AGU Fall Meeting 2013 - University of Houston
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AGU Fall Meeting 2013

San Francisco, California
Dec. 9-13, 2013
For details, go to http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2013/

Presentations with UH EAS faculty/students as (Co-)Authors


Monday, December 9, 2013
Author(s) Title Time Location
D Sarah Stamps; Daniel Koehn; Kevin C Burke; Nicolas d'Oreye; Elifuraha Saria; Rui Xu

Kinematics of Rift-Parallel Deformation Along the Rukwa Rift, Western Branch, and Main Ethiopian Rift

8:00 AM

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Qi Fu*;  Richard Socki; Paul B Niles; Christopher Romanek; Saugata Datta; Mike Darnell*; Adry K Bissada*

The Origin of Carbon-bearing Volatiles in Surprise Valley Hot Springs in the Great Basin: Carbon Isotope and Water Chemistry Characterizations

1:40 PM

Hall A-C

Masako Tominaga; Maurice Tivey; William Sager* The Origin of the Jurassic Quiet Zone –new insights from Hawaiian Jurassic magnetic anomalies 1:40 PM Hall A-C
Yanming Huang; William W. Sager*

Correction of Marine Magnetic Data to Make a Magnetic Anomaly Map for Shatsky Rise

1:40 PM Hall A-C
Wendy R Nelson*; Tanya Furman

Tag team tectonics: mantle upwelling and lithospheric heterogeneity ally to rift continents

1:40 PM 304
William W Sager*; Jinchang Zhang; Jun Korenaga; Takashi Sano; Anthony A P Koppers; Mike Widdowson; John J Mahoney

An Immense Shield Volcano within Shatsky Rise Oceanic Plateau, Northwest Pacific

1:40 PM

Hall A-C

William Joseph Durkin; Jinchang Zhang; William W Sager*

Implications for Morphology and Tectonic History of Shatsky Rise from High Resolution Bathymetry

1:40 PM Hall A-C

Jinchang Zhang; William W. Sager*; Jun Korenaga

The Moho Structure of Shatsky Rise Oceanic Plateau, Northwest Pacific, from Multichannel Seismic Reflection and Wide-angle Refraction Data

1:40 PM Hall A-C

Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Author(s) Title Time Location
Yefeng Pan; Xun Jiang*; Edward T Olsen; Thomas S Pagano; Liming Li; Yuk L Yung Investigation of High Latitude CO2 Variability From Satellite Data

8:00 AM

Hall A-C

Heidi Huntrieser; Michael Lichtenstern; Monika Scheibe; Heinfried Aufmhoff; Hans Schlager; Tomas Pucik; Andreas Minikin; Bernadett Weinzierl; Katharina Heimerl; Daniel Fütterer; Bernhard Rappenglück*; Luis Ackermann; Kenneth E. Pickering; Kristin Cummings; Mary C. Barth Elevated O3 in Fresh and Aged Lightning-NOx Plumes Interacting with Biomass Burning Plumes over the Central U.S. during DC3 8:00 AM 3012

Murad Hasan**; Paul Mann*

Stages of Mesozoic rifting, magmatism, and salt deposition in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico inferred from a grid of deep-penetration seismic reflection data

8:00 AM Hall A-C

Luan C. Nguyen**; Paul Mann*; Dale E. Bird*

Location of deeply buried, offshore Mesozoic transform fault along the western margin of the Gulf of Mexico inferred from gravity and magnetic data

8:00 AM Hall A-C

Paul Mann*; Naila Dowla**

Quantitative restoration of 1 million years of crustal extension in the Gulf of Corinth rift, central Greece

8:00 AM Hall A-C

Richard Socki; Paul B. Niles; Tao Sun; Qi Fu*; Christopher S. Romanek; Everett K. Gibson

CARBONATE MINERAL FORMATION ON MARS: CLUES FROM STABLE ISOTOPE VARIATIONS SEEN IN CRYOGENIC LABORATORY STUDIES OF CARBONATE SALTS

8:00 AM

Hall A-C

Garrett Ito; Yuanyuan V. Fu; Aibing Li*; Robert A. Dunn

The Origin of Shear-Wave Splitting Observations on Iceland 9:00 AM 303

Alan D. Brandon*

Osmium Isotope Constraints on the Timing of Production and Destruction of Mantle Lithosphere in the Southwest United States

