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CONCURRENT SESSION I || Monday August 29, 2016 || 3:30 to 4:50 PM

Climate Adaptation and Mitigation

Weather Ready Nation

Location: Great Hall, Shepard Hall

Location: NAC Ballroom, NAC Bldg.

Co-Chairs: Reza Khanbilvardi and Satya Kalluri

Co-Chairs: Vernon Morris and Jason Tuell

A1.1

3:30 PM

Craig McLean, NOAA/OAR, Opening Remarks

A2.1

3:30 PM

Jason Tuell, NOAA, NWS, OpeningRemarks

A1.2

3:50 PM

William Rossow, Frontier of Cloud-Climate Feedback Problem

A2.2

3:50 PM

Patrick McCormick, THE OMPS and SAGE III Story, A Historical Perspective

A1.3

4:10 PM

Ariana Atwell, Tracking and Characterizing Stratospheric Aerosols from the Nabro Volcanic Eruption of 2011

A2.3

4:10 PM

Karretta Venable, Characterizing aerosol impacts on the distribution of water in the tropospheric column during the monsoon season in the Philippines

A1.4

4:30 PM

Nathan Hosannah, The Continuing Convection, Aerosol, and Synoptic-Effects in the Tropics (CAST) Experiment

A2.4

4:30 PM

Cheila Cullen, Guidance index for shallow landslide hazards analysis

Healthy Oceans

Resilient Coastal Communities and Economies

Location: ASRC Auditorium, ASRC Bldg.

Location: Steinman Auditorium, Grove School

Co-Chairs: Paulinus Chigbu and Ayeisha Brinson

Co-Chairs: Larry Robinson and Steve Thur

A3.1

3:30 PM

Richard Merrick, NOAA NMFS, Opening Remarks

A4.1

3:30 PM

Steve Thur, NOAA, NOS, OpeningRemarks

A3.2

3:50 PM

Paul Montagha, Persistent Impacts to the Deep Soft-Bottom Benthos four years after the Deepwater Horizon Event

A4.2

3:50 PM

Ranjani Kulawardhma, Impacts of natural- and human-induced disturbances on Estuarine Wetland Ecosystems: Case study from Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR), Mississippi, USA

A3.3

4:10 PM

Kathleen Gillespie, Phylogenetic sleuthing: Radiation of teleosts is reflected in expansion of their eukaryotic Initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) and 4E-binding proteins (4E-BPs) family members

A4.3

4:10 PM

David Yoskowitz, Resilience in the face of sea level rise: What do people value?

A3.4

4:30 PM

Darius Bell, Fish health assessment of Morone Americana (White perch): Using the Health Assessment Index in the Choptank River, MD

A4.4

4:30 PM

Melanie Mancuso, Examining the Energetic Importance of Two Gulf Coast Barrier Islands for Transient Birds during Spring Migration


CONCURRENT SESSION II || Tuesday August 30, 2016 || 8:30 to 9:50AM

Climate Adaptation and Mitigation

Weather Ready Nation

Location: Great Hall, Shepard Hall

Location: NAC Ballroom, NAC Bldg.

Co-Chairs: Bob Rabin, JamesBooth

Co-Chairs: Ming Ji and Jorge Gonzalez

B1.1

8:30 AM

Brian Vant Hull, Dry Lightning and Forest Fires: A Climatological Approach

B2.1

8:30 AM

Luis Ortiz, Urban Impacts on New York City Weather During a Heat Wave

B1.2

8:50 AM

Peter Dorofy, Development of a Mid-Infrared Sea and Lake Ice Index (MISI) using the GOES Imager

B2.2

8:50 AM

Karen Rosado, Determine the Relationship of Lightning with Intensity Forecast of Tropical Cyclones Using the HWRF Mode

B1.3

9:10 AM

Shadya Sanders, Perceptions of Safety and its Gendered Differences: An Exploratory Analysis of Severe Weather Reactions

