Agenda
Date and venue:
The workshop will be held on 14 July 2012, in two sessions, 8:00-12:30 and 13:30-18:00, in Portland, Oregon, USA, in Alexanders Room of Hilton Portland, venue of the SCAR Open Science Conference.
ISMASS2012_Workshop_Agenda-Abstracts.pdf
Video archived lectures of each presentation can be found at
Agenda:
08:00-08:20 – Registration
08:20-08:30 – Workshop Introduction
08:30-10:00 – Invited lectures (mass balance from remote sensing;
glacial isostatic adjustment)
08:30-09:00 – “Overview of the Ice Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise
--- Erik Ivins, JPL, Caltech, USA, and Ben Smith, APL, University of
Washington, USA)
09:00-09:30 – “What is a GIA model, and why do we need it to determine ice-mass
--- Pippa Whitehouse, Durham University, UK
09:30-10:00 – “Mass Balance of Antarctic Ice Sheet 1992 to 2008 from ERS and
--- Jay Zwally, NASA Goddard, USA
10:00-10:30 – Coffee break
10:30-12:30 – Invited lectures (modelling of ice-sheet dynamics; contributions to
seal level rise from thermal expansion of the oceans; impacts of SLR)
10:30-11:00 – “Modelling the evolution of Antarctica and Greenland ice sheets:
recent improvements and challenges for the future”
--- Catherine Ritz, LGGE, Grenoble, France
11:00-11:30 – “Convergence of Models and Reality? Bothersome Boundary
--- Slawek Tulaczyk, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
11:30-12:00 – “Ocean thermal expansion and its contribution to sea-level rise over
the past 40 years (1960-present)”
--- Catia Domingues, ACE CRC, Australia
12:00-12:30 – “Global impacts of sea-level rise”
--- Robert Nicholls, University of Southampton, UK
12:30-13:30 – Buffet lunch offered to Workshop participants
13:30-14:10 – Round table “Ice-sheet mass balance from remote sensing, and
--- Round table moderator: Edward Hanna (University of Sheffield, UK)
--- At table: Erik Ivins, Ben Smith, Pippa Whitehouse, Jay Zwally
14:10-14:50 – Round table “Modelling of ice-sheet dynamics”
--- Round table moderator: Frank Pattyn (Université Libre de Bruxelles,
Belgium)
--- At table: Catherine Ritz, Slawek Tulaczyk
14:50-15:30 – Round table “Thermal expansion of the oceans and impacts of sea
--- Round table moderator: Francisco Navarro (Technical University of
Madrid, Spain)
--- At table: Catia Domingues, Robert Nicholls
15:30-16:00 – Coffee break
16:00-17:30 – ISMASS group organization session
17:30-18:00 – Presentation of draft conclusions and closing
