C23C:
Understanding Ice Loss in Coupled Glacier-Ocean Systems through Observations, Modeling, and Theory I Posters

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Carlos F Moffat, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Jason M Amundson, University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau, AK, United States
Primary Conveners:  Dave Sutherland, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
Co-conveners:  Twila A Moon, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Jason M Amundson, University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau, AK, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Oceanic Mixing Processes in Disko Bay-Ilulissat Icefjord System: Can We Quantify the Heat Loss from the Atlantic Water  Layer?
Georges Djoumna, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and David M Holland, New York University, New York, NY, United States
 
Controls on Helheim Glacier calving rates from 2001-2014
Leigh A Stearns1, Steven C Foga2, Gordon S Hamilton3, Fiammetta Straneo4, Dave Sutherland5, Cornelis J van der Veen2, Marilena Oltmanns4 and Kristin M Schild6, (1)University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Department of Geography, Lawrence, KS, United States, (3)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (4)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (6)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
 
Numerical Simulation and Sensitivity Analysis of Subglacial Meltwater Plumes: Implications for Ocean-Glacier Coupling in Rink Isbrae, West Greenland
Dustin Carroll1, Dave Sutherland2, Emily Shroyer3 and Jonathan D Nash3, (1)University of Oregon - 1299, Eugene, OR, United States, (2)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (3)Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
Estimation of Ice Shelf Melt Rate in the Presence of a Thermohaline Staircase
Satoshi Kimura, Keith W Nicholls and Emily Venables, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
Analyzing Trends in Iceberg Coverage in Disko Bay, West Greenland Using Optical Satellite Imagery
Jessica Scheick1, Gordon S Hamilton1, M Brady Butler1, Jakob Abermann2 and Eva Mätzler2, (1)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (2)Asiaq, Greenland Survey, Nuuk, Greenland
 
Interpreting Terminus Fluctuations at Helheim Glacier, Southeast Greenland, through Modeling and Observations
Laura M Kehrl, Ian R Joughin and Daniel Shapero, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Modeling Ocean-Forced Changes in Smith Glacier
David Lilien, Ian R Joughin and Benjamin Eaton Smith, Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Spatial Variability in Surface Elevation Changes of Central-West Greenland Outlet Glaciers
Denis Felikson1, Ginny A Catania1, Kurt Henrik Kjaer2, Niels J Korsgaard3, Leigh A Stearns4, Jonathan D Nash5, Emily Shroyer5, Dave Sutherland6 and Ryan T Walker7, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, (3)University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (4)University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States, (5)Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States, (6)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (7)University of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Pan-Arctic Controls on the Rapid Retreat of Marine-Terminating Arctic Outlet Glaciers
Rachel Carr, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23, United Kingdom; Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1, United Kingdom, Chris Stokes, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom and Andreas Vieli, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Glacier meltwater transport and mixing in Jorge Montt fjord, Patagonia
Carlos F Moffat1,2, Francisca Bown3,4 and Claudio Iturra2, (1)University of California, Santa Cruz, Institute for Marine Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)COPAS Sur-Austral Program, Department of Oceanography, U. of Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile, (3)CECS-Center for Scientific Studies, Valdvia, Chile, (4)University of Concepcion, Department of Oceanography, Concepcion, Chile
 
Ocean Properties and Submarine Melt of Ice Shelves in a High-Arctic Fiord (Milne Fiord)
Andrew Hamilton1, Derek Mueller2 and Bernard Laval1, (1)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
 
Heat and Ice in Sermilik Fjord: Novel Observational Techniques Using PIES
Magdalena Andres1, Fiammetta Straneo1 and Dave Sutherland2, (1)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
 
Temporal and Spatial Variation in Surface Velocity and Basal Friction at Upernavik Isstrøm, Northwest Greenland
Signe Hillerup Larsen1,2, Shfaqat Abbas Khan3, Eric Y Larour4, Ian R Joughin5, Andreas P Ahlstrom1, Christine S. Hvidberg2 and Signe Bech Andersen1, (1)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark, (2)Niels Bohr Institute - University of Copenhagen, Center for Ice and Climate, Copenhagen, Denmark, (3)Technical University of Denmark - Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
 
How and when can submarine melting be inferred from estimates of ocean heat transport?
Rebecca H Jackson1,2 and Fiammetta Straneo1, (1)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Dynamic Activation of a Marine-terminating Arctic Ice Cap
Malcolm McMillan1, Andrew Shepherd1, Noel Gourmelen2, Amaury Dehecq3, Amber Alexandra Leeson4, Andrew Ridout5, Thomas Flament6, Anna Elizabeth Hogg7, Lin Gilbert5, Toby J Benham8, Michiel R van den Broeke9, Julian A. Dowdeswell10, Xavier Fettweis11 and Tazio Strozzi12, (1)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (2)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (3)LISTIC / Université de Savoie, Annecy-Le-Vieux, France, (4)University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom, (5)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (6)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, (7)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (8)Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (9)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (10)Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (11)University of Liège, Geography, Liège, Belgium, (12)Gamma Remote Sensing, Guemligen, Switzerland
 
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