EP31A:
Coastal and Nearshore Mapping Efforts in Alaska Posters

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Primary Conveners:  Thomas A Heinrichs, Univ of Alaska Fairbanks GINA, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Co-conveners:  Ann Gibbs, USGS Santa Cruz CA, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Thomas A Heinrichs, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Community-scale Coastal Vulnerability Mapping in Alaska: Status and Needs
Nicole Kinsman and Alex Gould, Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Predicting/Extrapolating Active Layer Thickness Using Statistical Learning from Remotely-Sensed High-resolution Data in Arctic Permafrost Landscapes: Improved parameterization of Ice-wedge polygons from LiDAR/WorldView-2 derived metrics
Chandana Gangodagamage1, Joel C Rowland1, Susan S. Hubbard2, Steven P. Brumby1, Anna Liljedahl3, Haruko Murakami Wainwright2, Victoria L Sloan4, Garrett Altmann1, Alexei N Skurikhin1, Eitan Shelef5, Cathy Jean Wilson6, Baptiste Dafflon2, John Peterson2, Craig Ulrich2, Ann Gibbs7, Craig E Tweedie8, Scott L Painter1 and Stan D Wullschleger9, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)ORNL, Bristol, United Kingdom, (5)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (6)Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (7)USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (8)University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States, (9)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
 
Airborne Gravity Data Enhances NGS Experimental Gravimetric Geoid in Alaska
Vicki A Childers1, Simon A Holmes1,2, Xiaopeng Li1,3 and Daniel R Roman4, (1)NOAA, National Geodetic Survey, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (2)SGT inc., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)DSTt@NGS, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (4)National Geodetic Survey, SRSD, Silver Spring, MD, United States
 
Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Coastal Bluff Erosion near Barrow Alaska over the Past Decade
Keith Brandwood Kofoed1, Abdiel F Lopez1, Adrian Aguirre1, Qaiyaan Aiken2, Ryan P Cody1, Allison G Gaylord3, William F Manley4, Erika Green2, Lars Nelson2, Vanessa Lougheed1, Aaron A Velasco1 and Craig E Tweedie1, (1)University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States, (2)UMIAQ, LLC, Anchorage, AK, United States, (3)Nuna Technologies, Homer, AK, United States, (4)Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Development of Integrated Bathymetric-Topographic Digital Elevation Models for Remote Alaskan Coastal Communities
Amy E Macpherson1, Kelly Carignan2, Dmitry Nicolsky1 and Elena Suleimani1, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Aerial Photography as a Tool to Document Coastal Change Along Eroding Shorelines in Northern Alaska
Ann Gibbs1, Bruce M Richmond1 and Matt Nolan2, (1)Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Alaska Broad Scale Orthoimagery and Elevation Mapping - Current Statewide Project Progress and Historic Work in Alaska
Thomas A Heinrichs, Dayne Broderson, Anne Johnson and Mitch Slife, Univ of Alaska Fairbanks GINA, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Factors in Rapid Coastal Retreat: Comparing Two New Datasets for Alaska's Arctic Coast
Bretwood M Higman, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Ann Gibbs, USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States and Bruce M Richmond, USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States
 
Facilitating Adaptation to Changing Storm Surge Patterns in Western Alaska.
Karen Anne Murphy1, Amy Holman2 and Joel Reynolds1, (1)Fish and Wildlife Service Alaska, Anchorage, AK, United States, (2)NOAA Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, United States
 
Extensive mapping of coastal change in Alaska by Landsat time-series analysis, 1972–2013
Joel Reynolds1, Matthew J Macander2, Christopher S Swingley2 and Shane Spencer2, (1)Western Alaska LCC, Anchorage, AK, United States, (2)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
 
Statewide Repository and Interactive Map of Coastal Elevation Profiles for Alaska
Alex Gould, Nicole Kinsman and Lauren Southerland, Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Fairbanks, AK, United States