HE52A:
Moving Beyond Melt: The Impact of Melting Glaciers, Icebergs, and Sea Ice on Ocean Environments II

Session ID#: 92373

Session Description:
Rapid changes in sea-ice cover and ice sheets, occurring at both poles, have sparked increasing interest in determining their climatic drivers and their global implications, such as reduced albedo or sea level rise. The local and regional impacts of melting ice on the ocean, on the other hand, have received comparatively less attention. The polar oceans are primarily stratified in salinity and freshwater forcing has direct impact on water mass transformation. Beyond the direct effect of a predicted increase in freshwater input from the polar cryosphere, there is growing evidence that variations in ice melt can also have significant impact on ocean biogeochemistry, marine ecosystems, sedimentation and sediment transport, air-sea exchange and regional ocean circulation. Here we solicit observational, modeling, and theoretical studies that address the impact of melting glaciers, ice sheets, sea-ice and icebergs on the physical, chemical and biological ocean, on marine ecosystems and on the regional economies that depend on marine ecosystem services.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • CT - Chemical Tracers, Organic Matter and Trace Elements
  • PI - Physical-Biological Interactions
  • SI - Social-Ocean Science Interactions and SDGs
Index Terms:

1621 Cryospheric change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4207 Arctic and Antarctic oceanography [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4207 Arctic and Antarctic oceanography [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4271 Physical and chemical properties of seawater [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4534 Hydrodynamic modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4540 Ice mechanics and air/sea/ice exchange processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4805 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: CHEMICAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
Primary Chair:  Dustin Carroll, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Johnna Holding, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark, Fiammetta Straneo, UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States and Lars Henrik Smedsrud, University of Bergen, Geophysical Institute, Bergen, Norway
Primary Liaison:  Dustin Carroll, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, United States
Moderators:  Dustin Carroll, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, United States and Fiammetta Straneo, UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Dustin Carroll, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

HE52A-01
Time-dependent freshwater fluxes from deep and shallow meltwater sources under Antarctica's large ice shelves (645382)
Susheel Adusumilli, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Helen Amanda Fricker, University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Brooke Medley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Laurence Padman, Earth & Space Research, Corvallis, United States and Matthew Siegfried, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, CO, United States
HE52A-02
Direct and indirect Contributions of Ice Shelves to Micronutrient Supply to the Surface Waters around Antarctica (639615)
Michael S Dinniman1, Pierre St-Laurent2, Kevin R Arrigo3, Eileen E Hofmann1 and Gert van Dijken3, (1)Old Dominion University, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Norfolk, VA, United States, (2)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary, Gloucester Point, United States, (3)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States
HE52A-03
High-resolution ocean model illustrates how ice-ocean interactions impact the CO2 uptake of an Antarctic coastal polynya (656955)
Patricia L Yager, University of Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences, Athens, GA, United States, Dr. Hilde Oliver, PhD, University of Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences, Athens, United States, Pierre St-Laurent, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary, Gloucester Point, United States, Robert M Sherrell, Rutgers University, Departments of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, United States and Sharon Elisabeth Stammerjohn, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
HE52A-04
The Influence of Glacier Cover on Iron Cycling in Patagonian Fjords (648141)
Jon Hawkings1, Robert M Sherrell2, Tim M Conway3, Jemma Wadham4, Katharine R Hendry5, Matthias Sieber6, Rodrigo Torres7, Giovanni Daneri7, Sebastien Bertrand8, Alexander Beaton9, Anne Kellerman10, Matthew Marshall11, Helena Pryer11, Hong Chin Ng5, Vincent Roccanova12, Kaixuan Bu13, Liane G. Benning14 and Robert G Spencer15, (1)University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (2)Rutgers University, Departments of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, (3)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St Petersburg, United States, (4)University of Bristol, Bristol Glaciology Centre, Bristol, United Kingdom, (5)University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, (6)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland, (7)Centro de Investigación en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia, Coyhaique, Chile, (8)Ghent University, Department of Geology, Gent, Belgium, (9)National Oceanography Centre, Ocean Technology and Engineering Group, Southampton, United Kingdom, (10)Florida State University, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (11)University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, (12)Rutgers University, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (13)Rutgers University, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, (14)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (15)Florida State University, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, United States
HE52A-05
From ice to ocean: Understanding the impacts of melting glaciers on marine biogeochemical cycles in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (654966)
Maya Bhatia1, Stephanie Waterman2, David Burgess3, Patrick Williams1, Megan Roberts4, Charvanaa Dhoonmoon1 and Erin Marie Bertrand4, (1)University of Alberta, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (3)Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (4)Dalhousie University, Department of Biology, Halifax, NS, Canada
HE52A-06
Airborne Lidar Measurements of Ice and Phytoplankton in the Arctic Ocean (649529)
Nathan Marshall, Stanford, CA, United States and James H Churnside, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
HE52A-07
Modeling the ecological and biogeochemical changes of the Arctic Ocean caused by the recent decline of sea-ice (653941)
Manfredi Manizza, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Dustin Carroll, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, United States, Dimitris Menemenlis, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Hong Zhang, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Charles E Miller, California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
HE52A-08
The role and relevance of rising air temperatures to bluff erosion in Arctic Alaska (655499)
Ferdinand J Oberle1, Li H Erikson2, Ann Gibbs2, Bruce M Richmond2 and Thomas D Lorenson1, (1)USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, United States, (2)USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
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