UMass Geosciences at AGU

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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

Benjamin Andrew Keisling, Helen Habicht, Isla S. Castañeda, Julie Brigham-Grette and Robert M Deconto
Walter E Washington Convention Center
102AB

08:00am - 12:20pm


EP11E-2097 - How does topography and river-floodplain connectivity influence flooding processes?

Scott Robert David
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

Karin Eva Lehnigk, Isaac J Larsen,
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

Rebecca Anne Smith
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

Nigel Allen Golden, Mariela Garcia Arredondo, Raquel Bryant and Benjamin Andrew Keisling
Marriott Marquis
Marquis 7-8

11:58am - 12:06pm


ED12A-11 - Mentoring opportunities for graduate students through STEM SEAS

Raquel Bryant
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

Sarah Virginia McKnight, Marsha Allen, Isla S. Castañeda, Julie Brigham-Grette, Michele L Cooke, Piper Gaubatz, Helen Habicht, Benjamin Andrew Keisling, Adriane Renee Lam, Mary Richards, Jeff M Salacup, Nick
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

François Lapointe
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

Robert M Deconto
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

Qian Yu
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

Sampath Rathnayaka and Haiying Gao
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

Laurie L Brown, Suzanne McEnroe, and Peter Robinson
Walter E Washington Convention Center
eLightning Theater II

3:25pm - 3:40pm


ED14A-03 - Shared Benefits for Involving Teachers in Federally Funded Science

Julie Brigham-Grette
(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

Shaina Rogstad, Alan Condron, and Rob DeConto
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)

EP21A-08 - Storm Impacts on Estuarine Marshes

Jonathan D Woodruff, Jonathan D Woodruff, Brian Yellen, W Rockwell Geyer, Wouter Kranenburg, Noa Randall and Justin B Richardson
Walter E Washington Convention Center
147A

10:20am - 10:35am


H22D-01 - Characterizing the anthropogenic aquifer in the vadose zone between cranberries and wetland

Christine E. Hatch, Erika T Ito, Michael H Cosh, Luke McInnis and Marie Maxwell
(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

Cecile Florence Yezou and Raquel Bryant
Marriott Marquis
Marquis 7-8

10:42am - 10:45am


PA22C-08 - Lab Talk with Laura: Producing a STEM Podcast Targeting a Non-Scientist Audience

Laura Fattaruso
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

Julie Brigham-Grette, Rajarshi Roychowdhury, Robert M Deconto, Isla S. Castañeda and Helen Habicht
(Invited)
Walter E Washington Convention Center
102AB

PP22B-04 - Early Pleistocene temperature history of Paleolake Lorenyang, West Turkana Basin (Kenya)

Isla S. Castañeda, Megan E Thompson-Munson, Sivajini Gilchrist, Rachel Lupien, James M Russell, Jeffrey Salacup, Craig S Feibel and Andrew S Cohen
Walter E Washington Convention Center
144A-C

T22C-04 - The role of strike-slip fault geometry and damage on segmented fault slip

Michele Cooke, Elizabeth Madden, Ludwig Maximilians, and Heather Savage
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

Boyang Zhao, Boyang Zhao, Isla S. Castañeda, Raymond S Bradley and Jeff M Salacup
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

Matthew Winnick
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)

ED23D-0947 - A new mentoring forum for deaf and hard-of-hearing academics

Michele L Cooke and Ana L Caicedo
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

Helen Habicht, Elizabeth Thomas, Isla S. Castañeda, Jeff M Salacup and Julie Brigham-Grette
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)

Thivanka Sureni Ariyarathna (U-Conn), Isla S. Castañeda, Daniel S Miller, and Jeffrey Salacup
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

William Daniels, Isla S. Castañeda, Jeffrey Salacup, and Julie Brigham-Grette
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.

Michael L Williams, Tim Grover, Michael Jercinovic, Sean Regan, and Claire Pless
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

Stephen J Burns, Nick Scroxton, David McGee, Laurie Godfrey, Peterson Faina and Lovasoa Ranivoharimanana
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

Evan Thaler, Isaac Larsen, and Qian Yu
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.

Alexander M Bryan, Ambarish Karmalkar, Jeanne M Thibeault, and Anji Seth
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

Christine Burrill and Sheila J Seaman
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

Xiaotao Yang and Haiying Gao
Marriott Marquis
Independence D

5:15pm - 5:29pm


IN34A-06 - Cyber Literacy for GIScience: Toward Formalizing Geospatial Computing Education

Forrest J Bowlick and Erik Shook
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

Brian Yellen, Jonathan D Woodruff, David K Ralston, Caroline Ladlow, Sarah Fernald and Waverly Lau
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

Christine Hatch, John Gartner, and Isaac Larsen
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

Jennifer L Hatch
Marriott Marquis
Liberty M

10:35am - 10:50am


PP42A-02 - Evidence of Fluvially-derived Sediment During the Kamikaze Typhoons near Nagasaki, Japan

Caroline Ladlow, Jonathan D Woodruff, Hannah Elizabeth Baranes, Kinuyo Kanamaru and Tim Cook
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

Anna Ruth W Halberstadt, Mahsa S Moussavi, Allen Pope, Luke D Trusel, Colin J Gleason, and Rob DeConto
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

Adriane Renee Lam
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

Ambarish Karmalkar
Walter E Washington Convention Center
Hall A-C (Poster Hall)

NH43C-1070 - Spatiotemporal Trends in Annual High Water Extremes in the Gulf of Maine

Hannah Elizabeth Baranes, Jonathan D Woodruff, Stefan A Talke and Richard D Ray
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

Cong Li and Haiying Gao
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

Daniel Miller, Ambarish Karmalkar, and Raymond S Bradley
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

Laura Fattaruso, Michele L Cooke and Jessica McBeck
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

Adriane Renee Lam, Mark Leckie, and Kenneth MacLeod
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

Marissa Mnich and Christopher Condit
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

Isaac J Larsen, Isaac J Larsen, Michael P. Lamb, and Kenneth A Farley
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

Raquel Bryant, R Mark Leckie, Khalifa M Elderbak, Ellen E Martin and Masoud A. Rostami
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

Shaina Rogstad
Marriott Marquis
Marquis 9-10

4:54pm - 4:57pm


EP54B-34 - Evaluating the Reconstruction of Beach Morphology from a Web Camera

Patrick Thomas Scordato, Jenna A Brown, and Christopher R Sherwood
Walter E Washington Convention Center
eLightning Theater II