April 1-2, 2010
Keynote speaker: Noah Finnegan (Geological Sciences '07)
Committee: Theresa Kayzar, Matthew Smith, Nicholas Castle, Karl Lang
Abstracts can be downloaded from the 2010 Gala website.
9:00 - 9:15 - Welcome
9:15 - 10:00 - Glaciology 1: Here, There, Gone Tomorrow?
9:15 TJ Fudge: Ice-Pirating on the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica
9:30 Twila Moon: Understanding Mechanisms for Ice Loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet
9:45 Sean Michael: Shrinking Glaciers: Thinning of Blue Glacier in Olympic National Park
10:00 - 10:45 - Volcanology: Magma and Gas Motion and Magnetotellurics
10:00 Aurora Burd: Electrical Conductivity Beneath the Payun Matru Volcanic Field in the Andean Back-arc of Argentina Near 36.5S: Insights Into the Magma Source from a North-South and East-West transect of Magnetotelluric Data Sites
10:15 Theresa Kayzar: Periodically Erupting Degassed Magma: The Evolution of Karymsky, Bezymianny, and Shiveluch Volcanoes in the Past Decade
10:30 Charles Plummer: Pre-Eruptive Thermal Rejuvenation and Complex Mass Recharge in Large Silicic, Crystal-Rich Magma Bodies: The Case of the Masonic Park Tuff, Southern Rocky Mountain Volcanic Field, CO
10:45 - 11:00 - Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 - Glaciology 2: Dynamics, Climate, Erosion, and Transport
11:00 Erin Burke: The Persistence of Climate Memory in Driving Glacier Variability
11:15 Jessica Lundin: Improving Ice Core Chronologies, Using a Transient Firn-Compaction Model with Heat Transfer
11:30 Rachel Headley: Glacial Erosion Revealed Through Detrital Thermochronology and Surface Velocities in the St. Elias Range, Alaska
11:45 Jonathan Toner: The Evolution of Salt Accumulation in the Dry Valleys, Antarctica, through Leaching and Exchange Processes
12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch
1:00 - 1:30 - Geobiology: Bacteria - Moving Metals in Your Geologic System
1:00 Zoe Harrold: Thermodynamic Characterization of Bacillus subtilis Spore-Proton Adsorption
1:15 Josh Creamer: Determining Abundance of Metabolizing Cells vs. Spore Cells in the Natural Environment and Lab Grown Samples Through Fluorescence and Light Microscopy
1:30 - 2:00 - Seismology: Shaking the Northwest
1:30 Abhijit Ghosh: Toward a Unified View of Tremor Distribution in Space and Time
1:45 Andrew Delorey: Seismic Hazards in Seattle
1:30 - 3:15 - Poster Session
Aurora Burd: Factors Affecting Dike Propagation
Alicia Hotovec: Gliding Spectral Lines During the 2009 Eruption of Mount Redoubt, Alaska
Maisie Nichols: Deep Long-Period Earthquakes Beneath Washington and Oregon Volcanoes
Aaron Wech: Cascadia Tremor
Brent Delbridge: The Space-Time Evolution of Episodic Tremor and Slip and the Discovery of Rapid Tremor Reversal
Kate Allstadt: The Seismic Story of the Nile Valley Landslide – Foreshocks, Mainshock, and Aftershocks
Robert Weekly: Termination of a Decadal-Scale Ridge-Spreading Event Observed Using a Long-Term Seafloor Seismic Network Along the Endeavour Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge
Alex Lusk: Calorimetric Analysis of the Toxicity of Carbon Nanotubes on Microbes
Eva Stueeken: Selenium Biogeochemistry as a Planetary Deep-Time Redox Proxy
Isaac Larson: Does Landslide Erosion Keep Pace with Exhumation of the Tsangpo Gorge?
Luke Bergman: Numerical Modeling of Economic and Societal Hazards of the Green River Floodplain, King County, WA
Karl Lang: Sediment Mixing in the Modern Siang River System
Gerd Winterleitner: A Tectonic Driver for the Evolution and Final Drowning of the Central-Plassen Carbonate Platform, Austrian Alps
Gabriele Casale: Exhumation of the Mid-Bosnian Schist Metamorphic Core Complex
Nathan Peters: Comparing Clumped Isotope Analyses of Modern Carbonates to Modern Climate
Sarah Bergman: Calibration of the Carbonate ‘Clumped Isotope’ Thermometer to 200C: Can 47 measurements be used to identify temperature of formation for carbonates precipitated in the shallow crust?
Sean Paul La Selle: A Deposit from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: Determining Properties of Onshore Tsunami Flow through Grain Size Analysis
3:30 - 4:30 - Keynote Speaker, Noah Finnegan: Do Bedrock Rivers Record Climate?
