Scientific Program - American Geophysical Union
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Scientific Program - American Geophysical Union
Monday A.M. Union U11A Room C3 Monday Dissemination of Knowledge and Management of Environmental Projects and Observatories I 0800h Presiding: G M Garfin, Institute of the Environment; G P Brasseur, NCAR; M M Keller, NEON Inc. 0800h U11A-01 A Brazilian experience on communicating climate information to government and society (Invited): P Nobre, F F Lacerda 0815h U13A-07 The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS): Responding to the Climate Challenge in British Columbia: T Pedersen 0830h U11A-03 Climate Services and Environmental Services: The German Climate Service Center and similar initiatives in Latin America (Invited): M Schaller, G P Brasseur 0845h U11A-04 Towards an environmental monitoring system in México. (Invited): J De La Pena, M Equihua 0900h U11A-05 LBA Infrastructure and Data Network: State of the Art and Perspectives for the Near Future (Invited): A O Manzi, A C de Araujo, R G Aguiar, J S Nogueira, L Sá, J Ribeiro, R da Silva, O Moraes, S R Saleska, H R da Rocha, L M Breyer 0915h U11A-06 Interdisciplinary Production of Knowledge with Participation of Stakeholders: a Case Study of a Collaborative Project on Climate Variability, Human Decisions and Agricultural Ecosystems in the Argentine Pampas: G Podesta, C Natenzon, C Hidalgo, F Ruiz Toranzo 0930h U11A-07 Integrated Climate and Water Resources Assessment for Adaptive Management in Western North America (Invited): R G Varady, Title of Team: IAI U.S.-Mexico Border Water and Climate Team: Robert G. Varady, Christopher A. Scott, Margaret Wilder, Gregg M. Garfin 0945h U11A-08 Lessons and Challenges from ADAPTE, an Effort to Integrate Science Across Disciplines and Contexts: P Romero Lankao U11B Room Iguacu I Monday 0800h Thermal Regimes and Orogenesis From Archean to Present Presiding: M Brown, Univ Maryland; M Egydio Silva, São Paulo University; M Heilbron; A R Vauchez, Universite de Montpellier 2 0800h U11B-01 Apparent Thermal Gradients of Crustal Metamorphism, Secular Change in Upper Mantle Temperature and Geodynamics: M Brown 0815h U11B-02 Evolution of Subduction/Collision Zones from Archean to Present: a Numerical Modelling Approach (Invited): E Sizova, T Gerya, M Brown, L Perchuk 0830h U11B-03 WITHDRAWN 0845h U11B-04 What drives and sustains high geothermal gradients in the Earth’s crust?: C Clark, D Healy 0900h U11B-05 Modeled thermal evolution of mountain belts: using thermochronology to constrain rates of geologic processes: A D Huerta 0915h U11B-06 Geochronological and Thermochronological Constraints on Deformation, Magmatism and Thermal Regimes in Eastern Borborema Province (NE Brazil): S P Neves, J R Silva, O Bruguier, P Monié 0930h U11B-07 HT-metamorphism, slow cooling and heterogeneous 3D deformation in the neoproterozoic Araçuaí hot orogen (SE-Brazil): M Mondou, A Vauchez, M Egydio-Silva, P Monié, O Bruguier, M Babinski, M B Raposo 0945h U11B-08 RELICTS OF AN ACCRETIONARY RHYACIAN OROGEN WITHIN THE RIBEIRA BELT,BRAZIL: M Heilbron, B P Duarte, C D Valeriano, A Simonetti, N Machado, J Nogueira Atmospheric Sciences A11A Room Expocenter I Monday 0800h Climate Variability and Prediction Across the Inter-American Seas I (joint with OS) Presiding: A V Douglas, Creighton University; E Munoz, New Mexico Consortium 0800h A11A-01 An Overview of the VAMOS-CLIVAR-WCRP Intra-Americas Science Climate Program: A V Douglas, M Douglas, D B Enfield, L M Goddard, V Misra 0815h A11A-02 WITHDRAWN 0830h A11A-03 Connection between the seasonal transition of North and South American monsoons and the role of the IntraAmerican Sea: P A Arias, R Fu 0845h A11A-04 Observed Decadal Shift in Strength of IntraAmericas Moisture Fluxes and Impacts on US Precipitation and Tornadoes: E Munoz, D B Enfield 0900h A11A-05 Overview of GPS/GNSS Applications Associated with Atmospheric Water and the Hydrological Cycle: E R Kursinski, A L Kursinski 0915h A11A-06 The Use Of Ground Based GPS Receivers to Study Convective Events During The North American Monsoon: C M Minjarez, C J Watts, E R Kursinski, A Jiménez Lagunes 0930h A11A-07 Tropical Cyclone Variability in the Western Hemisphere: C Wang, S Lee, D B Enfield 0945h A11A-08 Retrospective analysis of extreme meteorological events in Central and North America from 1972 to 2001: H G Hidalgo, E J Alfaro, T Cavazos, A Gershunov A11B Room A1 Monday 0800h Global Upper Troposphere/Lower Stratosphere Studies Using Satellite Measurements, Complementary Data Sets, and Modeling I Presiding: M L Santee, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; R Fu, University of Texas at Austin; N J Livesey, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; G L Manney, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology 0801h A11B-01 Influence of Tropical Convection on SH Column Ozone – Dynamical Issues in the UTLS Revealed by Global Satellite Data Sets (Invited): M H Hitchman 0823h A11B-02 The Untold Story of Pyrocumulonimbus (Invited): M D Fromm, D T Lindsey, R Servranckx, G K Yue, T Trickl, R J Sica, P Doucet, S Godin-Beekmann 0845h A11B-03 Fine-scale structure of the global tropopause: S Son, N F Tandon, L M Polvani 0900h A11B-04 Constraints on the stratospheric contribution to tropospheric ozone variability from Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) observations: J L Neu, J Worden 0915h A11B-05 Transport of emissions from the 2009 Australian forest fires through the stratosphere: a comparison of MLS observations with FLEXPART model calculations: N J Livesey, M D Fromm, O R Cooper, H C Pumphrey 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1 0930h A11B-06 An Intercomparison of Tropospheric Ozone Derived from Two Aura Instruments: D Doughty, A M Thompson, M R Schoeberl, I Stajner, K Wargan 0945h A11B-07 A Tropospheric Ozone Climatology from the Trajectory Mapping of Global Ozonesonde Data: D W Tarasick, G Liu, V Fioletov Biogeosciences B11A Room A3 Monday 0800h Marine and Coastal Ecosystems Biodiversity I (joint with GC, OS) Presiding: C Eakin, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; L S Guild, NASA Ames Research Center; B M Riegl, Nova Southeastern University 0800h B11A-01 The Census of Marine Life biodiversity program in South America and the Caribbean regions: P Miloslavich 0815h B11A-02 Pristine reefs recover better: examples from Chagos and the Red Sea: B M Riegl, S Purkis, C Sheppard, A Harris, A Bruckner, G Rowlands, P G Renaud 0830h B11A-03 WITHDRAWN 0845h B11A-04 Unusual SST events in the Uruguayan coastal zone and its impact on marine biodiversity as documented in a participative research: A M Segura, F Scarabino, A Carranza, L Ortega 0900h B11A-05 Examining Effects of Hurricane Ike on the Louisiana-Texas Coastal Ecosystem using Remote Sensing and Model Results: E J D’Sa, D S Ko 0915h B11A-06 Recognizing South-western Atlantic climate and terrigenous impacts from Brazilian corals: H Evangelista, A Sifeddine, T Correge, D Godiva, B Segal, M Kampel, E Santos, R Logato 0930h B11A-07 Coral Reef Remote Sensing: Keys to Protecting Reefs in a Changing Climate: C Eakin, G Liu, S F Heron, D K Gledhill, T Christensen, J Morgan, B A Parker, W J Skirving, C J Nim, T Burgess, A E Strong, Title of Team: NOAA Coral Reef Watch 0945h B11A-08 NASA Imaging Spectroscopy and Field Data in Support of Coral Reef Ecosystem Biodiversity Research: L S Guild, B Lobitz, J Goodman, R Armstrong, F Gilbes, J Kerr, R Berthold B11B Room A2 Monday Processes of Carbon and Water Cycles in Brazilian Ecosystems I 0800h Presiding: I T Baker, Colorado State University; H R daRocha, University of Sao Paulo; L Goncalves, NASA and University of Maryland; S R Saleska, University of Arizona 0800h B11B-01 The benefits of field data for ecosystem modeling of Brazilian ecosystems: where are the gaps in observations, data processing, and models?: M H Costa 0815h B11B-02 Current Progress on the LBA Data-Model Intercomparison Project (LBA-DMIP): L Goncalves, S R Saleska, N Restrepo-Coupe, I T Baker, B J Christoffersen, M Muza, M H Costa, H R da Rocha, D L Herdies, X Zeng, W J Shuttleworth, P A Arkin, Title of Team: Scientific Team of the LBA - Data Model Intercomparison Project 0830h B11B-03 A basin-wide intercomparison of ecosystem land surface models and carbon and water flux observations in Amazonia: B J Christoffersen, A Araujo, I T Baker, M H Costa, L Goncalves, H A Imbuzeiro, B Kruijt, A Manzi, M Muza, N Restrepo-Coupe, H R da Rocha, K Sakaguchi, S R Saleska, C Von Randow, X Zeng 2 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 0845h B11B-04 Impact of the Two Types of El Nino Events on the Amazon Forest: W Li, P Zhang, J Ye, L Li 0900h B11B-05 Fire risk due to convective drying at forest edges in Rondonia: S Baidya Roy, M A Cochrane 0915h B11B-06 Soil Moisture Depletion Under Simulated Drought In The Amazon: Impacts on deep root uptake: D Markewitz, S Devine, E A Davidson, P M Brando, D Nepstad 0930h B11B-07 Comparative Measurements of CO2 Fluxes from a Plateau and Valley in central Amazonia: A C de Araujo, A J Dolman, M Waterloo, J H Gash, B Kruijt, C Von Randow, A O Manzi 0945h B11B-08 Estimating the effects of Amazonian deforestation on the spatial distribution of rainfall and terrestrial ecosystem dynamics: M Longo, R G Knox, N M Levine, Y Kim, D Medvigy, R Albrecht, M A Silva Dias, S C Wofsy, R L Bras, P R Moorcroft Geodesy G11A Room Iguassu V Monday Geodetic Developments in Latin America I 0800h Presiding: J F Monico, Univ Estadual Paulista; L C Oliveira, IME; M Santos, University of New Brunswick 0800h G11A-01 DEVELOPMENT AND AVAILABILITY OF A GPS NETWORK-BASED POSITIONING IN BRAZIL: D B Alves, J F Monico, M Shimabukuro, L F Sapucci, P S Oliveira Jr. 0820h G11A-02 MOUNT ACONCAGUA GEODYNAMIC STUDY BY MEANS OF GNSS CONTINUOUS STATIONS. Aconcagua Provincial Park, PROVINCE OF MENDOZA, ARGENTINA: L L Lenzano, J J Baron 0840h G11A-03 PPP Ambiguity Resolution using the Ambizap approach: C M Alves, J F Monico, V Romão, H A Marques 0900h G11A-04 Real Time Satellite Clock Corrections from GNSS Brazilian Network and Application in Real Time Precise Point Positioning: H A Marques, J F Monico, M Aquino, M Shimabukuro 0920h G11A-05 Recent IBGE Activities and Results as SIRGAS Analysis Center: S Alves, A L da Silva, J A Vaz, Title of Team: IBGE Analysis Center 0940h G11A-06 The new GNSS applications in Brazil and in South America (Invited): L P Fortes, S Alves, M F dos Santos, J A Fazan, N J Junior, M A Abreu, Title of Team: RBMC Team Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism GP11A Room Expocenter II-III Monday 0800h Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism General Contributions Posters (joint with DI, T, V) Presiding: M Ernesto, University of Sao Paulo; C G Gogorza, UNCPBA 0800h GP11A-01 POSTER Preliminary Paleoclimatic Variations Through Magnetic Proxies on Sediments from Laguna Potrok Aike (51°57’S, 70°24’W, Argentina): M A Irurzun, C G Gogorza, A M Sinito, C Ohlendorf, B Zolitschka, Title of Team: PASADO Science Team 0800h GP11A-02 POSTER ABSOLUTE MAGNETIC ACTIVIY MEASUREMENT: J C Gianibelli, I R Cabassi, P A Sallago, N M Quaglino, Title of Team: Geomagnetism and Aeronomy Team of La Plata National University 0800h GP11A-03 POSTER Paleomagnetism and Rock Magnetism of the Itajaí Basin, Santa Catarina (Brazil), and the large-scale remagnetization of the Rio de la Plata craton: E Font, M Ernesto, C F da Ponte Neto 0800h GP11A-04 POSTER Paleomagnetic study on the Santo Domingo Formation (La Rioja, Argentina): chronologic implications: H Vizán, S Geuna, R Melchor 0800h GP11A-05 POSTER Spatial/temporal evolution of Faial’s onshore volcanism (Azores Archipelago): P F Silva, B Henry, A Hildenbrand, P Madureira, F O Marques, J M Miranda, Z Kratinova, J C Nunes 0800h GP11A-06 POSTER SOUTH ATLANTIC MAGNETIC ANOMALY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SOLAR ACTIVITY AND GEOMAGNETIC VARIATIONS: A C Da Silva, N J Schuch, N Trivedi, W R Silva, F D Savian 0800h GP11A-07 POSTER SOUTH ATLANTIC MAGNETIC ANOMALY ANALYSES OF PC5 GEOMAGNETIC PULSATIONS VARIATION WITH SOLAR CYCLE: W R Silva, S L Dutra, N J Schuch, N Trivedi, A C Da Silva, F D Savian 0800h GP11A-08 POSTER DEVELOPMENT OF A TOROIDAL CORE FLUXGATE MAGNETOMETER ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT: F D Savian, S L Dutra, N J Schuch, N Trivedi, A C Da Silva, W R Silva, C E Antunes, J Siqueira GP11B Room Expocenter II-III Monday Paleointensity: Results and Techniques I Posters 0800h Presiding: M Calvo-Rathert, Universidad de Burgos; X Zhao, University of California 0800h GP11B-01 POSTER Intensity of the geomagnetic field in the Precambrian: Problems and perspectives (Invited): A V Smirnov 0800h GP11B-02 POSTER Paleointensity of the KRS: preliminary results from Emeishan basalts: C Liu, R Zhu 0800h GP11B-03 POSTER Toward a Better Understanding of Paleointensity: New Rock Magnetic and Paleointensity Results From the Hawaiian 1960 and 1955 Lava Flows: X Zhao, Z Zheng, J Morales, A Goguitchaichvili 0800h GP11B-04 POSTER Thermomagnetic evaluation and monitoring of modern ceramic and brick production: implications for the archeointensity determinations from pre-Columbian pottery in Mesoamerica: J Morales, B Aguilar, A Gogichaishvili, M Pineda 0800h GP11B-05 POSTER Thellier-type and microwave paleointensity experiments on burnt sediments from archaeological fire simulations: M Calvo-Rathert, A Carrancho, F Stark, M J Hill, J Villalain 0800h GP11B-06 POSTER Probing reliability of non-heating paleointensity methods using terrestrial samples: X Ji, Y Pan GP11C Room Expocenter II-III Monday 0800h Paleosecular Variation, Excursions, and Reversals of the Earth’s Magnetic Field: From Data to Models I Posters Presiding: C G Gogorza, UNCPBA; A M Soler-Arechalde, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 0800h GP11C-01 POSTER Paleosecular Variations Recorded by Sediments from Laguna Potrok Aike (Patagonia, Argentina): Preliminary Studies: C G Gogorza, M A Irurzun, A M Sinito, C Ohlendorf, B Zolitschka, P S Team, Title of Team: PASADO Science Team 0800h GP11C-02 POSTER Paleomagnetic Results from Argentinean Patagonia: New Evidence for the Holocene Geomagnetic Excursion in southern South America: H G Nami 0800h GP11C-03 POSTER GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS OF PLEISTOCENE/HOLOCENE VGPs FROM NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA: H G Nami, M Mena 0800h GP11C-04 POSTER Plio-Plestocene Paleomagnetic Record from the Michoacán-Guanajuato Monogenetic Volcanic Field (Western Mexico): R Maciel Pena, A Goguitchaichvili, B Henry, L Sánchez-Bettucci, J Morales, B Aguilar, A M Soler-Arechalde, M Calvo-Rathert GP11D Room Expocenter II-III Monday 0800h Understanding Secular, Decadal, and Shorter Time Scale Core Field Behavior: Recent Lessons and Future Prospects I Posters Presiding: K J Pinheiro, Observatório Nacional - MCT (National Observatory); G Hulot, IPGP; N Olsen, DTU Space 0800h GP11D-01 POSTER Phase-coherent oscillatory modes in geomagnetic activity and climate variability: D Novotna 0800h GP11D-02 POSTER DO EXTERNAL FIELDS INFLUENCE SIGNIFICANTLY ON JERK TIME DETECTION?: L J Mataruna, K J Pinheiro 0800h GP11D-03 POSTER On the inverse cascade of magnetic energy on geodynamo: B Raphaldini Silva, D Takahashi GP11E Room Iguacu II Monday 0800h Experimental Characterization, Models, and Imaging of Magnetic Phases Relevant to Paleo and Environmental Magnetism I Presiding: A M Sinito, UNCPBA; C A Vasquez, Universidad de Buenos Aires; M E Evans, Univ of Alberta 0800h GP11E-01 Bumpy grains, dirty grains, and the source of stable remanence (Invited): M E Evans, W Williams 0815h GP11E-02 The Magnetic Mineralogy of Loess, Paleosoils and Soils from Buenos Aires Province (Argentina) (Invited): C A Vasquez 0830h GP11E-03 Computational Approaches to the Analysis of Rock Magnetic Data in Sediments: Direct Signal Analysis and Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference Systems (Invited): M Aldana, V Costanzo 0845h GP11E-04 A Hemipelagic Rock-Magnetic Record of Southeastern South America Climate Variability since the LGM: S Razik, C M Chiessi, T F von Dobeneck 0900h GP11E-05 Magnetic properties of patterned thin-films of magnetite: A R Muxworthy, D Krasa, W Williams, C Wilkinson, N Gadegaard, A P Roberts 0915h GP11E-06 Magnetic characterization of sediments from La Brava Lake (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina): A M Sinito, M A Irurzun, C G Gogorza, M A Chaparro, J M Lirio, H Nuñez GP11F Room Iguacu II Monday Loess in the Americas: Magnetism, Paleoclimate, and Paleoenvironment I (joint with GC, PP) 0930h Presiding: M E Evans, Univ of Alberta; C E Geiss, Trinity College; M Orgeira, Universidad de Buenos Aires 0930h GP11F-01 Magnetostratigraphy and Environmental Magnetism in the Pampean Loess (Invited): J C Bidegain 0945h GP11F-02 Loess in the Americas: A model for loess magnetism in the world? (Invited): S K Banerjee, F Lagroix, T S Berquo 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 3 Global Environmental Change Near Surface Geophysics GC11A Room Expocenter II-III Monday 0800h Climate Change, Biofuels, and Environmental Pollution I Posters (joint with A) NS11A Room Expocenter II-III Monday Mapping and Monitoring the Near Surface I Posters Presiding: N G Andronova, University of Michigan; M M Araujo, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro 0800h GC11A-01 POSTER Pre-Harvest Sugarcane Straw Burning: Determination of Emission Factors and Emissions Estimation: D França, K Longo, T G Neto, J C Santos, E V Cortez, S R Freitas, B Rudorff, D Aguiar 0800h GC11A-02 POSTER Biofuels as potential sustainable energy sources: A Yadghar, M Shafiepour, M Nadimi 0800h GC11A-03 POSTER CLAY ILLUVIATION IN CALCAREOUS VERTISOLS( CRACKING CLAY SOILS) OF MARATHWADA REGION, MAHARASHTRA, CENTRAL INDIA - AN EVIDENCE FOR CLIMATIC CHANGE: S P Zade, P Raja GC11B Room Expocenter II-III Monday 0800h Coastal Wetland Response to Climate Change I Posters (joint with OS) 0800h Presiding: L Sebastien, Universite catholique de Louvain; E C Slob, Delft University of Technology 0800h NS11A-01 POSTER THE STUDY OF SHALLOW GEOTHERM IN RIO BRANCO (AC) CITY: R L Araujo, R M Silva, I Barbosa 0800h NS11A-02 POSTER Monitoring of Moisture Profiles on a Slope of the Serra do Mar with GPR Method: R M Mendes, F A Marinho 0800h NS11A-03 POSTER The Holocene Coastal Barrier of Rio Grande do Sul (Southern Brazil): an Evaluation Based on GPR Data: E G Barboza, M C Rosa, S R Dillenburg, L J Tomazelli, Title of Team: Coastal Geology Team 0800h NS11A-04 POSTER CRITICAL SALINIZATION ZONES AT A FEEDLOT THROUGH ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION AND ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY SURVEYS: C M Sainato, B Losinno, J J Marquez Molina, H Malleville Presiding: S Patchineelam; C Sanders, Universidade Federal Fluminense; J M Smoak, Univ. of South Florida NS11B Room Expocenter II-III Monday 0800h Near-Surface Geophysics General Contributions Posters 0800h GC11B-01 POSTER Autocompaction Rates Across A Suspected Growth Fault, Pearl River Marsh, Louisiana, USA: J Prouhet, K M Yeager, C A Brunner, R A Feagin, M Kulp, K J Schindler, B Penrose 0800h GC11B-02 POSTER Sedimentation patterns in mangrove margins, inferring continental forest migration: N Brandini, C Sanders, S R Patchineelam, J M Smoak, L Sanders 0800h GC11B-03 POSTER Mangrove forest sedimentation and its reference to sea level rise: L Sanders, C Sanders, S R Patchineelam, J M Smoak 0800h GC11B-04 POSTER Sea-level Rise and Mangrove Sediment Accretion Rates in Florida, USA: J M Smoak, T J Smith, T Harmon, C Sanders, M N Waters, G Tiling-Range, P Nelson, S R Patchineelam 0800h GC22A-06 POSTER PHYSICAL-BIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS IN THE ABUNDANCE OF THE OPOSSUM SHRIMP NEOMYSIS AMERICANA IN THE BAHÍA BLANCA ESTUARY (ARGENTINA): E Garibotti, P M Cervellini, M C Piccolo Presiding: J M Lorenzo, Louisiana State University; J D Travassos, Observatorio Nacional GC11C Room C2 Monday Environmental and Climatic Reconstruction Based on Biological Proxies I (joint with B, PP) 0800h Presiding: M M Paez, Fac. Cs. Ex. y Nat. 0800h GC11C-01 Palynological evidence of climatic and vegetation change in mountain areas of Southern Siberia in the middle of Eurasia: T A Blyakharchuk 0815h GC11C-02 WITHDRAWN 0830h GC11C-03 WITHDRAWN 0845h GC11C-04 Climate and Lake Morphometry Controls on Biosiliceous Productivity in Lake Chungará, Northern Chile, during the Last 12,400 cal. yr BP: R Bao, A Hernández, A Sáez, R Prego, S Giralt, A Moreno-Caballud, J J Pueyo, B Valero-Garces 0900h GC11C-05 Use of sedimentary pigments to infer past lake trophic changes: South America case study (Invited): A Lami, P Guilizzoni 0920h GC11C-06 TIMING AND STRUCTURE OF THE LAST GLACIAL TERMINATION IN NW PATAGONIA (Invited): P I Moreno, O H Pesce, C A Diaz 4 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 0800h NS11B-01 POSTER Archaeological Reconnaissance and Modeling of Potsherd Pavement Site at Ajaba-Kajola, Southwestern Nigeria: A A Adepelumi 0800h NS11B-02 POSTER Joint Interpretation of Bathymetric and Free-Air Gravity Anomaly Maps of South-East Brazilian coast: P Jilinski, S L Fontes, L A Gallardo 0800h NS11B-03 POSTER 3D Electrical Resistivity Image of the Morelia City Cathedral Subsurface: R E Chavez Segura, A Tejero, G Cifuentes-Nava, E Hernandez-Quintero 0800h NS11B-04 POSTER GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS IN BEDROCK AQUIFERS FOR GROUNDWATER EXPLORATION IN THE SÃO JOSÉ DE UBÁ CITY (RJ) - PRELIMINARY RESULTS: C D Ferreira, C I Aristizabal, D R Brandão, A L Ferrari, A da Silva 0800h NS11B-05 POSTER Detection of seepage pathways in an earthen dam using inversion of P-wave first-arrival times and surfacewave dispersion curves: K Y Kim, K Jeon, Y Park 0800h NS11B-06 POSTER Characterizing Volcanic Features Using a Frequency-Domain Electromagnetic Induction System: A Osella, M de la Vega, E López, E Rovere, R Violante 0800h NS11B-07 POSTER Evaluation of compaction of reclaimed land using the velocity of seismic waves in dynamic compaction project, Southwest of Iran: M Sheshpari 0800h NS11B-08 POSTER Micro-gravity with soil and rock mechanics for sites selection. Case study: Alamal area, Southeast of Cairo, Egypt: E A Issawy, A A Othman, A M Saad, A H Radwan, T A Abdelhafeez, M S Emam 0800h NS11B-09 POSTER Migration and Entrapment of Elemental Mercury in the Subsurface: D M 0800h NS11B-10 POSTER Seismic - Gravimetric Models in the North region of the Cuyo basin, Argentina: E D Luna, M A Garcia, O Alvarez, I Novara, G Carugatti 0800h NS11B-11 POSTER 2 D Forward Modelling of GPRCrosshole Data: R B Santos, C F da Ponte Neto 0800h NS11B-12 POSTER Near Surface Vp and Vs Analysis Using two 60 meter uphole sources and three 2D3C Receiver Lines: W M Agudelo, S E Guevara 0800h NS11B-13 POSTER Some Examples of EM Phase Velocity Dispersion in Near-surface Layers: J M Travassos, L Peche, J Bulnes, S Martins 0800h NS11B-14 POSTER Magnetic Susceptibility Response to Heavy Minerals Concentration in Sediments Cores, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: R C Abuchacra, A G Figueiredo, P F Falheiro, A S Oliveira, M A Vicente, F T Silva 0800h NS11B-15 POSTER Some Contributions Of The SEA Method To Interpret GPR Signals: N E Bonomo, L V Cedrina, A Osella 0800h NS11B-16 POSTER Investigation of biogenic gas distribution and temporal dynamic in peat blocks from Everglades using ground penetrating radar measurements: A Cabolova, X Comas 0800h NS11B-17 POSTER Geological and Geophysical Applications to the Test Bed for Uranium Exploration in the Okcheon Metamorphic Belt, Korea: C Kim, H Yoon 0800h NS11B-18 POSTER Numerical Approach to Evaluate CO2 Migration Behavior Using Marine CSEM: S Park, Y Sasaki, C Kim, D Huh 0800h NS11B-19 POSTER Full-Waveform Inversion of Crosshole Georadar Data: Influence of Near-Field Conditions and Fluctuations in the Transmitter Signal on Source Wavelet Estimation: F Belina, J D Irving, J R Ernst, K Holliger 0800h NS11B-20 POSTER Stoneley and Rayleigh wave modeling in porous media: R Sidler, J M Carcione, K Holliger 0800h NS11B-21 POSTER Seismic and Electromagnetic Waves in the Study of Layers Near-Surface: P M Gauzellino, F I Zyserman, J E Santos 0800h NS11B-22 POSTER Seismic Physical Reservoir Modeling Experiment in a Sand-Tank Facility: D E Smolkin, J M Lorenzo, C White, T Kosar, M Tyagi, G Allen 0800h NS11B-23 POSTER Geostatistical inversion of geophysical reflection images: Why are we sensitive to only the aspect ratio of the heterogeneity?: J D Irving, K Holliger 0800h NS11B-24 POSTER Imaging Of A Recent Hydrocarbon Contamination Plume Due To A Leakage In A Trunk Oil Pipe, By The Geoelectric And Electromagnetic Induction Methods: H P Martinelli, F E Robledo, A Osella, M de la Vega 0800h NS11B-25 POSTER Integrating near surface geophysical datasets into the geological modelling process: K Martinez, J A Mendoza, O F Nielsen 0800h NS11B-26 POSTER Application of Airborne Geophysical Data for Gold Prospection in the Neoproterozoic Arenópolis Magmatic Arc, Central Brazil: L N Ramos, A C Pires, C Oliveira, Title of Team: Laboratory of Applied Geophysics 0800h NS11B-27 POSTER The thermal logging helped to understand the possible mechanism inducing the seismic activity in the Paraná Basin, Brazil: F Y Hiodo, T H Yamabe, N Silva, M Assumpcao NS11C Room Cedro I Monday 0800h Technological Developments in Near-Surface Geophysics Presiding: S L Fontes, Observatório Nacional 0800h NS11C-01 Near Surface Geophysical Technologies applied to Agro ecosystems. (Invited): C M Sainato, B Losinno, J J Marquez Molina, S Urricariet 0815h NS11C-02 New frontiers on structurally integrated geophysics in near-surface targets (Invited): L A Gallardo 0830h NS11C-03 Spectral Induced Polarization measurements on toluene-contaminated sand-clay mixtures (Invited): A Ustra, D Ntarlagiannis, L D Slater 0845h NS11C-04 10 Years After Y2K- Advances in Electrical and Electromagnetic Geophysics (Invited): S Urquhart, N Carlson 0900h NS11C-05 Mapping Phosphoritic Rocks using Airborne geophysical data in the Northeast region of Goiás State, Brazil: C B Fianco, R M Vidotti, A C Pires, A C Carmelo 0915h NS11C-06 Airborne Geophysics Applied to the Detection of Microseepages in Petroleum Exploration: J Curto, A C Pires, A M Silva, A P Crosta 0930h NS11C-07 WITHDRAWN 0945h NS11C-08 NDT and autopsy of a mixed paved street: C Kaouane, M Chouteau, B Filali Ocean Sciences OS11A Room Expocenter II-III Monday Deepwater Structural and Sedimentary Processes at Continental Margins I Posters (joint with T) 0800h Presiding: B C Vendeville; A T dos Reis, UERJ; C G Silva, Universidade Federal Fluminense; C Gorini, Université Pierre et Marie Curie,UPMC, Paris 6 0800h OS11A-01 POSTER Contourite Drifts - the Main Cenozoic Architectural Element of the Central Pelotas Basin- Southernmost Brazilian Margin: F C Pereira, A dos Reis, C G Silva 0800h OS11A-02 POSTER Megaslides in the Foz do Amazonas Basin, Brazilian Equatorial Margin: ÉRIKA Araújo, C G Silva, A T dos Reis, C Gorini, R Perovano, B Vendeville 0800h OS11A-03 POSTER Oceanographic Conditions and Potential Sediment Transport in Vema Channel (SW Atlantic Ocean): A Kaji, R Oliveira, J Guerra, C G Silva, A dos Reis 0800h OS11A-04 POSTER Carbonate mineral-chemistry in Late Archean to Early Proterozoic banded iron formations: a proxy for the evolution of ocean chemistry and implication for metal concentrations: R Morgan, B Orberger, P François, A Hofmann, C Rosière OS11B Room Expocenter II-III Monday 0800h Influence of Rivers and Estuaries on Physical and Biogeochemical Processes in the Oceans I Posters (joint with B, H) Presiding: L Farias; G J Nagy, Facultad de Ciencias, UdelaR 0800h OS11B-01 POSTER DECADAL TIME AND SPACE VARIABILITY OF THE TURBIDITY COLOR FRONT OF THE RIO DE LA PLATA ESTUARINE SYSTEM FROM 2000-2009: G J Nagy, M A De los Santos, D Severov, V P Severova, Title of Team: Uruguayan Coastal and Estuarine Areas Climate Change Adaptation Team 0800h OS11B-02 POSTER MINERALOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PEATS AT THE AMAPA COASTAL PLAIN (AMAZON RIVER MOUTH): O Silveira, J F Berrêdo, F P Delavy, V F Santos 0800h OS11B-03 POSTER GEOLOGY, GEOMORPHOLOGY AND VEGETATION RELATIONSHIP AT THE REBIO PIRATURA (AP, BRAZIL): O Silveira, S C Neto, V F Santos 0800h OS11B-04 POSTER Anthropic Contamination of Marine Sediments in Saco da Ribeira, Ubatuba, Brazil: G Paschoal, C B Rocha, M Ramos, D Alves, R C Figueira, M Mahiques 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 5 0800h OS11B-05 POSTER Evolution of Eutrophication Process in a Coastal Lagoon System of Gulf of California, México: D EscobedoUrias, A Martinez-Lopez, Title of Team: Scientific Team of Coastal Eutrophication in Gulf of California OS11C Room C1 Monday 0800h Sediment Sources and Transfer Processes Extending From Terrestrial Settings to Ocean Sinks I (joint with H) Presiding: A G Figueiredo, Fluminense Federal University; C A Nittrouer, University of Washington; J L Dominguez, Universidade Federal da Bahia 0800h OS11C-01 The interlinked histories of the Amazon River and the Amazon deep-sea fan: Evidence from the Neogene record in the Foz do Amazonas Basin (Brazil): J P Figueiredo, C Hoorn, P H Van Der Ven, E F Soares 0815h OS11C-02 Landscape and Sediment Change Throughout a Source-to-Sink System - a Case Study from the High Discharge Margin of North-eastern New Zealand. (Invited): L Carter, S A Kuehl, A R Orpin 0830h OS11C-03 The Rate of Amazon Subaqueous Delta Construction: A G Figueiredo, C A Nittrouer 0845h OS11C-04 Response of the Narrow, Shallow Shelf off Eastern Brazil to Prolonged Sub-Aerial Exposure during the Quaternary: J L Dominguez 0900h OS11C-05 Nepheloid layers on the Amazon continental shelf revisited: 20 years after AmasSeds: L Lorenzoni, E Montes, K Radabaugh, C I Zell, P A Baker, C G Silva, J N Richey, C C Williams, D J Hollander, F Muller-Karger 0915h OS11C-06 SEDIMENTATION PROCESSES ALONG THE ESPIRITO SANTO SHELF (EASTERN BRAZIL): A C Bastos 0930h OS11C-07 Controls on Sediment Accumulation and Accretion Rates in Tidal Marshes of a Coastal Plain Estuary: C K Sommerfield, D Velinsky 0945h OS11C-08 Fate of Major River-Derived Sediments to the Global Ocean—Compare Amazon and other river systems: J Liu Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology PP11A Room Expocenter II-III Monday 0800h Interhemispheric Teleconnections and Quaternary Marine and Continental Climate Records I Posters Presiding: L L Perez-Cruz, Instituto de Geofisica, UNAM; O Gonzalez-Yajimovich, Univ. A. de Baja California 0800h PP11A-01 POSTER Primary productivity reconstruction in the Gulf of California by geochemical proxies during the last ~6,600 years: K G Mejia-Pina, A Aldama-Cervantes, O Gonzalez-Yajimovich 0800h PP11A-02 POSTER Millennial Scale Fluctuations in Bottom Water Oxygenation in Farallon Basin, Gulf of California, During the Late Holocene: L L Perez-Cruz, M Valdez-Hernandez PP11B Room Expocenter II-III Monday Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology General Contributions Posters 0800h Presiding: R S Bradley, University of Massachusetts 0800h PP11B-01 POSTER Mid Paleogene dinoflagellate distribution in the Southwestern Atlanctic Ocean: paleoceanographic implications: G Guerstein, G Daners, E Ferreira 6 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 0800h PP11B-02 POSTER Stable Isotope and Trace Element Compositions of Mollusks from Late Holocene Shell Mounds on Jeju Island, South Korea: Implications for Palaeoenvironmental: K S Woo, J Kim, W Hong 0800h PP11B-03 POSTER Paleoceanographic history of the central Okhotsk Sea from the composite depth profiles of cores YK0704GC9A and MR0604-PC5B: B Khim, T Sakamoto, H Shin 0800h PP11B-04 POSTER Towards the understanding of model spread in the PMIP2 mid-Holocene simulations of the African Monsoon: W Zheng, P Braconnot 0800h PP11B-05 POSTER Isotope Signature of Recent Cements of Beachrocks in the Central Coast of Pernambuco, Brazil: A V Ferreira, T C Araújo, M M Vieira, A N Sial, M D Gregório 0800h PP11B-06 POSTER Beachrock Formation in the Coast of the City of Recife - PE: M D Gregório, T C Araújo, M M Vieira, A V Ferreira 0800h PP11B-07 POSTER Reviewing d18O-Paleotemperature Equations for South Atlantic Foraminifera Species: A R Perretti, K B Costa, R E Rickaby 0800h PP11B-08 POSTER The Southern Brazilian Shelf during Holocene: Paleoproductivity changes based on Benthic Foraminifera and Paleoclimatology Aspects: P C Andrade, S D Sousa, M Mahiques 0800h PP11B-09 POSTER Storm coals: a extreme depositional systems in South Brazil deposits: M A Medeiros, L Johansen, S Oliveira 0800h PP11B-10 POSTER African Climate in the Nineteenth Century: Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Forcing Mechanisms: S E Nicholson 0800h PP11B-11 WITHDRAWN 0800h PP11B-12 WITHDRAWN 0800h PP11B-13 WITHDRAWN 0800h PP11B-14 WITHDRAWN 0800h PP11B-15 POSTER The effect of weathering on tropical cirrus solutions to the faint young sun paradox: R F Rondanelli 0800h PP11B-16 POSTER Wavelet Investigation of Possible Orbital Influences on Past Geomagnetic Field Intensity: a Comparison of Independent Records: D Heslop, A R Muxworthy 0800h PP11B-17 WITHDRAWN SPA-Aeronomy SA11A Room Iguassu III Monday 0800h Electrodynamical Coupling of the Atmospheric System due to Thunderstorm Electrical Activity I (joint with A) Presiding: F T São Sabbas, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais - INPE; D D Sentman, Univ Alaska Fairbanks 0810h SA11A-01 Recent progress in two areas of atmospheric electricity research (Invited): D D Sentman 0830h SA11A-02 WITHDRAWN 0850h SA11A-03 WITHDRAWN 0905h SA11A-04 Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) Observed with the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor: The First Hundred TGFs: G J Fishman, M S Briggs, V Connaughton, N Bhat 0920h SA11A-05 Results from the First ADELE Campaign — Frequency of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes and Thundercloud Gamma-ray Glows: D M Smith, J R Dwyer, N A Kelley, A Lowell, F Martinez-McKinney, Z Zhang, M E Splitt, S M Lazarus, W Ulrich, M Schaal, Z H Saleh, E S Cramer, H Rassoul, B W Grefenstette, B J Hazelton, G Lu, S A Cummer, C Ho, X Shao, R Blakeslee 0935h SA11A-06 Energy Flux Spectrum in Rocket Associated Lightning Flashes: U B Jayanthi, C G Targon Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology V11A Room Iguassu IV Monday 0800h Collisional Scenarios Related to Accretion Along the Western Margin of South America (joint with T, S) Presiding: H Massonne, Universitaet Stuttgart; T Toulkeridis, Universidad San Francisco de Quito 0800h V11A-01 Paleozoic terranes in the basement of the Andes: V A Ramos 0830h V11A-02 Pressure-temperature-time evolution of a collisional belt (Guarguaráz Complex, W-Argentina): Evidence for the accretion of the Chilenia microplate: A Willner, A Gerdes, H Massonne, A Schmidt, M Sudo, S N Thomson, G Vujovich 0845h V11A-03 Paleozoic Terrane Accretion in Northern Patagonia Evidenced by High-Pressure Metamorphism and Subsequent Thermal Relaxation: J Martínez, J Dristas, H Massonne 0900h V11A-04 Pre – Mesozoic metamorphism and tectonics in northern Chile : collisional vs subduction zone environments: F Herve, H Massonne, M Calderon, F Soto, C M Fanning 0915h V11A-05 Diverse Early-Metamorphic Evolutions of HighPressure Rocks and Implications for Terrane Accretion: H Massonne 0930h V11A-06 WITHDRAWN 0945h V11A-07 Sources for the Ordovician Magmatism in northeastern Patagonia: C I Martínez Dopico, M G Lopez de Luchi, A E Rapalini Union U12A Room C3 Monday 1030h International Collaboration in Earth and Space Sciences: Present Status, Needs, and Future Perspectives I Presiding: J U Fucugauchi, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; A Ismail-Zadeh, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; J H Bradford, Boise State University 1030h U12A-01 International Cooperation in Geophysics for Benefit of Society: A Ismail-Zadeh, T Beer 1040h U12A-02 The ICSU Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean: a new opportunity for collaboration in Understanding and Managing Risk Associated with Natural Hazards (Invited): A Abreu 1055h U12A-03 Carnegie Institution Geophysicists in South America, 1905 to the IGY: Changing Meanings of International Science: G A Good 1105h U12A-04 Development of a global geosciences initiative (Invited): J W Hess, E Nickless 1120h U12A-05 Effective Communication of Geoscience Information to the Public and the Profession —Using a Federation Approach (Invited): P Leahy 1135h U12A-06 The Role of Scientific Societies in International Collaboration: One View from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (Invited): J H Bradford 1150h U12A-07 The World Climate Research Program (WCRP) (Invited): I Wainer, A J Busalacchi, G R Asrar 1205h U12A-08 WITHDRAWN 1220h U12A-09 Geosciences Research and Education in Developing Countries – Role of International Collaboration: J U Fucugauchi Atmospheric Sciences A12A Room Expocenter I Monday Data Assimilation Techniques I (joint with IN, OS, G) 1030h Presiding: W Lahoz, NILU; M Pulido, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste 1030h A12A-01 Advances in Ensemble Kalman Filter (Invited): E Kalnay 1100h A12A-02 Adaptive Localization and Adaptive Inflation Methods with the LETKF: T Miyoshi 1115h A12A-03 Estimation of convective scheme parameters in a simplified general circulation model using Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter: