Northwest Glaciology 2004

October 15-16 at University of Washington, Seattle

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Meeting

Date
October 15-16 (Fri-Sat) from 9:00am to 5:00pm

Location
Room 602, Applied Physics Lab (aka APL aka Henderson Hall, same as the 2001 Seattle meeting)

Registration

  • Students: $20
  • Faculty and others: $40
  • Half-price if not attending Friday Icebreaker

So that we can plan refreshments and the Friday evening buffet, please tell us if you are coming by contacting Al Rasmussen (lar@ess.washington.edu) and whether you will attend the Friday Icebreaker. Because of the nature of the work at the APL, we are required to provide a list of names and nationalities to APL management, so please also give Al your nationality.

Format

We anticipate that the meeting will follow the format of previous years. As usual for NWG, we have no requirements for advance abstracts and titles; the first agenda item on Friday morning will be to work out a schedule.

The time available for each speaker will depend on the number who want to speak. However, due to the anticipated large number of participants, we ask that you be prepared to give your presentation in about 15 minutes maximum including discussion.

We plan to have projection facilities for slides, overheads and PowerPoint presentations.  If you will want any additional equipment, please let us know what you would like as soon as possible, so we will have the best chance of getting what you need.

Icebreaker


We plan to hold the traditional Friday evening gathering and buffet at Charlie Raymond's residence, where there will be an opportunity for more informal discussions.


Directions

The APL can be easily reached from either north or south bound I-5. Exit I-5 at the NE 45th St exit and head East. Continuing east on NE 45th St for 7 blocks, you will come to an intersection with Brooklyn Ave NE. Turning right on to Brooklyn, continue south for 5 blocks to NE 40th Street. Turning right onto NE 40th St, the APL is two blocks west at 1013 NE 40th St.

For those of you driving to the campus and hoping to park, your only option is to park in the Central Plaza Garage under Red Square. The UW parking division has NWG on their database as a group who will be asking for all-day parking October 15th and 16th, be sure to mention that you are attending NWG. Enter the parking complex via 15th Ave at 41st St.  Remember, there is a home football game on the Saturday and even though it starts at 12:30 people will be streaming to the campus much earlier than that! Walk west on 40th St. for 3 blocks to get to the east entrance of the APL.

People

To get a feel for the scope of previous Northwest Glaciology meetings, you may want to peruse the talk list from NWG'02.

Here's a chronological listing of the talks that were presented at NWG'04:

Friday:
  • Hawley: Optical properties of ice
  • Schneider: Antarctic temperature trends and ice cores
  • Junge: Ice nucleation by sea ice bacteria
  • Clarke: Mega floods
  • Rasmussen: Three bad years in Norway
  • Koutnik: Blue Glacier lowering
  • Mote: 20th century changes in seasonal mountain snowpack
  • Mote: New chapter on cryosphere in next IPCC report
  • Bartholomaus: North Cascades glacier project
  • Burrows: Glacier monitoring N Cascade and Mt Rainier parks
  • Nolan: McCall Glacier
  • Ebnet, J: Energy balance model for predicting subsurface melt, Taylor Valley, Antarctica
  • Jackson: Eliot Glacier, Mt. Hood
  • Fountain: Counting glaciers
  • Basagic: Glacier change in Sierra Nevada
  • Boyce: Retreat of Mendenhall Glacier
  • Harrison: Surge of Variegated Glacier
  • Higman: Retreat of glaciers in south-central Alaska
  • Josberger: Bering Glacier
  • Kuriger: Advancing terminus of Taku Glacier, Alaska
  • Motyka: Glacier Bay LIA and post LIA rebound
Saturday:
  • Steig: Heinrich events and climate - chicken and egg?
  • Johnson: Relative entropy in delta18 record
  • Koppes: Landscape response to glacier retreat
  • Marcott: Late Pleistocene glacial geology on Three Sisters, Oregon
  • Truffer: Glacier change on Heard Island (S Indian Ocean)
  • Nolan: Song and dance
  • Koenig: Antarctic accumulation and temperature remotely sensed (Saturday)
  • MacGregor: Radar thermometry
  • Mason: Scaling laws in ice streams
  • Nylen: Cryoconite Holes
  • Smith: WAIS mass balance with GLAS
  • Amundson: Changing basal conditions at Black Rapids Glacier
  • Whorton: Ice cliffs
  • Sniffen: Face of dry-land calving glaciers
  • Lappegard: Pressure field around subglacial channels
  • Ng: Equestrian glaciology
  • Sletten: Beacon Valley ice
  • Hallet: Puget Sound drumlins
  • Pettit: David and Goliath - Glacier vs. Volcano
  • Waddington: Siple Dome 1
  • Price: Siple Dome 2
  • Hawley: Ice stream mnemonics

Links

Participating institutions from 2001:

Glaciology links:

Hotels

If you are interested in meeting and staying with a UW student colleague while at at NWG'04, and extending your discussions over breakfast, contact Joe MacGregor (joemac@u.washington.edu) for available couch/floor space with UW hosts.

Please be aware that there is a home football game on October 16 and all the hotels/motels expect to be booked up for that weekend by the end of September, so make your reservations as early as possible!

There are several hotels or guest houses within walking distance of the campus. Please call the hotel directly to make your reservations.  The following list is arranged by distance to the conference site, closest lodgings first. Times included are approximate walking times.  Pricing may vary slightly.

  • University Inn
    • 4140 Roosevelt Way NE
    • Tel: 1-800-733-3855
    • Standard Room: one person: $85, two people: $95
    • Deluxe Room: one Person: $95. two people: $105
    • parking/continental breakfast included
    • local phone calls free
    • restaurant on premises (Portage Bay Cafe)
    • non-smoking
    • 5 minute walk to conference site.

  • College Inn
    • 4000 University Way NE
    • Tel: (206) 633-4441
    • Historic guest house built at the turn of the century.  10 rooms available ($50-$80)
    • Additional people = $10
    • breakfast included
    • no parking lot (suggest parking at the U lots)
    • no elevator, no smoking
    • shared bathrooms
    • 5 minutes from conference site
    • often preferred by campus visitors.

  • Best Western (University Tower Hotel)
    • 4507 Brooklyn Ave. NE
    • Tel: 1-800-899-0251 -or- (206) 634-2000
    • Single/Double base web rate of $79
    • 30 - 40 rooms available
    • parking included
    • breakfast and tax not included
    • two restaurants on premises
    • 15 minutes to conference site.

  • University Motel
    • 4731 12th Ave NE
    • Tel: (206) 522-4724
    • One person = $78, two people = $93, three people = $99
    • all rooms are Suites (full kitchens)
    • one parking spot per room
    • no breakfast included
    • 15 minutes to conference site.

  • University Travelodge
    • 4725 25th Ave NE (University Village)
    • Tel: (206) 578-7878
    • 30 minute walk to conference site
    • parking included, free coffee.

  • Chambered Nautilus B&B
    • 5005 22nd Ave NE
    • Tel: 1-800-545-8459 or (206) 522-2536
    • Rates from $99 to $144 per night
    • 20-25 min to conference site
    • non-smoking
    • breakfast included
    • UW rates available
    • data ports available.

  • Silver Cloud Inn
    • 5036 25th NE (University Village)
    • Tel:1-800-205-6940
    • 30-35 minute walk to conference site (best to have a vehicle if staying here)
    • Single rooms: $94, double rooms: $104
    • Parking and breakfast included.

Last updated: October 9, 2004
Maintained by: Joe MacGregor