FRISP Workshop 2003
17th International Workshop of the
Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes
held at the
British Antarctic Survey,
Cambridge,U.K.
on 17th and 18th June 2003
Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes
held at the
British Antarctic Survey,
Cambridge,U.K.
on 17th and 18th June 2003
Workshop summary
The 17th International Workshop of the Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes (FRISP) community was held at the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK, on 17th and 18th of June 2003. In total 45 participants from Australia, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, the United States, and the United Kingdom were came together, with some locals from BAS wandering in and out during the cofee breakes. The meeting was hosted by the present chairman Adrian Jenkins.
This was the first FRISP workshop with a true circumpolar focus, and the first 5 talks presented ongoing research related to the Ross and Amery Ice shelves. In total 21 talks were given at the workshop, with a main focus of physical oceanography below the ice shelves. Other specific topics covered were drift of icebergs in the Weddell and Ross sectors, paleo data from sediment cores below the Amery, ice shelf topography measurements on Filchner and Fimbul, and increased melting in releation to (warming) deep waters, as well as excursions to the Iceland and Greenland ice shelves.
The three last talks were given as an "Autosub under ice" session reporting on the recent cruise to Pine Island Bay. Good oceanographic and seabed data were gathered on the shelf, but the autosub did not make it under the ice shelf, so the first horizontal measurements below ice shelves are still eagerly awaited for. The future plans presented and discussed involved ; a) drift of Polarstern in the western Weddell coordinated by AWI (ISPOL)b) Autosub under ice below the Ronne including oxygen tracer sampling
c) continuation of AMISOR with a new access hole on the Amery
d) suggestion for a model comparison study with idealized topography among the three sub ice shelf numerical models
d) coordinated inclusion of frazil ice in 3 D models and inclusion and
e) some future possibilities of direct frazil and ocean measuerments in cracks of the Fimbul ice shelf (Jutulgryta). Adrian Jenkins will continue as chairman, and Lars H. Smedsrud as editor of the reports/www pages. The Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR) in Bergen will print the reports for some years to come, and www.gfi.uib.no/frisp is hosted by the University of Bergen. BCCR does climate research and research training in order to further increase our knowledge of past, present and future climate change with emphasis on northern Europe and the Arctic regions. Participants found the www pages and online reports useful in addition to the printed reports, and suggested a FRISP mail-list set up with the www pages. The next meeting will be hosted by AWI and Hartmut Hellmer during autumn 2004.
Lars H. Smedsrud
FRISP Report 15 contains the papers based on presentations given at the meeting.
Particpants and presentations at the workshop
| Name | Postal Address | Email Address | Title of presentation | |
| Matthew Dixon | 73c Croham Road South Croydon Surrey CR2 7HG | mdixon@ic.ac.uk | ||
| Andrew Willmott | Department of Mathematics Keele Univesity Keele Staffs ST5 5BG | a.j.willmott@keele.ac.uk | ||
| Julian Dowdeswell | Scott Polar Research Institute Lensfield Road Cambridge CB2 1ER | jd16@cam.ac.uk | Marine geophysical investigations of past ice flow in Pine Island Bay, West Antarctica | |
| Jeffrey Evans | Scott Polar Research Institute Lensfield Road Cambridge CB2 1ER | je10007@cam.ac.uk | ||
| Thorsteinn Thorsteinsson | Hydrological Service National Energy Authority Grensasvegi IS-108 Reykjavik Iceland | thor@os.is | Ice core study on the ice shelf covering the Grímsvötn subglacial lake, Iceland | |
| Ole Anders Nost | Norwegian Polar Institute | ole@npolar.no | Measuring ice shelf draft and sea bed topography below Fimbulisen | |
| Polar Environmental Center | ||||
| 9296 Tromso | ||||
| Norway | ||||
| Keith Makinson | BAS |
kmak@bas.ac.uk | Ocean processes
and seasonal inflow along Ronne Ice Front |
|
Adrian Jenkins |
BAS |
ajen@bas.ac.uk |
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| Oceanographic
Observations at the Amundsen Sea Shelf Break |
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| Hugh Corr | BAS | h.corr@bas.ac.uk | ||
| Chris Banks | Department of Earth Sciences | c.j.banks@open.ac.uk | ||
| The Open University | ||||
| Walton Hall | ||||
| Milton Keynes | ||||
| MK7 6AA | ||||
| Mark Brandon | Earth Sciences | m.a.brandon@open.ac.uk | Sea ice observations in
the Bellinghausen and Amundsen seas |
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| The Open University | ||||
| Walton Hall | ||||
| Milton Keynes | ||||
| MK7 6AA | ||||
