Primary Conveners: Charles M Ichoku, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners: Douglas E Alsdorf, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, Tsegaye Tadesse, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States and Edward Beighley, Northeastern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, United States
Chairs: Douglas E Alsdorf, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States and Tsegaye Tadesse, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Edward Beighley, Northeastern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, United States
16:00
The Organic Matter Biogeochemistry of the Congo River (Invited) (73546)
Robert G Spencer, Florida State University, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Peter Hernes, University of California - Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Jose Wabakanghanzi, Congo Atomic Energy Commission, Soil Physics and Hydrology, Kinshasa, Congo, Bienvenu Jean Dinga, Groupe de Recherche en Sciences Exactes et Naturelles, Brazzaville, Congo and Johan Six, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
17:00
Diffusion Modeling of Water Flow in the Congo Floodplains Using Geodetic and Remote Sensing Measurements (62603)
Ting Yuan, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, Hyongki Lee, University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, Hahn Chul Jung, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Edward Beighley, Northeastern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, United States
17:15
Modeling annual flooding in the Logone floodplain in Cameroon (69574)
Alfonso Fernandez1, Mohammad Reza Najafi2, Michael T Durand3, Bryan G Mark1, Mark Moritz4, Apoorva Shastry3, Sarah Laborde4, Sui Chian Phang5, Ian Hamilton5, Xiao Ningchuan1 and Jeffrey C Neal6, (1)Ohio State University, Geography, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, (3)Ohio St Univ-Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, (4)Ohio State University, Anthropology, Columbus, OH, United States, (5)Ohio State University, Evolution Ecology and Organismal Biology, Columbus, OH, United States, (6)University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom
17:30
Ensuring Disaster Risk Reduction via Sustainable Wetland Development (77448)
Steve W Lyon1,2, Regina Lindborg2, Stina Nyström3, Mitulo Silengo4, Madaka Tumbo5 and Alexander Jiannis Koutsouris6, (1)Stockholm University, Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm, Sweden, (2)Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm, Sweden, (3)WWF Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden, (4)Mulungushi University, Disaster Management Training Centre, Kabwe, Zambia, (5)University of Dar es Salaam, Institute of Resource Assessment, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, (6)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
