EP52B:
Signatures of Climate Change in Surface Processes I


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Session ID#: 61859

Session Description:
Climate change affects the physical, biological, and geochemical processes that shape landscapes. These effects are manifest in myriad multiscale problems in a range of environments, and include altering the magnitude, frequency, and/or intensity of innumerable natural processes. Signatures of climate change are observed at all scales, where modifications of natural processes, such as changes in flood magnitudes, sea level rise, the timing of snowmelt, wildfire, drought, or permafrost thaw can have profound impacts. This session welcomes submissions investigating manifestations of climate change in physical, biological, and geochemical surface processes. We encourage studies using experimental, modeling, field, and/or remote sensing techniques, including interpretations of past climate change in the stratigraphic record. We aim to create a diverse, interdisciplinary session representing the broad range of research into the impacts of climate change on the Earth’s surface.
Primary Convener:  Anastasia Piliouras, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Carli A Arendt, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, Diana L Karwan, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Forest Resources, Saint Paul, United States and Colin B Phillips, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Anastasia Piliouras, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Chairs:  Anastasia Piliouras, Pennsylvania State University, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, University Park, PA, United States, Carli A Arendt, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, United States, Diana L Karwan, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Forest Resources, Saint Paul, United States and Colin B Phillips, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Carli A Arendt, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, United States
Co-Organized with:
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, and Hydrology

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • C - Cryosphere
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • C - Cryosphere
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1824 Geomorphology: general [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The surface as a window into the subsurface: Lessons from Antarctica (Invited) (438518)
Jenny Suckale, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Cooper Wheeler Elsworth, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, United States, Indraneel Kasmalkar, Nanyang Technological University, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Elisa Mantelli, Polytechnic University of Turin, Turin, Italy, Anders Damsgaard, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark, John D Platt, Harvard University-SEAS, Cambridge, MA, United States, Thibaut Perol, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, James R Rice, Harvard University, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Liran Goren, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Landscape response to climate change: a comparison of geomorphic response rates to rapid glacial retreat in a coastal Alaskan fjord. (386709)
Michele N Koppes and Haley Williams, University of British Columbia, Geography, Vancouver, BC, Canada
How Changing Fluvio-deltaic Systems Affect Permafrost (Invited) (359559)
Irina Overeem1, Lei Zheng2, Gary Clow3 and Kang Wang3, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, CSDMS/INSTAAR, Boulder, United States, (2)Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, (3)University of Colorado, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Climatic Signatures Within the World’s Rivers (348654)
Michael Bliss Singer1,2, Stuart W D Grieve3, Shiuan-an Chen4 and Katerina Michaelides4, (1)Cardiff University, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Cardiff, United Kingdom, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, United States, (3)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (4)University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom
Implications of Dynamic Vegetation as an Erosional Response to Climate Change in Semi-arid Landscapes (466847)
Omer Yetemen, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, Patricia M Saco, Univ Newcastle, Centre for Water Security and Environmental Sustainability and School of Engineering, Callaghan, Australia and Erkan Istanbulluoglu, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States
Grain Size Distribution Dictates the Effect of Climate on Hillslope Erosion (459723)
Risa D Madoff and Jaakko Putkonen, University of North Dakota, Harold Hamm School of Geology and Geological Engineering, Grand Forks, ND, United States
Denudation, chemical weathering, and critical zone structure through the last glacial-interglacial transition (367877)
Josh J Roering1, Nathan S Schachtman1, Jill A Marshall2, Daniel Girard Gavin3 and Darryl E Granger4, (1)University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States, (2)University of Arkansas, Geosciences, Fayetteville, AR, United States, (3)University of Oregon, Geography, Eugene, OR, United States, (4)Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States

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