C52A:
Deep and Dark: Geophysical Exploration of the Subglacial Environment I

Friday, 19 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Alessio Gusmeroli, University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Adam Booth, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Primary Conveners:  Alessio Gusmeroli, University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Co-conveners:  Martin Truffer, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Adam Booth, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaisons:  Martin Truffer, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
C52A-01
 
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: Increased Information Content through a Combination of Ground-Penetrating-Radar and Seismic Methods on Temperate Glaciers.
Lasse Rabenstein1, Hansruedi Maurer1, Kaspar Merz1 and Martin P Lüthi1,2, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)University of Zurich, Physical Geography Division, Zurich, Switzerland
10:35 AM
C52A-02
 
Shining a light on the Deep and Dark: complementary seismic and radar measurements of glacier beds
Sridhar Anandakrishnan1, Sivaprasad Gogineni2, Cameron Lewis2, John Drysdale Paden2, Peter Burkett1 and Carl Leuschen2, (1)The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States
10:50 AM
C52A-03
 
Basal Icequakes: Insights into Stick-Slip Motion of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Roeoesli Claudia1,2, Fabian Walter3, Agnes Helmstetter3 and Eduard H Kissling2, (1)Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology VAW, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)ISTerre Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint Martin d'Hères, France
11:05 AM
C52A-04
 
What have the geophysicists ever done for us?
Martin O'Leary1, Ian Charles Rutt1, Doug Benn2, Adrian J Luckman1,2 and Suzanne Louise Bevan1, (1)Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom, (2)University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway
11:20 AM
C52A-05
 
Channelised Subglacial Hydrology Modulates West Antarctic Ice Stream Basal Conditions and Flow
Martin John Siegert, Imperial College London, Grantham Institute and Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom, Neil Ross, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom and Dustin M Schroeder, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
11:35 AM
C52A-06
 
Interpretation of Radar Basal Reflectivity in Ice-Sheet Grounding Zones
Knut A Christianson1, Robert W Jacobel2, Huw J Horgan3, Sridhar Anandakrishnan4, David M Holland1 and Richard B Alley4, (1)New York University, New York, NY, United States, (2)St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, United States, (3)Victoria University of Wellington, Antarctic Research Centre, Wellington, New Zealand, (4)Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA, United States
11:50 AM
C52A-07
 
WISSARD at Subglacial Lake Whillans, West Antarctica:scientific operations and initial observations
Slawek M Tulaczyk1, Jill Mikucki2, Matthew R Siegfried3, John C Priscu4, Catherine G Barcheck1, Lucas Beem1,5, Alberto Behar6, Justin Burnett7, Brent Craig Christner8, Andrew T Fisher1, Helen A Fricker3, Kenneth D Mankoff1,9, Ross D Powell10, Frank R Rack7, Daniel Sampson1, Reed P Scherer10 and Susan Y Schwartz1, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (5)California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)University of Nebraska, Andrill SMO, Lincoln, NE, United States, (8)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (9)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (10)Northern Illinois Univ., De Kalb, IL, United States
12:05 PM
C52A-08
 
Subglacial drainage characterization on a small surge type alpine glacier on the St. Elias range, Yukon Territory, Canada.
Camilo Rada and Christian Schoof, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
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