Global Environmental Change

Full abstracts and co-authors will be available in early-October after abstracts are accepted and published on the Fall Meeting website.


GC11A. Adapting to Rates of Climate Change: Natural and Human Dimensions I Posters
Ken Caldeira1, Soheil Shayegh1, Juan Moreno-Cruz2 and Kate Ricke3, (1)Carnegie Institution for Science, Dept. of Global Ecology, Washington, DC, United States(2)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Economics, Atlanta, GA, United States(3)Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States
GC11B. Carbon Monitoring Systems Research and Applications I Posters
George C Hurtt, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Sangram Ganguly, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Vanessa M Escobar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Science Systems and Applications, Greenbelt, MD, United States
GC11C. Climate Refugia in a Changing World: Climatic and Hydrologic Processes Informing Ecological Responses I Posters
Connie Millar, USDA Forest Service, PSW Research Station, Albany, CA, United States and Toni Lyn Morelli, US Geological Survey, Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, Amherst, MA, United States; USGS Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, Amherst, United States
GC11G. Global Eyes on the New Arctic: Exploring the Trajectory Toward a New State and Responding to Rapid Change II Posters
Lauren M Everett, National Academy of Sciences, Polar Research Board, Washington, DC, United States, Jennifer Ann Francis, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, NJ, United States, Peter Schlosser, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States and Waleed Abdalati, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
GC12A. Emerging Perspectives on Land Use: Global Drivers and Local Impacts in a Socioenvironmentally Teleconnected World I
Peter Verburg, VU University, Department of Earth Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Kathleen D Morrison, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, Narcisa GABRIELA Pricope, Mississippi State University, Geosciences, Mississippi State, MS, United States and Darla Munroe, Ohio State University, Department of Geography, Columbus, OH, United States
GC12B. Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (2016):€“ A Special Scientific Assessment of Current Status and Opportunities I
Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Ph.D., U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program, Washington, United States, Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/NIFA, Washington, DC, United States, Daniel B Stover, Department of Energy Germantown, Washington, United States and Zhiliang Zhu, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, United States
GC12C. Sustainable Global Agricultural Production Monitoring Practices and Methods I
Rick Mueller, USDA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, Jesslyn F Brown, USGS/EROS, Sioux Falls, United States and Jessica McCarty, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States
GC13E. Livestock, Land Use, and the Environment Posters
James S Gerber1, Paul C West1, Mario Herrero2 and Marcos Heil Costa3, (1)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States(2)Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), St. Lucia, QLD, Australia(3)UFV Federal University of Vicosa, Vicosa, Brazil
GC13F. Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (2016):€“ A Special Scientific Assessment of Current Status and Opportunities II Posters
Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Ph.D., U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program, Washington, United States, Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/NIFA, Washington, DC, United States, Daniel B Stover, Department of Energy Germantown, Washington, United States and Zhiliang Zhu, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, United States
GC13I. Carbon Monitoring Systems Research and Applications II
George C Hurtt, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Sangram Ganguly, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Vanessa M Escobar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Science Systems and Applications, Greenbelt, MD, United States
GC13J. Climate Refugia in a Changing World: Climatic and Hydrologic Processes Informing Ecological Responses I
Connie Millar, USDA Forest Service, PSW Research Station, Albany, CA, United States, Toni Lyn Morelli, US Geological Survey, Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, Amherst, MA, United States and Toni Lyn Morelli, US Geological Survey, Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, Amherst, United States
GC13K. Dynamics, Drivers, and Impacts of Vegetation Change in Boreal and Arctic Ecosystems II
Claudia I Czimczik1, Sandra R Holden2 and Michael Goulden2, (1)University of California, Irvine, United States(2)University of California, Irvine, CA, United States
GC13L. The NASA Public Health and Air Quality Application Program: Integrating Remote Sensing, Spatial Analysis, and Modeling for the Analysis of Environmentally Driven Human Health Risks II
Sue M Estes1, Dale A Quattrochi2, Ali H Omar3 and Cory Morin2, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States(2)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States(3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
GC14A. Adapting to Rates of Climate Change: Natural and Human Dimensions I
Ken Caldeira1, Soheil Shayegh1, Juan Moreno-Cruz2 and Kate Ricke3, (1)Carnegie Institution for Science, Dept. of Global Ecology, Washington, DC, United States(2)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Economics, Atlanta, GA, United States(3)Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States
GC14C. Global Eyes on the New Arctic: Exploring the Trajectory Toward a New State and Responding to Rapid Change I
Lauren M Everett, National Academy of Sciences, Polar Research Board, Washington, DC, United States, Jennifer Ann Francis, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, NJ, United States, Peter Schlosser, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States and Waleed Abdalati, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
GC21D. Detecting and Attributing Impacts of Climate Change I
Frances Claire Moore, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, United States, Dáithí A Stone, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Maximilian Auffhammer, University of California Berkeley, Agriculture and Resource Economics, Berkeley, United States
GC21E. Global Change Scenarios for the United States: Current Activities and Future Directions in Content and Methods For Research, Assessment, and Decision Support I
Christopher P Weaver, U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, United States, Richard H Moss, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, United States, Bernice Reya Rosenzweig, Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY, Environmental Sciences Initiative, New York, NY, United States and Donald J Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, United States
