AI53B:
Ocean Research Related to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, Nate, and Ophelia II


Session ID#: 39031

Session Description:
The 2017 Hurricane season was extremely active and produced events of historic proportion. Three storms made landfall in the United States after causing devastation to numerous Caribbean nations. Hurricane Harvey arrived as a Category 4 near Rockport, Texas, on 26 August 2017, followed by Hurricane Irma on 10 September 2017 arriving at the Florida Keys and then Marco Island, on Florida’s west coast, and finally Category 1 Hurricane Nate, which made two landfalls, first at the mouth of the Mississippi River and then at Biloxi, MS on 7-8 October 2017. Hurricane Maria devastated several Caribbean Islands before arriving in Puerto Rico as a high-end Category 4 storm on 20 September 2017 and Hurricane Ophelia arrived in the British Isles 16 October 2017 after becoming a rare Category 3 Eastern Atlantic Hurricane. Each storm had distinct characteristics.


This session seeks contributions focusing on the ocean’s impact on and response to these storms, including; oceanographic, atmospheric, and climatic factors; data collection methods and assimilation techniques; remote sensing; impacts on the coastal biological and physical environment and human health; and policy implications.

Primary Chair:  Richard L Crout, John C. Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Co-chairs:  Frederick Bingham, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States and Kay D Bidle, Rutgers University, Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Moderators:  Frederick Bingham, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States, Richard L Crout, John C. Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Kay D Bidle, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Richard L Crout, John C. Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

West Florida Shelf Response to Hurricane Irma (332083)
Yonggang Liu1, Robert H Weisberg1, Clifford R Merz2, Jason Law2, Lianyuan Zheng2 and Jing Chen2, (1)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (2)University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, United States
Observed Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions During The 2017 Hurricane Season: Implications For Rapid Intensity Change (332126)
Lynn K Shay1, Jodi Brewster1, Eileen Maturi2, Eric W Leuliette3, Benjamin Jaimes de la Cruz1, Jun Zhang4, Elizabeth Sanabia5, Steven R Jayne6, David R Donahue2, Joshua Wadler1, Johna E Rudzin1 and Luna Hiron1, (1)RSMAS/University of Miami, Department of Ocean Sciences, Miami, FL, United States, (2)NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, OSPO Program, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (3)NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Reserch, Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry, College Park, Maryland, United States, (4)NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division, Miami, FL, United States, (5)US Naval Academy, Department of Oceanography, Annapolis, MD, United States, (6)WHOI, Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States
A Preliminary Assessment of Hurricane Harvey Impact on Galveston Bay Bio-Optical Properties and Water Quality from Field Observations and Ocean Color (332234)
Eurico J. D'Sa, Louisiana State University, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, Ishan Joshi, Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Bingqing Liu, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Altered Soundscapes Help Reveal Hurricane Maria's Impact on Three Coral Reef Habitats off the Coast of Puerto Rico (332300)
Felix Martinez1, Benjamin Gottesman2, Richard Appeldoorn3, Doran Mason4, Jack Olson3, Bryan Christopher Pijanowski5, Steven A Ruberg6 and Ernesto Weil7, (1)NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)Purdue University, Ecological Sciences and Engineering, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (3)University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Department of Marine Sciences, Mayaguez, PR, United States, (4)National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (6)NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (7)University of Puerto Rico, Department of Marine Sciences, Mayaguez, PR, United States
Performance of Wave-Models on the Prediction of Hurricane Induced Wave Heights and Wave Periods (332385)
Chris Flanary, Kaus Raghukumar and Craig Alexander Jones, Integral Consulting Inc., Santa Cruz, CA, United States
HURRICANE IMPACTS ON COASTAL CARBON AND OXYGEN CYCLING (332393)
John C Lehrter1, Wei-Jun Cai2, Baoshan Chen3, Zongpei Jiang4, Brian J Roberts5, Ariella Chelsky5, Kanchan Maiti6, Wokil Bam7, Sumit Chakraborty8 and Steven E Lohrenz8, (1)University of South Alabama, Marine Sciences, Mobile, AL, United States, (2)University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States, (3)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (4)Ocean College, Zhejiang University, China, (5)Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Chauvin, LA, United States, (6)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (7)Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (8)University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, United States
Increasing Magnitude of Hurricane Rapid Intensification in the Central-Eastern Atlantic over the Past 30 years (332397)
Karthik Balaguru, PNNL, Marine Sciences Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, Gregory R Foltz, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, FL, United States and L. Ruby Leung, PNNL / Climate Physics, Richland, WA, United States
Nutrient and Estuarine Processes Driven by Hurricane Irma Recorded by the Indian River Lagoon Observatory Network of Environmental Sensors (332439)
Ian D Walsh1, M Dennis Hanisak2 and Kristen S Davis2, (1)Sea-Bird Scientific, Philomath, OR, United States, (2)Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Ft. Pierce, FL, United States
The impact of Hurricane Harvey on water column and sediment biogeochemistry of the Mission-Aransas Estuary in south Texas (332579)
Zhanfei Liu, UT Austin, Port Aransas, TX, United States, Xianbiao Lin, East China Normal University, United States, Kaijun Lu, The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas, TX, United States, Xin Xu, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Sarah V Douglas, University of Texas at Austin, United States, Jianhong Xue, UT Austin MSI, Port Aransas, TX, United States and Amber Hardison, University of Texas at Austin - Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas, TX, United States

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