C23C:
Phase Dependent: Water, Ice, and Vapor in Cryospheric Deserts Posters

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Session ID#: 27123

Session Description:
In the Cryosphere, water commonly exists in and cycles between three phases: liquid water, ice, and water vapor. In nominally ‘dry’ settings – typical of polar deserts like Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys, high alpine permafrost regions like parts of the Himalaya and Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, and extraterrestrial targets like the crust of Mars – liquid water and/or water vapor are highly limited. Thus, the phase of water and the transition of water between phases plays a critical role on physical, chemical and biological processes. This session aims to explore how ground and surface water – as permafrost, glaciers, lakes, streams and vapor – affects the chemistry, biology and hydrology of ‘dry’ cyrospheric landscapes on Earth or extraterrestrial settings. We encourage abstracts that use field-observation, modeling or remotely sensed surveys to understand how water across its phases is vital to shaping these environments through space and time.
Primary Convener:  Neil Foley, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Convener:  Jill Mikucki, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
Chairs:  Jill Mikucki, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States and Neil Foley, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jill Mikucki, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • H - Hydrology
  • P - Planetary Sciences
Index Terms:

0475 Permafrost, cryosphere, and high-latitude processes [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0702 Permafrost [CRYOSPHERE]
0746 Lakes [CRYOSPHERE]
1823 Frozen ground [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF SUBLIMATION DYNAMICS FOR BURIED GLACIER ICE IN BEACON VALLEY, ANTARCTICA (289340)
Shivani Ehrenfeucht, Donovan Patrick Dennis and David R Marchant, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States
Groundwater and Thaw Legacy of a Large Paleolake in Taylor Valley, East Antarctica as Evidenced by Airborne Electromagnetic and Sedimentological Techniques (289435)
Krista F Myers, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, Peter T Doran, Louisiana State University, Geology and Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, Neil Foley, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Slawek M Tulaczyk, University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States, Hilary A Dugan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Limnology, Madison, United States, Esben Auken, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark, Jill Mikucki, University of Tennessee, Department of Microbiology, Knoxville, United States and Ross A Virginia, Dartmouth College, Department of Environmental Studies, Hanover, United States
Thin, Conductive Permafrost Surrounding Lake Fryxell Indicates Salts From Past Lakes, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica (290708)
Neil Foley1, Slawek M Tulaczyk2, Michael N Gooseff3, Krista F Myers4, Peter T Doran4, Esben Auken5, Hilary A Dugan6, Jill Mikucki7 and Ross A Virginia8, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States, (3)Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (5)Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark, (6)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Limnology, Madison, United States, (7)University of Tennessee, Department of Microbiology, Knoxville, United States, (8)Dartmouth College, Department of Environmental Studies, Hanover, United States
Surface morphologies and oddities for ices under temperature and pressure conditions extending from Earth to ocean worlds of the outer solar system: Do penitentes and suncups form on Europa and Enceladus? (Invited) (211181)
Kevin P Hand1, Daniel F Berisford2, Jeffrey Foster3, Benjamin Furst4, Michael Poston5, Jacob Kosberg2, Amy Hofmann6 and Maggie Lang7, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Los Angeles, United States, (5)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA, United States
A review of limits on microbial activity in the cryosphere: temperature and water availability (Invited) (276668)
Corien Bakermans, Pennsylvania State University Penn State Altoona, Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Altoona, PA, United States
Partitioning of sublimation and evaporation from Lake Bonney using water vapor isotope and latent heat fluxes (280325)
Anthony William Bellagamba, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, Max B Berkelhammer, University of Illinois Chicago, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chicago, United States, Luke Winslow, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States, Doran Peter, Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Krista F Myers, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Moat Development and Evolution on a Perennialy Ice-Covered Lake in East Antarctica (287332)
Madison E Wayt1, Krista F Myers1 and Peter T Doran2, (1)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (2)Louisiana State University, Geology and Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States

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