AGU Fall Meeting 2016
San Francisco, California
Dec. 12-16, 2016
For details, go to https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/
| Author | Title | Time | Location |
| Riddhi Dave**, Aibing Li* | Shear wave velocity and radial anisotropy beneath the Wyoming: craton destruction and lithospheric layering | Dec 12 1340-18 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Nicolas Bartschi**, Joel Saylor* | Discriminating Sediment Supply versus Accommodation Controls on Late Cretaceous Foreland Basin Stratigraphic Architecture in the Book Cliffs, Utah Using Detrital Zircon Double Dating | Dec 12 1340-18 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Angela Kao**, Xun Jiang*, Liming Li, Hui Su, Yuk Yung | Investigation of Precipitation, Circulation, and Cloud Variability Over the Past Two Decades | Dec 12 1340-18 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Masako Tominaga, Maurice Tivery, William Sager* | Refining the Jurassic Magnetic Quiet Zone | Dec 12 1340-18 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Claire Elizabeth Buysse, Sally Pusede, Alexander Kotsakis** | Ozone in Sequoia National Park: Linking Ozone Production in the San Joaquin Valley to Trends in Vegetative Impacts in Sequoia National Park from 2000-2016 | Dec 12 1340-1800 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Jochen Stutz, Stephen Hurlock, Santo Colosimo, Jui Tsai, Ross Cheung, James Festa, Olga Pikelnaya, Sergio Alvarez+, James Flynn*, Matthew Erickson+, Eduardo Pantig Olaguer | Observation of the Spatial Distribution of BTEX Using a new Long-path Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy Instrument | Dec 12 1448-1501 | Moscone West - 3006 |
| Karissa Peppin***, Aibing Li*, Yao Yao** | Rayleigh Wave Phase Velocities in Alaska from Ambient Noise Tomography | Dec 12 8-12 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Sabrina Martinez*** | Calculation of Regional Geomorphic Indices to Constrain the Mechanisms of Tectonic Uplift and Active Deformation of the Island of Puerto Rico | Dec 12 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Xin Zhou**, Guoquan Wang*, Bao Yan, Timothy Kearns** | Delineating Beach and Dune Morphology from Massive Terrestrial Laser Scanning Data Using the Generic Mapping Tools | Dec 12 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Alex Barnard+, Jonathan Snow* | Quantitative Bathymetry of the Godzilla Megamullion and Chaotic Terrain region, Parece Vela Basin, Philippine Sea | Dec 12 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Ramya Ravindranathan**, Anne Lesage, Evgeny Chesnokov* | USING AMPLITUDE OF PAIR CORRELATION FUNCTION TO IDENTIFY THE PRODUCTIVE LAYER FROM WELL-LOG AND SEISMIC DATA | Dec 12 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Yinshuai Ding**, Yingcai Zheng**, Hua-Wei Zhou*, Hao Hu+ | Propagation of Gaussian Wave Packets in heterogeneous media and the application to fracture characterization | Dec 12 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Nicole Pham, Margarete Jadamec*, Kirstie Haynie** | Three-dimensional Numerical Models of the Alaska Subduction-Transform system and the Implications for Mantle Upwelling and Anomalous Volcanism | Dec 12 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Jie Chen, Lindsay Schoenbohm, Lewis Owen, Wenqiao Li, Zhaode Yuan, Tao Li, Alexander Robinson*, Edward Sobel, Marc Caffee | Late Quaternary Arc-parallel Extension of the Kongur Extensional System (KES), Chinese Pamir | Dec 12 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Takashi Sano, Takeshi Hanyu, Maria Tejada, Shoka Shimizu, Masao Nakanishi, Anthony Koppers, Ichiro Kumagai, Joerg Geldmacher, William Sager* | Magma genesis of Ojin Rise Seamounts, Northeast of Shatsky Rise | Dec 12 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Yingcai Zheng* | Small-scale heterogeneity spectra in the Earth mantle resolved by PKP-ab, -bc and -df waves | Dec 12 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Haixia Zhao**, Xiaokai Wang, Jinghuai Gao | Frequency-dependent reflection coefficients in elastic diffusive-viscous media | Dec 13 1135-1150 | Moscone West - 3024 |
