EP42A
Aeolian Research at the Interface of Biophysical, Sedimentary, and Atmospheric Processes I

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
2003 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Abinash Bhattachan, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Conveners:  Nicholas Webb, USDA-ARS Jornada Exp. Range, Las Cruces, NM, United States, Ryan C Ewing, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States and Raleigh L. Martin, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Chairs:  Ryan C Ewing, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States and Raleigh L. Martin, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Raleigh L. Martin, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
10:20
Landscape evolution on Mars - A model of aeolian denudation in Gale Crater (Invited) (58961)
Mackenzie D Day1, Gary Kocurek1 and John P Grotzinger2, (1)University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
10:35
Sand Flux Results for Aeolian Dunes at Current and Candidate Landing Sites on Mars (63857)
Matthew Chojnacki, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
10:50
MODELING WIND EROSION INTERMITTENCY (Invited) (66945)
Sylvain Dupont, INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, ISPA, Bordeaux, France
11:05
Quantifying Grain Fall and Avalanche Dynamics Under Changing Wind Conditions on Barchan Dunes (73534)
Joanna M Nield, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
11:20
Saharan Dust Fertilizing Atlantic Ocean and Amazon Rainforest via Long-range Transport and Deposition: A Perspective from Multiyear Satellite Measurements (Invited) (69198)
Hongbin Yu1,2, Mian Chin1, Tianle Yuan1,3, Huisheng Bian1,3, Lorraine A Remer4, Joseph M Prospero5, Ali H Omar6, David M Winker6, Yuekui Yang7, Yan Zhang1,2, Zhibo Zhang4 and Chun Zhao8, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (5)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (6)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (7)Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States, (8)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
11:35
Aeolian transport of biota with dust: A wind tunnel experiment (76241)
Jose Alfredo Rivas Jr.1, Thomas E Gill2, Robert S Van Pelt3 and Elizabeth Walsh1, (1)University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at El Paso, Geological Sciences / Environmental Science and Engineering Program, El Paso, TX, United States, (3)USDA-ARS, Big Spring, TX, United States
11:50
Dust on Snow Processes and Impacts in the Upper Colorado River Basin (Invited) (59190)
McKenzie Skiles and Thomas H Painter, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States