GC22B. Emerging Issues in Nighttime Environmental Remote Sensing and Earth System Science Applications I
Miguel O Roman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Edward J Hyer, US Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, United States, Steven D Miller, Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Changyong Cao, NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States
GC22D. Research Results from the Multiseason, Multiyear Western U.S. NASA Remote Measurement Science Campaign I
David R Thompson1, Simon J Hook1, Robert O Green1 and Morgan L Cable2, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States(2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
GC23H. Improving Societal Relevance of Climate and Earth System Models through Use-Oriented Performance Metrics and Benchmarks for Developers Posters
Caspar M. Ammann, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Barbara Brown, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Laurna Kaatz, Denver Water, Denver, CO, United States and William J Gutowski Jr, Iowa State University, Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA, United States
GC23K. Research Results from the Multiseason, Multiyear Western U.S. NASA Remote Measurement Science Campaign II Posters
David R Thompson1, Simon J Hook1, Robert O Green1 and Morgan L Cable2, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States(2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
GC23M. Schneider Lecture
David M. Cairns, Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, Rong Fu, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Ohio State University Main Campus, Department of Geography, Columbus, OH, United States, Ali H Omar, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Malcolm K Hughes, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
GC23N. Tyndall History of Global Environmental Change Lecture
David M. Cairns, Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, Rong Fu, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Ohio State University Main Campus, Department of Geography, Columbus, OH, United States, Ali H Omar, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Malcolm K Hughes, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
GC24C. Tropical Cyclones and Climate on All Timescales II
Ryan L Sriver, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States, I-I Lin, National Taiwan University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan and Wei Mei, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, La Jolla, United States
GC24D. GEC Special Lecture
David M. Cairns, Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, Rong Fu, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Ohio State University Main Campus, Department of Geography, Columbus, OH, United States
GC31F. Climate Change Solutions I
James Michael Byrne1, Kent Peacock2, Paul Hazendonk3 and Leanne J Little3, (1)University of Lethbridge, Geography and Environment, Lethbridge, Canada(2)Univ of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada(3)University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
GC31H. Global and Regional Water-Food-Energy Security under Changing Environments I
Yoshihide Wada, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, Michael Joseph Puma, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Martina Floerke, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany and Masih Akhbari, Riverside Technology Inc., Fort Collins, CO, United States
GC32A. Climate Change Solutions II
James Michael Byrne1, Kent Peacock2, Paul Hazendonk3 and Leanne J Little3, (1)University of Lethbridge, Geography and Environment, Lethbridge, Canada(2)Univ of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada(3)University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
GC32B. Global and Regional Water-Food-Energy Security under Changing Environments II
Yoshihide Wada, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria; NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, Michael Joseph Puma, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Martina Floerke, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany, Masih Akhbari, Riverside Technology Inc., Fort Collins, CO, United States and Reagan Waskom, Colorado State University, Colorado Water Institute, Fort Collins, CO, United States
GC32C. Instrument Characterization and Calibration for Climate and Environmental Measurements I
Joel McCorkel, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Nathan Leisso, NEON, Boulder, CO, United States, Michele Ann Kuester, Digital Globe, Herndon, VA, United States and Jeffrey Czapla-Myers, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
GC33C. Global and Regional Water-Food-Energy Security under Changing Environments III Posters
Yoshihide Wada, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, Michael Joseph Puma, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Martina Floerke, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany, Masih Akhbari, Riverside Technology Inc., Fort Collins, CO, United States and Michelle T.H. van Vliet, Utrecht University, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands
GC33D. Instrument Characterization and Calibration for Climate and Environmental Measurements II Posters
Joel McCorkel, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jeffrey Czapla-Myers, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Nathan Leisso, NEON, Boulder, CO, United States and Michele Ann Kuester, DigitalGlobe, Longmont, CO, United States
GC33E. The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Understanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the Land, Atmosphere, and Society I Posters
Sander Veraverbeke, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Mick Tosca, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Daniel S Ward, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States and Brendan M Rogers, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, United States
GC33F. Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia and Their Feedbacks to the Global Earth System and Society II
Pavel Groisman, UCAR at NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States; P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS, Moscow, Russia, Jessica McCarty, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States, Shamil S Maksyutov, CGER-NIES, Tsukuba, Japan and Sergey Gulev, P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS, ., Sea Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Lab, Moscow, Russia
GC34B. Linking Downscaled Climate Variables to Extreme Events, Land Surface Hydrology, Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services, and Human Health III
Muge Komurcu, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States, Srinath Krishnan, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, Matthew Huber, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States and Mark Pagani, Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, New Haven, CT, United States
GC41G. Characterizing and Interpreting Changes in Temperature and Precipitation Extremes I
