PP017
Novel Approaches to Reconstructing Extreme Events and Hydrological Hazards During the Holocene and Common Era

Session ID#: 161052

Session Description:
Instrumental records of extreme events (e.g., tropical cyclones, floods, etc.) are spatially and temporally limited, creating significant challenges in understanding hazards with long or non-stationary periodicities. Catastrophic events such as Hurricanes Katrina and Maria, the 2009 West Africa floods, Typhoon Haiyan, and the 2013 North India floods highlight the need to contextualize seemingly unprecedented examples of extreme hazards with more observations offered by paleo-records. Long-term perspectives on hazards provide critical insight on risk and aid decision-making within vulnerable communities increasingly experiencing extreme hazards in a changing climate. We welcome submissions reconstructing extreme events throughout the Holocene and Common Era, particularly tropical cyclones and floods. We strongly encourage the submission of studies using novel reconstruction methods—multiproxy techniques, proxy-model experiments, or new sampling strategies—to characterize hazards, understand interactions between extreme events and the climate system, or develop hazard mitigation plans, particularly concerning climate refugees and other vulnerable populations.
Index Terms:

1821 Floods [HYDROLOGY]
3372 Tropical cyclones [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4901 Abrupt/rapid climate change [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]

Primary Convener:  Joshua C Bregy, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Geography, Bloomington, IN, United States
Conveners:  Emily Elliott, Clay Tucker and Ray Lombardi, University of Alabama, Geography, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Ray Lombardi, University of Alabama, Geography, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
 
Reconstructing Flood and Tropical Cyclone Impacts Over the Late Holocene from the Central Texas Shelf, Western Gulf of Mexico, USA (Invited) (1052063)
Sarah Monica1, Davin J Wallace1, Sylvia Dee2, Elizabeth Jane Wallace3 and John B Anderson2, (1)University of Southern Mississippi, School of Ocean Science and Engineering, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (2)Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, United States, (3)Old Dominion University, Department of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Norfolk, United States
 
Mega-drought Detection and Prediction in the Central Sierra Derived from the Reconstruction of the Mt. Rose SWE Record for Water Years 972 - 2031 Using the Reversal of the Sun's Magnetic Field (1060000)
John A Kleppe, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, UNITED STATES and Daniel S Brothers, U.S. Geological Survey, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
 
Integrating geological, historical and instrumental datasets for Flood Frequency Distribution assessment: A pilot study in northern Spain (1067317)
Juan Pablo Corella1,2, Gerardo Benito-Ferrandez3, A. Monteoliva4, Javier Sigró5, Mikel Calle6, Blas Lorenzo Valero-Garces7, Ivanka Stefanova8, E. Rico9, Anne-Catherine Favre Pugin2 and Bruno Wilhelm2, (1)CIEMAT, Environmental Department, Av. Complutense 40, 28040, Madrid, Spain, Madrid, Spain, (2)Universite Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble-INP, IGE, 38000, Grenoble, France, Grenoble, France, (3)National Museum of Natural Sciences, MNCN-CSIC, C/ Serrano 115bis, 28006, Madrid, Spain, Madrid, Spain, (4)ECOHYDROS, Polígono de Cros, 8, 39600, Maliaño, Cantabria, Spain, Maliaño, Spain, (5)Centre for Climate Change (C3). University Rovira i Virgili, Physical Geography Department, Tarragona, Spain, (6)Department of Geography and Geology, University of Turku, Turku, Turun Yliopisto, 20014, Finland, Turku, Finland, (7)Pyrenean Institute of Ecology, CSIC, Avda Montañana 1005, 50059, Zaragoza, Spain, Zaragoza, Spain, (8)Limnological Research Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA, Minneapolis, United States, (9)Departamento de Ecología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C/Darwin, No. 2, 28049, Madrid, Spain, Madrid, Spain
 
