GC41B:
Climate Change: Impacts, Resilience, Vulnerability, Adaptation, and Mitigation I Posters

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  James M Byrne, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, Kent Peacock, Univ of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, Simon D Donner, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Brian C O'Neill, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Conveners:  James M Byrne, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
Co-conveners:  Simon D Donner, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Brian C O'Neill, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Kent Peacock, Univ of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
OSPA Liaisons:  Kent Peacock, Univ of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Quantifying the Benefit of Early Climate Change Mitigation in Avoiding Biodiversity Loss
Rachel Warren1, Jeremy Vanderwal2, Jeff Price3, Justin Welbergen2, Ian M Atkinson4, Julian Ramirez-Villegas5, Timothy Osborn6, Luke Shoo7, Andy Jarvis5, Stephen Williams2 and Jason A. Lowe8, (1)University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, (2)James Cook University, Centre for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change, Townsville, Australia, (3)Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Norwich, United Kingdom, (4)James Cook University, eResearch Centre, Townsville, Australia, (5)International Centre for Tropical Agriculture, Cali, Colombia, (6)University of East Anglia, Climatic Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, Norwich, United Kingdom, (7)The University of Queensland, School of Biological Sciences, Queensland St Lucia, Australia, (8)University of Reading, MetOffice Hadley Centre, Reading, United Kingdom
 
Climate Change Impacts on US Agriculture and the Benefits of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
Erwan Monier1, Ian Sue Wing2 and Ari Stern2, (1)MIT, Center for Global Change Science, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
 
Population exposure to heat-related extremes: Demographic change vs climate change
Bryan Jones, CUNY Institute for Demographic Research, New York, NY, United States, Brian C O'Neill, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Claudia Tebaldi, Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States and Keith W Oleson, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Avoiding Drought Risks and Social Conflict Under Climate Change
Erin Towler, Heather Lazrus and Debasish Paimazumder, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Solar Radiation Management and Olivine Dissolution Methods in Climate Engineering
Salif Kone, Université des Sciences Juridiques et Politiques de Bamako, Institut Supérieur de Formation et de Recherche Appliquée (USJPB/ISFRA), Bamako, Mali; Malian National School of Engineers (ENI-ABT), Department of Geology, Bamako, Mali
 
Climate Change: Ethics and Collective Responsibility
M. Bryson Brown, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, Michael E Mann, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Kent Peacock, Univ of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada and Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
 
Why the developing nations like India need strong capacity building efforts in greenhouse gases mitigation?
Vikram Vishal1, Ashwin Sudhakaran1 and T N Singh2, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
 
Assessment of Flood Vulnerability to Climate Change Using Fuzzy Operators in Seoul
Moung-Jin Lee, KEI Korea Environment Institute, Seoul, South Korea
 
Evaluating Vulnerability and Resilience between Urban and Rural Area in a Regional Water Resources System under Climate Change
Tzu-Ming Liu1, Ching-pin Tung1, Ming-Hsu Li2, Jung-Hsuan Tsao1 and Chia-Yu Lin1, (1)National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, (2)National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan
 
Improvement of Soil Carbon Determination using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
Seung-Jae Moon, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
 
Social vulnerability and climate variability in southern Brazil: a TerraPop case study
Susana Beatriz Adamo1, Catherine A. Fitch2, Tracy Kugler2 and Erin Doxsey-Whitfield1, (1)Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)University of Minnesota, Minnesota Population Center, Minneapolis, MN, United States
 
Avoided Impacts in Ensembles of Tropical Cyclone Damage Potential
James Done1,2, Debasish Paimazumder1, Greg J Holland1 and Erin Towler1, (1)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Willis Research Network, London, United Kingdom
 
Review of Mitigation Costs for Stabilizing Greenhouse Gas Concentrations
Bastiaan Johannes van Ruijven and Brian C O'Neill, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
CESM-simulated 21st Century Changes in Large Scale Crop Water Requirements and Yields
Samuel Levis1, Andrew Badger2, Beth A Drewniak3, Brian C O'Neill4 and Xiaolin Ren1, (1)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (3)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
People as sensors: mass media and local temperature influence climate change discussion on Twitter
Andrei Kirilenko1, Tatiana Molodtsova1 and Svetlana Stepchenkova2, (1)University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States, (2)University of Florida - UF, Tourism, Recreation, & Sport Management, GAINESVILLE, FL, United States
 
