66 Geologic Hazard Issues in the Eastern United States

Saturday, 27 March 2004
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  REGIONAL GEOLOGIC MAPPING OF THE COASTAL ZONE TO IDENTIFY AND QUANTIFY COASTAL HAZARDS
  E. Robert Thieler, U.S. Geol Survey, Woods Hole, MA and Stanley R. Riggs, East Carolina Univ, Greenville, NC and Charles W. Hoffman, North Carolina Geol Survey, Raleigh, NC and Jeffery H. List, US Geol Survey, Woods Hole, MA and Jesse E. McNinch, College of William and Mary, Gloucester Point, VA and David Mallinson, East Carolina Univ, Greenville, NC and John Wehmiller, Univ of Delaware, Newark, DE
  69394 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 8:20 AM
  BLUFF EROSION HAZARDS IN COASTAL MAINE
  Joseph T. Kelley, Univ of Maine, Orono, ME and Stephen M. Dickson, Augusta, ME and Corinn Keblinsky, Univ of Maine, Orono, ME
  69717 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 8:40 AM
  COASTAL HAZARDS ALONG THE U.S. ATLANTIC SEABOARD: ASSESSING VULNERABILITY TO ISOSTATIC AND TECTONIC MOVEMENT AND RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL RISE
  Curtis E Larsen, U.S. Geol Survey, Reston, VA and S. Jeffress Williams, U.S. Geol Survey, Woods Hole, MA
  69735 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 9:00 AM
  WINTER PROCESSES ON A NEW ENGLAND MARSH: IMPLICATIONS FOR WETLANDS SURVIVAL IN A REGIME OF RISING SEA LEVEL
  Brittina A. Argow, Boston Univ, Boston, MA and Duncan M. FitzGerald, N/A
  70577 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 9:20 AM
  AN INTEGRATED GIS-BASED APPROACH TO QUANTIFYING THE RATES OF SHORELINE CHANGE IN THE GEORGIA BIGHT: FINAL RESULTS
  Clark Alexander, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah, GA and David Bush, State Univ. of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA and Susan Langley, Georgia Southern Univ, Statesboro, GA and Tony Foyle, Pennsylvania State Univ – The Behrend College, Erie, PA and Chester Jackson, State Univ. of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA and Jim Henry, Georgia Southern Univ, Statesboro, GA
  70745 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 9:40 AM
  THE SEISMIC HAZARD FROM MAJOR EARTHQUAKES IN THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN UNITED STATES
  John E. Ebel, Boston College, Weston, MA and Martitia P. Tuttle, M. Tuttle & Associates, Georgetown, ME
  69331 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 10:00 AM
  GROUND FISSURING AS A PALEOSEISMIC INDICATOR
  Stephen F. Obermeier, US Geol Survey, Emeritus, Rockport, IN and James M. Durbin, Univ of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN and Greg Pouch, Illinois Wesleyan Univ, Bloomington, IL
  69682 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 10:20 AM
  UNDERSTANDING AND MITIGATING EARTHQUAKE HAZARD IN THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN UNITED STATES
  Chris H. Cramer, U.S. Geol Survey, Memphis, TN
  70082 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 10:40 AM
  LANDSLIDE ACTIVITY ALONG MEADOW RUN, SHENANDOAH VALLEY, VIRGINIA
  Gerald F. Wieczorek, U.S. Geol Survey, Reston, VA and L. Scott Eaton, James Madison Universtiy, Harrisonburg, VA and Eric J. Turner, James Madison Universtiy, Harrisonburg, VA
  70046 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 11:00 AM
  LANDSLIDE LOSS ESTIMATION INVESTIGATION, NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHWESTERN OHIO
  John D. Rockaway, Northern Kentucky Univ, Highland Heights, KY
  69377 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 11:20 AM
  SIGNIFICANCE OF TROPICAL STORM TRACKS AND CYCLES TO FLOODING IN THE LOWER TAR, NEUSE, AND CAPE FEAR BASINS, NORTH CAROLINA
  Stephen B. Harper, East Carolina Univ, Greenville, NC
  70902 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 11:40 AM
  COMMUNICATING SCIENCE TO THE PUBLIC: SOME EXAMPLES OF USING SCIENCE IN PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES
  John D. Kiefer, Kentucky Geol Survey, Lexington, KY
  70134 (THEME SESSIONS)