UMass Geosciences at AGU

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U-Mass Geosciences has a strong showing at annual Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union!

U-Mass Geosciences has a strong showing at annual Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. If you're attending #AGU21 in New Orleans this year, either virtually or in person, don't miss out! Here is a schedule of who is presenting and when:

Only the first author is listed for each presentation below. All times listed are in EST. Be sure to click through to the talk for more information. A list of all department members who are co-authors on this year's AGU talks is at the end of this page.

Monday, 06 December 2021

Michele L Cooke
Monday, 6 December 2021 - 09:00 - 12:00 EST
Convening Session: SCIWS2 - Developing Onboarding Courses to Expose the Hidden Curriculum of Graduate School and to Increase Graduate Student Success

Monday, 13 December 2021

Julie Brigham-Grette
Monday, 13 December 2021 - 13:45 - 18:00 EST
Convening Session: U13B - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group I 6th Assessment Report: “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis”
Briana Ramirez
Monday, 13 December 2021 - 17:00 - 19:00 EST
Poster: An abrupt temperature and hydroclimate transition in eastern Africa during Termination V (~430 ka)
Leah Travis-Taylor
Monday, 13 December 2021 - 17:00 - 19:00 EST
Poster: Hydroclimate variability of the glacial Yucatán Peninsula from speleothem stable isotopes

Tuesday, 14 December 2021

Pedro Israel Matos-Llavona
Tuesday, 14 December 2021 - 10:57 - 11:00 EST
Electronic Poster: Divergent mangrove responses to multiple human activities in Puerto Rico
Sarah Virginia McKnight
Tuesday, 14 December 2021 - 13:55 - 14:00 EST
Presentation: Controls on the hydrologic response of arid high Andean lagoon complexes following extreme precipitation events
Ambarish Karmalkar
Tuesday, 14 December 2021 - 15:50 - 15:55 EST
Presentation: Oceanic and Atmospheric drivers of exceptional land warming in the northeastern United States
Caroline Lauth Quarrier
Tuesday, 14 December 2021 - 17:00 - 19:00 EST
Presentation: Quantifying Natural Soil Erosion Rates in Agricultural Landscapes of the Midwestern U.S. to Promote Sustainable Soil Management
Brian Saccardi
Tuesday, 14 December 2021 - 17:00 - 19:00 EST
Presentation: A Process Based Stream Network Model for Predicting CO2 Concentrations and Fluxes at High Resolution
Jeffrey S Kwang
Tuesday, 14 December 2021 - 17:00 - 19:00 EST
Electronic Poster: Forecasting soil loss across the US Corn Belt
Kelly McKeon
Tuesday, 14 December 2021 - 17:00 - 19:00 EST
Electronic Poster: Invasive aquatic vegetation modulates sediment transport and trapping in freshwater tidal wetlands in the Hudson River
Julie Brigham-Grette
Tuesday, 14 December 2021 - 19:00 - 19:20 EST
Event: GEC Awards and Business meeting (Presenter Live)

Wednesday, 15 December 2021

Julie Brigham-Grette
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 - 12:15 - 13:15 EST
Convening Session: TH33A - Toward Increasing Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) and Community Engagement in Climate Research: Challenges, Opportunities, and Successes
Michael A Rawlins
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 - 15:38 - 15:41 EST
Presentation: Increasing Freshwater and Dissolved Organic Carbon Flows to Northwest Alaska’s Elson Lagoon
Michele L Cooke
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 - 15:55 - 16:00 EST
Talk: Great unsolved questions in Tectonophysics: What is the role of inelastic off-fault deformation in the fault life cycle?
Shaina Sadai
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 - 17:00 - 19:00 EST
Presentation: Investigating Antarctic Ice Sheet Feedbacks with Coupled Ice Sheet and Climate Models
Kelly McKeon
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 - 17:00 - 19:00 EST
Poster: Initiating new efforts to track and improve DEI within the Department of Geosciences at UMass Amherst
Toni Lyn Morelli
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 - 17:00 - 19:00 EST
Poster: Translational Science: Bridging research and practice for improved outcomes
Daniel Corkran
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 - 17:27 - 17:30 EST
Presentation: Modeling the Impacts of Brine Extraction and Freshwater Withdrawals on Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions in Salar Systems

Thursday, 16 December 2021

Julie Brigham-Grette
Thursday, 16 December 2021 - 09:30 - 10:30 EST
Convening Session: GC41E - Stephen Schneider Lecture I
Francois Lapointe
Thursday, 16 December 2021 - 10:45 - 12:00 EST
Convening Session: PP42A - High-Resolution Sedimentary Archives and the Detection of Abrupt Environmental Changes I Oral
Julie Brigham-Grette
Thursday, 16 December 2021 - 11:00 - 12:00 EST
Convening Session: GC42D - Tyndall History of Global Environmental Change Lecture I
Julie Brigham-Grette
Thursday, 16 December 2021 - 13:45 - 14:45 EST
Convening Session: GC43B - Bert Bolin Award Lecture I
Karin Eva Lehnigk
Thursday, 16 December 2021 - 17:00 - 19:00 EST
Electronic Poster: Pleistocene megaflood discharge in upper Grand Coulee, Channeled Scabland, USA
Meng Liu
Thursday, 16 December 2021 - 17:00 - 19:00 EST
Presentation: Three-dimensional Variation of the Slab Geometry within the South American Subduction System
Jordan Allen
Thursday, 16 December 2021 - 17:00 - 19:00 EST
Presentation: Nitrogen Gas Emissions from Shale Critical Zone Environments
Francois Lapointe
Thursday, 16 December 2021 - 17:00 - 19:00 EST
Convening Session: PP45E - High-Resolution Sedimentary Archives and the Detection of Abrupt Environmental Changes II Poster
Ambarish Karmalkar
Thursday, 16 December 2021 - 17:00 - 19:00 EST
Presentation: Assessment of CMIP6 model performance over Antarctica to help constrain sea-level rise projections: process-based evaluation and bias correction
Toni Lyn Morelli
Thursday, 16 December 2021 - 17:00 - 19:00 EST
Presentation: Deforestation Outpaces Climate Change in a Biodiversity Hotspot

Friday, 17 December 2021

Michele L Cooke
Friday, 17 December 2021 - 14:10 - 14:15 EST
Talk: Prediction of Off-Fault Deformation from Experimental Strike-slip Fault Structures using the Convolutional Neural Networks
Rebecca Anne Smith
Friday, 17 December 2021 - 14:33 - 14:38 EST
Poster: Constraining Pacific Antarctic Circumpolar Current dynamics across the Plio-Pleistocene using organic geochemical biomarker proxies from IODP Expedition 383 Site U1540
Shaina Sadai
Friday, 17 December 2021 - 17:00 - 19:00 EST
Presentation: Sea Level Rise, Climate Justice, and the Paris Agreement
Robin R Dawson
Friday, 17 December 2021 - 17:00 - 19:00 EST
Poster: Unlocking the Secrets Held by Organic Carbon Deposited within Speleothems: A Test Case in Northwestern Madagascar

List of all department AGU authors