GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA - 2018

Session No. 232
Wednesday, 7 November 2018: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room 238-239 (Indiana Convention Center)

T112. Coastal Wetland Feedbacks: Interconnecting Processes That Lead to Wetland Building and Sustainment

GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division

 

Elizabeth Ann Olliver and Alejandra Ortiz, Advocates
Paper #
Start Time
8:00 AM
ASSESSING THE EXTENT AND IMPORTANCE OF SEDIMENTATION FROM A 100 YEAR WINTER STORM ON SALT MARSH RESILIENCE (Invited Presentation)
HUGHES, Zoe J.1, FITZGERALD, Duncan M.1, BLACK, Sarah1, RYERSON, Owen1, GEORGIOU, Ioannis Y.2 and HOWES, Nick3, (1)Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, (2)Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New Orleans, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, New Orleans, LA 70148, (3)Consulting, Mathworks, Natick, MA 01760
8:20 AM
PREDICTING TIDAL MARSH SURVIVAL OR SUBMERGENCE TO FUTURE SEA-LEVEL RISE USING PALEO SEA-LEVEL DATA
HORTON, Benjamin P., Earth Observatory of Singapore, Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798, Singapore, SHENNAN, Ian, Sea Level Research Unit, Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom, BRADLEY, Sarah L., Department of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 2600, Netherlands, CAHILL, Niamh, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, KIRWAN, Matthew L., Physical Sciences, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, 1208 Greate Rd, Gloucester Point, VA 23062, KOPP, Robert E., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, SHAW, Timothy A., Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798, Singapore and WALKER, Jennifer, Department of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
8:35 AM
RESPONSE OF NORTH CAROLINA SALT MARSHES TO HYDRAULIC MODIFICATIONS, AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF AND ACCELERATED SEA LEVEL RISE
APONTE, Mercedes J.1, BARBER, Donald C.2 and PEREZ, Sierra B.1, (1)Geology, Bryn Mawr College, 101 N Merion Ave, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, (2)Environmental Studies and Geology, Bryn Mawr College, 101 N. Merion Ave, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
8:50 AM
WAVE TANK INVESTIGATIONS OF LARGE-BOULDER TRANSPORT BY STORM WAVES
CYTRYNBAUM, Jacob, Geoscience, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267, COX, Rónadh, Geosciences, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267 and O'BOYLE, Louise, School of Natural and Built Environment, Queens University of Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
9:05 AM
CHARACTERIZING MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY SIGNATURES OF MODERN BARRIER ISLAND AND BACK BARRIER DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS FROM ASSATEAGUE, CHINCOTEAGUE, AND WALLOPS ISLANDS, VIRGINIA
SILVEIRA MEYERS, Joao, Department of Geography & Earth Science, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA 17257, CORNELL, Sean, Department of Geography and Earth Science, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA 17257 and OAKLEY, Adrienne, Department of Physical Sciences, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA 19530
9:20 AM
HOW DOES SALINITY SHAPE ABUNDANT AND RARE BACTERIAL SUBCOMMUNITY STRUCTURES IN ESTUARINE GROUNDWATER?
ZHANG, Xiaoying, Construction engineering college, Jilin University, Changchun, 130021, China; Institute of groundwater and earth sciences, Jinan University, guangzhou, 510632, China, HU, Bill, Dept of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Florida State Univ, 108 Carraway Bldg, Tallahassee, FL 32306; Institute of groundwater and earth sciences, Jinan University, guangzhou, 510632, China and DAI, Zhenxue, EES-16, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mailstop T003, Los Alamos, NM 87545; College of Construction Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, 130026, China
 
9:35 AM
Break
10:10 AM
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN WIND, WAVES, AND POND EXPANSION ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA, LOUISIANA
BEDWELL, Caroline J., Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Indiana University, 1001 East 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, ORTIZ, Alejandra, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2501 Stinson Drive, Raleigh, NC 27695 and EDMONDS, Douglas A., Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Indiana University, 1001 East 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405
10:25 AM
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GROWTH FAULT AND SUBSIDENCE: IMPACT ON COASTAL EROSION, AN EXAMPLE FROM CAMERON PRAIRIE, SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA
GOTTARDI, Raphaël and O'LEARY, Matthew, School of Geosciences, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 611 McKinley Street, Hamilton Hall, Lafayette, LA 70504
10:40 AM
CONTROVERSIES AND CONNECTIONS IN THE RESTORATION OF RIVER-DOMINATED DELTAS (Invited Presentation)
KOLKER, Alexander S., Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, 8124 Highway 56, Chauvin, LA 70344; Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Ave., Blessey Hall, New Orleans, LA 70118 and AMER, Reda, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Ave., Blessey Hall, New Orleans, LA 70118
11:00 AM
WHAT CONTROLS SEDIMENT RETENTION IN A PROGRADING RIVER DELTA?
OLLIVER, Elizabeth Ann1, EDMONDS, Douglas A.1 and SHAW, John2, (1)Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Indiana University, 1001 East 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, (2)Department of Geosciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701
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