GC44C
Sustainable Deltas: Multidisciplinary Analyses of Complex Systems III

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 16:00-18:00
3001 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Irina Overeem, CSDMS/INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Paola Passalacqua, University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, Sylvia Szabo, University of Southampton, Social Statistics and Demography, Southampton, United Kingdom and Fabrice Renaud, United Nations University, Institute for Enviroment and Human Security, Bonn, Germany
Chairs:  Irina Overeem, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Fabrice Renaud, United Nations University, Institute for Enviroment and Human Security, Bonn, Germany
OSPA Liaisons:  Sylvia Szabo, University of Southampton, Social Statistics and Demography, Southampton, United Kingdom
16:00
The Geophysical, Anthropogenic, and Social Dimensions of Delta Risk: Estimating Contemporary and Future Risks at the Global Scale (Invited) (67187)
Zachary D Tessler1, Charles J Vorosmarty2, Michael Grossberg3, Irina Gladkova3, Hannah Aizenman3, James P Syvitski4 and Efi Foufoula-Georgiou5, (1)CUNY Environmental Crossroads, New York, NY, United States, (2)CCNY-Environ Crossroads Initi, New York, NY, United States, (3)CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, CSDMS/INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
16:15
Development of Vulnerability Indicators for Deltaic Social-Ecological Systems Facing Multiple Environmental and Anthropogenic Hazards (78577)
Zita Sebesvari, Michael Hagenlocher, Susanne Haas and Fabrice Renaud, United Nations University, Institute for Enviroment and Human Security, Tokyo, Japan
16:30
Moving beyond the Galloway diagrams for delta classification: Connecting morphodynamic and sediment-mechanistic properties with metrics of delta channel network topology and dynamics (75191)
Alejandro Tejedor1, Anthony Longjas1, Rebecca L Caldwell2, Douglas A Edmonds3, Ilya V Zaliapin4 and Efi Foufoula-Georgiou5, (1)St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (2)Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, (3)Indiana University, Geological Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States, (4)University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (5)Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
16:45
A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Deltas as Coupled Social-Ecological Systems: An example from the Amazon Delta (75818)
Eduardo Brondizio1, Nathan D Vogt2, Scott Hetrick1, Sandra M F da Costa3 and Edward Anthony4, (1)Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, (2)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (3)Universidade do Vale do Paráiba (UNIVAP), Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (4)Aix Marseille University, Marseille Cedex 03, France
17:00
Anthropogenic changes to the tidal channel network, sediment rerouting, and social implications in southwest Bangladesh (84214)
Carol Wilson, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States, Steven Lee Goodbred Jr, Vanderbilt-Earth & Envir Scies, Nashville, TN, United States, Sarah Sams, Vanderbilt University, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Nashville, TN, United States and Chris Small, Columbia University of New York, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
17:15
Impacts of the Indian Rivers Inter-link Project on Sediment Transport to River Deltas (83689)
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
17:30
Effects of Upstream Human Changes on Nutrient Fluxes to Major Deltas World-Wide (84850)
Hans Hermann Dürr, Taylor Maavara and Philippe Van Cappellen, University of Waterloo, Ecohydrology Research Group, Waterloo, ON, Canada
17:45
Where do the Nutrients go in Tropical Estuaries? (73648)
Ramesh Ramachandran VI, National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management, Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, Chennai, TN, India