J J Ruiz, M Pulido 1130h A12A-04 On the Implementation of an “Outer Loop” for Ensemble-Based Data Assimilation: C H Bishop, D Hodyss, C Snyder 1145h A12A-05 Application of the Ensemble Kalman Filter for Gravity Wave Parameter Estimation: G F Scheffler, M Pulido 1200h A12A-06 Implicit particle filters for data assimilation: M Morzfeld, A J Chorin, X Tu 1215h A12A-07 EnKF within the Marginalized Particle Filter and Its Application for Adaptive Estimation of Inflation Factor: R Hofman, V Smidl A12B Room A1 Monday 1030h Global Upper Troposphere/Lower Stratosphere Studies Using Satellite Measurements, Complementary Data Sets, and Modeling II Presiding: N J Livesey, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; J L Neu, JPL / Caltech; M L Santee, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; G L Manney, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology 1031h A12B-01 The Extra-Tropical UTLS from Space-Based Instruments (Invited): M I Hegglin 1053h A12B-02 Variability of Isentropic Meridional Transport in the Lower Stratosphere (Invited): M A Olsen 1115h A12B-03 Source regions for stratosphere water vapor during boreal summer: R Fu, J S Wright 1130h A12B-04 Contributions of Stratospheric Water Vapor to Decadal Changes in the Rate of Global Warming: K H Rosenlof, S Solomon, R W Portmann, J S Daniel, S M Davis, T J Sanford, G Plattner 1145h A12B-05 Analysis of Transport and Mixing in the Upper Troposphere/Lower Stratosphere Relative to the Jets Using Satellite Data: G L Manney, M I Hegglin, W H Daffer, M L Santee 1200h A12B-06 Trace Gas Evolution in the Lowermost Stratosphere from Aura Microwave Limb Sounder Measurements: Subvortex Processing and Transport: M L Santee, G L Manney 1215h A12B-07 Resolving the Mixing State of Atmospheric Ice Nuclei Within a Global Climate Model: V Aquila, J Hendricks, A Lauer, N S Riemer, H Vogel, M Righi, M Dall’Amico Biogeosciences B12A Room A3 Monday 1030h Inland and Littoral Waters as a Land-Ocean-Atmosphere Interface in the Global Carbon Cycle I (joint with NH, GC) Presiding: G Abril, IRD/CNRS/UEA; J Kim, NIOZ; F Roland, Juiz de Fora Federal University 1030h B12A-01 Stream and River CO2 evasion from the conterminous United States. (Invited): P Raymond, D E Butman 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 7 1045h B12A-02 A model to estimate CO2 degassing from small acidic streams and rivers, based on pCO2, DIC and d13CDIC data: P Polsenaere, G Abril 1100h B12A-03 Large channel – floodplain pCO2 contrasts in Amazonian white waters: G Abril, L Artigas, L Vidal, F Roland, J Deborde, N Savoye, J Martinez, E Collin, S Brugel, M Landim de Souza, P Moreira-Turcq 1115h B12A-04 Carbon flux via bacterial metabolism in the Amazon River system: L Vidal, L Artigas, G Abril, F Roland, J Chicheportiche, S Brugel 1130h B12A-05 Phytoplankton Production and Photoacclimation in Amazonian Floodplain Lakes: S Brugel, E A Oliveira, L Artigas, F Lizon, G Abril 1145h B12A-06 Role of floodplains on particulate organic matter transported by the Amazon River: sources, composition, age and flux: P F Moreira-Turcq, M A Amorim, M Bernardes, M Bonnet, C Lagane, L Maurice, M Pérez, P Seyler 1200h B12A-07 Fatty acids characterization of organic matter in several Varzea lakes and Rio along the Amazon River: J Mortillaro, F Rigal, H Rybarczyk, S Brugel, L Artigas, M Bernardes, T Meziane 1215h B12A-08 Soil organic carbon contribution to particulate organic carbon in the Amazon River and its main tributaries: J Kim, P Moreira-Turcq, C I Zell, M Pérez, J S Sinninghe Damsté B12B Room A2 Monday Processes of Carbon and Water Cycles in Brazilian Ecosystems II 1030h Presiding: I T Baker, Colorado State University; H R daRocha, University of Sao Paulo; L Goncalves, NASA and University of Maryland; S R Saleska, University of Arizona 1030h B12B-01 Biophysics, spatial extent, and interannual variability of the Transition Forest (Cerradão): I T Baker, A B Harper, A S Denning, R Stockli 1045h B12B-02 AN EMPIRICAL MODEL FOR DOWNWARD LONGWAVE RADIATION APPLIED AT EIGHT OF THE BRASIL FLUX NETWORK SITES: N Restrepo-Coupe, X Zeng, R Rosolem, B J Christoffersen, M Muza, L Goncalves, K Sakaguchi, A C da Araujo, I T Baker, O Cabral, P B Camargo, D R Fitzjarrald, M Goulden, B Kruijt, A Manzi, S D Miller, A Nobre, C vonRandow, H R daRocha, R K Sakai, J Tota, F B Zanchi, S R Saleska, Title of Team: Brasil flux & LBA-DMIP 1100h B12B-03 The implications of deep soils for drought tolerance of the Amazon rainforest: A B Harper, I T Baker, A Denning, D Dazlich 1115h B12B-04 Seasonal and interannual variability of carbon fluxes over Central Amazonian rainforest: C Von Randow, A Araujo, A Manzi, B Kruijt 1130h B12B-05 Deuterium excess reveals diurnal sources of water vapor in forest air: C Lai 1145h B12B-06 How Important is the Knowledge of Actual Soil Properties to Simulate Latent Heat Fluxes at an Amazon Forest Site?: H A Imbuzeiro, M H Costa, H R da Rocha 1200h B12B-07 Micrometeorological fluxes over sugar cane plantation in southeast Brasil: L M Domingues, H R daRocha, O Cabral, H Freitas, J D Tatsch 1215h B12B-08 Soil CO2 Dynamics in a Hyperseasonal Tropical Wetland Tree Island: The Role of Soil Water Potential: M S Johnson, E G Couto, I Messias, R Amorim, J Milesi, O B Pinto Jr, M Biudes 8 2010 The Meeting of the Americas Geodesy G12A Room Iguassu V Monday New Technological Developments in Space Geodesy I 1030h Presiding: H Schuh, Vienna Univ of Technology; M R Pearlman, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; J F Galera Monico, FCT/UNESP 1030h G12A-01 VLBI2010: Next Generation VLBI System for Geodesy and Astrometry: H Schuh, W T Petrachenko, A E Niell, D Behrend, B E Corey 1045h G12A-02 GNSS Space Receiver Technology Development: G W Franklin, T K Meehan, S Esterhuizen, L E Young, Title of Team: GPS Receiver Design Team 1100h G12A-03 The DORIS system: Current status and Future Developments: F Lemoine, P Willis, P Ferrage, J Valette, M Otten, L Soudarin, P Stepanek, R Govind, S Kuzin, B Garayt, J Saunier, C E Noll 1115h G12A-04 Establishing a Modern Ground Network for Space Geodesy Applications: M R Pearlman, E C Pavlis, Z Altamimi, C E Noll 1130h G12A-05 An Atlantic Network of Geodynamical Fundamental Stations (Project RAEGE): J Gomez-Gonzalez, F Colomer, J A Lopez-Fernandez 1145h G12A-06 A new type of Radio Telescope for geodetic VLBI - the Twin Telescope Wettzell Project: H Hase, G Kronschnabl, T Klügel, R Dassing, J Ihde, C Plötz, A Neidhardt, M Ettl, W Schwarz 1200h G12A-07 GPS Carrier Range: The Development of a New Data Type for Millimeter-Level Precise Point Positioning (Invited): G Blewitt, W I Bertiger, J P Weiss 1215h G12A-08 Photon Counting 3D Imaging Lidar for High Altitude Airborne and Spaceborne Topographic Mapping (Invited): J J Degnan Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism GP12A Room Iguacu II Monday Loess in the Americas: Magnetism, Paleoclimate, and Paleoenvironment II (joint with GC, PP) 1030h Presiding: M E Evans, Univ of Alberta; C E Geiss, Trinity College; M Orgeira, Universidad de Buenos Aires 1030h GP12A-01 Magnetostratigraphy and Environmental Magnetism of an Alaskan Loess Section: B J Jensen, M E Evans, D G Froese, V A Kravchinsky 1045h GP12A-02 A 1.9 Ma environmental magnetic record of loess deposition and soil formation in the central eastern Pampas of Buenos Aires, Argentina (Invited): C W Heil, J W King, M Zarate, P H Schultz 1100h GP12A-03 Is a geomagnetic field excursion stratigraphically correlated to the record of a human foot print?: H Vizán, C Azcuy 1115h GP12A-04 Is the frequency-dependent anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility useful in environmental research? Case study on a loess/soil sequence: M Chadima, J Kadlec, F Hrouda GP12B Room Iguacu II Monday 1130h Magnetostratigraphy: Not Only a Dating Tool I (joint with V) Presiding: L Jovane, Western Washington University; D R Franco, Observatorio Nacional; L Hinnov, Earth and Planetary Sciences 1130h GP12B-01 Preliminary Magnetostratigraphic Results From Sediments and Rocks of IODP’s Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) Expeditions 316 and 322 (Invited): X Zhao, H Oda, Y Kitamura, X Su, F E Girault, S Chiyonobu, P Govil, H Wu, T Kanamatsu, T Yamamoto, Y Yamamoto, M Underwood, S Saito, Y Kubo, Title of Team: IODP Expedition 322 Shipboard Scientific Party 1145h GP12B-02 Correlating the magnetostratigraphic record of lava flow piles using the spectral content of virtual geomagnetic pole paths (Invited): M Ernesto 1200h GP12B-03 Integrated, High-Resolution Magneto-, Bio-, and Chemo-stratigraphy of the Cretaceous-Paleogene Sediments of the James Ross Basin, Antarctica: J L Kirschvink, T S Tobin, P D Ward, E J Steig, E Olivero, D J Smith, M Bonifacie, R N Mitchell, J Eiler, A E Rapalini, I A Hilburn 1215h GP12B-04 New magnetostratigraphic results from the Beaufort Group, Karoo basin (South Africa): L Lanci, E Tohver, P A Cawood, J Vermeulen Global Environmental Change GC12A Room C2 Monday 1030h Global Environmental Change General Contributions I Presiding: R S Bradley, University of Massachusetts 1030h GC12A-01 Comparative Analysis of Indices of Extreme Rainfall Events: Variations and Trends from Southern Mexico: R C Balling, A Peralta-Hernández 1045h GC12A-02 Accessing Climate Change Impacts On Moisture Flux Over South America During The Rainy Season: H M Barbosa, J M Arraut 1100h GC12A-03 Millennial and centennial pacing of climate variability in terrestrial and marine Northern South American pollen records: C A Velásquez 1115h GC12A-04 WITHDRAWN 1130h GC12A-05 APPLICABILITY OF AN ECOLOGICAL MODEL TO FORECAST ENERGY FLUXES IN AREAS OF TROPICAL FOREST: B Dias São José, N L Andrade, L Sanches Alves, R G Aguiar, A D Webler 1145h GC12A-06 Incorporating Climate Variability and Change into Fire Potential Assessments in the Ucayali Region: K Fernandes, W Baethgen, R S DeFries, L M Goddard, M Uriarte, C Padoch, M Pinedo-Vasquez 1200h GC12A-07 Investigation of atmospheric composition downwind from an hypothetical industrial emission source using Master chemical Mechanism (MCM) modelling: S Lam, S Saunders, M Ioppolo-Armanios, A McKinley, Title of Team: Atmospheric and Environmental Chemistry Research (AECR) group Near Surface Geophysics NS12A Room Cedro I Monday 1030h Radioactivity in the Near-Earth Surface Environment I (joint with H, NH, B, PP, V) Presiding: J Oliveira, IPEN-CNEN/SP; F Brenha Ribeiro, University of São Paulo 1030h NS12A-01 Experiences with short-lived, radium isotopes to assess submarine groundwater fluxes in coastal-plain settings. (Invited): H Bokuniewicz, J K Cochran, C Heilbrun, J Garcia Orellana, V Rodellas 1050h NS12A-02 Using 222-Radon as Environmental Tracer in Applied Geosciences (Invited): M Schubert 1110h NS12A-03 The uranium isotopes U-238 and U-234 applied to the study of the latossols evolution in Paraná basin, Brazil (Invited): D M Bonotto, J R Jiménez-Rueda, C R Fonseca Filho, I Fagundes 1130h NS12A-04 Determination of sedimentation rates on Ribeira Bay, Angra dos Reis, Brazil: J Godoy, F C Gomes, M D Godoy, Z L Carvalho, R T Lopes, I Osvath 1145h NS12A-05 Transport of pollutants by extreme events: a hurricane signature in Bluefields Bay (Nicaragua): J SanchezCabeza, V Martínez, E Peña, C Alonso-Hernandez, A QuejidoCabezas, M Gómez-Mancebo, A Ruiz-Fernández 1200h NS12A-06 Reconstruction of Sedimentation Processes and Trace Metal Pollution in Port-au-Prince Bay, Haiti, derived from 210Pb and 137Cs chronology: C Alonso-Hernandez, E Lucienna, M GomezBatista, M Díaz-Asencio, A Quejido-Cabezas, A Ruiz-Fernández, J Sanchez-Cabeza 1215h NS12A-07 210Pb-derived historical reconstruction of Corg fluxes in coastal areas of the Wider Caribbean Region: A RuizFernandez, J Sanchez-Cabeza, A Quejido-Cabezas, D SánchezLedesma, M Sanchez-Sanchez, C Alonso-Hernandez, J GerardoAbaya, J Sericano, M Díaz-Asencio Ocean Sciences OS12A Room C1 Monday Variability of the South Atlantic Ocean Circulation I 1030h Presiding: G J Goni, NOAA/AOML; S L Garzoli, NOAA/AOML 1030h OS12A-01 Variability of the Subtropical South Atlantic in a numerical simulation for the past 50 years: E J Campos 1045h OS12A-02 Thermocline freshening in the Subtropical South Atlantic (Invited): A R Piola 1100h OS12A-03 Mesoscale Variability in the Brazil/Malvinas Confluence Region Revisited (Invited): M Saraceno 1115h OS12A-04 Low frequency variability of the upper ocean circulation in the South Atlantic Ocean: G J Goni, F Bringas Gutierrez, P N Di Nezio 1130h OS12A-05 Agulhas Current rings revealed using dynamical systems tools: F J Beron-Vera, M J Olascoaga, G J Goni 1145h OS12A-06 Mixing barriers in the South Atlantic: M J Olascoaga, F J Beron-Vera 1200h OS12A-07 A new method to detect oceanic mesoscale vortices from multi-satellite data: F S Oliveira, P S Polito 1215h OS12A-08 Explosive meridional migration of young Agulhas rings in the South Atlantic: D Nof 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 9 SPA-Aeronomy Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology SA12A Room Iguassu III Monday 1030h Electrodynamical Coupling of the Atmospheric System due to Thunderstorm Electrical Activity II (joint with A) V12A Room Iguassu IV Monday 1030h Magmatism and the Evolution of Andean Type Crust and Lithosphere I (joint with T) Presiding: D D Sentman, Univ Alaska Fairbanks; G J Fishman, NASA- MSFC Presiding: S M Kay, Cornell University; P Caffe, Instituto de Geologia y Mineria - Universidad Nacional de Jujuy; B Coira, CONICET; R A Becchio, UNSa-CONICET 1030h SA12A-01 South America: A Natural Laboratory for Investigating Transient Luminous Events, Gravity Waves, Ionospheric Phenomena and Their Possible Coupling: F T São Sabbas, R D Azambuja, J P Santiago, C L da Silva 1045h SA12A-02 High-speed video observations of positive lightning flashes to ground (Invited): M M Saba, W Schulz, T A Warner, L Campos, C Schumann, E P Krider, K L Cummins, R E Orville 1105h SA12A-03 M components parameters useful for sprite research: L Z Campos, M M Saba 1120h SA12A-04 Statistical evidence of the chemical changes in the middle atmosphere related to thunderstorm activity: A Kero, E Arnone, L Roininen, C T Enell, C J Rodger, F São Sabbas 1140h SA12A-05 GBM Observations of Electron/Positron TGFs: M S Briggs, V Connaughton, G Fishman 1155h SA12A-06 Gamma rays and lightning in TGFs: GBM and WWLLN correlations suggest simultaneity and proximity: V Connaughton, M S Briggs, R H Holzworth, G Fishman 1210h SA12A-07 The angular distribution of Terrestrial Gamma ray Flashes (TGFs) measurements: T Gjesteland, N Østgaard, M Cohen, N G Lehtinen Tectonophysics T12A Room Iguacu I Monday 1030h Borborema Province Evolution in Northeastern Brazil: Insights Into Gondwana Assemblage and Breakup I (joint with V, S) Presiding: R A Fuck, Universidade de Brasília; I Vitorello, INPE 1030h T12A-01 Borborema Province, Brazil: overview: R A Fuck, B B Brito Neves, E L Dantas 1045h T12A-02 Gravitational Admittance Analysis of the Borborema Province and its Continental Margins (Invited): W E Medeiros, R G Oliveira 1107h T12A-03 Thermochronological Controls on the Exhumation of the Eastern Borborema Province, Northeastern Brazil (Invited): J M Morais Neto, P M Vasconcelos 1130h T12A-04 Progress Report on Electromagnetic Induction Studies in the Borborema Province, NE Brazil: I Vitorello, M B Pádua, S L Fontes, R A Fuck, M S Bologna, A L Padilha, W E de Medeiros 1145h T12A-05 Lithosphere of the Borborema Province, NE Brazil: insights from geophysical data: J P Soares, R A Fuck, Title of Team: Lithosphere Research Lab./IG/UnB (LabLitos) 1200h T12A-06 Serra Caiada Greenstone Belt: Evidence for an old oceanic crust in the São José do Campestre Massif- Borborema Province-NE Brazil: E L Dantas 1215h T12A-07 From Atlantica to Western Gondwana: Insights from the Borborema Province: S P Neves 10 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1035h V12A-01 Role of Subduction Erosion and Mantle Source Region Contamination in the Generation of Andean Arc Magmas: C R Stern 1100h V12A-02 Geochemical Signals in Southern Puna Magmas for Crustal Thickening and Mantle Enrichment Related to Lithospheric Delamination and Forearc Subduction Erosion in the last 14 Ma: S M Kay, B Coira 1125h V12A-03 Magmatism in the Bolivian Andes: Ages, Volumes, Geochemistry, and its Contribution to Continental Crust Formation (Invited): N H Jiménez 1150h V12A-04 Unravelling crustal contamination on the Bolivian Altiplano, Central Andes: C L McLeod, J P Davidson, G Pearson, G Nowell 1210h V12A-05 Lithomagnetic domains across the arc in the Altiplano- Puna Volcanic Complex, Central Andes: New clues on its origin: S E Singer Monday P.M. Union U13A Room Expocenter II-III Monday Dissemination of Knowledge and Management of Environmental Projects and Observatories II Posters 1400h Presiding: G P Brasseur, NCAR; C A Vargas-Jimenez, Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin and Departamento de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Bogota; M Batistella, Embrapa Satellite Monitoring 1400h U13A-01 POSTER The PIRATA Program and its Extensions in the Western South Atlantic: E J Campos, P Nobre, D F Urbano 1400h U13A-02 WITHDRAWN 1400h U13A-03 WITHDRAWN 1400h U13A-04 POSTER The Environmental Research Observatory HYBAM: geodynamical, hydrological and biogeochemical control of erosion/alteration and material transport in the Amazon Basin: J Guyot, F Sondag, G Adele, G R Boaventura, M Bonnet, L Bourrel, S Calmant, E Chavarry, G Cochonneau, E De Oliveira, J Doudou, J Duprey, N Filizola, P fraizy, C Lagane, A Laraque, W Lavado, J Leon, J Lopez, J Martinez, J Molina, P Moreira-Turcq, L Noriega, A Pandi, A Plenecassagne, R Pombosa, J Rosales, F S Seyler, P Seyler, P Vauchel 1400h U13A-05 POSTER The U.S. National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON): Infrastructure to Support Ecological Forecasting: M M Keller 1400h U13A-06 POSTER Water management and climate information: building adaptive capacity to climate impact in Brazil and the United States (Invited): M C Lemos, C Kirchhoff, N Engle 1400h U11A-02 POSTER The Need for Climate Services and the German Initiative CSC (Invited): I Fischer-Bruns, G P Brasseur 1400h U13A-08 POSTER The CIERA US Initiative on Emissions: M L Melamed, G J Frost, C Granier, S R Falke, T J Keating, J Lamarque, P Middleton, A Mieville, G Petron, S Smith 1400h U13A-09 POSTER The World Data System of the International Council for Science - What’s New in Connecting our Science Data Needs: R E Neilan, L M Horta, D M Clark, J H Minster, M Mokrane, Title of Team: ICSU World Data System Scientific Committee 1400h U13A-10 POSTER Health Weather Forecasting——Weather/ Climate Service for health Sectors and the Public in Shanghai: X Tang, J Tan, D Rogers 1400h U13A-11 POSTER Climate Change Service for China’s Agriculture: X Tang, G Fishcher, L Sun 1400h U13A-12 POSTER Pitfalls in Using Large Public Data Sets: an Example From Michigan Gravity: W A Sauck 1400h U13A-13 POSTER Records of Microseismicity in the Central-Eastern Region of Colombia: A Caneva, C A Vargas-Jimenez, W Quintero 1400h U13A-14 POSTER About necessity of a local seismic network: the seismic hazard of the Villavicencio city, Colombia: G Chicangana, C A Vargas-Jimenez, A Caneva - Rincon, C Mojica - Sanchez, T Hernández - Hernández, J Ardila - Escobar, A Bernal Jimenez U13B Room C3 Monday 1400h Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk in Latin America and the Caribbean Presiding: O D Cardona, Universidad Nacional de Colombia; J U Fucugauchi, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; A Ismail-Zadeh, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; I Zaliapin, University of Nevada 1405h U13B-01 The International Council for Science -ICSUMultidisciplinary Research Programme on Risk and Disaster: Content and Significance Looking at Concrete Examples of the Social Construction of Risk in the Latin American and Caribbean Region: A M Lavell, O D Cardona 1420h U13B-02 Meteorological Hazards and Associated Risks in the Caribbean (Invited): T Gibbs 1435h U13B-03 Risk factors associated with urban floods in Latin America: J C Bertoni 1450h U13B-04 A scaling criterion to estimate and compare the volcanic hazard among different volcanoes (Invited): S De La CruzReyna, A T Mendoza-Rosas 1505h U13B-05 An Overview of the Earthquake Activity and Associated Hazards in South-America and the Caribbean and the Socio-Economic Impact of Severe Earthquakes in These Regions (Invited): O J Perez 1520h U13B-06 The anatomy of landslides disasters – an insight: I Alcantara-Ayala 1535h U13B-07 WITHDRAWN 1550h U13B-08 Seismic Hazard and Earthquake Predictability: A Soloviev, V G Kossobokov Atmospheric Sciences A13A Room Expocenter II-III Monday 1400h Atmospheric Sciences General Contributions I: Aerosol,Trace Gases, and Pollution Posters Presiding: N G Andronova, University of Michigan; P Artaxo, University of São Paulo 1400h A13A-01 WITHDRAWN 1400h A13A-02 POSTER INFLUENCE OF HORIZONTAL VISIBILITY CHANGES ON THE ASSESSMENT OF SOLAR ENERGY RESOURCES: R S Costa, F R Martins, E B Pereira 1400h A13A-03 POSTER Measurements and Estimations of Photosynthetically Active Radiation Over Tropical Forest in South West Amazon: L J Aguiar, J M Costa, G R Fischer, R G Aguiar 1400h A13A-04 POSTER High Total Columns of Sulfur Dioxide measured with a Brewer Spectrophotometer at Cubatão – SP, Brazil: E V Mariano, N M Paes Leme, P C Alvala 1400h A13A-05 POSTER IMPACT OF CARBONACEOUS AEROSOLS OVER INDIAN REGION: H Fatima 1400h A13A-06 POSTER Aerosol Optical Thickness Influence Over the Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) in Earth Surface: A C Dalla Favera, F R Martins, N J Schuch, M Ceconi, E W Luiz, E B Pereira 1400h A13A-07 POSTER Assessment of the lightning emissions in the upper troposphere of the northern middle latitudes and of their contributions on the tropospheric chemistry: B Sauvage, J Vouzelaud, J Cammas, E Defer, A Volz-Thomas, K Thomas, N Demetriades, A Bennett 1400h A13A-08 POSTER Effects on the atmosphere associated with cities in central Chile: V V Urbina Guerrero, E D Freitas 1400h A13A-09 POSTER Characterization of chemical species of PM2.5 and PM10 in São Paulo, Brazil: P C Vasconcellos, D Zacarias, R Hillamo, M Aurela, K Saarnio, K Teinilä 1400h A13A-10 POSTER Characterization of particulate matter at Fortaleza, Ceará, Northeast of Brazil: J Q Silva, M Andrade 1400h A13A-11 POSTER The effect of the inclusion of a multilayer urban parameterization on the formation of ozone: R S Silva Junior, A Martilli, R Schmitz, M Andrade 1400h A13A-12 WITHDRAWN 1400h A13A-13 POSTER Dry Deposition Fluxes of PM10 PAHs from São Paulo, Brazil: G O da Rocha, A L Guarieiro, F dos Santos, P C Vasconcellos, J de Andrade, Title of Team: INCT of Energy and Environment 1400h A13A-14 POSTER A sensitivity analysis of tropospheric ozone concentrations produced by the Simplified Photochemical Model (SPM-BRAMS) to grid resolution for the second ozone campaign over the metropolitan area of São Paulo: V Carvalho, C Mazzoli, M Andrade, E D Freitas 1400h A13A-15 POSTER CHARACTERIZATION OF EMISSION OF LIGHT VOLATILE ORGANICS COMPOUNDS IN THE REGION OF SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL: A dos Santos Zepka, P C Alvala, M Forti 1400h A13A-16 POSTER Elastic LIDAR measurements at equatorial latitude site withinthe frame of “CHUVA” experiment: G L Mariano, M P Martins, E Landulfo 1400h A13A-17 POSTER Transmission Electron Micrographs and EC/OC content of nanoparticles directly emitted from engine fuelled with different biodiesel-to-diesel blends: G O da Rocha, A L Guarieiro, J S dos Santos, A E Fernandez, J de Andrade, Title of Team: INCT of Energy and Environment 1400h A13A-18 POSTER Measurements of Peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) in the Moderately Polluted Marine Boundary Air, Gwangyang Bay, South Korea: G Lee, B Khang, K Jeongsoo, S Yun, J Yuwoon 1400h A13A-19 POSTER Occurrence of ozone weekend increase in the atmosphere of the São José dos Campos/SP-Brazil P. C. Alvalá, W. J. Ferreira, A. B. Sales Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais São José dos Campos/SP- Brazil: P C Alvala 1400h A13A-20 POSTER Water soluble ions in particulate matter PM10 collected in São Paulo, Brazil: seasonal study: P C Vasconcellos, S Ávila 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 11 1400h A13A-21 POSTER Synoptical Analysis of the Day September 4th, 2004 with High Aerosols Optical Depth over INPE’s Southern Space Observatory: L V Peres, E Kall, D K Pinheiro, N J Schuch 1400h A13A-22 POSTER A study on Background Concentration of Aerosol and Chemical Components in Northeast Asia: Y Kim, Y Ma, S Kim, J Park, K Jeongsoo, Y Sunwoo 1400h A13A-23 POSTER EMPLOYMENT OF THE HEISENBERG SUBFILTER TURBULENT VISCOSITY IN A LES MODELS TO OBTAIN THIRD MOMENT OF THE VERTICAL VELOCITY TURBULENT IN A CBL: S Maldaner, D R Roberti, G Degrazia, F Puhales, U Rizza 1400h A13A-24 POSTER The accumulation height of CO2 in the Nocturnal Boundary Layer in Amazonia above three types of land use: R Tapajós, R Silva, O C Acevedo, O L Moraes, W B Machado, A Figueira, T P Beldini, Title of Team: Laboratório de Processamento e Analise de Dados Ambientais - LabPADA 1400h A13A-25 POSTER Variation of Aerosol Optical Depth in the atmosphere related to wind and precipitation fields for the south of South America: V D Souza, M C Silveira, D R Roberti 1400h A13A-26 POSTER Analysis of Mexico City Urban air pollution using Nitrogen Dioxide column density measurements from UV/Visible Spectroscopy: D G Garcia Payne, M Grutter, M L Melamed 1400h A13A-27 POSTER Global atmospheric mercury cycling and its impact on South America: A P Dastoor, A Ryjkov, D Figueras, D Durnford 1400h A13A-28 POSTER A New Ozone Sounding Station in the UAE: D W Tarasick, J Liu, T Majeed, S J Oltmans, A M Thompson A13B Room Expocenter II-III Monday 1400h Atmospheric Sciences General Contributions II: Modeling and Prediction Posters Presiding: N G Andronova, University of Michigan; P Artaxo, University of São Paulo 1400h A13B-01 POSTER Multi Model Ensemble Forecasting Using Neural Network: S Cakir, M Kadioglu 1400h A13B-02 POSTER NUMERICAL MODELLING OF THE INFLUENCE OF CLOUDINESS AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY ON SURFACE SOLAR IRRADIATION: E W Luiz, N J Schuch, F R Martins, M Ceconi, A C Dalla Favera, E B Pereira 1400h A13B-03 WITHDRAWN 1400h A13B-04 POSTER Verification of the WRF-ARW forecasts using MET (Model Evaluation Tool) over Argentina: E A Collini, P Martin 1400h A13B-05 POSTER The role of air mass dynamics on nearsurface beryllium-7 day-to-day variations: A A Pacini, I G Usoskin, H Evangelista, E Echer, R de Paula 1400h A13B-06 POSTER Observational Evidence of the Manaus Urban Heat Island: D O de Souza, R D Alvalá, Title of Team: Group of Environmental Integrated Studies (GEAI) 1400h A13B-07 POSTER Spectral irradiance analysis of UV Index, Erythema and Photocarcinogenesis at the INPE’s Southern Space Observatory: N T Hupfer, P H Rampelotto, D Pinheiro, M B da Rosa, N R Rigozo, N J Schuch 1400h A13B-08 POSTER Wavelet analysis to assess long-term trends in geomagnetic and ionospheric activity: A M Meza, L I Fernández, M A Van Zele 1400h A13B-09 POSTER Fourier Series applied to Temporal Analyses of diurnal variability of Micrometeorology data in the Brazilian Pantanal: M R Pinheiro, S R de Paulo, M C Gonçalves, L Sanches, M T Vilani, N L Andrade, L B da Silva, M S Biudes 12 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1400h A13B-10 POSTER NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF SECONDARY CICLOGENESIS OVER THE SOUTHEAST COAST OF THE SOUTH AMERICA: C M Iwabe, R P da Rocha 1400h A13B-11 POSTER Atmospheric Operational Modeling for Santos Costal Region, Sao Paulo - Brazil: G Clauzet, E A Yassuda, T Jorgetti 1400h A13B-12 POSTER Adjusting the Eta model cloud convection scheme for the tropical Andes of Colombia through various sensitivity tests: I Rodriguez, G Poveda, S Chou 1400h A13F-04 POSTER Research on wind energy potential for the region of Alagoas State, using the WRF model: A C Marchi, R S Silva Junior, R Lyra A13C Room Expocenter II-III Monday 1400h Atmospheric Sciences General Contributions III: Radiation, Precipitation,Temperature Analysis Posters Presiding: N G Andronova, University of Michigan; P Artaxo, University of São Paulo 1400h A13C-01 POSTER Geographical and Temporal Variability of Temperature over Minnesota and Wisconsin Identified from Regional Reanalysis Data: W Choi, A P Keuser 1400h A13C-02 POSTER Atmosphere-Ocean Mechanisms Influencing Strong Rainfall Episodes on the Eastern Northeast of Brazil: Y Kouadio, J Servain, L A Machado, C Lentini 1400h A13C-03 POSTER Study of the Temporal Variability of the Precipitation in the Eastern Amazon: B Lobo, A W Gandu 1400h A13C-04 POSTER Analysis of Land Surface Temperature Pattern in a Complex Terrain Area: M G Cogliati 1400h A13C-05 POSTER Climate Change Projection and Uncertainties in Argentina: V Asikian, J Boulanger, M Marino, A Rolla 1400h A13C-06 POSTER Droplet charging by high voltage discharges and its influence on precipitation enhancement: A A Pérez Hortal, S E García, R A Comes, G M Caranti 1400h A13C-07 POSTER Temperature and Surface Wind Speed in a Suburban Area in Neuquén, Argentina: M G Cogliati, C Palese, J L Lässig 1400h A13C-08 POSTER Variability of Precipitation in South America for Short Term Forecast: P Y Kubota, J P Bonatti 1400h A13C-09 POSTER Evaluation of Precipitation over South America in the Reanalysis MERRA: M G do Nascimento, D L Herdies, D O de Souza, C F Angelis 1400h A13C-10 POSTER A Revision of the Brazilian 1961-1990 Climatological Normals: A M Ramos, L G Fortes, L R Santos, F C Conde, R L Vianello, T F Barbosa, A C Montandon, D B Ferreira, M A Salvador, F D Silva, H T Balbino, M T Assunção, L A Mello 1400h A13C-11 POSTER ESTIMATES OF THE COMPONENTS OF ENERGY BALANCE AND FLOW CO2 TO AN AREA OF AGRICULTURAL HIGHLANDS MIDDLE RIO GRANDE DO SUL WITH MODEL AGRO-IBIS: G Webler, A Timm, V Moreira, D R Roberti, O Moraes, J Fiorin 1400h A13C-12 POSTER Seasonal Climatology and Annual Precipitation Cycle of High Resolution Global Model HiGEM e HadGEM over South America: M D Custodio, R da Rocha 1400h A13C-13 POSTER Synoptic analysis of thunderstorms occurrence on September 2009 at North Cape Verde: E Cordeiro, R Maia, G E Lopes 1400h A13C-14 POSTER STUDY OF WIND GUST BY DIRECTION SECTOR: F D Rabelo, R Lyra 1400h A13C-15 POSTER SHORTWAVE AND LONGWAVE RADIATION ESTIMATES FROM GLOBAL LAND DATA ASSIMILATION FOR AMAZON FOREST: F B Silva, G Pereira, E Arai, F S Cardozo, Y E Shimabukuro, E C Moraes, L Aragão 1400h A13C-16 POSTER Seasonal Analysis of Direct, Diffuse and Photosynthetically Active Radiation Over Grassland in South West Amazon: G R Fischer, L J Aguiar, M H Costa 1400h A13C-17 POSTER A Climatology of Rainfall in the Central Area of the State of São Paulo, Brazil, Based on Radar Observations: J C Figueiredo, M Teixeira, G Held 1400h A13C-18 POSTER HUMAN THERMAL COMFORT AND DISCOMFORT INDEX FOR NORTHEAST BRAZIL CAPITAL UNDER THE SCENARIOS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IPCC: W Roger, M L Melo 1400h A13C-19 POSTER The study of the urban heat islands in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro: A Lucena, O Rotunno Filho, L F Peres, J A França 1400h A13C-20 POSTER Study of wind speed and rain for electric energy: F D Rabelo, G E Lopes, R Lyra 1400h A13C-21 POSTER Seasonal analysis of the relationship between aerodynamic conductance, surface conductance and decoupling factor in semideciduous forest: S Darley de Lima, L B Silva, L Sanches Alves, M R Pinheiro, N L Andrade, O B Pinto Jr, J S Nogueira 1400h A13C-22 POSTER Evapotranspiration in the Tapajos National Forest from 2000 to 2004: D R Aguiar, W B Machado, K S Campos, R Tapajós, R Silva, Title of Team: Laboratório de Processamento e Analise de Dados Ambientais 1400h A13C-23 POSTER Comparative analysis of the Evapotranspiration between cultivation of rice and managed Forest in the Amazon: W B Machado, K Campos, R Tapajós, A Figueira, R Silva, Title of Team: Laboratório de Processamento e Analise de Dados Ambientais - LabPADA 1400h A13C-24 POSTER Predictability of Precipitation in Southern Brazil, a non-linear approach: P E dos Santos Albuquerque, N Krusche, S Botelho 1400h A13C-25 POSTER THE PRECIPITATION BEHAVIOR OVER THE LA PLATA BASIN UNDER INFLUENCE OF LOW LEVEL JETS: M G do Nascimento, C F Angelis, D L Herdies, D O de Souza 1400h A13C-26 POSTER ESTIMATE OF THE ENERGY BALANCE IN AREA OF PASTURE IN NORTHEN PANTANAL: D C Galeano, V D Danelichen, M Biudes, O A Pereira A13D Room Expocenter II-III Monday 1400h Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions in the Tropics: Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds and Secondary Organic Aerosols Posters (joint with B) Presiding: P Artaxo, University of São Paulo; J Kesselmeier, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry; P C Vasconcellos, Instituto de Química -Universidade de São Paulo; O Vega Bustillos, IPEN 1400h A13D-01 POSTER Investigation of primary VOC emissions at leaf level from Amazonian and Mediterranean plant species: A Bracho-Nunez, N Knothe, S Welter, G Schebeske, P Ciccioli, M F Piedade, M Staudt, J Kesselmeier 1400h A13D-02 POSTER Primary and secondary 2-methyl tetrols in atmospheric aerosols from boreal and tropical environments: new perspectives on the SOA from isoprene: N J Gonzalez Cantu, A Borg- Karlson, J Redeby Petersson, B Noziere, R Krejci, P Artaxo, J Dommen, A S Prevot 1400h A13D-03 POSTER Application of an analytical method for the determination of biogenic total non-methane organic carbon in the Amazon Region: J Regnery, T Dindorf, J Kesselmeier 1400h A13D-04 POSTER Some Aspects of Momentum Transfer Above Western Amazon Forest Canopy: Variability of Roughness Parameters and Characteristic Turbulent Scales: C Mendonça de Souza, J Tota, L Sá 1400h A13D-05 POSTER VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION AND POSSIBLE SOURCES OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (VOCs) IN PRISTINE FOREST IN CENTRAL AMAZONIA: C P da Silva, F Luizão, A B Guenther, P C Harley A13E Room Expocenter II-III Monday 1400h Climate Variability and Prediction Across the Inter-American Seas II Posters (joint with OS) Presiding: A V Douglas, Creighton University; R Fu, University of Texas at Austin 1400h A13E-01 POSTER A Decision Tree Approach to Tropical Cyclone Prediction in the Ocean Basins Adjacent to Mexico: A V Douglas, P Englehart 1400h A13E-02 POSTER The Mid-Summer Dry Spell’s impact on vegetation in Jamaica: T L Allen, S Curtis, D W Gamble 1400h A13E-03 POSTER MIRANDA’S RIVER OUTFLOW, PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE: M S Silva, C B Silva 1400h A13E-04 POSTER PDO, ENSO, and Southwest Atlantic Relationships: M F Firpo, C A Sansigolo 1400h A13E-05 POSTER Relationship between the errors in the seasonal rainfall forecasting and Sea Surface Temperature over northeast Brazil: M O Santos, R P da Rocha 1400h A13E-06 POSTER PRELIMINARY DYNAMIC DIAGNOSES OF CLIMATIC ANOMALIES IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY 2010 – GLOBAL ANALYSIS: I D Santos, N D Franco 1400h A13E-07 POSTER Seasonal pattern of precipitation in São Paulo and the influence of the SST: G Luz, E E Silva 1400h A13E-08 POSTER SST anomalies in the South Atlantic Ocean: past, present and future: T S Degola, T Ambrizzi, Title of Team: GrEC A13F Room Expocenter II-III Monday 1400h Global Upper Troposphere/Lower Stratosphere Studies Using Satellite Measurements, Complementary Data Sets, and Modeling III Posters Presiding: M L Santee, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; N J Livesey, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; G L Manney, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology 1400h A13F-01 POSTER Observational characteristics of the tropopause inversion layer derived from CHAMP/GRACE radio occultations and MOZAIC aircraft data: T Schmidt, J Cammas, H M Smit, A de la Torre, S Heise, J Wickert, A Haser 1400h A13F-02 WITHDRAWN 1400h A13F-03 POSTER Australian 2009 biomass smoke plume and associated hydration in the lower stratosphere: J M Siddaway, S V Petelina, A Feofilov A13G Room Expocenter II-III Monday Global Navigation Satellite System Techniques for Meteorological/Climate Studies Posters 1400h Presiding: R M Fernandes, UBI, CGUL, IDL; L F Sapucci, INPE 1400h A13G-01 POSTER Characterization of cloud droplet size distributions using polarized reflection measurements by the Research Scanning Polarimeter: M D Alexandrov, C Emde, B Cairns, C A Hostetler, R A Ferrare 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 13 1400h A13G-02 POSTER The Effect of New Ozone Cross Sections Applied to SBUV and TOMS Retrievals: R D McPeters, G J Labow 1400h A13G-03 POSTER A COMPARISON OF UAV AND RADIOSSONDE PROFILES IN THE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER: N L Dias, J E Gonçalves, G Fisch, T Hasegawa 1400h A13G-04 POSTER TEMPERATURE ESTIMATES IN TEH TROPOSPHERE USING GPS RADIO OCCULTATION DATA OVER ANTARCTICA: E Fu 1400h A13G-05 POSTER Testing GPS Precipitable Water Vapor measurements at Amazonian Rainforest Flux Towers: R M Fernandes, D K Adams, J M Maia 1545h A13I-06 Lidar measurements of gravity waves at 23 S: B R Clemesha, G Yang, D M Simonich, P P Batista A13H Room Expocenter I Monday Data Assimilation Techniques II (joint with IN, OS, G) 1400h B13A-01 POSTER Necromass contribution from types of a Cerrado and an Atlantic Forest, to NEP (Net Ecossystem Production) in its areas: F S Luccas, M P Aidar, Title of Team: Projeto Temático Carbon Tracker and Water availability: controls of Land Use and Climate Changes. 