5:00 - 9:00 - ESS Gala Reception (Waterfront Activities Center)
9:00 - 9:15 - Welcome
9:15 - 10:00 - Earth's History: A Window Into the Past
9:15 Adelina Prentice: Investigating Pliocene Warm-Water Upwelling (“Permanent El Nino Condition”) in Littoral Communities of Peru, southern California, and Baja California, Mexico
9:30 Tom Tobin: A High-Latitude Warming Pulse During the Last 200kyr of the Cretaceous
9:45 Shane Schoepfer: Elevated Productivity and Anoxia in the Pacific Leading up to the Permian Triassic Extinction
10:00 - 10:30 - Space Sciences: Storms in Space
10:00 Michele Cash: Storms in Space: The Formation of the Terrestrial Ring Current from Ionospheric Outflow During Geomagnetic Storms
10:15 Tia Lerud: Classifications of Substorm and Storm Triggering Mechanisms
10:30 - 10:45 - Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15 - From Life-Forms to Landforms
10:45 Sanjoy Som: Coming Down the “Cosmic-Importance” Ladder: How Understanding the Early Earth is Key to Exoplanet Research
11:00 Matthew Smith: Characterization of Altered and Evolved Lithologies in Antoniadi Crater/Syrtis Major, Mars
11:15 - 12:00 - Tsunamis: From Earthquakes to Deposits
11:15 Beth Martin: New Stratigraphic Evidence for Crustal Faulting ~1,000 Years Ago, Puget Lowland, Washington
11:30 Derya Dilmen: Analysis of the Real Time Tsunami Forecast of the September 29, 2009 Samoa Island Tsunami for Tutuila Island
11:45 Breanyn MacInnes: Tsunami Deposits Can Distinguish the Distribution of Slip During Earthquakes
12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch
1:00 - 1:45 - Glaciology 3: Stability and Timing
1:00 Zachary Ploskey: Glacial Chronology of Convict Creek, Eastern Sierra Nevada, CA
1:15 Ann Bauer and Marcus Gladden: Determining the Glacial History of Antarctic Bedrock Surfaces Using Cosmic-Ray Produced Isotopes
1:30 Lu Liu: Understanding Ground Ice Formation and Stability in the Dry Valleys, Antarctica: Modeling Based on 10 Years of Meteorological Data from Beacon Valley, Antarctica
1:45 - 3:30 - Poster Session
Laura Mayorga: Monitoring Martian Inter-Annual Climate Variability
Osazonamen Igbinosun: Martian Climate and Subsurface Water
Eugenie Song: Investigating Lunar Central Peak Compositions Using LRO Diviner Thermal Infrared Measurements
Nicholas Castle: Proposed Investigation of the Thermal History of Asteroid 4-Vesta Using the 146Sm to 142Nd Isotopic Decay
Race Roberson: Enhanced Output from the High Power Helicon Resulting from Modification of the Downstream Magnetic Field with a Magnetic Nozzle
Moon-Young Choi: Advanced Computer Simulations of Earth’s Magnetopause for the Multiple Spacecraft Encounter of THEMIS on June 19, 2007
Ariah Kidder: Solar Wind Erosion of Mercury’s Dayside Magnetic Field
Darci Snowden: Three-Dimensional Simulations of the Coupled Ion and Neutral Interaction Between Titan’s Ionosphere and Saturn’s Magnetosphere
Caroline Pew: Floral Evidence for Paleoclimatic Conditions During the PTEM in the Hanna Basin, WY
Peter Polivka: Letting Raindrops Find Life: Relating Raindrop Crater Volume to Atmospheric Pressure
Adam Campbell: Where’s the Beef? – Could Inland Seas Have Provided Refugia for Photosynthetic Organisms During Snowball Earth
Adam Barker: Stable Isotope Fractionation in the Southern Andes with Applications to Glacier Dynamics and Erosion
Katherine Ou: Exposure Ages and C-14 Dating of Recessional Moraines, Scott Glacier, Antarctica
Regina Carns: Grain Growth and Crystal Orientation in Snow and Firn
Kristen Poinar: Temperate Ice Under Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland
Brooke Medley: Estimating Accumulation Rate Variability Across Central Greenland Using Airborne Radar
David Argento: Constraining Atmospheric and Lithospheric Cosmogenic Nuclide Production via Physics Models and Empirical Evidence
Joshua Carmichael: Minimalist modeling for Subglacial Water Propagation
3:30 - 4:00 - Break
4:00 - 5:00 - Award Ceremony/Slideshow
Sarah Schanz (Talk): Investigating the effect of temporally and spatially variable sediment retention on river incision through numerical modeling
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