EP54A:
Multiscale and Multidisciplinary Fluvial Research in Tropical Regions II

Session ID#: 2170

Friday, 19 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
2007 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Edgardo M Latrubesse, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Jorge D D Abad, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus, Pittsburgh, PA, United States and Ton Hoitink, Wageningen University, Environmental Sciences, Wageningen, Netherlands
Primary Convener:  Edgardo M Latrubesse, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Co-conveners:  Jorge D D Abad, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States and Ton Hoitink, Wageningen University, Environmental Sciences, Wageningen, Netherlands
OSPA Liaison:  Ton Hoitink, Wageningen University, Environmental Sciences, Wageningen, Netherlands
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

1803 Anthropogenic effects [HYDROLOGY]
1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1825 Geomorphology: fluvial [HYDROLOGY]
1862 Sediment transport [HYDROLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

EP54A-01
Biogeochemical patchiness, geomorphic feedbacks, and flow connectivity in river-floodplain corridors (Invited) (5692)
Laurel Larsen, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Jud W Harvey, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States and Morgan Maglio, USGS Wisconsin Water Science Center, Middleton, WI, United States
EP54A-02
Sediment dynamics within the intertidal floodplain of the lower Amazon River (30719)
Aaron T Fricke1, Charles Nittrouer2, Andrea S Ogston2, Daniel J. Nowacki2, Nils E Asp3 and Pedro Walfir Souza Filho4, (1)University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Universidade Federal do Pará, Institute for Coastal Studies, Bragança, Pará, Brazil, (4)Universidade Federal do Pará, Departamento de Geologia, Belém, Pará, Brazil
EP54A-03
A Multi-temporal MODIS Based Platform to Analyze Suspended Sediment Distribution Patterns in the Amazon River (2884)
Edward Park, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States and Edgardo M Latrubesse, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
EP54A-04
Documenting spatial diversity and complexity in a large tropical river system: implications for river health and management (Invited) (4316)
Rajiv Sinha, Haridas Mohanta and Sampat K Tandon, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
EP54A-05
Cyclone Driven Sediment Loads in a Tropical Mega-River (Invited) (4308)
Stephen E Darby1, Julian Leyland2, Christopher R Hackney3, Eleanore Heasley2, Matti Kummu4, Hannu Lauri5, Daniel R Parsons6, Andrew Paul Nicholas7, Rolf E Aalto8 and Jim Best9, (1)University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, (2)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (3)Newcastle University, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom, (4)Aalto University, Water and Development Research Group, Aalto, Finland, (5)Aalto University, Aalto, Finland, (6)University of Hull, Energy & Environment Institute, Hull, United Kingdom, (7)University of Exeter, Geography, Exeter, United Kingdom, (8)University of Exeter, Geography, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom, (9)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States
EP54A-06
Uncertainty and variability in sediment loads in the largest tributary of the Mekong Basin using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (17292)
Mauricio Eduardo Arias1,2, Ornanorg Vonnarart3, Thomas A Cochrane1, Thanapon Piman1,3 and Dat Nguyen Dinh3, (1)University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, (2)Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Mekong River Commission, Bangkok, Thailand
EP54A-08
Quaternary Morphodynamics for two large rivers: the Fly River, PNG, and the Mekong River, Cambodia. (Invited) (17625)
Rolf E Aalto, University of Exeter, Geography, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom, John Wesley Lauer, Seattle University, Seattle, WA, United States, Stephen E Darby, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, Miguel A Goni, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States and William E Dietrich, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States
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