C31B:
Glacier Monitoring from In Situ and Remotely Sensed Observations I Posters

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Richard L Armstrong1, Michael Zemp2 and Tobias Bolch2, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States(2)University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Primary Conveners:  Bruce H Raup, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-conveners:  Richard L Armstrong1, Michael Zemp2 and Tobias Bolch2, (1)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States(2)University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
OSPA Liaisons:  Tobias Bolch, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Climate Change Impact on Glaciers in the Langtang and Imja Sub-basins of Nepal from Late 70s to 2010
Samjwal Ratna Bajracharya1, Om Ratna Bajracharya2, Sarju Baidya2, Sudan Bikash Maharjan1 and Finu Shrestha1, (1)International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, (2)Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal
 
A Quarter-Century of Glacier Recession in the Tropical Andes from Landsat: c1987 - c2013
Daniel A Slayback, SSAI/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Compton J Tucker, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cen., Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Observations from the Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Signe Bech Andersen1, Andreas P Ahlstrom1, Morten L Andersen1, Jason E Box1, Michele Citterio1, William T Colgan1, Robert S Fausto1, Dirk van As1, Rene Forsberg2, Henriette Skourup2, Louise Sandberg Sørensen2, Steen Savstrup Kristensen2, Jørgen Dall2, Anders Kusk2 and Dorthe Petersen3, (1)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark, (2)DTU Space, Lyngby, Denmark, (3)ASIAQ, Nuuk, Greenland
 
A new glacier monitoring site in West Greenland
Jakob Abermann1, Dirk van As2, Dorthe Petersen1 and Martin Nauta1, (1)Asiaq, Greenland Survey, Nuuk, Greenland, (2)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark
 
Glacier Changes in the Russian High Arctic.
Michael J Willis1, Andrew K Melkonian1, Matthew E Pritchard1, Eva Marie Golos2, Adam Stewart1, Garth Ornelas3 and Joan M Ramage4, (1)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, United States, (4)Lehigh Univ, Erwinna, PA, United States
 
Change in the Extent of Baffin Island’s Penny Ice Cap in Response to Regional Warming, 1969 – 2014
Mary C Cox1, Heather M Cormier1 and Alex S Gardner2, (1)Clark University, Worcester, MA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Mapping extent changes of the Barnes Ice Cap since the Little Ice Age
Jiayue Li1, Alex S Gardner2 and Matthew Gibb1, (1)Clark University, Worcester, MA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Monitoring of High Mountain Glaciers in the Vicinity of Everest (Himalaya) using Remote Sensing Capability
Sudeep Thakuri1,2, Franco Salerno1,3, Tobias Bolch4,5, Claudio Smiraglia2 and Gianni Tartari1,3, (1)CNR, water research institute, Brugherio, Italy, (2)University Degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy, (3)Ev-K2-CNR Committee, Bergamo, Italy, (4)University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (5)University of Technology - TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
 
Quantitative Evaluation of Landsat 7 ETM+ SLC-off Images for Surface Velocity Estimation of Mountain Glaciers
Liming Jiang1, Yongling Sun1,2, Lin Liu1,2, Sisheng Wang1,2 and Hansheng Wang1, (1)State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth's Dynamics, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China, (2)UCAS University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Tidewater Glacier Velocities from Repeat Ground-Based Terrestrial LiDAR Scanning; Helheim Glacier, Southeast Greenland
David C Finnegan1, Gordon S Hamilton2, Leigh A Stearns3, Adam L LeWinter4, Hany Farid5 and Hanna Renedo2, (1)U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (3)University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States, (4)US Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States, (5)Dartmouth College, Computer Science, Hanover, NH, United States
 
Progress and Challenges for GLIMS 2: Merging the GLIMS and RGI Glacier Databases
Bruce H Raup1, Richard L Armstrong2, Jeffrey S Kargel3, W Tad Pfeffer1, J. Graham Cogley4 and Regine Hock5, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Low resolution optical remote sensing applied to the monitoring of glaciers mass balance.
Philippe Maisongrande1, Vanessa Drolon2, Etienne Berthier3, Else Swinnen4, Sara Verbeiren4, Walter Debruyn4 and Adalbert Arsen2, (1)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (2)CNRS, LEGOS, Touolouse, France, (3)CNRS - Legos, Toulouse, France, (4)VITO, Mol, Belgium
 
Improving glacier volume-area scaling to better quantify tropical Andean glacial water resources from remote sensing
Andrew George Klein, Joni L Kincaid and Iliyana Dancheva Dobreva, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States
 
