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SCIENTIFIC READINGS: MARI/CCPO Seminar Series Spring 2015
Course: OEAS/ENMA 795/895 Advanced/Special Topics (one credit);
Course title: Contemporary Scientific Reading: CCPO/MARI Seminar;
Instructors: Dr. Eileen Hofmann, Dr. Hans-Peter Plag;
Term: Spring 2015.
Day and Time: Mondays, 2:00-2:50 PM (to be confirmed).
Location: CCPO, room to be announced.
- Week 1: Casey Dietrich, North Carolina State University: HURRICANE WAVE AND STORM SURGE FORECASTING FOR THE CAROLINA COAST
J.C. Dietrich, S. Tanaka, J.J. Westerink, C.N. Dawson, R.A. Luettich Jr., M. Zijlema, L.H. Holthuijsen, J.M. Smith, L.G. Westerink, H.J. Westerink, 2012. Performance of the Unstructured-Mesh, SWAN+ ADCIRC Model in Computing Hurricane Waves and Surge. J. Sci. Comput, 52, 468—497, DOI 10.1007/s10915-011-9555-6.
Sebastian, A., Proft, J., Dietrich, J. C., Dub, W., Bedient, P. B., Dawson, C. N., 2014. Characterizing hurricane storm surge behavior in Galveston Bay using the SWAN + ADCIRC model. Coastal Engineering, 88, 171—181.
- Week 2: Isabella Velicogna, University of California, Irvine, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena: Regional sea level variability from ice sheets, glaciers and land hydrology
See Press Release and
Sutterley, T. C., Velicogna, I., Rignot, E., Mouginot, J., Flament, T., van den Broeke, M. R., van Wessem, J. M., Reijmer, C. H., 2014. Mass loss of the Amundsen Sea Embayment of West Antarctica from four independent techniques. Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 8421—8428, DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061940.
- Week 3: Raghu Murtugudde, ESSIC, University of Maryland: Generating Actionable Regional Climate Information for Decision-Making.
Kumar, A., Murtugudde, R., 2013. Predictability, uncertainty and decision making: a unified perspective to build a bridge from weather to climate. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 5, 327—333, doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2013.05.009; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343513000651
Murtugudde, R., 2009. Regional Earth System prediction: a decision-making tool for sustainability? Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 1, 37—45, DOI 10.1016/j.cosust.2009.07.004; http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ost/climate/STIP/FY10CTBSeminars/raghu_101909.pdf
- Week 4: Malcolm J Bowman, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University: Can we Continue to Live at the Edge of the Sea (with reference to future extreme events and climate change)?:
D. Hill, M.J. Bowman, and J.S. Khinda (eds.), 2012. Storm Surge Barriers to Protect New York City: Against the Deluge, Amer. Soc. Civil Eng., 259.
Colle, B.A., Buonaiuto, F., Bowman, M.J., Wilson, R.E., Flood, R., Hunter, R., Mintz, A. and D. Hill, 2008. Simulations of Past Cyclone Events to Explore New York City's Vulnerability to Coastal Flooding and Storm Surge Model Capabilities. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 89(6), 829 - 41.
Also of interest is the interview Bowman had with Dan Rather, soon after Sandy hit in October 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e_32Ge0kWAM.
- Week 5: Kent Carpenter, Dept. of Biological Sciences, ODU: The Use of Extinction Risk Theory in Marine Biodiversity Conservation Planning and in Mitigation and Adaptation Research.
GEORGINA M. MACE, NIGEL J. COLLAR, KEVIN J. GASTON, CRAIG HILTON-TAYLOR, H. RESIT AKC¸AKAYA, NIGEL LEADER-WILLIAMS, E.J. MILNER-GULLAND, AND SIMON N. STUART, 2008. Quantification of Extinction Risk: IUCN’’s System for Classifying Threatened Species. Conservation Biology, 22(6), 1424–1442, DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01044.x.
