 
Recent Snow Accumulation Variability in Northwest Greenland from a Compilation of Snow Pits, Ice Cores, and Instrumental Records
Gifford J Wong1, Erich C Osterberg1, Robert L Hawley1, Zoe Courville1,2, David G Ferris1, Jennifer A Howley1, Sarah K Caughey1, Eric Lutz1 and Thomas B Overly1, (1)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)USACE-CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States
 
Regional scale climatic trends derived from Younger Dryas glaciers in the U.K.
Danni Pearce1,2, Brice R Rea2, Iestyn Barr3, David Small4 and Des McDougall5, (1)University of Worcester, Worcester, WR2, United Kingdom, (2)University of Aberdeen, School of Geosciences, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (3)Queen University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom, (4)University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, (5)University of Worcester, Worcester, United Kingdom
 
Geomorphic and Modeling Evidence for a Late Pleistocene Cirque Glacier in Southwest England
Jasper Knight, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Stephan Harrison, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom and Ann V Rowan, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23, United Kingdom
 
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