PIMS Collaborative Research Group Workshop on

Plumes and Gravity Currents in Stratified Environments

Tentative Schedule of Talks   (Click on talk titles to view abstracts.)

 
Thursdsay
7:00pm-10:00pm Ice-breaker (at #901 10504 99 Ave. ... Buzz 1121)
 
Friday
8:15-8:30 Registration (coffee and snacks in Tory 3-36)
8:30-8:40 Opening Remarks
8:40-9:40 Matthew Alford Observations of the Morphology, Evolution and Mixing of Thermohaline Intrusions
9:40-10:00 Jody Klymak Hydraulic Overflows
10:00-10:30 Discussion/Break
10:30-11:30 Joan Alexander Convective Storms: Internal Waves and Outflows
11:30-12:00 Discussion/Lunch (in Tory 3-36)
12:00-1:00 Herbert Huppert Plumes and Gravity Currents in Stratified Environments
1:00-1:30 Discussion/Break
1:30-2:30 Paul Linden Intrusions in Stratified Fluids
2:30-2:50 Morris Flynn Intrusions and Interfacial Waves
2:50-3:10 James Munroe Gravity Currents and Internal Waves in Stratified Fluid
3:10-3:30 Eckart Meiburg Channel Formation of Turbidity Currents
3:30-4:00 Discussion/Break
4:00-5:00 Peter Baines Properties of Gravity Currents and Plumes on Slopes in Stratified Environments
5:00- ... Discussion (no official plans to follow, though delegates are invited to no-host bar at Faculty Club)
 
Saturday
8:30-8:50 Eye-opener (coffee and snacks in Tory 3-36)
8:50-9:50 Nigel Kaye Plumes in Stratified and Unstratified Environments
9:50-10:10 Joseph Ansong Plumes and Fountains Impinging upon a Density Interface
10:10-10:30 Colm-cille Caulfield Time-Dependent Plumes
10:30-11:00 Discussion/Break
11:00-12:00 Andrew Woods Plumes Induced by Volcanism
12:00-12:20 Mark Jellinek Hot Particle-Laden Turbulent Gravity Currents
12:20-1:50 Discussion/Lunch (in Tory 3-36)
1:50-2:50 Marius Ungarish Theoretical Investigations of Gravity Currents/Intrusions in Linearly Stratified Ambients
2:50-3:10 Patrick Montgomery Theoretical Results for a Boundary Layer Approach to Depositional Particle-Laden Gravity Currents
3:10-3:30 Sabine Decamp The Collapse of Localized Mixed Regions
3:30-4:00 Discussion/Break
4:00-5:00 Jim Moum (Jody Klymak presenting) Recent Observations of Large Amplitude Internal Waves in the Ocean
5:00- Discussion
7:00- Banquet (Host bar beforehand in Faculty Club bar)
 
Sunday
TBA Discussion/Lab Tour (tour in CEB B-48)