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

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Steven Lee Goodbred Jr, Vanderbilt-Earth & Envir Scies, Nashville, TN, United States and Brian Justin Mailloux, Barnard College, Department of Environmental Science, New York, NY, United States
Primary Conveners:  Brian Justin Mailloux, Barnard College, Department of Environmental Science, New York, NY, United States
Co-conveners:  Steven Lee Goodbred Jr, Vanderbilt-Earth & Envir Scies, Nashville, TN, United States, Benjamin C Bostick, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States and Michael S Steckler, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Benjamin C Bostick, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Dynamic Asia: Coupling of climate, tectonics, rivers, and people defines risk and opportunity for the world’s largest human populations
Steven Lee Goodbred Jr1, Michael S Steckler2, Jonathan M Gilligan1, Brooke Ackerly3, John C Ayers1, Carol Wilson1, Christopher Small2 and Leonardo Seeber2, (1)Vanderbilt University, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Nashville, TN, United States, (2)Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Vanderbilt University, Political Science, Nashville, TN, United States
8:15 AM
 
Decades of Change on the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta; Rivers, Coastlines, Agriculture and Development
Christopher Small1, Daniel Sousa1, Soyee Chiu1, Dhiman Ranjan Mondal2, Michael S Steckler3, Syed Humayun Akhter4, Bodrudoza Mia4, Steven Lee Goodbred Jr5, Carol Wilson6 and Leonardo Seeber3, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)CUNY Queens College, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Flushing, NY, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)Dhaka University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (5)Vanderbilt-Earth & Envir Scies, Nashville, TN, United States, (6)Vanderbilt University, Dept Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nashville, TN, United States
8:30 AM
 
Dam-Induced Sediment Starvation in Deltas: Implications for the Mekong
G Mathias Kondolf, Zan Rubin and J. Toby Minear, Univ California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
8:45 AM
 
SUSTAINABILITY WITHIN THE GREAT MONSOON RIVER BASINS
Peter John Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States
9:00 AM
 
Discussion
9:15 AM
 
Between Sunda subduction and Himalayan collision: fertility, people and earthquakes on the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta
Leonardo Seeber1, Michael S Steckler1, Syed Humayun Akhter2, Steven Lee Goodbred Jr3, Jonathan Gale1, Cecilia M McHugh4, Eleanor K Ferguson1, Dhiman Ranjan Mondal4, Chris Paola5, Meredith D Reitz1 and Carol Wilson3, (1)Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (3)Vanderbilt-Earth & Envir Scies, Nashville, TN, United States, (4)CUNY Queens College, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Flushing, NY, United States, (5)Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
9:30 AM
 
Why Does Exposure to Arsenic from Drinking Groundwater in Asian Megadeltas Continue to be High?
Alexander van Geen1, Kazi Matin Ahmed2, Ershad Bin Ahmed2, Imtiaz Choudhury2, M. Rajib Hassan Mozumder1, Benjamin C Bostick3, Brian Justin Mailloux4, Peter S Knappett5 and Peter Schlosser6, (1)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (3)Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)Barnard College, Department of Environmental Science, New York, NY, United States, (5)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States, (6)Columbia University, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Engineering and Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, NY, United States
9:45 AM
 
Geohazards and Poverty: An Ecosystem Services Approach in Bangladesh
Craig Hutton1, Robert J Nicholls2 and Atilla Lazar2, (1)University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, (2)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
 
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