1 Subsidence, Accretion: Coastal Depletion?

Monday, 21 March 2016
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Governor Room

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  QUANTIFYING LATE QUATERNARY FAULT MOVEMENT IN THE TEPETATE-BATON ROUGE FAULT ZONE SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: IMPLICATIONS FOR COASTAL SUBSIDENCE
  Torbjörn E. Tornqvist, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA and Zhixiong Shen, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC and Nancye Dawers, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA and Nicole M. Gasparini, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA and Marc Hijma, Deltares, Utrecht and Barbara Mauz, University of Salzburg, Salzburg
  273525 (Theme Sessions)
• 8:20 AM
  ASSESSING THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATIONS IN SUBSIDENCE AND WETLAND LOSS RESULTING FROM ACTIVE FAULTS IN COASTAL LOUISIANA, USA
  John Lopez, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, New Orleans, LA
  273551 (Theme Sessions)
• 8:40 AM
  QUANTIFYING DIFFERENTIAL SUBSIDENCE RATES FROM CONTINUOUS GPS IN NEW ORLEANS EAST, LOUISIANA
  Joshua D. Kent, Center for Geoinformatics, Baton Rouge, LA
  273861 (Theme Sessions)
• 9:00 AM
  CAUSES OF ACCELERATED LAND LOSS IN COASTAL LOUISIANA
  Chris McLindon, New Orleans, LA
  271529 (Theme Sessions)
• 9:20 AM
  THE IMPACT OF MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE ON QUANTIFYING SEDIMENT SUPPLY FROM THE MISSISSIPPI-ATCHAFALAYA RIVER IN SUPPORT OF COASTAL RESTORATION
  Mead A. Allison, The Water Institute of the Gulf, Baton Rouge, ME and Mead A. Allison, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
  273108 (Theme Sessions)
• 9:55 AM
  USING STRATIGRAPHY AND OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE DATING TO QUANTIFY SUBSIDENCE IN AN ABANDONED SUBDELTA
  Elizabeth L. Chamberlain, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and Zhixiong Shen, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC and Torbjörn E. Tornqvist, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA and Barbara Mauz, University of Salzburg, Salzburg
  273107 (Theme Sessions)
• 10:15 AM
  SEASONAL-SCALE PROCESSES OF SEDIMENT ACCRETION AND RETENTION IN A DIVERSION-FED MISSISSIPPI DELTA WETLAND
  Molly Keogh, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
  273165 (Theme Sessions)
• 10:35 AM
  MEASURING COASTAL LOUISIANA WETLAND RESILIENCE TO RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL RISE USING LARGE-SCALE REGIONAL MONITORING DATA
  Krista L. Jankowski, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA and Torbjörn E. Tornqvist, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA and Anjali M. Fernandes, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
  273142 (Theme Sessions)
• 10:55 AM
  SURFACE ELEVATION CHANGE, VERTICAL ACCRETION, AND SHALLOW SUBSIDENCE RATES INDICATED BY LOUISIANA’S COASTWIDE REFERENCE MONITORING SYSTEM (CRMS)
  Leigh Anne Sharp, Lafayette, LA and Bill Boshart, New Orleans, LA
  272959 (Theme Sessions)
• 11:15 AM
  ELEVATED ANTHROPOGENICALLY DRIVEN SUBSIDENCE RATES WITHIN GALVESTON BAY PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY TO DETERMINE IF SEDIMENTATION WITHIN A COASTAL PLAIN ESTUARY KEEPS PACE WITH RAPID SUBSIDENCE
  Timothy Dellapenna, Texas A&M Univ, Galveston, TX and Mohammad Almukaimi, Texas A and M University, Galveston, TX and Joshua Williams, Texas A&M University, Galveston, TX
  273996 (Theme Sessions)
• 11:35 AM
  ELUCIDATING SEA-LEVEL RISE, SUBSIDENCE, AND SEDIMENT ACCRETION IN THE GANGES-BRAHMAPUTRA (G-B) TIDAL DELTAPLAIN
  Carol Wilson, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA and Michael Steckler, Columbia University, Palisades, NY and Steve Goodbred, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and Richard Hale, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and Dhiman R. Mondal, Queens College - CUNY, Queens, NY
  273687 (Theme Sessions)