Past Events
16th May 2024 (4pm BST/11am EDT/8am PDT)
Theme: Fracture
Olivia Meng (Stanford)
"Seasonal Changes of Mélange Thickness Coincide With Greenland Calving Dynamics"
David Chandler (Norce)
"Can supraglacial streams cause deep englacial warming in ice sheets?"
25th April 2024 (4pm BST/11am EDT/8am PDT)
Theme: Firn
Afzal Shadab (Texas)
"Modeling infiltration of meltwater and formation of ice layers in firn"
Emma Pearce (Strasbourg)
"Firn Seismic Anisotropy in the North East Greenland Ice Stream from Ambient Noise Surface Waves"
14th March 2024 (8pm GMT/4pm EDT/1pm PDT/7am AEDT)
Theme: Grounding Lines
Madie Mamer (Georgia Tech)
"Seawater Intrusion Beyond the Grounding Line: Turbulent mixing, Boundary Layers, and Melting Dynamics"
John Christian (Oregon)
"A Coupled Ice-Flow and Sediment-Transport Model: Grounding-Zone Wedge Formation and Effects on Ice-Stream Stability"
15th Februrary 2024 (8pm GMT/3pm EST/12pm PST/7am AEDT)
Theme: Internal structures
Thomas Teisburg (Stanford)
"Estimating 3D englacial velocity from interferometric repeat-pass ice-penetrating radar"
Fiona Clerc (Columbia)
"The influence of subglacial hydrothermal convection on the evolution of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet"
18th January 2024 (4pm GMT)
Theme: Basal sliding
Olivier Gagliardini (Grenoble Alpes)
"Basal friction law for hard bed inferred from finite element modelling"
Mickey MacKie (Florida)
"Geostatistical methods in glaciology"
16th November 2023 (4pm GMT)
Theme: Ice/ocean interactions
Eleanor Johnstone (Edinburgh)
"Investigating Glacial Fjord Processes Using Box Models"
Garrett Finucane (UCLA)
"The HUB and the Connectedness of the Antarctic Continental Shelf"
19 October 2023 (4pm BST)
Theme: sub- and supra-glacial lakes
Aaron Stubblefield (Dartmouth)
"Some mathematical problems related to subglacial lakes"
Stacy Larochelle (Columbia)
"Mechanical interactions between neighboring supraglacial lakes"
15 May 2023 (4pm BST)
Theme: fracture and calving
Maryam Zarrinderakht (UBC)
"A leading-order viscoelastic model for crevasse propagation and calving in ice shelves"
Cheng Gong (Dartmouth College)
"Helheim Glacier’s terminus position controls its seasonal and inter-annual ice flow variability"
3 April 2023 (4pm BST)
Theme: multiphase flow
Natalie Wolfenbarger (Stanford)
"Geochemical constraints on the multiphase behaviour of ice"
Adrian Moure (Caltech)
"Multiphase models for snow hydrology"
6 March 2023 (4pm GMT)
Theme: surface processes
Max Brils (Utrecht)
"The NAO's influence on Greenland's firn layer"
Tilly Woods (Oxford)
"Modelling the weathering crust and microbial activity on an ice-sheet surface"
6 February 2023 (4pm GMT)
Theme: tipping points
Ann Kristin Klose (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
"Role of timescale differences on (cascade) tipping in the climate system"
Emily Hill / Ronja Reese (Northumbria University)
"Exploring the present and future stability of Antarctic grounding lines"
9 January 2023 (9pm GMT)
Theme: numerical ice sheet modeling
Noemi Petra (UC Merced)
"Exploiting Low-Dimensional Structure in Bayesian Inverse Problems Governed by Ice Sheet Flow Models"
Mauro Perego (Sandia)
"Ice sheet initialization with MALI: advances and standing challenges"
5 December 2022 (9pm GMT)
Theme: ice/ocean interactions
Madi Rosevear (U. Melbourne)
"Basal melting regimes of Antarctic ice shelves"
Alex Bradley (British Antarctic Survey)
"Melt feedbacks from seawater intrusions at ice sheet grounding zones"
7 November 2022 (4pm GMT)
Theme: basal processes
Katarzyna Kowal (Glasgow)
"The mathematics of grounding zone wedges"
Gonzalo Gonzalez de Diego (Oxford)
"A numerical exploration of glacier sliding with cavitation"
24 October 2022 (4pm BST)
Theme: fracture and calving
Hanwen Zhang (Oxford)
"Supraglacial Lake Drainage Initiated by Tidally Induced Hydro-fracture on Amery Ice Shelf"
Jakub Stocek (British Antarctic Survey)
"Phase field viscoelastic fracture models for ice sheet dynamics"
11 April 2022 (10pm BST)
Theme: Ice rheology
Sheng Fan (Otago / Cambridge)
Daniel Richard (Leeds)
7 March 2022 (4pm GMT)
Theme: Calving and icebergs
Iain Wheel (St Andrews)
Alexander Huth (Princeton)
7 February 2022 (4pm GMT)
Theme: Ice-ocean interactions
Claudia Cenedese (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Louis Couston (Lyon)
10 January 2022 (4pm GMT)
Theme: Till dynamics
Anders Damsgaard
Luke Zoet
6 December 2021 (4pm GMT)
Theme: Tipping points
Sebastian Rosier
Ricarda Winkelmann
18th October 2021 (4pm BST)
Theme: Inferring ice rheology from experiments and observations
Joanna Millstein (MIT)
Maria Zeitz (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
12th July 2021 (4pm BST)
Theme: surface processes
Sammie Buzzard (Cardiff)
''Lakes, rivers… and waterfalls? Modelling Antarctic Surface Hydrology"
Colin Meyer (Dartmouth)
“Firn compaction in French-press experiments and theory"
7th June 2021 (4pm BST)
Theme: inversions
Gabriela Racz (UBC)
"Using inverse modelling to study subglacial drainage system"
Doug Brinkerhoff (Montana)
"Bayesian inference for coupled models of ice flow and hydrology"
10th May 2021 (4pm BST)
Theme: Ice-Ocean Interaction
Leo Middleton (Cambridge)
"Observations and simulations of double-diffusion in the ice shelf-ocean boundary layer"
Marianne Haseloff (Northumbria)
"Buttressed marine ice sheets: the roles of calving and subshelf melting on steady state grounding line positions and their stability"
12th April 2021 (4pm BST)
Theme: Calving
Donald Slater (Edinburgh)
"Differentiating calving styles using 1D and 2D elastic models"
Ching-Yao Lai (Princeton)
"Ice-shelf hydrofracture and flexural control of basal crevasse opening"
15th March 2021 (4pm GMT)
Meghana Ranganathan (MIT)
"An energetics approach to understanding ice deformation"
Elisa Mantelli (Princeton)
“Ice streams: thermal and hydraulic pattern formation in ice sheets”
15th February 2021 (4pm GMT)
Alex Robel (GeorgiaTech)
"Grounding lines transition to instability at sharp peaks through a crossing-sliding bifurcation"
Kasia Warburton (Cambridge)
"Tides below glaciers: subglacial hydrology of the grounding line"