Estimating the limits of adaptation from historical behaviour: Insights from the American Climate Prospectus
Amir Jina, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Solomon M Hsiang, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Robert E Kopp III, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, DJ Rasmussen, Rhodium Group, Oakland, CA, United States and James Rising, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, United States
 
Defining Canadian Perspectives on Climate Change Science and Solutions
Courtney Rieger and James M Byrne, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
 
ELK RIVER WATERSHED – FLOOD STUDY
Celeste C Barnes1, James M Byrne1, Ryan J MacDonald1 and Don Lewis2, (1)University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, (2)NOVUS Environmental, Guelph, ON, Canada
 
Green cities, smart people and climate change
Fariborz Mansouri Kouhestani, James M Byrne, Paul Hazendonk, M. Bryson Brown and Trevor Harrison, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
 
High Resolution Modelling of Crop Response to Climate Change
Seyedeh Shaghayegh Mirmasoudi1, James M Byrne1, Ryan J MacDonald1 and Don Lewis2, (1)University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, (2)NOVUS Environmental, Guelph, ON, Canada
 
Global Squeeze: Assessing Climate-Critical Resource Constraints for Coastal Climate Adaptation
Nathan T. Chase1, Austin Becker2, Benedict Schwegler3 and Martin Fischer3, (1)URS Corporation, San Francisco, CA, United States, (2)University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, United States, (3)Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Development of Climate Change Adaptation Platform using Spatial Information
Jeongho Lee, Kwan-Young Oh, Moung-Jin Lee and Wha-Jin Han, KEI Korea Environment Institute, Seoul, South Korea
 
The effects of carbon tax on the Oregon economy and state greenhouse gas emissions
Andrew L Rice, Chris L Butenhoff, Jeff Renfro and Jenny Liu, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States
 
The Effect of Natural Gas Supply on US Renewable Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Christine Shearer, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, John Bistline, Stanford University, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States, Mason Inman, Near Zero, Seattle, WA, United States and Steven J Davis, University California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
 
Burden Sharing with Climate Change Impacts
Massimo Tavoni1, Detlef van Vuuren2, Enrica De Cian3, Giacomo Marangoni3 and Andries Hof2, (1)Politecnico di Milano, Milano, 20133, Italy, (2)Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Bilthoven, Netherlands, (3)FEEM, Venice, Italy
 
National Energy with Weather System Simultator (NEWS) Sets Bounds on Cost Effective Wind and Solar PV Deployment in the USA without the Use of Storage.
Christopher Clack1, Alexander E MacDonald2, Anneliese Alexander1, Adam D Dunbar2, Yuanfu Xie2 and James M Wilczak3, (1)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA Boulder, Earth Systems Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Mitigating Climate Change with Ocean Pipes: Influencing Land Temperature and Hydrology and Termination Overshoot Risk
Lester Kwiatkowski, Ken Caldeira and Kate Ricke, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States
 
Climate regulation enhances the value of second generation biofuel technology
Thomas W Hertel1, Jevgenijs Steinbuks2 and Wally Tyner1, (1)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (2)World Bank, Washington, DC, United States
 
A Consideration of the Health and Environmental Risks/Effects of Geoengineering
Brooke L Hemming, Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, Tyler N Felgenhauer, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Pa, NC, United States and C Andrew Miller, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Geoengineering, Climate Harm, and Business as Usual
Frank Joseph Jankunis, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada and Kent Peacock, Univ of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
 
From GCM Output to Local Hydrologic and Ecological Impacts: Integrating Climate Change Projections into Conservation Lands
Stuart B Weiss1, Lisa Micheli2, Lorraine E Flint3, Alan L Flint3 and James H Thorne4, (1)Creekside Center for Earth Observation, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)Pepperwood Preserve, Santa Rosa, CA, United States, (3)USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States, (4)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
 
How CO2 Leakage May Impact the Role of Geologic Carbon Storage in Climate Mitigation
Catherine A Peters1, Hang Deng1, Jeffrey M Bielicki2, Jeffrey P Fitts1 and Michael Oppenheimer1, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
 
America’s Water Supply Challenge: Adaptation to Future Population Growth and Climate Change
Thomas C Brown1, Vinod Mahat1 and Jorge A Ramirez2, (1)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)Colorado State Univ, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Comparing the Climate Mitigation Potential of Advanced Biofuels
Emily S Cassidy, Environmental Working Group, Washington, DC, United States