9:15 AM

306
Sean Freeman; Nicole Grossberg**; R. Bradley Pierce; Pius Lee; Fantine Ngan; Emma L Yates; Laura T Iraci; Barry L Lefer* Evaluation of atmospheric chemical models using aircraft data

1:40 PM

Hall A-C

Xin Lan; Patrick L. Laine; Robert W. Talbot*; Barry L. Lefer*; James H. Flynn; Barkley C. Sive

Identifying Anthropogenic Emissions of Atmospheric Mercury and Methane in Urban Houston Using Measurements from A Mobile Laboratory 1:40 PM Hall A-C

Guy c. Sturdevant; Robert Leverence; Robert Stewart*

GPR as a Low Impact Paleontogical Survey Technique

1:40 PM Hall A-C
Luc S Doucet; Anne H Peslier; Dmitri A Ionov; Alan D Brandon*; Alexancer V. Golovin; Igor V. Ashchepkov High water contents in the Siberian cratonic mantle: an FTIR study of Udachnaya peridotite xenoliths 1:40 PM Hall A-C
Aibing Li*; Laura C. Azevedo**; Yuanyuan V. Fu; Duo Yuan** Shear wave velocity model in Iceland from ambient noise and teleseismic Rayleigh wave tomography 1:40 PM Hall A-C

Riddhi Dave**; Aibing Li*

SHEAR WAVE STRUCTURE IN THE CRUST AND UPPER MANTLE BENEATH THE WYOMING CRATON

1:40 PM Hall A-C

Jennifer K. Rios; Cecilia M. McHugh; Matthew J. Hornbach; Paul Mann*; Vanshan D. Wright; Damayanti Gurung

Holocene Activity of the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden Fault in Lake Enriquillo Derived from Seismic Stratigraphy 1:40 PM Hall A-C
Bryan Ott**; Paul Mann*; Mike Saunders**

Role of the offshore Pedro Banks left-lateral strike-slip fault zone in the plate tectonic evolution of the northern Caribbean

1:40 PM Hall A-C
John Casey*; John F. Dewey*

The Relationships of Upper Plate Ridge-Trench-Trench and Ridge-Trench-Transform Triple Junction Evolution to Arc Lengthening, Subduction Zone initiation and Ophiolitic Forearc Obduction

1:40 PM 306

Jonathan E. Snow*; Juergen Koepke; Trevor Falloon; Natsue Abe; Takashi Hoshide; Norikatsu Akizawa; Jininchiro Maeda; Marlon M. Jean; Michael J. Cheadle

Melt flow and hypersolidus deformation in the lower ocean crust: Preliminary observations from IODP Leg 345

1:40 PM

310

Brent N. Holben; Thomas F. Eck; Joel Schafer; David M. Giles; Jhoon Kim; Itaru Sano; Sonoyo Mukai; Young J. Kim; Jeffrey S. Reid; Kenneth E. Pickering; James H. Crawford; Alexander Smirnov; Aliaksandr Sinyuk; Ilya Slutsker; Mikhail Sorokin; Jon Rodriguez; Soo Chin Liew; Nathan Trevino; Hwee San Lim; Barry L. Lefer*; Raj Nadkarni; Andreas Macke; Stefan A. Kinne; Bruce E. Anderson; Philip B. Russell; Hal B. Maring; Ellsworth J. Welton; Arlindo da Silva; Owen B. Toon; Jens Redemann

The DRAGON scale concept and results for remote sensing of aerosol properties

4:00 PM

3006

Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Author(s) Title Time Location

Eray Kocel**; Robert Stewart*; Paul Mann*; Naila Dowla**

Searching for the Blind fault: Haiti Subsurface Imaging Project

8:00 AM

Hall A-C

Matthew P. Loocke**; Jonathan E. Snow*; Osamu Ishizuka

Contrasting MORB-Boninite melt reaction trends in IBM forearc moho transition zone 8:00 AM Hall A-C
Carlos J. Sanchez**; Paul Mann*

