Name: Antarctic Science Symposium 2011
Start: 2011-04-27T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2011-04-28T22:00:00-05:00
Location: Monona Terrace

Antarctic Science Symposium 2011

from Wednesday, April 27, 2011 (8:00 AM) to Thursday, April 28, 2011 (10:00 PM)

Monday, April 25, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

8:00 AM Registration and Information 7:30 until 3:00 / 15:00 - Registration Desk 4 near the Gift Shop

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Registration Desk #4, near the Gift Shop
9:00 AM Welcome to the Conference
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Room: Lecture Hall Level 4
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcoming remarks - Buford Price (U. C. Berkeley)
9:10 AM Innovations in Hot-Water Drilling chaired by Ryan Bay
9:10 AM - 10:35 AM
Room: Lecture Hall Level 4
Contributions

9:10 AM IceCube's Enhanced Hot-Water Drill - Terry Benson (IceCube 222 UW-Madison/PSL)

9:30 AM Production Drilling - Alan Elcheikh (IceCube)

9:50 AM Ice Shelf Access Drilling - ANDRILL's Recent Experience at Coulman High - Frank Rack (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, ANDRILL)

10:10 AM Panel Discussion with the 3 speakers - Ryan Bay (UC-Berkeley)
10:35 AM Morning Break
Morning Break
10:35 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Community Terrace - L2 South
11:00 AM Particle Astrophysics in Ice chaired by Buford Price
11:00 AM - 1:05 PM
Room: Lecture Hall Level 4
Contributions

11:00 AM DeepCore upgrades: A phased approach toward precision megaton neutrino detectors - Darren Grant (U of Alberta)

11:20 AM The Askaryan Radio Array - a new instrument for the detection of highest energy neutrinos. - Hagar Landsman (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

11:40 AM Detecting supernova neutrinos in the ice of the South Pole - Marek Kowalski (Bonn University)

12:00 PM DM-Ice: A direct dark matter search at the South Pole - Reina Maruyama (University of Wisconsin--Madison)

12:20 PM Beyond-IceCube – IceCube++ - Christopher Wiebusch (RWTH-Aachen University)

12:30 PM Panel Discussion with the 4 speakers - Buford Price (UC-Berkeley)
1:05 PM Lunch on your own
Lunch on your own
1:05 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Subglacial Lakes chaired by Ryan Bay
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Mtg Rms M + N
Contributions

2:00 PM IceMole – Prototype Development and Testing of a Subsurface Icecraft - Bernd Dachwald (FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences)

2:20 PM Where a little water makes a lot of difference - liquid water in Antarctic glaciology and microbiology - Slawek Tulaczyk (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz)

2:40 PM South Pole ice stream evolution with implications for fabric development and subglacial hydrology - D.D. Blankenship (Institute for Geophysics, U of Texas)

3:00 PM Drilling towards Lake Vostok and accretion ice studies - Vladimir Lipenkov (Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute)

3:20 PM Panel Discussion with the 4 speakers - Ryan Bay (UC-Berkeley)
4:00 PM Afternoon Break
Afternoon Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Community Terrace - L2 South
4:30 PM Logging and Remote Sensing chaired by Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Mtg Rms M + N
Contributions

4:30 PM Glaciology in AMANDA and IceCube - Ryan Bay (UC Berkeley)

4:50 PM Peering into deep blue ice using radar - Kenny Matsuoka (Norwegian Polar Institute)

5:10 PM Future Directions in Antarctic Paleoclimate and Glaciology Research - Jeff Severinghaus (University of California at San Diego)

5:30 PM Panel Discussion with the 3 speakers - Dorthe Dahl-Jensen (Centre for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)
7:00 PM PolarTREC Young Researchers Workshop

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: Mtg Rms M + N
Thursday, April 28, 2011
9:00 AM Ice Cores (Part 1) chaired by Jeff Severinghaus
9:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: Ballroom C/D - L4 east
Contributions

9:00 AM The role of the Greenland Ice Sheet in future sea levels - Based on palaeorecords from ice cores and present observations - Dorthe Dahl-Jensen (Centre for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)

9:20 AM The influence of subglacial processes on ice-sheet dynamics in the vicinity of the South Pole: A modeling study - Frank Pattyn (Laboratoire de Glaciologie, U Libre Brussels)

9:40 AM What can we learn from deep ice cores? - Jean-Robert Petit (UJF-Grenoble)

10:00 AM Ice Cores as a Repository of Ancient Oceanic Cyanobacteria that Contain a Frozen Record of Microbial Evolution - Buford Price (U. C. Berkeley)
10:20 AM Morning Break
Morning Break
10:20 AM - 10:50 AM
Room: Community Terrace - L2 South
10:50 AM Ice Cores (Part 2) chaired by Jeff Severinghaus
10:50 AM - 1:20 PM
Room: Ballroom C/D - L4 east
Contributions

10:50 AM Does it have to be deep, or can we learn anything from shallow ice cores? - Robert Mulvaney (British Antarctic Survey)

11:10 AM Ultra-Trace Gases in Polar Ice Cores - Eric Saltzman (UC-Irvine)

11:30 AM What can we learn from deep ice cores that informs today's changing climate? - Jim White (University of Colorado at Boulder)

11:50 AM Panel Discussion with the 7 speakers - Jeff Severinghaus (UC-San Diego)
1:20 PM Adjourn

1:20 PM - 1:25 PM

6:15 PM Inauguration Banquet - Reception 18:15, Dinner 19:15 - Overture Center 201 State Street

6:15 PM - 10:00 PM