delta

New Orleans Agenda

One of three proposed research themes for MYRES 2008



Venue: New Orleans, Louisiana


Day 1 - Micro-scale (molecular to grain scale)
Morning: (1 hr presentations with extended Q & A)
  • Biofilms and particle mobility: Brad Cardinale (UC Santa Barbara)
  • Production of soil: organic-inorganic feedbacks: Speaker TBD
    • Afternoon:
  • What are the timescales of interactions? Moderator TBD
  • Discussion
  • Posters
    • Day 2 - Meso-scale (from floodplains and hillslopes to entire basins)
    Morning: (1 hr presentations with extended Q & A)
  • Hillslope evolution: Josh Roering (U. of Oregon)
  • Vegetation-channel interactions: Michal Tal (UM)
    • Afternoon:
  • What are the timescales of interactions?: Moderated by William E. Dietrich (UCB)
  • Discussion
  • Posters
    • Day 3 - Macro-scale (continental to global scale)
    Morning: (1 hr presentations with extended Q & A)
  • Global biogeochemistry: David Fike (Caltech)
  • Coral reef - shoreline interactions: Speaker TBD
    • Afternoon:
  • What are the timescales of interactions?: Moderator TBD
  • Discussion
  • Poster Session
    • Evening:
  • Past and future social impacts of Hurricane Katrina on the City of New Orleans: Speaker TBD
    • Day 4 - Anthropogenic effects and feedbacks
    Morning: (1 hr presentations with extended Q & A)
  • Human-climate interactions: Ben Horton (U of Pennsylvania)
  • Humans as modifiers of the landscape: Veerle Vanacker (U. of Louvain, Belgium)
    • Afternoon: (1 hr presentation followed by moderated discussion)
  • Nutrient overload: perturbation of geochemical cycles: Stevan R. Earl (CAP LTER, Phoenix)
  • What are the timescales of interactions?: Moderated by Torbjörn Törnquist (Tulane University)
    • Days 5-7 - Field Trip
  • 3-day field trip on the Mississippi delta led by Torbjörn Törnquist, Stephen Nelson (Tulane University) and others