B2.3

9:10 AM

Ivan Valerio, Planetary Boundary Layer Turbulence Characterization

B1.4

9:30 AM

Nasser Najibi, Hydro-climatological Assessment of New York City Water Supply Management: Towards a Sustainable Seasonal Inflow Forecast Based on Climate Indices and Water Releases and Storages

B2.4

9:30 AM

Jose Rivas Jr., Simulating Dust Emission and Biota Transport from Playa Systems using a Wind Tunnel

Healthy Oceans

Resilient Coastal Communities and Economies

Location: ASRC Auditorium, ASRC Bldg.

Location: Steinman Auditorium, Grove School

Co-Chairs: Ashok Deshpande and Kristen Lycett

Co-Chairs: Michael Abazinge and Natasha White

B3.1

8:30 AM

Smith Vasquez Caballero, Model of Fishery Participation and Location Choice for the West Coast Salmon Fishery

B4.1

8:30 AM

Richard McLaughlin, Sea-level Rise, coastal adaptation, laws and policies

B3.2

8:50 AM

Zakiya Hoyett, Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products:Local, National, and Global Challenges

B4.2

8:50 AM

Elena Kobrinski, Offshore Oil Rig Decommissioning and Rigs-to-Reefs Programs in the Gulf of Mexico: Current Status and Strategies, and a Review of Decommissioning Cost Estimation

B3.3

9:10 AM

Shareena Cannonier, A Study of Nutrient Impacts on HAB Biotoxin Concentrations in Apalachicola Bay and Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserves

B4.3

9:10 AM

William Hernandez, Water Quality Monitoring and Validation from NOAA operational satellite sensor (VIIRS) Data Products in Coral Reef

B3.4

9:30 AM

Ahmed El-Habashi, Satellite retrievals of Karenia brevis harmful algal blooms in the West Florida Shelf using neural networks and comparisons with other techniques

B4.4

9:30 AM

Lemir Teron, Toxic Tides (or A Fatal Coupling of Climate Change & Legacy Pollution)

CONCURRENT SESSION III || Tuesday August 30, 2016 || 10:10 to 11:50AM

Climate Adaptation and Mitigation

Weather Ready Nation

Location: Great Hall, Shepard Hall

Location: NAC Ballroom, NAC Bldg.

Co-Chairs: Satya Kalluri, Prathap Ramamurthy

Co-Chairs: John Anderson, Fred Moshary

C1.1

10:10 AM

Satya Prakash, Satellite-based microwave global land emissivity estimation and its application for freeze/thaw detection

C2.1

10:10 AM

Rosa Fitzgerald,Atmospheric Studies in the PdN Region

C1.2

10:30 AM

Mariana Leon Perez, Long-term changes in seagrass distribution using a high-spatial resolution satellite image, historic aerial photography and field data

C2.2

10:30 AM

Mark Dempsey, On the Creation of An Urban Boundary Layer Product Using The Radar Wind Profiler of the New York City Meteorological Network

C1.3

10:50 AM

Carlos Diaz Perez, Evaluation of MODIS land surface temperature with in situ snow surface and near-surface air temperatures from CREST-SAFE

C2.3

10:50 AM

Jose Tirado, Aerosols and trace gases modeling in the tropical Atlantic during the summer of 2009

C1.4

11:10 AM

Christopher Spells, Hyper-spectral Retrievals from the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) During the NOAA Aerosol and Ocean Science Expeditions (AEROSE)

C2.4

11:10 AM

Joan Manuel Castro Sanchez, An algorithm for improving warm rainy cloud detection

C1.5

11:30 AM

Sium Gebremariam Wind speed comparison of climate models, reanalysis and observation over North America

C2.5

11:30 AM

Sina Kashuk, Predictive Model; Flood Vulnerability; Open Data; NYC-311; Community Reporting; New York City

Healthy Oceans

Resilient Coastal Communities & Economies

Location: ASRC Auditorium, ASRC Bldg.

