EP14B:
Progress in Research on the World's Major River Deltas I

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Session ID#: 35427

Session Description:
The world’s major river deltas are densely populated and vital to global food security, commerce, energy production, and industrial development. Many of these deltaic regions are rapidly sinking into the sea due to a number of natural and anthropogenic factors, including reduced sediment input, river engineering, coastal land subsidence, and sea level rise. Over the past decades, the world’s major river deltas have experienced rapid population increase and urbanization. The anthropogenic activities have interfered with delta-forming processes and, in return, the altered deltaic forming processes are affecting humans, presenting a dynamically coupled natural-human system. This session aims at bringing together the latest research on the world’s large deltas as a complex dynamic system between the natural and human environments. We encourage submissions based on field, modeling, and synthetic studies concerning deltaic geomorphology, sediment transport, estuarine hydrology, spatial organization, population dynamics, and policy making in the world’s vulnerable deltas.
Primary Convener:  Yi-Jun Xu, Louisiana State University, School of Renewable Natural Resources, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Conveners:  Zhongyuan Chen, East China Normal University, State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, Shanghai, China, Kam-Biu Liu, Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, United States and Nina Lam, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Chairs:  Zhongyuan Chen, East China Normal University, State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, Shanghai, China and Yi-Jun Xu, Louisiana State University, School of Renewable Natural Resources, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Kam-Biu Liu, Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, United States
Index Terms:

1825 Geomorphology: fluvial [HYDROLOGY]
1861 Sedimentation [HYDROLOGY]
4235 Estuarine processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4315 Monitoring, forecasting, prediction [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Modeling Anthropogenic Impact on Sediment Balance and Relative Sea-Level Rise in Contemporary and Future Deltas (282939)
Zachary D Tessler, Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY, Environmental Sciences Initiative, New York, NY, United States, Charles J Vorosmarty, Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY, Environmental Sciences Initiative, New York, United States, Irina Overeem, CSDMS/INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States and James P Syvitski, CSDMS Facility, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States
The Sea Level Rise Tipping Point of Delta Survival (216554)
Robert Eugene Turner, Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, Michael Kearney, Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and Randall W Parkinson, Florida International University, Sea Level Solutions Center, Miami, FL, United States
Estuarine Human Activities Modulate the Fate of Changjiang-derived Materials in Adjacent Seas (Invited) (210207)
Hui WU, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
Rise and Fall of one of World’s largest deltas; the Mekong delta in Vietnam (273453)
Dr. Philip S.J. Minderhoud, PhD1, Sepehr Eslami Arab2, Hung Van Pham2, Gilles Erkens3, Maarten van der Vegt4, Gualbert H.P. Oude Essink3, Esther Stouthamer5 and Piet Hoekstra2, (1)Utrecht University, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, (4)Utrecht Univ Fac Geoscience, Utrecht, Netherlands, (5)Utrecht University, Faculty of Geosciences, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands
Linking Backbarrier Lacustrine Stratigraphy with Spatial Dynamics of Shoreline Retreat in a Rapidly Subsiding Region of the Mississippi River Delta (222697)
Marianne Dietz1, Kam-Biu Liu2, Thomas Anthony Bianchette1 and Qiang Yao1, (1)Louisiana State University, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (2)Louisiana State University, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, United States
A Coupled Natural-Human Modeling of the Land Loss Probability in the Mississippi River Delta (225439)
Heng Cai, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, Nina Lam, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Lei Zou, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, United States
Controls on delta formation, area, and topset slope: New predictive relationships developed using a global delta dataset (282945)
Rebecca L Caldwell1, Douglas A Edmonds2, Sarah E Baumgardner3,4, Chris Paola4, Samapriya Roy1 and Jaap Nienhuis5, (1)Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, (2)University of Minnesota, Department of Earth Science, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (3)Chevron Corporation Houston, Energy Technology Company, Houston, TX, United States, (4)University of Minnesota, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (5)Florida State University, Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States

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