1400h B13A-02 POSTER Patterns of Small to Medium Scale Disturbance in Amazonia: M O Hunter, M A Lefsky, M M Keller, S R Saleska, Y E Shimabukuro, M Shimabukuro 1400h B13A-03 POSTER OBSERVING AND CHARACTERIZING THE CO2 PROFILE OVER A FOREST IN THE SOUTH OF BRAZIL: B R Penna, O L Moraes 1400h B13A-04 POSTER Eddy covariance measurements over Amazonian rivers: the lower Negro river and the middle Solimoes: J M Maia, A O Manzi, F Rasera, A Krusche, H Brandao, S D Miller, C A Querino, D K Adams, J Zscheischler 1400h B13A-05 POSTER REGIONAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION IN THE STATE OF SAO PAULO WITH A CALIBRATED BIOSPHERE MODEL: C A Martins, J M da Silva, H R da Rocha, Title of Team: Laboratory of Climate and Biosphere 1400h B13A-06 POSTER Modeling Citrus Orchard Evapotranspiration from Climatic Data using a Neural Computing Technique: A I Irigoyen, L R Angelocci, F J Rocha, M V Folegatti 1400h B13A-07 POSTER Dynamics of net ecosystem CO2 exchange and coupled between semideciduous forest and atmosphere in the central-western Brazil: L B da Silva, L Sanches Alves 1400h B13A-08 POSTER Carbon, Energy and Water Fluxes Studies at the Amazon River Basin by using CLM-CN: M Shi, Z Yang 1400h B13A-09 POSTER Comparison between regional drivers and station data on temporal multi-scales in the Amazonian region: M Muza, L Goncalves, J Z de Mattos, D L Herdies, N RestrepoCoupe, B J Christoffersen, K Sakaguchi, S R Saleska, X Zeng, R Rosolem 1400h B13A-10 POSTER How the Noah-MP simulates land surface fluxes over LBA sites: X Guan, Z Yang, J Huang 1400h B13A-11 POSTER WARMING SCENARIOS FOR CO2 FLUX IN TWO BRAZILIAN ECOSSYSTEMS THROUGH SIMULATIONS USING SiB2 MODEL: G B Costa, H R daRocha, H C Freitas, J D Tatsch, E M Brasilio, Title of Team: Scientific Team of Climate and Byosphere Laboratory 1400h B13A-12 POSTER Post-fire tree mortality in a tropical forest of Brazil: the roles of bark traits, plant size, and wood density: P M Brando, D Nepstad, J Balch, F Putz, M T Coe 1400h B13A-13 POSTER Microclimate, water and heat fluxes over three ecosystems in Southeast Brazil: J D Tatsch, O Cabral, H C Freitas, H R daRocha, E M Brasilio, E Gomes, M Ligo, Title of Team: laboratory of climate and biosphere 1400h B13A-14 POSTER Adaptation in morphological and aerodynamic parameters SiB2 to represent the sugar cane: B Cestaro, H R da Rocha, Title of Team: Laboratory Climate and Biosphere 1400h Presiding: W Lahoz, NILU; M Pulido, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste 1400h A13H-01 Data assimilation experiments within the POGEQA project (Invited): J Orphal, V Peuch, J E Attie, M Claeyman, L El Amroui, W Lahoz, P Ricaud, N Semane, S Massart, A Piacentini, D Cariolle, J Flaud, G Bergametti, R Cantie, F Pasternak, L Lehors, E Maliet, T Clarmann von Clarenau, M Hoepfner, Title of Team: on behalf of the POGEQA Team 1430h A13H-02 Assessing additions to the future observing system: the role of OSSEs: W Lahoz, Title of Team: Scientific Team of MAGEAQ Geostationary mission 1445h A13H-03 Improving the Representation of Tropospheric Aerosols over South America in an Atmospheric Chemistry Model by Three Dimensional Variational Data Assimilation: J J Hoelzemann, K Longo, R Fonseca, H Elbern, S R Freitas 1500h A13H-04 WITHDRAWN 1515h A13H-05 Estimating regional-scale CO2 fluxes over North America within a geostatistical atmospheric inversion framework: S M Gourdji, A Chatterjee, V Yadav, K L Mueller, D N Huntzinger, C J Antonelli, A E Andrews, M Trudeau, G Petron, A M Michalak 1530h A13H-06 A 3.5-Dimensional Variational Method for Doppler Radar Data Assimilation and Its Hybrid Extension with TimeExpanded Ensemble Approach: Q Xu, L Wei, Z Qingyun 1545h A13H-07 Applications of Primal and Dual 4D-Var in the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS): A M Moore, H Arango, G Broquet, C A Edwards, B Powell, M Veneziani A13I Room A1 Gravity Waves I (joint with SA) Monday 1400h Presiding: M Pulido, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste; H Chun, Yonsei University; P Preusse, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH; M Alexander, NWRA 1400h A13I-01 Climate sensitivity to gravity-wave drag parameterization (Invited): T G Shepherd 1430h A13I-02 Gravity waves and the QBO in the global warming climate: Y Kawatani, K P Hamilton, S Watanabe 1445h A13I-03 Influence of Gravity Waves on Tropical Stratospheric Upwelling: H Chun, H Choi, Y Kim 1500h A13I-04 THE SABER GRAVITY WAVE CLIMATOLOGY COMPARED WITH GLOBAL RAY TRACING MODELING: P Preusse, S D Eckermann, M Ern 1515h A13I-05 Recent Results on GW Activity and Propagation in Southern Andes and Antarctic Peninsula UTLS with GPS Radio Occultations (Invited): A de la Torre, P M Alexander, P Llamedo, R Hierro, A Rolla, T Schmidt, J Wickert 14 2010 The Meeting of the Americas Biogeosciences B13A Room Expocenter II-III Monday Processes of Carbon and Water Cycles in Brazilian Ecosystems III Posters 1400h Presiding: I T Baker, Colorado State University; H R daRocha, University of Sao Paulo; L Goncalves, NASA and University of Maryland; S R Saleska, University of Arizona 1400h B13A-15 POSTER Comparison between different downscale techniques applied to northeast of Sao Paulo: E M Brasilio, J D Tatsch, H R da Rocha, O Cabral, H C Freitas, Title of Team: Laboratory of Climate and Biosphere 1400h B13A-16 POSTER Patterns of meteorological variables, energy and CO2 fluxes over an Atlantic Forest biome in Southeast Brazil: H C Freitas, H R daRocha, O Cabral, E M Brasilio, G B Costa, J D Tatsch, E Gomes, Title of Team: Scientific Team of Laboratory of Climate and Biosphere B13B Room A3 Monday 1400h Carbon Budget at Hydroelectric Reservoirs (joint with A, GC) Presiding: A P Cimbleris; J M Damazio, CEPEL; M A dos Santos, COPPE/UFRJ; L P Rosa 1404h B13B-01 Preliminary Field Measurements in a Subtropical Reservoir to Determine Green House Gas Emissions: T Bleninger, S Froehner, M Mannich, C V Scapulatempo Fernandes, S Fuchs, T Morck, H G Knapik 1420h B13B-02 Patterns on Carbon Emission per Energy Generation in Hydroelectric Reservoirs: A Global and Dry Tropic Analysis: J Ometto, A P Cimbleris, M A dos Santos, L P Rosa, J G Tundisi, J Stech, N O Barros, F Roland 1436h B13B-03 Waterways as a way of mitigating the impact of the hydroelectric reservoir to GHG: case study of Lake Furnas: R S Capaz, A T Assireu, M L Teixeira 1452h B13B-04 Net Changes in the Regional C Balance and the Dynamics of GHG Emissions Following the Creation of the Eastmain-1 Reservoir in Northern Quebec, Canada: C R Teodoru, J Bastien, M Bonneville, P del Giorgio, M Demarty, M Garneau, J Helie, L Pelletier, Y Prairie, N T Roulet, I B Strachan, A Tremblay, L Varfalvy, Y Kim, J Wu 1508h B13B-05 The effect of meteorological systems over the stratification and greenhouse gas emissions of two tropical Brazilian hydroelectric reservoirs: J A Lorenzzetti, I B Lima, A T Assireu, J Stech 1524h B13B-06 THE UNESCO/IHA GHG MEASUREMENT GUIDELINES FOR FRESHWATER RESERVOIRS: a new tool to evaluate the impact of freshwater reservoirs on natural GHG emissions: J A Goldenfum B13C Room A2 Monday 1400h Remote Sensing Applications in Seasonally Dry Tropical Ecosystems I Presiding: L G Ferreira, Federal University of Goiás; M Palace, Complex System Research Center 1400h B13C-01 A historical land cover map of the Cerrado region of Brazil based on Landsat MSS imagery: S Hagen, L G Ferreira, M Palace, M Bustamante 1415h B13C-02 monitoring savanna ecosystems based on moderate resolution imagery (Invited): N Ferreira, L G Ferreira 1430h B13C-03 Climate Regulation of Fire Activity Along the Cerrado-Amazon Biome Boundary: D C Morton 1445h B13C-04 Remote Sensing Activities in SAFARI 2000: The Complexity of a Regional Satellite Validation Campaign in a Savanna Ecosystem: R J Swap, J L Privette, D P Roy, S E Platnick, K K Caylor, C Hely-Alleaume, H Annegarn 1500h B13C-05 Considerations about Land Use and Land Cover Mapping over the Brazilian Savanna Using Optical and Radar Remote Sensing Products (Invited): E E Sano, L G Ferreira 1515h B13C-06 Relationships Among Land Surface Temperature, Vegetation Structure, and Ecosystem Productivity in the Cerrado Biome: R L Powell, M P Toomey, C J Still 1530h B13C-07 Seasonal and interannual dynamics of photosynthetic vegetation, non-photosynthetic vegetation and bare ground in the Australian savannas: J P Guerschman 1545h B13C-08 WITHDRAWN Earth and Space Science Informatics IN13A Room Expocenter II-III Monday 1400h Earth and Space Science Informatics Posters (joint with A, ED, H, OS) Presiding: W G Almeida, CPTEC/INPE 1400h IN13A-01 POSTER Kclassificator: a Proposal of a New Algorithm for Pattern Recognition in Time Series Data: E G Nascimento, O D Tavares 1400h IN13A-02 POSTER Response to Noise of SOC Systems: M C Meirelles, A R Papa 1400h IN13A-03 POSTER IPMet’s Web GIS Severe Weather Alert and Radar Database: J M Kokitsu, S C de Carvalho, J S Nascimento, M A Oliveira 1400h IN13A-04 POSTER AN INTERACTIVE SYSTEM FOR WEATHER RADAR DATA VISUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS: M A Silva Neto, V Ramalho, A Igarashi, F Sato, C Beneti 1400h IN13A-05 POSTER Practical Aspects Related to Meteorological Data Encoded in FM94 BUFR: S H Ferreira, W G Almeida, A T Ferreira 1400h IN13A-06 POSTER A data system representation with automatic nonlinear data analysis for geoeffective solar flare monitoring: T B Veronese, M J Bolzan, N Vijaykumar, R Santos, R R Rosa 1400h IN13A-07 POSTER SEVERE WEATHER FORECASTING WITH WRF AND MM5 IN RIO GRANDE DO SUL: L M Costa do Amaral, A S Silva, C T Homann, Y Yamasaki, Title of Team: UFPEL 1400h IN13A-08 POSTER NUMERICAL MODELING OF A CYCLONE DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTHERN COASTAL ZONE OF BRAZIL: A S Silva, C T Homann, L M Costa do Amaral, Y Yamasaki, Title of Team: ufpel team 1400h IN13A-09 POSTER INTERACTION OF AMINO ACIDS WITH METAL FERROCYANIDES : A POSSIBLE ROLE IN CHEMICAL EVOLUTION AND ORIGINS OF LIFE: B B Tewari, Title of Team: LABORATORY EXPERIMENT 1400h IN13A-10 POSTER Spatial Data Infrastructure: Open Standards into a Seismological Environment: M Pirchiner, G E Dicelis 1400h IN13A-11 POSTER Spatial and Spatio-temporal Reasoning in Earth Science with Foundational Ontological Relations: H A Babaie 1400h IN13A-12 POSTER The Applicability of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing in Identifying Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) sources using NOAA National Status & Trends Mussel Watch Program Data: P L Bly, M Edwards 1400h IN13A-13 POSTER High performance computing applied to ionospheric model: A Petry, J R Souza, A S Charão, H F Campos Velho 1400h IN13A-14 POSTER Mapping 3-D density distribution in the lower crust and the upper mantle from linear inversion of geoid anomaly: C M Chaves, N Ussami 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 15 1400h IN13A-15 POSTER On the inversion of submesoscale images of the ocean using Lyapunov exponent: J A Verron, J Brankart, O Titaud, F d’Ovidio, P Brasseur 1400h IN13A-16 POSTER Estimating atmosphere-ground CO2 cycle using artificial neural networks: F F Paes 1400h IN13A-17 POSTER Data assimilation by neural network for the wave equation: H M Furtado, H F Campos Velho, E N Macau 1400h IN13A-18 POSTER Horizontal radial gravity inversion for retrieving 3D geologic bodies: V C Oliveira, V C Barbosa 1400h IN13A-19 POSTER The Generalized Cross-Validation Method for the Regularization Parameter Search in Cross-Well Electromagnetic Tomography: A Bassrei, N P Oliveira 1400h IN13A-20 POSTER Gas Source and Flux Estimation by Multiple Particle Collision Algorithm: E F Luz, H F Campos Velho, J C Becceneri 1400h IN13A-21 POSTER GPS RADIO OCCULTATION DATA TO RETRIEVE ATMOSPHERIC PROFILES USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK: R S Cintra, H F Campos Velho, J S da Silva 1400h IN13A-22 POSTER Optimization Firefly Method for Weighted Ensemble of Convective Parameterizations. Part I: Results with a Synthetic Precipitation Field: A F dos Santos, S R Freitas, E F Luz, H F Campos Velho, M A Gan 1400h IN13A-23 POSTER Optimization Firefly Method for Weighted Ensemble of Convective Parameterizations. Part II: Sensitivity Experiment Using TRMM Satellite Data: A F dos Santos, S R Freitas, E F Luz, H F Campos Velho, M A Gan Geodesy G13A Room Expocenter II-III Monday 1400h Advances in Medium Wavelength and Satellite Gravity for the South American Plate: Plate Geodynamics I Posters (joint with OS) 1400h G13B-02 POSTER Inception, Deployment, Processing and Initial Results of a cGPS Network Across the Lesser Antilles Arc: Implications for Caribbean Plate Geodesy and Volcano Monitoring: M Higgins, N Fournier, D Jones, L Chardot, L Lynch, R E Robertson, R B Watts 1400h G13B-03 POSTER DISPLACEMENT ANALYSIS WITH GLOBAL CONGRUENCY TEST AND GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS TEST AT ITAIPU DAM: J A Fazan, E S da Fonseca Jr., N Pacileo Netto, F C Ribeiro, C P Neves 1400h G13B-04 POSTER Emissivity Spectra of Basalt Samples from Parana Basin: A Comparison of Two Measurement Approaches: D C Zanotta, S Rolim, R D Linn, A Grondona, Title of Team: Remote Sensing and Geophysics Applied to Geological Mapping and Mineral Exploration 1400h G13B-05 POSTER GRAVITY NETWORK AND GEOID COMPUTATION IN PARAGUAY: A O de Matos, D Blitzkow, G Guimaraes, C C Castro, G F Rojas, M R Estigarribia, L A Carmona 1400h G13B-06 POSTER Magma volume calculations at Tungurahua Volcano – Ecuador between Dec.2009 to Feb.2010 from Tilt, GPS and SO2 measurements: A G Ruiz Paspuel, J Bustillos, P A Mothes, P Jarrín 1400h G13B-07 POSTER CURRENT STAGE OF RAAP (ALTIMETRIC NETWORK OF HIGH PRECISION - REDE ALTIMÉTRICA DE ALTA PRECISÃO) ADJUSTMENT OF SGB (SISTEMA GEODÉSICO BRASILEIRO - BRAZILIAN GEODETIC SYSTEM): R R Pinheiro, D Goldani, C C Santos, N R Pereira, W H Pina 1400h G13B-08 POSTER Products and services of Sao Paulo State Active GNSS network: J F Galera Monico, P O Camargo, D B Alves, G P Rosa, H A Marques, H A Silva, Title of Team: GEGE - Grupo de Estudo em Geodésia Espacial G13C Room Expocenter II-III Monday 1400h New Technological Developments in Space Geodesy II Posters Presiding: C N Tocho, Facultad de Ciencias Astronomicas y Geofisicas. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; J M Brozena, Naval Research Lab Presiding: J F Galera Monico, FCT/UNESP; M R Pearlman, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; H Schuh, Vienna Univ of Technology 1400h G13A-01 POSTER Tectonics in Argentina with GOCE Satellite Data (Invited): M E Gimenez, O Alvarez, P Martinez, A Introcaso, F Ruiz 1400h G13A-02 POSTER The New Satellite Derived Gradient Fields for Gaining a Better Understanding of the Paraná Basin: P Mariani, C F Braitenberg, N Ussami 1400h G13A-03 POSTER Investigation of topographic reductions and aliasing effects on gravity and the geoid over continental Argentina: C N Tocho, G S Vergos, M G Sideris 1400h G13A-04 POSTER Gravity and Quasi-geoid Efforts in the State of São Paulo - Brazil: G Guimaraes, D Blitzkow, A O de Matos, E S da Fonseca Jr. 1400h G13A-05 POSTER GRAVITY GRADIENT TENSOR OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN PLATE: CORRELATION WITH MAJOR TECTONIC FEATURES: H B Santos, N Ussami, N C Sá 1400h G13C-01 POSTER Anelastic Modelling of Shallow Ground Deformation Observed by InSAR: Surface Subsidence Induced by the Crandall Mine (Utah) Collapse: C Plattner, T H Dixon, S Wdowinski, J Biggs 1400h G13C-02 POSTER Assessment of kinematic positioning using double tracks for the TanDEM-X mission: R M Fernandes, J Santos, D Kosmann 1400h G13C-03 POSTER Crustal Deformations Studies in Egypt Using Gravity and Geodetic Observations: E A Issawy, J Mrlina, A H Radwan, S M Mahmoud 1400h G13C-04 POSTER Broad-band Corrections to AAM for the Dynamic Response of the Oceans to Atmospheric Pressure Variations: S R Dickman 1400h G13C-05 POSTER Improving the Estimation of Universal Time from VLBI Intensive Sessions: T Nilsson, J Boehm, H Schuh 1400h G13C-06 POSTER Towards automated processing of VLBI UT1 sessions: T Hobiger, M Sekido, S Kurihara, K Kokado, K Nozawa, R Haas, Y Koyama, T Kondo, R Ichikawa, H Takiguchi, J Ritakari, J Wagner, M Uunila, G Molera 1400h G13C-07 POSTER Current Trends in Satellite Laser Ranging: M R Pearlman, G M Appleby, G Kirchner, J Mcgarry, T Murphy, C E Noll, E C Pavlis, F Pierron G13B Room Expocenter II-III Monday Geodetic Developments in Latin America II Posters 1400h Presiding: M Santos, University of New Brunswick; L C Oliveira, IME; J F Monico, Univ Estadual Paulista 1400h G13B-01 POSTER PPP-based velocity Estimation of Brazilian permanent GPS stations: M S Pinto, R Frigato, J C Chaves, M Santos 16 2010 The Meeting of the Americas Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism GP13A Room Iguacu II Monday 1400h Modern Magnetic and Other Physical Techniques Applied to Archeology and Anthropology I (joint with NS) Presiding: A M Soler-Arechalde, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; G A Hartmann, Instituto de Astronomia, Geofisica e Ciencias Atmosfericas - Universidade de Sao Paulo; Y Gallet, IPGP; F J Pavon-Carrasco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; J L Ruvalcaba, UNAM 1400h GP13A-01 The French archeomagnetic directional database for the past two Millennia and its application in geomagnetism and archeology (Invited): M Le Goff, Y Gallet, N Warmé, A Genevey 1420h GP13A-02 Guachimontones de Teuchitlan, Jalisco, Mexico. Archaeomagnetic contribution to the prehispanic Western Mexico chronology. Preliminary results: V Lopez Delgado, A M SolerArechalde, A Martínez de Veloz, B Aguilar 1440h GP13A-03 Geomagnetic field intensity in Brazil for the past 500 years (Invited): G A Hartmann, A Genevey, R I Trindade, Y Gallet, M Le Goff, C Etchevarne, R Najjar, M C Afonso 1500h GP13A-04 Archaeological problems under the Raman Microscopy perspective: D L Faria 1520h GP13A-05 TESTING MULTIVARIATE NORMALITY OF ELEMENTAL CONCENTRATION DATA OBTAINED BY INAA: A CASE STUDY OF THE LAGO GRANDE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE: R Hazenfratz Marks, C S Munita, E G Neves, P Oliveira 1540h GP13A-06 Geopysical Study of a Pre-Hispanic Lakeshore Settlement in Central Mexico (Invited): R E Chavez Segura, D Argote, A Tejero Global Environmental Change GC13A Room Expocenter II-III Monday 1400h Climate Prediction Using Model Ensembles and Statistical Techniques I Posters (joint with A, OS, P) Presiding: A E MacDonald, Earth System Research Laboratory; F M Horsfall, Climate Prediction Center; L O Mearns, NCAR 1400h GC13A-01 POSTER Forecast of December 2009 over North America from the NCEP Climate Forecast System: M Chen, W Wang, A Kumar 1400h GC13A-02 POSTER Assessment of precipitation Seasonal forecasts over South America from the ECMWF Model: M L Sacco, T Ambrizzi, S E Ferraz, R P da Rocha 1400h GC13A-03 POSTER Validation of seasonal prediction of ECMWF using Linear Wave Theory in the Southern Hemisphere: M L Sacco, T Ambrizzi, S E Ferraz, R P da Rocha 1400h GC13A-04 POSTER CALIBRATION OF SITE® MODEL FOR ENERGY FLUX ESTIMATIVES IN A TRANSITIONAL AMAZONIAN-SAVANNA FOREST: N L Andrade, L Sanches Alves, M T Vilani, J D Ribeiro, J S Nogueira, G L Vourlitis 1400h GC13A-05 POSTER Evaluation of CCSM and operational CFS for monthly forecasts of precipitation and temperature over the Americas: M Pena, H Van den Dool, B Kirtman GC13B Room Expocenter II-III Monday Environmental and Climatic Reconstruction Based on Biological Proxies II Posters 1400h Presiding: M M Paez, Fac. Cs. Ex. y Nat. 1400h GC13B-01 POSTER Lacustrine diatoms as paleobioindicators of environmental change in Southern Patagonia since the Late Pleistocene: C Recasens, N I Maidana, D Ariztegui, Title of Team: PASADO Scientific Team 1400h GC13B-02 POSTER Reconstruction of Late-Quaternary environmental changes in the Andes of northern Patagonia based on a multi-proxy analysis of lacustrine sediments: J M Guerrero, S L Fontana, T Giesecke, S E Sala, M E Martínez Chávez 1400h GC13B-03 POSTER CARBON ACCUMULATION AND CLIMATIC CHANGES IN AMAZON FLOODPLAINS: L Moreira, P F Moreira-Turcq, R C Cordeiro, M Conceição, B Turcq GC13C Room Expocenter II-III Monday 1400h Global Environmental Change General Contributions II Posters Presiding: R S Bradley, University of Massachusetts 1400h GC13C-01 POSTER CARBON BALANCE IN BRAZILIAN SAVANNA (CERRADO) WOODY SEEDLINGS UNDER CONTRASTING IRRADIANCES: C Ronquim 1400h GC13C-02 POSTER TROCAS GASOSAS EM FOLHAS DE Coffea arabica SOB INCREMENTO DE TEMPERATURA E CO2: C Ronquim 1400h GC13C-03 POSTER COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN THE MOD13 PRODUCT WITH MICROMETEOROLOGY VARIABLES IN SEMIDECIDUOS FOREST: M T Vilani, L Sanches Alves, M R Pinheiro, P Zeilhofer, N L Andrade, R Nunes de Siqueira Braga 1400h GC13C-04 POSTER A sensitivity analysis of the nocturnal boundary layer properties to atmospheric emissivity formulations: M B Siqueira, G G Katul 1400h GC13C-05 POSTER Replacement of Dry Forest by Crops in a semiarid region of Argentine: its effects in the energy budget: J Houspanossian, M Nosetto, E G Jobbagy 1400h GC13C-06 POSTER Geochemistry of sediment from the lower Madeira river - Brazil: M A Queiroz, A M Horbe, C A Moura 1400h GC13C-07 POSTER TESTING TEMPERATURE TRENDS IN TIMES SERIES FROM WESTERN AMAZONIA – RONDÔNIA: D Furlan, V Ballester, L R Angelocci 1400h GC13C-08 POSTER Sediment Record in a Land Use Change Area in Brazilian Amazonia (Alta Floresta, MT): R Rodrigues, R C Cordeiro, B Turcq, J S Seoane, M G Conceição, A B Santos, G S Martins, A Sifeddine, H Evangelista, L Moreira 1400h GC13C-09 POSTER Dynamic of Agricultural Land Use in the Brazilian La Plata Basin: A F Vasconcelos, S Schlindwein, A Fantini, L R D’Agostini, S Martins, A Hoffmann, M Bonatti 1400h GC13C-10 POSTER SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF SOIL EFFLUX IN A TRANSITIONAL TROPICAL FOREST: R N Braga, L S Alves, M D Alves, C A Valentini, O B Pinto Jr, J S Nogueira 1400h GC13C-11 POSTER Volume change of Las Vacas Glacier (Aconcagua, Argentina) investigated with Digital Photogrammetry and Syntetic Aperture Radar: M Lenzano, P Euillades 1400h GC13C-12 POSTER Evaluating Global Climate Models with Observed Precipitation and Temperature data in Sonora, Northwestern Mexico, during the North American Monsoon: E M Tapia, J I Minjarez, C Minjarez, A Platt, A Gutiérrez, J Waissman 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 17 1400h GC13C-13 POSTER Geodesic balance through GNSS observation and measurement in the terminal part of the glacier Horcones Inferior, Aconcagua, Argentina: M Lenzano, D Trombotto, L L Lenzano 1400h GC13C-14 WITHDRAWN 1400h GC13C-15 POSTER Elevated radioactivity ( 226Ra and 210Pb) a specific region of Santos-Cubatão: L Sanders, A Wasserman, C Sanders, W Luiz-Silva, E Silva-Filho, M Texeira, S R Patchineelam, W Machado 1400h GC13C-16 POSTER Decadal variation in the annual rainfall pattern in the State of São Paulo: A Castro, K Longo, D França, S R Freitas 1400h GC13C-17 POSTER PIPE SERVICE AGE EFFECT ON CHLORINE DECAY IN DRINKING-WATER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS: A AL-jasser, S Mogren GC13D Room C2 Monday 1400h Climate Change, Biofuels, and Environmental Pollution II (joint with A) Presiding: N G Andronova, University of Michigan; M M Araujo, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; M S Gomes, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro 1400h GC13D-01 Climate Change, Biofuel Production and Biodiversity in Southeastern Brazil (Invited): C A Nobre 1425h GC13D-02 A Framework for the Assessment of Carbon Budgets of Biofuels: S Pacca, J Roberto 1440h GC13D-03 Biofuel Contribution to Mitigate Fossil Fuel CO2 Emission: Comparison of Sugar Cane Ethanol in Brazil with Corn Ethanol and Discussion on Land Uses for Food and Deforestation (Invited): L Pinguelli Rosa 1500h GC13D-04 A methodology for the environmental certification of biofuels based on life cycle assessment: M Diaz, M Gomes, V da Hora Aragão de Carvalho, C de Carvalho Filho, L Oliveira, H Brandi 1515h GC13D-05 Biofuel production and different environmental assessments: M Muylaert de Araujo, M S Gomes 1530h GC13D-06 A biophysical Sugarcane growth model for global studies: S V Cuadra, M H Costa, C J Kucharik, H R da Rocha, J D Tatsch 1545h GC13D-07 Ethanol Variability in Coastal North Carolina, USA Rainwater and its Impact on the Atmospheric Carbon Cycle: R J Kieber, J D Willey, R N Mead, S B Jones, G B Avery, K M Mullaugh, S M Kinney Near Surface Geophysics NS13A Room Expocenter II-III Monday 1400h Radioactivity in the Near-Earth Surface Environment Posters II (joint with H, NH, B, PP, V) Presiding: J Oliveira, IPEN-CNEN/SP; F Brenha Ribeiro, University of São Paulo 1400h NS13A-01 WITHDRAWN 1400h NS13A-02 POSTER Environmental Monitoring Program of Brazilian Nuclear Research Institute: C M Peixoto, V F Jacomino, F F Dias 1400h NS13A-03 POSTER The Use of 210Pb in the Study of Sediment Pollution by Heavy Metals in Guanabara Bay: I Moreira, A V Oliveira, J Godoy, A C Almeida, A G Figueiredo 18 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1400h NS13A-04 POSTER Tracing Uranium Series Disequilibrium in soil spots from an airborne gamma-ray survey area (Saquarema, RJ). Preliminary Results: J J da Silva, F Lamego, D Lauria 1400h NS13A-05 POSTER The Use of Natural and Conservative Tracers in the Quantification of Submarine Groundwater Discharge in Brazil Coastal Regions: T A Souza, J Godoy, I Moreira, M D Godoy, Z L Carvalho 1400h NS13A-06 POSTER System of Data Storage and Geographic Location of Radioactivity in the Brazilian Environment –GEORAD: D Lauria, R G Reis, T Silva, S Gonzalez, L M Vasconcellos, Title of Team: GEORAD Development and Maintenance team 1400h NS13A-07 POSTER The Radium quartet in the CananéiaIguape estuarine system: S C Jesus, J D Oliveira, F F Abrahão, E S Braga, V Chiozzini 1400h NS13A-08 POSTER U-238, Th-232 and natural Ra isotopes as tracers to study water exchange rates in the Amazon shelf – the AMANDES Project: L H Vieira, J D Oliveira, P V Beek, M M Alencar, G F dos Santos, M Souhaut, C Jeandel, P Seyler 1400h NS13A-09 POSTER A decade dataset on natural Ra isotopes distribution in São Paulo State continental, coastal and marine water resources: J D Oliveira, K C de Sousa, S C de Jesus, B P Mazzilli, W C Burnett, W S Moore, P P Povinec, M A Charette, E S Braga, V V Furtado 1400h NS13A-10 POSTER Radon (222Rn) and radium (226Ra) contents in ground waters drawn from metamorphic and granitic rocks from southeastern Brazil: F Brenha Ribeiro, F D Lucas 1400h NS13A-11 POSTER Characterization of phosphogypsum wastes associated with phosphoric acid and fertilizers production in Minas Gerais State: V F Jacomino, M Taddei, K P de Oliveira 1400h NS13A-12 POSTER 3H on Piraquara de Fora Cove due to the Angra dos Reis Nuclear Power Plant discharges, Brazil: J Godoy, F C Gomes, E M Souza, J R Silva, Z L Carvalho, R T Lopes NS13B Room Cedro I Monday 1400h Mapping and Monitoring the Near Surface II (joint with NH) Presiding: L Sebastien, Universite catholique de Louvain; E C Slob, Delft University of Technology 1400h NS13B-01 Vadose Zone Hydrology in Search of New Technologies (Invited): M Van Genuchten 1420h NS13B-02 Full-waveform modeling and inversion of on-ground GPR for wave propagation in multilayered media: L Sebastien, F André, K Z Jadoon, E C Slob, H Vereecken 1440h NS13B-03 Full-Waveform Inversion of Ground Penetrating Radar and Electromagnetic Induction Data for Determination and High-Resolution Mapping of Soil Hydrogeophysical Properties in a Vineyard in Southern France (Invited): F André, S Saussez, R Van Durmen, C van Leeuwen, D Moghadas, B Delvaux, H Vereecken, L Sebastien 1500h NS13B-04 WITHDRAWN 1515h NS13B-05 Time-lapse geoelectrical inversion to assess seasonal soil moisture dynamics in expansive clay soils: S A Amidu, J A Dunbar, K N Potter, M A Oladunjoye 1530h NS13B-06 Urban Stratigraphy: Infill Zones Characterization through Geophysical Methods: C Prezzi, R López, C A Vasquez, S Fazzito, S Marcomini 1545h NS13B-07 The Seismic Properties Of Cracked And FluidSaturated Crustal Rocks: New Laboratory Techniques: I Jackson, H M Schijns, D R Schmitt Ocean Sciences OS13A Room Expocenter II-III Monday Ocean Sciences General Contributions Posters 1400h Presiding: L R de Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande; A R Piola, Servicio Hidrografia Naval; E Campos, University of Sao Paulo 1400h OS13A-01 POSTER Spectral variability and trends of firstmode baroclinic Rossby waves in the Atlantic Ocean: S Krieger, P S Polito 1400h OS13A-02 POSTER Seasonal Variation of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) in relation to Phytoplankton Populations in the Coastal Waters of Oman: A R Al Azri, S Piontkovski, K Al-Hashmi, Title of Team: field time seriesand laboratory experiments team 1400h OS13A-03 POSTER Temperature Structure Change for Kuroshio in East China Sea with Month, Kang Jiancheng, Zhu Wenwu, Sun Wenzheng, Li Yan and Liu Chao, Shanghai Normal University, Urban Ecology and Environment Research Center, Shanghai 200234,China: J Kang, W Zhu, S Wenzheng, L Yan, L Chao, Title of Team: Urban Ecology and Environment Research Center 1400h OS13A-04 POSTER 9-year of Mass Transport Data in the Eastern Boundary of the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre: E Fraile-Nuez, F Machín, P Vélez-Belchí, F López-Laatzen, R Borges, A Hernandez-Guerra 1400h OS13A-05 POSTER Estimation of climate change influence on aeolian sand flux at a beach: K Udo 1400h OS13A-06 POSTER Modal interpretation for the Ekman destabilization of inviscidly-stable baroclinic flow in the Phillips model: G E Swaters 1400h OS13A-07 POSTER Climatic Variability of the Weddell sea During the 20th Century Using Ocean Reanalysis: D R Vieira, I Wainer 1400h OS13A-08 POSTER Halimeda-dominated Carbonate Platform – Chuuk, Micronesia: K S Woo, J Park, H Park 1400h OS13A-09 POSTER Energy conversions in the BrazilMalvinas Confluence using OCCAM global ocean model: L R de Oliveira, M Mata 1400h OS13A-10 WITHDRAWN 1400h OS13A-11 POSTER Variability of the Sea Water Characteristics in the Western Pacific Marginal Seas: Y Ro 1400h OS13A-12 POSTER Is DIC D14C Still a Useful Tracer for Observing Changes in Upwelling? Time-series of Carbon Isotopes in Surface Seawater from a Southern California Coastal Site: G M Santos, E N Hinger, K P Acaylar, E R Druffel, S Griffin, K R Johnson 1400h OS13A-13 POSTER South Atlantic Subtropical Mode Water Formation in a Numerical Ocean Model: G Mill, M Gabioux, A M Paiva 1400h OS13A-14 POSTER Projected changes to the North Pacific Ocean mixed layer depth from IPCC AR4 models: C Jang, Y Kwon, J Park 1400h OS13A-15 POSTER Mapping cyanobacterial blooms with remote sensing in optically complex waters: L Metsamaa, T Kutser 1400h OS13A-16 POSTER Geochemistry of the island of Vieques,Puerto Rico: W Ithier-Guzman, A Johnson 1400h OS13A-17 POSTER Analysis of sound propagation in the Southwest Coast of Portugal Eddies: L G Guimaraes, C Parente, S M Jesus, O C Rodríguez 1400h OS13A-18 POSTER Validation Of Three Different Algorithms Specifically Designed For Detecting The Florida Red Tide (Karenia brevis) Using Ocean Color Satellite Measurements (MODIS): G Carvalho, P J Minnett, L E Fleming, P F Banzon, W Baringer, M B Framinan, C A Heil 1400h OS13A-19 POSTER Kinetic Energy Climate state and Interannual Variability in the World Oceans: L D Assad, A R Torres Junior, Title of Team: Nucleo de Modelagem Ambiental - LAMCE/ COPPE/UFRJ OS13B Room Expocenter II-III Monday 1400h Sediment Sources and Transfer Processes Extending From Terrestrial Settings to Ocean Sinks II Posters (joint with H) Presiding: A G Figueiredo, Fluminense Federal University; C A Nittrouer, University of Washington; J Landim Dominguez, Universidade Federal da Bahia 1400h OS13B-01 POSTER Sedimentary Cover of the Continental Shelf Adjacent to São Bento do Norte(NE Brazil): W F Tabosa, H Vital, K Stattegger 1400h OS13B-02 POSTER Tidal Flats and their Role in Source-toSink Dispersal of Sediment: C A Nittrouer, A S Ogston, K M Lee, K V Boldt, D J Nowacki 1400h OS13B-03 POSTER Bypass of São Francisco Delta Sediments to the Deep-Basin during the Late Holocene: J K Guimarães, J L Dominguez 1400h OS13B-04 WITHDRAWN 1400h OS13B-05 POSTER THE TIDAL FRESHWATER RIVER AND DELIVERY OF MATERIALS TO THE OCEAN: B A McKee 1400h OS13B-06 POSTER Dispersal of sediment from river mouth to clinoform accumulation in high sediment load systems: Fly River, Papua New Guinea and Amazon River, Brazil: A S Ogston, C A Nittrouer, R W Sternberg 1400h OS13B-07 POSTER The ENSO Influence on the Amazonian Coastal Plain, Brazil: V F Santos, A G Figueiredo, O Silveira, L Polidori, Title of Team: Amazonian Coastal Ecosystems-ECOLAB Team 1400h OS13B-08 POSTER SHIPYARD SEDIMENT TRANSFERING PERFORMANCE: J O MOrais, L D Pinheiro 1400h OS13B-09 POSTER Estuarine funnel morphology and distribution of sedimentary deposits in a mixed-energy coastal environment at Marapanim, Northern Brazil: C A Silva, P W Souza Filho 1400h OS13B-10 POSTER Sediment transport at the North Channel of the Amazon river, northern Brazil: E V Garcia Neto, J Guerra, S Vinzón, C Vilela 1400h OS13B-11 POSTER Source-to-Sink Sediment Studies Across the Poverty Continental Margin, North New Zealand: C R Alexander, S A Kuehl, L E Rose, A R Orpin OS13C Room Expocenter II-III Monday 1400h Variability of the South Atlantic Ocean Circulation II Posters Presiding: G J Goni, NOAA/AOML; F J Beron-Vera, RSMAS, University of Mimai; E Campos, University of Sao Paulo; M Mata 1400h OS13C-01 POSTER Propagation of the Salinity Minimum Associated with the Atlantic Antarctic Intermediate Water from Ocean Reanalysis: N T Signorelli, I Wainer 1400h OS13C-02 POSTER Deep and abyssal waters near the Shackleton Ridge, the Drake Passage: R Tarakanov 1400h OS13C-03 POSTER Response of the Agulhas leakage to inter-annual variability of the wind stress since 1960: R C Goncalves, E Campos 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 19 1400h OS13C-04 POSTER Detection of vortices in the Agulhas Current from numerical simulations: F S Oliveira, E Campos, P S Polito 1400h OS13C-05 POSTER Direct Evidence on the Arrival of Agulhas Eddies to the Brazil Current: L D Guerra, A M Paiva 1400h OS13C-06 POSTER The Remotely and Locally Wind-forced Variability of the South Atlantic Ocean: A H Fetter, R P Matano 1400h OS13C-07 WITHDRAWN 1400h OS13C-08 POSTER Water Masses and Zonal Current in the Western Tropical Atlantic during October 2007 and January 2008: A C Silva, M Grenier, R Chuchla, J Grelet, F Roubaud, B Hamelin, F Lyard, C Jeandel 1445h S13A-04 Velocity inversion and depth imaging in the double plane wave domain: P L Stoffa, M K Sen 1500h S13A-05 Improving the Estimation of the CommonReflection-Surface (CRS) Parameters Using Local Slopes: L T Santos, J Schleicher 1515h S13A-06 Offset Continuation (OCO) ray tracing using OCO trajectories: J Schleicher, T A Coimbra, A Novais 1530h S13A-07 2.5D Reverse Time Migration: J C Costa, F A Silva Neto, J Schleicher, A Novais 1545h S13A-08 New Efficient Method for Signal Extraction From Ambient Noise Data From a Local to a Global Scale (Invited): M Schimmel, E Stutzmann, J Gallart OS13D Room C1 Monday Deepwater Structural and Sedimentary Processes at Continental Margins II (joint with T) SPA-Aeronomy 1400h Presiding: B C Vendeville; A T dos Reis, UERJ; C G Silva, Universidade Federal Fluminense; C Gorini, Université Pierre et Marie Curie,UPMC, Paris 6 1400h OS13D-01 Impact of basement configuration and sediment architecture on gravity gliding on under-compacted shale decollements: E Z Nadine, R Francois, C Raymi, G Abdullah, A Khalid, A Saleh Ahmed 1415h OS13D-02 The Lateral Strike-Slip Domain in a Gravitational Detachment System: Example from the Northwest Margin of the Niger Delta: A M Leduc, R J Davies, A L Densmore, J Imber 1430h OS13D-03 Experimental modeling of slope instabilities along strike-slip continental margins: B Vendeville, L Loncke, V Gaullier, A Lacoste, L Folens 1445h OS13D-04 Structural analysis of multiple phases of gravity deformation in the Foz do Amazonas Basin using seismic interpretation and experimental modelling: R Perovano, B Vendeville, A dos Reis, C G Silva, ÉRIKA Araújo, C Gorini 1500h OS13D-05 SHELF-TO-BASIN ARCHITECTURE AND EVOLUTION OF THE ROSETTA SYSTEM (WESTERN NILE DELTA): A MODERN ANALOGUE OF DEEP-WATER RESERVOIRS: P Rouillard, S Migeon, E du Fornel, J Mascle 1515h OS13D-06 Gravity Driven Slumps and Turbidites from the Frontal Ridge of Cascadia’s Accretionary Wedge, Canada: Controls from Deglacial Sedimentation, Tectonics and Gas Hydrates: R J Enkin, T S Hamilton, M Riedel, J Pohlman 1530h OS13D-07 Coastline orientation guided by various gravitydriven processes, as evidenced on coastal chalk cliffs of the eastern English Channel: A Duperret, J Le Cossec, B Vendeville, S Elineau SA13A Room Expocenter II-III Monday 1400h Electrodynamical Coupling of the Atmospheric System due to Thunderstorm Electrical Activity III Posters Presiding: F T São Sabbas, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais - INPE; D D Sentman, Univ Alaska Fairbanks 1400h SA13A-01 POSTER Halos: The Dark Horse in the Race to Understand TLEs: E Williams, T Adachi, C Kuo, J Bor, G Satori, R T Newsome, R A Boldi, E Downes, M M Saba, M J Taylor, A B Chen, W A Lyons 1400h SA13A-02 POSTER TLEs Observation in Colombia: D