Location: Steinman Auditorium, Grove School

Co-Chairs: Dionne Hoskins and Maria Tzortziou

Co-Chairs: David Hicks, Lonnie Gonzalves

C3.1

10:10 AM

Alex Gilerson, Validation and Calibration of the Ocean Color Satellites: Modeling and Field Approaches

C4.1

10:10 AM

Bernadette Kelly, Interdisciplinary Model for Training the Next Generation of Scientist: An ECSC Center Wide Core Competency Course

C3.2

10:30 AM

Shadaesha Green, Reproductive endocrinology of the Red deep-sea crab, Chaceon quinquedens: identification of reproductive regulators and vitellogenin

C4.2

10:30 AM

Karlisa Callwood, Condos and Connectivity:Developing an Interdisciplinary Approach as a Tool for Guiding Caribbean Spiny Lobster (P. argus) Fisheries Management within The Bahamas

C3.3

10:50 AM

Chante Davis, A framework for conducting riverscape genetics studies

C4.3

10:50 AM

Krystal Pree, Understanding the Risk to Recreational Fishers and Harvesters in Lee County, Florida from Exposure to Red Tides?

C3.4

11:10 AM

Audy Peoples, Analysis of stranding demographics, inorganic contaminants and cytotoxicity of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Maryland

C4.4

11:10 AM

Lauren Hutchison, Carbon Storage in Northern Gulf of Mexico Salt Marshes and Mangroves

C3.5

11:30 AM

Justin Wilson, Age determination of red deep-sea crab (Chaceon quinquedens) by growth ring analysis.

C4.5

11:30 AM

Rachel Edwards, Biophysical impacts of sea level rise coastal policies in Galveston Bay, Texas

CONCURRENT SESSION IV|| Tuesday August 30, 2016 || 1:20 to 2:40 PM

Climate Adaptation and Mitigation

Weather Ready Nation

Location: Great Hall, Shepard Hall

Location: NAC Ballroom, NAC Bldg.

Co-Chairs: Mike Kalb, Johnny Luo

Co-Chairs: Siwei Li, LaToya Miles

D1.1

1:20 PM

Ali Hamidi, Flood Risk Analysis in New York City Applying Nonparametric Simulation on Radar Rainfall Data

D2.1

1:20 PM

Leticia Williams, #Weather: An Exploration of Public Engagement and Understanding of Science through NOAATwitter

D1.2

1:40 PM

Tarendra Lakhankar, Remote Sensing of Snow Estimation: Satellites, Models and Field Experiment

D2.2

1:40 PM

David New, Unifying the representation of dry and moist convection in numerical weather and climate models

D1.3

2:00 PM

Shelby Tippett, Remote Sensing Monitoring of Canadian Wildfire Smoke and its Impact on Baltimore Air Quality

D2.3

2:00 PM

Matthew Gibbons, Investigating the Impacts of Dust on Deep Convective Clouds Using Detailed Spectral Bin Microphysics

D1.4

2:20 PM

Michael Sangobanwo, Inter-annual Variability in Urban Heat Island Intensity Over 10 Major Cities in The United States

D2.4

2:20 PM

Suhail Mahmud, Study of Photolysis Rate Coefficients to Improve Air Quality Models

Healthy Oceans

Resilient Coastal Communities and Economies

Location: ASRC Auditorium, ASRC Bldg.

Location: Steinman Auditorium, Grove School

Co-Chairs: Ayeisha Brinson and Stacy Smith

Co-Chairs: Charles Jagoe, Dennis Apeti

D3.1

1:20 PM

Maria Cooksey, Modeled distributions of mesophotic corals at five South Texas Banks

D4.1

1:20 PM

Alexandra St. Pe, Classifying Vertical Wind Speed Profiles for Offshore Wind Resource and Power Assessment

D3.2

1:40 PM

Marisa Litz, Energy dynamics and growth of juvenile Chinook salmon (Onchorynchus tshawytscha) reveal the importance of piscivory during early marine residence

D4.2

1:40 PM

Duc Le, Salinity Responses of Oyser Reefs in Apalachicola Bay, NERR Florida.

