Workshop Agenda

Download the PDF Version

 

March 03
Monday AM (Mike Ritzwoller, Doug Wiens)

Introduction and Welcome

8:30 - 8:50 Mike Ritzwoller University of Colorado at Boulder Welcome to SEAP2003 (presentation)
8:50 - 9:05 Terry Wilson Ohio State University New Frontiers in Antarctic Geoscience (abstract, presentation)

The Big Picture

9:05 - 9:35 Ian Dalziel University of Texas at Austin Tectonic Framework of Antarctica (abstract)
9:35 - 9:55 Andrew Nyblade Penn State University Constraining Upper Mantle Thermal Anomalies Using Seismic Methods (abstract, presentation)
9:55 - 10:15 Tim Stern Institute of Geophysics, Victoria University of Wellington Mountain Uplift and Related Processes in Antarctica (abstract, presentation)
10:15 - 10:35 Sridhar Anandakrishnan Penn State University Challenges for Collecting High Quality Geophysical Data in Antarctica (abstract, presentation)
10:35 - 10:55 Break and Poster Viewing

Earth Structure: Crust to Core

10:55 - 11:15 Nikolai Shapiro University of Colorado at Boulder The Antarctic Upper Mantle: Recent Advances and Future Challenges Using Surface Waves (abstract, presentation)
11:15 - 11:30 J.P. Montagner Institut de Physique du Globe Anisotropic Seismology in Antarctica (abstract, presentation)
11:30 - 11:45 Mike Wysession Washington University Investigating the Deep Earth with Antarctic Seismometers (abstract, presentation)
11:45 - 12:00 Xiaodong Song University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Antarctic Array: Implications for Studies of Earth’s Core and Deep Mantle (abstract, presentation)
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch and Poster Viewing

 

Monday PM (Don Blankenship, Sridhar Anandakrishnan)

Contact with Icesheet Dynamics/Climate Rebound

1:30 - 2:00 Slawek Tulaczyk University of California, Santa Cruz What Lies Beneath an Ocean of Ice? How Lithospheric and Crustal Structure of Antarctica Influence Ice-Sheet Behavior (abstract, presentation)
2:00 - 2:30 Rob Deconto University of Massachusetts Coupled Climate – Ice Sheet Modeling of the Ancient Antarctic Environment (presentation)
2:30 - 2:45 Andy Smith British Antarctic Survey Active Sources and Glaciology (abstract, presentation)
3:00 - 3:15 John Wahr University of Colorado at Boulder Isostatic Rebound Caused by Antarctic Deglaciation (abstract, presentation)
2:45 - 3:00 Shijie Zhong University of Colorado at Boulder Mantle Seismic and Viscosity Structures and Post-Glacial Rebound (abstract, presentation)
3:15 - 3:30 Break and Poster Viewing

First Working Group Meeting

3:30 - 5:00 Continental Network/Leap-Frogging Array(s) (Brian Kennett, Arthur Lerner-Lam)
Interdisciplinary Process-Oriented Experiments (Andrew Nyblade, Ian Dalziel)
Technical Challenges (James Fowler, Bjorn Johns)
Icesheet Dynamics/Climate (Slawek Tulacyzk, Shijie Zhong)

First International Collaboration Working Group Meeting

5:00 - 6:00 Anya Reading, Andream Morelli

 

March 04
Tuesday AM (Rick Aster, Mike Ritzwoller)

Volcanos and Earthquakes

8:30 - 8:45 Shamita Das University of Oxford Intraplate Stresses Inferred from the Mw 8.1 1998 Antarctic Plate Earthquake (abstract)
8:45 - 9:00 Steve Bannister Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, New Zealand Icequakes or Earthquakes?
(abstract, presentation)
9:00 - 9:15 Carol Finn U.S. Geological Survey Linking Crust and Mantle: The Origin of Cenozoic Alkali (abstract, presentation)

Marine Geophysics/Margins

9:15 - 9:30 Rob Larter British Antarctic Survey Tectonic Evolution of the Pacific Margin of Antarctica Since 100 Ma (abstract, presentation)
9:30 - 9:45 Lawrence Lawver Institute for Geophysics, UT Austin Edge Effects: Tectonic Evolution of the Antarctic Margins (abstract, presentation)
9:45 - 10:00 Joann Stock California Institute of Technology Tertiary Seafloor Spreading Between East and West Antarctica and Implications for Antarctic Lithospheric Structure (abstract, presentation)
10:10 - 10:15 Roy Livermore British Antarctic Survey Drake Passage and the Scotia Sea
(abstract, presentation)
10:15 - 10:30 Break and Poster Viewing