Effects of Caribbean oceanic plateau shallow subduction on topographic uplift and exhumation of the northwestern Maracaibo block, Colombia

1:40 PM

Hall A-C

Tricia Alvarez; Paul Mann*; Lesli J. Wood; Carlos A. Vargas; Joan L. Latchman

Transition from Subduction to Strike-Slip in the Southeast Caribbean: Effects on Lithospheric Structures and Overlying Basin Evolution

1:40 PM Hall A-C

Xiao Zhang*; Arpan Kusari**; Craig L. Glennie**; Michael E. Oskin; Alejandro Hinojosa-Corona; Adrian A. Borsa; Ramon Arrowsmith

Change Detection from differential airborne LiDAR using a weighted Anisotropic Iterative Closest Point Algorithm

1:40 PM Hall A-C

Alex Barnard**; John Casey*

Identification and Analysis of Methane Plumes from the Barbados Accretionary Complex Identified in Multibeam Sonar Data

1:40 PM Hall A-C

Melissa E. Davidson*; John Casey*; Thomas J. Lapen*

Regional Variation in the Timing of Cessation of Laramide Folding, Uplift, and Post Flat-Slab Ignimbrite Flare Ups in West Texas

1:40 PM Hall A-C

Kherlen Batbayar**; Paul Mann*; Jean-Claude HIPPOLYTE

Changes in Late Cretaceous-Quaternary Caribbean plate motion directions inferred from paleostress measurements from striated fault planes

1:40 PM Hall A-C

Rocio Bernal-Olaya**; Paul Mann*; Carlos A. Vargas; Ivan Koulakov

Tomographically-imaged subducted slabs and magmatic history of Caribbean and Pacific subduction beneath Colombia 1:40 PM Hall A-C

Wendy R. Nelson*; Jonathan E. Snow*; Alan D. Brandon*; Yasuhiko Ohara

Subduction signature in backarc mantle?

1:40 PM

Hall A-C

Lillian A. Schaffer**; Anne H. Peslier; Alan D. Brandon*

Water contents of the mantle beneath the Rio Grande Rift: FTIR analysis of Kilbourne Hole peridotite xenoliths 1:40 PM Hall A-C
Rosalind M. Armytage*; Alan D. Brandon*

Collisional erosion in the Giant Impact and a non-chondritic Earth: constraints from lunar Nd isotope data

1:40 PM Hall A-C

Claire L. McLeod*; Alan Brandon*; Vera A. Fernandes; Anne H. Peslier; Thomas J. Lapen*; Anthony J. Irving

CONSTRAINTS ON THE COMPOSITION AND EVOLUTION OF THE LUNAR CRUST FROM METEORITE NWA 3163

1:40 PM Hall A-C

Xun Jiang*; James H. Trammell III**; Liming Li*; Yuk L. Yung

Investigation of Precipitation over Wet and Dry Areas from Observation and Model

4:30 PM

3004

Joseph P. Pinto; Jack E. Dibb; Jochen Stutz; Jui Yi Tsai; Xinrong Ren; Ezra C. Wood; Renyi Zhang; Ben Hwan Kyu Lee; Misti E. Levy; Bernhard Rappenglueck; Barry L. Lefer*; Michelle M. Oakes; Eduardo Olaguer

Nitrous Acid: Intercomparison of techniques and Implications of measurements for photochemistry

5:45 PM

3004

Thursday, December 12, 2013
Author(s) Title Time Location

Lijun Diao**; Yunsoo Choi*; Beata Czader*

Lightning and anthropogenic NOx sources over the United States during the Deep Convective Clouds & Chemistry (DC3) field campaign: Impact on tropospheric NOx, O3 and Outgoing Longwave Radiation

8:00 AM

Hall A-C

Raemy Winton; Joel E. Saylor*; Brian K. Horton

Evidence of the Timing and Rate of Uplift of Central Peruvian Andes from Deuterium Isotopes in Volcanic Glass