| Margarete Jadamec * | Slab-driven Mantle Flow in Three-dimensional Subduction Systems (Invited) | Dec 13 1205-1220 | Moscone South- 303 |
| Tithi Ghosh**, Jonathan Snow*, Osamu Ishizuka, Yumiko Harigane | Interaction of Residual Trench Peridotite with Boninitic Liquid at Northern Mariana Forearc | Dec 13 1340-18 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Margarete Jadamec*, Oliver Kreylos, Magali Billen, Donald Turcotte, Matthew Knepley | SubductionGenerator: A program to build three-dimensional plate configurations | Dec 13 1340-18 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Matthew Knepley, Tobin Isaac, Margarete Jadamec* | Optimization of Regional Geodynamic Models for Mantle Dynamics | Dec 13 1340-18 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Yiteng Tian, Vernon Cormier, Yingcai Zheng* | Study of the stastics of small-scale heterogeneity | Dec 13 1340-18 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Pereston J Hartzell*, Craig Glennie, Darren Hauser, Unal Okyay, Shuhab Khan*, David Finnegan | 3D Spatial and Spectral Fusion of Terrestrial Hyperspectral Imagery and Lidar for Hyperspectral Image Shadow Restoration Applied to a Geologic Outcrop | Dec 13 17-1715 | Moscone West - 2003 |
| Xiaokai Wang, Haixia Zhao**, Wenchao Chen | Seismic Curvature Estimation Based on Combining Gradient Structure Tensor and Multi-window | Dec 13 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Aibing Li*, Riddhi Dave** | Destroying a Craton by Plate Subduction, Small-scale Convection, and Mantle Plume: Comparision of the Wyoming Craton and the North China Craton | Dec 13 815-830 | Moscone South- 306 |
| Johnny Wu*, John Suppe*, Yi-Wei Chen** | Plate tectonic reconstruction of the northeast Eurasian margin and Alaska since ~50 Ma using subducted slab constraints | Dec 13 1340-1355 | Moscone South - 308 |
| Johnne Suppe*, Johnny Wu*, Yi-Wei Chen** | Finding the last ~200Ma of subducted lithosphere in tomography and incorporating it into plate reconstructions | Dec 13 815-830 | Moscone South-307 |
| Yumiko Harigane, Osamu Ishizuka, Hirokazu Maekawa, Tithi Gosh**, Jonathan Snow* | Petrogenesis of serpentinized peridotites from the northern Mariana forearc area | Dec 12 1340-18 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Marjan Soltanzadeh, Amanda Joy Pappin, Amir Hakami, Shunliu Zhao, Matthew Turner, Shannon Capps, Daven Henze, Peter Percell*, Jesse Bash, Sergey Napelenok, Robert Pinder, Armistead Russell, Athanasios Nenes, Jaemeen Baek, Gregory Carmichael, Charles Stanier, Tianfeng Chai, Daewon Byun*, Kathleen Fahey, Jaroslav Resler, Rabab Mashayekhi | Quantifying co-benefits of source-specific CO2 emission reductions in Canada and the US: An adjoint sensitivity analysis | Dec 14 1340-18 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Xiang Ling**, Jonathan Snow*, Yipeng Li** | K-Rich Basaltic Sources beneath Ultraslow Spreading Central Lena Trough in the Arctic Ocean | Dec 14 1340-1800 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Asmaa Boujibar, Mya Habermann, Kevin Righter, Daniel Ross, Minako Righter*, Bethany Chidester, Jennifer Rapp, Lisa Danielson, Kellye Pando, Rasmus Andreasan | U, Th, and K in planetary cores: Implications for volatile elements and heat production (Invited) | Dec 14 1410-1425 | Moscone south- 303 |
| Heidi Huntrieser, Michael Lichtenstern, Monika Scheibe, Heinfried Aufmhoff, Hans Schlager, Katharina Heimerl, Tomas Pucik, Andreas Minikin, Bernadett, Weinzierl, Daniel Futterer, Ilana Pollack, Jeff Peischl, Thomas Ryerson, Shawn Honomichl, Johnathan Hair, Carolyn Butler, Michael Schwartz, Bernhard Rappengluck*, Luis Ackermann**, Kenneth Pickering, Kristin Cummings, Michael Biggerstaff, Daniel Betten, Mary Barth | The Interaction between Very Deep Convection and Biomass Burning Plumes during DC3 and the Impact on the UTLS Region over The North Atlantic | Dec 14 1630-1645 | Moscone West - 3010 |
