E12A:
Processes and Management of Altered Estuaries in the Era of Anthropocene I


Session ID#: 36825

Session Description:
Physically and geologically dispensable and ecologically valuable estuaries have been heavily altered over the last century by various human activities, including sedimentation from soil erosion; overgrazing and other poor farming practices; drainage and filling of wetlands; eutrophication due to excessive nutrients; and diking or damming for flood control or water diversion. Efforts have been made in recent decades to understand the nature of altered estuaries and physical and biogeochemical responses to these modifications. This session will provide a venue to share our increased knowledge of the comprehensive nature of physical, geological, chemical, and biological processes of altered estuaries, as well as our experience on their restoration and adaptive management practices.
Primary Chair:  Guan-hong Lee, Inha University, Department of Oceanography, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South)
Co-chairs:  Timothy Dellapenna, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Departments of Marine Science and Oceanography, Galveston, TX, United States, Joe Carlin, California State University, Fullerton, Department of Geological Sciences, Fullerton, CA, United States and Joshua R Williams, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Department of Physical Sciences, Gloucester Point, VA, United States
Moderators:  Timothy Dellapenna, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Marine and Coastal Environmental Science, Galveston, United States, Joshua R Williams, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Department of Physical Sciences, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, Joe Carlin, California State University, Fullerton, Department of Geological Sciences, Fullerton, CA, United States and Guan-hong Lee, Inha University, Department of Oceanography, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South)
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Joshua R Williams, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Department of Physical Sciences, Gloucester Point, VA, United States and Joe Carlin, California State University, Fullerton, Department of Geological Sciences, Fullerton, CA, United States
Index Terms:

4235 Estuarine processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4863 Sedimentation [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4902 Anthropogenic effects [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
Cross-Topics:
  • ES - Ecology and Social Interactions
  • MG - Marine Geology and Sedimentology

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Responses of Estuaries to Interventions by Homo Sapiens: A Story of Recent Coastal Development Where Things Have Gone Right and Wrong (216224)
Xiao Hua Wang, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Shift of estuarine type in altered estuaries (325453)
Guan-hong Lee, Inha University, Department of Oceanography, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South), Hyun-Jung Shin, Inha University, Department of Oceanography, Incheon, South Korea, KiRyong Kang, Korea Meteorological Administ., Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South) and Kyeong Park, Texas A & M University at Galveston, Galveston, United States
Has subsidence within the upper reaches of Galveston Bay resulted in elevated trapping of contaminated sediment from the floodwaters of Hurricane Harvey? (317913)
Timothy Michael Dellapenna1, Anthony Knap2, Terry Wade3, Gopal Bera3 and Mohammad E Al Mukaimi4, (1)Texas A&M University at Galveston, Marine and Coastal Environmental Science, Galveston, United States, (2)Texas A&M University, Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG), College Station, United States, (3)Texas A&M University College Station, Geochemical and Environmental Research Group, College Station, TX, United States, (4)University of Kuwait, Department of Marine Science, Kuwait City, Kuwait
Coupling Effects of Human Induced Unsteady River Discharges and Wave Conditions on Estuarine Morphology (301875)
Dongdong Shao1, Weilun Gao1, Wang Zheng Bing2, Wei Yang1, Tao Sun3 and Baoshan Cui1, (1)State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation & School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, (2)Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, (3)Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford, United States
The influence of human interventions on Change in hydrodynamics, Transport Processes, and Morphodynamics in the Changjiang Estuary (325801)
Jian Shen1, Qing He2 and Lei Zhu2, (1)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, United States, (2)State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, ECNU, Shanghai, China
Tidal pumping and advective sediment fluxes seaward of an estuarine dam: Geum Estuary, Korea (315718)
Steven Miguel Figueroa, Guan-hong Lee and Hyun-Jung Shin, Inha University, Department of Oceanography, Incheon, South Korea
Human influences on sediment and nutrient loads from the Susquehanna River to the Chesapeake Bay (317307)
Cindy M Palinkas1, Jeffrey C Cornwell1, Lawrence P Sanford2, Ming Li1 and Jeremy M Testa3, (1)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, United States, (2)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, United States

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