Midwest Glaciology

We plan to have the 2025 Midwest Glaciology meeting in Madison, WI from March 31st to April 1st. This will be an informal event  with emphasis on ongoing research and discussion. If you are planning to attend, please fill out our short registration form so that we know how many people and presentations to expect. 

The Midwest Glaciology meetings are early career centric. We encourage PIs to attend but encourage talks and presentations from early career researchers. Oral presentation time slots will be 20 min, so please plan for a 15 min presentation to leave 5 min for discussion and change-over. If you have indicated in the registration form that you would like to present, please go ahead and prepare your presentation. The agenda will be finalised on Monday morning for those who are not sure yet whether they want to present.

Talks on works in progress are encouraged.

Preliminary schedule:

Monday, March 31st: 

8:45-9:30: coffee/tea and “registration”

9:30 - 11:30: talks 

• opening remarks

• Dave Mickelson: Glacial geology of the midwest 

• Kai Hu: Proglacial lake dynamics

• Kayla Hubbard: Modeling the connectivity of Lake Hoare and Lake Fryxell through deep briny aquifers in Antarctica’s Taylor Valley.

• Chelsea Volpano: Geomorphic Impacts of Nearshore Ice by Flow Redirection

11:30 - 13:00: lunch

13:00 - 14:40: talks

• Till Wagner: Wave erosion, frontal bending, and calving at Ross Ice Shelf

• Dougal Hansen: A regularized Coulomb slip relationship for frozen fringe over till

• Jeremy Brooks: A glacier slip law incorporating debris-bed friction

• Yue (Olivia) Meng: Bridging pore and grain-scale physics to the changing cryosphere

• Andrew Wickert

14:40 - 16:00: coffee/tea and posters

• Aiyana Leigh: Quantifying migration of ice stream margins across the Antarctic Ice Sheet using satellite observations 

• Anjali Subramanian: Detecting Changes in Damage on Pine Island Glacier

• Gabriel Myers: Rheological Controls on Glacier Steady State

• Mel Reusche: Tracking seasonality across Dansgaard-Oeschger events with a speleothem from southeastern Minnesota

• Campbell Dunn: The Role of Till Rheology in Subglacial Conduit Morphology on Deformable Beds

• Alissa Choi: Investigating small scale extent of carbon dioxide diffusion and distribution in Allan Hills ice cores 

• Aidan Lewandowski: Developing a Coupled Model to Explore the Feedback between Sea Level and Sediment Redistribution

• Jaela Allen/Meghana Ranganathan: The Role of Ice Rheology in Controlling Ice Flow Speed of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

• Matias Romero

16:00 - 17:00: talks (3 x 20 min)

• David Lilien: What does uncertainty in the flow exponent imply for ice-sheet models

• Andy Jones: Low subglacial erosion rates derived from paired cosmogenic nuclide data across ten glacier forefields

• Jillian Prescott: Controls on glacial kettle morphology

18:00: Evening icebreaker: Marianne’s house

Tuesday, April 1st:

8:45 - 9:30:   coffee/tea

The future of Midwest glaciologists (when and where next?)

9:30 - 12:00:   talks

• Peter Neff: U Minnesota Ice Core Research Expeditions 2023-2024 (Zoom)

• Ben Smith: Impact of Ice Composition on Radiatively Driven Convection under Seasonal Ice Cover

• Noah Brown: A Pegmatite Analog for Hailstone (and Graupel) Formation: Updating Formation Models Using EBSD

• Natasha Morgan-Witts: Cyclic loading ring shear

• Jaiden Zak: The Frictional Implications of Stick-Slip

• Luke Zoet: A new sediment flux model

• Marianne Haseloff: Ice stream oscillations 

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