GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA - 2018

Session No. 127
Monday, 5 November 2018: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Room 134 (Indiana Convention Center)

T13. Global Warning: Accelerating Rates of Change Forewarn of Catastrophic Impacts II

GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; GSA Energy Geology Division; GSA Environmental & Engineering Geology Division; GSA Geology and Health Division; GSA Geology and Society Division; GSA Geoscience Education Division; GSA Hydrogeology Division

 

George T. Stone, Rolfe Mandel and Michael E. Mann, Advocates
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Start Time
 
1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:35 PM
MAPPING SEA-LEVEL CHANGE IN TIME, SPACE, AND PROBABILITY (Invited Presentation)
HORTON, Benjamin P.1, KOPP, Robert E.2, GARNER, Andra J.2, HAY, Carling C.3, KHAN, Nicole S.4, ROY, Keven5 and SHAW, Timothy A.5, (1)Earth Observatory of Singapore, Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798, Singapore, (2)Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, (3)Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, (4)Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 6397798, Singapore, (5)Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798, Singapore
1:55 PM
HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS OF FUTURE COST OF SEA LEVEL RISE
PFEFFER, W. Tad and BALAJI, Rajagopalan, University of Colorado at Boulder, Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, 1111 Engineering Drive, 428 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0428
2:10 PM
SEA LEVEL RESPONDS TO WARMING WITH RAPID PULSES OF RISE
WANLESS, Harold R., Geography and Regional Studies, Univ of Miami, P.O. Box 249176, Coral Gables, FL 33124
2:25 PM
WHAT MIGHT GROUNDWATER IN THE CRITICAL ZONE TELL US ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE? DECADAL SHIFT IN THE ONSET OF EVAPOTRANSPIRATION IN A NORTHERN RIPARIAN WOODLAND
DOSS, Paul K., Geology and Physics, University of Southern Indiana, 8600 University Blvd, Evansville, IN 47712
 
2:40 PM
Break
2:55 PM
DO MODERN RATES OF SEA LEVEL CHANGE FOREWARN IMPENDING ICE SHEET COLLAPSE? (Invited Presentation)
DUTTON, Andrea1, VYVERBERG, Karen L.2, DECHNIK, Belinda3, WEBSTER, Jody3, EDWARDS, R. Lawrence4, ZWARTZ, Dan5, PYTHOUD, Mathieu4 and ZHANG, Pu6, (1)Geological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, (2)Geological Sciences, University of Florida, PO Box 112120, Gainesville, FL 32611, (3)School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, 2006, Australia, (4)Department of Earth Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, (5)Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand, (6)Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, 310 Pillsbury Dr. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455
3:15 PM
ASSESSING BARRIER ISLAND CHANGE ON ASSATEAGUE AND WALLOPS ISLANDS (MID-ATLANTIC VIRGINIA, USA) AND MODELING IMPACTS OF SEA LEVEL RISE
CORNELL, Sean R.1, GILDNER, Brett R.1, LOSKI, Brett1 and OAKLEY, Adrienne2, (1)Department of Geography & Earth Science, Shippensburg University, 1871 Old Main Drive, Shippensburg, PA 17257, (2)Department of Physical Sciences, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA 19530
3:30 PM
INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS OF BASAL CHANNELS ON ICE SHEET MARGIN MELTING AT PETERMANN GLACIER, GREENLAND
DODS, Melissa J. and ALLEY, Karen, Department of Earth Sciences, The College of Wooster, 1189 Beall Ave., Wooster, OH 44691
3:45 PM
THE GRAND ETHIOPIAN RENAISSANCE DAM ON THE NILE RIVER IS A WAKE UP CALL FOR EGYPT
PARIZEK, Katarin A., Richard R. Parizek and Associates, 751 McKee Street, State College, PA 16803
 
4:00 PM
Discussion
 
4:15 PM
Concluding Remarks
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