Past, Present, and Future Hydroclimate across the Mississippi River Basin and its Tributaries: Insights from Integrated Paleoclimate Data Analysis (1068514)
Sylvia Dee, Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, United States, Kieran Dunne, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Samuel E. Munoz, Northeastern University, Department of Marine & Environmental Sciences, Boston, MA, United States, Xinyue Luo, Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Science, Houston, TX, United States, Kelsey Murphy, Rice University, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States and James Doss-Gollin, Rice University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States
 
A Record of Late Holocene Paleomegafloods From Oxbow Lakes in the Sacramento Valley, California (1079493)
Donald G Sullivan, University of Denver, Denver, CO, United States
 
Extreme River Flood in the Southeastern US Substantially Reduced by Land-use Change in the Mid-20th Century (1079712)
Zhixiong Shen1, Nicholas Conway1 and Samuel E. Munoz2, (1)Coastal Carolina University, Department of Marine Science, Conway, United States, (2)Northeastern University, Department of Marine & Environmental Sciences, Boston, MA, United States
 
The Preservation of Hurricane Irma’s Overwash Deposit in Mangrove Forests from Southern Florida, USA: Implications for Paleo-storm Reconstructions (1082892)
Kristen Joyse1,2, Nicole Khan3, Ryan P Moyer4,5, Kara Radabaugh4, Isabel Hong6,7, Amanda R Chappel8,9, Jennifer Sue Walker10, Christian J Sanders11, Simon Engelhart12, Robert E Kopp13 and Benjamin Peter Horton14,15, (1)Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, SINGAPORE, (2)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Earth & Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, (3)University of Hong Kong, Department of Earth Sciences, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (4)FL Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (5)TerraCarbon, LLC, Saint Petersburg, United States, (6)Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA, United States, (7)Villanova University, Department of Geography and the Environment, Villanova, United States, (8)University of Florida, Environmental Engineering Sciences, Gainesville, FL, United States, (9)Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Saint Petersburg, United States, (10)Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, (11)National Marine Science Centre, School of Environment, Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, NSW, 2450, Australia, Coffs Harbour, Australia, (12)University of Durham, Department of Geography, Durham, United Kingdom, (13)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (14)Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, (15)Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
 
Sedimentary signatures of Hurricane Harvey and riverine flooding in southeast Texas (1087551)
Samuel E. Munoz, Northeastern University, Department of Marine & Environmental Sciences, Boston, MA, United States, Joeri Reinders, Northeastern University, Department of Marine & Environmental Sciences, Boston, United States, Richard M Sullivan, Texas A&M University College Station, Department of Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States, Tyler Scott Winkler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, United States, Edward Beighley, Northeastern University, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Boston, United States and Peter J. van Hengstum, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Galveston, TX, United States
 
Intraseasonal Hydroclimate Variability in the Yucatán Peninsula During the Historical and Maya Terminal Classic Periods: A Proxy Record of Paleo-MJO (1088230)
Amy E Frappier1, Brian R Frappier1, Martin A Medina-Elizalde2, Maria FERNANDA Lases-Hernandez3 and Paul E. Roundy4, (1)Skidmore College, Geosciences, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States, (2)Auburn University, Department of Geosciences, Auburn, AL, United States, (3)UNAM Campus Juriquilla, Centro de Geociencias, Juriquilla, Qro., Mexico, (4)University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, United States
 
Using Sediment Accumulation Rates in Floodplain Paleochannel Lakes to reconstruct Climate-Flood Relationships on the Lower Ohio River (1107201)
Derek Gibson1, Broxton W Bird2, Harvie J. Pollard3, Cameron A. Nealy3, Robert Barr4 and Jaime Escobar5, (1)Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, United States, (2)Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Department of Earth Sciences, Indianapolis, IN, United States, (3)Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Earth Sciences, Indianapolis, United States, (4)Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Center for Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indianapolis, IN, United States, (5)Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia
 
Decoding the Extreme Events of Siang-Brahmaputra Basin (1107658)
Sandeep Panda1, Anil Kumar1 and Pradeep Srivastava2, (1)Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, India, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Earth Sciences, Roorkee, India
 