Karen A McKinnon, University of California Los Angeles, Institute of Environment and Sustainability; Department of Statistics and Data Science; Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Science, Los Angeles, United States, Andrew N Rhines, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, Peter J Huybers, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Paul C Loikith, Portland State University, Geography, Portland, United States
GC42A. Global Change Impacts in West Africa: From Observations and Models to Adaptation Measures I
Dominik Wisser1, Jean-Martial Cohard2,3, Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla2 and Jan Henning Sommer1, (1)University of Bonn, Center for Development Research, Bonn, Germany(2)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States(3)Université de Grenoble - LTHE, Grenoble, France
GC43H. The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Understanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the Land, Atmosphere, and Society III
Sander Veraverbeke, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Mick Tosca, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Daniel S Ward, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States and Brendan M Rogers, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, United States
GC51B. Connecting Stakeholders with Climate Science: The Role of Climate Programs Posters
Caitriana M Steele, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Las Cruces, NM, United States, Emile Elias, New Mexico State Univ, Las Cruces, United States; US Department of Agriculture, Southwest Climate Hub, Las Cruces, NM, United States and Carolyn Enquist, USGS, Southwest Climate Science Center, Tucson, AZ, United States
GC51F. Trace Metal Cycling in the Environment: Forty Years of Advancements I Posters
Priya M Ganguli, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States; California State University Northridge, Northridge, United States, Frank Black, Westminster College, Chemistry, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Sergio A Sanudo-Wilhelmy, University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Edward A Boyle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States
GC51J. Toward Better Understanding of the Impacts of Climate Variability: From Ecosystem Processes to Agricultural Adaptation and Decision Making I
Lyndon D Estes1, Amor V M Ines2, Jeff Atkins3, Erin Swails3 and Amor Ines2, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States(2)Michigan State University, Departments of Plant, Soil and Micriobial Sciences, and Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States(3)University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States
GC52A. Field/Laboratory Analysis, Modeling, and Stakeholder Involvement to Assess Impacts of the Coastal Dynamics of Sea Level Rise in Low Gradient Coastal Landscapes I
Scott C Hagen, Louisiana State University, Center for Coastal Resiliency, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, David Kidwell, NOAA, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Ben van der Pluijm, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
GC52D. Toward Better Understanding of the Impacts of Climate Variability: From Ecosystem Processes to Agricultural Adaptation and Decision Making II
Lyndon D Estes1, Amor V M Ines2, Jeff Atkins3 and Erin Swails3, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States(2)Michigan State University, Departments of Plant, Soil and Micriobial Sciences, and Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States(3)University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States
GC54A. Observed and Projected Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Agriculture III
Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States; UCSB, Geography, Santa Barbara, United States, Lawrence Buja, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Vimal Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, 382, India and Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
B23J. New Mechanisms, Feedbacks, and Approaches for Improving Predictions of the Global Carbon Cycle in Earth System Models II
Forrest M. Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States; Computational Earth Sciences Group and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, Atul K. Jain, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States, James Tremper Randerson, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Jefferson Keith Moore, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States and Atul K Jain, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States
B53K. Human Alteration of the Phosphorus Cycle: Past, Present, and Future II
Stephen M Powers1, Josephine A Archibald2, Sheila M. Saia2 and Todd Walter2, (1)Washington State University, Pullman, United States(2)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
EP31A. International Critical Zone Research: Status, Networking, and Challenges Posters
Joerg Voelkel, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Steve A. Banwart, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Susan Trumbore, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany and Harry Vereecken, Geoverbund ABC/J, Centre for High-Performance Scientific Computing in Terrestrial Systems (TerrSys), Jülich, Germany
H13F. Ecological and Hydrological Resistance and Resilience: Emerging Understanding from Interactions at Multiple Scales II Posters
Charles R. Lane, Environmental Protection Agency Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States, Claire Ruffing, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Adrian Adam Harpold, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States and Pamela L Sullivan, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, United States
H13H. Global Precipitation Measurement, Validation, and Applications III Posters
Yang Hong1, Ramesh K Kakar2, Gail Skofronick Jackson3, Walter Arthur Petersen4, Pierre Kirstetter5 and George John Huffman4, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science (CEES), Norman, OK, United States(2)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States(3)NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States(4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(5)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, United States
H13I. Hydroclimatic Extremes: Drought III Posters
Shahrbanou Madadgar, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, L. Gwen Chen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, United States, Lifeng Luo, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, United States and Hamid Moradkhani, The University of Alabama, Center for Complex Hydrosystems Research, Tuscaloosa, United States
H53E. Modeling the Critical Zone: Integrating Processes and Data across Disciplines and Scales II Posters
Li Li, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States, Pamela L Sullivan, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, United States, Thomas Meixner, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States and Harihar Rajaram, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States