GC32A:
Extreme Events and Climate Change: Impacts on Environment and Resources I

Session ID#: 3380

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3001 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Michael R Hiscock1, John P Dawson1 and Dorothy M Koch2, (1)United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, United States(2)United States Department of Energy, Office of Science, Washington, United States
Primary Convener:  Michael R Hiscock, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, United States
Co-conveners:  John P Dawson, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Air Resource Management, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Dorothy M Koch, United States Department of Energy, Office of Science, Washington, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Michael R Hiscock, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Temporal Variability and Environmental Drivers of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in Western Lake Erie (23458)
Song Liang1, Di Tian2, Gengxin Xie3, Jing Tian1, Kuo Shin Tseng4, C.K. Shum5 and Jiyoung Lee5, (1)University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, (2)Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Hangzhou, China, (3)Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, (4)National Central University, Taipei City, Taiwan, (5)The Ohio State University, Columbus, United States
Disease in a more variable and unpredictable climate (25319)
Taegan A McMahon1, Thomas Raffel2, Jason R Rohr3, Neal Halstead3, Matthew Venesky4 and John Romansic5, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Oakland University, Rochester, MI, United States, (3)University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States, (4)Allegheny college, Meadville, PA, United States, (5)H. T. Harvey & Associates, Las Gatos, CA, United States
Relating Nearshore Algal Blooms Determined Using Satellite Imagery to Nutrient Loading, Watershed Land Use, and Storm Events (28586)
Robert Jan Stevenson1, David W Hyndman2, Jiaguo Qi3, Peter Esselman1, Linda Novitski1, Anthony D Kendall4, Sherry L Martin5 and Shengpan Lin1, (1)Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, (2)University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Geosciences, School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Richardson, United States, (3)Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States, (4)Michigan State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, (5)Michigan State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, United States
Dengue Fever Trends and Climate Change in San Juan, Puerto Rico (15854)
Frank E Muller-Karger1, Pablo Mendez-Lazaro2, Daniel Brooks Otis3, Matthew James McCarthy3 and Marisol Pena-Orellana4,5, (1)University of South Florida St. Petersburg, IMaRS, St Petersburg, United States, (2)University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, Environmental Health Department, San Juan, United States, (3)University of South Florida St. Petersburg, IMaRS, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (4)University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, Environmental Health Department, Cidra, PR, United States, (5)University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, Center for Public Health Preparedness, Cidra, PR, United States
Extreme Water Levels in Bangladesh: Past Trends, Future Projections and their Impact on Mortality (30894)
Insa Thiele-Eich, University of Bonn, Meteorological Institute, Bonn, Germany, Katrin Burkart, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Thomas M Hopson, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Clemens Simmer, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
A Harder Rain is Going to Fall: Challenges for Actionable Projections of Extremes (Invited) (4611)
William Drew Collins, Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
It's Not Just the Heat, It's the Humidity: Downscaled Wet-Bulb Temperature Projections and Implication for Future Summer Experiences from the American Climate Prospectus (9995)
DJ Rasmussen, Rhodium Group, Oakland, CA, United States and Robert E Kopp, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, United States