ESS 595B: Changes in Antarctica since the Last Glacial Maximum

ESS 595B: Changes in Antarctica since the Last Glacial Maximum

2 credits CR/NC, SLN
Spring 2008
Meeting time/place: TBA

Schedule:

Previous reading seminars:

Greenland Since the Last Glacial Maximum (Winter 2007)
Ice in the IPCC 4th Assessment (Spring 2007)
Antarctic Meteorology (Winter 2007)
Ice on Mars (Spring 2006)
How to write successful scientific papers and proposals (Spring 2005)
Ice Core Chemistry (Winter 2005)
Inverse Theory and Basal Processes (Spring 2003)
Remote Sensing of Glaciers and Ice Sheets (Winter 2003)
Physics of Ice Core Records (Spring 2002)
Snowball Earth (Winter 2002)
West Antarctic Ice Sheet (Spring 2001)
Radio Echo Sounding of Ice (Winter 2001)
Antarctica in the Current Deglaciation (Winter 2000)
Glacier Changes and Climate (Fall 1999)
Anisotropy and Glacier Flow (Spring 1999)

Date	Topic	Discussion leader(s)
April 9	Past and Future Grounding-Line Retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet H. Conway, B.L. Hall, G.H. Denton, A.M. Gades, and E.D. Waddington Science. 1999.	Michelle and Jessica
April 16	Reconstructing the Antarctic Ice Sheet at the Last Glacial Maximum. Denton,G.H. and T.J. Hughes. QSR. 2001 Ice elevation near the West Antarctic Ice Sheet divide during the Last Glaciation. Ackert,R.P. et al. GRL. 2007.	Joe and Lora
April 23	Decoding the dipstick: Thickness of Siple Dome, West Antarctica, at the Last Glacial Maximum. Waddington, E.D., H. Conway, E.J. Steig, R.B. Alley, E.J. Brook, K.C. Taylor, and J.W.C. White. Geology 2005. Evidence for late Pleistocene thinning of Siple Dome West Antarctica. Price, S.F., H.Conway, and E.D. Waddington. JGR. 2007.	Donovan and T.J.
April 30	Abrupt climate change around 22 ka on the Siple Coast of Antarctica. Taylor, K.C., et al. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2004. Optional: A method for precise measurement of argon 40/36 and krypton/argon rations in trapped air in polar ice with applications to past firn thickness and abrupt climate change in Greenland and Siple Dome, Antarctica. Severinghaus, J.P., et al. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 2003. Optional: Timing of millennial-scale climate change at Siple Dome, West Antarctica, during the last glacial period. Brook, E.J, et al. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2005.	Michelle and Peter
May 7	Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum and its subsequent retreat history: a review Anderson, J.B., et al. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2002.	Joe and Jessica
May 14	Volume of Antarctic Ice at the Last Glacial Maximum, and its impact on global sea level change. Bentley, M. Quaternary Science Reviews. 1999.	Lora and Kristin
May 21	Evidence from Taylor Valley for a Grounded Ice Sheet in the Ross Sea, Antarctica Hall, B.L., et al. Geografiska Annaler Series A: Physical Geography. 2000.	Thomas and Brooke
May 28	Recent Antarctic ice mass loss from radar interferometry and regional climate modelling. Rignot, et al. Nature. 2008. Warm ocean is eroding West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Shepard et al. GRL. 2004.	Brooke and Kristin
June 4	Ice sheet grounding line dynamics: Steady states, stability, and hysteresis.Schoof, C. JGR. 2007. Catastrophic ice-shelf break-up by an ice-shelf-fragment-capsize mechanism. MacAyeal, D.R., et al. Journal of Glaciology. 2003.	Michelle, Thomas, and T.J.