| Jiaxuan Li**, Yingcai Zheng*, Leon Thomsen | New Observation on Seismic anisotropy in subducting slabs inferred by non-double-couple earthquake radiation patterns | Dec 14 1645-17 | Moscone South- 305 |
| Hongru Hu**, Aibing Li* | Identification and analysis of long duration low frequency events from microseismic data | Dec 14 8-12 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Shenelle Gomez**, Paul Mann* | Structural Domains of the Barbados Accretionary Prism Defined by Regional Grid of 2D Seismic Lines | Dec 14 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Luchen Li**, Hao Hu+, Xinyan Li***, Yincai Zheng* | Understanding slab-mantle interaction by 3D seismic imaging of reflectivity in the mantle wedge | Dec 14 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Shuting Yang**, Robert Talbot*, Lei Lu**, Xin Lan | Investigation of Biogenic and Non-biogenic Methane Sources in Texas | Dec 14 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Linqiang Yang, Guoquan Wang*, Victor Moreno, Christa Hillebrandt-Andrade, Jose Martinez-Cruzado, Hanlin Liu | Introduction to the GNSS Geodetic Infrastructure in Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands Region | Dec 14 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Donghwan Kim**, Hyongki Lee*, Hahn Chul Jung, Edward Beighley, Alain Laraque, Raphael Tshimanga, Douglas Alsdorf | Mapping Water Level Dynamics over Central Congo River Using PALSAR Images, Envisat Altimetry, and Landsat NDVI Data | Dec 14 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Liming Li*, Aaron Studwel**, Xun Jiang*, Angela Kao**, Kevin Baines, Thomas Momary, Patrick Fry, Andrew Ingersoll, Michael Jansesen, Agustin Sanchez-Lavega Richard Achterberg, Amy Simon, Ulyana Dyudina, Robert West | Spatiotemporal Varibility of Saturn's Zonal Winds from Cassini Multi-Instrument Observations | Dec 14 9-915 | Moscone West- 2009 |
| Kathleen Tuite, Jochen Stutz, Nathaniel Brockway, Santo Colosimo, Jui Tsai, Katja Grosmann, Sergio Alvarez+, James Flynn*, Matthew Erickson+, Vanessa Caicedo**, Rober Griffith, Henry Wallace, Ben Schulze, Rebecca Sheesley, Sascha Usenko, Greg Yarwood, Uarporn Nopmongcol | Impact of iodine chemistry on coastal ozone levels at the Gulf of Mexico | Dec 15 1205-1220 | Moscone West - 3012 |
| Nig Cao**, Hyongki Lee*, Evan Zaugg, Ramesh Shrestha*, William Carter*, Craig Glennie, Guoquan Wang*, Zhong Lu, Juan Diaz | Evaluation of the Potentials and Challenges of an Airborne InSAR System for Deformation Mapping: A Case Study over the Slumgullion Landslide | Dec 15 1340-18 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Rachel Clark, William Sager*, Arlo Weil | Seismic Stratigraphy of te Shatsky Rise Sediment Cap and Implications for Pelagic Sedimentation on Oceanic Rises | Dec 15 1340-18 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Susini de Silva, Vernon Cormier, Yingcai Zheng* | Modeling of Inner Core Boundary Topography with PKiKP and PKP(cdiff) | Dec 15 1340-18 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Ruixue Lei**, Sing-Chun Wang**, Shuting Wang**, Yuxuan Wang*, Robert Talbot* | High Backgroudn Ozone Events in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria Area: Effects from Central American Fires | Dec 15 1340-1800 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Luan Nguyen**, Paul Mann* | Quantitative restoration the Gulf of Mexico continental margins based on newly-derived, basin-wide, crustal thickness map | Dec 15 1615-1630 | Moscone South- 310 |
