EP31C:
Ecogeomorphology: Feedbacks Between Biota and Sediment Transport at the Earth Surface I Posters

Session ID#: 4382

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  William Nardin, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, United States, Sergio Fagherazzi, Boston University, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States and Greg S Okin, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  William Nardin, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, United States
OSPA Liaison:  William Nardin, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

1824 Geomorphology: general [HYDROLOGY]
4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4558 Sediment transport [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
The Effect of Oyster Reef Morphology on Particulate Transfer in a North Carolina Tidal Creek (13813)
Mary Grace Lemon, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, Martin Posey, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Biology and Marine Biology, Wilmington, United States, Michael Mallin, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Marine Science, Wilmington, NC, United States and Troy Alphin, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Biology and Marine Biology, Wilmington, NC, United States
 
Hydrodynamic impacts on biogenic stabilisation and the fate of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) in mixed sediment bedforms. (21121)
Rebecca Aspden1, Julie Anne Hope2, Rob Schindler3, Daniel R Parsons4, Leiping Ye5, Baas Jaco6, David M Paterson1 and COHBED Project Team, (1)University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16, United Kingdom, (2)University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom, (3)Plymouth University, Plymouth, PL4, United Kingdom, (4)University of Hull, Energy & Environment Institute, Hull, United Kingdom, (5)East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, (6)Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom
 
The potential influence of the annual invasive plant, Impatiens glandulifera (Himalayan Balsam), on the hydro-geomorphic functioning of inland river systems (21944)
Philip Greenwood1, Wolfgang Fister1, Nikolaus J Kuhn1 and Physical Geography & Environmental Change Research Group, (1)University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
 
Spatial Patterns of Plant Litter and Sedimentation in a Tidal Freshwater Marsh and Implications for Marsh Persistence (22160)
Andrew James Elmore1, Daniel D Cadol2, Cindy M Palinkas3 and Katia A Engelhardt1, (1)University of Maryland Center (UMCES) for Environmental Science, Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, United States, (2)New Mexico Tech, Socorro, United States, (3)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Lab, Cambridge, MD, United States
 
Modeling wave effects on limits of woody vegetation in Catahoula Lake, LA, USA (23015)
Brandon L Edwards1, Milan Curcic2 and Richard Keim1, (1)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (2)University of Miami, Ocean Sciences, Miami, United States
 
Predicting Vegetation Patterning across Climate, Soil, and Topographic Gradients (23178)
Christoffer Axelsson, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, United States and Niall P Hanan, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Las Cruces, United States
 
The roles of physical mixing and biochemical composition on the depositional characteristics of flocculated suspended sediment in the Eden estuary, Scotland (23464)
Julie Anne Hope1, Andrew J Manning2,3, Rebecca Aspden4, Baas Jaco5 and David M Paterson4, (1)University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom, (2)Plymouth University, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (3)HR Wallingford, Wallingford, United Kingdom, (4)University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16, United Kingdom, (5)Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom
 
Mechanisms of flash-flood generation in a gullied high-plains grassland: evidence for partial contributing area runoff (25253)
Amy Asanuma, UNAVCO, Inc. Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Gregory E Tucker, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences and CIRES, Boulder, United States; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States and Francis K Rengers, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States; USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, United States
 
Considering the Different Roles of Ammophila breviligulata and Spartina patens in Coastal Foredune Formation and Growth (25921)
Theodore Lawrence Jass1, Reuben Biel1, Donald R. Young2, John F Bruno3, Orencio Duran Vinent4 and Evan B Goldstein1, (1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geological Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (2)Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, VA, United States, (3)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Biology, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (4)MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
 
Riparian Vegetation, Sediment Dynamics and Hydrologic Change in the Minnesota River Basin (26567)
Virginia A Batts1, Laura Triplett2, Karen B Gran3 and Christian F Lenhart2, (1)Univ Minnesota, Duluth, MN, United States, (2)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (3)University of Minnesota Duluth, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Duluth, MN, United States
 
Influence of Aquatic Vegetation on Channel Hydraulics, Morphology, and Seasonal Accretion in Tidal Freshwater Marsh Inlet Channels (27434)
Karen L Prestegaard, Univ Maryland, Department of Geology, College Park, United States and Anna E. Statkiewicz, Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
 
FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION: CAN TROPICAL MOUNTAIN FOREST COMPETITION DRIVE THE GROWTH OF TOPOGRAPHY? (29708)
Gilles Y Brocard1, Jane K. Willenbring2 and Frederick N Scatena2, (1)University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, (2)University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, United States
 
Particle capture by aquatic vegetation modeled in flume experiments: the effects of particle size, stem density, biofilm, and flow velocity (27451)
Rachel Kerwin1, Kristen E. Fauria1,2, Daniel Nover1,3 and Geoffrey Schladow1,4, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)Vanderbilt University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nashville, United States, (3)USAID West Africa, Accra, Ghana, (4)UC Davis Tahoe Environ.Res. Cent., Davis, CA, United States
 
Species type controls root strength and influences slope stability in coastal Ecuador (31436)
Eliel Anttila1, Michelle Eileen Wray1, Ellen Knappe2, Tom Ogasawara1, Andrew Tholt3, Brittany Cliffe1 and Jasper Oshun4, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
 
A Framework for the Ecogeomorphological Modelling of the Macquarie Marshes, Australia (31523)
Jose Fernando Rodriguez1, Manuel Seoane Salazar2, Steven Gerardo Sandi3, Patricia M Saco2, Gerardo Riccardi4, Neil Saintilan5 and Li Wen6, (1)The University of Newcastle, School of Engineering, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, (2)University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia, (3)The University of Newcastle, Centre for Water Security and Environmental Sustainability and School of Engineering, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, (4)Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina, (5)Office of Environment and Heritage, Sydney, Australia, (6)NSW Department of Planning and Environment, Sydney, NSW, Australia
 
Bed Shear Stress in Channels with Emergent Vegetation (5316)
Judy Qingjun Yang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, Francois Kerger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Heidi Margaret Nepf, MIT, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, United States