Aranguren, D Romero, J Montanya, O A Van Der Velde, H Torres 1400h SA13A-03 POSTER Meteorological Characteristics of TLE Generating Convective Systems Observed in South America During Campaigns in Brazil: R D Azambuja, F T São Sabbas, J P Santiago 1400h SA13A-04 POSTER The reality of locating Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes with a coded-mask imager on the ISS: P H Connell 1400h SA13A-05 POSTER The Modular X- and Gamma-Ray Sensor for the ISS ASIM Payload: On-Board Event Processing and TGF Search Algorithms: C Eyles, V Reglero, J Rodrigo 1400h SA13A-06 POSTER An Attempt to Measure the Spatial Distribution of Neutrons Produced by Lightning Discharges: M A Alves, I M Martin 1400h SA13A-07 POSTER Penetration of lightning electric fields in mesosphere/lower ionosphere generating sprites: C L da Silva, F T São Sabbas SA13B Room Expocenter II-III Monday SPA-Aeronomy General Contributions Posters 1400h Presiding: I M Martin, Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica Seismology S13A Room Iguassu IV Monday 1400h Advances in Seismic Data Analysis Methods I (joint with NS) Presiding: A Novais, Unicamp; J C Costa, Federal University of Para; J Schleicher, IMECC / UNICAMP; P L Stoffa, The University of Texas; J M Harris, Stanford University 1400h S13A-01 Accurate Time Extrapolation of Seismic Wave Fields for Modelling and Imaging (Invited): P L Stoffa, R Pestana 1415h S13A-02 Continuous Seismic Monitoring of Subsurface Reservoirs (Invited): J M Harris 1430h S13A-03 Estimation of 3D geological dip and curvature from time-migrated zero-offset reflections: M Tygel, B Ursin, E Iversen, M V De Hoop 20 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1400h SA13B-01 POSTER Dynamics of the upper atmosphere X-ray emission from maximum to minimum of 23rd solar cycle registered by CORONAS-F satellite: G I Pugacheva, A A Gusev, I M Martin, W N Spjeldvik 1400h SA13B-02 POSTER On the Energetic Electron Precipitation Eenergy Deposition Into the Earth’s Middle Atmosphere: W N Spjeldvik, I M Martin, A A Gusev, G I Pugacheva 1400h SA13B-03 POSTER High-latitude Observations of Atmospheric Gravity Waves in the Mesopause Region: P Pautet, M J Taylor 1400h SA13B-04 POSTER Inter-hemispheric origin of the QBO signal in polar summer mesospheric temperatures: P J Espy, S Ochoa Fernández 1400h SA13B-05 POSTER First Observations Of The Planetary Waves Signature On The Airglow and Rotational Temperatures Measured In Japan: F Egito, H Takahashi, K Shiokawa SA13C Room Iguassu III Monday The Equatorial Ionosphere/Thermosphere System I 1400h Presiding: F S Rodrigues, ASTRA; O de la Beaujardiere, Air Force Research Laboratory 1400h SA13C-01 C/NOFS Science Results, and Plans for a Followon Mission: O de la Beaujardiere, R F Pfaff, L C Gentile, Y Su, J M Retterer, C Roth, T Caudill, D E Hunton 1415h SA13C-02 Self-Consistent Modeling of Equatorial Dawn Density Depletions with SAMI3 (Invited): J D Huba 1430h SA13C-03 DC Electric Fields and their Association with Plasma Density as Observed on the C/NOFS Satellite During Solar Minimum Conditions (Invited): R F Pfaff, H Freudenreich, J H Klenzing, D E Rowland, K R Bromund 1445h SA13C-04 Large-scale periodic plasma depletions seeded by gravity waves in the midnight-dawn sector during current solar minimum (Invited): C Huang, O de la Beaujardiere, P A Roddy, D E Hunton, R F Pfaff, C E Valladares 1500h SA13C-05 Study of Equatorial Spread-F with Satellite Beacon Network in Asia and Pacific Regions (Invited): M Yamamoto, S Thampi, Y Otsuka, T Tsugawa, T Nagatsuma, R T Tsunoda 1515h SA13C-06 Investigating the Ionospheric Bubble Structures Observed from Northeastern Brazil: P Pautet, N P Chapagain, M J Taylor, A F Medeiros, R A Buriti, J J Makela, H Takahashi, D C Fritts 1530h SA13C-07 Radar measurements of daytime equatorial electric fields in the Brazilian longitude sector: F S Rodrigues, E R de Paula, J L Chau, D L Hysell, R A Heelis 1545h SA13C-08 CONTINUAL 24-HOUR OBSERVATIONS OF THERMOSPHERIC WINDS MADE WITH THE SOFDI INSTRUMENT FROM HUANCAYO, PERU: A J Gerrard, J W Meriwether SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics SH13A Room Iguassu V Monday 1400h Multiwavelength Solar Observations:The Sun From Ground and Space I Presiding: L Balmaceda, ICATE - CONICET; H Cremades, FRMUTN/CONICET 1400h SH13A-01 Sub-THz emission mechanisms in solar flares (Invited): E P Kontar, G D Fleishman 1430h SH13A-02 H-alpha dynamic solar flare counterparts at subTHz and microwaves of the 8 February 2010 M2.2 GOES X-ray burst: P Kaufmann, R Marcon, C G de Castro, E Correia, L Olavo, R Godoy, A Marun 1445h SH13A-03 Solar flare emissions at X-rays, Submm-waves, Microwaves and Decameter wavelengths detected on 20 January 2010 GOES M3.4 event: P Kaufmann, G Holman, Y Su, C G de Castro, E Correia, L Olavo, R V Souza, R Godoy, A Marun 1500h SH13A-04 Observations of a small-scale vortex flow in the solar photosphere: L Balmaceda, S Vargas-Domínguez, J Palacios Hernandez, I Cabello, V Domingo 1515h SH13A-05 On the Solar Source of Events Seen by Ulysses at High Heliospheric Latitudes (Invited): D J Maia, J Blanco Rodríguez, J S Morgado, P Gonçalves, M Pimenta 1545h SH13A-06 3D structure of CMEs observed with STEREO/ SECCHI: V Bothmer, E Bosman, A F Thernisien Tectonophysics T13A Room Iguacu I Monday Amalgamating Western Gondwana I (joint with GP, PP) 1400h Presiding: M Babinski, University of São Paulo; E Tohver, University of Western Australia 1400h T13A-01 THE EDIACARAN-CAMBRIAN APPARENT POLAR WANDER PATH FOR THE RIO DE LA PLATA CRATON: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ASSEMBLY OF WESTERN GONDWANA (Invited): A E Rapalini, L Sanchez Bettucci, R I Trindade, D Poiré, D Richarte, A C Lossada, E Tohver 1415h T13A-02 EARLY PALEOZOIC PALEOMAGNETIC POLES OF NW ARGENTINA AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ASSEMBLY OF SW GONDWANA: C M Spagnuolo, A E Rapalini, R A Astini 1430h T13A-03 Cambrian suturing of SW-Gondwana in the South Atlantic belt (Invited): R D Schmitt, R Trouw, N Stanton, C Passchier 1445h T13A-04 Stratigraphic and Paleostress evolution of the Ediacaran to Cambrian basin system of Southeastern South America: implications for the post-collisional history of the Southern Mantiqueira Province: R P de Almeida, A S Fragoso-Cesar, L Janikian, M G dos Santos 1500h T13A-05 The Neoproterozoic Sergipano orogenic belt, NE Brazil: a complete plate tectonic cycle in western Gondwana: E P Oliveira, B F Windley, M Araujo 1515h T13A-06 Early Suturing of W Gondwana Along the Southern Brasília Belt, Brazil (Invited): M Brown 1530h T13A-07 A Model for the Development of the Araçuaí-West Congo and Ribeira orogens during the Neoproterozoic Assembly of West Gondwana: F Alkmim, A Pedrosa-Soares, C Noce, C T Silva 1545h T13A-08 CORRELATION OF NEOPROTEROZOIC TERRANES BETWEEN THE RIBEIRA BELT, SE BRAZIL AND ITS AFRICAN COUNTERPART, WESTERN GONDWANA: COMPARATIVE TECTONIC EVOLUTION AND OPEN QUESTIONS: M Heilbron, C D Valeriano, C Tassinari, J Almeida, M Tupinambá, O Siga Júnior, R Trouw Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology V13A Room Expocenter II-III Monday 1400h Magmatism and the Evolution of Andean Type Crust and Lithosphere II Posters (joint with T) Presiding: S M Kay, Cornell University; P Caffe, Instituto de Geologia y Mineria - Universidad Nacional de Jujuy; R A Becchio, UNSa-CONICET 1400h V13A-01 POSTER Lower Paleozoic Volcanic Events in the Northern Famatina System, Argentina: Its Implications for Understanding the Evolution of the Famatinian Arc, as Part of the History of the Central Andes Continental Crust: B Coira, Title of Team: Scientific Team of Puna Volcanism 1400h V13A-02 POSTER Andesitic to Dacitic Volcanism in the Miocene Back-Arc (30°30’S-69°30’W) over the Pampean Flat Slab, Southern Central Andes, Argentina: S Poma, V D Litvak 1400h V13A-03 POSTER PETROGENESIS OF LEUCOGRANITES AND TRONDJHEMITES OF MOLINOS, SALTA, NW ARGENTINA: CONSTRAINTS FROM GEOCHEMICAL MODELING OF MIGMATITIC LEUCOSOMES: A Sola, R A Becchio 1400h V13A-04 POSTER Evolution of Middle to Late Miocene ArcRelated Magmatism Between 35° and 38°S, Southern Central Andes, Argentina: V D Litvak, M G Spagnuolo, A Folguera, V A Ramos 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 21 1400h V13A-05 POSTER The Northernmost Expression of the Gondwana Magmatism in Argentina: New Geochemical and Age Data: S Quenardelle, S Poma, E O Zappettini, M Koukharsky, J O Santos 1400h V13A-06 POSTER Three types of peraluminous volcanic rocks from the Pairique complex, northern Puna: crustal melting and magma contamination in the central Andes: P Caffe, R B Trumbull, W Siebel Atmospheric Sciences A14A Room Expocenter I Monday 1630h Downscaling Techniques for Reproducing Climate Variability in South America I (joint with H) Presiding: J A Marengo, CCST INPE; D Mendes, CCST/INPE 1630h A14A-01 Large-scale changes in precipitation and temperature in South America under climate change - ensemble climate model projections and uncertainties: L M Alves, J A Marengo, R Betts, R Jones, C S Chan, G Kay 1650h A14A-02 Multi-member Downscaling Simulation of Climate Variability over Northeast Brazil: A A Costa, O L Menezes Neto, L Sun, C D Silveira, F D Vasconcelos Júnior 1710h A14A-03 Simulation of southern and central South American climate with the regional model CCLM: S Wagner 1730h A14A-04 Downscaling of South America present and future climates forced by HadCM3 A1B runs: S Chou, J A Marengo, A Lyra, G Sueiro, J F Pesquero, L Alves, D Chagas, J Gomes, P D Tavares, D Rodrigues, N Resende 1750h A14A-05 Assessing a regional climate model’s downscaling ability in reproducing the seasonal precipitation and inter-annual precipitation variability over South America with the intensity-scale verification technique: F De Sales, Y Xue 1810h A14A-06 Sensitivity Analysis of RegCM3 to the Variation of the Land Surface Parameterization: a Study for the Amazon Rainforest: M Llopart, R P da Rocha, L Kruger A14B Room A1 Gravity Waves II (joint with SA) Monday 1630h Presiding: M Pulido, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste; H Chun, Yonsei University; P Preusse, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH; M Alexander, NWRA 1630h A14B-01 WITHDRAWN 1700h A14B-02 Characteristics of wave propagation encountered during T-Rex experiment: H Teitelbaum, M Moustaoui, A Mahalov 1715h A14B-03 High Gravity Wave Activity Observed in Patagonia, Southern America: Generation by a Cyclone Passage over Andes Mountain Range: M Pulido, M M Lucini, C Rodas, H Teitelbaum 1730h A14B-04 Gravity Waves Produced by Potential Vorticity Anomalies (Invited): F Lott, R Plougonven, J Vanneste 1800h A14B-05 Gravity Waves during the 2009 Major Sudden Stratospheric Warming: V Limpasuvan, M Alexander, Y Orsolini, D L Wu, M Xue 1815h A14B-06 Na Lidar and OH Imager Observations of Gravity Waves in the Arctic Winter Mesopause Region: B P Williams, D C Fritts, M J Taylor, P Pautet 22 2010 The Meeting of the Americas Biogeosciences B14A Room A3 Monday Biogeosciences General Contributions I 1630h Presiding: E A Davidson, Woods Hole Research Ctr; K Cunningham, University of Alaska; A C Sigleo, Oregon State University 1630h B14A-01 Atlantic Forest: the most ancient Brazilian forest, and a biodiversity hotspot, is highly threatened by climate change (Invited): C A Joly, A F Colombo, Title of Team: BIOTA Functional Gradient Team 1645h B14A-02 Interactive Fire Scheme for a Land Surface Model: Y Sun, R E Dickinson 1700h B14A-03 WITHDRAWN 1715h B14A-04 Encoding LiDAR Return Data in an Image Format for Automated Biomass Classification and Estimation: K Cunningham, Title of Team: Alaska Satellite Facility 1730h B14A-05 GRASSLANDS VEGETATION DYNAMICS IN TEMPORAL SERIES OF VEGETATION INDEX AND METEOROLOGICAL DATA: T M Kuplich, B S Costa, T A Pereira 1745h B14A-06 Temporal Dynamics of C18O16O Composition of the Net CO2 Flux in the Understory of a Temperate Deciduous Forest in Canada: E A Santos, C Wagner-Riddle, J S Warland, X Lee, S E Brown, P A Bartlett, R M Staebler 1800h B14A-07 Photochemistry of Resuspended Sediments: Effects on Dissolved Organic and Inorganic Nutrients and Trace Metals: S A Skrabal, M Southwell, L Thompson, L Larson, G B Avery, R J Kieber, R N Mead 1815h B14A-08 Stable Isotopic Indicators of Nutrient Sources and Cycling in a Temperate Northeastern Pacific Estuary, USA: A C Sigleo, W E Frick B14B Room A2 Monday 1630h Savanna Ecosystems: Regional and Global Interactions I (joint with GC) Presiding: M Bustamante, Universidade de Brasília; N P Hanan, Colorado State Univ. 1630h B14B-01 Water Economy and Leaf Trait Relationships in Savanna Woody Species of Central Brazil: A C Franco, C D Ferreira, D R Rossatto, M Haridasan 1645h B14B-02 Effects of Plant Species Identity and Nitrogen Deposition on Leaf Litter Decomposition in the Cerrado: L V Silva, H Vasconcelos, E M Bruna 1700h B14B-03 Second generation dynamic vegetation models: Linking plant trait data and savanna vegetation dynamics: S Scheiter, S I Higgins 1715h B14B-04 Temperature, Soil Moisture, and Carbon Effects on Soil Respiration of Gran Chaco Soils: N L Ascarrunz, S C Reed 1730h B14B-05 Nitrogen trace gas emissions N2O and NOx from natural and agricultural savanna soils. Implications for the Orinoco savannas global nitrogen budget. (Invited): T J Perez, S Marquina, L Donoso, E Sanhueza 1745h B14B-06 Conservation Planning in the Face of Uncertainty: Modeling the Potential for Surprise in Coupled Human and Natural Systems Under Future Climate Change, Population Growth and Wildfire Hazard in a Former Savanna and Prairie Ecosystem, Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA: B R Johnson, R G Ribe, D W Hulse, J P Bolte, S D Bridgham, T Sheehan, G I Yospin, M Neilsen-Pincus, A A Ager, J A Kertis, D M Bachelet, R P Neilson, D R Conklin, C A Harrington, P J Gould 1800h B14B-07 SAFARI 2000 Revisited: What Have We Learned Ten Years Later Concerning Regional Functioning of Savanna Ecosystems?: R J Swap, J L Privette, D P Roy, H H Shugart, S E Platnick, T M Scanlon, K K Caylor, P D’Odorico, C HelyAlleaume 1815h B14B-08 Land Cover Change Dynamics over the Brazilian Savanna: Future Scenarios and Perspectives of Conservation: M E Ferreira, L G Ferreira, F Miziara, B Soares-Filho Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism GP14A Room Iguacu II Monday 1630h Environmental Magnetic Records of Events Affecting and Affected by Humans I (joint with GC, PP) Presiding: E Petrovsky, Institute of Geophysics ASCR; C Zhang, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Science; M A Chaparro, IFAS-CONICET 1630h GP14A-01 Magnetic Minerals in Solid Waste Landfill Leachate (Invited): S Bijaksana, E K Huliselan 1645h GP14A-02 Magnetic evidences of Lisbon 1755 tsunami in reworked litoral sediments (Invited): E Font, C Nascimento, R Omira, M Viana-Baptista, P F Silva 1700h GP14A-03 Environmental Magnetic Study on Bed Load Sediments from Luján River, Argentina: M Mena, J L Dupuy 1712h GP14A-04 Magnetic properties of river sediments downstream of a steel plant: C Zhang, Q Qiao, B Huang 1724h GP14A-05 Magnetic studies and elemental determination on sediments from ponds located in a permanent human settlement (Marambio Station) in Antarctica: M A Chaparro, H Nuñez, J M Lirio, A M Sinito 1736h GP14A-06 Magnetic properties of sediments due to hydrocarbon-contaminated ground water (Invited): E Petrovsky, M Rijal, K Porsch, E Appel, A Kappler, U Blaha, J Baffoe 1751h GP14A-07 Magnetic Monitoring of urban top soils from Mexico’s medium size cities: B Aguilar Reyes, F Bautista, A Goguitchaichrili, C Carvallo, J Battu, O Morton 1806h GP14A-08 Where Is Natural Background in Modern Environmental Magnetism?: E Petrovsky, A Kapicka, E Font, P F Silva 1818h GP14A-09 WITHDRAWN Global Environmental Change GC14A Room C2 Monday 1630h Coastal Wetland Response to Climate Change II (joint with OS, A) Presiding: S Patchineelam; C Sanders, Universidade Federal Fluminense; J M Smoak, Univ. of South Florida 1630h GC14A-01 Tipping Points of Change in Coastal Everglades Wetlands: Causes and Consequences: T J Smith 1655h GC14A-02 Organic Carbon Sequestration and Sea Level Rise: S Naidu, C Sanders, L Sanders, S R Patchineelam, J M Smoak 1720h GC14A-03 Future Salt Marsh Stability: M Pejrup, T J Andersen, S Svinth 1737h GC14A-04 Vulnerability of Mangroves and Fishermen to Climate Change: the Special Case of Protected Areas: L F Faraco, P D Lana 1754h GC14A-05 Organic carbon burial from mangrove, margin and intertidal mud flat; sedimentation and sea level rise: C J Sanders, S R Patchineelam, L Sanders 1811h GC14A-06 Aminoacids in Sediments of the Arari Lake, North of Brazil: S R Patchineelam, H R Santos Natural Hazards NH14A Room C3 Monday 1630h Natural Hazards of the Americas in Focus of Geosciences I (joint with V, S, T, GC, A, G) Presiding: A Ismail-Zadeh, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; V G Kossobokov, Intl Inst Earthquake Prediction Theory & Math Geoph, RAS 1630h NH14A-01 Natural Hazards At Extreme: Predictive Understanding Versus Complex Reality: V G Kossobokov 1645h NH14A-02 Indicators of Disaster Risk and Risk Management in the Americas: Updated Assessment 2010: O D Cardona, M L Carreño 1700h NH14A-03 Seismic Hazard in Americas in Revision by Unified Scaling Law for Earthquakes (Invited): A K Nekrasova 1715h NH14A-04 Scenarios Based Earthquake Hazard Assessment (Invited): F Romanelli, A Peresan, F Vaccari, G F Panza 1730h NH14A-05 Hazard evaluation in Valparaiso: the MAR VASTO Project: F Romanelli, Title of Team: The MAR VASTO Project Team 1745h NH14A-06 INTEGRATED URBAN FLOOD MANAGEMENT IN LATIN AMERICA: C E Tucci 1800h NH14A-07 Statistical prediction of storm surge in the New York Metropolitan area: H Salmun, A M Molod, K Wisniewska, F Buonaiuto 1815h NH14A-08 Multiple meteoroid impacts in Antarctica and the mid-Brunhes Event/MIS 11 Stage:if there’s a connection,what are the implications for humanity?: A R Rice, J Weihaupt, F van der Hoeven Near Surface Geophysics NS14A Room Cedro I Monday 1630h Open Reference Data Sets, Software, and Control Test Sites Presiding: J M Lorenzo, Louisiana State University; J L Porsani, Universidade de São Paulo 1635h NS14A-01 Test Site at University of São Paulo, Brazil: A Laboratory of Teaching and Research in Near Surface Geophysics: J L Porsani 1655h NS14A-02 Use of Neural Network Methodology Applied to GPR data for Automatic Classification of Metallic and Plastic Targets buried at IAG/USP Geophysical Test Site, São Paulo, Brazil: V Santos, J L Porsani, N Hirata 1715h NS14A-03 Joint inversion of DC and TEM data: preliminarily results: C A Bortolozo, J L Porsani, E L de Abreu, E R Almeida, F M Santos 1735h NS14A-04 TDEM Survey at University of São Paulo (USP) Campus Applied to Hydrogeological Studies: Preliminary Results: E R Almeida, J L Porsani, C A Bortolozo 1755h NS14A-05 Temperature logging in borehole wells of IAGUSP Geophysical Test Site: F Y Hiodo, N Silva, J L Porsani, T H Yamabe 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 23 Ocean Sciences SPA-Aeronomy OS14A Room C1 Monday 1630h Influence of Rivers and Estuaries on Physical and Biogeochemical Processes in the Oceans II (joint with B, H) SA14A Room Iguassu III Monday 1630h Coupling Processes in Equatorial Ionospheric Irregularities I (joint with SM) Presiding: L Martinelli; E Campos, University of Sao Paulo Presiding: M A Abdu, Inst Nat Pesquisas Espac; I S Batista, INPE; H Takahashi, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espacias 1630h OS14A-01 The Dynamics of Coastal Carbon Cycling in Large-River Delta-Front Estuaries (LDE) (Invited): T S Bianchi 1645h OS14A-02 WITHDRAWN 1700h OS14A-03 On the upstream spreading of bottom trapped plumes: R P Matano, E D Palma 1715h OS14A-04 Simulation of physical-biological processes in coastal areas of the southern North Sea. (Invited): P Luyten, G Lacroix, S Legrand, J Ozer 1730h OS14A-05 Pattern of Coastal Responses to Changing River Inputs in the Tropics (Invited): V Ittekkot 1745h OS14A-06 Trophic dynamics (NID and DIP) in urbanized tropical estuarine systems in Northeastern Brazil: C Noriega, M Araujo 1800h OS14A-07 Dioxide Carbon fluxes at the air-sea interface in a tropical well-mixed estuary, Northeastern Brazil: P Façanha, C Noriega, M Araujo 1815h OS14A-08 Quantification of Nutrient Sources in Coastal Lagoons of Gulf of California, México: D Escobedo-Urias, A Martinez-Lopez, J E Cloern, A Y Chiquete-Ozono, Title of Team: Scientific Team of Coastal Eutrophication studies in Gulf of California Seismology S14A Room Iguassu IV Seismic Wave Scattering Monday 1630h Presiding: K Bataille, University of Concepcion; M Korn, Leipzgi University 1630h S14A-01 Theory and method of seismic imaging using multiply scattered waves in strong scattering media (Invited): R Wu, Y He 1700h S14A-02 A test of the equi-partition hypothesis for S-wave coda using borehole records of local earthquakes (Invited): H Nakahara, L Margerin 1730h S14A-03 Ambient Noise Correlations in the Short Period Band - What do they contain?: M Korn 1745h S14A-04 Attempt to investigate shallow structure at the active fault by using seismic interferometry: M Miyazawa 1800h S14A-05 Characteristics of the high-frequency P-wave propagation thorough the crust and upper mantle: observation and computer simulation: S Takemura, T Furumura 1815h S14A-06 Envelope of coda waves for a double-couple source due to non-linear elasticity: I Calisto, K Bataille 24 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1630h SA14A-01 Seeding of Equatorial Spread F: Large-Scale Wave Structure (Invited): R T Tsunoda 1650h SA14A-02 3D Modeling of Equatorial Spread F: J D Huba, G R Joyce, J Krall 1703h SA14A-03 UV observations of ionospheric irregularities (Invited): L J Paxton, H Kil, J Comberiate, E S Miller, Y Zhang, Title of Team: GUVI Science Team 1723h SA14A-04 Simultaneous optical observation of mesospheric gravity waves and ionospheric plasma bubbles during the COPEX campaign: I Paulino, H Takahashi, A F Medeiros, C M Wrasse, R A Buriti, J H Sobral, D Gobbi 1736h SA14A-05 Gravity Wave Effects on the Equatorial Evening Prereversal Vertical Drift and Spread F: M A Abdu, E Kherani, I S Batista, E R de Paula, J H Sobral 1749h SA14A-06 VHF Radar Observations of Nighttime F-Region FAIs Over Indonesia (Invited): Y Otsuka, K Shiokawa, T Ogawa, . Effendy 1809h SA14A-07 Midnight zonal drifts reversal of ionospheric plasma bubbles over the Brazilian region: Climatology and theoretical validation (Invited): J H Sobral, V M de Castilho, M A Abdu, H Takahashi, I Paulino, D C Arruda, M Mascarenhas, C J Zamlutti, C M Denardini, D Koga, A F Medeiros, R A Buriti SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics SH14A Room Iguassu V Monday 1630h Searching for a Minimum “Ground State” for the Sun I Presiding: D F Webb, Boston College; C Mandrini 1635h SH14A-01 Solar Internal Dynamics and the Unusual Minimum of Sunspot Cycle 23 (Invited): D Nandi, A MunozJaramillo, P C Martens 1655h SH14A-02 Search for a Thermospheric Ground State Suspended due to Cold and Dark (Invited): S C Solomon 1715h SH14A-03 Comparison of Solar Wind and Transient Data During the Last Two Solar Minima: D F Webb 1730h SH14A-04 Cycle 24 Begins in Earnest with Emergence of Small Scale Field: The Transport of Magnetic Flux to Small Scales: R J Leamon, S W Mcintosh 1745h SH14A-05 3-D Reconstruction of the Inner Heliosphere: An Attempt to Define a Minimum Global Solar Wind State: B Jackson, P Hick, J Clover, A Buffington, M Bisi 1800h SH14A-06 The Heliospheric Current Sheet During the Peculiar Solar Minimum 23/24: K Mursula, I Virtanen 1815h SH14A-07 Possible Predictions of Two Major Coronal Mass Ejections During the WHI Period: N V Nitta Tectonophysics T14A Room Iguacu I Monday Amalgamating Western Gondwana II (joint with GP, PP) 1630h Presiding: A S Collins, University of Adelaide; R I Trindade, University of Sao Paulo 1630h T14A-01 The assembly of Gondwana:East to West: J G Meert, V R Pradhan 1645h T14A-02 The Malagasy Orogeny – the Ediacaran-Cambrian Collision between India and Congo-Sao Francisco: A S Collins 1700h T14A-03 Geochronology of the Ad Dawadimi Terrane, Saudi Arabia: Implications for the timing of closure of the Mozambique Ocean: G Cox, C Lewis, A S Collins, J Foden, G P Halverson, D Nettle 1715h T14A-04 New U-Pb ages and field constraints on Neoproterozoic rifting and magmatism on the southern margin of the Congo craton: B Mcgee, G P Halverson, A S Collins 1730h T14A-05 Neoproterozoic Provenance analysis and tectonic setting of the Taoudeni Basin, Northern Mauritania: J Tait, G Nicoll, G B Straathof, K Lo, M Dahmada, N Ousmane, J Berndt 1745h T14A-06 Paleomagnetic and Geochronological Evidence for the Late Cambrian Formation of West Gondwana: E Tohver, A E Rapalini, L Sanchez Bettucci, E Rossello, P A Cawood 1800h T14A-07 Structural analysis of the Itapucumí Group in the Vallemí Region, Northern Paraguay: Evidence of a New Brasiliano / Pan-African Mobile Belt: G Campanha, L Warren, P Boggiani, C Grohmann, A Cáceres 1815h T14A-08 Paraguay Belt: The wind-up of Gondwana: M F Figueiredo, M Babinski, Title of Team: CPGeo 0800h U21A-06 POSTER Constraining the timing of the Lesotho eruptive sequence (Karoo traps): a relation with the end-Pliensbachian/early Toarcian extinction events?: M Moulin, F fluteau, V E Courtillot, J Marsh, G DELPECH, X Quidelleur, M Gerard 0800h U21A-07 POSTER Environmental impact of subaerial large igneous provinces: tracking pulses: V E Courtillot, F fluteau, M Moulin, A Chenet 0800h U21A-08 POSTER Volcanism and regional positive carbon isotope excursion in the upper Permian Irati Formation, Southern South America: R V Santos, E L Dantas, C S Alvarenga, C Oliveira, E M Guimarães, C W Anjos 0800h U21A-09 POSTER Episodes of Biotic Crisis in Coastal Lagoons of Rio de Janeiro: Similarities with Mass Extinctions of endPermian and end-Cretaceous times: V Hamza U21B Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 0800h International Collaboration in Earth and Space Sciences: Present Status, Needs, and Future Perspectives II Posters Presiding: J U Fucugauchi, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; A Ismail-Zadeh, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; G A Good, American Institute of Physics Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 0800h U21B-01 POSTER Arthur Compton’s Journeys to South America: Diplomacy and Cosmic Ray Scientific Research on the Eve of the II World War: I L Silva, O Freire 0800h U21B-02 POSTER Research and Graduate Studies in Geophysics in Brazil – Notes on the Role of Petrobrás and the Case of the Universidade Federal da Bahia: A Ribeiro, J Clemente, O Freire 0800h U21B-03 POSTER International collaboration between Brazilian and foreign scientists as seen through bibliographical sources from 1980 to 2000: S F Figueirôa, L C Ortiz PP15A Room Expocenter I Monday 1845h Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Plenary Session Atmospheric Sciences Presiding: R S Bradley, University of Massachusetts A21A Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 0800h Data Assimilation Techniques III Posters (joint with IN, OS, G) 1845h PP15A-01 Synchronous shifts in precipitation tied to the location of the thermal equator: W S Broecker Tuesday A.M. Union U21A Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday Flood Basalts and Mass Extinctions Posters 0800h Presiding: V M Hamza, Observatório Nacional; M Ernesto, University of Sao Paulo; P R Renne, Berkeley Geochronology Ctr 0800h U21A-01 WITHDRAWN 0800h U21A-02 WITHDRAWN 0800h U21A-03 WITHDRAWN 0800h U21A-04 POSTER Compound-specific carbon isotopes directly link end-Triassic extinction to CAMP flood basalt eruptions: J H Whiteside, P E Olsen, T I Eglinton, M E Brookfield, R Sambrotto 0800h U21A-05 POSTER Preliminary dating of the Viluy traps: eruption at the time of Late Devonian extinction events?: X Quidelleur, V E Courtillot, V A Kravchinsky, P R Renne, D P Gladkochub Presiding: W Lahoz, NILU; M Pulido, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste 0800h A21A-01 WITHDRAWN 0800h A21A-02 POSTER Impact of Precipitation Assimilation in CPTEC’S RPSAS System: A Case Study of Mesoscale Convective Complexes: C F Bastarz, D L Herdies, J P Reyes Fernandez 0800h A21A-03 POSTER Different approaches for parameter estimation based on Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter using the Lorenz’s model: J J Ruiz, M Pulido 0800h A21A-04 POSTER The moisture budget over Amazon region during the BARCA/LBA campaign: D L Herdies, L F Sapucci, L Goncalves, J G Mattos, J A Aravequia, S B Costa 0800h A21A-05 WITHDRAWN 0800h A21A-06 POSTER How the LETKF/GCM-CPTEC Analysis Reproduces the Observation’s Time Scales Signal?: J A Aravequia, M S Medeiros, D L Herdies, S S Souza 0800h A21A-07 POSTER Impact of the scheme of deep convection in the global data assimilation system LETKF of the CPTEC/INPE: S S Souza, S N Figueroa, D L Herdies, J A Aravequia, J P Bonatti, L Goncalves, P Y Kubota, L F Sapucci, S H Ferreira, J G Mattos 0800h A21A-08 POSTER Assessing the data assimilation system 4D-LETKF/AGCM-CPTEC using data from the BARCA/LBA field experiment: M S Medeiros, J A Aravequia, D L Herdies, S S Souza 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 25 0800h A21A-09 POSTER The Inclusion of Humidity Estimates from Brazilian Ground-based GNSS Network into the CPTEC/ INPE Global Data Assimilation System: L F Sapucci, L Goncalves, D L Herdies A21B Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 0800h Downscaling Techniques for Reproducing Climate Variability in South America II Posters (joint with H) Presiding: J A Marengo, CCST INPE; D Mendes, CCST/INPE 0800h A21B-01 POSTER Statistical Downscaling of the Present Climate in São Paulo, Brazil: P D Tavares, S Chou 0800h A21B-02 POSTER Evaluation of the climate change impact using mesoscale regional model: H F Campos Velho, N Vijaykumar, T M Kuplich, S E Ferraz, D R Roberti, A S Charão, N Streck, J D Carvalho, G B Diniz, W Collischonn, D Allasia, P O Navaux, N Maillard, B Radin, R Matzenauer, R P Souto 0800h A21B-03 POSTER Interannual Variability, Errors and Biases in a Present Climate Simulation over Southern South America: J Blázquez, M N Nuñez 0800h A21B-04 POSTER Downscaling Large-Scale Atmospheric Information To Local Scales Using A Two Step Statistical Method: M L Bettolli, O C Penalba, J Ribalaygua, L Torres Michelena 0800h A21B-05 POSTER Can RCMs Properly Represent the Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation in the Tropics? Evaluating the Northeast Brazil Case: C D Silveira, A A Costa, F D Vasconcelos Júnior, O L Menezes 0800h A21B-06 POSTER Climatology of the incoming solar radiation at ground level over Northeast Brazil using atmospheric model: O L Menezes, A A Costa, E P Martins, J L Oliveira, F D Vasconcelos Júnior, C D Silveira 0800h A21B-07 POSTER COMPARISON OF SEASONAL FORECAST PRODUCED BY NESTING REGIONAL ETA MODEL IN CGCM AND IN AGCM: I Lopes Pilotto Domingues, S Chou, P Nobre A21C Room Expocenter I Tuesday 0800h Limb Techniques for Monitoring Trace Gas and Aerosol Vertical Distribution I Presiding: R P Loughman, Hampton University 0800h A21C-01 Applications of Limb Remote Sensing Retrieval Products (Invited): L E Flynn, J Hornstein, C S Long, P Xu 0820h A21C-02 WITHDRAWN 0835h A21C-03 Limb Scattering and Occultation Measurement Opportunities from the International Space Station Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) III Mission: R P Loughman, D F Rault, J M Zawodny, G Taha, D E Flittner, M P McCormick 0850h A21C-04 The OMPS Limb Profiler instrument. TwoDimensional retrieval algorithm: D F Rault 0905h A21C-05 Atmospheric Remote Sensing using Satellite Limb Measurements: Current Status and Capabilities (Invited): C von Savigny 0925h A21C-06 DATA PRODUCT AND EVALUATION PLANS FOR THE OMPS LIMB SENSOR: G Jaross, D E Flittner, T J Kelly 0940h A21C-07 OSIRIS on Odin: A decade of data: D A Degenstein, A E Bourassa, C McLinden, N D Lloyd, Title of Team: OSIRIS Team 26 2010 The Meeting of the Americas A21D Room A1 Tuesday Mesoscale Convective Systems Over the Americas I 0800h Presiding: V Anabor, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria; M F Dias, Univ. of Sao Paulo; M Nicolini, Centro de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas/Univ. de Buenos Aires 0800h A21D-01 Hail Storms in the Andes Region (Mendoza, Argentina) and their Relation with Large Amplitude Mountain Waves (Invited): A de la Torre, R Hierro, P Llamedo, A Rolla, P M Alexander 0815h A21D-02 Energetics of South America Low Level Jets: S H Ferreira, M A Gan, D L Herdies 0830h A21D-03 South American low level jet structure using a regional climate model: A C Remedio, D Jacob, S Pfeifer 0845h A21D-04 Regional Climate Modeling of MCCs over Southeast South America: H B Gomes, T Ambrizzi, R P da Rocha 0900h A21D-05 Regional and mesoscale influences on precipitation in the eastern Amazon Basin: J C Cohen, D R Fitzjarrald 0915h A21D-06 The influence of the South Atlantic Convergence Zone on South American mesoscale convective complexes: J Durkee, T L Mote 0930h A21D-07 Synoptic and Mesoscales analysis of the hydrometeorological events in two basins in the Colombian Andes Mountains: G E Marin, J Gutierrez 0945h A21D-08 September 07, 2009 the Severe Stroms outbrake over Souther South Amercia: Microburst events over South Brazil: V Anabor, Title of Team: GruMA / Atmospheric Modeling Group of Santa Maria Biogeosciences B21A Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 0800h Remote Sensing Applications in Seasonally Dry Tropical Ecosystems II Posters Presiding: L G Ferreira, Federal University of Goiás; M Palace, Complex System Research Center 0800h B21A-01 POSTER Surface albedo from Landsat 5 – TM images in areas of forest and pasture in Amazonia: A Liberato 0800h B21A-02 WITHDRAWN 0800h B21A-03 POSTER LAI Retrievals over Brazilian Soybean Areas using MODIS/Terra Data: F M Breunig, L S Galvão, A R Formaggio, J C Epiphanio 0800h B21A-04 POSTER Seasonal dynamics of leaf-spectral properties of grasses and trees along an environmental gradient in an African savanna: M D Delgado-Cartay, S I Higgins, E February, H Combrink 0800h B21A-05 POSTER Monitoring savanna leaf phenology using a low-cost, high- spatial resolution, multispectral imagery system: M D Delgado-Cartay, S I Higgins 0800h B21A-06 POSTER Amazonian Drought – Does the SeaWinds Scatterometer Active Microwave Data Contain a Signal?: S E Frolking, T Milliman, M A Fahnestock, M Palace, R B Lammers 0800h B21A-07 POSTER Soy Production Area Estimates In Mato Grosso, Brazil, Using MODIS NDVI Time Series: D C Victoria, A C Coutinho, A R Paz 0800h B21A-08 POSTER Fusing Radar, Lidar and High Resolution Optical Remotely Sensed Data to Estimate Vegetation Structure in the Brazilian Cerrado: M W Palace, S C Hagen, M Bustamante, L G Ferreira, S Miranda 0800h B21A-09 POSTER Spatial Analysis of Primary Native Vegetation in the Middle Araguaia River Basin and the Role of Physic and Politic Factors on the Conservation of Native Vegetation: H O Sawakuchi, V Ballester 0800h B21A-10 WITHDRAWN 0800h B21A-11 POSTER Detection and Monitoring of New Deforested Areas in the Brazilian Savanna Using MODIS Fraction Images: G B Silva, Y Shimabukuro, E E Sano, A Formaggio B21B Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 0800h Savanna Ecosystems: Regional and Global Interactions II Posters (joint with GC) Presiding: M Bustamante, Universidade de Brasília; N P Hanan, Colorado State Univ. 0800h B21B-01 POSTER Aboveground and belowground biomass in the Cerrado - Status of knowledge: S Miranda, J Linares, D A Teodoro, M Bustamante 0800h B21B-02 POSTER Dynamics of decomposition of allochthonous leaf material in lotic system in the Cerrado: S K Mitre, M Bustamante, G Nepomuceno, J Gonçalves Jr 0800h B21B-03 POSTER Fluxes of dissolved nitrogen from terrestrial to aquatic systems in native Cerrado and agricultural areas in central Brazil: J O Silva, M Bustamante, D Markewitz, A Krusche, L G Ferreira 0800h B21B-04 POSTER Seasonal variability of vegetation and its relationship to rainfall and fire in the Brazilian tropical savanna: J B Bustamante, Y E Shimabukuro, R D Alvalá 0800h B21B-05 POSTER The role of natural fires in tropical South American biomes: M Hirota, C A Nobre, M D Oyama 0800h B21B-06 POSTER Simulation of fire regimes over South America in the last 50 years: S Venevsky, Y Le Page 0800h B21B-07 POSTER Selective shrub deforestation on a dry forest in central Argentina: the paradox of increased leaching but lower soil moisture: V Marchesini, E Jobbágy, R Fernández, C DiBella, D Steinaker 0800h B21B-08 POSTER Direct and indirect effects of photodegradation on carbon and nutrient turnover in species from temperate South America: A Austin, C L Ballaré 0800h B21B-09 POSTER An overview of the terrestrial nitrogen biogeochemical studies throughout the Brazilian biomes (from 1965 up to 2009): M P dos Santos, G B Nardoto, A S Pinto, M Bustamante B21C Room A3 Tuesday 0800h Impacts of Development on the Amazon Aquatic System (joint with H) Presiding: L Castello, The Woods Hole Research Center; M T Coe, The Woods Hole Research Center; D G McGrath 0800h B21C-01 Towards a Community-Based Management Framework for the Amazon Floodplain: D G McGrath, L Castello 0815h B21C-02 Influence of agricultural land uses on headwater stream temperatures in eastern Amazonia: M Macedo, M T Coe, R S DeFries, P Lefebvre 0830h B21C-03 Limnological disparity of Amazon floodplain lakes: Is it the human effect?: A Affonso, E H Alcantara, C Barbosa, E Novo, H Queiroz 