Previous Seismic Experiments around Antarctica

10:30 - 10:45 Jean-Jacques Leveque IPG Strasbourg A New Permanent Seismic Observatory in Antarctica: The Concordia Station at Dome C (abstract, presentation)
10:45 - 11:00 Mike Studinger Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Geological Framework of Lake Vostok, East Antarctica (abstract, presentation)
11:00 - 11:15 Doug Wiens Washington University The Trans-Antarctic Mountains Seismic Experiment (TAMSEIS): A Prototype for Large-Scale Broadband Deployment in Antarctica (abstract, presentation)
11:15 - 11:30 Rick Aster New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Interdisciplinary Year-Round and Real-Time Geophysical Data From Mount Erebus (abstract, presentation)
11:30 - 11:45 Kazuo Shibuya
National Institute of Polar Research, Japan Current and Future Plans of the JARE Earth Science Programs and the Seismic Instrumentation Development for Antarctic Research (abstract)
11:45 - 12:00 Anya Reading
Australian National University East Antarctica: New Tectonic Models and New Targets (abstract, presentation)
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch and Poster Viewing

 

Tuesday PM (Doug Wiens, Don Blankenship)

Synergistic Methods

1:30 - 1:45 Andrea Donellan
Jet Propulsion Laboratory GPS Evidence for a Coherent Antarctic Plate and for Postglacial Rebound in Marie Byrd Land and the Northern Transantarctics (abstract, presentation)
1:45 - 2:00 Don Blankenship
University of Texas at Austin Investigating the Crustal Elements of the Antarctic Plate with Airborne Radar Sounding (abstract, presentation)
2:00 - 2:15 Garry Karner
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Paradoxical Gravity Anomalies of the Ross Sea, Antarctica (abstract, presentation)
2:15-2:30 John Brozena
Naval Research Lab Long-Range Aerogeophysical Surveys in Antarctica (abstract)
2:30 - 2:45 Phil Wannamaker
University of Utah Thermal Regimes and Architecture of the Crust and Upper Mantle Inferred from Electrical Conductivity Investigations (abstract, presentation)

Model Programs

2:45 - 3:00 Don Forsyth
Brown University Proposed NSF Initiative in Oceanic Mantle Dynamics (OMD) (abstract)
3:00 - 3:15 Brian Kennett
Australian National University Determining the Seismic Structure of a Continent – Lessons from Australia (abstract, presentation)
3:15 - 3:30 Break and Poster Viewing

Second Working Group Meeting

3:30 - 5:00 Continental Network/Leap-Frogging Array(s) (Brian Kennett, Arthur Lerner-Lam)
Interdisciplinary Process-Oriented Experiments (Andrew Nyblade, Ian Dalziel)
Technical Challenges (James Fowler, Bjorn Johns)
Icesheet Dynamics/Climate (Slawek Tulacyzk, Shijie Zhong)

Second International Collaboration Working Group Meeting

5:00 - 6:00 Anya Reading, Andream Morelli

Community Forum

7:30 - ... Umbrella Initiative for Geosciences? (Terry Wilson)

 

March 05
Wednesday AM (Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Mike Ritzwoller)

8:30 - 8:45 Opening Remarks
8:45 - 9:00 Robin Bell LDEO International Polar Year (abstract, presentation)

Logistics and Operations

9:00 - 9:15 Rhett Butler IRIS The Global Seismographic Network in Antarctica (abstract, presentation)
9:15 - 9:30 Scott Borg NSF/OPP USAP Science Support Capabilities and Possibilities (abstract, presentation)
9:30 - 9:45 Chuck Meertens UNAVCO UNAVCO Experiences from Large Instrumentation Initiatives, Operation of a Multi-Agency Technical Support Facility, and Multi-Disciplinary Support to the U.S. Antarctic Program (abstract, presentation)

Reports from Working Group Chairs

9:45 - 10:05 Technical Challenges (James Fowler, Bjorn Johns) (presentation)
10:05 - 10:25 Backbone Network, Leap-Frogging Array (Brian Kennett, Arthur Lerner-Lam) (presentation)
10:25 - 10:40 Break
10:40 - 11:00 Glaciology/Climate (Slawek Tulascyk, Shijie Zhong) (presentation)
11:00 - 11:20 Process-Oriented Experiments (Andrew Nyblade, Ian Dalziel) (presentation)
11:20 - 11:40 International Collaboration (Anya Reading, Andrea Morelli) (presentation)
11:40 - 12:00 Closing Remarks
12:00 Meeting Adjourns

 

Wednesday PM

1:30 - 3:00 Organizing Committee and Working Group Chairs Meet to Design the Science Plan
Organizing Committee: Anandakrishnan, Aster, Blankenship, Ritzwoller, Wiens
Working Group Chairs: Dalziel, Fowler, Johns, Kennett, Lerner-Lam, Morelli, Nyblade, Reading, Tulascyk, Zhong