U21A:
High Risk in Low Places: Geohazards of the Asian Megadeltas and Fluvial Systems

Session ID#: 3242

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
2005 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Steven Lee Goodbred Jr, Vanderbilt University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nashville, TN, United States and Brian Justin Mailloux, Barnard College, Environmental Science, New York, NY, United States
Primary Convener:  Brian Justin Mailloux, Barnard College, Environmental Science, New York, NY, United States
Co-conveners:  Steven Lee Goodbred Jr, Vanderbilt University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nashville, TN, United States, Benjamin Bostick, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Michael S Steckler, Columbia University, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Benjamin Bostick, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Index Terms:

0496 Water quality [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1821 Floods [HYDROLOGY]
4302 Geological [NATURAL HAZARDS]
8175 Tectonics and landscape evolution [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

U21A-01
Dynamic Asia: Coupling of climate, tectonics, rivers, and people defines risk and opportunity for the world’s largest human populations (31553)
Steven Lee Goodbred Jr1, Michael S Steckler2, Jonathan M Gilligan1, Brooke Ackerly3, John C Ayers1, Carol Wilson1, Christopher Small4 and Leonardo Seeber5, (1)Vanderbilt University, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Nashville, TN, United States, (2)Columbia University, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (3)Vanderbilt University, Political Science, Nashville, TN, United States, (4)Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States, (5)Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, United States
U21A-02
Decades of Change on the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta; Rivers, Coastlines, Agriculture and Development (Invited) (4819)
Christopher Small1, Daniel Sousa1, Soyee Chiu1, Dhiman Ranjan Mondal2, Michael S Steckler3, Syed Humayun Akhter4, Bodrudoza Mia5, Steven Lee Goodbred Jr6, Carol Wilson7 and Leonardo Seeber8, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Queens College, CUNY, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Flushing, NY, United States, (3)Columbia University, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (4)Dhaka University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (5)Dhaka University, Geology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (6)Vanderbilt University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nashville, TN, United States, (7)Louisiana State University, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (8)Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, United States
U21A-03
Dam-Induced Sediment Starvation in Deltas: Implications for the Mekong (Invited) (20844)
G Mathias Kondolf1, Zan Rubin2 and J Toby Minear2, (1)University of California Berkeley, Center for Environmental Design Research, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Univ California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
U21A-04
SUSTAINABILITY WITHIN THE GREAT MONSOON RIVER BASINS (18631)
Peter John Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States
Discussion
U21A-05
Between Sunda subduction and Himalayan collision: fertility, people and earthquakes on the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta (Invited) (14608)
Leonardo Seeber1, Michael S Steckler2, Syed Humayun Akhter3, Steven Lee Goodbred Jr4, Jonathan Gale5, Cecilia M McHugh6, Eleanor K Ferguson5, Dhiman Ranjan Mondal7, Chris Paola8, Meredith Reitz5 and Carol Wilson9, (1)Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, United States, (2)Columbia University, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (3)University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (4)Vanderbilt University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nashville, TN, United States, (5)Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States, (6)Queens College, City University of New York, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, USA, Flushing, United States, (7)Queens College, CUNY, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Flushing, NY, United States, (8)University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States, (9)Vanderbilt-Earth & Envir Scies, Nashville, TN, United States
U21A-06
Why Does Exposure to Arsenic from Drinking Groundwater in Asian Megadeltas Continue to be High? (Invited) (3303)
Alexander van Geen1, Kazi Matin Ahmed2, Ershad Bin Ahmed3, Imtiaz Choudhury4, Rajib Hassan Mozumder1, Benjamin Bostick5, Brian Justin Mailloux6, Peter S Knappett7 and Peter Schlosser8, (1)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)University of Dhaka, Geology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (3)University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (4)Dhaka University, Geology Department, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (5)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (6)Barnard College, Environmental Science, New York, NY, United States, (7)Texas A&M University College Station, Geology and Geophysics, College Station, TX, United States, (8)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
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