Glacier Science and Environmental Change

Introduction. 1. Peter G. Knight: Glacier science and environmental change: introduction. Part 1: Glaciers and their coupling with hydraulic and sedimentary processes. 2. Geoffrey S. Boulton: Keynote: Glaciers and their coupling with hydraulic and sedimentary processes. 3. Darrel A. Swift: Case Study: Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland: Hydrological controls on basal sediment evacuation and glacial erosion. 4. John Shaw: A glimpse at meltwater effects associated with continental ice sheets. 5. Mandy J. Munro-Stasiuk and Darren Sjogren: Case Study: The erosional origin of hummocky terrain, Alberta, Canada. 6. Tracy A. Brennand, Hazen A. J. Russell and David R. Sharpe: Case study: Tunnel channel character and evolution in central southern Ontario. 7. Tom Bradwell: Case Study: Glacial bedforms and the role of subglacial meltwater: Annandale, Southern Scotland. 8. Douglas I. Benn and David J. A. Evans: Subglacial megafloods: outrageous hypothesis or just outrageous?. Reply to Benn and Evans by John Shaw and Mandy Munro-Stasiuk. 9. Jan A. Piotrowski: Groundwater under ice sheets and glaciers. 10. Silke Marczinek and Jan A. Piotrowski: Case Study: Groundwater flow under the margin of the last Scandinavian ice sheet around the Eckernforde Bay, NW Germany. 11. Chris Breemer: Case Study: Simulation of Groundwater Flow and Subglacial Hydrology, Late Pleistocene Lake Michigan Lobe, Laurentide Ice Sheet. 12. Paul M. Cutler: Case Study: Modelling impact of glacier-permafrost interaction on subglacial water flow. 13. Mark Person: Case Study: Pleistocene hydrogeology of the Atlantic continental shelf, New England. 14. Martyn Tranter: Glacial chemical weathering, runoff composition and solute fluxes. 15. J. L.Wadham: Case Study: Solute enhancement in the proglacial zone. 16. Suzanne Prestrud Anderson: Case Study: Impact of mineral surface area on solute fluxes at Bench Glacier, Alaska. 17. Andy Hodson: Case Study: Phosphorus in glacial meltwaters. 18. David J. A. Evans: Glacial landsystems. 19. Colm O Cofaigh: Case Study: The sub-polar glacier landsystem of the Canadian High Arctic. 20. Brice R. Rea: Case Study: Plateau icefield landsystem. Part 2: Glaciers, oceans, atmosphere and climate. 21. John T. Andrews: Keynote: Glaciers, oceans, atmosphere and climate. 22. Alun Hubbard: Case Study: A multi-disciplined approach to the reconstruction of the Late Weichselian deglaciation of Iceland. 23. Mark C. Serreze and Ignatius Rigor: The cryosphere and climate change: perspectives on the Arctic's shrinking sea ice cover. 24. Gerard Bond: The interaction of glaciers and oceans in the context of changing climate. 25. Mark Dyurgerov: Case Study: northern hemisphere glaciers responding to climate warming by increasing their sensitivity and their contribution to sea level rise. 26. Chris R. Stokes and Chris D. Clark: Case Study: Influence of Ice Streaming on the Ocean-Climate System: Examining the Impact of the M'Clintock Channel Ice Stream, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. 27. Eric Rignot: Case Study: influence of ocean warming on glaciers and ice streams. 28. C. F. Michael Lewis and James T. Teller: Glacial runoff from North America and its possible impact on oceans and climate. 29. Sean W. Fleming: Case Study: Impacts of climatic trends upon groundwater resources, aquifer-stream interactions and aquatic habitat in glacierized watersheds, Yukon Territory, Canada. 30. Julian A. Dowdeswell: Ice sheets and marine sedimentation on high-latitude continental margins. 31. Martin S. Stoker, David Long, Joseph Bulat and Stephen Davison: Case Study: Seismic geomorphology and Pleistocene ice limits off NW Britain. 32. Shawn J. Marshall: Modelling glacier response to climate change,. 33. Richard Bintanja: Case Study: energy and mass fluxes over dry snow surfaces. 34. E.J.Klok: Case Study: energy fluxes over Morteratschgletscher. 35. R.Souchez and R. Lorrain: The environmental significance of deuterium excess in meteoric and non-meteoric Antarctic ice. 36. G. Hoffman and F. Vimeux: Case Study: Deuterium excess in Antarctica: a review. Part 3: Changing glaciers and their role in earth surface evolution. 37. David Sugden: Keynote: Changing glaciers and their role in earth surface evolution. 38. Johan Kleman, Clas Hattestrand, Arjen Stroeven, Krister N. Jansson, Hernan De Angelis and Ingmar Borgstrom: Reconstruction of paleo-ice sheets - inversion of their glacial geomorphological record. 39. Clas Hattestrand and Chris D. Clark: Case Study: Reconstructing the pattern and style of deglaciation of Kola Peninsula, NE Fennoscandian Ice Sheet. 40. John T. Andrews: The Laurentide ice sheet: a review of history and processes. 41. Chris R. Stokes and Chris D. Clark: Case Study: What can the 'footprint' of a palaeo-ice stream tell us? Interpreting the bed of the Dubawnt Lake Ice Stream, Northern Keewatin, Canada. 42. David G. Vaughan: The Antarctic ice sheet. 43. Greg Balco, Seth Cowdery, Claire Todd, John O.H. Stone: Antarctic ice sheet reconstruction using cosmic-ray-produced nuclides. 