EP029
Morphodynamics of Integrated Land-Ocean Systems in the Tropics

Session ID#: 83781

Session Description:
Integrated land-ocean systems encompass rivers, estuaries-deltas and coastal oceans, with their morphodynamics playing a key role in global hydrological and biochemical cycles. In the tropics, they provide ecosystem services to communities and are very sensitive to global change caused by human development. Tropical land-ocean systems include large rivers providing most of the total water discharge to the ocean, transition landscapes dominated by mangrove forests, highly productive deltaic and estuarine environments, and coastal oceans fronted by coral and sand-shoal reefs. The understanding of their processes and geomorphology therefore provides tools for a rational management of their services and constitutes a top priority at institutions worldwide. This session invites basic and applied studies on the morphodynamics of land-ocean systems broadly defined, with attention to their integration in tropical regions. We particularly welcome studies addressing the connectivity across environments
Index Terms:

1825 Geomorphology: fluvial [HYDROLOGY]
1862 Sediment transport [HYDROLOGY]
4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4235 Estuarine processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]


Primary Convener:  Juan Felipe Paniagua-Arroyave, Universidad EAFIT, Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Medellin, Colombia; Florida State University, Deparment of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, United States
Conveners:  Juan Darío Restrepo Sr, Universidad EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia, Jaap Nienhuis, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands and Edgardo M Latrubesse, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Juan Felipe Paniagua-Arroyave, Universidad EAFIT, Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Medellin, Colombia; Florida State University, Deparment of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, United States
 
Morphology of a tidal river subject to uplift: introducing the Kapuas (East Kalimantan, Indonesia) (Invited) (488995)
Ton Hoitink1, Karl Kastner2, Bart Vermeulen3, Daan Van Keulen2, Jaap Nienhuis4 and Jeffrey Nittrouer5, (1)Wageningen University, Environmental Sciences, Wageningen, Netherlands, (2)Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, (3)University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, (4)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (5)Rice University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
 
Assessing Vulnerability of Tropical Watershed Erosion and Coastal Deposition with a Simple, Open-Source, GIS-Based Method (489152)
Trevor Nulton Browning, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States and Derek Sawyer, Ohio State University Main Campus, Earth Science, Columbus, OH, United States
 
Net Evaporation Rates and Mangrove Island Morphology: Caribbean Examples (555126)
Isamar Cortes1, Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba1, Robert Twilley2, Andre Rovai3 and Mark J Chopping4, (1)Montclair State University, Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair, NJ, United States, (2)Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (3)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (4)Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, United States
 
Relative role of marine and riverine sediment transport in morphodynamics of tropical river deltas in Colombia (581123)
Juan Felipe Paniagua-Arroyave, Universidad EAFIT, Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Medellin, Colombia; Florida State University, Deparment of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, United States and Jaap Nienhuis, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
 
Contributions of tidal and upstream catchment sediments to coastal wetland morphodynamics in the pacific Islands under current and future scenarios. (629156)
Eliana Jorquera1, Angelo Breda2, Steven Gerardo Sandi2, Jose Fernando Rodriguez3 and Patricia M Saco3, (1)University of Newcastle Australia, Newcastle, Australia, (2)University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia, (3)Univ Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia