Several faculty and students will be presenting research at the annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Washington DC from December 10th-14th. Below is a schedule of where and when to see them!
Also, be sure to visit our booth in the Academic Showcase exhibits area: We are booth #1822 sandwiched between GeoCamp Iceland and the University of Arizona Hydrogeology and Atmospheric Sciences.
Monday, 10 December 2018
08:00am - 08:15am
PP11A-01 - Comparing Measured and Simulated Exposure Histories of Central Greenland during the Pleistocene using Northern Hemisphere Proxy Records
Walter E Washington Convention Center
102AB
08:00am - 12:20pm
EP11E-2097 - How does topography and river-floodplain connectivity influence flooding processes?
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
EP11E-2106 - Constraining the Megaflood Discharge Responsible for the Formation of Grand Coulee: Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington, USA
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
PP11C-1271 - Validation and application of Natural Gamma Radiation (NGR)-based proxies to IODP Site U1463 for reconstructing Miocene-Pleistocene changes in NW Australian
continental aridity
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
08:22am - 08:30am
ED11A-03 - BRIDGE: a student-led effort to increase the diversity of speakers invited to campus
Marriott Marquis
Marquis 7-8
11:58am - 12:06pm
ED12A-11 - Mentoring opportunities for graduate students through STEM SEAS
Marriott Marquis
Marquis 7-8
1:40pm - 6:00pm
ED13C-0758 - Talking the talk AND walking the walk: UMass Geosciences’ community-based efforts to increase diversity and inclusivity through improved department climate
Scroxton, Donald Sluter and Kaitlyn Suarez
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
EP13D-2121 - Annual grain-size variability in three varved High-Arctic lakes
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
GC13D-1046 - Climatic Thresholds for Widespread Ice Shelf Hydrofracturing and Ice Cliff Calving In Antarctica: Implications for Future Sea Level Rise
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
GC13F-1091 - Spatio-temporal Variations of CDOM in Shallow Inland Waters from a Semi-analytical Inversion of Landsat-8
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
T13H-0332 - Quality analysis of high frequency air-gun shot seismic recording in the Juan de Fuca plate
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
2:02pm - 2:05pm
GP13A-29 - The Last Gasp of the Rogaland Igneous Province, Norway: A Paleopole for the 920 Ma Tellnes Intrusion
Walter E Washington Convention Center
eLightning Theater II
3:25pm - 3:40pm
ED14A-03 - Shared Benefits for Involving Teachers in Federally Funded Science
(Invited)
Marriott Marquis
Marquis 7-8
Tuesday, 11 December 2018
08:00am - 12:20pm
C21D-1362 - Assessing the response of sea ice, ocean circulation, and climate to projected increases in Antarctic Ice Sheet melt
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
EP21A-08 - Storm Impacts on Estuarine Marshes
Walter E Washington Convention Center
147A
10:20am - 10:35am
H22D-01 - Characterizing the anthropogenic aquifer in the vadose zone between cranberries and wetland
(Invited)
Walter E Washington Convention Center
151A
10:36am - 10:51am
ED22A-02 - Mass Amherst’s Chancellor Randolph W. Bromery: His Invaluable Work for STEM, Black Studies, and an Inclusive Educational System in the United States
Marriott Marquis
Marquis 7-8
10:42am - 10:45am
PA22C-08 - Lab Talk with Laura: Producing a STEM Podcast Targeting a Non-Scientist Audience
Walter E Washington Convention Center
eLightning Theater I
11:05am - 11:20am
PP22A-04 - Interglacial Intensity with Orbital Pre-conditioning Links Polar Ice Sheet Sensitivity to Warming
(Invited)
Walter E Washington Convention Center
102AB
PP22B-04 - Early Pleistocene temperature history of Paleolake Lorenyang, West Turkana Basin (Kenya)
Walter E Washington Convention Center
144A-C
T22C-04 - The role of strike-slip fault geometry and damage on segmented fault slip
Marriott Marquis
Liberty M
1:40pm - 1:55pm
PP23A-01B - Abundance of 5- and 6-methyl Branched Glycerol Dialkyl Glycerol Tetraethers (brGDGTs) at Lake 578 in Southern Greenland: Insights into Past Temperature
Reconstruction
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Salon G
1:40pm - 6:00pm
B23G-2603 - Plant phenologic controls on soil respiration response to pulse wetting events in an alpine meadow, East River, CO, USA
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
ED23D-0947 - A new mentoring forum for deaf and hard-of-hearing academics
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
PP24B-05 - A comparison of the hydrogen isotopic composition of plant leaf wax n-alkanes and nalkanoic acids from Lake El’gygytgyn (Russia) during the past
125,000 years
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Salon G
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
08:00am - 12:20pm
PP31D-1684 - Distribution and Sources of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Sediments and Catchment Soils from Sebago Lake, Maine (ME)
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
PP31D-1688 - GDGT distributions in Lake El’gygytgyn (Far East Russia) sediments during and since the Pliocene
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
V31E-0155 - Reading The Record of Melting Events Using Compositional Mapping and In-Situ Geochronology, Adirondack Mountains, New York, U.S.A.
