Sunday, 5 October 2008: 1:30 PM
George R. Brown Convention Center, 320DE
160: Marine/Coastal Science
Sponsor:General Discipline Sessions
JTPC Rep:David M. Bush, University of West Georgia
Session Chairs:Terra J. George, University of Texas
Kyle M. Straub, University of Minnesota
1:30 PMIntroductory Remarks
1:35 PMUtilizing Time-Slice Analysis to Define the Geomorphic Evolution and Unravel the Human Impact on the Outer Banks, North Carolina
Dorothea V. Ames, East Carolina University, Stanley R. Riggs, East Carolina University
1:50 PMComplex, Coupled Human and Natural Systems: Our Inability to Predict the Future of Developed Beaches
Joseph T. Kelley, University Of Maine
2:05 PMImplications of Management Practices in Park-Adjacent Areas: New Inlet Formation in Cape Cod National Seashore
Mark Borrelli, Univ of Rhode Island, Jon C. Boothroyd, Univ of Rhode Island
2:20 PMTidal Inlet Migration "Cycles" and Tidal Hydrodynamics - a Cautionary Tale
Graham S. Giese, Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies, Mark B. Adams, US National Park Service, Theodore L. Keon, Town of Chatham
2:35 PMBreak
2:50 PMControls on the Retreat Rate of the Israeli Coastal Cliff and Its Estimated Location at Year 2100
Oded Katz, Geological Survey of Israel
3:05 PMNatural and Anthropogenic Signals In Core Sediments from Serthalaikkadu Creek (Muthupet mangroves), SE Coast of India
Denise Margarita Rivera Rivera, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, M.P Jonathan, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Hilaria Patricia Tépox Sarmiento, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo
3:20 PMFeasibility of Using Large, Retired and Mothballed Ocean Vessels as Mobile Desalinization Plants
David K. Kreamer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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