8:00 AM

Hall A-C

Kathryn M. Gillis; Jonathan E. Snow*; Adam Klaus

IODP Exp 345: Primitive Layered Gabbros From Fast-Spreading Lower Oceanic Crust

9:30 AM

3009

Azizuddin Abdul Aziz**, Robert R. Stewart*, Susan L. Green** IMAGING BURIED CULVERTS USING GROUND PENETRATING RADAR: COMPARING 100 MHZ THROUGH 1 GHZ ANTENNAE 10:20 AM 2000

Brian K. Blaylock; Barry L. Lefer; Nicole Grossberg

Meteorological influences on surface ozone in the Los Angeles Basin

1:40 PM

Hall A-C

Juergen Koepke; Natsue Abe; Norihiko Akizawa; Trevor Falloon; Takashi Hoshide; Marlon M. Jean; Jinichiro Maeda; Jonathan E. Snow*

IODP EXP 345: ORTHOPYROXENE OMNIPRESENT IN LAYERED GABBROS FROM THE HESS DEEP, EPR

1:40 PM

Hall A-C

Romain Meyer; Marguerite Godard; Abhishek Saha; Kathryn M. Gillis; Jonathan E. Snow*; Adam Klaus

IODP Expedition 345: Geochemical Characteristics of Fast Spread Lower East Pacific Rise

1:40 PM

Hall A-C

Kurt Sundell**; Michael H. Taylor; Richard H. Styron; Daniel F. Stockli; Paul A. Kapp; Deliang Liu; Lin Ding

Constriction and Pliocene acceleration of east-west extension in the North Lunggar rift region of west-central Tibet

1:40 PM Hall A-C

Paul Mann*; Ian O. Norton

Combining seismic tomography and crustal plate reconstructions to better understand the origin of the Caribbean and the history of its subduction zones (Invited)

2:40 PM 304

Friday, December 13, 2013
Author(s) Title Time Location

David M. Harwood; Robert M. Deconto; Richard H. Levy; Bruce P. Luyendyk; Tim Naish; David Pollard; Frank R. Rack; Christopher C. Sorlien; Julia S. Wellner*; Douglas S. Wilson

Resolving Past Antarctic Ice Sheet Behaviour in a High CO2 World: ANDRILL’s Integrated Data and Modeling Studies in the Ross Sea Region

8:00 AM

Hall A-C

Daniel Liptzin; Michelle Daley; Barkley C. Sive; Robert W. Talbot*; William H. McDowell

Dissolved Organic Carbon In Precipitation At A Coastal Rural Site

8:00 AM Hall A-C

Patrick L. Laine*; Xin Lan**; Darrell Anderson**; Robert W. Talbot*

Results from Mobile Lab Measurements Obtained in the Barnett Shale with Emphasis on Methane and Gaseous Mercury Emissions (Fort Worth, TX)

1:40 PM

Hall A-C

Yunsoo Choi*; Beata Czader*; Lijun Diao**; Joey Rodriguez**; Gill-Ran Jeong

The effects of atmospheric chemistry on radiation budget in the Community Earth Systems Model

1:40 PM Hall A-C

Xinfu Li; Yang Shen; Hongyi Li; Danian Shi; Eric A. Sandvol; Aibing Li

Receiver function analysis of crustal structure beneath northeast Tibet

1:40 PM Hall A-C

Sungyeon Choi; Joanna Joiner; Nickolay A. Krotkov; Yunsoo Choi*; Bryan N. Duncan; Edward A. Celarier; Eric J. Bucsela; Alexander P. Vasilkov; Susan E. Strahan; Joris P. Veefkind; Ronald C. Cohen; Andrew J. Weinheimer; Kenneth E. Pickering

Estimates of Free-tropospheric NO2 Abundance from the Aura Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) Using Cloud Slicing Technique

1:40 PM Hall A-C

Amber M. Ortega; Brett B. Palm; Patrick L. Hayes; Douglas A. Day; Michael Cubison; William H. Brune; Weiwei Hu; James H. Flynn; Nicole Grossberg; Barry L. Lefer*; Bernhard Rappenglueck*; Daniel Bon; Martin Graus; Carsten Warneke; Jessica Gilman; William Kuster; Joost A. De Gouw; Jose L. Jimenez

Real-Time Observations of Secondary Aerosol Formation and Aging from Different Emission Sources and Environments

2:55 PM

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*Faculty
**Graduate
***Undergraduate