EP41B:
High-Resolution Topography and Process Measurements for Analyzing Earth-Surface Dynamics I Posters

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Primary Conveners:  Thad A Wasklewicz, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States
Co-conveners:  Julian Leyland, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, Paola Passalacqua, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Christopher J Crosby, UNAVCO, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Thad A Wasklewicz, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Mapping Forest Edge Using Aerial Lidar
Meghan Graham MacLean, Babson College, Math and Science, Wellesley, MA, United States
 
Geomorphic Effects of Engineered Log Jams in River Restoration, Middle Fork John Day River
Jenna Duffin and Patricia F McDowell, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
 
Practical Enhancement of Terrestrial Laser Scanning for Fluvial Geomorphology Surveys
Kyotaek Hwang and David G Chandler, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States
 
Lidar Investigation of Infiltration Water Heterogeneity in the Tamala Limestone, SW WA
Kashif Mahmud1, Gregoire Mariethoz1,2, Pauline C Treble3 and Andy Baker1, (1)UNSW Australia, Connected Waters Initiative Research Centre, Sydney, Australia, (2)ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Institute for Environmental Research, Lucas Heights, NSW, Australia
 
Performance Evaluation of Four DEM-Based Fluvial Terrace Mapping Methods Across Variable Geomorphic Settings: Application to the Sheepscot River Watershed, Maine
Austin J Hopkins and Noah P Snyder, Boston College, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States
 
Detection to the DepositFan Occurring in the Sun Moon Lake Using Geophysical Sonar Data
Leung Mimi, IONTU Institute of Oceanography National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
 
LiDAR Analysis of Hector Mine Fault Scarp Degradation
Xiao Zhang1, Kenneth W Hudnut2, Craig L Glennie1, Frank Sousa3, Joann M Stock3 and Sinan O Akciz4, (1)National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping, Houston, TX, United States, (2)USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Univ California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
On the surface roughness of a braidplain in an Alpine proglacial area
Henning Baewert1, David Morche1 and Cansu Culha2, (1)Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany, (2)University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Quantifying Geomorphic Change to a Point Bar in Response to High Flow Events Using Terrestrial LiDAR, White Clay Creek, Delaware
Michael J Orefice, Michael A O'Neal and James Eugene Pizzuto, University of Delaware, Geological Sciences, Newark, DE, United States
 
Controls of climate, topography, vegetation and lithology on drainage density extracted from high resolution topography
Harish Sangireddy1, Richard Alan Carothers1, Paola Passalacqua1 and Colin Peter Stark2, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Columbia University in the City of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Estimating Small Scale River Channel Roughness Using a Through-water Photo-based technique
Freyja Scarborough1, Mike R James2 and Andrew M Folkard2, (1)University of Lancaster, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster, LA1, United Kingdom, (2)University of Lancaster, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster, United Kingdom
 
Using LiDAR to Estimate Surface Erosion Volumes within the Post-storm 2012 Bagley Fire
Ryan P Mikulovsky, US Forest Service, Willows, CA, United States, Juan A De La Fuente, US Forest Service, Yreka, CA, United States and Zackary J Mondry, US Forest Service, Redding, CA, United States
 
The Devil is in the Details: Using X-Ray Computed Tomography to Develop Accurate 3D Grain Characteristics and Bed Structure Metrics for Gravel Bed Rivers
Hal Voepel1, Rebecca A Hodge2, Julian Leyland3, David Ayres Sear1 and Sharif I Ahmed4,5, (1)University of Southampton, Geography and Environment, Southampton, United Kingdom, (2)University of Durham, Department of Geography, Durham, DH1, United Kingdom, (3)University of Southampton, Geography and Environment, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, (4)University of Southampton, Micro-Vis CT Imaging Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, (5)University of Southampton, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, Southampton, United Kingdom
 
3D Mapping of Glacially-Sculpted Bedrock in Central Park
Laura Laderman, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, United States, Colin Peter Stark, Columbia University in the City of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Timothy T Creyts, Columbia University-LDEO, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Uplift revealed by LASER scanner surveys in Murono mud volcano, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, and estimation of its source
Atsushi Takahashi, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Yoichi Fukuda, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan and Shigekazu Kusumoto, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
 
