A significant number of URI GSO faculty, staff, and students will present their research at the 2018 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in Washington, DC. Below is a list highlighting where you can hear from and connect with members of the GSO community throughout the week of December 10-14th.
GSO Booth: Visit the GSO booth in the Academic Showcase (Booth #1605), Monday evening through Friday afternoon to learn about GSO and speak with current students, and maybe even walk away with some fun handouts!
Monday, December 10
V11E-0067: Habitability and Distribution of Subseafloor Life in Oceanic Basement
GSO Participants: Robert A. Pockalny, Steven D’Hondt, Gustavo Ramirez
08:00 – 12:20
PA11J-0857: “I didn’t know how much I didn’t know”: Training journalists to cover scientific complexities yields positive changes in news coverage and multiplier effects
GSO Participants: Sunshine Menezes
08:00 – 12:20
V11D-0058: An Oxidized Signature for the Gakkel Ridge ‘Dupal-like’ Isotopic Composition
GSO Participants: Katherine A Kelley
08:00 – 12:20
GC13F-1089: High spectral resolution datasets of in situ aquatic inherent and apparent optical properties
GSO Participants: Colleen B Mouw
13:40 – 18:00
S13D-0495: Is it possible to use teleseismic scattered waves to determine the receiver-side stochastic velocity model?
GSO Participants: Yang Shen, Xueyang Bao
13:40 – 18:00
Tuesday, December 11
PP21E-1456: North Atlantic Last Glacial Maximum Salinity Reconstruction
GSO Participants: Kira Homola, Arthur J Spivack
08:00 – 12:20
OS21F-1620: NES-LTER: A New Long Term Ecological Research Site on the Northeast U.S. Shelf
GSO Participants: Susanne Menden-Deuer, Tatiana A Rynearson
08:00 – 12:20
ED21A-06: MPOWIR: Evaluation of Impacts and Best Practices after a Decade of Mentoring Women in Physical Oceanography
GSO Participants: Colleen B Mouw
08:55 – 09:03
B23E-2548: Global diversity of subseafloor microbial community
GSO Participants: Steven D’Hondt
13:40 – 18:00
B23E-2549: Habitability of water-radiolytic worlds
GSO Participants: Steven D’Hondt, Justine Sauvage, Ashton F Flinders, Arthur J Spivack
13:40 – 18:00
PA23F: Enhancing the Impact of Earth and Space Sciences Through Project and Research Community Management Posters
GSO Participants: Katie Pratt
13:40 – 18:00
OS23F-1695: Abrupt Fronts Embedded in Tropical Instability Waves Observed by Saildrones
GSO Participants: Kathleen A Donohue
13:40 – 18:00
OS24B-01: Offshore Surveys of the Active Ocean Entry of the 2018 Lower Puna Eruption of Kilauea Volcano: Tracking Lava Delta Development
GSO Participants: Yang Shen
16:00 – 16:15
A24K-11: Arctic MISST: Multi-sensor Improved Sea Surface Temperature: Continuing the GHRSST Partnership and Improving Arctic data
GSO Participants: Peter Cornillon
16:31 – 16:34
GSO Event:
Please join Dean Bruce Corliss for the annual GSO Reception at AGU in Washington, D.C., to be held Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from 6-8pm at the Old Ebbitt Grill Atrium on 675 15th Street, NW. We will take the opportunity to remember our friend, colleague, and GSO alum, Dr. Bob Thunell, who passed away last summer. His friends and colleagues from the oceanographic community are also invited to attend to share memories of Bob.
Wednesday, December 12
OS31E-1823: Interaction of Langmuir turbulence and inertial currents in the ocean surface boundary layer under tropical cyclones
GSO Participants: Brandon G Reichl, Tetsu Hara, Isaac Ginis
08:00 – 12:20
OS31G-1873: Celebrating 10 years of NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer Mapping Program: A look back on achievements and lessons learned
GSO Participants: Colleen Peters
08:00 – 12:20
DI31A-06: Chemical and biological carbon sinks in the Costa Rican Forearc: First insights from the Biology Meets Subduction project
GSO Participants: Katie Pratt
09:15 – 09:30
OS31B-06: Comparing Ocean Boundary Vertical Mixing Schemes with Langmuir Turbulence
GSO Participants: Tetsu Hara
09:15 – 09:30
PA32A-03: Climate Change and the News: A national model for improving and expanding news coverage of climate change science and impacts
GSO Participants: Sunshine Menezes
10:35 – 10:40
T33F-0488: Explore the Effect of Heterogeneities of Fault Zone Properties on Seismic and Aseismic Slip on Oceanic Transform Faults Using Rate-and-state Friction
GSO Participants: Pengcheng Shi, Meng (Matt) Wei
13:40 – 18:00
T33F-0478: The Community Code Verification Exercise for Simulating Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip (SEAS): Initial Benchmarks and Future Directions
GSO Participants: Pengcheng Shi, Meng (Matt) Wei
13:40 – 18:00
H33C-03: The mighty Susquehanna—extreme floods during the past two millennia
GSO Participants: Clifford W Heil
14:10 – 14:25
NH33A-08: Expanding the Stratigraphic Record of Tsunami Inundation Along the Semi-arid, Siliciclastic Coast of North-central Chile
GSO Participants: Nicole Brennan
15:25 – 15:40
Special Screening:
Can We Talk? Difficult Conversations with Underrepresented People of Color: Sense of Belonging and Obstacles to STEM Fields.
URI Journalism Professor Kendall Moore’s will be screening her film at the Convention Center; AGU Career Center & Student Lounge Theater; Exposition Hall E
10:30 – 12:00
Thursday, December 13
T41F-0369: Reducing `Noise’ in Ocean Bottom Pressure Measurements in the Cascadia Subduction Zone
GSO Participants: Bing He, D Randolph Watts, Karen L Tracey, Kathleen A Donohue, Meng (Matt) Wei
08:00 – 12:20
PA41C-1315: Accelerating Community Climate Action Through Education, Community Engagement, and Workforce Development
GSO Participants: Gail A Scowcroft
08:00 – 12:20
ED41C-1110: Belonging: A Documentary Short and Facilitated Conversation on the Academic, Emotional, Social, Political, and Cultural, Hurdles to STEM Fields for People of Color
GSO Participants: Catalina Martinez (NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research)
08:00 – 12:20
OS41F-2081: Variable-resolution ocean model improves physics at reduced computational cost
GSO Participants: Kevin L Rosa
08:00 – 12:20
V43D-0149: Volatile contents of western Aleutian magmas and their relationship to slab thermal structure
GSO Participants: Janine Andrys, Katherine A Kelley
13:40 – 18:00
B43H-2946: Biogeochemical Sulfur Cycling in Hypersaline Mono Lake Sediments
GSO Participants: Victoria Madison Fulfer
13:40 – 18:00
V43J-0254: 4D full-wave seismic tomography of the Kilauea volcano, Hawai’i
GSO Participants: Yang Shen
13:40 – 18:00
V43I-0246: Tracing volatile cycling from subduction to outgassing along the Aleutian Arc
GSO Participants: Janine Andrys, Katherine A Kelley
13:40 – 18:00
GP43B-0781: Regionally Consistent Western North America Paleomagnetic Directions from 15-35 ka: Assessing Chronology and Uncertainty with Paleosecular Variation (PSV) Stratigraphy
GSO Participants: Clifford W Heil
13:40 – 18:00
S43E-0659: A coaxial cable Bragg grating based strainmeter designed to measure the state and activities of geophysical transitional zones
GSO Participants: Yang Shen
13:40 – 18:00
OS44B-07: Comparison of Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge Modeling in Three Coastal National Parks to Facilitate Adaptation Strategies
GSO Participants: Robert E Lewis (SURFO 2018)
17:10 – 17:20
ED44A-06: Breaking Down Barriers to Entry for Underrepresented Minorities: A Case Study of NOAA’s Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship Program
GSO Participants: Catalina Martinez (NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research)
17:15 – 17:30
Friday, December 14
EP51D-1850: Late Quaternary Fault-Related Folding, Uplifted Paleoshoreline, and Liquefaction Structures: Clues About Transpressional Activity Along the North America-Caribbean Plate Boundary From a Comprehensive Seismic Reflection Survey of Lake Azuei, Haiti
GSO Participants: Marie-Helene Cormier, John W King, Casey Keegan Hearn, Clifford W Heil, Roger Patrick Kelly, Allyson N Murray (SURFO 2018)
08:00 – 12:20
T51D-0172: Anisotropic full waveform ambient noise and earthquake tomography and Pn analysis of the Ontong Java Plateau and surrounding Pacific upper mantle
GSO Participants: Aaron C Hirsch
08:00 – 12:20
T51I-0299: Numerical modeling of dynamically triggered shallow slow slip events in New Zealand by the 2016 M w 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake
GSO Participants: Meng (Matt) Wei, Pengcheng Shi
8:00 – 12:20
C51D-1099: The need for the measurement response function (MRF) for optimal deconvolution of AMSR-E SSTs
GSO Participants: Peter Cornillon
08:00 – 12:20
PP51F-1196: Proxy Potential of Planktic Foraminifera from Low Oxygen Environments
GSO Participants: Karen Wishner
08:00 – 12:20
V51F-0160: Evidence of Simultaneous Effusive and Explosive Activity During the 1993 Submarine Eruption West of Socorro Island, Mexico
GSO Participants: Steven Carey, Katherine A Kelley, Megan Lubetkin, Christopher Roman, Robert D. Ballard
08:00 – 12:20
S52A-01: 3-D crustal structure of Southern California revealed from joint inversion of full-wave seismic and gravity data
GSO Participants: Yang Shen, Xueyang Bao
10:20 – 10:35
NH53A-01: Developing a Coastal and Inland Hazard and Impact Prediction System for Extreme Weather Events in the Northeastern United States
GSO Participants: Isaac Ginis, David S Ullman, Tetsu Hara, Austin Becker
13:40 – 13:55
S53C-0428: Mapping anelastic structures in the upper mantle – Applications to the hotspot tracks beneath the western United States
GSO Participants: Nian Wang, Yang Shen, Xueyang Bao
13:40 – 18:00
S53C-0422: The near-surface structure beneath the trifurcation area of the San Jacinto fault zone determined by full-waveform inversion
GSO Participants: Yang Shen, Xueyang Bao
13:40 – 18:00
S53C-0408: Application of 3D full-waveform component-differential kernels to joint inversion of seismic and gravity data of Southern California
GSO Participants: Yang Shen, Xueyang Bao
13:40 – 18:00