AGU Fall Meeting 2014
San Francisco, California
Dec. 15 - 19, 2014
For details, go to http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2014/
Presentations with UH EAS faculty/students as (Co-)Authors
| Monday, December 15 | |||
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| Author(s) | Title | Time | Location |
| Jonathan E Snow* | High H2O/Ce of K-rich MORB from Lena Trough and Gakkel Ridge, Arctic Ocean | 08:00 AM | Moscone South |
| Jessica Gilman, Brian M Lerner, Carsten Warneke, Martin Graus, Rui Lui,, Abigail Koss, Bin Yuan, Shane M Murphy, Sergio Luiz Alvarez, Barry L Lefer*, Kyung-Eun Min, Steven S Brown, James M Roberts, Hans Dieter Osthoff, Courtney Dyan Hatch, Jeff Peischl, Thomas B Ryerson and Joost A De Gouw | Primary emissions and secondary formation of volatile organic compounds from natural gas production in five major U.S. shale plays | 09:00 AM | Moscone West 3010 |
| Caroline Lavoie, Eugene Domack, Theodore Scambos, Erin Pettit, Hans-Werner Schenke, Kyu-Cheul Yoo, Robert Larter, Julian Gutt, Julia Wellner*, Miquel Canals, John Anderson and David Amblas | Paleo-Ice Sheet/Stream Flow Directions of the Northern Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet Based Upon New Synthesis of Multibeam Seabed Imagery | 11:35 AM | Moscone West 3005 |
| Hanlin Liu**, Guoquan Wang* and Jiangbo Yu** | A Stable Geodetic Reference Frame within the COCONET Footprint to Enable High-Accuracy Ground Deformation Study | 01:40 PM | Moscone West Poster Hall |
| Xueyi Jia**, Qi Jing, Bao Yan, Jiangbo Yu**, Weijun Gan and Guoquan Wang* | Current Land Subsidence in Tianjin, China Recorded by Three Continuous GPS stations (2010-2014) | 01:40 PM | Moscone West Poster Hall |
| Tuesday, December 16 | |||
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| Author(s) | Title | Time | Location |
| Azizuddin Abdul Aziz**, Robert Stewart* and Susan L Green** | 3D GPR Modeling and Imaging of Burials: Mueschke Historic Cemetery, Houston, Texas | 08:00 AM | Moscone South Poster Hall |
| Robert Gibler, Anne H Peslier, Lillian Aurora Schaffer** and Alan D Brandon* | Water content in the SW USA mantle lithosphere: FTIR analysis of Dish Hill and Kilbourne Hole pyroxenites | 08:00 AM | Moscone South Poster Hall |
| Kurt E Sundell** II, Joel Edward Saylor*, Dustin Patrick Villarreal* and Brian K Horton | Testing geodynamic models for surface uplift of the central Andean plateau through volcanic glass paleoaltimetry and basin analysis in southern Peru | 08:00 AM | Moscone South Poster Hall |
| Stephanie Gwen Erickson, Wendy R Nelson*, Anne H Peslier and Jonathan E Snow* | Constraining the Composition of the Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle Beneath the East African Rift: FTIR Analysis of Water in Spinel Peridotite Mantle Xenoliths | 08:00 AM | Moscone South Poster Hall |
| Joel Edward Saylor* and Kurt E. Sundell** | Statistics of large detrital geochronology datasets | 08:00 AM | Moscone South Poster Hall |
| Anne H Peslier, Alan D Brandon*, Lillian Aurora Schaffer**, Suzanne Yvette O'Reilly, William L Griffin, Richard V Morris, Trevor G. Graff and David G Agresti | Water in the Cratonic Mantle: Insights from FTIR Data on Lac de Gras Xenoliths (Slave Craton, Canada) | 08:00 AM | Moscone South Poster Hall |
| Tyrone O Rooney, Wendy R Nelson*, Dereje Ayalew, Gezahegn Yirgu, Claude T Herzberg and Barry B Hanan | An olivine-free mantle lithology as a source for mantle-derived magmas: the role of metasomes in the Ethiopian-Arabian large igneous province. | 08:00 AM | Moscone South Poster Hall |
| Nicolas Bartschi**, Joel Edward Saylor* and Michael D Blum | Discriminating Sediment Supply versus Accommodation Controls on Foreland Basin Stratigraphic Architecture in the Book Cliffs, central Utah using Detrital Double Dating | 08:00 AM | Moscone South Poster Hall |
| Donald S Van Nieuwenhuise* | Biotic and Sedimentologic Signals Associated with Tempestite Deposition from Baffin Bay, Texas | 11:50 AM | Moscone West 2007 |
| John M Cannon** and Michael Andrew Murphy* | THE EFFECTS OF THE BRITTLE-DUCTILE TRANSITION ON THE INDIA-ASIA INTRACONTINENTAL SUBDUCTION ZONE | 12:05 PM | Marriott Marquis Salon 9 |
| Yanet Cuddus** and Guoquan Wang* | Precise Landslide Displacement Time Series from Continuous GPS Observations in Tectonically Active and Cold Regions: A Case Study in Alaska | 01:40 PM | Moscone West Poster Hall |
| Cornelia Class, Anthony A P Koppers, William W Sager*, Susan Schnur | Diffuse Volcanism at the Young End of the Walvis Ridge - Tristan - Gough Seamount Province: Geochemical Sampling and Constraints on Plume Dynamics | 02:25 PM | Marriott Marquis Salons 1-3 |
| John Braun, M Meghan Miller, Glen S Mattioli, Guoquan Wang*, Karl Feaux, Linda Rowan and Peter C La Femina | The Continuously Operating Caribbean Observational Network (COCONet): Supporting Regional Development of Geoscience Research Across the Circum-Caribbean | 03:00 PM | Moscone West 2022-2024 |
| Wednesday, December 17 | |||
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| Author(s) | Title | Time | Location |
| Paul Mann* and Ian Ambrosius*** | Areas of Active Tectonic Uplift Are Sensitive to Small Changes in Fold Orientations within a Broad Zone of Left-lateral Transpression and Shearing, Dominican Republic and Haiti (Hispaniola) | 08:00 AM | Moscone South Poster Hall |
| Patrick Loureiro** and Paul Mann* | A Newly Recognized, 460 km Long and Arcuate, Right-Lateral Strike-Slip Fault Traversing Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands | 08:00 AM | Moscone South Poster Hall |
| Ismail Ahmad Abir**, Shuhab Khan*, Abuduwasiti Wulamu, Shahina Tariq and Mohammad Tahir Shah | Salt Tectonics of Basin and Range Systems in the Sub-Himalayas of Northern Pakistan Using InSAR and 2D Seismic Interpretation | 08:00 AM | Moscone West Poster Hall |
| Rachel Gamblin, Erika Marrero, Edgar A Bering III, Barry Leffer*, Bonnie Dunbar, Hamza Ahmad, Daniel Canales, Chris Bias, John Cao, Megan Pina, Arian Ehteshami, Daniel Hermosillo, Abdul Siddiqui, Diego Guala and UltraLight Mission | An Undergraduate Student Instrumentation Project (USIP) to Develop New Instrument Technology to Study the Auroral Ionosphere and Stratospheric Ozone Layer Using Ultralight Balloon Payloads | 08:00 AM | Moscone South Poster Hall |
| John W Nielsen-Gammon, Michael Quirke, Barry L Lefer* and Tracy Hester | Advancing Science Literacy Through the Climate Change National Forum | 09:15 AM | Moscone South 102 |
| Stephen Leslie**, Paul Mann* and Luis Carlos Carvajal** | Giant Mass Transport Deposits of the Caribbean Margin and their Tsunamigenic Potential, Offshore Northern Colombia | 01:40 PM | Moscone West Poster Hall |
| Linqiang Yang**, Jiangbo Yu**, Timothy Kearns** and Guoquan Wang* | Current Land Subsidence and Sea Level Rise along the North American Coastal Region: Observations from 10-Year (2005-2014) Closely-Spaced GPS and Tide Gauge Stations | 01:40 PM | Moscone West Poster Hall |
| Yao Yao** and Aibing Li* | Shear Wave Structure in the Lithosphere of Texas from Ambient Noise Tomography | 01:40 PM | Moscone South Poster Hall |
| John T Bershaw, Joel Edward Saylor*, Carmala N Garzione, Andrew Leier | The Isotopic Evolution of Modern Water (δ18O and δD) Across the Andean Plateau Controlled by Easterly-Derived Precipitation Modified by Surface Water Recycling | 01:55 PM | Moscone West 2008 |
| Thursday, December 18 | |||
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| Author(s) | Title | Time | Location |
| Dongje Lee, Timothy Kearns**, Linqiang Yang** and Guoquan Wang* | Compaction of Aquifer at Different Depths: Observations from a Vertical GPS Array in the Coastal Center of the University of Houston, Texas | 08:00 AM | Moscone West Poster Hall |
| Jiangbo Yu**, Guoquan Wang*, Timothy Kearns** and Linqiang Yang** | The Maximum Compaction Depth of the Aquifers in the Houston-Galveston Area: a result from long-term GPS and extensometer observations | 08:00 AM | Moscone West Poster Hall |
| Dongje Lee, Timothy Kearns**, Linqiang Yang**, Guoquan Wang* | Compaction of Aquifer at Different Depths: Observations from a Vertical GPS Array in the Coastal Center of the University of Houston, Texas | 08:00 AM | Moscone West Poster Hall |
