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

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
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, DC, United States
Primary Conveners:  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, DC, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Michael R Hiscock, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Temporal Variability and Environmental Drivers of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in Western Lake Erie
Song Liang1, Di Tian1, Gengxin Xie2, Jing Tian1, Kuo Shin Tseng3, C.K. Shum4 and Jiyoung Lee4, (1)University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, (2)Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, (3)National Central University, Taipei City, Taiwan, (4)The Ohio State University, Columbus, United States
10:35 AM
 
Disease in a more variable and unpredictable climate
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
10:50 AM
 
Relating Nearshore Algal Blooms Determined Using Satellite Imagery to Nutrient Loading, Watershed Land Use, and Storm Events
Robert Jan Stevenson1, David W Hyndman1, Jiaguo Qi1, Peter Esselman1, Linda Novitski1, Anthony D Kendall1, Sherry L Martin2 and Shengpan Lin1, (1)Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, (2)Michigan State University, Department of Geological Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States
11:05 AM
 
Dengue Fever Trends and Climate Change in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Frank E Muller-Karger1, Pablo Mendez-Lazaro2, Daniel Brooks Otis1, Matthew McCarthy1 and Marisol Pena-Orellana2,3, (1)University of South Florida St. Petersburg, IMaRS, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (2)University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, Environmental Health Department, Cidra, PR, United States, (3)University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, Center for Public Health Preparedness, Cidra, PR, United States
11:20 AM
 
Extreme Water Levels in Bangladesh: Past Trends, Future Projections and their Impact on Mortality
Insa Thiele-Eich1, Katrin Burkart2, Thomas M Hopson3 and Clemens Simmer1, (1)University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, (2)Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
11:35 AM
 
A Harder Rain is Going to Fall: Challenges for Actionable Projections of Extremes
William Collins, Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
11:50 AM
 
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
DJ Rasmussen, Rhodium Group, Oakland, CA, United States and Robert E Kopp III, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
12:05 PM
 
From all Sides: Water Resource Management in an Era of Extreme Variability
Karen Metchis, Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States and Nancy Beller-Simms, Sectoral Applications Research Program (SARP), NOAA Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States