Abstracts can be downloaded from the 2011 Gala website.
9:00 - 9:15 - Welcome
9:15 - 10:15 - Core Studies: Climate and Ice
- 9:15 Twila Moon: Climate science explained: Adventures in teaching climate science
- 9:30 Peter Neff: Alpine ice core stratigraphy: Studies at Combatant Col, southwest British Columbia, Canada
- 9:45 Brooke Medley: Substantial ice loss in Olympic National Park over the past two decades
- 10:00 Spruce Schoenemann: Record of the 17O-excess of H2O from a West Antarctic ice core
10:15 - 10:30 - Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 - It's a Drag: Glacial Erosion
- 10:30 Adam Campbell: Opening the floodgates: Why ice shelves control rapid changes in global sea level
- 10:45 Rachel Headley: Simple solutions for steady-state longitudinal profiles of glacially-eroded valleys
- 11:00 Kristin Poinar: Temperate ice under Greenland's largest outlet glaciers
- 11:15 Zachary Ploskey: Quantifying bedrock erosion by ice sheets
11:30 - 12:00 Interiors: Interesting Instrumentation
- 11:30 Sarah Bergman: Carbonate clumped isotope thermometry as a tool to constrain thermal conditions in the shallow crust during deformation: Paradox Basin, Utah
- 11:45 Aurora Burd: Analysis of two competing ocean types in 3D inversion of magnetotelluric data: Constant depth and varying conductivity v. varying depth and constant conductivity
12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch
1:00 - 1:45 - The Best Stuff is on the Bottom: Sedimentology
- 1:00 Karl Lang: Petrographic evidence for a dominant source of Brahmaputra river sediment in the high Himalayan crystalline sequence
- 1:15 Theresa Kayzar: Investigating uranium nuclide fractionation in sediments and waters using MC-ICP-MS: A case study of contamination from the Juniper Mine, Stanislaus National Forest
- 1:30 Derya Dilmen: Comparison of numerical model results with tsunami inundation limits of September 29, 2009 tsunami event on Tutuila Island, American Samoa
1:45 - 2:30 - The Life that Interacts with our Earth: Biology
- 1:45 Zoe Harrold: Thermodynamic characterization of cadmium and neptunium adsorption onto a common bacterial spore
- 2:00 Galen Griggs: Ecological impacts of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum
- 2:15 Caroline Pew: Palynostratigraphy of Hanna Basin, WY during the PETM (Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum)
2:30 - 4:30 - Poster Session
- Nathan Peters: Clumped-isotope thermometry of pedogenic carbonates: Quantifying the influence of climate, seasonality, and altitude in the South Central Andes, Argentina
- Katie Paulson: Identifying Karst topography in the Dinarides with GIS and MATLAB and the tectonic relevance of such terrains
- Sean Paul La Selle: Tsunami deposits of the southern Kamchatsky Peninsula
- Katy Atakturk: Sediment erosion and provenance from heavy mineral petrography and mixing models in the Eastern Himalayas
- Natalie Baker: Testing for 3,000km of tectonic translation of northern Washington by Pb isotopes in detrital sediments from the Methow Basin
- Kathy Troost: Recent findings on the late Pleistocene stratigraphy in the central Puget Lowland
- Perry Spector: Determining thickness and extent of Antarctic ice during glacial/interglacial cycles
- Dave Argento: Novel cosmogenic nuclide applications from the Cosmogenic Nuclide Laboratory
- Ariah Kidder: Reconnection Events and Sodium Morphology at Mercury
- Michael Hutchins: Radiated Power of Lightning from the WWLLN
- Brian Burkholder: Electrum and Ion Whistler Mode Waves Observed in the Low Latitude Ionosphere
- Elena Amador: Mars Aqueous Mineralogy: A Comparison of Thermal-Infrared and Visible/Near-Infrared Spectral Data
- Makenna Reeves: Global Optical Lightning Intensity near the equator from the C/NOFS Satellite
- Michele Cash: Storms in Space: Variations in the Terrestrial Ring Current Associated with Geomagnetic Storms
- Adelina Prentice: Investigating Pliocene warm-water upwelling (Permanent El Nino condition) in littoral communities of Peru and southern California
- Chelsea Mackaman-Lofland: A closer look at the pyroclastic density current of the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mt St Helens
- Zurriya Hasnan: Seismic Reflection Profiling and Kinematic Modeling of Ventura Basin Thrust System
4:30 - 5:30 - Liquefaction - Chat and Drinks
9:00 - 9:15 - Opening Remarks
9:15 - 10:15 - Processes on Planetary Bodies: Planetary Science
- 9:15 Moon-Young Choi: The importance of magnetic reconnection at the Earth's magnetopause
- 9:30 Eugenie Song: Bulk composition of uplifted lunar crust via thermal IR spectroscopy of impact crater central peaks
- 9:45 Nicholas Castle: Petrology of the polymict eucrites: Testing the single parent body hypothesis
- 10:00 Jonathan Bapst: Steady state water systems on Mars and consequences of extensive subsurface water reservoirs
10:15 - 10:30 - Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 - Solid Data on Unsteady Ground: Seismology
- 10:30 Alicia Hotovec: Strongly gliding harmonic tremor during the 2009 eruption of Redoubt Volcano
- 10:45 Abhijit Ghosh: Tremor as observed by the array of arrays in Cascadia
- 11:00 Kate Allstadt: Repeating earthquakes near the summit of Mount Rainier: Volcanic or glacial?
- 11:15 Robert Weekly: Upper crustal seismic velocity structure of the Endeavor Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge
11:30 - 12:00 Blowing Your Lid: Volcanology
- 11:30 Charles Plummer: Building a zoned eruption, application of a new petrologic model to the generation of zoned ignimbrites: Case of the Carpenter Ridge Tuff, CO
- 11:45 Jakub Sliwinski: U, Th, Pb, and Sr isotopic composition of northwest rift zone basalts on Tenerife, Canary Islands
12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch
1:00 - 1:45 - Is it Hot in Here? Magma Studies
- 1:00 Ann Bauer: High-precision Pb isotope data from crustal xenoliths to examine magma source and crustal interaction, Bezymianny Volcano, Kamchatka
- 1:15 Theresa Kayzar: The formation of U-series disequilibria in magmas: Crust or mantle?
- 1:30 Sarah Gelman: A teaspoon of zircons won't help felsic magmas go down: Thermophysical considerations for magma genesis in Taupo Volcanic Zone, NZ
1:45 - 3:30 - Break
3:30 - 4:30 - Keynote Speaker, Steve Vance: High pressure aqueous geochemistry for studies of icy world interior oceans
5:00 - 9:00 - Gala Reception, Awards Ceremony, & Slideshow (Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall)