Taylor Conklin¹, Alyssa R. Atwood², Kim M Cobb³, Hussein Sayani⁴, Dr. Daniel Gebregiorgis, PhD⁵, John Richard Southon⁶, Andrea Doggett², Neda Mobasher² and R. Lawrence Edwards⁷, (1)University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Center for Marine Science, Wilmington, NC, United States, (2)Florida State University, Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Tallahassee, United States, (3)Brown Univeristy, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States, (4)Langan Consulting, Atlanta, United States, (5)Georgia State University, Geosciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, (6)Univ California, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, (7)Nanjing Normal University, Dept. of Geography, Nanjing, China