Revealing basin and regional scale snow accumulation magnitude and variability on glaciers throughout Alaska
Daniel McGrath1,2, Shad Oneel1, Louis C Sass III1, Alessio Gusmeroli3, Anthony A Arendt4, Gabriel J Wolken5, Christian Kienholz6 and Christopher McNeil1, (1)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, (2)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)Department of Natural Resources Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Anchorage, AK, United States
 
Continuous Monitoring of Greenland Outlet Glaciers Using an Autonomous Terrestrial LiDAR Scanning System: Design, Development and Testing at Helheim Glacier
Adam L LeWinter1, David C Finnegan2, Gordon S Hamilton3, Leigh A Stearns4 and Peter J Gadomski1, (1)US Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (4)University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States
 
Regional surface melt constrained from exposed strata on the Greenland ice sheet using structural geology, satellite imagery and IcePod data.
Robin E Bell, Kirsty J Tinto, David Felton Porter, Indrani Das, Nicholas Frearson, Christopher Bertinato, Alex Boghosian, Winnie Chu, Timothy T Creyts, Tejendra Dhakal, LingLing Dong and Sarah E Starke, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Quantification of Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Proglacial Meltwater from a Tidewater Glacier
Eleanor F Darlington1, Richard Hodgkins1 and Adrian Jenkins2, (1)Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leics, United Kingdom, (2)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, CB3, United Kingdom
 
Sensitivity of Mass Balance and Equilibrium Line Altitude to Climate Change in the French Alps
Delphine Six, LGGE Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Saint Martin d'Hères, France
 
Small-Scale Variations in Melt of the Debris-Covered Emmons Glacier, Mount Rainier, USA
Theresa M Dits1, Leah I Nelson2, Peter L Moore1 and Jayne H Pasternak2, (1)Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States, (2)Carleton College, Geology, Northfield, MN, United States
 
Mass balance of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago using a combination of remote sensing and climate modeling techniques.
Enrico Ciraci1, Isabella Velicogna2, Eric J Rignot3, Jeremie Mouginot3 and Michiel R van den Broeke4, (1)University California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
 
Recent thinning of Bowdoin Glacier, a marine terminating outlet glacier in northwestern Greenland
Shun Tsutaki1,2, Shin Sugiyama1, Daiki Sakakibara1, Takanobu Sawagaki1 and Mihiro Maruyama1, (1)Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, (2)NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan
 
Updated inventory for three glaciers coverage in Ecuador
Bolívar Ernesto Cáceres, Instituto Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología, Estudios, Quito, Ecuador
 
Quantifying the Flow Kinematics of Debris-Covered Glaciers with Repeat Airborne LiDAR and Photogrammetry
John W Holt1, Christopher F Larsen2, Joseph S Levy3 and Eric I Petersen3, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Geophysical Institute, Juneau, AK, United States, (3)University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States
 
Surge-like behavior at the non-surge type Matanuska Glacier, Alaska
Masato Furuya and Takahiro Abe, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
 
New insights in the ongoing surge of the Austfonna icecap
Thomas Schellenberger1, Thorben Dunse1, Andreas Kääb1, Jon Ove Hagen1, Thomas Schuler1 and Carleen Reijmer2, (1)University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences, Oslo, Norway, (2)Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
 
Winter speed-up during a quiescent phase of surge-type glaciers: observations and implications
Takahiro Abe and Masato Furuya, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
 
Glacier Basal Sliding in Two-Dimensions Quantified from Correlation of High-Resolution Satellite Imagery: A Case Study on Kennicott Glacier, Alaska
William H Armstrong Jr1, Robert S Anderson1, Jeffery Allen2,3, Harihar Rajaram2 and Leif S Anderson1, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, INSTAAR and Department of Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Applied Mathematics, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Ice-front variations and speed changes of calving glaciers in the Southern Patagonia Icefield from 1984 to 2013
Daiki Sakakibara and Shin Sugiyama, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
 
Detection of stick-slip events within the Whillans Ice Stream using an artificial neural network
Steven P Bernsen, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, United States
 
Analysis and Anatomy of Several High Latitude, High Elevation Ice-Rock Avalanches
Bruce Franklin Molnia, US Geological Survey, National Civil Applications, Reston, VA, United States and Kim Angeli, US Geological Survey, Eastern Geographic Science Center, Reston, VA, United States
 
Directivity of Underwater Sounds Generated in the Vicinity of Tidewater Glaciers
Oskar Glowacki1, Grant B Deane2, Mateusz Moskalik1, Jaroslaw Tegowski3 and Philippe Blondel4, (1)Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Institute of Oceanography, University of Gdansk, Gdynia, Poland, (4)Department of Physics, University of Bath, Claverton Down, United Kingdom
 
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