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Session Proposal: Advances in Understanding Processes at the Bed of Glaciers and Ice Sheets (AGU25)

C005
Advances in Understanding Processes at the Bed of Glaciers and Ice Sheets

Session ID#: 252700

Session Description:
The dynamic behavior of land-based and marine-terminating glaciers depends on processes at the ice-bed interface that are difficult to observe directly. However, these processes are crucial for understanding ice flow and the development of landscapes under past and future climates. This session includes contributions that focus on glaciological, geomorphic, and hydrologic phenomena at glacier beds. Processes of interest include basal slip over soft and hard beds, ice and bed deformation, subglacial hydrology, subglacial erosion and sediment transport, and the development of subglacial landforms and sediment assemblages. We invite a range of approaches that address the spatiotemporal scales of these processes, including field and geophysical observations, laboratory experiments, sedimentological and morphometric studies, and modeling efforts.
Index Terms:

0720 Glaciers [CRYOSPHERE]
0726 Ice sheets [CRYOSPHERE]
0776 Glaciology [CRYOSPHERE]
Primary Convener:  Jeremy Brooks, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geoscience, Madison, United States
Convener:  Lucas Zoet, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Geoscience, Madison, United States
 
Are asynchronous seasonal velocity variations across Taku Glacier’s piedmont lobe indicative of a soft-to-hard bed transition? (1848498)
Lynn Kaluzienski, University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau, United States, Jason M Amundson, University of Alaska Southeast, Department of Natural Sciences, Juneau, United States, Ian Joughin, University of Washington, Seatle, United States, Shin Sugiyama, Hokkaido University, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Sapporo, Japan and Arlec Chang, Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Environment Science, Sapporo, Japan
 
Geostatistical analysis of subglacial topographic roughness reveals Antarctica geologic characteristics (1869225)
Emma Mackie, University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Gainesville, United States, Michael Field, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Gainesville, FL, United States and Niya Shao, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Gainesville, United States
 
Sediment Entrainment by Frozen Fringe and Thermal Regelation (Invited) (1878860)
Ethan Pierce, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, United States, Irina Overeem, University of Colorado, Department of Geological Sciences and Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States and Guillaume Jouvet, University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Lausanne, Switzerland
 
Tracing Sediment Provenance with Clay Minerals in the Dotson-Getz Trough, Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica (1888814)
Insung Kang1, Young Kyu Park2, Kyu-Cheul Yoo2, Min Kyung Lee2 and Jinwook Kim1, (1)Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, (2)Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea
 
Echoes Below: Insights from Sticky Spots near the Rutford Ice Stream Grounding Line (1905259)
Ian Lee, Sridhar Anandakrishnan and Richard B Alley, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, United States
 
Constraining Bed Properties Across the Eastern Shear Margin of Thwaites Glacier Through Joint Radar and Seismic Analysis (1917406)
Daniel Francis May, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, Dustin M Schroeder, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, United States, Marianne S. Karplus, The University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Resource Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States, Biondo Leonardo Biondi, Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, Galen Kaip, University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Resource Sciences, El Paso, United States, Nori Nakata, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, Adam D Booth, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Tun Jan Young, University of St Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, St Andrews, United Kingdom and Slawek M Tulaczyk, University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States
 
ITS_LIVE global observations of seasonal glacier and ice sheet dynamics (1925637)
Chad A Greene, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States and Alex S Gardner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
 
Identification of glacial deposits within the Yampa River Valley, Colorado through Multi-channel Analysis of Surface Waves (MASW) (1926311)
Kailey Dougherty1, Olivia Wills1, Jack Logan2, Eliza Ross3, Matthew Siegfried3, Brian Passerella3, Marion McKenzie4, Ryan Venturelli5 and Roy Bowling6, (1)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, United States, (2)Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, CO, United States, (3)Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, United States, (4)Colorado School of Mines, Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, (5)Colorado School of Mines, Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, United States, (6)Collier Geophysics, Lakewood, United States
 
Simulations Coupling Grounding-Zone Sedimentation and Ice Dynamics: Implications for Grounding Zone Wedges and Ice-Stream Stability (Invited) (1928264)
John Erich Christian1, Alexander Robel2, Ginny A Catania3,4, Leigh A Stearns5, Lauren Miller6 and Santiago Munevar Garcia6, (1)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (2)Georgia Institute of Technology, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, (4)University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States, (5)University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (6)University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, United States
 
A new subglacial sediment deformation discharge rule (1933152)
Lucas Zoet, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Geoscience, Madison, United States, Rebecca Schlegel, University Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany and Dougal Hansen, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geoscience, Madison, United States
 
Constraining a Basal Sliding Event at Whillans Ice Stream Using Repeating Icequakes (1933906)
Sofia Cubillos1, William Benjamin Frank1, Grace Barcheck2 and Michael Floyd3, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States, (3)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Inversion of subglacial effective stress from acoustic-impedance measurements using viscous grain shearing theory: application to Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica (1934855)
Atsuhiro Muto, Temple University, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Philadelphia, United States, Dougal Hansen, Washington University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States and Lucas Zoet, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Geoscience, Madison, United States
 