| Dziga Walker | Department of Earth Sciences | d.pozzi-walker@open.ac.uk | ||
| The Open University | ||||
| Walton Hall | ||||
| Milton Keynes | ||||
| MK7 6AA | ||||
| Ala Khazendar |
Department of
Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge CB3 0WA |
A.Khazendra@damtp.cam.ac.uk |
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| Ryan Walker | Courant Institute of Mathematical Sci. New York University 251 Mercer St., MC-0711 New York NY 10012 USA | walkerr@cims.nyu.edu | ||
| Name | Postal Address | Email Address | Title of presentation | |
| David Vaughan | BAS | d.vaughan@bas.ac.uk | ||
| Henner Sandhaeger | Alfred Wegener Inst. For Polar and Marine Research Bussestr. 24 D-27570 Bremerhaven Germany | hsandhaeger@awi-bremerhaven.de | Meteoric, marine, and total ice thickness maps of Filchner Ronne Schelfeis | |
| Kate Stansfield | Southampton Oceanography Centre, European Way Southampton SO14 3ZH | ks1@soc.soton.ac.uk | ||
| Daniel Feltham | Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling Department of Space and Climate Physics University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT | dlf@cpom.ucl.ac.uk | ||
| Paul Holland | Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling Department of Space and Climate Physics University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT | paul.holland@cpom.ucl.ac.uk | Improved Frazil Modelling in Ice Shelf Water Plumes | |
| Tiago Silva | School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ | t.silva@uea.ac.uk | ||
| David M Holland | Courant Institute of Mathematical Sci. New York University 251 Mercer St., MC-0711 New York NY 10012 USA | holland@cims.nyu.edu | Computing marine ice thickness at an ice-shelf base | |
| Keith Nicholls | BAS | kwni@bas.ac.uk | Ronne Inflow Experiment - Fieldwork | |
| Kathy Hayes | BAS | khay@bas.ac.uk | ||
| Dan Hayes | BAS | hayesdan@safe-mail.net | ||
| Craig Stewart | BAS | cste@bas.ac.uk | Basal topography and
thinning rates of Petermann Gletscher,
northern Greenland, measured by ground-based
phase-sensitive
radar |
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| Michael Meredith | Proudman Oceanographic Lab Bidston Observatory Prenton Wirral CH43 7RA | mmm@pol.ac.uk | ||
| Alberto Naveira | School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ | e035@uea.ac.uk | ||
| Name | Postal Address | Email Address | Title of presentation | |
| Inga Smith | School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ | inga.smith@uea.ac.uk | ||
| Stephen Ackley | 118 W Castle Ln San Antonio TX 78213 USA | sackley@pol.net | Icebergs in the Ross Sea: Pesent and Future Impacts on the Sea Ice, Ice Shelves and Ocean Circulation | |
| Andrew Shepherd | Scott Polar Research Institute Lensfield Road Cambridge CB2 1ER | aps46@cam.ac.uk | Surface melting at the Larsen Ice Shelf | |
| Michael Schodlok | Alfred Wegener Inst. Bussestr. 24 27570 Bremerhaven Germany | mschodlok@awi-bremerhaven.de | Iceberg drift related to Weddell Sea ice cover | |
| Karen Assmann | Alfred Wegener Inst. P.O. Box 12 01 61 27515 Bremerhaven Germany | kassmann@awi-bremerhaven.de | The effect of McMurdo Sound topography on water mass exchange across the Ross Ice shelf front | |
| William Connolley | BAS | wmc@bas.ac.uk | ||
| Mark Hemer | Martin Ryan Marine Institute National University of Ireland Galway | mark.hemer@nuigalway.ie | Sediments collected from beneath the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, document sub-ice-shelf circulation of water and sediments throughout the Holocene | |
| Lars Smedsrud | Geophysical Insitute Allegaten 70 5007 Bergen Norway | larsh@gfi.uib.no | Warming of the deep water in the Weddell Sea 1977-2001 | |
| Martin Price | School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ | martin.price@uea.ac.uk | ||
| Karen Heywood | School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ | k.heywood@uea.ac.ul | ||
| Duncan Wingham | CPOM Dept Space & Climate Physics University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT | l.clemente@ucl.ac.uk | ||
| Hartmut Hellmer | Alfred Wegener Inst. For Polar and Marine Research Bussestr. 24 D-27570 Bremerhaven Germany | hhellmer@awi-bremerhaven.de | Sub-ice freshwater fluxes and their importance for the Southern Ocean environment | |
| Name | Postal Address | Email Address | Title of presentation | |
| Malte Thoma | Institut fur Geophysik Corrensstr. 24 48149 Munster Germany | thoma@uni-muenster.de | Eastern Weddell Ice Shelves and their interaction with the ocean | |
| Christopher Doake | BAS | csmd@bas.ac.uk | ||
| John Hunter | Antarctic CRC, University of Tasmania, Private bag 80, Hobart, Tas. 7001 Australia | john.hunter@utas.edu.au | Modelling the Circulation Under the Amery Ice Shelf | |
| Heidi Leffanue | SoCPES Flinders University GPO Box 2100 Adelaide 5001 South Australia | heidi.leffanue@flinders.edu.au | Circulation and water masses from current meter and T/S measurements at the Amery Ice Shelf |