0845h B21C-04 Integrating Census and Remote Sensing datato assess cattle distribution in floodplain: E Novo, B F Barbarisi, C Barbosa, V F Renó 0900h B21C-05 Soybean cropland expansion and impacts to Amazon headwater stream ecosystems: C Neill, S J Hayhoe, A Krusche, R Scheffler, R McHorney, M T Coe, H Elsenbeer, S Porder 0915h B21C-06 The Effects of Deforestation and Climate Variability on the Streamflow of the Araguaia River, Brazil: M T Coe, E M Latrubesse, M E Ferreira, M L Amsler 0930h B21C-07 The potential benefits of forest carbon compensation for aquatic resources in an Amazon agro-industrial frontier (Invited): C Stickler, D C Nepstad, M T Coe, D G McGrath, H O Rodrigues, W S Walker, B Soares-Filho, E A Davidson 0945h B21C-08 Conservation of the Amazon River System: L Castello, D G McGrath, M T Coe Earth and Space Science Informatics IN21A Room Cedro I Tuesday 0800h Data, Metadata, and Services (joint with A, B, C, ED, G, GP, GC, H, NG) Presiding: P A Fox, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.; D L McGuinness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and McGuinness Associates 0800h IN21A-01 WITHDRAWN 0815h IN21A-02 Evolving the Virtual Observatorm: P A Fox, D L McGuinness 0830h IN21A-03 WITHDRAWN 0845h IN21A-04 Database development for space monitoring instruments: case study for Multidirectional Muon Detector Database (MMD-DB): A Petry, C Kato, J Bueno, M R da Silva, L Ramos, N Kemmerich, A Dal Lago, N J Schuch 0900h IN21A-05 SIPAD-NG: a generic system for accessing scientific data – Application to oceanography products: C Pottier, D Heulet 0915h IN21A-06 SPASE, Metadata, and the Heliophysics Virtual Observatories: J R Thieman, D Roberts, T A King 0930h IN21A-07 Enabling Science in the Cloud: A Remote Sensing Data Processing Service for Environmental Science Analysis: C van Ingen, J Li, Y Ryu, M Humphrey, D Agarwal, K Jackson 0945h IN21A-08 Ocean Informatics Leveraging Existing Data Structure and Markup Languages: P A Fox, C L Chandler, R C Groman Education and Human Resources ED21A Room Iguassu IV Tuesday Broader Impact Actualized Through Full Engagement 0800h Presiding: J W Farrington, WHOI; B A Gibson, University of Hawaii at Manoa; A Johnson, University of South Florida; V Williamson Whitney, Institute For Broadening Participation 0800h ED21A-01 Climate Change: political environmental assessments and education (Invited): R Compagnucci 0815h ED21A-02 Utilizing Traditional and Non-traditional Tools to Recruit, Retain and Facilitate Increased Participation of Underrepresented Groups in the Geosciences (Invited): A Johnson, V Williamson Whitney, S H Thomas, L Ricciardi, S Valaitis 0830h ED21A-03 MSPHDS developing the next generation of Earth Science System Leaders. (Invited): W Ithier-Guzman, B D Branch, A Johnson, V Williamson Whitney, L Ricciardi, I Nieves 0845h ED21A-04 The C-MORE Scholars Program: Engaging minority students through the REU experience: B A Gibson, B C Bruno 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 27 0900h ED21A-05 Clouds, Climate, and Weather — Increasing awareness and broadening participation in climate science: M A Burt 0915h ED21A-06 Blending Academia with the United States National Weather Service: A Minority Graduate Student’s Journey (Invited): A D Robinson Cook 0930h ED21A-07 Progress and Challenges of Increasing Participation and Assessing Participation of Members of Underrepresented groups in Geosciences in the USA: J W Farrington 0945h ED21A-08 The Catalyst Program at Hunter College of CUNY – A partnership among geosciences, physics, computer science and mathematics: H Salmun Geodesy G21A Room Iguassu V Tuesday 0800h Ionospheric and Tropospheric Effects on Global Navigation Satellite System Positioning and Navigation I (joint with A) Presiding: D B Alves, Univ Estadual Paulista; M Aquino, University of Nottingham 0800h G21A-01 Future prospects of troposphere delay modeling for space geodetic techniques: J Boehm, T Nilsson, H Schuh 0820h G21A-02 Zenithal Tropospheric Delay Predictions for South America Using Data Assimilation of GNSS Meteorological Products: L F Sapucci 0840h G21A-03 Near Real Time Zenithal Tropospheric Delay estimation USING GPS DATA FROM TERRESTRIAL STATIONS: V F Rofatto, J F Monico, G P Rosa 0900h G21A-04 GPS Ionosphere and Plasmasphere imaging: C Mitchell, P Spencer 0920h G21A-05 WITHDRAWN 0940h G21A-06 The Influence of the Seismic Phenomena on the TEC Estimation from GNSS Observables: C R Aguiar, P O Camargo Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism GP21A Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 0800h Environmental Magnetic Records of Events Affecting and Affected by Humans II Posters (joint with PP) Presiding: M A Chaparro, IFAS-CONICET; C Zhang, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Science 0800h GP21A-01 POSTER Study of particulate matter from coke production and its distribution on soils using environmental magnetism, laser spectroscopy and multivariate statistical techniques: M A Chaparro, J D Gargiulo, G Bertuccelli, C Marinelli 0800h GP21A-02 POSTER Magnetic fingerprint of the end of Little Ice Age in laminated Sediments of the Peruvian continental shelf: G L Mathias, R I Trindade, F Velazco, D Gutierrez, R Salvatteci, A Sifeddine 0800h GP21A-03 POSTER Magnetic Enhancement of Modern Volcanic Soils in Mexico: Record of Pedogenic Processes and Weather Conditions: J Rivas Ortiz, B Ortega, A M Soler-Arechalde, J U Fucugauchi 28 2010 The Meeting of the Americas GP21B Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 0800h Experimental Characterization, Models, and Imaging of Magnetic Phases Relevant to Paleo and Environmental Magnetism II Posters Presiding: A M Sinito, UNCPBA; M Aldana, Simón Bolívar University 0800h GP21B-01 POSTER 20 Years of Community-Based Research at the Institute for Rock Magnetism: A Look Back and the View Ahead: M J Jackson, S K Banerjee, B M Moskowitz, J M Feinberg, P Solheid, J A Bowles 0800h GP21B-02 POSTER Magnetic properties of Brazilian archeological bricks: Further evidence for the widespread occurrence of a Low-T High-Coercivity stable magnetization carrier: G A Hartmann, R I Trindade, Y Gallet, A Genevey, T S Berquo, M Le Goff, F Lagroix 0800h GP21B-03 POSTER A New Model for Estimating the Upper Limit of Frequency-Dependence Susceptibility and Its Application in Pedogenic Processes: S Bijaksana, L Safiuddin GP21C Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday Loess in the Americas: Magnetism, Paleoclimate, and Paleoenvironment III Posters 0800h Presiding: M E Evans, Univ of Alberta; M Orgeira, Universidad de Buenos Aires 0800h GP21C-01 POSTER Preliminary Environmental Magnetism study of a Holocene Eolian Sediments and Paleosols Sequence in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): M J Orgeira de Tosi, A Coronato, C A Vasquez, F Ponce, R Egli, R Onorato 0800h GP21C-02 POSTER Loess in the Americas: Past, Present, and Future: M E Evans GP21D Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 0800h Modern Magnetic and Other Physical Techniques Applied to Archeology and Anthropology II Posters Presiding: J L Ruvalcaba, UNAM; Y Gallet, IPGP; G A Hartmann, Instituto de Astronomia, Geofisica e Ciencias Atmosfericas Universidade de Sao Paulo; A M Soler-Arechalde, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 0800h GP21D-01 POSTER Archeomagnetic Study of Los Grifos Rockshelter, Chiapas, Mexico: D Fregoso, A M Soler-Arechalde, G Acosta, V Martinez 0800h GP21D-02 POSTER A MATLAB TOOL FOR ARCHEOMAGNETIC DATING: F Pavón-Carrasco, J RodriguezGonzalez, M L Osete, J M Torta 0800h GP21D-03 POSTER Geomagnetic field archaeointensity recovered from Araro, western Mexico: B Aguilar Reyes, J Morales, C Carvallo, V H Garduño-Monroy, A Goguitchaichrili, M Pineda 0800h GP21D-04 POSTER Quantitative Analysis of Obsidian Archaeological Artefacts by PXRF: T D Galvão, F Lopes, C R Appoloni, F X Le Bourdonnec, G Poupeau, M Duttine, R B Scorzelli 0800h GP21D-05 POSTER X-ray diffraction applied to the preliminary study of the mineralogical composition of Marajoara archaeological ceramics: K P Nunes, C S Munita, R G Toyota, E G Neves 0800h GP21D-06 POSTER Archeological and Forensic Applications Using Magnetic and GPR Methods: J Son, C Kim, K Park, M Yi 0800h GP21D-07 POSTER Magnetic Properties and Archeointensity of Earth’s Magnetic Field Recovered from El Opeño, Earliest Funeral Architecture Known in Western Mesoamerica: M Pineda, A Goguitchaichvili, J Morales, B Aguilar Reyes GP21E Room Iguacu II Tuesday 0800h Fellows and Gilbert Awardee Perspectives on Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism (joint with DI, T) Presiding: R J Blakely, U.S Geological Survey; C Constable, IGPP; A Goguitchaichrili, UNAM 0800h GP21E-01 Evidences for solar forcing in meteorological time series: what geomagnetists can provide (Invited): V E Courtillot, J Le Mouël, E Blanter, V G Kossobokov, M Shnirman 0818h GP21E-02 True Polar Wander and Hotspot Fixity: A Paleomagnetic Investigation of the Skewness of Magnetic Anomaly 12r (32 Ma B.P.) on the Pacific Plate (Invited): R G Gordon, B C Horner-Johnson 0836h GP21E-03 WITHDRAWN 0854h GP21E-04 Levantine geomagnetic field spike: How high did the field get and how fast did it change? (Invited): L Tauxe, E BenYosef, R Shaar, H Ron, T E Levy 0912h GP21E-05 Latitudinal Variation of VGP Distributions. (Invited): C G Harrison GP21F Room Iguacu II Tuesday 0930h Paleosecular Variation, Excursions, and Reversals of the Earth’s Magnetic Field: From Data to Models II Presiding: C G Gogorza, UNCPBA; A M Soler-Arechalde, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 0930h GP21F-01 Secular variation on 1-100 kyr timescales: mixing and matching sediments, archeological artifacts, and lava flows (Invited): C Constable 0945h GP21F-02 Paleomagnetic and paleointensity studies on Pleistocene and Pliocene lava flow sequences in southern Georgia (Caucasus) (Invited): M Calvo-Rathert, A Gogichaishvili, M Cervantes, J Sologashvili Global Environmental Change GC21A Room C2 Tuesday 0800h Climate Prediction Using Model Ensembles and Statistical Techniques II (joint with A, OS, P) Presiding: A E MacDonald, Earth System Research Laboratory; F M Horsfall, Climate Prediction Center 0800h GC21A-01 Multi-Model Sub-seasonal to Decadal Prediction (Invited): B P Kirtman 0820h GC21A-02 Predictions beyond 2-weeks with the NCEP Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS): M Pena, Y Zhu, R Wobus, D Hou, M Wei 0835h GC21A-03 NAEFS Probabilistic Guidance from Biascorrection and Downscaling (Invited): Y Zhu 0855h GC21A-04 The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP): Overview of Climate Change Results (Invited): L O Mearns, Title of Team: NARCCAP Team 0915h GC21A-05 Statistical downscaling of Eta-HadCM3 climate model for near surface wind assessment in Brazil: A R Goncalves, M P Pes, E B Pereira, F R Martins, E I Cruz Segundo, A A Lyra 0930h GC21A-06 Development of Climate Change Physical and Impact Databases: A E MacDonald 0945h GC21A-07 Joint Center for Environmental Analysis, Prediction, and Projection (JCEAPP): A Coordinated Approach to U.S. Modeling Efforts: F M Horsfall, W Higgins Hydrology H21A Room C3 Tuesday Hydrology General Contributions I 0800h Presiding: A T Joseph, NASA/GSFC; N L Dias, Universidade Federal do Paraná 0800h H21A-01 Directional analysis of over-lake water vapor and heat fluxes: N L Dias, D M Cancelli, D Vissotto Jr. 0815h H21A-02 WITHDRAWN 0830h H21A-03 WITHDRAWN 0845h H21A-04 What does a well drained oxisol mean? A preliminary quantitative analysis: L F Salemi, J D Groppo, J M de Moraes, L Martinelli 0900h H21A-05 Storage of water in the soil in drainage lysimeter: R M Feltrin, J D Paiva 0915h H21A-06 Potential uses of AMSR-E sensor in methods derived from the NDVI-T plot: V Venturini, D T Girolimetto 0930h H21A-07 Observations of L Band Brightness Temperature During an Entire Growth Cycle Over a Corn Canopy: A T Joseph, R van der Velde, P E O’Neill, B J Choudhury, R H Lang, E J Kim, T Gish 0945h H21A-08 WITHDRAWN Ocean Sciences OS21A Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday Barrier Island Resiliency I Posters 0800h Presiding: G A Carter, The University of Southern Mississippi; K L Lucas, USM; W K Smith, Wake Forest University 0800h OS21A-01 POSTER Morphology, stratigraphy and factors controlling evolution of a transgressive barrier in southern Brazil: F Caron, L G Lima, S R Dillenburg, L J Tomazelli, E G Barboza, J F Antiqueira, M C Rosa, R P Manzolli, A B Silva 0800h OS21A-03 POSTER Changes in plant species composition and richness on Horn Island, Mississippi U.S.A., following hurricane Katrina: K L Lucas, G A Carter 0800h OS21A-04 POSTER Morphodynamic, Hydrodinamic and Sedimentological Characterization of Arrombado Inlet (NE Brazil): G R Rocha, A R Rocha, H Vital 0800h OS21A-05 POSTER The Coastal Barrier Island Network, USA: Evaluating Future Management Strategies in a Changing Global Environment: W K Smith, R A Feagin, N Jackson, K Norbstrom, G A Carter OS21B Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 0800h Characterization and Modeling of Ocean Features in the Western Tropical/South Atlantic: Processes and Scales I Posters (joint with IN, ED, GC) Presiding: A Gangopadhyay, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; L Calado, IEAPM- Brazilian Navy; I C da Silveira, Instituto Oceanográfico da Universidade de São Paulo; J A Lorenzzetti, INPE 0800h OS21B-01 POSTER A parametric model for Brazil Current Recirculation Cell (20-40S): C B Rocha, I C da Silveira, A Gangopadhyay, W Ceccopieri 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 29 0800h OS21B-02 POSTER The Vertical Structure of the North Brazil Current Rings: A M Krelling, A M Paiva 0800h OS21B-03 POSTER SST anomalies in Southwestern Atlantic Ocean: a modelling study: I P da Silveira, L P Pezzi 0800h OS21B-04 POSTER Comparison Between the Versions 3.14 and 2.22 of the Wave Spectral Model WAVEWATCH III in Relation to Wave Field in Shallow Waters: A Case Study: V A Godoi, F Ostritz, E Palmeira, C Parente 0800h OS21B-05 POSTER Short-scale Wave Variability in The South Atlantic Ocean Based on Empirical Orthogonal Function and Singular Value Decomposition: C K Parise, L Farina 0800h OS21B-06 POSTER On the Relationship between the thermal front and the Maximum Velocity Axis of the Brazil Current using Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data: T S Newton, L Calado, A M Fernandes 0800h OS21B-07 POSTER Comparisons between a Model Simulation and Observations during the COROAS Project: C P Campos, I D Soares, E J Campos 0800h OS21B-08 POSTER Investigating the Brazilian Current meso-scale activity through the application of chaotic theory: R Domingues, C Lentini, J Miranda, M Cirano, L Calado 0800h OS21B-09 POSTER Structure and dynamics of the region of formation of the Vitória Eddy: L G dos Passos, I C da Silveira, L Calado, E O Ribeiro 0800h OS21B-10 POSTER On the Thorpe scale estimates using a 24Hz CTD dataset: A M Fernandes, A R Boechat, V A Ferreira OS21C Room C1 Tuesday 0800h Dynamics of the Southwestern Atlantic Continental Margin I (joint with PP) Presiding: I C da Silveira, Instituto Oceanográfico da Universidade de São Paulo; F Brandini, Instituto Oceanografico - USP; B M Castro; M Mahiques, Univ Sao Paulo 0800h OS21C-01 Contour current deposits along the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean: A R Viana 0815h OS21C-02 Benthic ecosystem dynamics and its relation with the processes of the Southwestern Atlantic Continental Margin: a study on megafauna diversity and community structure: A S Vanin 0830h OS21C-03 Interaction between M2 Internal Tides and a Brazil Current Eddy: a Numerical Investigation: A F Pereira, B M Castro, I C da Silveira, L Calado 0845h OS21C-04 Mid- to Late Holocene evolution of the Southeastern Brazilian shelf: strengthening of the Plata Plume Water: R H Nagai, S D Sousa, D P Alves, C M Chiessi, M Mahiques 0900h OS21C-05 Altimeter-Derived Eddy Kinetic Energy Distribution in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean:Relations to Fisheries Dynamics: M L Vianna, V V Menezes 0915h OS21C-06 On the Inner Recirculation of the South Atlantic Subtropical Gyre: W Ceccopieri, I C Da Silveira, C B Rocha, P S Polito, R G Soutelino, L Ponsoni, J A de Miranda, R A Mattos, L V Nonnato, Title of Team: CERES Project Team 0930h OS21C-07 Distribution of Cs-137 in the Shelf and Upper Slope off Southeast Brazil: P A Ferreira, J R Sartoretto, R C Figueira, L M Cordero, M Mahiques, E J França 0945h OS21C-08 The Brazil Current Vortical Dipoles in Santos Bight (23S-28S): I C da Silveira, D P Pereira, J A de Miranda, A Schmidt, G Flierl 30 2010 The Meeting of the Americas Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology PP21A Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 0800h Reconstruction and Modeling of Precipitation and Hydrology Over the Tropical Americas During the Late Quaternary I Posters (joint with GC, H, OS) Presiding: P N Froelich, N/A 0800h PP21A-01 WITHDRAWN 0800h PP21A-02 POSTER A well-dated, continuous record of Lateglacial-Holocene climate in a high-altitude wet zone from northwestern Colombia: P Muñoz Uribe, C A Monsalve Marin, M Jojoa, G E GORIN, N Parra, C Velasquez 0800h PP21A-03 POSTER South American Monsoon Variability During The Last 1000 Years Inferred From Northeastern Peruvian Speleothems: J E Apaéstegui, F W Cruz, J Guyot, A Sifeddine, J P Bernal-Uruchurtu, J Ronchail, M A Catunda, F Sondag, P Baby 0800h PP21A-04 POSTER CLIMATIC AND ANTHROPOGENIC CHANGES IN SAVANNAH AND FOREST TRANSITION AREA (HUMAITÁ, AMAZONIA): G S Martins, R Rodrigues, B Turcq, A Sifeddine, R C Cordeiro, A B Santos 0800h PP21A-05 POSTER LACUSTRINE LATE QUATERNARY AMAZONIAN GEOCHEMICAL RECORDS AS INDICATORS OF THE REGIONAL AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES LACUSTRINE LATE QUATERNARY AMAZONIAN GEOCHEMICAL RECORDS AS INDICATORS OF THE REGIONAL AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES: B Turcq, R C Cordeiro, A Sifeddine, M G Conceição, M Barbosa, R Rodrigues, J S Seoane 0800h PP21A-06 POSTER A 34,000 yr Record of Hydrological and Vegetational Change from the Hyperarid Core of the Atacama Desert Before, During and Since the Last Glacial Maximum: F P Díaz Aguirre, C Latorre Hidalgo, A Maldonado 0800h PP21A-07 POSTER Mid-Late Holocene paleohydrology reconstruction in Boqueirão lake, Northeast Brazil: R Lima da Costa, B Turcq, R C Cordeiro, A Albuquerque 0800h PP21A-08 POSTER Precipitation variation in the SAMS’s center of activity area during the last 24 ky B.P. from speleothem isotope records: N M Strikis, F W Cruz, H Cheng, R Edwards, X Wang, I Karmann, A S Auler, M A Catunda 0800h PP21A-09 POSTER Pinpointing rapid climate variability in Southeastern France during MIS 5b combining speleothems and mammal teeth data: V Gardien, C Lecuyer, A Mangini, D Ariztegui, F Martineau, F Fourel 0800h PP21A-10 POSTER Last Glacial Warm Events in the Levant Revealed by High-Altitude Speleothems from the Alpine Karst, the Hermon Mountain Northern Israel: A Ayalon, M Bar-Matthews, A Frumkin, A Matthews PP21B Room A2 Tuesday Sediment Geochemistry in Environmental Research I 0800h Presiding: J M Ponniah, CIIEMAD; P Roy, Instituto de Geología; S Seschalam; C Lakshumanan, Bharathidasan University 0800h PP21B-01 Platinum Group Element (PGE) Resources in Ocean Sediments (Invited): B Vysetti 0821h PP21B-02 Iron Mineral Control on the Mobility of Arsenic and Selenium in Aquifer: T Neumann, A Diener, E Eiche, M Kiczka, U Kramar, S Norra 0842h PP21B-03 Speciation and sources of toxic metals in sediments of Lake Chapala, Mexico: P F Zarate, J L TrujilloCárdenas, N P Saucedo-Torres, N Rios-Donato, E M Mijares, S Gómez-Salazar 0855h PP21B-04 Spatial variation in sediment-water exchange of dissolved organic phosphorus in Florida Bay: J Zhang, X Huang 0908h PP21B-05 Environmental Degradation in Mangrove Environment through Sediment Geochemical Analysis for Atirampatinam, South East India: N Usha, M Madan Kumar 0921h PP21B-06 ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY OF SEDIMENTS FROM ADYAR RIVER, TAMIL, NADU, INDIA: S Srinivasalu, R Ramesh, R Purvaja, M P Jonathan 0934h PP21B-07 ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY OF ROCKS AND SOILS FROM CHITHAR RIVER BASIN, TAMIL NADU, INDIA: T Subramani, L Elango, S Seschalam 0947h PP21B-08 Modelling Sediment Dynamics and consequent shoreline changes in Backwaters of Chennai Coast: K Srinivasa Raju, O Kumar, M Muneeswaran 0900h S21B-05 WITHDRAWN 0915h S21B-06 From North Atlantic to North Pacific: linking crustal and upper mantle structure in Greenland, Europe, and Siberia: I M Artemieva, H Thybo, Y V Cherepanova 0930h S21B-07 Crustal Structure with High Frequency Receiver Functions and Gravity Anomalies in the Northern Paraná Basin: Evidence for Localized Underplating: M Assumpcao, J Julia, Y R Marangoni, R Prado, J Barbosa 0945h S21B-08 Seismic analysis of the crustal structure of the Jalisco Block, Mexico, from local broadband seismic data: J M Gomez Gonzalez, R Martinez-Lopez, M Guzman-Speziale, S P Grand, H Lopez-Loera, T Dominguez-Reyes Seismology SA21A Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 0800h Coupling Processes in Equatorial Ionospheric Irregularities II Posters (joint with SM) S21A Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 0800h Advances in Seismic Data Analysis Methods II Posters (joint with NS) Presiding: A Novais, Unicamp; J C Costa, Federal University of Para; J Schleicher, IMECC / UNICAMP; M Tygel, IMECC/UNICAMP 0800h S21A-01 POSTER Statistical Analysis of Spatial Series: an Application to Well Logs from Jequitinhonha Basin (Brazil) (Invited): A Bassrei, M P Souza 0800h S21A-02 POSTER Using SVD for improved interferometric Green’s function recovery: M G Silva, A E Malcolm, T D Mikesell, K Van Wijk 0800h S21A-03 POSTER Including Lateral Velocity Variations into True-amplitude Common-Shot Wave-equation Migration: A Novais, D Amazonas, R Aleixo, M Melo Silva, J Schleicher, J C Costa 0800h S21A-04 POSTER Joint Inversion of Receiver Function and Surface Waves Using a Regularized Gauss-Marquardt-Levenberg Nonlinear Method: L P Moreira, G S França, M J Friedel 0800h S21A-05 POSTER Pitfalls of Passive Seismics in Production Oil Areas in Potiguar Basin, Northeast Brazil: A V Lopes, L C Nunes 0800h S21A-06 WITHDRAWN 0800h S21A-07 POSTER Monofractal and Multifractal Analysis of the Spatial Distribution of Earthquakes in the Central Zone of Chile: D E Pasten, V Muñoz, J Rogan, J A Valdivia 0800h S21A-08 WITHDRAWN 0800h S21A-09 POSTER High-frequency PKP Scattering From Deep Bolivia Earthquake: A aguilar, K Bataille 0800h S21A-10 POSTER The signal of transition zone azimuthal anisotropy in the normal mode coupling: X Hu S21B Room Iguacu I Tuesday 0800h Continental Crustal and Lithospheric Structure 100 Years After Mohorovičić I (joint with T, G) Presiding: L D Brown, Cornell University; W D Mooney, US Geological Survey 0800h S21B-01 One Hundred Years After Mohorovicic: Outstanding Problems in Lithospheric Seismology: S T Detweiler, W D Mooney, L D Brown 0815h S21B-02 Moho, Magmatism and Extension: H Thybo 0830h S21B-03 Seismic Wavespeeds And Attenuation In The Earth’s Upper Mantle: Towards A Robust Laboratory-Based Model: I Jackson, U H Faul 0845h S21B-04 Moho Faults: L D Brown SPA-Aeronomy Presiding: M A Abdu, Inst Nat Pesquisas Espac; I S Batista, INPE; H Takahashi, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espacias 0800h SA21A-01 WITHDRAWN 0800h SA21A-02 POSTER Equatorial electrojet behavior due to dynamo, disturbed dynamo, and penetration electric fields: E Bonelli 0800h SA21A-03 POSTER On the possibility to infer ionospheric electric fields from the bottomside equatorial F-region irregularities: R R Ilma Campana, M C Kelley 0800h SA21A-04 POSTER Brazilian Low Latitude Spread-F Events during Solar Minimum Conditions at June Solstice Months: C N Candido, I S Batista, A A Pimenta, F Becker-Guedes, M A Abdu, J A Bittencourt, J H Sobral 0800h SA21A-05 POSTER Effect of magnetic storms on the evening enhancement in F layer prereversal vertical drift in the Brazilian equatorial region: A Santos, M Abdu, J H Sobral 0800h SA21A-06 POSTER Investigations of Interaction Between The CEJ and GW-like Oscillations during the Solar Minimum: P D Almeida, C M Denardini, P P Batista, L C Resende, L M Guizelli, J Moro 0800h SA21A-07 WITHDRAWN SA21B Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 0800h The Equatorial Ionosphere/Thermosphere System II Posters Presiding: F S Rodrigues, ASTRA; R F Pfaff, NASA/GSFC 0800h SA21B-01 POSTER Modeling the gravity and magnetic pressure driven currents in the F-region ionosphere: P Alken, S Maus, A D Richmond, A I Maute 0800h SA21B-02 POSTER VLF and HF Plasma Waves Associated with Spread-F Plasma Depletions Observed on the C/NOFS Satellite: R F Pfaff, P W Schuck, J H Klenzing 0800h SA21B-03 POSTER Observations of Plasma Density Enhancements in the Low Latitude Ionosphere and Associated Plasma Parameters and Drifts from the C/NOFS Satellite: J H Klenzing, D E Rowland, R F Pfaff, G Le, H Freudenreich, K R Bromund, W R Coley, R A Haaser, A G Burrell, P A Roddy 0800h SA21B-04 POSTER TEC and slab-thickness using GPS and Ionosonde measurements from Equatorial and Low Latitude Stations in the Indian sector: P V Rama Rao, D S Prasad, K Venkatesh, P L Saranya, K Niranjan 0800h SA21B-05 WITHDRAWN 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 31 0800h SA21B-06 POSTER Topside Magnetic Field Aligned Ion Flows Near Equatorial Latitudes at Solar Minimum: A G Burrell, R A Heelis 0800h SA21B-07 POSTER The empirical model of equivalent Sq current system based on CPMN observation during 1996-2007: Y Yamazaki, K Yumoto, T Uozumi, A Yoshikawa, Y Kakinami 0800h SH21A-07 POSTER Comparison of HMI Carrington synoptic maps of radial with that of line-of-sight magnetic field components: X Zhao, J T Hoeksema SA21C Room Iguassu III Tuesday 0800h Studies of the Equatorial and Low-Latitude Upper Atmosphere and Ionosphere at Different Longitudinal Sectors I (joint with SM) Presiding: D F Webb, Boston College; C Mandrini Presiding: P R Fagundes, UNIVAP; A A Pimenta, National Institute For Space Research - INPE 0800h SA21C-01 Quantification of the Equatorial ExB Drift Velocities Associated With the 4-Cell Tidal Structures from C/ NOFS Observations (Invited): E A Araujo-Pradere, D N Anderson, M Fedrizzi 0825h SA21C-02 Long Term Characterization of Diurnal Low Ionosphere: E Correia, P Kaufmann, J P Raulin, F Bertoni, H R Gavilan 0840h SA21C-03 LONG-TERM AND TRANSIENT VARIABILITY OF THE LOW IONOSPHERE FROM GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS (Invited): J Raulin 0905h SA21C-04 variabilities of the equatorial electrojet in Brazil and Peru: E Shume, C M Denardini, E R de Paula, N Trivedi 0920h SA21C-05 WITHDRAWN 0935h SA21C-06 Seasonal variations in ionospheric F-region parameters during the low solar activity period in the Brazilian sector: Comparisons with ionospheric models and observations in the east Asian sector (INVITED) (Invited): Y Sahai, R D Jesus, P R Fagundes, G Crowley, T Nagatsuma, K Igarashi, H T Lan, V G Pillat, J R Abalde, J A Bittencourt SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics SH21A Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 0800h Multiwavelength Solar Observations:The Sun From Ground and Space II Posters Presiding: L Balmaceda, ICATE - CONICET; H Cremades, FRMUTN/CONICET 0800h SH21A-01 POSTER ACTIVE ANTENNAS DESIGNS FOR LOW FREQUENCY RADIO ASTRONOMY: G S Rosa, N J Schuch, N R Gomes, T C Stekel, J R Bergmman 0800h SH21A-02 POSTER Characteristics of the microwave emission at 7 GHz associated with coronal mass Ejection: R V Souza, E Correia, P Kaufmann 0800h SH21A-03 POSTER Analysis of 26 April 2008 Coronal Mass Ejection: M Mierla, L Balmaceda, H Cremades, C Mandrini, L Rodriguez 0800h SH21A-04 POSTER Kinematical properties of structured CMEs seen by the MICA and LASCO coronagraphs: L Di Lorenzo, L Balmaceda, H Cremades 0800h SH21A-05 POSTER Improved CME Kinematic Profile Modelling and Shock Arrival Time Forecasts from Multi-Wavelength Data: F A Iglesias, H Cremades, O St. Cyr, M L Kaiser, H Xie, N Gopalswamy 0800h SH21A-06 POSTER Gradient Spectral Analysis of 2D Solar Radio Flare Pattern Evolution: R R Rosa, R A Sych, S A Liles, H S Sawant 32 2010 The Meeting of the Americas SH21B Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 0800h Searching for a Minimum “Ground State” for the Sun II Posters 0800h SH21B-01 POSTER WHI in the Context of a Long and Structured Solar Minimum: An Overview of Sun-to-Earth Observations: S E Gibson, G de Toma, Y Elsworth, B A Emery, J Lei, S W Mcintosh, R A Mewaldt, T G Onsager, B J Thompson, D F Webb 0800h SH21B-02 POSTER Two Minima Coronal transient Events: Their Solar Sources and Interplanetary Counterparts: H Cremades, C Mandrini, S Dasso 0800h SH21B-03 POSTER Temporal evolution of the solar limb brightening at radio and EUV observations: C L Selhorst, C G de Castro, A Válio, J E Costa 0800h SH21B-04 POSTER Variations in the Electron and Ion Auroral Inputs During the Long SC23/24 Solar Minimum and Previous Minima: B A Emery, D S Evans, F J Rich, G R Wilson, S C Solomon 0800h SH21B-05 POSTER The Behavior of Anomalous and Galactic Cosmic Ray Intensities at 1 AU Through the End of the Present Solar Minimum: R A Leske, A C Cummings, C M Cohen, R A Mewaldt, E C Stone, M E Wiedenbeck, T T von Rosenvinge 0800h SH21B-06 POSTER Gnevyshev Peaks in solar, interplanetary and geomagnetic indices: R P Kane 0800h SH21B-07 POSTER Radial Intensity Gradient of Galactic Cosmic Rays at Solar Maximum: O G Morales Olivares, R Caballero-Lopez 0800h SH21B-08 POSTER The Year When the Solar Magnetic Field Burst Apart: The Strange Evolution of Solar Cycle 23: K Mursula, R Lukianova 0800h SH21B-09 POSTER Are Active Regions as Relevant for the Solar Cycle as we Think?: A Muñoz-Jaramillo, D Nandi, P C Martens 0800h SH21B-10 POSTER Towards better Constrained Kinematic Dynamo Models: Turbulent Diffusivity and Diffusivity Quenching: A Muñoz-Jaramillo, D Nandi, P C Martens SH21C Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 0800h SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics General Contributions I Posters Presiding: G Li, Univ Alabama Huntsville 0800h SH21C-01 POSTER Generation of Electric Currents in the Chromosphere via Neutral-Ion Drag: G Vekstein, V Krasnoselskikh, S Bale, H Hudson 0800h SH21C-02 POSTER Diffusion of Charged Particles in a Nonuniform Background Magnetic Field: G Qin, G Li 0800h SH21C-03 POSTER Flux-tubes in the solar wind from Ulysses observations: G Li, B Miao, B Peng 0800h SH21C-04 POSTER A Fully Integrated Model for Ulysses/ HISCALE and ACE/EPAM Data: J S Morgado, P Gonçalves, M Pimenta, J Blanco Rodríguez, D J Maia 0800h SH21C-05 POSTER Solar Wind Halo Formation by the Scattering of the Strahl via Direct Cluster/PEACE Observations of the 3D Velocity Distribution Function: A Figueroa-Vinas, C A Gurgiolo, T Nieves-Chinchilla, M L Goldstein 0800h SH21C-06 POSTER Hall effect in a strong magnetic field: a reduced Hall MHD model and conditions for its applicability: L N Martin, P Dmitruk, D O Gomez 0800h SH21C-07 POSTER Weak Solar Flares in 3 – 31.5 keV X-rays Detected in the Coronas-F Experiment: A A Gusev, G I Pugacheva, I M Martin, W N Spjeldvik 0800h SH21C-08 POSTER Relativistic Equilibrium Distribution with Angular Momentum Effect: T K Nakamura 0800h SH21C-09 POSTER The Interaction of Solar Wind Instabilities in Multiple Ion Species: B Maruca, J C Kasper, S P Gary, A J Lazarus, A Szabo Tectonophysics T21A Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 0800h Amalgamating Western Gondwana III Posters (joint with GP, PP) Presiding: M Babinski, University of São Paulo; A S Collins, University of Adelaide; E Tohver, University of Western Australia; R I Trindade, University of Sao Paulo 0800h T21A-01 POSTER Aeromagnetometry to Discriminate Magnetite and Ilmenite Series – A Study of Neoproterozoic Magmatic Arc Evolution, Central Brazil: M N Chiarini, E L Dantas 0800h T21A-02 POSTER La Espuela Mylonitic Anorthosite (Western Sierras Pampeanas of Argentina): Petrography, Structure and Tectonic Hypothesis: R D Martino, A B Guereschi, G Vujovich, J Sfragulla, J Otamendi, A Tibaldi 0800h T21A-03 POSTER A STATE OF THE ART OVERVIEW OF TRANSBRASILIANO LINEAMENTS, CENTRAL BRAZIL, BASED ON INTEGRATED STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY, AEROGEOPHYSICS AND REMOTE SENSING DATA: A C Carmelo, J O Araujo Filho, D O Carvalho 0800h T21A-04 POSTER A Cambrian Rifted Arc on the Gondwana Margin: Modern Analogues: R J Musgrave, J Greenfield, P Gilmore T21B Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 0800h Borborema Province Evolution in Northeastern Brazil: Insights Into Gondwana Assemblage and Breakup II Posters (joint with V, S) Presiding: R A Fuck, Universidade de Brasília; I Vitorello, INPE 0800h T21B-01 POSTER Upper Mantle Density Anomaly Under the Borborema Province (NE Brazil) Derived From Inversion of Geoid Anomalies: New Constraint on its Continental Margin Evolution: C M Chaves, N Ussami 0800h T21B-02 POSTER Borborema Seismic Tomography Project: Motivation, Station Deployment and Expectations: R Beck, M Schimmel, M Assumpcao 0800h T21B-03 POSTER Tectonic deformation of the Miocene Barreiras Formation in the Potiguar and Paraíba basins, northeastern Brazil: F C Nogueira, F H Bezerra, L R Lucena 0800h T21B-04 POSTER Cenozoic Morphotectonics of the central part of Potiguar Basin, Brazil: R P Maia, F H Bezerra, F P Lima Filho 0800h T21B-05 POSTER Morphological evidence of Cenozoic faulting and sedimentation in the Pereiro massif and the Merejo trough, Borborema Province, Brazil: Preliminary results: S P Gurgel, F H Bezerra 0800h T21B-06 POSTER Gravity Signature and 2.5D Modeling of the Northern Borborema Province, NE Brazil: L S Osako, D L de Castro, R A Fuck, N A Castro, J A Pitombeira 0800h T21B-07 POSTER Surface Expression of the Poço VerdeCaraúbas Fault System, Potiguar Basin, Brazil: R D Santos, F H Bezerra 0800h T21B-08 POSTER Gravity and Magnetic Signatures of the Gondwana Assemblage in the Borborema Province: R G Oliveira, W Medeiros 0800h T21B-09 POSTER Tibet-Himalayan Analogs of Pan-African Shear Zones: Implications for Neoproterozoic Tectonics of the Brasiliano and Saharan Belts: L D Brown, K Attoh 0800h T21B-10 POSTER Analysis of the Dispersion of Surface Waves in the Borborema Province, Northeastern Brazil: R M do Nascimento, A F do Nascimento, J M Ferreira, M Assumpcao 0800h T21B-11 POSTER Crustal Thickness and VP/VS Ratio Variation in the Borborema Province from Receiver Functions: I P Candido, A F do Nascimento, M F Novo Barbosa, J Julia, G S Franca, J M Ferreira 0800h T21B-12 POSTER Design and Develop of Shooting Boxes with GPS Controlled Time for Seismic Surveys: F A Perosi, C B Varella Neto 0800h T21B-13 POSTER Cosmogenic 10Be Constraints on the Denudation History of the Borborema Province, Northeastern Brazil: J M Morais Neto, J Stone, P M Vasconcelos 0800h T21B-14 POSTER Seismic structure of the lithosphere of SE Ceará Central sub-domain, Borborema Province, Brazil: E J Tavares, J P Soares, R A Fuck, Title of Team: Lithosphere Research Lab./IG/ UnB (LabLitos) 0800h T21B-15 POSTER Seismic Characteristics of the Lithosphere of the Sub-Domain Santa Quitéria Arc, Borborema Province, Ceará State: N I Mejia, J P Soares, R A Fuck, Title of Team: Lithosphere Research Lab./IG/UnB (LabLitos) 0800h T21B-16 POSTER Magnetotelluric Studies In The Borborema Province (Brazil): Preliminary Results From Transects In The Setentrional And Meridional Subdomains: M S Bologna, I Vitorello, A L Padilha, M B Pádua, M A Conceição, B A Bianchi 0800h T21B-17 POSTER Deep Seismic Refraction Experiment in the Transverse Zone of Borborema Province (NE Brazil): Preliminary Results: M A Lima, J Berrocal, J P Soares, R A Fuck 0800h T21B-18 POSTER Estimates of crustal thickness discontinuities in the Borborema Province using Receiver Function: C G Pavão, G S Franca, T D Almeida, P H Meneses 0800h T21B-19 POSTER The East Pernambuco Shear Zone (eastern Borborema Province, NE Brazil): a New, Deeper Vision: C M Lima, S P Neves, G Mariano, M A Lima Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology V21A Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 0800h Layered Intrusions: Up and Down Inside a Volcano Posters (joint with NH) Presiding: N Bagdassarov, Institute for Geosciences 0800h V21A-01 POSTER Reassessment of the volume of the Las Aguilas Mafic-Ultramafic intrusives, San Luis, Argentina: an alternative geophysical model: C B Zaffarana, S Geuna, S Poma 0800h V21A-02 WITHDRAWN 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 33 V21B Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 0800h LIPs and Mafic Dyke Swarms of South America Posters (joint with T) Presiding: W Teixeira, University of São Paulo, Institute of Geosciences; R E Ernst; E P Oliveira, Unicamp 0800h V21B-01 POSTER Paleo and Mesoproterozoic mafic dikes from South American Platform: insights on their mantle sources based on Sr-Nd isotopes constraints: V A Girardi, W Teixeira, P C da Costa 0800h V21B-02 POSTER Osmium Isotope and Highly Siderophile Element Systematics of the Paraná Flood Basalt Province: Implications for Mantle Sources: E R Rocha-Júnior, L S Marques, R J Walker, I S Puchtel 0800h V21B-03 POSTER Trace-element and Sr isotope microanalyses of plagioclase phenocrysts and groundmass: implications for petrogenesis of the Paraná-Etendeka dacites, Brazil: V A Janasi, V A Freitas, A Simonetti, L Heaman, L