AGU Fall Meeting 2016
More than 24,000 Earth and space scientists, educators, students, and other leaders around the world gather at the AGU Fall Meeting each year in San Francisco, California to interact with colleagues, present and discuss scientific advances, and cultivate their enthusiasm for science.
The 2016 meeting takes place Monday 12 – Friday 16 December 2016.
Below is a list of PSC research presenters and panel members in the 2016 Fall Meeting Program:
MONDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2016 | |
08:00 – 12:20 | A11G-0098 The dependence of Arctic cloud on the synoptic conditions in the Beaufort and Chukchi seasonal ice zone |
Moscone South- Poster Hall | Zheng Liu, Axel J B Schweiger |
09:45 – 10:00 | G11C-08 Proxy representation of Arctic Ocean Bottom Pressure: Bridging gaps in GRACE measurements |
Moscone West-2002 | Cecilia Peralta Ferriz, James Morison and John M Wallace |
10:20 – 12:20 | C12B-01 Studying Elevation Change in the Bellingshausen Sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
Moscone West- 3007 | Allen Pope, Ben Smith, Heather Regan, Paul Holland and Deborah R Shoosmith |
11:50 – 12:05 | C12B-07 In-situ GPS records of surface mass balance, firn compaction rates, and ice-shelf basal melt rates for Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica |
Moscone West- 3007 | David E Shean, Knut Christianson, Kristine M Larson, Stefan Ligtenberg, Ian R Joughin, Ben Smith and Christopher Stevens |
13:40 – 18:00 | C13C Observing and Understanding Changes in Polar Ice Sheets and Glaciers Using Ground, Airborne, and Satellite Remote Sensing II Posters |
Moscone South- Poster Hall | Coveners: Eric J Rignot, Michael Studinger, Isabella Velicogna, and Benjamin E Smith |
13:40 – 18:00 | C13C-0835 Seasonal variability in ice-front position, glacier speed, and surface elevation at Helheim Glacier, SE Greenland, from 2010-2016 |
Moscone South- Poster Hall | Laura M Kehrl, Ian R Joughin and David E Shean |
13:40 – 18:00 | C13C-0845 Complex patterns of 21st century Greenland outlet glacier change |
Moscone South- Poster Hall | Twila A Moon, Mark A Fahnestock, Ted Scambos, and Ian R Joughin |
13:40 – 18:00 | B13C-0577 Geochemical heterogeneity of rivers draining the Canadian Arctic Archipelago |
Moscone South- Poster Hall | Matthew B Alkire, Andrew D Jacobson, Gregory O Lehn, Robie W Macdonald and Matthew W Rossi |
13:40 – 18:00 | C13D Remote Sensing of Glaciers II Posters |
Moscone South- Poster Hall | Conveners: Andreas Kääb, Alex S Gardner and Anthony A Arendt |
13:40 – 18:00 | C13C-0855 Multi-Decadal and High-Resolution Observations of Greenland Outlet Glacier Dynamics from the Greenland Ice Mapping Project (GIMP) |
Moscone South- Poster Hall | Michalea D King, Ian Howat, Seongsu Jeong, Ian R Joughin, Benjamin E Smith and Ted A Scambos |
16:00 – 16:15 | C14C-01 Inter-annual Variability in Snow Accumulation using Ground-Penetrating Radar on Wolverine and Gulkana glaciers, Alaska: Implications for Glacier Mass Balance Modeling |
Moscone West- 3009 | Daniel McGrath, Louis Sass, Chris McNeil, Esther Babcock, Salvatore G Candela, Shad O’Neel, Anthony A Arendt and Hans-Peter Marshall |
TUESDAY, 13 DECEMBER 2016 | |
08:00 – 08:15 | C21D-01 A linked lake system beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica reveals an efficient mechanism for subglacial water flow |
Moscone West- 3007 | Benjamin E Smith, Noel Gourmelen, Alexander Huth and Ian R Joughin |
08:00 – 12:20 | C21B-0688 Ice-sheet Temperature Around Subglacial Lake Vostok Constrained by New Flowband Modeling |
Moscone South- Poster Hall | Paul M. S. Kintner, Dale P Winebrenner, and Michelle R Koutnik |
08:00 – 12:20 | IN21B-1732 Fast Deployment on the Cloud of Integrated Postgres, API and a Jupyter Notebook for Geospatial Collaboration |
Moscone South- Poster Hall | Rob Fatland, Amanda Tan and Anthony A Arendt |
08:00 – 12:20 | C21C Variability in the Arctic and Antarctic: Sea Ice, Ocean, and Atmosphere Interactions I Posters |
Moscone South- Poster Hall | Amy Solomon, James O Pope, Michael Steele, Chelle L Gentemann, and Marilyn N Raphael |
08:00 – 12:20 | C21C-0720 Characterizing “Rotten” Ice: Changes in first-year Arctic sea ice during advanced summer melt |
Moscone South- Poster Hall | Carie Marie Frantz, Karen Junge, Bonnie Light, Monica V Orellana, Shelly Carpenter, Samuel M Farley, Byron C Crump, Ross Lieb-Lappen and Zoe Courville |
08:00 – 12:20 | C21A-0658 Changes in Arctic Sea Ice Thickness and Floe Size |
Moscone South- Poster Hall | Jinlun Zhang, Axel J B Schweiger, Harry L Stern III and Michael Steele |
17:15 – 17:30 | EP24C-06 An automated, open-source (NASA Ames Stereo Pipeline) workflow for mass production of high-resolution DEMs from commercial stereo satellite imagery: Application to mountain glacies in the contiguous US (Invited) |
Moscone West- 2003 | David E Shean, Anthony A Arendt, Erin Whorton, Jon L Riedel, Shad O’Neel, Andrew G Fountain and Ian R Joughin |
WEDNESDAY, 14 DECEMBER 2016 | |
08:00 – 10:00 | C31D Variability in the Arctic and Antarctic: Sea Ice, Ocean, and Atmosphere Interactions II |
Moscone West- 3009 | Conveners: Chelle L Gentemann, Michael Steele, Daniel Lee Feltham, Amy Solomon and James O Pope |
08:00 – 12:20 | C31B-0753 Radiative Transfer Modeling to Estimate the Impact of CDOM on Light Absorption within Changing Arctic Sea Ice |
Moscone South- Poster Hall | Regina Carns, Bonnie Light and Karen E Frey |
08:00 – 12:20 | PP31B-2272 Allan Hills Pleistocene Ice Project (PIP) |
Moscone South- Poster Hall | Andrei Kurbatov, Edward Brook, Seth W Campbell, Howard Conway, Nelia W Dunbar, John A Higgins, Nels Anton Iverson, Laura M Kehrl, William C. McIntosh, Nicole E Spaulding, Yuzhen Yan and Paul Andrew Mayewski |
08:00 – 12:20 | C31B The Future of Ice in the Polar World: Using Past and Present Data to Prepare for Rapid Change Posters |
Moscone South- Poster Hall | Regina Carns, Sarah E Myhre, Ethan G Hyland, and Carli A Arendt |
08:45 – 09:00 | C31D-04 Influence of the recent high-latitude atmospheric circulation change on summertime Arctic sea ice |
Moscone West- 3009 | Qinghua Ding, Axel J B Schweiger, Michelle L L’heureux, David S Battisti, Nathaniel C Johnson, Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, Qin Zhang, Kirstin Harnos, Ryan M Eastman and Eric J. Steig |
09:00 – 09:15 | C31D-05 “Rotten Ice”: Characterizing the Physical Properties of Arctic Sea Ice Under Conditions of Extreme Summer Melt (Invited) |
Moscone West- 3009 | Bonnie Light, Carie Marie Frantz, Karen Junge, Monica V Orellana, Shelly Carpenter, Samuel M Farley, Ross Lieb-Lappen and Zoe Courville |
10:20 – 12:20 | C32B Variability in the Arctic and Antarctic: Sea Ice, Ocean, and Atmosphere Interactions III |
Moscone West- 3009 | Conveners: James O Pope, Amy Solomon, Michael Steele, Chelle L Gentemann and Daniel Lee Feltham |
13:40 – 13:55 | C33E-01 Straddling Interdisciplinary Seams: Working Safely in the Field, Living Dangerously With a Model (Invited) |
Moscone West- 3009 | Bonnie Light and Andrew Roberts |
14:55 – 15:10 | G33C-06 InSAR Constraints on the Deformation of Debris-Covered Glaciers in the Khumbu Region of Nepal (Invited) |
Moscone West- 2004 | David A Schmidt, Bernard Hallet, Adam D Barker, David E Shean and Howard Conway |
15:25 – 15:40 | C33E-08 Arctic Sea Ice Classification and Mapping for Surface Albedo Parameterization in Sea Ice Modeling |
Moscone West- 3009 | Son V Nghiem, Pablo Clemente-Colón, Donald K Perovich, Chris Polashenski, William R Simpson, Ignatius G Rigor, John Edward Woods, Dieu T Nguyen and Gregory Neumann |
16:00 – 16:15 | C34A-01 The Phenology of Arctic Ocean Surface Warming |
Moscone West- 3009 | Michael Steele and Suzanne Dickinson |
16:30 – 16:45 | C34C-03 Monitoring glacier change: advances in cross-disciplinary research and data sharing methods (Invited) |
Moscone West- 2000 | Anthony A Arendt, Shad O’Neel, Graham Cogley, David F Hill and Eran W Hood |
THURSDAY, 15 DECEMBER 2016 | |
08:00 – 12:20 | C41E-0718 Firn Thickness Changes (1982-2015) Driven by SMB from MERRA-2, RACMO2.3, ERA-Int and AVHRR Surface Temperature and the Impacts to Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Balance |
Moscone South- Poster Hall | Jun Li, Brooke Medley, Tom Neumann, Benjamin E Smith, Scott B Luthcke and H Jay Zwally |
10:50 – 11:05 | C42A-03 Evolution of Crevasses Fed by Water from the East Greenland Firn Aquifer |
Moscone West- 3009 | Kristin Poinar, Ian R Joughin, David Lilien, Ludovic Brucker, Laura M Kehrl and Sophie Nowicki |
FRIDAY, 16 DECEMBER 2016 | |
09:45 – 10:00 | C51E-08 Clean, Logistically Light Access to Explore the Closest Places on Earth to Europa and Enceladus (Invited) |
Moscone West- 2020 | Dale P Winebrenner, W. Timothy Elam, Paul M. S. Kintner, Scott Tyler, and John S Selker |
13:40 – 18:00 | C53A-0697 Past and present flow organization of the Greenland Ice Sheet |
Moscone South- Poster Hall | Joseph A MacGregor, Mark A Fahnestock, Ginny A Catania, Andy Aschwanden, William T Colgan, Ian R Joughin and Mathieu Morlighem |
13:40 – 18:00 | C53C-0733 Bedform signature and sediment properties of a 20th century grounding line beneath Pine Island Ice Shelf, West Antarctica from high-resolution AUV data |
Moscone South- Poster Hall | Damon Davies, Robert G. Bingham, Alastair G. C. Graham, Matteo Spagnolo, Pierre Dutrieux, Adrian Jenkins and David G Vaughan |
14:25 – 14:40 | A53I-04 Evaluation and Improvement of Polar WRF simulations using the observed atmospheric profiles in the Arctic seasonal ice zone |
Moscone West- 3002 | Axel J B Schweiger and Zheng Liu |
16:15 – 16:30 | C54A-02 Rise in central west Greenland surface melt unprecedented over the last three centuries (Invited) |
Moscone West- 3007 | Luke D Trusel, Sarah B Das, Matthew B Osman, Matthew Jared Evans, Ben Smith, Joe McConnell, Brice Noel and Michiel R van den Broeke |
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