GC21D:
Impacts of Global Change on Deltas and Coastal Wetland Ecosystems: Scientific Advances in Support of Socioecological Resilience I Posters

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Jean-Christophe Domec, USDA Forest Srvc-EFETAC, Raleigh, NC, United States and Zachary D Tessler, City College of New York, New York, NY, United States
Primary Conveners:  Zachary D Tessler, City College of New York, New York, NY, United States
Co-conveners:  Wenhong Li, Duke Univ-Nicholas School, Durham, NC, United States, Ge Sun, USDA Forest Svc, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Raleigh, NC, United States and Yoshiki Saito, Geological Survey Japan / AIST, Tsukuba Ibaraki, Japan
OSPA Liaisons:  Zachary D Tessler, City College of New York, New York, NY, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Sediment supply and sediment storage in deltas of small mountainous rivers since 7 ka, west and southwest Taiwan
Kan-Hsi Hsiung and Yoshiki Saito, Geological Survey Japan / AIST, Tsukuba Ibaraki, Japan
 
Late Holocene Environmental History of the Los Osos Watershed, Morro Bay, CA
Elinor Broadman, University of California Berkeley, Geography, Berkeley, CA, United States, Liam M Reidy, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and David Wahl, USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
Assessing the prehistoric shoreline changes of the Mekong delta, Vietnam
Toru Tamura1, Yoshiki Saito2, Van Lap Nguyen3, Thi Kim Oanh Ta3, Mark D Bateman4 and Akio Sato5, (1)AIST - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, (2)Geological Survey Japan / AIST, Tsukuba Ibaraki, Japan, (3)HCMC Institute of Resources Geography, VAST, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, (4)Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, (5)University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
 
Man made deltas?
Vittorio Maselli and Fabio Trincardi, Institute of Marine Science, ISMAR-CNR, Bologna, Italy
 
Agricultural Land Cover Dynamics on the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta: 1988-2014
Daniel Sousa1, Soyee Chiu1, Dhiman Ranjan Mondal2 and Christopher Small1, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)CUNY Graduate School and University Center, Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, NY, United States
 
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of River Channel Migration on the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta: 2000-2013
Christopher Small1, Soyee Chiu2, Daniel Sousa2, Dhiman Ranjan Mondal3, Michael S Steckler4, Syed Humayun Akhter5, Bodrudoza Mia5, Steven Lee Goodbred Jr6, Carol Wilson7 and Leonardo Seeber4, (1)Lamont Doherty Earth Obs., Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)CUNY Graduate School and University Center, Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, NY, United States, (4)Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States, (5)Dhaka University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (6)Vanderbilt-Earth & Envir Scies, Nashville, TN, United States, (7)Vanderbilt University, Dept Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nashville, TN, United States
 
Coastal Dynamics of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta: 1988-2014
Soyee Chiu1, Daniel Sousa1, Dhiman Ranjan Mondal2 and Christopher Small1, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)CUNY Graduate School and University Center, Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, NY, United States
 
Monitoring delta subsidence with Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR)
Stephanie Higgins, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Irina Overeem, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and James P Syvitski, University of Colorado at Boulder, CSDMS/INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Multi-temporal analysis of remote sensing and in situ data for the study of delta systems
Andrea Taramelli1, Emiliana Valentini1, Federico Filipponi1, Serena Gerlaldini1, Alessandra Nguyen Xuan1, Francesco Zucca2 and Andreas Vollrath2, (1)Institute for Environmental Protection and the Environmental Research, Rome, Italy, (2)University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
 
Spatio-temporal dynamics of global peatland extent and carbon stocks as simulated for the past twenty thousand years
Benjamin David Stocker1, Renato Spahni2 and Fortunat Joos2, (1)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (2)University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
 
DETERMINING WATER QUALITY TRENDS IN THE SACRAMENTO-SAN JOAQUIN DELTA WATERSHED IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Kathryn Kynett, Shakoora Azimi-Gaylon and Claire Doidic, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy, West Sacramento, CA, United States
 
Natural and Human-Induced Variations in Accretion of the Roanoke Bay-head Delta
Anna Jalowska, Brent A McKee and Antonio B Rodriguez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
 
Evolution of an Anthropocene Delta: Understanding the Interplay of Natural and Anthropogenic Forces That Shaped the Brazos River Subaqueous Delta, USA
Joseph A Carlin, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, United States and Timothy Dellapenna, Texas A & M University at Galveston, Galveston, TX, United States
 
Natural and Human Impacts on Recent Development of Asian Large Rivers and Deltas
Paul Liu and Chi Lu, North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC, United States
 
