Overview
Below is an overview of the daily program. Each day will broadly focus on one to two themes and how these are explored in the wider context of climatic controls on erosion.
Sunday, August 4, 2019
Pre-Meeting (Day 0)
5:00–7:00 pm: Registration and Icebreaker, Treadwell Room, BW Baranof Hotel
5:00–7:00 pm: Registration and Icebreaker, Treadwell Room, BW Baranof Hotel
Monday, August 5, 2019
Day 1, Treadwell Room, BW Baranof Hotel
Daily Themes: From Source to Sink: Tracing Erosional Signals and Beyond the mainstream: continental deposits and erosion outside fluvial systems
Welcome address:
8:00–9:00 am: Greetings, orientation, and overview of meeting objectives; Introduction of participants around the room
Morning Session:
9:00–9:45 am: Christian France-Lanord, Himalayan erosion from +5000 to -5000m
9:45–10:30 am: Kathleen Marsaglia, Chasing bits and pieces of New Zealand from source to sink: sand provenance studies in New Zealand sedimentary systems
10:30–11:15 am: Coffee/tea and posters
11:15–12:00 pm: Glenn R. Sharman, Differentiation of tectonic and climatic drivers using sediment supply and provenance
12:00–12:30 pm: Quick group discussion among tables
Lunch:
12:30–1:30 pm: Lunch will be provided
Afternoon Session:
1:30–2:15 pm: Luca Malatesta, Stadial-interstadial sediment flux variations captured in alluvial piedmonts of the Tian Shan
2:15–3:00 pm: Mitch D'Arcy, Alluvial fans as sensitive recorders of past hydroclimate
3:00–3:30 pm: Coffee/tea and posters
5:00–5:30 pm: Assembly of focus groups; day summary and outstanding challenges
5:30–6:00 pm: Pop-ups for first half of Monday/Tuesday posters:
Jan H. Blöthe
Donovan Dennis
Mathieu Cartigny
Tara N. Jonell
Xiaoni Hu
Chiu Hon Chim
Peter D. Clift
6:00–7:00 pm: Posters and refreshments
Daily Themes: From Source to Sink: Tracing Erosional Signals and Beyond the mainstream: continental deposits and erosion outside fluvial systems
Welcome address:
8:00–9:00 am: Greetings, orientation, and overview of meeting objectives; Introduction of participants around the room
Morning Session:
9:00–9:45 am: Christian France-Lanord, Himalayan erosion from +5000 to -5000m
9:45–10:30 am: Kathleen Marsaglia, Chasing bits and pieces of New Zealand from source to sink: sand provenance studies in New Zealand sedimentary systems
10:30–11:15 am: Coffee/tea and posters
11:15–12:00 pm: Glenn R. Sharman, Differentiation of tectonic and climatic drivers using sediment supply and provenance
12:00–12:30 pm: Quick group discussion among tables
Lunch:
12:30–1:30 pm: Lunch will be provided
Afternoon Session:
1:30–2:15 pm: Luca Malatesta, Stadial-interstadial sediment flux variations captured in alluvial piedmonts of the Tian Shan
2:15–3:00 pm: Mitch D'Arcy, Alluvial fans as sensitive recorders of past hydroclimate
3:00–3:30 pm: Coffee/tea and posters
5:00–5:30 pm: Assembly of focus groups; day summary and outstanding challenges
5:30–6:00 pm: Pop-ups for first half of Monday/Tuesday posters:
Jan H. Blöthe
Donovan Dennis
Mathieu Cartigny
Tara N. Jonell
Xiaoni Hu
Chiu Hon Chim
Peter D. Clift
6:00–7:00 pm: Posters and refreshments
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Day 2, Treadwell Room, BW Baranof Hotel
Daily themes: Cycles, Thresholds, and Feedbacks: The Evolving Atmosphere and Biosphere and From Ice to the Ocean in Alaska
Morning Session:
9:00–9:45 am: Daniella Rempe, Probing the fractured bedrock in Earth’s Critical Zone
9:45–10:30 am: Eran Hood, Glacier loss impacts riverine sediment and organic carbon transport to the ocean
10:30–11:15 am: Coffee/tea and posters
11:15–12:00 pm: Ken L. Ferrier, Sea-level responses to rapid erosion and deposition of sediment
12:00–12:30 pm: Quick group discussion among tables
Lunch:
12:30–1:30 pm: Lunch will be provided
Afternoon Session:
1:30–2:15 pm: Sonia A. Nagorski, Mercury export from glaciated and nonglaciated watersheds of southeast Alaska, as influenced by bedrock geology, landcover, and atmospheric deposition
2:15–3:00 pm: Eva Enkelmann, Tectonics and Surface Process Interaction at the Yakutat-North American collision zone
3:00–3:30 pm: Coffee/tea
3:30–4:15 pm: Cathy Connor, Southeast Alaska (SEAK)-A Bedrock History of Climate-Controlled Erosion and Contributions to Terrestrial and Deep Ocean Depocenters from Paleozoic to Present