D3.3

2:00 PM

Rebecca Peters, Habitat use and site fidelity of juvenile black sea bass (Centropristis striata) in the Maryland Coastal Bays using mark-recapture

D4.3

2:00 PM

Kristen Lycett, Disease Ecology of the Parasite Hematodinium perezi in the Maryland and Virginia Coastal Bays

D3.4

2:20 PM

Ammar Hanif, Natureultimate environmental sampler: a look at the stomach content of Gulf Menhaden using molecular signatures

D4.4

2:20 PM

Wilmelie Cruz Marrero, In-situ habitat characterization of Maryland offshore wind power sites: developing a standardized technique for sampling image data sets


CONCURRENT SESSION V|| Wednesday August 31, 2016 || 10:00 to 11:00 AM

Climate Adaptation and Mitigation

Weather Ready Nation

Location: Great Hall, Shepard Hall

Location: NAC Ballroom, NAC Bldg.

Co-Chairs: Naresh Devineni, Chris Brown

Co-Chairs: Belay Demoz and Emily Saunders

E1.1

10:00 AM

Arun Ravindranath, An Environmental Perspective on the Water Management Policies of the Upper Delaware River Basin

E2.1

10:00 AM

Duajuan Lu, Air Quality, CAMx and Ozone formation

E1.2

10:20 AM

Armando Aispuro, The Role of Gulf Coast Barrier Islands in the Resource Use of Migratory Passerines

E2.2

10:20 AM

Ruben Delgado,

Determination of Mixing Layer Height and ASOS: Testbed, Algorithms and Network

E1.3

10:40 AM

Kwaku Buo Obeng, The Dynamics of Water Storage over Lake Eyre, Australia Observed by Satellite Data

E2.3

10:40 AM

Megan Payne, Aerosol modeling of volatile organic compounds and sulfur dioxide during particle growth events at Beltsville, MD

E1.4

11:00 AM

Elius Etienne, Development of a Demand Sensitive Drought Index and its Application for Agriculture over the Continental United States

E2.4

11:00 AM

Richard Medina, Use of Lidars in Atmospheric Sciences

Healthy Oceans

Resilient Coastal Communities and Economies

Location: ASRC Auditorium, ASRC Bldg.

Location: Steinman Auditorium, Grove School

Co-Chairs: Maurice Crawford, Marisa Litz

Co-Chairs: Steve Thur and Alex Gilerson

E3.1

10:00 AM

Jessica Andrade, Flatfish behavioral responses to predation cues under elevated carbon dioxide concentrations

E4.1

10:00 AM

Laura Almodovar-Acevedo, Assessing available habitat for black sea bass (Centropristis striata) in the Chesapeake Bay through a Habitat Suitability Model

E3.2

10:20 AM

Keith Leonard, The Effects of Hypoxia and Increased Temperature on the Behavior of Larval Estuarine Fish

E4.2

10:20 AM

Michelle Dovil, Ten Years After the Storm: An Examination of Why Displaced Victims of Hurricane Katrina Choose to Return

E3.3

10:40 AM

Robert Figueroa Downing, Investigating the Application of Multibeam Sonar and Remotely Operated Vehicles in Fish Population Monitoring on Artificial Reefs

E4.3

10:40 AM

Iman Simmons, Concentrations of heavy metals in tissues of commercially-harvested red crabs from the northwestern Atlantic

E3.4

11:00 AM

David Marsan, Novel toxin-antitoxin system in Synechococcus: A resilience mechanism in response to environmental stresses

E4.4

11:00 AM

Shanna Williamson, Changing ecosystem response to nitrogen load into Buzzards Bay, MA


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