| Martin Cassidy* | The Early Gulf of Mexico as a Subaerial Basin Below Sea Level (SABSEL) Basin. Evidence from Stratigraphy and Facies of Luanne salt, Norphlet sandstone and Smackover Brown Dense Formations | Dec 15 8-12 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Sing-Chun Wang**, Yuxuan Wang*, Ruixue Lei**, Robert Talbot* | Impacts of Central American Fires on Ozone Air Quality in Texas | Dec 15 8-12 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Andrew Steier**, Paul Mann* | Review of pre-rift continental fits and plate kinematic models for the Gulf of Mexico opening | Dec 15 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Marie Kouassi*** | Regional Comparison of Detrital Zircon Populations in Syn-rift, Jurassic Rocks from the Northern Gulf of Mexico to Northern South America | Dec 15 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Yao Yao**, Aibing Li* | Shear Wave Structure Beneath Texas and Its Implication for the Opening of The Gulf of Mexico | Dec 15 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Mohammad Almatrod***, Paul Mann*, Muhammad Nawaz Bugti?? | Mesozoic to Recent, regional tectonic controls on subsidence patterns in the Gulf of Mexico basin | Dec 15 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Pin Lin**, Paul Mann* | Jurassic, slow-spreading ridge in the southeast Gulf of Mexico and its along-strike morpho-volcanic expression explained by a two-phase opening model | Dec 15 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Peter Emmet*, Sharon Cornelius** | Geological 3DVelocity Model, Keathley Canyon and Walker Ridge, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico | Dec 15 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Sharon Cornelius**, John Castagna* | Salt Interval Velocities vs. Latitude in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico: Keathley Canyon and Walker Ridge Areas | Dec 15 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Muhammad Nawaz Bugti**, Paul Mann* | Distinctive styles of salt deformation formed by radial, convergent gliding into the sharp corners of the northeastern and northwestern Gulf of Mexico | Dec 15 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| David Lankford-Bravo*** | Delineation of the Mesozoic "setp-up fault" at the continent-ocean boundary in the US Gulf of Mexico and its Cenozoic role as a thrust-ramp for passive margin fold-belts | Dec 15 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Alex Fick**, Paul Mann* | Mexican Ridges passive foldbelt of western Gulf of Mexico detached along the top of an extensive, Oligocene mass transport complex | Dec 15 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Vaughn Robla, William W. Sager, Peter Emmet* | Structure of the Western Gulf of Mexico Salty Canopy Surace Imaged by Regional 2D Multichannel Seismic Data | Dec 15 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Rasheed Ajala***, Paul Mann* | Gravity-based model for regional flexure induced by crustal loading by the 14-km-thick Mississippi delta | Dec 15 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Xun Jiang*, Angela Kao**, Abigal Corbett**, Edward Olsen, Thomas Pagano, Yuk Yung | Influence of Droughts on CO2 | Dec 15 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Kurt Sundell**, Joel Saylor*, Thomas Lapen*, Dustin Villarreal**, Richard Styron, Whitney Perales, Jose Cardenas | Oligocene-modern paleoenvironmental change in of the Peruvian central Andes: Implications for late Miocene uplift and aridification | Dec 15 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Lawrence Braile, Christopher Carchedi | Gravity and Seismic Investigations of the Northern Rio Grande Rift and Valles Caldera Area, New Mexico | Dec 15 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Xinxiang Zhu**, Guoquan Wang*, Hyongki Lee*, Jin Wang | Delineating Landslide Creeping with GPS and TLS Integrated Field Survey at the Slumgullion Landslide Site. | Dec 15 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| James Chapman**, Alexander Robinson*, Barbara Carrapa, Paul Kapp, James Worthington, Dustin Villarreal**, Mustafo Gadoev, Illhomjon Oimahmadov | Decoupled Upper and Lower Crustal Deformation Mechanisms in the Pamir Mountains: Implications for Lower Crustal Flow in Orogenic Plateaus | Dec 15 830-845 | Moscone South - 306 |
