Programme for the Limerick Symposium

Programme

Names given are the presenting authors; see abstract for full list

Sunday 2 July 2023
7:00	Presymposium excursion – The bus to the Skelligs leaves from the stables at 7 a.m. sharp
19:30–21:00	Registration and Icebreaker – Scholar’s (in Stables complex, 16 on the campus map). After 21:00 the bar will remain open with normal bar service

Monday 3 July 2023
8:00	Registration
8:45	Symposium opening – James Gleeson, MACSI
	Session 1 Chair: TBA
9:00	Francisco Navarro, 93A4371: Geodetic mass balance 1957–2000, 2000–13 and 2013–19 of Hurd and Johnsons glaciers, Livingston Island, Antarctica
9:30	Nicolas Jullien, 93A4363: Ice slab thickening drives surface runoff expansion from the Greenland Ice Sheet’s percolation zone – and vice versa
10:00	Matthew Siegfried, 93A4393: The life and death of a subglacial lake in West Antarctica
10:30	Coffee
11:00	Ian Hewitt, 93A4373: Glacier sliding modulated by cavitation
11:30	Marianne Haseloff, 93A4379: Constraining subglacial properties from time-dependent data
12:00	Douglas R. McAyeal, 93A4390: Elastica’s snowy edge: spontaneous roll-up of a ruck in a thin, sliding snow sheet
12:30	Lunch
	Session 2 Chair: TBA
14:00	John Woodward, 93A4399: Super slippery surfaces: theoretical implications for the dynamics and flow stability of glaciers and ice sheets
14:30	Rebecca McCerery, 93A4397: Hunting for super slippery surfaces in subglacial environments
15.00	Dustin Schroeder, 93A4021: Limits on the orbital sounding of terrestrial ice sheets and near-surface reflectors
15:30	Tea
16.00	Ching-Yao Lai, 93A4400: Discovering the rheology of Antarctic ice shelves via physics-informed deep learning
16.30	Ginny Catania, 93A4267: Using big data to understand calving in Greenland
17:00	End of oral sessions
19:00	Dinner: Stables barbecue

Tuesday 4 July 2023
	Session 3 Chair: TBA
9:00	Felix Ng, 93A4016: Isotopic diffusion in ice enhanced by vein-water flow
9:30	David Prior, 93A4365: Anisotropy of the Priestley Glacier lateral shear margin, Antarctica
10:00	Olga Sergienko, 93A4372: Dynamics and steady-state stability of marine ice sheets with arbitrary basal and lateral shears
10:30	Coffee
11:00	Kristin Schild, 93A4384: Can we use ApRES to calculate iceberg ablation rates?
11:30	Iain Wheel, 93A4382: Investigating calving dynamics at Jakobshavn Isbræ using a 3D full-Stokes calving model
12:00	Peter Nekrasov, 93A4402: Interaction of flexural-gravity waves with periodic ice shelf structures: a proposed explanation of rolls on Arctic ice shelves
12:30	Lunch
	Session 4 Chair: TBA
14:00	Adrian Luckman, 93A4387: How do suture zones allow ice shelves to grow so large? Introducing the RiPIce Project
14:30	Bernd Kulessa, 93A4411: Integrated geophysical exploration of the Joerg Peninsula suture zone, Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula
15:00	Katie E. Miles, 93A4405: Physical properties and structure of meteoric and suture zone ice from boreholes on Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica
15:30	Tea
16:00	Doug Benn, 93A4404: Calving laws and lawlessness
16:30	End of oral sessions
17:00	Poster session and drinks
19:00	Dinner: Pavilion

Wednesday 5 July 2022
	Mid-week excursion: bring rain gear!
7:00	Bus departs from Stables
7:40	Drumlins of south Clare, near Lissycasey
9:00	Boat to Scattery Island: picnic lunch
12:00	Bus to Kilkee; bus parks at Marine Parade 52°40′40″ N, 9°39′03″ W
12:30	Greyhound. Refreshments
	Walk (distance in km)	Bus
	14:00 to Diamond Rocks (1.4)
	14:20 to cliff top (1.5)	14:30 to cliff top 52°40′33″ N, 9°40′38″ W
	14:50 to Bishop’s Island (1.2)	~15:00 to car park near Bishop’s Island 54°40′23″ N, 9°41′15″ W
	15:15 Peroration. Group photo
	15:25 to St Kee’s Well (0.4)	~15:30 to St Kee’s Well 52°40′12″ N, 9°41′31″ W
	15:35 to quarry (0.75)	_15:40 to quarry 52°39′53″ N, 9°41′45″ W
	15:55 to Dunlicky Castle (2.1)	~16:06 to Dunlicky Castle 52°39′21″ N, 9°43′13″ W
17:00	Bus to entrance to Williams farm 52°38′52″ N, 9°43′52″ W and roadside view of Maigh Mhin ring fort. Continue on to barbecue at 52°39′39″ N, 9°40′11″ W (V15F621)
17:30	Barbecue
19:30	Departure for Limerick
21:00	Arrive at University of Limerick

Thursday 6 July 2023
	Session 5 Chair: TBA
9:00	Giacomo Traversa, 93A4370: Ablation areas in Antarctica: a hyperspectral analysis by in-situ and remote sensing observations
9:30	Valeria di Biase, 93A4412: Antarctic firn aquifers: detection algorithm based on Monte Carlo simulations using satellite and regional climate model data
10:00	Ted Scambos, 93A4386: Ice Shelf aquifers of melt and brine: a lot to explore
10:30	Coffee
11:00	Nathan J. Teder, 93A4401: How swell instigated the Wilkins and Voyeykov calvings in 2007/08
11:30	Hanwen Zhang, 93A4420: Supraglacial lake drainage by tidally induced hydrofracture in the Amery Ice Shelf grounding zone
12:00	Geoff Evatt, 93A4414: A reassessment of ice cliff dynamics
12:30	Lunch
	Session 6 Chair: TBA
14:00	Supratim Guha, 93A4375: Quantification of topographical and morphological factors affecting glacier thinning in different Himalayan zones
14:30	Iain Moyles, Andrew Fowler, Mike Chapwanya, James Fannon, 93A4413: Drumlin: the movie
15:30	Tea
16:00	Collin Schohn, 93A4377: Stress-dependent rheology of warm, watery ice in tertiary creep
16:30	Neal Iverson, 93A4396: Till under glaciers: dilation, pore-pressure feedback and rate-weakening friction
17:00	End of oral sessions
18:00	Bus into town from Stables. We then walk (1.3 km) from the Locke bar past St Mary’s Cathedral, King John’s Castle and the Treaty Stone, to the Strand Hotel. Those not wanting to walk can stay on the bus
19:00 for 19:30	Symposium Banquet at the Strand Hotel

Friday 7 July 2023
	Session 7 Chair: TBA
9:30	Mikayla Pascual, 93A4391: opographic and surface mass balance controls on Greenland glacier dynamics in a coupled ice-sediment model
9:30	Lucas Zoet, 93A4380 Constraining subglacial till properties from acoustic techniques
10:00	Adrian Luckman, 93A4383: Diverse glacier surge dynamics in Svalbard suggest complexities in underlying processes
10:30	Coffee break
11:00	General discussion
12:30	Lunch (Pavilion)
14:00	Symposium ends