Directions to the East Carolina University's Outer Banks Campus

The symposium is a platform to foster collaborations between the East Carolina University's  Department of Coastal Studies, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, and Department of Geological Sciences. During the symposium students, faculty, and post-doctoral scholars will share research, network, and identify opportunities for collaboration. The symposium will be hosted at the ECU Outer Banks Campus and Coastal Studies Institute in Wanchese, NC. 

Program

Arrival, Registration and Coffee

9:30 AM Participants arrive, load up presentations and hang up posters.

Welcome

9:45 AM Welcoming remarks

Session 1 

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Chair:            Eric Wade, DCS 

10:00 AM Livelihood dynamics and hazard perception in a deltaic landscape: a hydrosocial assessment of riverbank erosion in the lower Meghna River, Bangladesh

Jeff Popke, DGPE Chair

10:15 AM High-resolution bathymetries and shorelines for the Great Lakes of the White Nile basin

Stuart Hamilton, DCS Chair

10:30 AM Satellites for seashores: a brief review of earth observations to inform coastal processes

David Lagomasino, DCS Faculty

10:45 AM Seasonal evolution of precipitation organization in the Southeast U.S.: radar and satellite observations

Tom Rickenbach, DGPE Faculty

11:00 AM An evaluation of habitat change and erosion in support of North Carolina’s Sugarloaf Island Restoration Project

Hannah Sirianni, DGPE Faculty

11:15 AM Growth scenarios for coastal resilience

Steven Richter, DGPE Faculty

11:30 AM Cultural influence of indigenous Fijian funerals in Fiji on social and ecological resilience

Ron Vave, DCS Postdoc

11:45 AM Coastal Ecological Flows: Examples from the Trent River

Mike O'Driscoll, DCS Faculty

Luncheon, Posters and Networking 

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Session 2 

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Chair:    Rosana Nieto Ferreira, DGPE

1:30 PM Springtime onset of isolated convection precipitation across the Southeastern United States: current and future climate model simulations

Rosana Nieto Ferreira, DGPE Faculty

1:45 PM Saltwater intrusion into groundwater aquifers

Alex Manda and Matt Sirianni, DGS Faculty

2:00 PM Navigating Catch Uncertainty: Predicting Adaptive Responses of Jamaican Small-Scale Fishers

Eric Wade, DCS Faculty

2:15 PM Monitoring mangroves resilience and vulnerability to tropical cyclones with lidar techniques

Lin Xiong, CSI Postdoc

2:30 PM Oceanographic opportunities abound in the OBX

Mike Muglia, DCS Faculty

2:45 PM Impediments to sediments: how to keep the muck stuck in Currituck during sea level rise

Sean Charles, DCS Postdoc 

Session 3 (5 Minute Talks)

3:15 PM – 4:00 PM

Chair:    Thomas Rickenbach, DGPE

Mangroves, Mosquitoes, and Human Arbovirus

Kinsey Blumenthal, CSI Graduate Student (Advisor: David Lagomasino)

Marine Spatial Planning and Marine Energy

Jillian Eller, ICS Graduate Student (Advisor: Linda D’Anna and Lindsay Dubbs)

Use and Management of Mangrove Ecosystems in Response to Storm Events

Mariela Garcia Vega, DCS Graduate Student (Advisors: Nadine Heck and Siddharth Narayan)

Impact of Buyout Programs on Land Use Patterns in the Special Flood Hazard Area of Pitt County, North Carolina.

Kayode Nelson Adeniji, DGPE Graduate Student (Advisor: Anuradha Mukherji)

Investigation of Storm Surge Versus Saltwater Intrusion on Coastal Aquifer Salinization in Hyde County, North Carolina

Elnaz Pezeshki, ICS Graduate Student (Advisor: Stephen Moysey)

Tours: Jeannette's Pier, Wave Lab or Pontoon Boat 

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Posters

Abigail Alford, DCS Student (Advisor: Lindsay Dubbs)

Investigating actual vs perceived risks of bluff erosion in the Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina.

Shannon Clough, DGPE Graduate Student (Advisor: Hannah Sirianni)

Potential habitat change due to sea-level rise in Cape Hatteras National Seashore

Zoe Garner, DGPE Undergraduate Student (Advisor: Hannah Sirianni)

Monitoring living shoreline changes using UAS-SfM techniques

Megan Geesin, ICS Graduate Student (Advisors: Rachel Gittman and Hannah Sirianni)

Colbie Bond, CSI Undergraduate Student (Advisor: Wade)

Jaquelyn Moore, DCS Graduate Student (Advisor: Mike Muglia)

Improving the Coastal Carbon Cycle with Space Based Observations of Reef Complexity

Shalimar Moreno, DCS Graduate Student (Advisors: David Lagomasino and Nadine Heck)

Typology for curbing corruption - water sector

L.-J. Palmer Moloney, DGPE Faculty

AH Contamination Variability in the Lower Tar River N.C. From a Legacy Hazardous Waste Site as a Function of Hydrological Conditions

Daniel Joel Reed, Department of Chemistry Graduate Student (Advisor: Sid Mitra)

Influence of channel bend curvature on debris-flow-driven avulsion on alluvial fans, explored through discrete simulations

Jonathan Teboul, DGPE Graduate Student (Scott Lecce)

Desktop Recon: Cataloguing Urban Stormwater Control Measures with GIS

Phil Van Wagoner, DGPE Graduate Student (Advisor: Jacob Petersen-Perlman)