4:15–5:30 pm: Assembly of focus groups; day summary and outstanding challenges
5:30–6:00 pm: Pop-ups for second half of Monday/Tuesday posters:
Yuting Li
Jessica Raff
Claire Masteller
Stefanie Tofelde
Anthony Maue
Peng Zhou
Alexander Neely
6:00–7:00 pm: Posters and refreshments
Daily themes: Cycles, Thresholds, and Feedbacks: The Evolving Atmosphere and Biosphere and From Ice to the Ocean in Alaska
Morning Session:
9:00–9:45 am: Daniella Rempe, Probing the fractured bedrock in Earth’s Critical Zone
9:45–10:30 am: Eran Hood, Glacier loss impacts riverine sediment and organic carbon transport to the ocean
10:30–11:15 am: Coffee/tea and posters
11:15–12:00 pm: Ken L. Ferrier, Sea-level responses to rapid erosion and deposition of sediment
12:00–12:30 pm: Quick group discussion among tables
Lunch:
12:30–1:30 pm: Lunch will be provided
Afternoon Session:
1:30–2:15 pm: Sonia A. Nagorski, Mercury export from glaciated and nonglaciated watersheds of southeast Alaska, as influenced by bedrock geology, landcover, and atmospheric deposition
2:15–3:00 pm: Eva Enkelmann, Tectonics and Surface Process Interaction at the Yakutat-North American collision zone
3:00–3:30 pm: Coffee/tea
3:30–4:15 pm: Cathy Connor, Southeast Alaska (SEAK)-A Bedrock History of Climate-Controlled Erosion and Contributions to Terrestrial and Deep Ocean Depocenters from Paleozoic to Present
4:15–5:30 pm: Assembly of focus groups; day summary and outstanding challenges
5:30–6:00 pm: Pop-ups for second half of Monday/Tuesday posters:
Yuting Li
Jessica Raff
Claire Masteller
Stefanie Tofelde
Anthony Maue
Peng Zhou
Alexander Neely
6:00–7:00 pm: Posters and refreshments
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Day 3, convene at BW Baranof Hotel lobby at ~7:45 am
Field excursion to Coast Mountains from Source-to-Sink
8:00-6:00 pm
Led by Drs. Cathy Connor, Sonia Nagorski, Eran Hood (U. Alaska-Southeast)
Conference Dinner
6:00 pm
Eagle Beach State Recreation Area
Field excursion to Coast Mountains from Source-to-Sink
8:00-6:00 pm
Led by Drs. Cathy Connor, Sonia Nagorski, Eran Hood (U. Alaska-Southeast)
Conference Dinner
6:00 pm
Eagle Beach State Recreation Area
Thursday, August 8, 2019
Day 4, Treadwell Room, BW Baranof Hotel
Daily themes: Moving forward: innovations in data sharing, visualization, and modelling to understand landscapes and climate and
Closing the gap - emergent tools and techniques for integrating earth surface process and solid earth datasets across different scales
Morning Session:
9:00–9:45 am: Nicole M. Gasparini, Climate and Landscape Evolution Models: What we have learned? What are the opportunities?
9:45–10:30 am: Brian Yanites, Linking weather and climate impacts on landscape evolution with numerical and natural experiments
10:30–11:15 am: Coffee/tea and posters
11:15–12:00 pm: Sergio Andò, High resolution Raman Spectroscopy studies of silty-turbidites
12:00–12:30 pm: Quick group discussion among tables
Lunch:
12:30–1:30 pm: Lunch will be provided
NSF update by Justin Lawrence and Marguerite Toscano
Afternoon Session:
1:30–2:15 pm: Kristen Cook, A river in the face of extremes – sediment generation and transport in the Bhote Koshi River valley, central Nepal
2:15–3:00 pm: Elizabeth Cassel, The evolution of Cordilleran topography: Records of surface uplift and the onset of orogenic collapse
3:00–3:30 pm: Coffee/tea
3:30–4:15 pm: Pedro Val, Asymmetry of the Andes orogen, geometry of the subducting Nazca slab, and topographic trends across rain shadows
4:15–5:30 pm: Assembly of focus groups; day summary and outstanding challenges
5:30–6:00 pm: Pop-ups for all Thursday and Friday posters:
Michal Ben-Israel
Adam Forte
Nicola Brilli
Karl Lang
Julia Carr
Udita Mukherjee
Anna Clinger Veronica Prush
Ian Delaney
Kelly Thomson
Duna Roda-Boluda
Kalli Dubois
6:00–7:00 pm: Posters and refreshments
Daily themes: Moving forward: innovations in data sharing, visualization, and modelling to understand landscapes and climate and
Closing the gap - emergent tools and techniques for integrating earth surface process and solid earth datasets across different scales
Morning Session:
9:00–9:45 am: Nicole M. Gasparini, Climate and Landscape Evolution Models: What we have learned? What are the opportunities?