Network topology, Transport dynamics, and Vulnerability Analysis in River Deltas: A Graph-Theoretic Approach
Alejandro Tejedor, Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Anthony Longjas, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Ilya V Zaliapin, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, United States
 
River Network Uncertainty and Coastal Morphodynamics in the Mekong Delta: Model Validation and Sensitivity to Fluvial Fluxes
Zachary D Tessler, City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, Charles J Vorosmarty, CCNY-Environ Crossroads Initi, New York, NY, United States, Sagy Cohen, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States and Hansong Tang, CCNY, New York, NY, United States
 
Reconstructing the Alcatraz escape
Fedor Baart1, Olivier Hoes2, Rolf Hut3, Gennadii Donchyts4 and Elgard van Leeuwen1, (1)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, (2)Delft University of Technology, Delft, 5612, Netherlands, (3)Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, (4)Deltares, Delft, 2629, Netherlands
 
Rejuvenating Poldered Landscapes in a Tidally-Dominated, Sediment-Rich Delta: A Numerical Model and Analysis of the Effectiveness of Tidal River Management in Coastal Bangladesh
Christopher M Tasich, Steven Lee Goodbred Jr, Jonathan M Gilligan and Carol Wilson, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
 
Natural and anthropogenic change in the morphology and connectivity of tidal channels of southwest Bangladesh
Carol Wilson1, Steven Lee Goodbred Jr1, Leslie Wallace Auerbach1, Kazi Rifat Ahmed2, Chris Small3 and Sarah E Sams1, (1)Vanderbilt University, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Nashville, TN, United States, (2)Khulna University, Department of Environmental Science, Khulna, Bangladesh, (3)Columbia University of New York, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Methane Dynamics in Sediments from Mangrove-dominated Costal Lagoons
Pei-Chuan Chuang, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Adina Paytan, UCSC-Inst Marine Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Megan B Young, USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States
 
Unexpectedly High Methane Emissions through Black Ash Lenticels in Forest Wetlands of Northern Michigan
Nicholas W Bolton1, Matthew J Van Grinsven1, Joseph Shannon1, Joshua Davis1, Stephen D Sebestyen2, Randy K Kolka2, Joseph W. Wagenbrenner1 and Thomas G Pypker3, (1)Michigan Technological University, School of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences, Houghton, MI, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service, Grand Rapids, MN, United States, (3)Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada
 
Leaf Tissue C:N and Soil N are Modified by Growing Season and Goose Grazing Phenology in a Sub-Arctic Coastal Wetland of Western Alaska
Ryan T. Choi1, Karen H. Beard1, A. Joshua Leffler2, Joel A. Schmutz3 and Jeffrey M Welker4, (1)Utah State University, Wildland Resources, Logan, UT, United States, (2)University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, United States, (3)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, (4)University of Alaska Anchorage, Department of Biological Sciences, Anchorage, AK, United States
 
Early Season Goose Grazing Has a Greater Effect Than Advancement of the Growing Season on Net Ecosystem Exchange in a Sub-Arctic Coastal Wetland of Western Alaska
A. Joshua Leffler1, Ryan T. Choi2, Ryan T. Choi2, Joel A. Schmutz3 and Jeffrey M Welker4, (1)University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, United States, (2)Utah State University, Wildland Resources, Logan, UT, United States, (3)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, (4)University of Alaska Anchorage, Department of Biological Sciences, Anchorage, AK, United States
 
Do Peatlands Hibernate?
Ellen Dorrepaal1,2, Constant Signarbieux2,3, Vincent Jassey2,3, Rob Mills2,3, Alexandre Buttler2,3 and Bjorn Robroek4, (1)Umeå University, Climate Impacts Research Centre, Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå, Sweden, (2)École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental, Engineering (ENAC), Laboratory of Ecological Systems (ECOS), Lausanne, Switzerland, (3)Swiss Federal Research Institute-WSL, Community Ecology Research Unit, Lausanne, Switzerland, (4)Utrecht University, Ecology and Biodiversity, Utrecht, Netherlands
 
Modeling the Effects of Changes to Physical, Hydrological, and Biological Processes on Porewater Salinity Distributions in a Southeastern Salt Marsh
David Miklesh and Christof D Meile, University of Georgia, Marine Sciences, Athens, GA, United States
 
Spatial patterns in soil biogeochemical process rates along a Louisiana wetland salinity gradient in the Barataria Bay estuarine system
Brian J Roberts1, Matthew W Rich1, Hillary L Sullivan1, Regina Bledsoe2, Mia Dawson3, Brian Donnelly4 and John M Marton5, (1)Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Chauvin, LA, United States, (2)Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA, United States, (3)Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, United States, (4)Villanova University, Villanova, PA, United States, (5)Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States