Anthropogenic Impacts of Recreational Use on Sandbars in Hells Canyon on the Snake River, Idaho
Mark D Morehead, Idaho Power Company, Boise, ID, United States
 
Asymmetric alluvial fans along strike-slip faults: A potential slip-rate record?
Alexander E Morelan III, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States and Michael E Oskin, Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
 
Changes in Bar Morphology in an Aggrading Gravel Bed River
Rebecca A Hodge, University of Durham, Department of Geography, Durham, DH1, United Kingdom
 
Integration of multitemporal and multisource data using point cloud based methods to quantify landscape change at the Mill Gulch earthflow, California
Nikita N Avdievitch1,2 and Stephen B DeLong1, (1)US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
 
Field implementation of Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) for studying flow dynamics at river confluences
Quinn W Lewis and Bruce L Rhoads, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
 
Predicting multi-scale relationships between geomorphology and bedrock geology of the rocky intertidal in Central and Northern California
Ashley Wheeler, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, United States and Ivano W Aiello, California State University Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, United States
 
Evaluating the effectiveness of low cost UAV generated topography for geomorphic change detection
Kristen L Cook, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
 
Detecting Blind Fault with Fractal and Roughness Factors from High Resolution LiDAR DEM at Taiwan
Youg-Sin Cheng and Teng-To Yu, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
 
High-resolution DEM Effects on Geophysical Flow Models
Matthew R Williams1, Marcus I Bursik1, Elena Ramona Stefanescu2 and Abani K Patra2, (1)SUNY Buffalo, Department of Geology, Buffalo, NY, United States, (2)SUNY Buffalo, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Buffalo, NY, United States
 
Topography and Vegetation Characterization using Dual-Wavelength Airborne Lidar
Brian Bradford, Lori A Magruder and Amy L Neuenschwander, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
Analyzing post-fire topography at the hillslope-channel interface with terrestrial LiDAR: contrasting geomorphic responses from the 2012 Waldo Canyon Fire of Colorado and the 2013 Springs Fire of California
Rune Storesund1, Anne Chin2, Joan L Florsheim3, Linda O'Hirok4, Keith Williams5 and Kenneth Emil Austin5, (1)Storesund Consulting, Kensington, CA, United States, (2)University of Colorado Denver, Geography and Envinronmental Sciences, Denver, CO, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (4)California State University Channel Islands, Environmental Studies, Camarillo, CA, United States, (5)UNAVCO, Inc. Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Numerical Modeling of an Active Salt System in Canyonlands, Utah: The Role of Topography in Driving Plastic Flow and Brittle Extension
Katherine Kravitz, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Phaedra Upton, GNS Science-Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd, Lower Hutt, New Zealand and Karl J Mueller, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Automated Probabilistic LiDAR Swath Registration
Andre Jalobeanu, Self-employed, San Francisco Bay Area, CA, United States and Gil R Gonçalves, INESC, Coimbra, Portugal; University of Coimbra, Math. Dept., Coimbra, Portugal
 
Downeast Drainage: Characterization of Upland Drainage Attributes for Parameterization of Gulf of Maine Watersheds
Brian Mathys Van Dam Jr1,2, Sean MC Smith1,2, Kate Beard3 and John M Peckenham2,4, (1)University of Maine, School of Earth and Climate Sciences, Orono, ME, United States, (2)Sen. George J. Mitchell Center, Orono, ME, United States, (3)University of Maine, School of Computing and Information Science, Orono, ME, United States, (4)Maine Water Resources Research Institute, Orono, ME, United States
 
The Greenland Ice Sheet, now in HD
Myoung-Jong Noh1, Ian M Howat2, Claire C Porter3, Paul J Morin4 and Bradley Herried3, (1)Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)OH St Univ-Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, (3)University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States, (4)Polar Geospatial Center, St Paul, MN, United States