9:45–10:30 am: Brian Yanites, Linking weather and climate impacts on landscape evolution with numerical and natural experiments
10:30–11:15 am: Coffee/tea and posters
11:15–12:00 pm: Sergio Andò, High resolution Raman Spectroscopy studies of silty-turbidites
12:00–12:30 pm: Quick group discussion among tables
Lunch:
12:30–1:30 pm: Lunch will be provided
NSF update by Justin Lawrence and Marguerite Toscano
Afternoon Session:
1:30–2:15 pm: Kristen Cook, A river in the face of extremes – sediment generation and transport in the Bhote Koshi River valley, central Nepal
2:15–3:00 pm: Elizabeth Cassel, The evolution of Cordilleran topography: Records of surface uplift and the onset of orogenic collapse
3:00–3:30 pm: Coffee/tea
3:30–4:15 pm: Pedro Val, Asymmetry of the Andes orogen, geometry of the subducting Nazca slab, and topographic trends across rain shadows
4:15–5:30 pm: Assembly of focus groups; day summary and outstanding challenges
5:30–6:00 pm: Pop-ups for all Thursday and Friday posters:
Michal Ben-Israel
Adam Forte
Nicola Brilli
Karl Lang
Julia Carr
Udita Mukherjee
Anna Clinger Veronica Prush
Ian Delaney
Kelly Thomson
Duna Roda-Boluda
Kalli Dubois
6:00–7:00 pm: Posters and refreshments
Friday, August 9, 2019
Day 5, Treadwell Room, BW Baranof Hotel
Daily theme: History matters: Reconciling Tectonic, Climate, and Erosion Histories
Morning Session:
9:00–9:45 am: Alexis Licht, Tibetan-Himalayan uplift, Asian monsoons, and global cooling: chicken, egg, or omelette
9:45–10:30 am: Yani Najman, Climatic and tectonic controls on the Bengal Fan sediment archive
10:30–11:00 am: Coffee/tea and posters
11:00–12:15 pm: Synthesis Keynote I by Jane K. Willenbring, Not Feeling the Buzz: Tectonics - Not Climate - Limits Heights of Mountains
Lunch:
12:15–1:15 pm Working lunch with discussions
Afternoon Session:
1:15–2:30 pm: Synthesis Keynote II by Niels Hovius, Controls on erosion -- seismicity, topography, rivers
2:30-3:00 pm: Coffee/tea and posters
3:00–5:00 pm: Final breakouts; great challenges in the coming years
5:00–6:00 pm: Unscheduled pop-ups (?), final remarks, small group discussions, acknowledgements and farewell to some
6:00–7:00 pm: Posters and refreshments; tear down and closing
Daily theme: History matters: Reconciling Tectonic, Climate, and Erosion Histories
Morning Session:
9:00–9:45 am: Alexis Licht, Tibetan-Himalayan uplift, Asian monsoons, and global cooling: chicken, egg, or omelette
9:45–10:30 am: Yani Najman, Climatic and tectonic controls on the Bengal Fan sediment archive
10:30–11:00 am: Coffee/tea and posters
11:00–12:15 pm: Synthesis Keynote I by Jane K. Willenbring, Not Feeling the Buzz: Tectonics - Not Climate - Limits Heights of Mountains
Lunch:
12:15–1:15 pm Working lunch with discussions
Afternoon Session:
1:15–2:30 pm: Synthesis Keynote II by Niels Hovius, Controls on erosion -- seismicity, topography, rivers
2:30-3:00 pm: Coffee/tea and posters
3:00–5:00 pm: Final breakouts; great challenges in the coming years
5:00–6:00 pm: Unscheduled pop-ups (?), final remarks, small group discussions, acknowledgements and farewell to some
6:00–7:00 pm: Posters and refreshments; tear down and closing
Saturday, August 10, 2019
Day 6, convene at BW Baranof Hotel lobby at 7:30 am
~10 min walk to Adventure Bound port in Downtown Juneau
Optional field trip to Tracy Arm, Juneau, Alaska
8:00 am–6:00 pm Field trip
~10 min walk to Adventure Bound port in Downtown Juneau
Optional field trip to Tracy Arm, Juneau, Alaska
8:00 am–6:00 pm Field trip