2006 Philadelphia Annual Meeting (22–25 October 2006)
Session No. 31 Sunday, 22 October 2006
1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Pennsylvania Convention Center: Auditorium Lecture Hall

P4. Holocene Sea-level Change in North America: A Post-Katrina Assessment

Torbjörn E. Törnqvist and Benjamin P. Horton, Presiding
  Paper #Start Time
31-11:30 PM HOLOCENE SEA-LEVEL RECORDS: DRIVING MECHANISMS AND COASTAL RESPONSES: LONG, Antony J., Department of Geography, University of Durham, Science Laboratories, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom, A.J.Long@durham.ac.uk and HORTON, Benjamin Peter, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania, 240 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, bphorton@sas.upenn.edu
 31-21:50 PM POSTGLACIAL SEA LEVEL HISTORY: NORTH AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN CONSTRAINTS ON THE IMPACT DUE TO GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC WARMING: PELTIER, Wm. Richard, Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7 Canada, peltier@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
 31-32:10 PM SEA-LEVEL TENDENCIES AND SCALE: A METHODOLOGY FOR LOCAL TO GLOBAL ANALYSES OF RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL DATA?: SHENNAN, Ian, Sea Level Research Unit, Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham DH1 3Le United Kingdom, Ian.Shennan@durham.ac.uk
31-42:30 PM ONSET OF 20TH CENTURY SEA-LEVEL RISE: EVIDENCE FROM PROXY RECORDS: GEHRELS, W. Roland, School of Geography, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA United Kingdom, wrgehrels@plymouth.ac.uk
31-52:50 PM INCREASING RATES OF SEA-LEVEL RISE AND HURRICANE STRIKES IN THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES: A RECIPE FOR DISASTER: DONNELLY, Jeffrey P., Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 360 Woods Hole Road, MS 22, Woods Hole, MA 02543, jdonnelly@whoi.edu
 31-63:10 PM HURRICANES: SPACE MAKERS IN U.S. EAST COAST SALT MARSHES FOR TIDAL SILICICLASTICS AND LOW MARSH PEAT?: VAN DE PLASSCHE, Orson, ERKENS, Gilles, and VAN VLIET, Frank, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1085, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Netherlands, plao@geo.vu.nl
  3:30 PM Break
31-73:50 PM CARIBBEAN HOLOCENE SEA-LEVEL RISE RECONSTRUCTED FROM COMBINED CORAL AND PEAT DATA: TOSCANO, Marguerite A., Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, NMNH, MRC 121, Washington, DC 20013-7012, Toscanom@si.edu
 31-84:10 PM THE HOLOCENE SEA-LEVEL CONTROVERSY ALONG THE GULF COAST: THE CASE FOR MIDDLE HOLOCENE SEA-LEVEL HIGHSTAND: BLUM, Mike, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, mike@geol.lsu.edu
31-94:30 PM THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA AS A NATURAL LABORATORY FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION SEA-LEVEL RESEARCH: TÖRNQVIST, Torbjörn E. and GONZÁLEZ, Juan L., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118-5698, tor@tulane.edu
31-104:50 PM JERKY HOLOCENE SEA-LEVEL RISE ON THE WEST COAST OF CENTRAL NORTH AMERICA—AN ARCHIVE OF GREAT CASCADIA EARTHQUAKES: NELSON, Alan R., U.S. Geological Survey, MS 966, PO Box 25046, Denver, CO 80225, anelson@usgs.gov, SAWAI, Yuki, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan, and JENNINGS, Anne E., INSTAAR, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
 31-115:10 PM DECODING THE GEOLOGIC RECORD OF HOLOCENE SEA-LEVEL CHANGE IN THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS: FLETCHER, Charles H.1, ENGELS, Mary1, GROSSMAN, Eric G.2, ROONEY, John3, and SHERMAN, Clark E.4, (1) Department of Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Hawaii - Manoa, 1680 East-West Rd, Honolulu, HI 96822, fletcher@soest.hawaii.edu, (2) Coastal and Marine Geology, USGS, Pacific Science Center, 400 Natural Bridges Drive, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, (3) JIMAR, University of Hawaii, NMFS, Kewalo Basin, 1125-B Ala Moana Blvd, Honolulu, HI 96814, (4) Department of Marine Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, Isla Magueyes Laboratories, PO Box 908, Lajas, PR 00667
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