Deformation of Cold-based glaciers on Mars: Analog experiments using slime (1950951)
Sara Beaulac and Reid Parsons, Fitchburg State University, Fitchburg, MA, United States
 
Modeling Thwaites Glacier’s Eastern Shear Margin Position From Hydrological Controls with a Regularized Coulomb-Style Slip Law (1964437)
Mark Hehlen, University of Cambridge, Department of Geography, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Carlos Martin, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
Passive Seismic Characterization of Rutford Ice Stream Basal Properties (1966526)
Emma Perkins1, Sridhar Anandakrishnan1, Ian Lee2, Amanda Willet2, Richard B Alley1 and Byron Parizek1, (1)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, United States
 
Geological Bedclasses to Improve Ice Sheet Models in the Amundsen Sea Embayment (1968439)
Kirsty J Tinto1, Atsuhiro Muto2, Louise Borthwick3, Caitlin Dieck Locke4, Matthew Tankersley5, Racheet Matai1, Dave Porter1 and Robin Elizabeth Bell6, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (2)Temple University, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Philadelphia, United States, (3)Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (4)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, United States, (5)University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (6)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States
 
A Global Empirical Relation Between Glacier Velocity and Proglacial Sediment Yield (1969308)
Joel Wilner1, Prof. Mathieu Morlighem1, C. Brenhin Keller2 and Evan Dethier3, (1)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, United States, (3)Colby College, Waterville, United States
 
Reconciling Subglacial Lake Detection: A New Radar Framework for Antarctic Basal Hydrology (1969563)
Mandala Pham, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, United States and Winnie Chu, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States
 
Steady-State and Transient Variability in Seismic Reflections Driven by Effective Stress and Porosity at the Ice–Till Interface (1972463)
Dougal Hansen1, Lucas Zoet2, Atsuhiro Muto3, Natasha Morgan-Witts4, Jaiden Zak5, Zoe Schlossnagle1 and Kiya L Riverman6, (1)Washington University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Geoscience, Madison, United States, (3)The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, (4)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geoscience, Madison, United States, (5)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (6)University of Portland, Portland, OR, United States
 
Antarctic Sub-Ice Structure from Joint Analysis of High-Frequency Teleseismic Receiver Functions, Coda Autocorrelations, and Surface Wave Measurements (1979281)
Amarjeet Kumar1, Hanxiao Wu1, Sheng Dong1, Vera Schulte-Pelkum2 and Weisen Shen1, (1)Stony Brook University, Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States
 
Seasonal Variability of Subglacial Groundwater Exfiltration in Antarctica from Geologically Constrained Numerical Modeling Forced by Satellite Altimetry (1981336)
Rohaiz Haris1, Matthew Siegfried1, Trevor Hillebrand2, Ellie Miller3 and Ryan Venturelli3, (1)Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (3)Colorado School of Mines, Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, United States
 
3D seismic imaging of the eastern shear margin of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica (1983367)
Nori Nakata1, Zhendong Zhang2, Marianne S. Karplus3, Poul Christoffersen4, Tun Jan Young5, Zhengfa Bi6, Daniel Francis May7, Lucia Fernanda Gonzalez3, Dustin M Schroeder8, Adam D Booth9, Jenny Suckale10, Jacob I Walter11, Galen Kaip12 and Slawek M Tulaczyk13, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States, (2)IGG Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)The University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Resource Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States, (4)University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Oceans and Cryosphere, Hobart, Australia, (5)University of St Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, St Andrews, United Kingdom, (6)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (7)Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, (8)Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, United States, (9)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (10)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (11)University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Geological Survey, Norman, United States, (12)University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Resource Sciences, El Paso, United States, (13)University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States
 
Ice–Sediment Interactions in Channelized and Distributed Subglacial Flows (1984954)
Jonas Haug1, James L Buttles2, Ginny A Catania3, Blair A Johnson4, Benjamin Andrew Keisling5 and David C Mohrig2, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Austin, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, (4)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, (5)University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States
 
Investigating Subglacial Processes Through Basal Icequakes on Thwaites Glacier (1990169)
Jaiden Zak, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Lucas Zoet, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geoscience, Madison, WI, United States, Jeremy Paul Winberry, Central Washington Univ, Ellensburg, WA, United States, Nathan Stevens, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, Seattle, United States, Amanda Willet, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, United States and Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, United States
 
A generative model of sub-glacial topography (1999034)
Douglas Brinkerhoff, University of Montana, Department of Computer Science, Missoula, United States, Adam S. Lucas, University of Oregon, Eugene, United States, Leah Sophie Muhle, University of Tübingen, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen, Germany and Max Filter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
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