Planned Agenda for
Workshop on Long-Term Monitoring of Glaciers of
North America and Northwestern Europe
University of Puget Sound
Student Union Building
Tacoma, Washington
11-13 September 1996
10 Sep 96 (Tues): Arrive in Tacoma, WA by non-local attendees
Overnight at Tacoma area hotel
11 Sep 96 (Wed): AM SESSION 1 - Existing Remote Sensing Data Bases and Current
Status of Glacier Monitoring: State/Country Summaries
Time Rapporteur
8:00 - 8:30 Introduction Richard S. Williams, Jr./
Jane G. Ferrigno
8:30 - 9:00 Alaska Dennis C. Trabant
9:00 - 9:30 Canada (Western) Michael Demuth
9:30 - 10:00 Canada (Arctic) Roy M. Koerner
10:00 - 10:30 Break - Coffee, etc.
10:30 - 11:00 Conterminous U.S./Mexico Robert M. Krimmel
11:00 - 11:30 Greenland Anker Weidick
11:30 - Noon Iceland Oddur Sigurðsson
Noon - 12:30 Norway Jon Ove Hagen
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch at the Student Union
PM SESSION 2 - Glacier Monitoring:
Ground, Airborne, and Satellite - Topical Summaries
Time Rapporteur
2:00 - 2:30 World Glacier Monitoring Service Wilfried Haeberli
2:30 - 3:00 Historical Reconstruction of Glacier Bruce M. Molnia
Fluctuation from Remote Sensing Data Sets
3:00 - 3:30 Airborne and Satellite Altimetry James M. Garvin
3:30 - 4:00 Break - Coffee, etc.
4:00 - 4:30 Satellite Remote Sensing (Imaging) Dorothy K. Hall
4:30 - 5:00 Airborne and Satellite Remote Sensing Julian H. Dowdeswell
of Svalbard (Norway)
5:00 - 5:30 Global Glacier Monitoring with Hugh H. Kieffer
EOS ASTER
5:30 - 6:00 Glacier Monitoring with Classified Edward G. Josberger
Data Sets
7:00 Cookout at Krimmel home on Vaushon Island, Puget Sound
12 Sep 96 (Thurs): AM Session 3 - Selection of Representative Glaciers for Long-Term
Ground, Airborne,and Satellite Monitoring
Time Activity
8:30 - 10:00 Discussion groups by country on which glaciers of North America and northwestern
Europe should be included in a "representative" set of glaciers for long-term
monitoring led by state/country Rapporteurs
10:00 - 10:30 Break - Coffee, etc.
10:30 - 11:30 Series of 10-min. presentations by Rapporteurs for the selected "representative"
glaciers for each geographic area
11:30 - 12:30 General discussion by Workshop attendees on the use of the World Wide Web site
and e-mail connection for exchanging information on fluctuation of "representative"
glaciers of North America and northwestern Europe
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch at Student Union
PM Session 4 -Draft of Final Workshop Report
Time Activity
2:00 - 3:00 Rapporteurs and Workshop Coordinators meet to write final draft of Workshop report
3:00 - 3:30 Break - coffee, etc.
3:30 - 5:00 Continued work on final draft of Workshop report
7:00 Dinner at the Upper Room (local restaurant)
13 Sep 96 (Fri): Field Trip to Nisqually Glacier, Mount Rainier National Park, WA
Field Trip Leader: Carolyn L. Driedger
Time
9:00 am - Departure from Tacoma area hotel via bus
10:30 am - Start of series of stops along Rt. 706 within the Park boundary:
(1) Flood deposits along Tahoma Creek from jökulhlaups from South Tahoma
Glacier discharge;
(2) Flood deposits along Kautz Creek;
(3) Termini of Nisqually Glacier from bridge over Nisqually River
Noon Arrival at Visitor Center, Paradise
Noon - 1:00 Hike up to Alta Vista and/or Panorama Point with box lunches
1:00 - 2:00 Lunch at Alta Vista or Panorama Point overlooking Nisqually Glacier
2:00 - 2:30 Return to Visitor Center
2:30 - 3:00 Visitor Center
3:00 - 5:00 Drive back to Tacoma Sheraton Hotel
Evening Dinner (own Arrangements)
14 Sep 96 (Sat): Travel home from Tacoma, WA for non-local attendees
or Optional two-day post-Workshop Field Trip to Bering, Childs, Sheridan,
Portage,and Exit Glaciers, Southeastern Alaska led by Bruce F. Molnia. The costs
of the post-Workshop Alaska Field Trip will be assumed by the participant. The
estimated cost of the Alaska Field Trip is $1,000 ± $200 depending on the number
of participants.
[an error occurred while processing this directive]