Martins 0800h V21B-04 POSTER The Dom Feliciano belt (eastern Uruguay) and the assembly of SW Gondwana: L Sanchez Bettucci, A E Rapalini, E Tohver 0800h V21B-05 POSTER Structural features of the San Gregorio de Polanco dyke swarm associated with Mesozoic Rifting (Paraná Magmatic Province, Uruguay): F Scaglia, R Muzio, H Masquelin 0800h V21B-06 POSTER Volcanological aspects of geode-bearing lava flows from Wanda (Argentina) and Artigas (Uruguay) in the Paraná-Etendeka province: B Waichel, E F Lima, J Medeiros, R Muzio, G Dutra 0800h V21B-07 POSTER Petrological Features of the San Gregorio de Polanco Dyke Swarm(Paraná Magmatic Province, Uruguay): preliminary results: R Muzio, F Scaglia, H Masquelin 0800h V21B-08 POSTER Magma flow inferred from AMS fabric in tabular intrusions: a case study in NE – Uruguay, southern extreme of the Paraná Province: H Masquelin, T Aifa, R Muzio, E Hallot, F Scaglia, G Veroslavsky V21C Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday Monitoring of Volcanic Gases and Their Atmospheric Interactions and Impacts Posters (joint with A, NH) 0800h Presiding: F Aguilera, Universidad de Atacama; M I Watson, University of Bristol 0800h V21C-01 POSTER Monitoring of volcanic emissions based in ground and remote measurements. An example from northern Chile volcanoes: F Aguilera, S Moune, F Tassi 0800h V21C-02 POSTER Fluxes of Volatiles Discharged from Open and Closed Volcanoes Systems: a case of Stromboli and Vulcano Islands (Aeolian Archipelago, Italy): S Inguaggiato, F Vita, D Rouwet, A Mazot, C Inguaggiato, S Morici 0800h V21C-03 WITHDRAWN 0800h V21C-04 WITHDRAWN 0800h V21C-05 POSTER Far-range Volcanic Ash Hazard from Somma-Vesuvius. Consequences for Civil Aviation over the Central Mediterranean Area: A FOLCH, R Sulpizio V21D Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday Monogenetic Volcanism I Posters (joint with NS, S) 0800h Presiding: M J Haller, Universidad de la Patagonia 0800h V21D-01 POSTER Petrogenesis of Somuncura plateau basalt in an extra back-arc province: Dehydration-induced melting of hydrous wadsleyite beneath northern Patagonia: Y Orihashi, A Motoki, M J Haller, H Sumino, K Nagao, D HIRATA, K Mibe, S Honda, T L Jalowitzki, H Iwamori, R Anma 0800h V21D-02 POSTER Quaternary Monogenetic Volcanism Representative of Heterogeneous Sources in the Puna of Salta, Argentina: E B Maisonnave, S Poma 0800h V21D-03 POSTER Miocene mafic volcanic centers from the northern Puna, central Andes. Facies model and eruptive styles: P Caffe, A Cabrera, J Presta, Y Peralta, G Maro 0800h V21D-04 POSTER Monogenetic Volcanism and Long-Term Intraarc Tectonics in Southern Andes: L E Lara, J M Cembrano, H Moreno, G Orozco Atmospheric Sciences A22A Room Expocenter I Tuesday 1030h Connecting Atmospheric and Space Sciences: Solar Variability and Climate I (joint with GP, GC, P, SA, G) Presiding: N G Andronova, University of Michigan; M P Baldwin, NWRA 1030h A22A-01 The Impact of Solar Variability on Climate: Certainties and Uncertainties (Invited): G P Brasseur 1050h A22A-02 The Solar Radiation Physical Modeling (SRPM) Approach, Current Status, and Issues (Invited): J M Fontenla 1110h A23A-08 ANNUAL AND SEMIANNUAL VTEC EFFECTS AT LOW SOLAR ACTIVITY BASED ON GPS OBSERVATIONS AT DIFFERENT GEOMAGNETIC LATITUDES: M P Natali, A M Meza 1125h A22A-04 Anthropogenic stratospheric climate change vs. natural variability (Invited): M P Baldwin 1145h A22A-05 Secular variations in the Niño and PDO by the Total Solar Irradiance: V Velasco Herrera, G Silvestri, R Compagnucci, Title of Team: Secular variations in the Niño and PDO by the Total Solar Irradiance 1200h A22A-06 A Statistically Significant Signature Of MultiDecadal Solar Activity Changes In Atmospheric Temperatures At Three European Stations: V G Kossobokov, J Le Mouël, V E Courtillot 1215h A22A-07 The impact in ozone total content and surface temperature of the forthcoming Grand solar minimum: E A Martinez, S N Duhau A22B Room A1 Tuesday Mesoscale Convective Systems Over the Americas II 1030h Presiding: V Anabor, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria; M F Dias, Univ. of Sao Paulo; M Nicolini, Centro de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas/Univ. de Buenos Aires; H Barbosa, Universidade Federal de Alagoas 1030h A22B-01 Temporal evolution of vertically integrated water vapor prior to the development of mesoscale convective systems: P V Salio, L Fernandez, P Natali, A M Meza 1045h A22B-02 The role of mesoscale convective complexes in rainfall and streamflow across subtropical South America: T L Mote, J Durkee, J M Shepherd 34 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1100h A22B-03 A Natural Disaster Monitoring and Warning System - SISMADEN: L M Namikawa, E S Lopes 1115h A22B-04 The Use of Geostationary Satellite Data for Nowcasting: L A Machado 1130h A22B-05 EUMETSAT - Convection Working Group (Invited): J M Schipper 1145h A22B-06 SOME APPLICATIONS OF SATELLITE DATA IN BRAZIL: A Pereira 1200h A22B-07 Using Multispectral SEVIRI Radiances at the Top of Deep Convective Storm as a Powerful Tool for Short Prediction in Brazil: H A Barbosa 1215h A22B-08 Analysis of precipitation characteristics over Iguassu Basin using satellite, radar and rain gauge network, and contribution to hydrological applications: C Beneti, L Calvetti, I Pscheidt, J E Goncalves Education and Human Resources ED22A Room Iguassu IV Tuesday 1030h Innovative Educational Technologies and Successful Pedagogical Practices in Earth and Space Sciences Education I Presiding: N Reis, Ministerio da Educacao; J R Thieman, NASA Biogeosciences B22A Room A3 Tuesday Land-Water Interactions in the Amazon I (joint with H) 1110h IN22A-03 Monitoring the health of the planet: determining the 3D chlorophyll concentration in off-shore ocean water: H F Campos Velho, R P Souto, F F Paes, A S Charão, J K Vizzotto, P O Navaux 1130h IN22A-04 Soil Moisture Assimilation and Impacts on Subseasonal to Seasonal Forecasts: S Cocke, M Boisserie, D Shin 1150h IN22A-05 Observation Error Correlations and Correlated Observations (Invited): T Miyoshi, E Kalnay, H Li 1210h IN22A-06 WITHDRAWN 1030h Presiding: J E Richey, School of Oceanography; A Krusche, CENAUSP 1030h B22A-01 Influences of Soil and Scale on Land-Water Fluxes of Water, Carbon and Nitrogen in Lowland Amazon Headwater Streams: C Neill, S Germer, A Krusche, L A Deegan, S J Hayhoe, H Elsenbeer, R Scheffler, V Ballester 1045h B22A-02 Hydrologic Export of pCO2 from Small Amazonian Catchments (Invited): E A Davidson, R O Figueiredo, D Markewitz, A K Aufdenkampe 1100h B22A-03 Dissolved carbon dynamics in Upper Purus: a highly seasonal river in southwestern Amazonia, Acre Brazil: C Salimon, E Sousa, A Krusche, S R Alin 1115h B22A-04 WITHDRAWN 1130h B22A-05 Diel CO2 Flux Variability at an Amazonian Floodplain Lake (Piranha Lake): M F Rasera, A Krusche, V Ballester, J M Maia 1145h B22A-06 Seasonal and daily distribution of physicochemical parameters of a central Amazonian floodplain: B Lamback, M Bonnet, G R Boaventura, M Mendoza, P Moreira-Turcq, A Plenecassagne, P Seyler 1200h B22A-07 Hydrologic Simulation of Amazon Basins Using the Variable Infiltration Capacity Model (VIC): D C Victoria, V Ballester, J E Richey, A R Pereira, A V Santiago 1215h B22A-08 WHAT DRIVES ELEVATED CO2 IN RIVERS: CROSS-SCALE COHERENCE?: J E Richey, A Krusche, E Ellis, H Brandao, R L Victoria Earth and Space Science Informatics IN22A Room Cedro I Tuesday 1030h Inverse Problems in Geosciences (joint with A, B, GP, H, NG, OS) Presiding: V C Barbosa, Observatorio Nacional; H F Campos Velho, National Institute for Space Research (INPE); S Cocke, Florida State University 1030h IN22A-01 The ‘Back and Forth Nudging’ algorithm for oceanographic data assimilation (Invited): D Auroux, J Blum 1050h IN22A-02 Total variation regularization as a tool for estimating the basement relief of a fault-bounded sedimentary basin from gravity data: V C Barbosa, C M Nartins, W A Lima, J B Silva 1030h ED22A-01 Sun-Earth Day – Teaching Heliophysics Through Education Technology: J R Thieman, T D Cline, E M Lewis 1045h ED22A-02 Pedagogical Analyses of Space Sciences Education Practices at NASA: N T Reis, J R Thieman 1100h ED22A-03 WITHDRAWN 1115h ED22A-04 International Year of Astronomy in Brazil: Evaluation and Inheritance: J F Villas da Rocha 1130h ED22A-05 The portable planetarium - a unique immersive educational experience that is more than just stars: P H Reiff, C Sumners, L M Bartolone 1145h ED22A-06 “Ovo no Alvo” (Egg on Target): An educational activity for teachers and pre-college students: M M Saba, L Campos, J C Epiphanio 1200h ED22A-07 WITHDRAWN 1215h ED22A-08 A computer animation on Phanerozoic movements and paleogeography of the Australian Plate: C D Carneiro, J C Toniolo, P W Goncalves Geodesy G22A Room Iguassu V Tuesday 1030h Advances in Medium Wavelength and Satellite Gravity for the South American Plate: Plate Geodynamics II (joint with OS) Presiding: D Blitzkow, Universidade de Sao Paulo; C F Braitenberg, University of Trieste; N Ussami, Instituto de Astronomia, Geofisica e Ciencias Atmosfericas 1030h G22A-01 Challenges of GOCE Satellite Mission in Terms of User Applications (Invited): J Janak, Z Faskova, F Wild-Pfeiffer, P Xu 1055h G22A-02 Expected sensitivity of GOCE satellite to detect basement and Moho undulations: C F Braitenberg, M Reguzzoni 1110h G22A-03 Co-seismic and post-seismic mass re-distribution after the recent great earthquakes from satellite gravity measurements (Invited): S Han, J M Sauber, S B Luthcke, C Ji, F F Pollitz 1135h G22A-04 Computation of the gravity gradient tensor due to topographic masses using tesseroids: L Uieda, N Ussami, C F Braitenberg 1150h G22A-05 Determination of Intermediate Gravity Wavelengths From Aerogravity (Invited): D R Roman, S A Holmes, V A Childers, X Li 1215h G22A-06 Estimating Gravity from Topography in the Hindu Kush: Calibration and Validation from Airborne Gravity: J M Brozena, W Jung, M Peters 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 35 Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism GP22A Room Iguacu II Tuesday 1030h Paleosecular Variation, Excursions, and Reversals of the Earth’s Magnetic Field: From Data to Models III Presiding: C G Gogorza, UNCPBA; A M Soler-Arechalde, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 1030h GP22A-01 Fluctuations of the Geomagnetic Field Strength During the Last Two Millennia in Central and South America (Invited): A Goguitchaichrili 1045h GP22A-02 The secular variation record of the Earth’s Magnetic Field in Central Mexico based on archaeomagnetic and paleomagnetic data (Invited): A M Soler-Arechalde, C I CaballeroMiranda, A Goguitchaichrili, L Beramendi, G Gonzalez 1100h GP22A-03 Database-wide Inclination Tests of the Precambrian Geomagnetic Field: Effects of Quality Filtering: D A Evans, L J Pesonen, K Korhonen 1115h GP22A-04 A paleomagnetic and rock-magnetic study of a Neogene lava flow sequence in La Gomera (Canary Islands, Spain): A Caccavari, M Calvo-Rathert, A Goguitchaichrili, V Soler, B Aguilar Reyes, N Vegas GP22B Room Iguacu II Tuesday Paleointensity: Results and Techniques II 1130h Presiding: M Calvo-Rathert, Universidad de Burgos; X Zhao, University of California; M Perrin, CNRS; Y Pan, Chinese Academy of Sciences 1130h GP22B-01 A domain state independent method of palaeointensity determination. (Invited): A R Muxworthy 1150h GP22B-02 Low Temperature Paleointensity Experiments (Invited): J M Feinberg, M J Jackson, M C Brown 1210h GP22B-03 Paleointensity and Paleosecular Variation From Early Cretaceous Paraná Magmatic Province (Invited): A Goguitchaichrili Global Environmental Change GC22A Room C2 Tuesday 1030h Global Change Influence on Physical-Biological Interactions in Coastal Settings (joint with B, H, OS) Presiding: G M Perillo, Inst Argentino de Oceanografia; M C Piccolo, Instituto Argentino de Oceanografia 1035h GC22A-01 RECENT CHANGES IN ORGANIC CARBON IN THE SHALLOW SEAS. CASE STUDY AZOV SEA, SOUTH RUSSIA: V Sorokina, S Berdnikov, S Venevsky 1050h GC22A-02 Physical-Biological Influence on the Development of Estuarine Habitats: M Pejrup, T J Andersen 1110h GC22A-03 Proxies of global climate change from the continent-ocean interface in semi-arid NE Brazilian coast (Invited): L Drude de Lacerda 1130h GC22A-04 WIND INFLUENCE IN THE OYSTER LARVAE TRANSPORT WITHIN A COMPLEX BAY: ANEGADA BAY, ARGENTINA: L I Alvarez, E D Alberdi, D G Cuadrado, G M Perillo 1145h GC22A-05 TIDE AND WIND EFFECTS AS FORCING FACTORS CONTROLLING MESOZOOPLANKTON COMMUNITY IN A SHALLOW TEMPERATE ESTUARY (BAHÍA BLANCA, ARGENTINA): M C Menendez, M C Piccolo, M S Hoffmeyer 36 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1200h GC12A-08 Physical-Biological Interactions in Coastal Settings: The Georgia Coastal Ecosystem LTER Example: C R Alexander, M Alber, C Hladik, S Pennings 1215h GC22A-07 The role of salt-marsh sediments on nutrients, organic matter and pollutants transference to the estuarine system: sources or sinks?: J E Marcovecchio, V L Negrin, S E Botte, C V Spetter, G M Perilo Hydrology H22A Room C3 Tuesday Hydrology General Contributions II 1030h Presiding: A T Joseph, NASA/GSFC; N L Dias, Universidade Federal do Paraná 1030h H22A-01 HYDROLOGIC AND HYDRODYNAMIC MODELLING OF THE AMAZON BASIN: R C Paiva, D C Buarque, W Collischonn, D Allasia, C A Mendes, C E Tucci, Title of Team: IPH 1045h H22A-02 INTERCEPTION OF RAINFALL IN THE ATLANTIC FOREST OF A WATERSHED IN STATE OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL, BRAZIL: V Sari, A D da Rosa, E C Paiva, A Alves, L Brites, L C Cella 1100h H22A-03 Improving baseflow simulation at ungauged basins in Northern Ontario: J M Samuel, C D Paulin 1115h H22A-04 Stepwise Nonparametric Disaggregation for Daily Streamflow Generation conditional on Hydrologic and Large-Scale Climatic Signals: J M Molina, J A Ramirez, D A Raff 1130h H22A-05 WITHDRAWN 1145h H22A-06 HYDROLOGICAL MONITORING AND SIMULATION IN TWO REPRESENTATIVE BASINS IN MINAS GERAIS STATE, BRAZIL: L R Palmier, E Pinto, R Monte-Mor, J Lima, E Davis, A Silva, C Dantas, M Candido, Title of Team: UFMG/CPRM 1200h H22A-07 Predictions in Ungauged Basins: Can we use Artificial Neural Networks?: D Yeganantham, K Sudheer 1215h H22A-08 WITHDRAWN Ocean Sciences OS22A Room C1 Tuesday 1030h Momentum, Heat, Freshwater, and Biochemical Property Fluxes in the Atlantic Ocean I Presiding: O T Sato, University of São Paulo; R B Souza, National Institute for Space Research (INPE); G T Mitchum, College of Marine Science 1030h OS22A-01 The Role of the Southern Ocean in Global Sea Level Change (Invited): R Nerem, M A Merrifield, G T Mitchum, B D Hamlington 1050h OS22A-02 Long Term and Recent Changes in Sea Level in the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) (Invited): P L Woodworth, D T Pugh, R Bingley 1110h OS22A-03 ANALYSIS OF SEA LEVEL AND CURRENTS IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC USING SATELLITE ALTIMETER DATA AND RECENT GEOID MODELS: J Harari, A B Lopes 1120h OS22A-04 Sea Surface Heat Balance in the Tropical South Atlantic Ocean Estimated from Satellite Data: O T Sato, I Brizotti 1130h OS22A-05 Satellite Observations of the Brazil-Malvinas Confluence: P S Polito, M B Ferreira 1140h OS22A-06 Ocean-atmosphere interactions over mesoscale structures in the South Atlantic Ocean: R B Souza, L P Pezzi, F Casagrande, D A Arsego, Title of Team: members of the Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography Laboratory 1150h OS22A-07 The Atlantic meridional overturning cell nonlinear response to a variable freshwater flux: D Nof 1200h OS22A-08 Improved Satellite Altimeter Calibration due to Southern Hemisphere Tide Gauge Measurements: G T Mitchum, M A Merrifield 1210h OS22A-09 Deep and bottom waters transport through the fracture zones of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: A Demidov, E Kovaleva 1220h OS22A-10 PIRATA Project over the Tropical Atlantic: The Brazilian Experience: R F De Almeida, P Nobre, D Urbano Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology PP22A Room A2 Tuesday Sediment Geochemistry in Environmental Research II 1030h Presiding: P Roy, Instituto de Geología; J M Ponniah, CIIEMAD; S Seschalam; C Lakshumanan, Bharathidasan University 1030h PP22A-01 MULTIPROXY STUDY OF HOLOCENE LAMINATED SEDIMENTS FROM THE SOUTHERN GULF OF CALIFORNIA. (Invited): L L Perez-Cruz, J U Fucugauchi 1052h PP22A-02 High Resolution XRF Geochemical Study in a 10 m long Sediment Core from the Babícora Basin, Chihuahua Desert, Mexico: P Roy, R Lozano, F M Romero, M P Jonathan, M SanchezCordova, J D Quiroz Jiménez, L L Perez-Cruz 1106h PP22A-03 Late Quaternary Environmental Changes in Central Andes Inferred by Oxygen and Carbon Diatom Isotopes: A Hernández, R Bao, S Giralt, A Sáez, M J Leng, P A Barker, J J Pueyo, B Valero-Garces, A Moreno-Caballud, H J Sloane, C P Kendrick 1120h PP22A-04 Geochronology of combustion in Guanabara Bay basin by means of black carbon (BC) and PAH evaluations: A D Wagener, C R Mauad, A D Scofield, R D Carreira, N M Ruiz, C Vasconcelos, S C Menezes, J Godoy, C O Farias 1134h PP22A-05 PALAEOCLIMATIC INFERENCES FROM MINERALOGICAL, MICROMORPHOLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF RED AND BLACK SOILS IN PURNA VALLEY, CENTRAL INDIA: P Raja, B Phaneendra, D Malpe 1148h PP22A-06 HOLOCENE SEA LEVEL AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE OF SOUTHEAST COAST OF INDIA: H Achyuthan, A Hameed, S Seschalam 1202h PP22A-07 Isotopic Evidence for Rate of Sedimentation and Hydrogeologic Characterisation of the Largest Freshwater Lake in Kerala, India: U Warrier 1216h PP22A-08 Climate change and its impacts on the coastal zone of the Pichavaram creek, East coast of India: C Lakshumanan, M Sundararajan, N Usha Seismology S22A Room Iguacu I Tuesday 1030h Upper Mantle Structure and Geodynamics of South America I (joint with T, G) 1045h S22A-02 Source-Side Shear Wave Splitting and Upper Mantle Flow Beneath the Subducted Nazca Plate: R M Russo 1100h S22A-03 The Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary (LAB) beneath the Andes seen by S-Receiver Functions (Invited): B Heit, F Sodoudi, X Yuan, M Bianchi, R Kind 1115h S22A-04 Southern Peru Subduction Zone Structure from Receiver Functions: K E Phillips, R W Clayton 1130h S22A-05 Active deformation in the Sierras de Córdoba: Observations from the Eastern Sierras Pampeanas seismic array: H J Gilbert, T J Richardson, M L Anderson, P M Alvarado, R Martino, S L Beck, G Zandt, C Gans 1145h S22A-06 The SOUTHERN PUNA Seismic Experiment (25°-28°S): Crustal and Mantle Earthquakes and their Implications: P Mulcahy, C Chen, S M Kay, L D Brown, E A Sandvol 1200h S22A-07 Cyclic Mountain Building in the Andes Controlled by Upper Plate Processes: S L Beck, G Zandt, P G DeCelles, M N Ducea, P A Kapp, J D Pelletier 1215h S22A-08 Imaging the Central Andes: Current and Future Seismic Deployments in Bolivia and Peru: L S Wagner, S L Beck, G Zandt SPA-Aeronomy SA22A Room Iguassu III Tuesday 1030h Studies of the Equatorial and Low-Latitude Upper Atmosphere and Ionosphere at Different Longitudinal Sectors II (joint with SM) Presiding: J P Raulin, Presbyterian Mackenzie University; P R Fagundes, UNIVAP; A A Pimenta, National Institute For Space Research - INPE 1030h SA22A-01 Comparison of Hainan ionospheric scintillations and surrounding TEC fluctuations: S Shang, J Shi, P M Kintner, B Zhang, X Wang, S Wu, G Wang 1045h SA22A-02 An overview of some features of the electrodynamics of the equatorial ionosphere in Africa: O S Oyekola, L B Kolawole 1105h SA22A-03 Plasma irregularities in the F-region studied by ground-based optical and radio techniques in the Southern Space Observatory, São Martinho da Serra, Brazil. (Invited): A A Pimenta, C S Machado, D C Amorim, N J Schuch, P R Fagundes, Y Sahai, J A Bittencourt, J R Abalde, M B da Rosa, T J Girardi 1125h SA22A-04 Variability of ionospheric foF2 and hmF2 in the low latitude (Hainan): X Wang, J Shi, C Kong, G Wang 1140h SA22A-05 Modeling of 630.0 nm dayglow emission: M Sunil Krishna, V Singh 1155h SA22A-06 Equatorial spread-F occurrence observed at two near equatorial stations in the Brazilian sector and its occurrence modulated by planetary waves: F Bertoni, Y Sahai, J Raulin, P R Fagundes, V G Pillat, C G de Castro, W L Lima 1215h SA22A-07 Asymmetric hemispheric response to ionosphere and longitudinal differences observed in the American sector during the intense geomagnetic storm on September 07, 2002: P R Fagundes, A J de Abreu, Y Sahai, R de Jesus, C Brunini, M A Gende Presiding: P M Alvarado, Universidad Nacional de San Juan; R W Clayton, Caltech; S M Kay, Cornell University 1030h S22A-01 The Keel of the Amazonian Craton (Invited): S M Lloyd, S van der Lee, M Assumpcao, M Feng, G S Franca 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 37 Tuesday P.M. Union U23A Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday Climate Impacts of Megacities I Posters 1400h Presiding: M Andrade, University of Sao Paulo; R Y Ynoue, University of São Paulo 1400h U23A-01 POSTER Analysis of aerosol optical properties at the South of South America: P C Vergara, M Yamasoe 1400h U23A-02 POSTER Aerosol characterization in São Paulo, Brazil, winter 2008: A C Amaral, M Andrade 1400h U23A-03 POSTER Some Features of Nocturnal Ozone Maxima Occurred Over the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo-Brazil: C Mazzoli, E D Freitas, L D Martins, V Carvalho, J A Martins, M Andrade 1400h U23A-04 POSTER EVALUATION OF A PASSIVE SAMPLING METHOD FOR FINE PARTICULATE MATERIAL: G De Salve, M Andrade 1400h U23A-05 POSTER APPLICATIONS OF THE WRF MODELING SYSTEM TO REGIONAL AIR QUALITY IN BRAZIL: A S Simoes, L C Santolim, E Nascimento, T Albuquerque, T Morais, K Cavassani, F Curbani, A Baumgarten, C de Jesus, I Araujo, Z Pimenta 1400h U23A-06 POSTER Impact of Aerosol-cloud Interactions in the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo: Numerical Simulations with WRF/Chem model: M G Oliveira, G A Grell, M Andrade, L D Martins, J A Martins, C Mazzoli 1400h U23A-07 POSTER Case study for tropospheric ozone during October 2002 in Metropolitan Area of São Paulo: meteorological modeling: W Galichio, A Fornaro, R da Rocha, Title of Team: LAPAt 1400h U23A-08 POSTER New Implementations in the SPM-BRAMS Model for Urban and Air Quality Studies: E D Freitas, V Carvalho, M S Itimura, V V Urbina Guerrero, M L Gouvêa, L D Martins, C Mazzoli, J A Martins, M Andrade, Title of Team: Master-Lapat 1400h U23A-09 POSTER The Use of the CMAQ Model in the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo - Brazil: T T Albuquerque, R Y Ynoue, J J West, M Andrade, E G Nascimento, A Simoes U23B Room C2 Hydrology From Space I Tuesday 1400h Presiding: S Calmant, IRD; F S Seyler, IRD 1400h U23B-01 Using time changes in floodplain vegetation cover as surrogate of hydraulic roughness in the Low Amazon Várzea: E Novo, V F Renó, R Almeida Filho 1429h U23B-02 Hydrology of Amazonian floodplain Lakes: Criteria for Regionalization: M Bonnet, B Lamback, F S Seyler, C Barbosa, J SANTOS DA SILVA, J M Melack, L Durieux, L L Hess, G Cochonneau, P Moreira-Turcq, G R Boaventura, P Seyler 1442h U23B-03 Monitoring Paraná River wetland dynamics using MODIS NDVI time series: M Salvia, F Grings, P Kandus, H Karszenbaum 1455h U23B-04 Multi-scale Mapping of Amazonian Wetlands with ALOS PALSAR: L Hess, E M Novo, L Durieux, A Affonso, E Arraut, B Marshall, B D Chapman, K C McDonald 1508h U23B-05 Space-based high-resolution, multi-temporal monitoring of wetland water levels: Case study of WCA1 in the Everglades, southern Florida: S Wdowinski, S Hong, S Kim, J Won 38 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1521h U23B-06 Remote sensing of the dynamics of floods and water bodies in Australia: spatial and temporal scale issues for different applications: J P Guerschman, G Byrne, C Ticehurst, B Gouweleeuw, P Dyce, A I van Dijk 1534h U23B-07 Connectivity of Riverside Lagoons With the Rio Uruguay During El Niño Events and Management of Grumatã (Prochilodus lineatus): M B Leite, R Cabral Cruz, D Allasia, R Tassi 1547h U23B-08 Laser and radar altimetry for Okavango delta flood pulse study: F Seyler, S Calmant, N Filizola, G Cochonneau, M Bonnet, C Shumm Atmospheric Sciences A23A Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 1400h Connecting Atmospheric and Space Sciences: Solar Variability and Climate II Posters (joint with GP, GC, P, SA, G) Presiding: M P Baldwin, NWRA; N G Andronova, University of Michigan 1400h A23A-01 POSTER Evidences for sunspot forcing of regional climate in South America: G Silvestri, R Compagnucci, V Velasco 1400h A23A-02 POSTER Is SST the link between solar activity and Parana river discharge?: R Compagnucci, G Silvestri, V Velasco 1400h A23A-03 POSTER The influence of rain water precipitation and the atmospheric electric field in the Cosmic Rays flux observed in the Earth’s surface: R R Souza de Mendonça, J P Raulin, F Bertoni, E Echer, V Makhmutov, G Fernandez 1400h A23A-04 POSTER Solar signal in Central Chile Precipitation: R Compagnucci, V Velasco Herrera, J A Boninsegna, Title of Team: Solar signal in Central Chile Precipitation 1400h A23A-05 POSTER Cosmic ray flux over the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly: Possible effects due to the local geomagnetic field: E Frigo, I I Pacca 1400h A23A-06 POSTER Solar impact on noctilucent clouds on short time scales: C von Savigny, E Becker, C Robert, H Bovensmann, J P Burrows 1400h A23A-07 POSTER An investigation into the relationship between Dst and solar wind conditions during intense geomagnetic storms: N O Bakare, V U Chukwuma A23B Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday Gravity Waves III Posters (joint with SA) 1400h Presiding: M Alexander, NWRA; H Chun, Yonsei University; P Preusse, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH; M Pulido, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste 1400h A23B-01 POSTER Gaussian quasi-optic approximation applied to orographic gravity waves in non-uniform large-scale flows: C Rodas, M Pulido 1400h A23B-02 POSTER Observation of a tongue pulled out from the Antarctic vortex edge due to barotropic instability: H Teitelbaum, M Moustaoui, A Mahalov 1400h A23B-03 POSTER Gravity Wave Analysis with GPS Radio Occultation Data: A Haser, T Schmidt, A de la Torre, J Fischer 1400h A23B-04 POSTER Ionospheric Variability Induced by Acoustic-gravity Waves Coming from Below: T Sindelarova, D Buresova, J Chum, D Novotna 1400h A23B-05 POSTER An update of a parameterization of convective gravity wave drag using ensemble mesoscale simulations and its impacts in a GCM: H Choi, H Chun 1400h A23B-06 POSTER Impacts of the Convective Gravity Wave Drag Parameterization on the Global Forecast in Met Office Unified Model: Y Kim, H Chun A23C Room Expocenter I Tuesday 1400h Extreme Weather Events in the Americas: Observations, Forecasts, and Projections I (joint with NH, G) Presiding: C Jones, UCSB; L V Carvalho, University of California Santa Barbara 1405h A23C-01 Observed and Simulated Variability of Extreme Events over South America (Invited): M Rusticucci 1430h A23C-02 Teleconnections Between Tropical-Extratropical Oceans And The Daily Intensity Of Extreme Rainfall Over Argentina: F Robledo, O C Penalba, M Bettolli 1445h A23C-03 JOINT DIAGNOSTIC OF THE SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE IN SOUTH AMERICA AND THE MADDENJULIAN OSCILLATION: G Naumann, W M Vargas 1500h A23C-04 SOUTH ATLANTIC CONVERGENCE ZONE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION ASSOCIATED WITH ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY: F M de Andrade, E Marton 1515h A23C-05 Low Visibility Forecast for Maceio Airport by PAFOG Model: A O da Silva, M H Silveira, N Fedorova 1530h A23C-06 Intercomparison of Disdrometer and DualPolarization Radar Measurements in Tornadic and Non-Tornadic Supercells During VORTEX2: J Wurman, K Friedrich, K Kosiba 1545h A23C-07 LARGE-SCALE PATTERNS LINKED TO LOWFREQUENCY VARAIBLITY OF DAILY INTENSITY OF EXTREME RAINFALL OVER ARGENTINA: F Robledo, O C Penalba, C Vera A23D Room A1 Tuesday 1400h Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Interactions in the Subtropical Southeastern Pacific I (joint with OS) Presiding: R Garreaud, Universidad de Chile; R A Weller, WHOI 1400h A23D-01 Low Clouds over the Southeast Pacific—New Perspectives from VOCALS REx Observations (Invited): B A Albrecht 1425h A23D-02 VOCALS-UK: An overview of UK science from the VOCALS campaign: G Allen, Title of Team: The VOCALS-UK Team 1450h A23D-03 Coastal upwelling variability off Peru: Retrospective analysis from historical data and the VOCALS REx experiment: C Grados, A Chaigneau, N Dominguez, G Eldin, K Angulo, M Graco, J Ledesma, B Dewitte, J L Blanco, M Braun 1515h A23D-04 VOCALS-CUpEx: The Chilean Upwelling Experiment (Invited): R Garreaud, Title of Team: Scientific Team of VOCALS-CUpEx (J.Rutllant, R.Muñoz, D.Rahn, M.Ramos, D.Figueroa) 1535h A23D-05 Combustion Aerosol, Cloud Interactions and Entrainment over the SEP: A D Clarke, T L Campos, J Snider Biogeosciences B23A Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday Biogeosciences General Contributions II Posters 1400h Presiding: E A Davidson, Woods Hole Research Ctr; S K Oni, Trent University; J W Harden, U.S.Geological Survey 1400h B23A-01 POSTER Forest Dynamics in Lowland and Coastal Seasonally Flooded Atlantic Forest at Serra do Mar State Park, Brazil: M Scaranello, S A Vieira, L F Alves, P B Camargo, L Martinelli, C A Joly 1400h B23A-02 POSTER Forest productivity and aboveground biomass change in Brazilian Atlantic Forest plots: L F Alves, S A Vieira, E Sousa Neto, J Carmo, M A Scaranello, P B Camargo, C A Joly, L Martinelli 1400h B23A-03 POSTER Spatial Relationships between Burnt Scars and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: A Lima, Y E Shimabukuro, R M Freitas, M Adami, T F Silva, J Barlow, L Aragão 1400h B23A-04 POSTER Soil CO2 flux rates in a tropical forest site of eastern Amazonia - Pará - Brazil: P H Gonçalves, A C Lôla da Costa, J M Costa, Y Malhi, L Aragão, D B Metcalf, S M Fonseca 1400h B23A-05 POSTER Seasonality of CO2 concentration in a mangrove in ecosystem in the Amazon region - Bragança - Pará Brazil: E C Oliveira, S M Fonseca, P H Gonçalves, A C Lôla da Costa, J M Costa, H J Rodrigues, V M Andrade, Y Malhi 1400h B23A-06 POSTER Study of evapotranspiration and leaf area index in semi-deciduous forest of the southern Amazon basin: O B Pinto Jr, F A Lobo, L S Alves, J S Nogueira, H J Dalmagro, G L Vourlitis, Title of Team: Group Physical Environmental 1400h B23A-07 POSTER Leaf Area Index (LAI) analysis in the period of 2000 to 2004 for the Rio Grande do Sul state: V D Souza, M C Silveira, G Georgen, D R Roberti 1400h B23A-08 POSTER Satellite monitoring of crop growing periods and crop phenology - Short term climate signals: T V Lakshmi Kumar, H A Barbosa 1400h B23A-09 WITHDRAWN 1400h B23A-10 POSTER Carbon dioxide, sensible heat and latent heat fluxes in the cowpea crop (Vigna Unguiculata L.): L D Neves, J M Costa, A C Lôla da Costa, W P Ferreira, P H Gonçalves, V M Andrade, Y Malhi, E C Oliveira, L J Aguiar 1400h B23A-11 POSTER Temporal Dynamics of Isotopic CO2 Flux from No-Till and Conventional Till Areas in Canada: S R Maggiotto, J S Warland, C Wagner-Riddle 1400h B23A-12 POSTER TAXONOMY AND GENESIS OF RICE GROWING HYDRIC SOILS IN DISANG VALLEY, ASSAM, INDIA: B Phaneendra, S Deepak, P Raja, B Utpal 1400h B23A-13 POSTER Seasonal variations and hydrologic control of dissolved organic carbon concentrations and fluxes in the Lake Simcoe watershed, Ontario: S K Oni, M N Futter, P Dillon, L A Molot 1400h B23A-14 POSTER Different proxies for reconstructing palaeoenvironments in Holocene sediments: B M Gutiérrez Téllez, R A Schillizzi, L I Luna 1400h B23A-15 POSTER The Possibility of Bio-diesel production through phytoremediation using oil-seed rape: K Lee, H Cho, J Kim, Title of Team: Waste Management & Resource Recirculation Team 1400h B23A-16 POSTER Self-potential signals produced by a subsurface bioelectrochemical system: A tank experiment: S da Silva Fachin, S S. Vasconcelos, C A Mendonça B23B Room A3 Tuesday 1400h Regional-Scale Budgets of Greenhouse Gases for Amazonia I (joint with A) Presiding: M H Costa, UFV; L V Gatti, IPEN; J B Miller, NOAA/ ESRL; J P Ometto 1400h B23B-01 Carbon Balance, Drought Sensitivity and Allometric Variation in Tropical Forests (Invited): T R Feldpausch, O L Phillips, S L Lewis, T R Baker, J Lloyd, Title of Team: Amazon Forest Inventory Network (RAINFOR) 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 39 1415h B23B-02 CO2 and water fluxes across the brazillian Amazonia and Cerrado biomes (Invited): H R daRocha, S R Saleska, N Restrepo-Coupe, M Goulden, S D Miller, O Cabral, A Manzi, S C Wofsy, L Borma, E Collichio, G L Vourlitis, J D Nogueira, A Nobre, H Freitas, C vonRandow, R G Aguiar, F Cardoso, B Kruijt 1430h B23B-03 Amazon Basin-Scale Ecophysiology and Variability: Evaluating Light- versus Water-Limitation: I T Baker, A B Harper, A S Denning, R Stockli 1445h B23B-04 The AMAZONICA “Amazon Integrated Carbon Analysis” and CTLUC “Carbon tracker and Water Availabilty” projects, and links to RAINFOR/MOORE Amazon forest censuses: E U Gloor, H R daRocha, J Lloyd, L V Gatti, O Phillipps, J B Miller, J Grace, Y Malhi, Y E Shimabukuro, L Anderson, B SoaresFilho, S R Freitas, A Krusche, S Waldron, L M Mercado, S Sitch, C Huntingford, F I Woodward, R Fisher, M Chipperfield 1500h B23B-05 CarbonTracker-Brazil: First inverse model carbon flux calculations focused on Amazonia: J B Miller, W Peters, L V Gatti, M T D’Amelio, S C Wofsy, J W Munger 1515h B23B-06 Vertical Profiles of CO2 Above Eastern Amazonia Suggest a Near Neutral Carbon Balance Between 2000 and 2010: L V Gatti, J B Miller, A Martinewski, M T D’Amelio, L S Basso, L G Domingues, P P Tans 1530h B23B-07 Recent Changes in Global Methane and the Role of the Tropics: S Hasan, S Houweling, C Frankenberg, M Krol, M F Bierkens, L P Van Beek, E J Dlugokencky 1545h B23B-08 CH4 fluxes over eastern Amazonia using aircraft profiles: L S Basso, L V Gatti, A Martinewski, M T D’Amelio, L G Domingues, P P Tans, J B Miller Earth and Space Science Informatics IN23A Room Cedro I Tuesday 1400h Earth and Space Science Cyberinfrastructures: Data, Tools, Distribution, and Forecast Systems for International Collaboration I (joint with A, ED, H, OS) Presiding: T C Yoksas, Unidata Program Center/UCAR; W G Almeida, CPTEC/INPE; G K Rutledge, NOAA NCDC 1405h IN23A-01 Unidata’s International Efforts and Projects to Facilitate Geoscience Education and Research Through Data Services (Invited): M K Ramamurthy, T C Yoksas 1425h IN23A-02 A Cell Phone Weather Alert Application for Agriculture uses from Reliable Real Time Access to High Availability NOMADS Environmental Model Data (Invited): J C Alpert 1445h IN23A-03 From Data to Knowledge: M Weiss, L J Paxton, R K Schaefer, B Fortner, J Holm 1500h IN23A-04 Progress towards global data integration in the geosciences: M L Allison, I Jackson, L C Gundersen, J Hubbard, S M Richard 1515h IN23A-05 The NOAA National Climate Model Portal: G K Rutledge 1530h IN23A-06 FLUXDATA.ORG: A Collaborative Data Sharing Portal For Global Carbon-Flux Analysis: C van Ingen, D Agarwal, M Humphrey, M Goode, N Beekwilder, D Papale, M Reichstein 1545h IN23A-07 Cyberinfrastructure for chemical weather forecast: E S Almeida, L Coura, A A Oliveira, C R Baeza, R U Delgado, P Nancel-Penard, M S Mendes, S K Lima, J G Freitas, E Santos, L Rodrigues, S R Freitas, K Longo, L Gallardo 40 2010 The Meeting of the Americas Education and Human Resources ED23A Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 1400h Developing Sustainable Education and Outreach Programs and Projects Posters (joint with GC) Presiding: L Bonan, Universidad de Buenos Aires; N Krusche, Universidade Federal Rio Grande; M J Passow, Dwight Morrow H.S.; J M Piranha, Unesp - Universidade Estadual Paulista 1400h ED23A-01 POSTER Primary Science Education: Challenges and Solutions from a 4th Grade Teacher to inspire minority students: R Chee Wah 1400h ED23A-02 POSTER A Multi-National Course on Global Climate Change: R Nieto-Ferreira, S Curtis, R Chia, E Poe, A Herdman, R Thompson, B Yang, J Margolis, J Chen, L Irias, C Maiochi, P Manhas 1400h ED23A-03 POSTER Divulging Geophysics as Science and Profession: The Experience of University of São Paulo (Brazil) (Invited): J S Secco, L S Marques, N Ussami 1400h ED23A-04 POSTER THE BUILDING OF CURRICULUM MATERIALS BASED IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH: A STUDY RANGING 12 TO 13 YEAR OLTHE PORTUGUESE STUDENTS ABOUT GEOLOGICAL TIME CONCEPTIONS: M J Loureiro, J Bonito, M Morgado, D Rebelo, J Medina, G M McDade, L Martins, L Marques 1400h ED23A-05 POSTER Seismological Virtual Lab: Seismology in Schools: F T dos Santos, M Pirchiner, V J Pereira, M Assumpcao 1400h ED23A-06 POSTER A Space and Atmospheric Sciences Courses for Universities in Brazil. The University of Brasilia Case: J L Ferreira 1400h ED23A-07 POSTER Interactive whiteboard resources about geological time: their educational potential: M J Loureiro, D Rebelo, M Morgado, G M McDade, L Martins, J Medina, J Bonito, L Marques ED23B Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 1400h Innovative Educational Technologies and Successful Pedagogical Practices in Earth and Space Sciences Education II Posters Presiding: N Reis, Ministerio da Educacao; J R Thieman, NASA 1400h ED23B-01 POSTER THE AEB ESCOLA PROGRAM: J L Ferreira, C E Quintanilha, Title of Team: AEB escola 1400h ED23B-02 POSTER