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

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  William Nardin1, Sergio Fagherazzi1 and Greg S Okin2, (1)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States(2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  William Nardin, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  William Nardin, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
The Effect of Oyster Reef Morphology on Particulate Transfer in a North Carolina Tidal Creek
Mary Grace Lemon1, Martin Posey2, Michael Mallin3 and Troy Alphin2, (1)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (2)University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Biology and Marine Biology, Wilmington, NC, United States, (3)University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Marine Science, Wilmington, NC, United States
 
Hydrodynamic impacts on biogenic stabilisation and the fate of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) in mixed sediment bedforms.
Rebecca Aspden1, Julie Anne Hope2, Rob Schindler3, Daniel R Parsons4, Leiping Ye5, Jaco Baas6 and David M Paterson1, (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, Hull, HU6, United Kingdom, (5)East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, (6)Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom
 
Spatial Patterns of Plant Litter and Sedimentation in a Tidal Freshwater Marsh and Implications for Marsh Persistence
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, NM, 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
Brandon L Edwards1, Milan Curcic2 and Richard Keim1, (1)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (2)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
 
Predicting Vegetation Patterning across Climate, Soil, and Topographic Gradients
Christoffer Axelsson and Niall P Hanan, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, United States
 
The roles of physical mixing and biochemical composition on the depositional characteristics of flocculated suspended sediment in the Eden estuary, Scotland
Julie Anne Hope1, Andrew J Manning2,3, Rebecca Aspden4, Jaco Baas5 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
Amy Asanuma1, Gregory E Tucker2,3 and Francis K Rengers2,3, (1)UNAVCO, Inc. Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Considering the Different Roles of Ammophila breviligulata and Spartina patens in Coastal Foredune Formation and Growth
Theodore Lawrence Jass1, Laura J. Moore1, 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
Virginia A Batts1, Laura Triplett2, Karen B Gran1 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
 
Influence of Aquatic Vegetation on Channel Hydraulics, Morphology, and Seasonal Accretion in Tidal Freshwater Marsh Inlet Channels
Karen L Prestegaard and Anna E. Statkiewicz, Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
 
FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION: CAN TROPICAL MOUNTAIN FOREST COMPETITION DRIVE THE GROWTH OF TOPOGRAPHY?
Gilles Y Brocard1, Jane K. Willenbring2 and Frederick N Scatena2, (1)Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (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
Rachel Kerwin1, Kristen Fauria1,2, Daniel Nover1,3 and Geoffrey Schladow1,4, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)USAID West Africa, Accra, Ghana, (4)UC Davis Tahoe Environ.Res. Cent., Davis, CA, United States
 
Bellholes: Ceiling Cavities Eroded By Bats in Caves of the Neotropical Climates
Thomas Miller, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Geology, Mayaguez, PR, United States
 
Species type controls root strength and influences slope stability in coastal Ecuador
Eliel Anttila1, Michelle Eileen Wray1, Ellen Knappe2, Tom Ogasawara1, Andrew Tholt2, Brittany Cliffe1 and Jasper Oshun3, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
 
A Framework for the Ecogeomorphological Modelling of the Macquarie Marshes, Australia
Jose Fernando Rodriguez1, Manuel Seoane Salazar1, Steven Sandi Rojas1, Patricia M Saco2, Gerardo Riccardi3, Neil Saintilan4 and Li Wen4, (1)University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia, (2)University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, (3)Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina, (4)Office of Environment and Heritage, Sydney, Australia
 
Bed Shear Stress in Channels with Emergent Vegetation
Qingjun Yang1, Francois Kerger1 and Heidi Margaret Nepf2, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States