GC23G:
Impacts of Global Change on Deltas and Coastal Wetland Ecosystems: Scientific Advances in Support of Socioecological Resilience II

Session ID#: 3357

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
3007 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Zachary D Tessler, City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, Wenhong Li, Duke Univ-Nicholas School, Durham, United States and Yoshiki Saito, Estuary Research Center, Shimane University, Matsue, Japan
Primary Convener:  Zachary D Tessler, City College of New York, New York, NY, United States
Co-conveners:  Wenhong Li, Duke Univ-Nicholas School, Durham, United States, Yoshiki Saito, Estuary Research Center, Shimane University, Matsue, Japan and Ge Sun, USDA Forest Svc, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Raleigh, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Zachary D Tessler, City College of New York, New York, NY, United States
Index Terms:
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Monitoring the exchanges of water, solids, and solutes between channels and islands of Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana: Key to defining the resiliency of this coastal environment (Invited) (5558)
David C Mohrig1, Matthew R Hiatt2, Anastasia Piliouras3, John B Shaw2, Wayne Wagner2, Paola Passalacqua4 and Wonsuck Kim5, (1)The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (3)University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States, (4)The University of Texas at Austin, Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Austin, United States, (5)Yonsei University, Department of Earth System Sciences, Seoul, South Korea
The Impacts of Armoring Our Deltas: Mapping and Modeling Large-Scale Deltaplain Aggradation (Invited) (11675)
Irina Overeem, University of Colorado at Boulder, CSDMS/INSTAAR, Boulder, United States, Stephanie Higgins, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, James P Syvitski, University of Colorado at Boulder, CSDMS/INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Prof. Albert Kettner, University of Colorado Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States and G Robert Brakenridge, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Deltaic responses to dam regulation on river system: Example of the Yellow River, China (Invited) (5640)
Houjie Wang1, Naishuang Bi1, Yoshiki Saito2, Xiao Wu3 and Aimei Wang1, (1)Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, (2)Estuary Research Center, Shimane University, Matsue, Japan, (3)Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States
Assessing the prehistoric shoreline changes of the Mekong delta, Vietnam (19936)
Toru Tamura1, Yoshiki Saito2, Van Lap Nguyen3, Thi Kim Oanh Ta3, Mark D Bateman4 and Akio Sato5, (1)AIST - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Geological Survey of Japan, Tsukuba, Japan, (2)Estuary Research Center, Shimane University, Matsue, Japan, (3)HCMC Institute of Resources Geography, VAST, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, (4)Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, (5)University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of River Channel Migration on the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta: 2000-2013 (29062)
Christopher Small1, Soyee Chiu2, Daniel Sousa2, Dhiman Ranjan Mondal3, Michael S Steckler4, Syed Humayun Akhter5, Bodrudoza Mia6, Steven Lee Goodbred Jr7, Carol Wilson8 and Leonardo Seeber9, (1)Lamont Doherty Earth Obs., Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, United States, (4)Columbia University, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (5)Dhaka University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (6)Dhaka University, Geology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (7)Vanderbilt University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nashville, TN, United States, (8)Louisiana State University, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Baton Rouge, United States, (9)Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, United States
Development and Carbon Fluxes of Tropical Peat Domes (29148)
Alex Cobb1, Alison Hoyt1, Laure Gandois2, Nur Salihah Su'ut3, Kamariah Abu Salim4, Joffre Ali Ahmad5, Jamilah Jalil5, Mahmud Yussof3 and Charles Franklin Harvey6, (1)Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), Singapore, Singapore, (2)CNRS, EcoLab, Paris Cedex 16, France, (3)Brunei Heart of Borneo Centre, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, (4)Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, (5)Brunei Forestry Department, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, (6)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, United States
Radiative Forcing and Balance of the World’s Wetlands (18372)
Scott D Bridgham, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States and Patrick Megonigal, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, United States
Linking Inundation Patterns and Dynamics in a Permafrost Landscape to Hydrologic, Thermal, Biogeochemical and Ecosystem Processes (18839)
Cathy Jean Wilson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Larry D Hinzman, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Go Iwahana, University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, United States, Mark J Lara, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Plant Biology, Urbana, United States, Anna K Liljedahl, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, Scott L Painter, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Vladimir E Romanovsky, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Stan D Wullschleger, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment, NGEE-Arctic