The use of astronomical remote observations in teaching science: O de Souza, J Gregorio-Hetem 1400h ED23B-03 POSTER Measuring Sunlight with a Homemade Detector: A Low-Cost Experiment for Middle and High School Students in Brazil: M A Alves, I M Martin, C S Lyra 1400h ED23B-04 POSTER The Inquiry Cycle as a Tool for Interaction Between Academics and a Tradicional Riverine Brazilian Amazon Community: S A Coelho-Souza, M R Miranda, M S López, E Lanz, O Malm, W R Bastos 1400h ED23B-05 POSTER Great Falls Teachers’ Collaborative: Exploring Watershed Ecology and Enhancing Teacher Practice: S Sterling-Laldee 1400h ED23B-06 POSTER Earth2Class: Effective Format for Bring Together Science and Teaching: M J Passow, C M Assumpcao, F D Baggio 1400h ED23B-07 POSTER Geophysical Test Site at University of São Paulo, Brazil: Impacts in Teaching and Research in Near Surface Geophysics (Invited): J L Porsani Geodesy G23A Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 1400h Intercomparison Between Future Height Systems in North and South America Posters (joint with GC, OS) Presiding: D Blitzkow, Universidade de Sao Paulo; A HernándezNavarro, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía; D R Roman, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey; M Veronneau, Geodetic Survey Division 1400h G23A-01 POSTER U.S.A. National Surface Rock Density Map - Interim Report: D Winester, J C Cartwright 1400h G23A-02 POSTER Assessment of Stokes Integration Using Gravity Anomalies from Global Geopotential Models: M Santos, R W Kingdon, P Vanicek 1400h G23A-03 POSTER Converting From a Geoid Height Model to a Geopotential Surface: D R Roman, Y M Wang, S A Holmes, X Li 1400h G23A-04 POSTER The SIRGAS Vertical Reference Frame as a Mandatory Tool for a future Unified South American Geoid Model: R T Luz, L Echevers, G Font, S R Freitas, J Hernández, M Hoyer, W Martínez, J Moirano, H Rovera, W Rubio, L Sánchez, A Tierra, Title of Team: SIRGAS “Vertical Datum” Working Group (WG-III) 1400h G23A-05 POSTER MAPGEO2010 - NEW OFFICIAL QUASI-GEOID MODEL FOR BRAZIL: D Blitzkow, A O de Matos, G Guimaraes, M B Lobianco, S A Costa 1400h G23A-06 POSTER An Experimental Gravity Model in Spherical Harmonics to Degree and Order 2700: Y Wang, D R Roman, J Saleh, X Li G23B Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 1400h Ionospheric and Tropospheric Effects on Global Navigation Satellite System Positioning and Navigation II Posters (joint with A) Presiding: D B Alves, Univ Estadual Paulista; M Aquino, University of Nottingham 1400h G23B-01 POSTER Using ionospheric scintillation indices to estimate GPS receiver tracking performance: Z G Elmas, M Aquino 1400h G23B-02 POSTER Analysis of Relative Positioning in the Brazilian Territory at Different Periods of the Solar Cycle: C S Salomoni, M Matsuoka, S F Souza 1400h G23B-03 POSTER Training Artificial Neural Networks to Compute and Predict Total Electron Content: W C Machado, E S da Fonseca Jr., J Y Missao 1400h G23B-04 POSTER A REGIONAL IONOPHERIC MODELING IN NETWORK-BASED POSITIONING: Investigation and Implementation in the context of GNSS SP-BRA/Network: P S Oliveira, D B Alves, J F Monico 1400h G23B-05 POSTER Comparison of Results from Tropospheric Delay Generated by Differents Softwares: G P Rosa, J F Monico, E M Barbosa 1400h G23B-06 POSTER Statistical analysis of the Zenithal Tropospheric Delay (ZTD) using Gamma and Weibull Distributions: M A Mendonca, V F Rofatto, J F Monico 1400h G23B-07 POSTER COMPARISON OF MAPPING FUNCTION PARAMETERS FOR THE STUDY OF REGIONAL METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA: M P Natali, J Moirano, L I Fernández, A M Meza, P Salio 1400h G23B-08 POSTER Estimation of precipitable water vapour from GPS measurements in Argentina: validation and qualitative analysis of results: L I Fernandez, P V Salio, P Natali, A M Meza 1400h G23B-09 POSTER Vienna Mapping Function Coefficients Interpolation for GNSS Brazilian Stations and Analyses in the Precise Point Positioning: H A Silva, H A Marques, J F Monico, G P Rosa 1400h G23B-10 POSTER The impact of interpolation of meteorological measurements in the quality of IWV-GNSS values: M D Chaves, L F Sapucci, J F Monico Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism GP23A Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 1400h Paleomagnetic Studies for the Reconstruction of Tectonic Processes I Posters Presiding: C M Spagnuolo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina; M D’Agrella Filho, University of Sao Paulo 1400h GP23A-01 POSTER PALEOMAGNETIC STUDIES IN NEOPROTEROZOIC UNITS OF URUGUAY: A SUMMARY: V Feldman, L Sanchez Bettucci, A E Rapalini 1400h GP23A-02 POSTER Large-Scale Rotations along a Transform Zone: Magnetic Anisotropy and Paleomagnetism of the St Peter St Paul Archipelago (Central Atlantic): W Poletti, R Trindade, L A Simões, E Yokoyama, M G Carminatti 1400h GP23A-03 POSTER Structural complications associated with paleomagnetic analysis of fault related folds (Front Ranges, Canadian Cordillera): Implications for the origin of syntilting remagneizations: M S Zechmeister, M Evans, E C Ferre, R D Elmore 1400h GP23A-04 POSTER New Paleomagnetic Data of the Upper Cretaceous Sines Massif (Portugal): P Ribeiro, P F Silva, Z Kratinova, F O Marques, B Henry 1400h GP23A-05 POSTER Paleomagnetic and 40Ar/39Ar geochronological data of Mesoproterozoic mafic dykes from Nova Lacerda, Amazonian Craton: M S D’Agrella-Filho, E Tohver, L N Tamura, R I Trindade, A Ruiz, J A Silva 1400h GP23A-06 WITHDRAWN 1400h GP23A-07 POSTER New preliminary paleomagnetic data of the pre-Permian lamprophyres from Cuesta de Miranda, La Rioja, Argentina: C M Spagnuolo, A E Rapalini, R A Astini 1400h GP23A-08 WITHDRAWN 1400h GP23A-09 POSTER CURVED OROGENIC SYSTEMS IN THE ITALIAN PENINSULA: A PALEOMAGNETIC REVIEW: F Cifelli, M Mattei GP23B Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday Precambrian Supercontinents I Posters 1400h Presiding: D A Evans, Yale University; A E Rapalini, Universidad de Buenos Aires; R I Trindade, University of Sao Paulo; U G Cordani, Institute of Geosciences, University of São Paulo 1400h GP23B-01 POSTER Paleomagnetism of Diabase Sills from the Paleoproterozoic Avanavero Event, Northern Roraima State, Amazonian Craton: F Bispo-Santos, M S D’Agrella-Filho, N J Reis, R I Trindade 1400h GP23B-02 POSTER Paleomagnetism of Paleoproteroic volcanic rocks from Surumu Group, Amazonian Craton: Implications for the Assembly of Columbia Supercontinent: F BispoSantos, M S D’Agrella-Filho, N J Reis, R I Trindade 1400h GP23B-03 POSTER Tonian sills and mafic dike swarms of S-SW Amazonian Craton: records of Rodinia Supercontinent breakup?: A S Ruiz, M S D’Agrella-Filho, M A Sousa, G A Lima 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 41 GP23C Room Iguacu II Tuesday 1400h Understanding Secular, Decadal, and Shorter Time Scale Core Field Behavior: Recent Lessons and Future Prospects II (joint with P) Presiding: K J Pinheiro, Observatório Nacional - MCT (National Observatory); G Hulot, IPGP; N Olsen, DTU Space 1400h GP23C-01 Time scales of magnetic variation in observatory data (Invited): J E Mound, L Jackson 1415h GP23C-02 WITHDRAWN 1430h GP23C-03 Observations of magnetic diffusion at the core surface (Invited): A Chulliat, N Olsen, G Hulot 1445h GP23C-04 Forecasting field change using optimal assimilation of secular variation from core flow models and low resolution field models (Invited): C Beggan, K A Whaler 1500h GP23C-05 On the possibility of improving Earth’s main magnetic field forecast: G Hulot, F Lhuillier, L Silva, J Aubert, S Maus, E Thebault 1515h GP23C-06 Using Global Geomagnetic Jerks to Obtain Information About the Mantle Electrical Conductivity: K J Pinheiro, A Jackson, J Velimsky GP23D Room Iguacu II Tuesday 1530h Probing Tectonic Processes With Electromagnetic Methods I (joint with T, NS) Presiding: J R Booker, Univ. of Washington; H Brasse, Free University of Berlin; A Favetto, CONICET; M C Pomposiello, CONICET 1530h GP23D-01 Studying tectonic processes with marine electromagnetic methods (Invited): S Constable, K W Key, B D Wheelock, D G Myer, S Naif 1545h GP23D-02 Regional Electrical Conductivity of the Pacific Northwest from EMScop (Invited): G D Egbert Hydrology H23A Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday Hydrology General Contributions III Posters 1400h Presiding: A T Joseph, NASA/GSFC; N L Dias, Universidade Federal do Paraná 1400h H23A-01 POSTER Hydrologic Cycle and Morphology of the Acre River Basin in Western Amazonia: A F Duarte 1400h H23A-02 POSTER Investigating the roles of climate and landscape characteristics on mean annual and monthly water balances: Y Yokoo, M Sivapalan 1400h H23A-03 POSTER Regional Modeling of Annual Flow Duration Curves with the Extended Burr XII Distribution Function: V A Costa, W Fernandes, M D Naghettini 1400h H23A-04 POSTER Assessment of water budget closure over the Canadian landmass: S Wang 1400h H23A-05 POSTER WATER BALANCE IN THE SOYBEAN CROP IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL USING THE METHOD EDDY COVARIANCE TO ESTIMATE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION: V Moreira, G Webler, D R Roberti, A Timm, O L Moraes, J Fiorin, G Degrazia 1400h H23A-06 POSTER Evaluate the Performance of the Hydrological Model of Large Basin in Simulate Runoff in the Watershed Tapajos’s River from of ETA Atmospheric Model: W S Sousa, J Tomasella 42 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1400h H23A-07 POSTER Rock Weathering And Its Influence On Groundwater Chemistry In Nalgonda District, Andhra Pradesh, India: R Rajendran 1400h H23A-08 WITHDRAWN 1400h H23A-09 POSTER Why are stream dead zones important?: M L Johnson 1400h H23A-10 POSTER Flow and Transport in Periodically Flooded Riparian Zones: J Jensen, B Nilsson, P K Engesgaard 1400h H23A-11 WITHDRAWN 1400h H23A-12 POSTER Analysis of the equivalent water height variation in the Guarani aquifer using GRACE data: E P Bomfim, E C Molina 1400h H23A-13 POSTER A Comparison of AIRS/AQUA Total Precipitable Water and Radiosonde observations: R C Braga, J V Rodrigues, S S Costa 1400h H23A-14 POSTER Processing and analysis of electromagnetic (PROTEM) data from Paraná Basin, southern of Goiás (Brazil): M G Von Huelsen, G O Takenaka, R T Citon, L A Oliveira, L S Cunha 1400h H23A-15 POSTER Development and analysis of the model to design accumulation basins in unpaved roads: D P Silva, F F Pruski, J A Silva, W D Meireles Filho 1400h H23A-16 POSTER Influence of Hydraulic Orthotropy on the Intake Characteristics of an Entry Point Located at an Impervious Boundary: A P Selvadurai, Title of Team: Environmental Geomechanics 1400h H23A-17 POSTER Hydrological simulations in a deforested Amazonian Basin – Preliminary results: D Rodriguez, J Tomasella 1400h H23A-18 WITHDRAWN 1400h H23A-19 POSTER Does secondary forest compensate the low evapotranspiration caused by conversion of forest to pasture?: R C Von Randow, A Araujo, C Von Randow, J Tomasella, R W Hutjes, M T Brasil, L Leal, F C Magina, A Manzi 1400h H23A-20 POSTER Gap phase influences deep soil moisture dynamics during El Niño drought in a moist tropical forest: B J Christoffersen, D Amaral, P B Camargo, R de Oliveira, Jr., S R Saleska, R Tapajós, R L Van Dam, T Woodcock H23B Room C3 Advances in Hydrogeophysics Tuesday 1400h Presiding: J D Irving, University of Guelph; R Sidler, UNIL Lausanne 1400h H23B-01 Electromagnetic Green’s function extraction by cross-correlation and deconvolution, with applications in hydrogeophysics (Invited): E C Slob, R Snieder, A Revil, C A Wapenaar 1415h H23B-02 Coupled Hydrogeophysical Inversion of a Groundwater Model with Geoelectric and Transient Electromagnetic Data: D Herckenrath, E Auken, P Bauer-Gottwein 1430h H23B-03 Accounting for Magnetic Field Variations in Surface-NMR Measurements: Towards Optimized Determination of Water Content and Pore Structural Information: J Walbrecker, M Hertrich 1445h H23B-04 How (and How not) to use Geophysics for Contaminated Site Characterization: A Tale from Hill Air Force Base, Utah: J H Bradford 1500h H23B-05 WITHDRAWN 1515h H23B-06 Tide effects observed in groundwater and their mathematical modeling: J Mls 1530h H23B-07 Integrated groundwater potential models for crystalline bedrock in Brazil’s semi-arid region: O A Souza, A M Silva, M M Perrotta, A E McCafferty 1545h H23B-08 Analysis of the 2009 drought in Buenos Aires province from satellite GRACE data: C N Tocho, L Guarracino Natural Hazards NH23A Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 1400h Natural Hazards of the Americas in Focus of Geosciences II Posters (joint with V, S, T, GC, A, G) Presiding: A Ismail-Zadeh, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; V G Kossobokov, Intl Inst Earthquake Prediction Theory & Math Geoph, RAS 1400h NH23A-01 POSTER Earthquakes and Possible Relationship with Solar Cycles: M D Tavares 1400h NH23A-02 POSTER A Declustering Method for Seismicity using the Thirumalai-Mountain Metric: N Cho, K F Tiampo, W Klein, J B Rundle 1400h NH23A-03 POSTER Disaster monitoring for the Abruzzo earthquake in Italy (April 2009) with ALOS/PALSAR observations: N Kawano 1400h NH23A-04 POSTER Assessment of the Potential of Scale Formation and Corrosivity of Tap Water Resources and the Network Distribution System in Shiraz, South Iran: M Dehghani 1400h NH23A-05 POSTER A case study of the extreme weather event in southern South America: The 2008 – 2009 drought: M N Nuñez, A E Fernández, H H Ciappesoni, A Rolla 1400h NH23A-06 POSTER Holocene giant collapses in the Aconcagua Park: S M Moreiras 1400h NH23A-07 POSTER Natural hazards as an eco-geo-social phenomenon: J Kelmelis 1400h NH23A-08 POSTER LANDSLIDE HAZARDS IN MOSCOW AND MECHANICAL-MATHEMATICAL MODELING FOR LANDSLIDE PROCESSES: V Svalova 1400h NH23A-09 POSTER The Location Capability of a Local Seismograph Array, Doppler Determination of Rupture Directions, and Tectonic Activity on the Agua Blanca Fault of NW Baja California, Mexico: F A Nava Pichardo, J Acosta, J Frez 1400h NH23A-10 POSTER A Statistical Method for a Simple Assessment of the Volcanic Hazard: A Mendoza-Rosas, S De La Cruz-Reyna 1400h NH23A-11 POSTER Low frequency seismic events at Ceboruco Volcano, México: M C Rodriguez-Uribe, J J Sanchez, F J Nunez-Cornu, E Trejo, C Suarez-Plascencia 1400h NH23A-12 POSTER Study of the Seismic Source of 2005 Vulcanian Explosions at Colima Volcano: F J Nunez-Cornu, C Suarez-Plascencia, E Trejo 1400h NH23A-13 POSTER Developing of a wireless sensor network to monitor and quantify debris flows from Cotopaxi and Tungurahua volcanoes: P D Marcillo, F Vasconez, M E Vaca NH23B Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 1400h Societal Impacts of Monsoon Variability in the Americas Posters (joint with GC, G) Presiding: J O Adegoke, Univ Missouri, Kansas; C L Castro, University of Arizona 1400h NH23B-01 POSTER Caribbean Sea Tropical Cyclone occurrences in the last six decades and their impacts in Central America and the Caribbean Islands (Invited): E J Alfaro 1400h NH23B-02 POSTER Creating dynamically downscaled seasonal climate forecast and climate change projection information for the North American Monsoon region suitable for decision making purposes: C L Castro, F Dominguez, H Chang 1400h NH23B-03 POSTER Hydrologic Extremes in a changing climate: how much information can regional climate models provide?: F Dominguez, X Zhang, C L Castro, H Chang, D P Lettenmaier 1400h NH23B-04 POSTER Statistical Analysis and Verification of Dynamically Downscaled Seasonal Forecast for the Summer North American Monsoon Region: H Chang, C L Castro, B Ciancarelli 1400h NH23B-05 POSTER The Amazon Drought of the Century in 1926 also Impacted Acre State, southwestern Amazonia, Brazil: R Tavares, I F Brown 1400h NH23B-06 POSTER Scenario-based Assessment Vulnerability of the Midwest Regional Economy to Monsoon Variability and Changing Climate: J O Adegoke, S E Hasan, T Willoughby, J Ware 1400h NH23B-07 POSTER Sonora Si- or No? The investigation of stakeholders’ discourses that make a state hydrological project (im)possible in a NW Mexican state: N A Cortez, I Minjarez, C M Minjarez NH23C Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 1400h Tsunamis on the Pacific and Atlantic Coasts of America I Posters (joint with S, OS, G) Presiding: V K Gusiakov, Institite of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics; H M Fritz, Georgia Institute of Technology 1400h NH23C-01 POSTER Post-event Tsunami Data with focus on the 27 February 2010 Chile Earthquake: K J Stroker, G Mungov, P K Dunbar 1400h NH23C-02 WITHDRAWN 1400h NH23C-03 POSTER Historical and Prehistorical Evidence of Large Earthquakes and Tsunamis at the Pacific Coast of Mexico – Guerrero: M Ramirez-Herrera, M Lagos, I Hutchinson 1400h NH23C-04 POSTER Study of earthquake october 9, 1995 and the tsunami at Jalisco coast: E Trejo-Gómez, M Ortiz-Figueroa, F J Nunez-Cornu, J Sanchez, A Gomez, M C Rodriguez-Uribe 1400h NH23C-05 WITHDRAWN 1400h NH23C-06 POSTER Tsunami Monitoring, Response Criteria and Dissemination for Puerto Rico and US and British Virgin Islands: L Soto-Cordero, V Huerfano, G Baez-Sanchez 1400h NH23C-07 POSTER Consideration of far-field sources in tsunami hazard assessment in the West Indies: lessons from the 1755 and 1761 events: J Roger, F Accary 1400h NH23C-08 POSTER Tsunamis generated by 3D granular landslides: F Mohammed, H M Fritz Ocean Sciences OS23A Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 1400h Dynamics of the Southwestern Atlantic Continental Margin II Posters (joint with PP) Presiding: I C da Silveira, Instituto Oceanográfico da Universidade de São Paulo; F Brandini, Instituto Oceanografico - USP; B M Castro; M Mahiques, Univ Sao Paulo 1400h OS23A-01 POSTER Currents and South Atlantic Central Water Intrusions onto the South Brazil Bight: B M Castro, A F Pereira 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 43 1400h OS23A-02 POSTER South Atlantic Central Water Intrusions onto the South Brazil Bight: Numerical Experiments: B M Castro, C C Amor 1400h OS23A-03 POSTER Near-inertial motions along the Brazil Shelf Break from satellite tracked drifters: A T Assireu, J A Lorenzzetti, F dos Santos, A Chian 1400h OS23A-04 POSTER Optimum Multiparameter Analysis (OMP) of Campos Basin Water Masses: H Foloni, I C Da Silveira, R Paranhos, M Suzuki, C E Rezende, A Falcão 1400h OS23A-05 POSTER The Western Boundary Currents System in the South Atlantic based on two global OGCMs with different vertical coordinates: J Pereira, M Gabioux, M Cirano, A M Paiva, M Marta-Almeida, A L Aguiar 1400h OS23A-06 POSTER Seasonal Circulation and Mesoscale Variability in the Eastern Brazilian Margin: L F Rezende, P A Silva, M Cirano 1400h OS23A-07 POSTER The influence of large scale circulation and regional processes on the central Bahia shelf (13oS), Northeast, Brazil, during 2006 and 2007: F N Amorim, M Cirano, I D Soares, E J Campos 1400h OS23A-08 POSTER Baroclinic Instability of the Brazil Current System in the São Paulo Bight: S S Godoi, C P Francisco, A Schmidt, I C da Silveira 1400h OS23A-09 POSTER The Brazil Current – Intermediate Western Boundary Current System: The role of spatial salinity changes: L Ponsoni, I C da Silveira, A R Piola 1400h OS23A-10 POSTER Is there an Eddy-dominated Brazil Current north of 20°S?: R Soutelino, I C da Silveira, A Gangopadhyay, J A de Miranda 1400h OS23A-11 POSTER The Brazil Current off Cabo São Tomé (22° S): T P Costa, I C da Silveira, H Foloni, B M Castro, A F Pereira OS23B Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 1400h Momentum, Heat, Freshwater, and Biochemical Property Fluxes in the Atlantic Ocean II Posters Presiding: A R Mesquita, University of São Paulo; P S Polito, University of Sao Paulo 1400h OS23B-01 POSTER Sea Level Prediction by Particle Swarm Optimized Support Vector Machines: D R Veleda, I D Lins, M D Moura, E L Droguett, M Araujo 1400h OS23B-02 POSTER Mean full-depth circulation and transports in the North Atlantic across 60°N in the 2000s: A Sarafanov, A Falina, A V Sokov, H Mercier, P Lherminier, C Gourcuff 1400h OS23B-03 POSTER Irminger Sea as a key site for the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A Sarafanov, A Falina, A V Sokov, H Mercier, P Lherminier, C Gourcuff 1400h OS23B-04 POSTER SECULAR EVOLUTION OF THE SEA LEVEL IN THE RÍO DE LA PLATA COAST; Montevideo harbor of Uruguay: J E Verocai, M Bidegain, V Pshennikov, Title of Team: Climate Change in coastal areas of Uruguay 1400h OS23B-05 POSTER Heat fluxes in the Brazil-Malvinas Confluence region between 2003 a 2009: D A Arsego OS23C Room C1 Barrier Island Resiliency II Tuesday 1400h Presiding: G A Carter, The University of Southern Mississippi; K L Lucas, USM; W K Smith, Wake Forest University 1400h OS21A-02 Recovery of the Mississippi-Alabama Barrier Islands, U.S.A., in the Five Years following Hurricane Katrina: G A Carter, E G Otvos, G A Criss, K L Lucas 44 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1430h OS23C-02 Long-term Dynamics of Barrier Island Landforms and Ecosystems: Perspectives from Paleotempestology: K Liu 1500h OS23C-03 Barrier Island Resiliency and Human Adaptation to Ongoing Climate Change and Rising Sea Level: A U.S. MidAtlantic Case Study (Invited): S R Riggs, D J Mallinson, S J Culver, D Ames 1530h OS23C-04 Projecting the Impacts of Relative Sea-Level Rise and Erosion on Texas Barrier Islands and Planning for the Future (Invited): J C Gibeaut, E Barraza, B Radosavljevic Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology PP23A Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 1400h Sediment Geochemistry in Environmental Research III Posters Presiding: S Seschalam; C Lakshumanan, Bharathidasan University; J M Ponniah, CIIEMAD; P Roy, Instituto de Geología 1400h PP23A-01 WITHDRAWN 1400h PP23A-02 POSTER Trace metals in beach sediments and its adjacent areas, Central Tamil Nadu coast, South India: Application of autoclave leach method: V Subramaniam, L Chokalingam, K Ponnambalam 1400h PP23A-03 POSTER Foraminifera is an indicator for marine pollution- A case study from the inner shelf sediments of Gulf of Mannar, off Tuticorin, Southeast coast of India: K Velusamy, G Thangaraju, Title of Team: Gulf of Mannar-DOD Project team 1400h PP23A-04 POSTER Geochemistry of Riverine, Estuarine and Nearshore Core Sediments from Central Kerala, India: S Palaniandy, B Abdulla 1400h PP23A-05 POSTER Anthropogenic influenced enrichment of heavy metals in the aquatic environment of Cauvery Delta region, Tamilnadu, India: D Selvaraj, M Rangaswamy, S Govindaraj 1400h PP23A-06 POSTER Evaluation of metals (partially leached) in around the sediments in Valsequillo Dam, Puebla, Mexico: S S Morales García, P F Rodriguez Espinosa 1400h PP23A-07 POSTER SEDIMENT AND ROCK - WATER GEOCHEMISTRY FROM SALEM DISTRICT, TAMILNADU, INDIA: IMPLICATION OF IONIC RELATIVE MOBILITY: K Srinivasamoorthy, S Chidambaram, M Vasanthavigar, Title of Team: Water rock interaction team 1400h PP23A-08 POSTER BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING OF MERCURY IN UPPANAR ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM, BAY OF BENGAL, SOUTHEAST COAST OF INDIA: R Rajaram 1400h PP23A-09 POSTER Enrichment of Heavy metals in surface sediments along Bay of Bengal and Palk Strait, East coast of India: M Sundararajan, U Natesan, S Seschalam, L Chokalingam 1400h PP23A-10 POSTER Heavy Metal distribution and its impact in Foraminiferal Test in Core Sediments from South East coast of India: K Sivaraj, S P Mohan 1400h PP23A-11 POSTER POLLUTION HISTORY IN TAMIRAPARANI RIVER ESTUARY, SOUTH INDIA: R Arthur James, R Purvaja, R Ramesh 1400h PP23A-12 POSTER Metal enrichment in sediments from River Pánuco and its adjacent lagoon areas, NE México: Application of modified auto clave extraction technique: J M Ponniah, R Priyadarsi, S Seschalam, C Lakshumanan 1400h PP23A-13 POSTER ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY OF MARINE SEDIMENTS OFF KAVERIPOOMPATTINAM: J D Silva, S Seschalam, M P Jonathan, P Roy 1400h PP23A-14 POSTER d15N of organic matter in surface sediments and its relationship with d15N-NO3– in North Eastern Mexican Pacific: A Sanchez, J Camalich-Carpizo, S Aguiñiga-Garcia, E Balart, D Aurioles, B Lopez-Ortiz 1400h PP23A-15 POSTER Reconstruction of Late Pleistocene Winter and Holocene Summer Rainfall Regimes at 31°N from Geochemical Characteristics of Sediments from Paleo-lake San Felipe, Sonora Desert (Mexico): P Roy, O Morton, M Macias-Romo, J Sanchez-Zavala, M P Jonathan, R Lozano 1400h PP23A-16 POSTER Geochemical characteristics of sediments deposited during late Pleistocene-Holocene in the paleo-lake Babicora (Chihuahua Desert, Mexico): A preliminary paleo-environmental reconstruction: M Sanchez-Cordova, P Roy, R Lozano, I Israde Alcantara, T Pi 1400h PP23A-17 POSTER Droughts at historical and geological time scales: evidence from geochemical record of lacustrine sediments in western-central Mexico: S S Nájera, L Socorro, M C Miranda, R Priyadarsi, B Ortega, A Correa, Title of Team: Paleoambientes 1400h PP23A-18 POSTER A VERTICO-LATERAL CORRELATIVE STUDY ON PALEOCLIMATE AND PALEOEVIRONMENT OF NORTHERN COAST OF TAMIL NADU, INDIA: L A Karthikeyan, S Seschalam, M P Jonathan, P Roy 1400h PP23A-19 POSTER GEOCHEMISTRY AND PALEOWEATHERING PROCESS OF THE POOKODE LAKE, WAYANADU DISTRICT, KERALA: H Achyuthan, V M Nair PP23B Room A2 Tuesday 1400h Reconstruction and Modeling of Precipitation and Hydrology Over the Tropical Americas During the Late Quaternary II (joint with GC, H, OS) Presiding: M Vuille, University at Albany; J D Carriquiry, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California 1400h PP23B-01 Southern hemisphere modulation of eastern Pacific tropical climate during the last glacial (Invited): Y Asmerom, L R Johnson, M S Lachniet, S J Burns, V J Polyak, W P Patterson 1420h PP23B-02 A speleothem isotope record of monsoonal activity in South America during the last two glacial cycles: F W Cruz, H Cheng, R Edwards, I Karmann, X Wang, N M Strikis, A S Auler, M Vuille 1440h PP23B-03 Southern Caribbean climate variability during the mid to late Holocene: insights from paired coral d18O and Sr/Ca records: C Giry, T Felis, S Scheffers, D Scholz, C Fensterer 1500h PP23B-04 The South American summer monsoon during the Holocene: C M Chiessi, S Mulitza, D Heslop, E L Piovano, M Vuille, F W Cruz, S Razik 1520h PP23B-05 Reliable mean annual rainfall estimates using chinchilla rat (Abrocoma) middens from the Atacama Desert during the late Quaternary: C Latorre Hidalgo, F J González, J Houston, M Rojas, M I Mujica 1540h PP23B-06 Holocene Climate of Amazonia: Data/model comparison: B Turcq, R C Cordeiro, A Sifeddine, P Braconnot Seismology S23A Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 1400h Continental Crustal and Lithospheric Structure 100 Years After Mohorovičić II Posters (joint with T, G) Presiding: L D Brown, Cornell University; W D Mooney, US Geological Survey 1400h S23A-01 POSTER Resolving crustal shortening and the emplacement of granitic plutons within the Central Iberian Zone: Iberia Peninsula: R Carbonell, I Plomeras, D Martí, D MartínezPoyatos, A Azor, A Jabaloy, F Simancas, P Ayarza, R Tejero, L MartínParra, J Matas, L Mansilla, F González-Lodeiro, A Pérez-Estaún, J García-Lobón 1400h S23A-02 POSTER New seismic constraints on the lithospheric structure beneath the Iberian plate: the IberArray contribution of the Topo-Iberia project: A Villasenor, J Gallart, R Carbonell, J Diaz, J Morales, D Cordoba, J M Davila, J A Pulgar, J L Garcia Lobon 1400h S23A-03 POSTER Seraching for Upper Mantle Discontinuities Beneath South Spain: A L Bonatto, M Schimmel, J Gallart 1400h S23A-04 POSTER Lithospheric and Sub-Lithospheric Imaging of the Italian Area: F Romanelli, E Brandmayr, R B Raykova, M Zuri, G F Panza 1400h S23A-05 POSTER Determination of Basement Depth and Basalt Thickness in the Parana Basin with High-Frequency Receiver Function: F L Dias, M Assumpcao, J Barbosa 1400h S23A-06 POSTER Geophysical modeling of synthetic data using Gravity and Receiver Function in the central region of Tocantins Province: P F Nascimento, G S Franca, M G Von Huelsen 1400h S23A-07 POSTER Geophysical characteristics of Neoproterozoic Amazon Plate-Tocantins Province suture in central Brazil: L Caridade, J P Soares, R A Fuck, Title of Team: Lithosphere Research Lab (LabLitos) 1400h S23A-08 POSTER Crustal Thickness and Vp/Vs Ratio for National Brazilian Network by Seismological Observatory: D F Albuquerque, P D Silva, R R Alves, C G Pavão, G S Franca 1400h S23A-09 WITHDRAWN 1400h S23A-10 POSTER Seismic crustal structure in the southern segment of the Gulf of California (Mexico) from geophysical data modelling: D Nuñez, D Cordoba, R Bartolome 1400h S23A-11 POSTER Seismic Images of the Crust across the north-eastern border of the Caribbean Plate (Southern Hispaniola Island) from wide angle profiles: D Cordoba, D Nuñez, A Pazos, J M Davila, A Carbo-Gorosabel, J L Granja-Bruña, M Llanes Estrada, E Polanco-Rivera, S Muñoz, M Calzadilla, J Payero, M Fort, M O Cotilla, Title of Team: CARIBE NORTE Working Group 1400h S23A-12 POSTER Joint Inversion of Receiver Functions and Surface-Wave Dispersion in South America: J Julia, M Bianchi, M Assumpcao 1400h S23A-13 POSTER Seismic Structure of the Crust and Uppermost Mantle of South America and Surrounding Ocean Basins: W D Mooney, G Chulick, S T Detweiler 1400h S23A-14 POSTER Pervasive complex seismic azimuthal anisotropy beneath the western United States Orogenic Zone: K H Liu, H A Refayee, U Purevsuren, M A Ray, S S Gao 1400h S23A-15 POSTER Upper Mantle Structures Beneath USArray Derived from Waveform Complexity: D Sun, D V Helmberger 1400h S23A-16 POSTER PASSCAL Temporary Seismic Installations - Results from 25 years of Collaborative Efforts: E Y Arias, N Barstow, B C Beaudoin 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 45 1400h S23A-17 POSTER Crustal Structure and Upper Mantle Deformation in Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis : Derived from Receiver Function Analysis and Shear Wave Anisotropy Study: D Hazarika, B R Arora 1400h S23A-18 WITHDRAWN 1400h S23A-19 POSTER Deep Seismic Reflection Imaging of the Continental Crust with Unconventional Sources: K Byerly, K Irie, L D Brown S23B Room Expocenter II-III Tuesday 1400h Upper Mantle Structure and Geodynamics of South America II Posters (joint with T, G) Presiding: P M Alvarado, Universidad Nacional de San Juan; R W Clayton, Caltech; S M Kay, Cornell University 1400h S23B-01 POSTER Upper Mantle Seismic Anisotropy in the South American Stable Platform from SKS Splitting: a Test of Asthenospheric Flow Models Beneath the Lithosphere: M Assumpcao, S van der Lee, M Guarido, J Dourado 1400h S23B-02 POSTER Upper-mantle seismic structure beneath SE and Central Brazil from P- and S-wave regional travel-time tomography: M P Rocha, M Assumpcao, M Schimmel 1400h S23B-03 POSTER Preliminary Results for Upper Mantle Discontinuities Imaging Using Teleseismic Receiver Function Beneath Borborema Province (NE Brazil): L P Moreira, G S França 1400h S23B-04 POSTER Earthquake Depths and Focal Mechanism in the Amazon Fan: A Test of Flexural and Regional Stress Models: F L Dias, M Assumpcao, R Beck 1400h S23B-05 POSTER Study of the Structure of the Continental Shelf in SE Brazil Using Surface Waves: P G Carvalho, M Assumpcao, A V Lopes 1400h S23B-06 POSTER Ambient noise surface wave tomography in Mexico, Gulf of Mexico and Central America: B Gaite, A Villaseñor, M Herraiz, A Iglesias, J F Pacheco 1400h S23B-07 POSTER Depth Dependent Seismic Attenuation in the Nuevo Cuyo Region, Argentina: G A Badi, J M Ibáñez, E Del Pezzo, N C Sabbione, F Bianco 1400h S23B-08 POSTER Joint Inversion of Receiver Function and Surface Wave Dispersion in LPAD (La Plata) and TRQA (Tornquist) Stations (NE Argentina): M Rosa, M Assumpcao, N C Sabbione 1400h S23B-09 POSTER Neuquén Basin, Argentina: Deep-Seismic Residual Evidences of an Initial Orogenic Collapse: A H Cominguez, J R Franzese 1400h S23B-10 POSTER Active deformation and structures of the Ecuador convergent margin from local earthquakes tomography: M M Regnier, B Nicole, Y Font, K Manchuel, M De la Torre, M Segovia, M Vallee, M C Ruiz, J Nocquet 1400h S23B-11 POSTER New insights on the interseismic active deformation along the North Ecuadorian - South Colombian margin (NESCM): K Manchuel, M Régnier, B Nicole, Y Font, V Sallares, J Diaz, H Yepes 1400h S23B-12 POSTER Seismic swarms in the subduction zone of Ecuador: evidences from broad band data: M Segovia, M M Regnier, M C Ruiz, S Vaca, H Yepes 1400h S23B-13 POSTER Paleozoic accretionary wedge in the South Central Andean foreland revealed by P wave velocity anomalies and Vp/Vs ratio: R Furlani, E G Triep 1400h S23B-14 POSTER HIGHLIGHTS OF GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO FLAT SLAB SUBDUCTION IN ARGENTINA: S L Beck, P M Alvarado, G Zandt, C Gans, L Linkimer, R C Porter, H J Gilbert, M L Anderson, T J Richardson, E McDonald, M Saez 46 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1400h S23B-15 POSTER SEISMOLOGICAL AND PETROLOGICAL CRUSTAL STRUCTURE IN THE SOUTHWEST OF THE SIERRA DE PIE DE PALO, SAN JUAN (ARGENTINA): M Perarnau, B Castro, P M Alvarado, G Lopez, M Saez, H J Gilbert, L Linkimer S23C Room Iguassu IV Tuesday 1400h The Earthquake Source: Observations and Modeling I (joint with T, NH) Presiding: S S Gao, Missouri Univ. of Sci. and Technology; J M Gomez Gonzalez, Centro de Geociencias UNAM 1400h S23C-01 Temporal clustering of global seismic moment release over the past 115 years: Is Mother Nature out of control?: S S Gao, K H Liu 1415h S23C-02 Disputable Non-Double-Couple Mechanisms of Some Strong Earthquakes – Second Degree Moment Approach: P Adamova, J Sileny 1430h S23C-03 A New Algorithm to Determine Hypocentral Parameters using 1-D Weighted Average Velocity between a Source and Receivers: W Kim 1445h S23C-04 3D Earthquake Sequence Simulations With Thermal Pressurization of Pore Fluids: Effect of Heterogeneous Frictional and Poroelastic Properties: N Lapusta, H Noda 1500h S23C-05 The Cinchona (Mw=6.1) January 8, 2009 Costa Rica earthquake: R Quintero, S T Juan, V Rodolfo 1515h S23C-06 Velocity structure for the Lima region based on the analysis of local micro-earthquake data: W Quiroz, R Quintero, E O Norabuena, R Parillo 1530h S23C-07 Quaternary Slip-rate and Seismicity of the North Tehran Fault, Alborz Mountains, Northern Iran: M Shahpasandzadeh, K Behzad Afshar, H Nazari 1545h S23C-08 Global Sources of Polarized Earth’s Ambient Microseismic Noise: M Schimmel, E Stutzmann, J Gallart SPA-Aeronomy SA23A Room Iguassu III Tuesday Aeronomy Studies in Latin America I 1400h Presiding: C R Martinis, Center for Space Physics; F Azpilicueta, Universidad Nacional de La Plata 1400h SA23A-01 The Low-latitude Ionosphere Sensor Network (LISN): Science Plan and Initial Results (Invited): C E Valladares 1420h SA23A-02 Long Term Trends in Ionospheric Parameters Over Brazil and the Role of the Geomagnetic Field Secular Variation: I S Batista, E M Diogo, J R Souza, M A Abdu, G J Bailey 1435h SA23A-03 The Argentine Ionospheric Research Station (AIRES) project: A platform for the development of aeronomy educational and research activities in Argentina (Invited): D Janches, C Brunini 1455h SA23A-04 AERONOMY: AN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION FOR SCIENCE DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH AMERICA: N J Schuch, K Makita, B R Clemesha, J P Raulin, A J Foppiano, R M MacMahon, J C Gianibelli, P R Fagundes, M A Abdu, P P Batista, J H Sobral, M Polinaya, I S Batista, H Takahashi, A A Pimenta, E Correia, C M Denardini, F Vargas, N R Rigozo, M B da Rosa, C S Machado, L P Moor, J Moro, V F Andrioli, C E Antunes, P H Rampelotto, T C Stekel, C M Paulo, T J Girardi, C P Silva Neto 1510h SA23A-05 Thermospheric wind and temperature measurements in South America over three decades (Invited): J W Meriwether 1530h SA23A-06 Energy Distribution of Electrons Inside and Outside Plasma Bubbles: In Situ Rocket Observations from Brazil: M Polinaya, F de Meneses 1545h SA23A-07 ASSESSMENT OF MEAN AND TIDALLYMODULATED GRAVITY WAVE MOMENTUM FLUXES WITH THE SOUTHERN ARGENTINA AGILE METER RADAR (SAAMER): D Janches, D C Fritts, W K Hocking Union U24A Room C2 Hydrology From Space II Tectonophysics T23A Room Iguacu I Tuesday 1400h Andean Tectonics and Geodynamics I (joint with V, S, GP, G) Presiding: F A Audemard, Venezuelan Foundation for Seismological Research -FUNVISIS-; A Tassara, Universidad de Concepción; M Weber, Universidad Nacional de Colombia 1400h T23A-01 COLLISION OF THE MOCHA FRACTURE ZONE, AND THE RECENT ANDEAN UPLIFT BETWEEN 36-38S (Invited): A Folguera, V A Ramos 1415h T23A-02 WITHDRAWN 1430h T23A-03 Quaternary tectonic activity in the piedmont of Cordillera Frontal (33° -34°S) Mendoza. Argentina: L P Perucca, M Zarate, A Mehl 1445h T23A-04 Opposite Verging Quaternary Faults around La Flecha River, San Juan province, Argentina: L P Perucca 1500h T23A-05 Tectonic rotations and transcurrent deformation south of the Abancay deflection (Andes of southern Peru): P Roperch, V Carlotto, G Ruffet, M Fornari 1515h T23A-06 Evidence of a metamorphosed primitive Cretaceous Island-arc – implications for the geodynamics of the Caribbean – South American plate interaction: M Weber, A Cardona, V Valencia, U Altenberger, M Lopez-Martinez, M Tobón, S Zapata, A E Concha 1530h T23A-07 Stranded Clasts and Piercing Points: Tools for Tectonic Analysis (Invited): C Montes, A Cardona, G Bayona Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology V23A