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
08:15am - 08:30am
PP31A-08 - Millennial-scale Pluvial Events during the Last Glacial Period in Madagascar Coincide with Antarctic Isotope Maxima
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Salon I
1:40pm - 6:00pm
B33F-2724 - A remote-sensing estimate of organic-rich topsoil erosion in the corn belt region of the midwestern United States
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
GC33J-1513 - Identifying a set of plausible GCMs for regional climate change studies. Case study: Northeastern U.S.
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
V33D-0262 - Recording magma ascent: punctuated crystallization during a crustal journey preserved in the Atascosa Lookout lava flow, Atascosa Mountains, Southern Arizona, USA
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
2:55pm - 3:10pm
S33A-06 - The Cause and Effect of Slab Segmentation in the Aleutian-Alaska Subduction System
Marriott Marquis
Independence D
5:15pm - 5:29pm
IN34A-06 - Cyber Literacy for GIScience: Toward Formalizing Geospatial Computing Education
Walter E Washington Convention Center
206
Thursday, 13 December 2018
08:00am - 12:20pm
EP41C-2681 - Evaluating Impacts of Dam Removals on Downstream Tidal Wetlands
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
EP41C-2692 - Process Units River corridor Evaluation (PURE)—a modular, process-based methodology for high resolution, regional scale river corridor delineation
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
09:15am - 09:30am
T41C-06 - Effects of Rheology on the Spatial and Temporal Variations in Deformation within Oblique Strike-Slip Systems
Marriott Marquis
Liberty M
10:35am - 10:50am
PP42A-02 - Evidence of Fluvially-derived Sediment During the Kamikaze Typhoons near Nagasaki, Japan
Walter E Washington Convention Center
103AB
1:40pm - 6:00pm
C43E-1833 - Exploring surface meltwater classification techniques from multispectral imagery over the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
ED43E-1273 - Time Scavengers: A Website to Disseminate Climate Change and Evolutionary Principles to Increase Public Literacy
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
GC43J-1668 - Perturbed parameters ensembles of idealized experiments to understand the impact of parametric uncertainty on model performance and response to climate change
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
NH43C-1070 - Spatiotemporal Trends in Annual High Water Extremes in the Gulf of Maine
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
Friday, 14 December 2018
08:00am - 12:20pm
DI51B-0029 - Depth distributions of major velocity discontinuities beneath eastern North America with Ps converted waves
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
GC51E-0832 - Evaluating Fire Risk using the Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI) in the Northeastern United States under Future Climate Scenarios
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
MR51C-0082 - Simulating the Propagation and Linkage of Cracks at the Onset of Failure Using Work Optimization
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
PP51E-1186 - Paleoceanographic History of the Kuroshio Current Extension Across the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
1:40pm - 1:55pm
V53B-01 - Magmatic mapping: Providing the temporal link between lava flow chemistry, volume, petrogenesis and the mantle at the edge of the Colorado Plateau
Marriott Marquis
Capitol/Congress
1:40pm - 6:00pm
EP53F-1966 - Bedrock incision in the Channeled Scablands by megafloods during and prior to the Last Glacial Maximum
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)
3:25pm - 3:40pm
PP53A-08 - The role of the Western Interior Seaway in the development of Oceanic Anoxic Event 2
Walter E Washington Convention Center
103AB
4:15pm - 4:30pm
ED54B-02 - Perspectives on the use of active learning techniques in teaching climate science to first year undergraduate students
Marriott Marquis
Marquis 9-10
4:54pm - 4:57pm
EP54B-34 - Evaluating the Reconstruction of Beach Morphology from a Web Camera
Walter E Washington Convention Center
eLightning Theater II