| Francis A Macdonald, Mark David Schmitz, Daniel James Condon, Maoyan Zhu, Alan D Rooney and Alan D Brandon* | Making up for Lost Time: Stratigraphic and Geochemical Implications of a Long-Lived Sturtian Glaciation | 11:35 AM | Moscone West 2006 |
| Aifei Bian*, and Chris Gantela | High resolution crustal image of South California Continental Borderland: Reverse time imaging including multiples | 01:40 PM | Moscone South Poster Hall |
| Susan Schnur, Anthony A P Koppers, Cornelia Class, William W Sager* | Explaining Tristan-Gough Plume Dynamics with New Age Data from Multiple Age-Progressive Seamount Sub-Tracks in the Young Walvis Ridge Guyot Province | 01:40 PM | Moscone South Poster Hall |
| Yingcai Zheng*, Francis Nimmo, Thorne Lay, | InSight detection of a Lithospheric Low Seismic Velocity Zone in Mars | 01:40 PM | Moscone South Poster Hall |
| Gilman Ouellette Jr, Kristine L DeLong, Kelly H Kilbourne, Frederick W Taylor, Paul Mann*, Phedy Jean | Replicating and calibrating Haitian microatoll coral Sr/Ca variations to build confidence in sea surface temperature reconstructions | 01:40 PM | Moscone West Poster Hall |
| Jiannan Wang**, Paul Mann* and Alexander von von Lignau, | Definition and Paleoseismology of the Active, Left-Lateral Enriquillo-Plantain Garden Fault Zone Based on High-Resolution Chirp Profiles: Lakes Azuey and Mirogoane, Haiti | 01:40 PM | Moscone South Poster Hall |
| Friday, December 19 | |||
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| Author(s) | Title | Time | Location |
| Richard Socki, Denet Pernia, Adry K. Bissada*, Joseph Anthony Curiale, Michael Evans, Qi Fu* and Paul B Niles | Hydrogen (H) Isotope Composition of Type II Kerogen Extracted by Pyrolysis-GC-MS-IRMS: Terrestrial Shale deposits as Martian Analogs | 08:00 AM | Moscone South Poster Hall |
| Qi Fu*, Mike Darnell** and Adry K. Bissada* | Maturation of Green River Shale Kerogen with Hydrous Pyrolysis: Characterization of Geochemical Biomarkers and Carbon Isotopes | 08:00 AM | Moscone South Poster Hall |
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Jolante W Van Wijk*, Michael Andrew Murphy*, An Yin, Nicole Arres** and Rediet Abera |
What Formed the Basement Ridges on the Indian Plate? |
08:00 AM |
Moscone South Poster Hall |
| Margarete Ann Jadamec*, Karen Fischer | Slab Driven Plate Motions and Three-dimensional Mantle Flow Pathways in the Central American Subduction Zone | 08:00 AM | Moscone South Poster Hall |
| John Casey*, John F. Dewey | The Relationships of Plate Triple-junction Evolution, Trench-Arc Lengthening, Boninite Generation, and SSZ Spreading Centers to Ophiolite Formation, High-Temperature Soles, and Obduction | 08:15 AM | Moscone South 310 |
| Stuart Hall, Dale Bird*, Hunter Danque, James Grant, David McLean, and Philip Towle | New Constraints on the Age of the Opening of the South Atlantic Basin As Revealed By Recently Acquired Magnetic, Gravity and Seismic Reflection Data | 10:50 AM | Moscone South 304 |
| Yiduo Liu**, Michael Andrew Murphy* and John M Cannon** | Post-rift Magmatism at Passive Margins: An Integrated Study of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin | 11:50 AM | Moscone South 304 |
| Lei Sun**, Shuhab Khan*, Darren L Hauser, Craig L Glennie,, Casey Snyder* and Unal Okyay** | Ground-based Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Mapping Rock Alterations and Lithologies: Case Studies from Semail Ophiolite, Oman and Rush Springs Sandstone, Oklahoma | 01:40 PM | Moscone South Poster Hall |
| Alan D Brandon* | INVITED: Decreasing µ142Nd Variation in the Archean Convecting Mantle from 4.0 to 2.5 Ga: Heterogeneous Domain Mixing or Crustal Recycling? | 01:40 PM | Moscone West 2009 |
| Leon Thomsen* and Don Anderson | Weak Anisotropy in Global Seismology | 02:40 PM | Moscone South 305 |
| Wendy Katherine Sharples, Margarete Ann Jadamec*, Louis Noel Moresi, Fabio a Capitanio | Overriding Plate Controls on Subduction Zone Evolution | 05:45 PM | Moscone South 306 |
*Faculty
**Graduate
***Undergraduate