2013 Gala

April 4-5, 2013

Keynote speaker: Summer Rupper (ESS '07)

Committee: Kelly Hillbun, Matt Tilley, Tom Tobin

Schedule

Abstracts can be downloaded from the 2013 Gala website.

9:30 - 9:45 - Opening Remarks

9:45 - 10:30 - Above the Earth: Space Science

9:45 Leo Zheng: A model of X-ray background at atmosphere heights of 25-40km
10:00 Ian K. Johnson: A Solid Fuel Plasma Source for the High Power Helicon
10:15 Michael L. Hutchins: Energetic difference of Oceanic and Continental Lightning

10:30 - 10:45 - Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:45 - Life - Earth Connections: Geobiology

10:45 Elena Amador: The Lost City Hydrothermal Field: A Spectroscopic and Astrobiological Martian Analog
11:00 Zoë Harrold: Investigating anaerobic and aerobic Bacillus subtilis spore-uranium (VI) adsorption and its influence on dissolved uranium (VI) speciation
11:15 Adam Campbell: A Snowball's Chance: How could photosynthetic life survive the Snowball Earth?
11:30 Kelly Hillbun: Application of carbon isotope chemostratigraphy as a chronostratigraphic tool in Upper Devonian carbonate slopes: Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Western Australia

11:45 - 1:00 - Lunch

1:00 - 1:45 - Rumbling Earth: Seismology

1:00 Joshua D. Carmichael: Seismic Monitoring of the Western Greenland Ice Sheet: Response to Early Lake Drainage
1:15 Alicia Hotovec-Ellis: Changes in seismic velocity prior to the 2004 eruption of Mount St. Helens volcano
1:30 Justin Sweet: Tracking Slow Slip with Low-Frequency Earthquakes

1:45 - 3:00 - Posters I: Space and Planetary Science, Paleontology and Sedimentology, Structural Geology, Seismology, Geomicrobiology

Brian S. Burkholder: Lightning-Induced Whistler Ray Tracing in the Low Latitude Ionosphere
Jonathan Bapst: Seasonal Release of Water Vapor by Ground Ice on Mars: Implications for Surface Frosts and Atmospheric Water Abundance
Craig Foulds: Initial Investigation into Alternative Fuels for a Pulsed Plasma Thruster
Charles Johnson: Interpreting the late Oligocene Blakeley Formation at Alki Point, Seattle
Danielle de Montigny: The Metaline Limestone of Pend Oreille County, Washington: Preservation of Early Animal Life
Bret Buskirk: Oxygen and carbon stable isotopes from biogenic calcites of Late Eocene freshwater bivalves from the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, CO
Thomas S. Tobin: Contributions from Deccan Volcanism to the K-Pg Mass Extinction
Brendan Miller: Structural models for the formation of Umtanum ridge, central Washington
Carl W. Ulberg: Characterizing episodic tremor and slip initiation using source amplitudes in northern Cascadia
Barbara Walker: Metabolic Efficiency of Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea

3:00 - 3:30 - Break/Seminar Snacks

3:30 - 4:30 - Keynote Address, Summer Rupper: Atmospheric warming and glacier retreat in the "water towers of Asia"

9:45 - 10:00 - Opening Remarks

10:00 - 11:30 - From Crust to Core

10:00 Isaac J. Larsen: Rapid mountain weathering breaks global speed limit
10:15 Dan Scott: Inferral of Step-Pool Hydraulics from Grain Size Distribution
10:30 Danika Globokar: Testing thermal viscous remanent magnetization (TVRM) as a tool to date geomorphic events
10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Aurora Burd: Electrical Conductivity of the Payunia region of Argentina near 36.5°S
11:15 Kelly Hillbun: Quantitative Characterization of Modern Carbonate Platforms to Improve Geologic Modeling

11:30 - 12:00 - Glaciology I

11:30 David Shean: Quantifying ice sheet dynamics and variability with meter-scale DEM and velocity products
11:45 Lu Liu: Studying the thermal regime of an ancient buried ice body, Beacon Valley, Antarctica using a 1-D heat diffusion model

12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch

1:00-1:45 - Glaciology II

1:00 Perry Spector: progress toward understanding West Antarctic ice during past interglacial periods
1:15 Max Stevens: Kinematic waves and recent glacier changes on the Nisqually Glacier, Mt. Rainier, WA
1:30 Kristin Poinar: How deep do crevasses carry meltwater in Greenland?

1:45 - 3:15 - Posters II: Glaciology, Geomorphology

Karl Lang: Geology and stratigraphy of the Eastern Sub-Himalaya, Siji River area, Arunachal Pradesh, India
Michael Turzewski: Megaflood deposits along the Siang River (Tsangpo-Brahmaputra drainage), NE Indian Himalaya
Kristina Sumner: Interpreting the Sedimentary Record of Rapid Rock Uplift in the Eastern Himalayas
Adam D. Barker: The budget and influence of supraglacial debris on the Khumbu Glacier, Nepal
Kat Huybers: Macro-scale controls on the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Paul D. Harris: A Web-Based Community Firn Model
Taryn Black: Glacial-interglacial history of West Antarctic nunataks
Will Leahy: Firn Model Inter-Comparison
Mika Usher: Radar Reconnaissance Survey of Subglacial Topography, Pirrit Hills, West Antarctica
Kate Allstadt: Glacier quakes mimicking volcanic earthquakes: The challenge of monitoring ice-clad volcanoes and some solutions
Batbaatar Jigjidsuren: Equilibrium-line altitude of glaciers in hyper-arid regions of Central Asia

3:15 - 4:30 - Break

4:30 - 5:00 - Presentation of Awards

5:00 - 9:00 - Reception (Vista Cafe, Foege Hall)