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Program for 2017 Binghamton Symposium

BinghamtonProgram2017.pdf

Friday, 13 OCT 2017
Depart from Comfort Suites

8:00-17:00

Fieldtrip (Lunch provided)

18:00-21:00

Icebreaker at AquaBrew

Saturday, 14 OCT 2017
Evans Liberal Arts 114

 

 

 



Flowers Hall 230
Evans Liberal Arts first floor

Evans Liberal Arts 114

 

 

 

7:30-8:30

Registration; Coffee, fruit, and pastries

8:30-8:45

Introduction

 

8:45-9:15

Geomorphic Systems & Resilience
Martin Thoms (U. New England, Australia)
What do you mean, ‘Resilient Geomorphic Systems’?

9:15-9:45

Herve Piegay (Natl Ctr for Sci Research, France)
Appraisal of Fluvial Corridor Futures: From Resilience to Persistence

9:45-10:15

Stephen Tooth (U. Aberyswyth, UK)
The Geomorphology of Wetlands in Drylands: Resilience, Non-resilience, or …?

10:15-10:30

Break & Snacks

 

10:30-11:00

Extreme Events, Thresholds, & Resilience
Jason Julian (Texas State U., USA)
State-shifting at the Edge of Resilience: River Water Quality Responses to Changes in Land Use Intensity and Extreme Weather Events

11:00-11:30

Sara Rathburn (Colorado State U., USA)Post-disturbance Sediment Recovery: Implications for Watershed Resilience

11:30-12:00

Emily Stanley (U. Wisconsin, USA)
Anticipating Rapid Ecological Change in Lakes

12:00-13:30

Texas BBQ Lunch in Flowers Hall 230
Poster viewing

 

13:30-14:00

Eco-Geo Connections & Resilience
Dov Corenblit (U. Blaise, France)
Niche Construction within Riparian Corridors: The Unexplored Role of Intra-specific Positive Interactions in Riparian Trees

14:00-14:30

Carla Atkinson (U. Alabama, USA)
Including Ecogeomorphic Feedbacks for Enhancement of Ecological Function and Resiliency in Streams

14:30-15:00

Catalina Segura (Oregon State U., USA)
Sediment Transport Influence on Primary Production in Rainfall Dominated Systems

15:00-15:15

Break & Snacks

 

15:15-15:45

 

 

15:45-16:15

Zoogeomorphology & Resilience
David Butler (Texas State U., USA)
Zoogeomorphology and Resilience Theory

Alex Fremier (Washington State U., USA)
Sex that Moves Mountains: The Influence of Spawning Fish on River Profiles over Geologic Timescales

16:15-16:45

Invited Poster Introductions

16:45-18:30

Poster session 
18:00-21:00 Walk (with campus tour) or Van to Banquet
18:30-21:00

Banquet, with after-dinner talk
David Montgomery (U. Washington, USA)
Soil — the key to resilient civilizations

 

 

Sunday, 15 OCT 2017
Evans Liberal Arts 114

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flower Hall 230

8:00-8:30

Coffee, fruit, and pastries

 

8:30-9:00

Coastal Geomorphology & Resilience
Jonathan Phillips (U. Kentucky, USA)
Coastal Wetlands, Sea-level, and the Dimensions of Geomorphic Resilience

9:00-9:30

Tim Beach & Sheryl Beach (U. Texas, USA)
Stability and Instability on Maya Lowlands Tropical Hillslope Soils

9:30-10:00

Zachary Tessler (CUNY, USA)
Geomorphic, Anthropogenic, and Social Dimensions of Risk in Global River Deltas

10:00-10:15

Break & Snacks

 

10:15-10:45

Social-Ecological Systems & Resilience
Brian Chaffin (U. Montana, USA)
Social-Ecological Resilience and Geomorphic Systems

10:45-11:15

Meredith Steele (Virginia Tech U., USA)
Land Use and Surface Water: The Reorganization of US Hydrography

11:15-11:45

Melissa Parsons (U. New England, Australia)
From Academic to Applied: Operationalising Resilience in River Systems

11:45-13:00

Lunch and Discussion of synthesis paper

 

Invited Posters

Augustine Avwunudiogba (Cal State U.-Stanislaus) - The Response of Erosion to Land Use Pattern in a Swidden Agroecosystem in a Humid Tropical Mountainous region of Eastern Mexico

Tom Ballinger (Texas State U.) - Variations in North Atlantic Sea Ice since the 1850s

Jacob Bendix (Syracuse U.) - Feedbacks, Timing, and Biogeomorphic Response to Riparian Disturbance

Katie Costigan (U of Louisiana-Lafayette) - Resistance and Resiliency of Intermittent Rivers

Judy Haschenburger (UT San Antonio) - An Evaluation of Streambed Response

Edgardo Latrubesse (U. Texas) - Large Alluvial Rivers, Vegetation, and Past-present Landscape Biogeomorphic Imprints

Kimberly Meitzen (Texas State U.) - Catastrophic Flood Disturbance and a Community’s Response to Plant Resilience in the Heart of the Texas Hill Country

Carlos Ramos-Scharron (U. Texas) - Application of Hydro-Geomorphic Principles to the Management of Terrestrial Sediment Loading Rates into Coral-Bearing Waters

Benjamin Schwartz (Texas State U.) - In-cave Hydrology in VA and TX and Differences in Vadose Storage Properties: Differences in Baseflow and Hydraulic Resilience of Small Tributaries after Drought