C51C:
A Glimpse Below: Revealing and Imaging Previously Hidden Aspects of the Cryosphere I

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Julie Brigham-Grette, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States and Daniel McGrath, USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States
Primary Conveners:  Daniel McGrath, USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States
Co-conveners:  Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, Julie Brigham-Grette, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States and Katey M Walter Anthony, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Water and Environmental Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Daniel McGrath, USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Exploration of the Climate Change Frontier in Polar Regions at the Land Ice-Ocean Boundary.
Eric J Rignot, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
8:15 AM
 
Arctic Amplification and Potential Mid-Latitude Weather Linkages
James E Overland, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
8:30 AM
 
Peeking Under the Iceā€¦ Literally: Records of Arctic Climate Change from Radiocarbon Dating Moss Emerging from Beneath Retreating Glaciers
Jason P Briner1, Avriel Schweinsberg1, Gifford H Miller2, Nathaniel A Lifton3, Casey Robert Beel3 and Ole Bennike4, (1)University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States, (2)University of Colorado, INSTAAR and Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (4)GEUS, Copenhagen, Denmark
8:45 AM
 
A Classification Scheme for Glaciological AVA Responses
Adam Booth, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom and Ezgi Emir, Turkish Petroleum Corporation, Ankara, Turkey
9:00 AM
 
Permafrost Ice Wedge Geometry Estimates from Ground Penetrating Radar Profiling
Andrew Parsekian, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, Elchin E Jafarov, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States and Kevin M Schaefer, University of Colorado, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
9:15 AM
 
Radar Detections of Buried Supraglacial Lakes Across the Greenland Ice Sheet
Lora Koenig1, Derrick Julius Lampkin2, Lynn Montgomery2, Sara Hamilton3, Casey Joseph2, Samiah Moustafa4, Benjamin Panzer5, Kimberly Casey6, John Drysdale Paden5, Carl Leuschen5 and Sivaprasad Gogineni5, (1)NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Univesity of Maryland, College Park, United States, (3)Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, United States, (4)Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, United States, (5)University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States
9:30 AM
 
Using Internal Layer Deformation and Satellite-Derived Velocities to Explore the Strain History of Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica
Robert W Jacobel1, Knut A Christianson1,2, Adam Wood1 and Brian D. Craig1, (1)St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, United States, (2)Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NEW YORK, NY, United States
9:45 AM
 
Subglacial Lake Whillans, West Antarctica; Solute Dynamics and Fluxes to the Ross Sea
Mark L Skidmore1, Alexander B Michaud1, Amanda Achberger2, Carlo Barbante3, Brent Craig Christner2, Jill Mikucki4, Andrew C Mitchell5, John C Priscu1, Alicia M. Purcell4, Will van Gelder1 and Trista Vick-Majors1, (1)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (2)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (3)University of Venice, Venice, Italy, (4)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, (5)Aberystwyth University, Geography & Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
 
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