44. Niels Reeh: Current status and recent changes of the Greenland ice sheet. 45. Kevin Fleming: Case Study: The impact of ice-sheet fluctuations and isostasy on sea-level change around Greenland. 46. Renji Naruse: The response of glaciers in South America to environmental change. 47. G. Casassa, A. Rivera and M. Schwikowski: Case Study: Glacier mass balance data for Southern South America (30 S - 56 S). 48. Bryan G. Mark: Case Study: Quantifying the significance of recent glacier recession in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru: a case study of hydrological impact and climatic control. 49. A. Rivera, C. Acuna and G. Casassa: Case Study: Glacier variations in central Chile (32-S-41-S). 50. Chris D. Clark, Sarah L. Greenwood and David J.A. Evans: Palaeo-glaciology of the last British-Irish ice sheet: challenges and some recent developments. 51. Robert T. Meehan: Case Study: A regional glacial readvance in Ireland: self-promulgating theory, or science-based reality?. 52. Danny McCarroll: Case Study: Average glacial conditions and the landscape of Snowdonia. 53. Georg Kaser: Mountain glaciers. 54. Krista M. McKinzey: Case Study: The Little Ice Age glacial record at Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand. 55. Yao Tandong, Pu Jianchen and Liu Shiying: Changing glaciers in High Asia. Part 4: Glacier composition, mechanics and dynamics. 56. T.H. Jacka: Keynote: Glacier composition, mechanics and dynamics. 57. K. M.Cuffey: Manifestations of ice microphysical processes at the scale of whole ice sheets. 58. Erin C. Pettit: Case Study: Ice flow at low deviatoric stress: Siple Dome, West Antarctica. 59. Paul Duval and Maurine Montagnat: Physical deformation modes of ice in glaciers and ice sheets. 60. David L. Goldsby: Superplastic flow of ice relevant to glacier and ice-sheet mechanics. 61. Throstur Thosteinsson: Case Study: Anisotropy and flow of ice. 62. Antoine Pralong: Case Study: Ductile Crevassing. 63. Wendy Lawson: Environmental conditions, ice facies and glacier behaviour. 64. Richard I. Waller and Julian B. Murton: Case Study: The Behaviour of Glaciers on Frozen Beds: modern and Pleistocene examples. 65. Sean Fitzsimons: Mechanical behaviour and structure of the debris-rich basal ice layer. 66. David Chandler: Case Study: High resolution time series of basal motion at an Arctic glacier margin. 67. Bryn Hubbard: On the relationships between field data and numerical models of ice mass motion. 68. Shin Sugiyama: Case study: Measurements and modelling of diurnal flow variations in a temperate valley glacier. 69. Alun Hubbard: Case Study: Using field data to constrain ice flow models: a study of a small alpine glacier. 70. Slawek Tulaczyk: Fast glacier flow and ice streaming. 71. Byron R. Parizek: Case Study: Regional basal-thermal budget: implications for ice streaming along the Siple Coast, West Antarctica. Part 5: The practice of glaciology. 72. Richard B. Alley and Sridhar Anandakrishnan: Keynote: The practice of glaciology. 73. Jonathan Bamber: Remote sensing in Glaciology. 74. Ian Joughin: Case Study: Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) study of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream. 75. Mike J. Smith, Paul Dunlop and Chris D. Clark: Case Study: An overview of sub-glacial bedforms in Ireland, mapped from digital elevation data. 76. Urs H. Fischer and Bryn P. Hubbard: Borehole-based subglacial instrumentation. 77. W.D. Harrison and M. Truffer: Case Study: Instrumenting thick, active, clast-rich till. 78. Claus U. Hammer: Ice core chronology. 79. Jean Robert Petit: Case Study: The 420,000-year climate record from the Vostok ice core. 80. Philippe Huybrechts: Numerical modeling of polar ice sheets through time. 81. Anthony J. Payne and Andreas Vieli: Case Study: ice-flow models. 82. G. Hilmar Gudmundsson: Case Study: estimating basal properties of glaciers from surface measurements. 83. Roger J. Braithwaite: Measuring and modelling the mass balance of glaciers for global change. 84. Wilfried Haeberli: Integrated perception of glacier changes: a challenge of historical dimensions. 85. A. Kaab for the GLIMS consortium: Case Study: The global land ice measurements from space (GLIMS) project. 86. Frank Paul and Max Maisch: Case Study: Historical Glacier Fluctuations. 87. Doug Benn: Interpreting glacial sediments. 88. William George Adam: Case Study: Moraine sediment characteristics as indicators of former basal ice layers. 89. J.C.Gosse, T. Bell, J.T. Gray, J. Klein, G. Yang, and R. Finkel: Using cosmogenic isotopes to interpret the landscape record of glaciation: Nunataks in Newfoundland. 90. Arjen P. Stroeven, Jon Harbor, Derek Fabel, Johan Kleman, Clas Hattestrand, David Elmore and David Fink: Case Study: Characteristic cosmogenic nuclide concentrations in relict surfaces of formerly glaciated regions. 91. Neal R. Iverson: Laboratory experiments in glaciology. 92. Peter Knight and Debbie Knight: Case Study: Laboratory observations of ice formation and debris entrainment by freezing turbid supercooled water. References. Index