| Destiny Reese, Matthew DeCesare, Cristina Subt, Philip Bart, Julia Wellner*, Brad Rosenheim | Use of Ramped PyrOx^14C dating to simultaneously determine the organic carbon age and carbonate material age of Antarctic marginal sediments | Dec 15 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Jonathan Slade, Paul Shepson, Sarah Desrochers, Rebecca Harvey, Will Wallace*, Alex Bui, Robert Griffin, Sarah Kavassalis, Qianwen Shi, Jennifer Murphy, Ryan Cook, Megan Connor, Andrew Ault, Kerri Pratt, Hariprasad Alwe, Dylan Millet, Steven Bertman, Philip Stevens, Paul Wennberg, Brandon Boor, Giuseppe Petrucci | The Influence of Monoterpene and Isoprene Nitrates on the Chemistry and Phase State of Secondary Organic Aerosol in a Low-Nox Mixed Deciduous/Coniferous Forest | Dec 15 9-915 | Moscone West - 3004 |
| Julia Wellner*, Jennifer Campo+, Yuribia Munoz** | Glacial Geomorphology of the Northwestern Weddell Seaf: Shiftign Ice Flow Patterns of a Marine-based Ice Sheet During Deglaciation | Dec 16 1035-1050 | Moscone West - 3009 |
| Jean-Claude Sibuet, Jinyao Gao, Minghui Zhao, Jonny Wu*, Weiwei Ding, Yi-Ching Yeh, Chao-Shing Lee | South China Sea kinematics | Dec 16 1410-1425 | Moscone West - 3009 |
| Mary Elizabeth Layton, Cole Speed, Mitanshu Shukla***, Alec Vila, Enrique Chon, Christina Kitamikado, Danny Feucht, Paul Bedrosian, Louise Pellerin | Electromagnetically Inferred Structure of the Caja del Rio Plateau, New Mexico | Dec 16 8-12 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Guoquan Wang* | US-China Collaboration on Landslide Research and Student Training | Dec 16 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Yuan Tian**, Yingcai Zheng* | Topography-coupled resonance between Mars normal-modes and the tidal force of the Phobos | Dec 16 1340-18 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| AGU sessions with UH EAS faculty as (Co-)chairs | |||
| Alex Barnard+ | Ocean Gas Plume Science: Hydrocarbon Transport in the Geo-, Hydro-, Atmo-spheres II Posters | Dec 15 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Alex Barnard+ | Ocean Gas Plume Science: Hydrocarbon Transport in the Geo-, Hydro-, Atmo-spheres II | Dec 16-18 | Moscone South- 3011 |
| Margarete Jadamec* | State of the Art in Computational Geoscience I | Dec 13 1020-1220 | Moscone South- 304 |
| Margarete Jadamec* | State of the Art in Computational Geoscience II Posters | Dec 13 1340-18 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Paul Mann* | Mesozoic to Recent Evolution of the Gulf of Mexico Basin from Integrated Geologic and Geophysical Data Sets I Posters | Dec 15 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Paul Mann* | Mesozoic to Recent Evolution of the Gulf of Mexico Basin from Integrated Geologic and Geophysical Data Sets II | Dec 15 16-18 | Moscone South- 310 |
| Joel Saylor* | Multidisciplinary Records of Climate-Tectonic Interactions I Posters | Dec 15 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Joel Saylor* | Multidisciplinary Records of Climate-Tectonic Interactions II | Dec 15 16-18 | Moscone South- 306 |
| Kurt Sundell* | Emerging Trends, Novel Applications, and Applied Studies in Detrital Geochronology I | Dec 12 8-10 | Moscone West- 2005 |
| Kurt Sundell* | Emerging Trends, Novel Applications, and Applied Studies in Detrital Geochronology II Posters | Dec 12 1340-18 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Yingcai Zheng* | Imaging the Earth I: Theory and Methods at Reservoir and Local Scales I Posters | Dec 12 8-1220 | Moscone South- Poster Hall |
| Yingcai Zheng* | Imaging the Earth I: Theory and Methods at Reservoir and Local Scales II | Dec 12 1340-1540 | Moscone South- 307 |
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**Graduate
***Undergraduate