Kent E. Carpenter, Muhammad Abrar, Greta Aeby, Richard B. Aronson, Stuart Banks, Andrew Bruckner, Angel Chiriboga, Jorge Corté s, J. Charles Delbeek, Lyndon DeVantier, Graham J. Edgar, Alasdair J. Edwards, Douglas Fenner, Hé ctor M. Guzmá n, Bert W. Hoeksema, Gregor Hodgson, Ofri Johan, Wilfredo Y. Licuanan, Suzanne R. Livingstone, Edward R. Lovell, Jennifer A. Moore, David O. Obura, Domingo Ochavillo, Beth A. Polidoro, William F. Precht, Miledel C. Quibilan, Clarissa Reboton, Zoe T. Richards, Alex D. Rogers, Jonnell Sanciangco, Anne Sheppard, Charles Sheppard, Jennifer Smith, Simon Stuart, Emre Turak, John E. N. Veron, Carden Wallace, Ernesto Weil, Elizabeth Wood, 2008. One-Third of Reef-Building Corals Face Elevated Extinction Risk from Climate Change and Local Impacts. Science, 321, 560; DOI: 10.1126/science.1159196.
- Week 6: Andrew Scheld, Virginia Institute of Marine Science: Competitive Markets in Stochastic Environments: Will Climate Change Drive Industry Consolidation of Global Fisheries?
Schindler, Daniel E., et al., 2010. Population diversity and the portfolio effect in an exploited species. Nature, 465(7298), 609-612.
Brander, Keith M., 2007. Global fish production and climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(50), 19709-19714.
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- Week 8: William Hammond, University of Nevada, Reno: WITNESSING CHANGES IN ELEVATION AND MOUNTAIN GROWTH USING SPACE GEODESY IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES
Hammond, W.C., G. Blewitt, C. Kreemer, 2014, Steady contemporary deformation of the central Basin and Range Province, western United States, J. Geophys. Res., 10.1002/2014JB011145.
Amos, C.B., P. Audet, W. C. Hammond, R. Bürgmann, I. A. Johanson, and G. Blewitt, 2014, Uplift and seismicity driven by groundwater depletion in central California, Nature, doi:10.1038/nature13275.
- Week 9: Kevin Weng, Virginia Institute of Marine Science: Fish Responses to Changes in Oxygen and Interactions of Climate Stressors
Branton, M., and Richardson, J.S., 2010. Assessing the Value of the Umbrella-Species Concept for Conservation Planning with Meta-Analysis. Conservation Biology, 25(1), 9-20. DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01606.x
Kershner, J., Samhouri2, J. F., James, C. A., Levin, P. S., 2011. Selecting Indicator Portfolios for Marine Species and Food Webs: A Puget Sound Case Study. PLoS ONE,6(10), e25248.
- Week 10: Colleen Burge: Host-Pathogen Interactions in a Changing Ocean; Lessons from Oysters and Sea Stars
Burge, C.A., Eakin, C. M., Friedman, C. S., Froelich, B., Hershberger, P. K., Hofmann, E. E., Petes, L. E., Prager, K. C., Weil, E., Willis, B. L., Ford, S. E., Harvell, C. D., 2014. Climate Change Influences on Marine Infectious Diseases: Implications for Management and Society. Annu. Rev. Mar. Sci., 6, 249–77.
- Week 11: Yongcun Cheng: Global/Regional Multi-Time Scales of Sea Level Variations in Satellite Altimetry Era
Cheng, Y., and Andersen, O. B., 2011. Multimission empirical ocean tide modeling for shallow waters and polar seas. J Geophys Res: Oceans, 116(C11), 1978—2012, DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007172. Available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2011JC007172/full.
- Week 12: Se-Hyeon Cheon: Analyzing Past and Present Sea Level Around the Korean Peninsula
Hamlington, B. D., R. R. Leben, and K.-Y. Kim, 2012. Improving sea level reconstructions using non-sea level measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 117, C10025, doi:10.1029/2012JC008277.