Stanford Earth Ice Research at AGU 2016

The American Geophysical Union (AGU), the largest gathering of Earth and space scientists in the world, will convene in San Francisco Dec 12-16. Among the scores of research papers shared there, faculty submissions from the Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences will include:

• B44B-04 Extreme surface melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet increases growth potential for light-limited phytoplankton in the Labrador Sea, Thursday, 15 December 2016 16:45 - 17:00, Hilde Oliver, Hao Luo, Renato M Castelao, Gert van Dijken, Kyle S Mattingly, Joshua J Rosen, Thomas L Mote, Kevin R Arrigo, Asa K Rennermalm, Marco Tedesco, Patricia L Yager
• C33A-0760 Spatially variable till deformation and water transport in ice-stream shear margins from numerical simulations, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 13:40 - 18:00, Alejandro Cabrales-Vargas, Jenny Suckale, Anders Damsgaard, Liran Goren
• C33A-0761 Till Dynamics Underneath Ice Streams with a Nonlocal Dense Granular Flow Model, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 13:40 - 18:00, Dongzhuo Li, Jenny Suckale, Alejandro Cabrales-Vargas, Anders Damsgaard
• C33A-0766 Stick-slip Cycles and Tidal Modulation of Ice Stream Flow Wednesday, 14 December 2016 13:40 - 18:00, Brad Lipovsky, Eric M Dunham
• C51E-06: Taking advantage of the predictive potential of process-based models for ice exploration (Invited), Friday, 16 December 2016 09:15 - 09:30, Jenny Suckale, Cooper Wheeler Elsworth, Anders Damsgaard, Liran Goren, Alejandro Cabrales-Vargas, Dongzhuo Li, Indraneel Kasmalkar, Sergio Maldonado, James R Rice, Thibaut Perol
• C52A-03 Cross-Instrument Radar Sounding Synthesis: Characterizing Basal Conditions Across the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Friday, 16 December 2016 10:50 - 11:05, Dustin M Schroeder, John Drysdale Paden, Hugh F J Corr, Donald D Blankenship, Andrew M Hilger
• C52A-08 Distinct Subglacial Drainage Patterns Revealed in High-Resolution Mapping of Basal Radar Reflectivity across Greenland, Friday, 16 December 2016 12:05 - 12:20, Winnie Chu, Dustin M Schroeder, Helene L Seroussi, Timothy T Creyts, Steven John Palmer, Robin Elizabeth Bell