NS34A:
Applications of Near Surface Geophysics in Cold Regions II

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Reginald R Muskett, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Steven A Arcone, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States
Primary Conveners:  Martin A Briggs, USGS Office of Groundwater, Reston, VA, United States; USGS Office of Groundwater, Branch of Geophysics, Reston, VA, United States
Co-conveners:  Seth W Campbell, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States; U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States and Steven A Arcone, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Martin A Briggs, USGS Office of Groundwater, Reston, VA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
Mapping permafrost with airborne electromagnetics
Burke J Minsley1, Lyndsay B Ball1, Benjamin R. Bloss2, Andy Kass1, Neal Pastick3,4, Bruce D Smith1, Clifford I Voss5, David O Walsh6, Michelle A Walvoord1 and Bruce K Wylie7, (1)USGS, Denver, CO, United States, (2)USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (4)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Forest Resources, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (5)USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (6)Vista Clara Inc., Mukilteo, WA, United States, (7)USGS, EROS Data Center, Baltimore, MD, United States
4:15 PM
 
Aerial EM Survey Reveals Groundwater Systems Beneath Taylor Valley, Antarctica
Jill Mikucki1, Esben Auken2, Slawek M Tulaczyk3, Ross A Virginia4, Cyril Schamper5, Kurt Sørensen2, Peter T Doran6, Hilary Dugan7 and Neil Foley8, (1)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, (2)Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, (3)Univ California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (4)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (5)Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France, (6)Univ Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (7)University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (8)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
4:30 PM
 
Subsurface Ice Detection via Low Frequency Surface Electromagnetic Method
David E Stillman, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Robert E Grimm, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Planetary Science Directorate, Boulder, CO, United States and Ronald N Mcginnis, Southwest Research Institute, San Antionio, TX, United States
4:45 PM
 
Magnetotelluric and Surface Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Measurements of Regional and Local Variability of Deep Saline Permafrost in Adventdalen, Svalbard
Victor Bense1, Andrew M. Binley2, Kristina Keating3, Remke L Van Dam4, Hanne H. Christiansen5, Sara Cohen5 and Casey McGuffy3, (1)University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, (2)University of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom, (3)Rutgers University Newark, Newark, NJ, United States, (4)Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, (5)University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway
5:00 PM
 
Characterizing Rayleigh Wave Velocity and Amplitude Anisotropy in an Alpine Glacier
Christina Ann Eilar1, Dylan Mikesell1, Alison E Malcolm2 and John Holloway Bradford3, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Memorial University of Newfoundland, Earth Sciences, St John's, NL, Canada, (3)Boise State Univ, Boise, ID, United States
5:15 PM
 
Integration of geophysical, ground surface, and remote sensing methods to identify ice features in discontinuous permafrost near Fairbanks, Alaska
Thomas A Douglas1, Kevin Bjella1, Christopher A Hiemstra1, Stephen D Newman2, John Anderson3, Jarrod Edwards3, Steven A Arcone2, Anna M Wagner1, Robyn Barbato2, Jacob Berkowitz4 and Elias J Deeb2, (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, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)Remote Sensing and Fluorescence Spectroscopy Lab, Richmond, VA, United States, (4)U.S. Army Environmental Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, United States
5:30 PM
 
Determining Firn Compaction Rates Using Repeat-Track Radar Surveys in West Antarctica and Greenland
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, Netherlands, Ian R Joughin, Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, 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, MD, United States
5:45 PM
 
Using Radar Layer Data in Ice-Sheet Models.
Richard C A Hindmarsh1, Hugh F J Corr2, Olga V Sergienko3 and Louise C Sime2, (1)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, CB3, United Kingdom, (2)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States