Large Floods on the Ohio River Inferred from Slackwater Deposits (1133122)
Charlotte Wiman, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States, Tess Harden, USGS Oregon Water Science Center, Portland, United States, Zhixiong Shen, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States; Coastal Carolina University, Department of Marine Science, Conway, United States, Brandon Curry, Illinois State Geological Survey, Prairie Research Institute, Champagne, IL, United States, Joeri Reinders, Northeastern University, Department of Marine & Environmental Sciences, Boston, United States, Edward Beighley, Northeastern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, United States and Samuel E. Munoz, Northeastern University, Department of Marine & Environmental Sciences, Boston, MA, United States
 
Comparing modern and historical records of cyclone induced extreme sea level events: two examples from Australia and the Philippines. (1136481)
Adam D Switzer, Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore; Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Joseph Christensen, The University of Western Australia, School of Humanities, Perth, Australia, Janneli Lea Soria, Central Visayan Institute Foundation, Philippines, Jagna, Bohol, Philippines and Joanna Aldridge, IAG Australia, Sydney, Australia
 
Evaluating uncertainties in latewood tree ring reconstructions of tropical cyclone precipitation using statistically/dynamically downscaled storms (1156399)
Elizabeth Jane Wallace, Old Dominion University, Department of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Norfolk, United States, Sylvia Dee, Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, United States, Joshua C Bregy, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Geography, Bloomington, IN, United States and Kerry Emanuel, MIT, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Using Magnetically Enhanced Laminae in Speleothems as a Paleoflood Proxy (1156666)
Samuel L Piascik, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, Roger R Fu, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Ricardo IF Trindade, Universidade de São Paulo, Geophysics, São Paulo, Brazil, Nicolas M Strikis, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Geochemestry Department, Niteroi, Brazil, Julio Cauhy Rodrigues, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Institute for Geoscience, Mainz, Germany, Vitor Azevedo, Universidade federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Brazil, Francisco William Cruz Sr., Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Geociências, São Paulo, Brazil and Plinio Jaqueto, University of Minnesota, Institute for Rock Magnetism, Minneapolis, United States
 
Past Floods recorded in Alabama estuaries: A record of extremes from the Mid Holocene to Common Era (1178273)
Rebecca L Totten1, Asmara Lehrmann2, Emily A Elliott3, Davin J Wallace4 and Sarah Monica4, (1)University of Alabama, Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (2)University of Alabama, Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, United States, (3)University of Alabama, Geography, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (4)University of Southern Mississippi, School of Ocean Science and Engineering, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
 
Advancing quantitative paleoflood hydrologic methods for extreme flood reconstruction in alluvial rivers (1191838)
Lisa Davis, University of Alabama, Department of Geography, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States and Ray Lombardi, University of Alabama, Geography, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
 
Multi-Proxy Paleo-storm Reconstruction Based on Ombrotrophic Peat Cores: A Novel Approach to Studying Paleo-storms in Eastern Canada During the Holocene (1194561)
Antoine Lachance, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques, Concordia University, Geography, Planning and Environment, Montreal, QC, Canada, Matthew C. Peros, Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada and Pierre Francus, Inst Nat Recherche Sci, Québec, QC, Canada
 
Using Paleotempestology and Barrier Island Geomorphology to Characterize Tropical Cyclone Activity During the Late Holocene Along the Northern Gulf Coast of the United States (1199932)
Emily A Elliott1, Sarah Monica2, Joshua C Bregy3, Davin J Wallace2, Jared Friedman4, Rebecca L Totten5, Asmara Lehrmann6 and Clay Tucker1, (1)University of Alabama, Geography, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (2)University of Southern Mississippi, School of Ocean Science and Engineering, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (3)Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Geography, Bloomington, IN, United States, (4)University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (5)University of Alabama, Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (6)University of Alabama, Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, United States
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