GC43G
Sustainable Deltas: Multidisciplinary Analyses of Complex Systems II

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 13:40-15:40
3001 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Irina Overeem, CSDMS/INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Fabrice Renaud, United Nations University, Institute for Enviroment and Human Security, Bonn, Germany, Paola Passalacqua, University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Austin, TX, United States and Sylvia Szabo, University of Southampton, Social Statistics and Demography, Southampton, United Kingdom
Chairs:  Paola Passalacqua, University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Austin, TX, United States and Sylvia Szabo, University of Southampton, Social Statistics and Demography, Southampton, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaisons:  Sylvia Szabo, University of Southampton, Social Statistics and Demography, Southampton, United Kingdom
13:40
Ecosystem services and livelihoods in deltaic environments (Invited) (74034)
Robert J Nicholls, University of Southampton, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, Southampton, United Kingdom
13:55
Climate Variability over India and Bangladesh from the Perturbed UK Met Office Hadley Model: Impacts on Flow and Nutrient Fluxes in the Ganges Delta System (62271)
Paul G Whitehead1, John Caesar2, Jill Crossman1, Emily Barbour1, José Ledesma3 and Martyn N Futter4, (1)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umea, Umeå, Sweden, (4)Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala, Sweden
14:10
An integrated framework to assess plausible future livelihood and poverty changes in deltas: an application to coastal Bangladesh (62098)
Attila Nándor Lázár1, Andres Payo1, Robert J Nicholls2, Craig Hutton1, Helen Adams3, Mashfiqus Salehin4, Anisul Haque4, Derek Clarke1, Lucy Bricheno5, Jose A Fernandes6, Mofizur Rahman7, Ali Ahmed7 and Peter K Streatfield7, (1)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (2)University of Southampton, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, Southampton, United Kingdom, (3)University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, (4)Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Institute of Water and Flood Management, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (5)National Oceanography Centre, Livrpool, United Kingdom, (6)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (7)International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
14:25
Rejuvenating Poldered Landscapes: A Numerical Model of Elevation Equilibrium in Coastal Bangladesh (86390)
Christopher M Tasich1, Jonathan M Gilligan1, Steven Lee Goodbred Jr2, Carol Wilson3, Richard P Hale1 and Leslie Wallace Auerbach1, (1)Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States, (2)Vanderbilt-Earth & Envir Scies, Nashville, TN, United States, (3)Louisiana State University, Geology & Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
14:40
Migration in Vulnerable Deltas: A Research Strategy (71863)
Craig Hutton, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom and Robert J Nicholls, University of Southampton, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, Southampton, United Kingdom
14:55
Paradox of Migration in Kolkata: A Megacity in GBM Delta (77354)
Shouvik Das1, Sugata Hazra1 and Tuhin Ghosh2, (1)Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, (2)JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, Kolkata, India
15:25
The Potential of Time Series Based Earth Observation for the Monitoring of Large River Deltas (Invited) (62601)
Claudia Kuenzer1, Patrick Leinenkugel1, Juliane Huth1, Marco Ottinger2, Fabrice Renaud3, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou4, Tri Vo Khac5, Long Trinh Thi5 and Stefan Dech1, (1)German Aerospace Center, Earth Observation Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (2)University of Wuerzburg, Department of Geography and Geology, Wuerzburg, Germany, (3)United Nations University, Institute for Enviroment and Human Security, Bonn, Germany, (4)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (5)Southern Institute of Water Resources Research, Saigon, Vietnam