Room Iguassu V Tuesday Monogenetic Volcanism II (joint with NS, S) 1540h V23A-06 Aligned volcanoes between the continental region of Mocha and Valdivia fracture zones projection: monogenetic, maars and stratovolcanoes in northern Patagonia, Argentina: E Rovere, R Violante, A Osella, M de la Vega 1400h Presiding: M J Haller, Universidad de la Patagonia; N A Van Wagoner, Thompson Rivers University 1400h V23A-01 THE ROLE OF THE CENTRAL ANDES GRAVITY HIGH IN THE CONTROL OF THE TYPE AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE BACK ARC MONOGENETIC BASIC VOLCANISM CLUSTERS IN THE SOUTHERN CENTRAL ANDES: J G Viramonte, B Heit, W Baez 1420h V23A-02 PASTO VENTURA QUATERNARY BASIC MONOGENETIC VOLCANIC CLUSTER, (SOUTHERN PUNA, ARGENTINA): VOLCANOLOGIC, MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES, AND ERUPTIVE HISTORY: W Baez, J G Viramonte 1440h V23A-03 Monogenetic volcanism as an indicator of mantle heterogeneities beneath Northern Patagonia: M J Haller, G I Massaferro, J Dostal, C M Meister 1500h V23A-04 Potrok Aike Maar - Pali Aike Volcanic Field, Southern Patagonia, Argentina: H Corbella, A Coronato, B Ercolano, N Maidana, P Tiberi 1520h V23A-05 Formation of Pristine Asthenospheric Partial Melts Within Subduction-Dominated Volcanic Successions: Comparison Between Recent and Paleoproterozoic Sequences of Argentina and Canada: N A Van Wagoner, M J Haller, M I Leybourne Tuesday 1630h Presiding: F S Seyler, IRD; S Calmant, IRD 1630h U24A-01 Application of Satellite Rainfall Estimates in Hydrology in South America: W Collischonn, D C Buarque, B Collischonn, R D Paiva, A Ruhoff 1645h U24A-02 Flood Monitoring from Space: C Shum, H Lee, D E Alsdorf, J Duan, J Guo, Z Huang, J Kim, K Tseng, Y Yi, J W Jones, Z Lu, S V Bettadpur, B D Tapley, S Calmant, F S Seyler, N Filizola, A E Souza 1700h U24A-03 Improved global solutions of mass flux from GRACE: F Lemoine, D D Rowlands, T J Sabaka, S B Luthcke, J Boy, C C Carabajal, J J McCarthy, S M Klosko 1715h U24A-04 River Velocity Estimation from ENVISAT ASAR Observations: J Kim, J Won, H Lee, C Shum, S Calmant, A E Souza, H Jung 1730h U24A-05 Monitoring Evapotranspiration at Regional Scale by Means of Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Satellites: A Arboleda, N Ghilain, F Meulenberghs 1745h U24A-06 SWOT data use in a large-scale hydrological model on the Amazon Basin: Preliminary results: J C Espinoza, R D Paiva, S Biancamaria, M Bonnet, W Collischonn, S Calmant, F S Seyler, N M Mognard 1800h U24A-07 Use of Remote Sensing in the Australian Water Resources Assessment System: A I van Dijk, L Renzullo, E King, G Warren 1815h U24A-08 30 Years of Progress in the Determination of Water Levels by Satellite Altimetry in the Amazon Basin: S Calmant, F S Seyler, J SANTOS DA SILVA, A E Souza, H Lee, C Shum, G Cochonneau Atmospheric Sciences A24A Room Expocenter I Tuesday 1630h Extreme Weather Events in the Americas: Observations, Forecasts, and Projections II (joint with NH, G) Presiding: C Jones, UCSB; L V Carvalho, University of California Santa Barbara 1630h A24A-01 LARGE SCALE AND SYNOPTIC FEATURES ASSOCIATED WITH EXTREME PRECIPITATION AND TEMPERATURE OVER SOUTH AMERICA-OBSERVATION AND MODEL RESULTS (Invited): I F Cavalcanti 1655h A24A-02 Forecast skills of extreme precipitation in the Contiguous United States during winter: C Jones, L V Carvalho, J Gottschalck, W Higgins 1715h A24A-03 Predictability of extreme events over Southern Brazil: S M Soares, F E Hirata, G Ruggiero 1735h A24A-04 Springtime Tornado Variability Over the Eastern United States of America: E Munoz, J M Shepherd 1755h A24A-05 Predictability of Extreme Storm Events in the State of São Paulo, Brazil: Verification of Meso-Eta Model and TITAN Forecasts ranging from 48 hours to Nowcasting: G Held, A M Gomes, M Teixeira, J M Bassan, G J Pellegrina 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 47 1815h A24A-06 Predicting Damaging Frosts: Can Multi-variable Linear Regression Help Avoid Surprises?: W E Frick Earth and Space Science Informatics A24B Room A1 Tuesday 1630h Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Interactions in the Subtropical Southeastern Pacific II (joint with OS) IN24A Room Cedro I Tuesday 1630h Earth and Space Science Cyberinfrastructures: Data, Tools, Distribution, and Forecast Systems for International Collaboration II (joint with A, ED, H, OS) Presiding: R Garreaud, Universidad de Chile; D A Rahn, Universidad de Chile Presiding: W G Almeida, CPTEC/INPE; G K Rutledge, NOAA NCDC 1630h A24B-01 Eddies in the Southeast Pacific and their influence on the upper ocean (Invited): C F Moffat, F Straneo, R A Weller 1655h A24B-02 Upper-ocean turbulence beneath the stratus cloud deck of the Southeast Pacific (Invited): J T Farrar, C J Zappa, R A Weller, S P Bigorre, C F Moffat, F Straneo 1720h A24B-03 Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere high-resolution simulation of the Coastal Jet off Central Chile: A case study of the October 2000 event: L Renault, B Dewitte, V Echevin, S Illig, G Vizoso, J Tintore 1737h A24B-04 Daytime coastal jet maximum in central Chile (30°S) during VOCALS-CUpEx: D A Rahn, R Garreaud, J A Rutllant, R C Muñoz 1754h A24B-05 The coastal wind jet along the central-southern coast of Peru (13-15°S): K Takahashi, J Quijano, K Latinez 1811h A24B-06 Aerosol-cloud Interactions in Stratocumulus Clouds of the Southeast Pacific During Vocals-Rex: Individual Aerosol Particle Results of Transects With Strong Gradients Between Clean and Polluted Air Masses: J Anderson, C H Twohy, X Hua 1635h IN24A-01 The Use of Supercomputing Systems in Meteorology: J P Bonatti, J Panetta 1655h IN24A-02 Extracting Useful Information from a Grand Global Ensemble of Weather Forecasts: the THORPEX/TIGGE program: P L Silva Dias 1715h IN24A-03 Long-term Data Legacy of the LBA-ECO Project: Persistence Leads to Success: P C Griffith, M Gentry, L M Horta, L Hook, R B Cook, T W Beaty, C Sanderson, M McGroddy 1730h IN24A-04 LBA’s Flux Towers Telecommunications System: F D Magina, D M Osawa 1745h IN24A-05 WITHDRAWN 1800h IN24A-06 Facilitating Data Access Using On-demand Data Delivery And Web Repositories: G O Chagas, L Carvalheiro, M Manso 1815h IN24A-07 Unidata – Promoting Real-time Data Sharing and Use Worldwide: T C Yoksas, J L Caron, E Davis, S Emmerson, E J Hartnett, D Heimbigner, Y Ho, M James, J McWhirter, D Murray, R K Rew, M Schmidt, M K Ramamurthy Biogeosciences Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism B24A Room A3 Tuesday 1630h Land Use and Forest Options for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Strategies I (joint with GC) GP24A Room Iguacu II Tuesday 1630h Probing Tectonic Processes With Electromagnetic Methods II Presiding: C M Souza, Imazon; D C Morton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 1630h B24A-01 Science – Policy interface to enable climate mitigation strategies: Modeling and observation advances in support of carbon sequestration efforts in tropical regions (Invited): D S Ojima, D Baker, J Canadell 1645h B24A-02 Pressures on Tropical Forests in the 21st Century (Invited): R S DeFries, T Rudel, M Uriarte, M C Hansen 1700h B24A-03 Potential deforestation and CO2 emissions across the highways BR-464 and 317 in the state of Acre, Brazil: S S Silva, E Mendoza, B Soares-Filho, S Perz, L B Hissa, E Amaral 1715h B24A-04 REDD, commodity markets, and the end of Amazon deforestation: D C Nepstad, B Soares-Filho, F Merry, P Moutinho, A Lima, C Stickler, A A Alencar 1730h B24A-05 Using atmospheric carbon to monitor forest carbon uptake and deforestation in Amazonia (Invited): J B Miller, L V Gatti, E U Gloor, H R da Rocha 1745h B24A-06 A 10-year Record of Fire Emissions in South America Derived from Satellite-based Fire Occurrence Data: I A Csiszar, W Schroeder, K Longo, S R Freitas, C Schmidt, A W Setzer, J T Morisette, E Prins, J Brunner 1800h B24A-07 Biomass Estimation of Agroforestry Systems in Pará, Brazilian Amazon: M Batistella, E L Bolfe Presiding: J R Booker, Univ. of Washington; H Brasse, Free University of Berlin; M C Pomposiello, CONICET; A Favetto, CONICET 1630h GP24A-01 Crustal electrical conductivity structure near the Wenchuan Ms=8.0 earthquake suggests why stress accumulates in Longmenshan: G Zhao, Y Zhan, X Chen, J Tang, L Wang, J Wang, Q Xiao, M J Unsworth, Z Dong, J Yang, Z Wan, W Wang 1642h GP24A-02 MAGNETOTELLURIC IMAGES OF COSTA RICA AND NICARAGUA: H Brasse, T Worzewski 1654h GP24A-03 Magnetotelluric Study in the Western Border of the Río de la Plata Craton (Chacopampeana Plain and Eastern Sierras Pampeanas): A Favetto, V Peri, M C Pomposiello, V Rocha Fasola, R Garcia 1706h GP24A-04 Payun-Matru Back-arc Basalts in S. Mendoza, Argentina Come From Sub-Continental Asthenosphere Beyond the Cortaderas Lineament More than 100 km to the South: J R Booker, A I Burd, R L Mackie, M C Pomposiello, A Favetto 1718h GP24A-05 Overview of Electromagnetic Induction Studies in Brazil: I Vitorello, S L Fontes, A L Padilha, M B Pádua, M S Bologna GP24B Room Iguacu II Tuesday 1730h Magnetic Methods Applied to Hydrocarbon Exploration I (joint with B) Presiding: M Aldana, Simón Bolívar University; M Mena, Dpto. Cs. Geologicas; A R Muxworthy, imperial College 1730h GP24B-01 Paleomagnetism and diagenesis of the Mississippian Barnett Shale, Fort Worth Basin, Texas: J Deng, D Dennie, R D Elmore, S Pannalal, E Manning 48 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1742h GP24B-02 Rock-Magnetism Study on Drill Cutting from an Exploratory Oil Well at Golfo San Jorge Basin (Argentina) and Correlation among Magnetic, Lithological and Geophysical Properties: M Mena, A M Walther 1754h GP24B-03 Magnetic Analysis of the Clearwater Formation, Cold Lake Oil Sands Area, Alberta, Canada (Invited): M T Cioppa 1806h GP24B-04 Testing fluids as a remagnetization mechanism in the Alamo Breccia, Nevada: S Evans, D Dennie, S A Dulin, S Pannalal, J E Warme, R D Elmore 1818h GP24B-05 Integrated Diagenetic and Paleomagnetic Studies of Remagnetization (Invited): R D Elmore, D Dennie, S Pannalal, M S Zechmeister Hydrology H24A Room C3 Tuesday Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport Modeling 1715h OS24A-04 A Feature Oriented Regional Modeling System for the North Brazil Current Rings Migration after Retroflection: A C Schmidt, A Gangopadhyay, M Cadwallader, N Sharma, C Nobre, P Brickley, S P Anderson, C Wolfteich, P Coholan, J Finney 1730h OS24A-05 Northwestern South Atlantic surface circulation as derived from drifter data between 1996 and 2009: A T Assireu, J A Lorenzzetti, B Cerrone 1745h OS24A-06 The interaction between anticyclonic eddies and a continental boundary: J L Azevedo, D Nof, M Mata 1800h OS24A-07 Brazil Current eddy-activity near cape São Tomé based on direct ADCP measurements: N D Lima, L D Guerra, A M Paiva 1815h OS24A-08 Short-range forecasting using Feature Oriented Regional Modeling approach for Brazil Current between 20° S – 25° S: L Calado, F Maneschy, P J Ribeiro, A C Paula 1630h Presiding: M J Romkens, USDA ARS; Y Jia, NCCHE 1630h H24A-01 A Simple Hydrological Simulation Tool for Watershed Planning and Application to a Brazilian Watershed: D Norton, S Beskow, C de Mello, J C Avanzi 1645h H24A-02 Formation and mechanics of granular waves in gravity and shallow overland flow (Invited): M J Romkens, M Suryadevara, S N Prasad 1700h H24A-03 Computational Modeling of Sediment Transport and Morphologic Evolution: Y Jia, S S Wang 1715h H24A-04 GMUSTA Scheme to Solve a Two-Phase Morphodynamic Model for Simulations of Dam Breaching by Overtopping: M S Altinakar, S Evangelista, A Leopardi 1730h H24A-05 Evaluation of erosion vulnerability at small hillside catchments in the semi-arid region of Tunisia using the Self-Organizing Map methodology: A Hentati, A Kawamura, H Amaguchi, Y Iseri, N Nakagawa 1745h H24A-06 MONITORING AND CHARACTERISATION OF THE PRODUCTION OF SEDIMENT OF A SMALL SUBURBAN WATERSHED: J D Paiva, K S Carvalho 1800h H24A-07 Model to Support the Impact of the Soil Use and Management on Water Balance and Soil Losses: E L Mello, F F Pruski, G G Menezes, L M Costa, I Bertol Ocean Sciences OS24A Room C1 Tuesday 1630h Characterization and Modeling of Ocean Features in the Western Tropical/South Atlantic: Processes and Scales II (joint with IN, ED, GC) Presiding: A Gangopadhyay, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; L Calado, IEAPM- Brazilian Navy; I C da Silveira, Instituto Oceanográfico da Universidade de São Paulo; J A Lorenzzetti, INPE 1630h OS24A-01 Multi-scale modelling of South and Equatorial Atlantic western boundary features (Invited): A M Paiva 1645h OS24A-02 The Amazon river plume spreading on the Western Tropical Atlantic: a numerical study: G Ruggiero, I D Soares, E Campos 1700h OS24A-03 Variability in North Brazil Current Ring Structure, Migration, and Fate during 2001-2010: C Nobre, P Brickley, N Sharma, A Schmidt, S P Anderson, A Gangopadhyay Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology PP24A Room A2 Tuesday 1630h Reconstruction and Modeling of Precipitation and Hydrology Over the Tropical Americas During the Late Quaternary III (joint with GC, H, OS) Presiding: F W Cruz, Universidade de Sao Paulo; C M Chiessi, University of Sao Paulo 1630h PP24A-01 Orbital & Millennial scale precipitation changes in tropical S. America over the past 136 kyrs (INVITED) (Invited): H Cheng, A Sinha, R Edwards, L D Stott, F W Cruz, X Wang 1650h PP24A-02 Radon-222, CO2, del-13C, del-18O and drip water monitoring of a Florida cave: How fast do caves breathe and precipitate calcite speleothems?: P N Froelich, D M Tremaine, A Kowalczk 1710h PP24A-03 Centennial-Scale Climate Changes During The Last 2,000 Years In The Atacama Desert (16°-26°S): E M Gayo, C Latorre Hidalgo, C M Santoro 1730h PP24A-04 Tracking recurring drought/wet intervals and human impact over subtropical South America since the end of the Little Ice Age using Hg content in sediments: D Ariztegui, S Guedron, L Coianiz, E Piovano 1750h PP24A-05 Blue Holes in Bahamas: Repositories of Climate, Anthropogenic, and Archaeological Changes over the past 300,000 years: P K Swart, M M Arienzo, K Broad, A C Clement 1810h PP24A-06 Fire susceptibility in Carajás, State of Pará, Brazilian Amazon: GIS integration and satellite data for paleoenvironment modeling: J Sicoli Seoane, M R Barbosa, R C Cordeiro, M G Conceição, R Rodrigues, B Turcq, A Sifeddine, D D Santos, Title of Team: LMI - PALEOTRACES Seismology S24A Room Iguassu IV Tuesday Intermediate-Depth Seismicity Nests Within Purely Intracontinental Environments (joint with T) 1630h Presiding: M Manea, Computational Geodynamics Laboratory; V Manea, UNAM; L Besutiu, Institute of Geodynamics of the Romanian Academy 1630h S24A-01 Geodynamics and seismicity of the Vrancea region: Insight from the past (Invited): A Ismail-Zadeh, G Schubert, I Tsepelev, A Korotkii 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 49 1650h S24A-02 Characteristics of dense nests of intermediate depth seismicity, an insight into the Bucaramanga nest (Invited): Z zarifi, J Havskov 1710h S24A-03 CRUSTAL THICKNESS VARIATION AND INTRAPLATE SEISMICITY OF NORTHWESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: O Hernandez, R R vonFrese, G C Alexander 1725h S24A-04 Integral Analysis of Seismic Activity in the Central Part of Colombia: C López, J Londoño 1740h S24A-05 Methodology to Study Active Geological Faults on Quaternary Deposits using High Resolution 2D Shallow Seismic: Case of the Bucaramanga Fault (Colombia): W M Agudelo, J A Vargas, G Y Ojeda 1755h S24A-06 Gravity and Geodesy Evidence on Deep Geodynamic Processes Within Vrancea Intermediate-Depth Seismicity Zone: L Besutiu, L Zlagnean 1810h S24A-07 Thermal stresses and intermediate-depth seismicity in the Vrancea area: M Manea, V Manea 1645h T24A-02 Compressional structures associated with salt tectonics and emplacement of volcanics in deep and ultra-deep waters of the Espírito Santo Basin: R P Sampaio, E D Alves, P V Zalán 1700h T24A-03 Halokinetic mechanisms and related pitfalls in the petroleum exploration of divergent margins: C L Varela, W U Mohriak 1715h T24A-04 Crustal architecture of Almada Basin, Brazil: An example of a non volcanic rift segment of the South Atlantic passive margin: A C Gordon, W U Mohriak, V C Barbosa 1730h T24A-05 WITHDRAWN 1745h T24A-06 Volcanic and non-volcanic margins segments along the South Atlantic and North Atlantic margins: the continent-ocean boundary structures: W U Mohriak, D E Brown, G C Tari 1800h T24A-07 Submarine Salt Flows in the Central Red Sea: N C Mitchell, M Ligi, V Ferrante, E Bonatti, E H Rutter 1815h T24A-08 WITHDRAWN SPA-Aeronomy Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology SA24A Room Iguassu III Tuesday Ionospheric Distributed Observatories I 1630h Presiding: E R de Paula, National Institute for Space Research-INPE; C E Valladares, Boston College; R F Woodman, Instituto Geofisico del Peru 1630h SA24A-01 Some Highlights of Equatorial and Low Latitude Ionospheric Investigations Based on Distributed Observatories in Brazil: M A Abdu 1650h SA24A-02 New Fabry-Perot interferometer observations of thermospheric winds and temperatures in Brazil and Peru: J W Meriwether, R A Buriti, J J Makela, A J Gerrard, L Navarro, O Veliz 1710h SA24A-03 The Scintillation Network Decision Aid (SCINDA): A Global Low-Latitude Observatory: K M Groves, Title of Team: SCINDA Team 1725h SA24A-04 Observation of TIDs using a distributed observatory: C E Valladares, R E Sheehan 1740h SA24A-05 Results from the Expert System Ionogram Reduction (ESIR) of the VIPIR Ionosonde Deployed at Jicamarca Radar Observatory: J V Eccles, D D Rice, J J Sojka, T W Bullett, C E Valladares, J L Chau 1755h SA24A-06 Optical diagnostic of ionospheric instabilities at low and mid latitudes in the American sector (Invited): C R Martinis, J L Baumgardner, M Mendillo 1815h SA24A-07 New capabilities of the Jicamarca radar and its cluster of instruments: M A Milla, J L Chau Tectonophysics T24A Room Iguacu I Tuesday Divergent Margins I (joint with V, S, GP, G) 1630h Presiding: W R Buck, LDEO; W U Mohriak, Petrobras; A R Viana, Petrobras 1630h T24A-01 Morphotectonic Evolution and Stratigraphic Significance of the Cabo Frio High That Segments the Campos and Santos Basins: R M Silva, V S de Albuquerque, P P Melgaço, M V Santos, E D Alves 50 2010 The Meeting of the Americas V24A Room Iguassu V Tuesday New Developments in Nontraditional Stable Isotope Geochemistry (joint with B, GC, H, OS, DI) 1630h Presiding: F Poitrasson, Universidade de Brasilia-IRD; E A Schauble, UCLA 1630h V24A-01 The Chemical and Structural Dependencies of Silicon Isotopic Fractionation in Silicate Minerals: a First-Principles Density Functional Study: M Meheut, E A Schauble 1645h V24A-02 A first comparison of spatial and seasonal variations of silicon isotopes in the Congo and the Amazon rivers: H J Hughes, F Sondag, C Cocquyt, A Pandi, L André, D Cardinal 1700h V24A-03 An Iron Isotope Study Of Suspended Matter At Óbidos, Amazon River, Brasil: G M dos Santos Pinheiro, F Poitrasson, F Sondag, L C Vieira, M M Pimentel, J Martinez, B A Lima 1715h V24A-04 Iron Isotope Signature of Paleoproterozoic Banded Iron Formation from Quadrilátero Ferrifero, Minas Gerais, Brazil: L C Vieira, F Poitrasson, R I Trindade, F F Alkmim 1730h V24A-05 Significance of the mantle Fe isotope variations for metasomatism and basalt petrogenesis: F Poitrasson, G DELPECH, M Gregoire 1745h V24A-06 Copper And Zinc Isotopes As Tracers Of Weathering Processes In A Hawaiian Soil Chronosequence: A Matthews, D Vance, C Archer, J C Pett-Ridge, O Chadwick 1800h V24A-07 Cenozoic Record of Seawater Lithium Isotopes: Large Secular Changes in the Global Silicate Cycle: P N Froelich, S Misra 1815h V24A-08 Calcium Isotope Fractionation in Crystals and Solution: E A Schauble Wednesday A.M. A31B Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 0800h Mesoscale Convective Systems Over the Americas III Posters Union U31A Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday Hydrology From Space III Posters 0800h Presiding: A I van Dijk, CSIRO; F S Seyler, IRD; S Calmant, IRD 0800h U31A-01 POSTER ENVISAT virtual gauge stations at the upper and middle Orinoco river basin: J G Leon, A Puerta, J Rubiano, S Calmant, F S Seyler 0800h U31A-02 POSTER Integration of Field Measurement and Satellite Observations to Derive River Solid Load in Poorly Gauged Basins: R A Espinoza, J Martinez, J Guyot, P fraizy, E Armijos, A Crave, H Bazan, P Vauchel, W Lavado 0800h U31A-03 POSTER Monitoring flooded area fraction in floodplains of Paraná basin using passive and active microwave systems: M Salvia, F Grings, H Karzsenbaum, M Barber, R Rahmoune, P Ferrazzoli 0800h U31A-04 POSTER Towards a large scale modelling system over the Niger basin in preparation for the future SWOT satellite mission: V Pedinotti, A Boone, N M Mognard, B Decharme, J Cretaux 0800h U31A-05 POSTER Lakes surface and level variations from satellite altimetry and remote sensing: towards an international lake data centre: J Cretaux, W Jelinski, S Calmant, A Kouraev, V Vuglinski, M Berge-Nguyen, M Gennero, F Nio, R Abarca del Rio, A A Cazenave, P Maisongrande 0800h U31A-06 POSTER Assessment of the EPHSTC-COPPE simulations on large-scale hydrologic modeling of the Amazon watershed: A A Araujo, L Xavier, O C Rotunno Filho, J S da Silva 0800h U31A-07 POSTER Quick estimates of discharges along the Negro River constrained by satellite altimetry: D M Moreira, J SANTOS DA SILVA, A E Souza, S Calmant, F S Seyler, A Monteiro, O C Rotunno Filho, M Bonnet 0800h U31A-08 POSTER Water volume variability for wetlands in the Amazon basin from satellite data: J SANTOS DA SILVA, F S Seyler, J Cretaux, S Calmant, O C Rotunno Filho, M BergeNguyen, A A Araujo 0800h U31A-09 POSTER Soil mapping from SRTM and Landsat images segmentation for hydrologic modelling: F Seyler, L Durieux Atmospheric Sciences A31A Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 0800h Limb Techniques for Monitoring Trace Gas and Aerosol Vertical Distribution II Posters Presiding: D F Rault, NASA LARC 0800h A31A-01 POSTER OMPS Limb Profiler Stray Light Error Analysis and Jacobian Matrix Correction Method: H Chen, G Jaross, D F Rault 0800h A31A-02 POSTER The OMPS Limb Profiler retrieval algorithm: Accuracy and error analysis: G Taha, D F Rault, R P Loughman 0800h A31A-03 POSTER Odin-OSIRIS Tangent Altitude Registration Techniques and Results: N D Lloyd, D A Degenstein, A E Bourassa, C McLinden 0800h A31A-04 POSTER Evaluate The Performance of Direct Optimal Estimation Retrieval Method for OMPS/LP: J Y Li, D F Rault, G Taha Presiding: V Anabor, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria; M F Dias, Univ. of Sao Paulo; M Nicolini, Centro de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas/Univ. de Buenos Aires; H Barbosa, Universidade Federal de Alagoas 0800h A31B-01 POSTER THE INFLUENCE OF THE LOCAL CIRCULATION AND INERTIAL OSCILLATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MCSs: J R Rozante, I Cavalcanti 0800h A31B-02 POSTER Cloud to Ground Lightning Properties and Mesoscale Convective System: Characteristics and Evolution During the Life Cycle: E V Mattos, L Machado 0800h A31B-03 POSTER Mesoscale Convective Complexes Over State Of Alagoas, Brazil: M H Silveira, C Albuquerque, A D Maia, N Fedorova, A O da Silva 0800h A31B-04 POSTER Wind shear associated with Amazon squall lines: C R Alcântara, M A Silva Dias, E P Souza 0800h A31B-05 POSTER BOW ECHO: ANALYSIS OF A CASE STUDY IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL: E Glitzenhirn, E Dal Piva 0800h A31B-06 POSTER Case Study of a Severe Mesoscale Convective System which affected Paraguay on March 23rd, 2010: J Baez, C Beneti 0800h A31B-07 POSTER Investigation of the 7 September 2009 severe weather outbreak over subtropical South America from a predictability standpoint: M Foss, E Nascimento 0800h A31B-08 POSTER Atmospheric Conditions Associated to MCSs that Occurred Over the Southeast South America Region: B B Silveira, J A Aravequia 0800h A31B-09 POSTER Preliminary study of MCS on the Plate Basin Using Numerical Simulation and Reanalysis Data: B B Silveira, A F dos Santos, M A Gan, J A Aravequia 0800h A31B-10 POSTER Study of thermodynamic and dynamic conditions involved in the evolution of the gust front: M E Welter, V Anabor 0800h A31B-11 POSTER Some Considerations about Moisture Sources Associate to Mesoscale Convective Systems Genesis in the Subtropics of South America: M S Sakamoto, T Ambrizzi, L A Machado 0800h A31B-12 POSTER Numerical study of the production of intense rainfall in the Serra do Mar Paulista Region: C F Mourao, S Chou 0800h A31B-13 POSTER Rainfall Monitoring for Flooding Events in Southwestern Amazon: Example of Acre River in 2010: P M Fonseca, I F Brown, G P Santos 0800h A31B-14 POSTER Mesoscale convective systems over South America: differences between the Amazon Basin and La Plata Basin: L Vidal, P V Salio 0800h A31B-15 POSTER The Excitation of Baroclinic Waves by the Divergent Circulation of Recurving Tropical Cyclones: D Hodyss, E A Hendricks 0800h A31B-16 POSTER Extratropical source of interannual rainfall variability in Chile: A Montecinos, M V Kurganskiy, C Muñoz 0800h A31B-17 POSTER Equatorial mountain torques and cold surges preconditionning: F Lott, S Mailler 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 51 A31C Room Expocenter I Wednesday 0800h Extreme Weather Events in the Americas: Observations, Forecasts, and Projections III (joint with NH, G) Presiding: C Jones, UCSB; L V Carvalho, University of California Santa Barbara 0800h A31C-01 Sensitivity of North Atlantic Hurricane Tracks to Climate Variability and Climate Change: A J Colbert, B J Soden 0815h A31C-02 ENSO and extreme rainfall events in present and future climate in South America: A M Grimm, R A Flach, R G Tedeschi 0830h A31C-03 Estimating rates of land falling US hurricanes on a 5-year timescale: applications for catastrophe risk modelling: J Turner, K Coughlin, T Laepple, S Jewson, E Bellone 0845h A31C-04 MAREMEX-Mantaro: Extreme meteorological events and risk management in the central Andes of Peru as an adaptation measure to climate change: K Takahashi, A G Martínez, Y Silva, G Trasmonte, J C Gómez, J Arroyo, F Blanco, L Flores, K Latinez, D Mamani, E Nuñez, L Ocampo, S Perez, M Poma, M Saavedra, J C Sulca, R Zubieta 0900h A31C-05 An Investigation of Lightning Strikes over Jamaica: C C Scarlett, M A Taylor, D Walwyn, T S Stephenson 0915h A31C-06 Numerical Simulations of the Role of Surface Heat and Moisture Fluxes in Extratropical Cyclones at the Southern Coast of Brazil: L F Gozzo, R P da Rocha A31D Room A1 Wednesday 0800h Solar Global and UV Radiation and Their Effect on Humans, Ecosystems, and Climate Change I Presiding: J R Herman, University of Maryland Baltimore Campus; R D Piacentini, Instituto de Física Rosario 0810h A31D-01 Predicted Impact of Climate Change on clear-sky UV Radiation: M I Hegglin, T G Shepherd 0825h A31D-02 Operational Ultraviolet Forecast System over South America: Analysis, Evaluation and Measurements: S S Costa, M L Rodrigues, M Correa, J C Ceballos 0840h A31D-03 First Results of Modeling the UV Solar Spectral Irradiance (SSI): J M Fontenla 0855h A31D-04 Solar UV radiation attenuation produced by significant aerosol events over the Buenos Aires megacity, Argentina: R D Piacentini, E Wolfram, J Salvador, F Orte, R D’Elia, L Otero, L Murruni, A Kreiner, A Paladini, B N Holben, E Quel 0910h A31D-05 Ozone Induced Changes in Action Spectrum Weighted Irradiances and Broadband Instrument Response Functions: J R Herman 0925h A31D-06 Variations of the Earth’s UV Reflectivity in 5-year OMI Data: J Mao, J R Herman, D Larko, L Huang, W Qin, G J Labow 0940h A31D-07 Behavior of Solar Global irradiation and UV-B Dose at the Republic of Panama: A Pino, S Guerra, D Castillo, A Maturell, H Samudio, L Jordan, J Espinosa 52 2010 The Meeting of the Americas Biogeosciences B31A Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 0800h Land Use and Forest Options for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Strategies II Posters (joint with GC) Presiding: D S Ojima, The Heinz Center; M Batistella, Embrapa Satellite Monitoring 0800h B31A-01 POSTER QUANTIFYING CARBON STOCKS FOR A REDD PLAN IN ACRE, BRAZILIAN AMAZONIA: C Salimon, A Anderson, L Meneses Filho, M Silveira, L Oliveira, F Putz, F Brown, A W Flores de Melo 0800h B31A-02 POSTER Inter-calibration of Deforestation Estimates in the Trinational Madre de Dios, Peru – Acre, Brazil – Pando, Bolivia (MAP) Region: Step 1 – Large Deforested Areas: I F Brown, A Chavez, H Fuentes, E Pipa, J Nakamura, L Zancanela do Carmo 0800h B31A-03 POSTER Estimating Areas of Tropical Forests Impacted by Fires: a Case Study in the Epitaciolândia Municipality, Acre, Brazil: D P Alverga, E M Araujo, I F Brown, V L Reis, F A Alves, O C Moreira, L Lima, P C Neto, R N Freire 0800h B31A-04 POSTER The contribution of Jatropha Curcas L. to the carbon emission mitigation: W J Ferreira, G T Batista 0800h B31A-05 POSTER CO2, NO, N2O emissions from Oxisols from croplands in Central Brazil: effects of different doses of nitrogen fertilizer: ÊRIKA B Fernandes Cruvinel, M Bustamante, A Kozovits, R G Zepp 0800h B31A-06 POSTER SOIL EMISSIONS OF NO, N2O AND CO2 UNDER CONVENTIONAL AND NO-TILLAGE SYSTEMS WITH COVER CROPS IN SAVANNA REGION OF CENTRAL BRAZIL: A M Carvalho, M Bustamante B31B Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 0800h Regional-Scale Budgets of Greenhouse Gases for Amazonia II Posters (joint with A) Presiding: M H Costa, UFV; L V Gatti, IPEN; J B Miller, NOAA/ ESRL; J P Ometto 0800h B31B-01 POSTER Reconstruction of the land use patterns in Amazônia, in the period 1940-1995, for climatic and hydrological studies: C C Leite, M H Costa 0800h B31B-02 POSTER Estimation of CO2 emissions from deforestation and land use change in the Amazon: nested coupling of atmosphere, dynamic vegetation, LUCC and fire spread models: E Tourigny, C A Nobre 0800h B31B-03 POSTER Regional algorithm for monitoring the carbon assimilation by tropical forests of the South America: E L Nunes, M H Costa, Title of Team: Research Group on BiosphereAtmosphere Interaction of Federal University of Viçosa 0800h B31B-04 POSTER Investigations of the Vertical Transport of Atmospheric CO2 Associated with Cumulus Convection on Amazonia: D S Moreira, S R Freitas 0800h B31B-05 POSTER BIOMASS BURNING CONSUMPTION COEFFICIENT: AN EXPERIMENTAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FIRE RADIATIVE ENERGY AND BIOMASS COMBUSTION: G Pereira, E C Moraes, S R Freitas, N J Ferreira, Y Shimabukuro, F S Cardozo, F B Silva 0800h B31B-06 POSTER Constraints on CO2 flux emissions: reconstructions of in-situ measurements from Lagrangian stochastic inversion: I J Pisso, P K Patra, T Nakazawa, Y Sawa, T Machida, H Matsueda 0800h B31B-07 POSTER CO2 Regional Flux Using Vertical Profiles Distribute Over Amazon Basin: L V Gatti, A Martinewski, L G Domingues, L S Basso, J B Miller, H R daRocha, E U Gloor 0800h B31B-08 POSTER REGIONAL N2O FLUXES IN AMAZONIA DERIVED FROM AIRCRAFT VERTICAL PROFILES: M T D’Amelio, L V Gatti, J B Miller, A Martinewski, P P Tans 0800h B31B-09 POSTER N2O FLUXES FOR EASTERN AMAZONIA DERIVED FROM REGIONAL INVERSE MODELING: M T D’Amelio, J B Miller, L V Gatti, P P Tans 0800h B31B-10 POSTER Co Regional Flux Using Vertical Profiles Distribute In The Amazon: A Martinewski, L V Gatti, L G Domingues, J B Miller, E U Gloor 0800h B31B-11 POSTER Study Of Regional CO Fluxes Over Eastern Amazonia: A Martinewski, L V Gatti, J B Miller, M T D’Amelio, L S Basso, L G Domingues, P P Tans 0800h B31B-12 POSTER CH4 Regional flux using vertical profiles distribute in the Amazon: L S Basso, L V Gatti, A Martinewski, L G Domingues, J B Miller, H R daRocha, E U Gloor B31C Room A3 Wednesday 0800h Andean Amazon: Bridging Upper and Lower Basins I (joint with H, GC) Presiding: C A Llerena, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina; G Poveda, Univ Natl Colombia 0800h B31C-01 Toward a better comprehension of hydro-climatic variability in the Andean-Amazon basins (Invited): J C Espinoza, J Ronchail, W Lavado, G Cochonneau, E De Oliveira, N Filizola, P fraizy, J G León, J Molina, L Noriega, R Pombosa, P Vauchel, J Guyot 0815h B31C-02 MODELING HYDRO-CLIMATOLOGY OF MADRE DE DIOS BASIN AND PRODUCTION OF MIGRATORY CATFISH LARVAE IN SOUTHEASTERN PERU Carlos M. Canas & Peter R. Waylen (Invited): C Canas, P Waylen 0830h B31C-03 TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL PATTERNS OF PIMELODIDAE CATFISH LARVAE DRIFTING IN THE MADRE DE DIOS RIVER, PERU: CATFISH RECRUITMENT FROM HEADWATERS TO LOWLANDS: C Canas, W Pine 0845h B31C-04 Controls on organic carbon transport from the Andes Mountains to the Amazon River (Invited): A Townsend-Small, M E McClain, J Brandes 0900h B31C-05 Establishing conservation corridors in the SW Amazon/Andes interfase: the role of the Amazon Conservation Association (Invited): A Tejedor 0915h B31C-06 A new estimation of the suspended sediment yields in the Madeira River basin, from the Andes to the Amazon (Invited): J Guyot, P Vauchel, G Cochonneau, E De Oliveira, N Filizola, P fraizy, O Fuertes, J Martinez, J Molina, L Noriega, F Sondag 0930h B31C-07 Thirty Years Ahead on Glacier Melting: The Case of the Alto Huayabamba Conservation Concession (Peru) and a research agenda: C F Flores, A Mercado-Torres, J C Riveros, J M Panduro-Cometivos, K R Pinasco-Vela, M Tang-Tuesta, C Tobon 0945h B31C-08 Andean Amazon: bridging upper & lower basins: C A Llerena, J F Garcia-Quijano, L F Suarez, G Poveda, M E McClain, J Guyot, D Catchpole, R C Smith, A Tovar, M D La Torre, M I Manta, R M Hermoza Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism GP31A Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 0800h Geomagnetism, Earth Rotation Rate, and Solar Variability I Posters (joint with P, SM) Presiding: R Abarca del Rio; Y V Barkin, Sternberg Astronomical Institute; S N Duhau, Buenos Aires University; J Shirley, Caltech-JPL 0800h GP31A-01 POSTER Mechanism Of Active Life Of The Sun, Planets And Satellites As Uniform “Soldered” Family: Y V Barkin 0800h GP31A-02 POSTER Local Solar Quiet Geomagnetic Field Variations: A Case Study Based on Records from Vassouras Observatory (Brazil): V Klausner, A R Papa, O Mendes, M O Domingues 0800h GP31A-03 POSTER A 3D study of Solar Inertial Motion: R G Cionco, R Compagnucci 0800h GP31A-04 POSTER The Sun’s climate dynamics regulatory role: R Mackey 0800h GP31A-05 POSTER On The Origin Of Proper And Forced Modes Of Oscillation In The Sun And Earth Dynamo Systems: S N Duhau GP31B Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday Magnetic Anomalies of Equatorial Area and Southern Hemisphere I Posters 0800h Presiding: M S Mantovani, IAG-USP; M E Ghidella, Instituto Antartico Argentino; J V Korhonen, Geologian tutkimuskeskus 0800h GP31B-01 POSTER Catalão I Alkaline Complex (GO – Brazil): Potential methods and radiometric data analysis and 3D inversion modeling: H S Requejo, M S Mantovani, Title of Team: GEOLIT 0800h GP31B-02 POSTER Interpretation of Aerogeophysical Anomalies Related to the Tapira Alkaline Complex (MG): V B Ribeiro, M S Mantovani 0800h GP31B-03 POSTER 3-D modeling of the Barreiro Carbonatite-Alkaline Complex: W R Pereira, M S Mantovani, Title of Team: GEOLIT Lab GP31C Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 0800h Nanoparticles Formed in the Natural Earth System Posters Presiding: A M Hirt, Institute of Geophysics 0800h GP31C-01 POSTER Superparamagnetic behavior of ferrihydrite nanoparticles and its similarities in synthetic and geological systems (Invited): T S Berquo, S K Banerjee, J Erbs, V Yuwono, R L Penn, B M Toner, K J Edwards 0800h GP31C-02 POSTER Hydrothermal Natural Magnetite Nanoparticles: Temperature Effect in Particle Size and Transformation Phases: L M Alva-Valdivia, M L Rivas-Sanchez GP31D Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 0800h Planetary Magnetism: Meteorites, Impact Craters, and Planetary Dynamos I Posters Presiding: J U Fucugauchi, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; E Tohver, University of Western Australia 0800h GP31D-01 POSTER Hydromagnetic dynamos in rotating spherical fluid shells in dependence on the Prandtl number and stratification: J Šimkanin, P Hejda 0800h GP31D-02 POSTER Hydromagnetic dynamos in rotating non-uniformly stratified spherical fluid shells in dependence on the Rayleigh number: J Šimkanin, P Hejda, D Saxonbergová 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 53 0800h GP31D-03 POSTER Multivectorial Remanent Magnetizations in Impactites From Chicxulub Crater: Implications For Remanent Acquisition and Thermal Evolution: M VelascoVillarreal, J U Fucugauchi, M Rebolledo-Vieyra, L L Perez-Cruz 0800h GP31D-04 POSTER Rock magnetism of hematite impact bombs from Araguainha Crater, Brazil: E Yokoyama, B A Housen, L Jovane, T Seda, R I Trindade, R Franscicon GP31E Room Iguacu II Wednesday Precambrian Supercontinents II (joint with V, T) 0800h Presiding: U G Cordani, Institute of Geosciences, University of São Paulo; D A Evans, Yale University; A E Rapalini, Universidad de Buenos Aires; R I Trindade, University of Sao Paulo 0800h GP31E-01 ‘Tectonic Tracers’ in Supercontinental Reconstruction: Geology, Space, Time and Compatibility (Invited): I W Dalziel 0815h GP31E-02 Testing the Proposed Superia Supercraton Paleomagnetic Studies on the 2.4-2.0 Ga Diabase Dykes in Karelia, Finland: J M Salminen, H C Halls, S Mertanen, L J Pesonen, J Vuollo 0830h GP31E-03 A PRELIMINARY LATE PALEOPROTEROZOIC PALEOMAGNETIC POLE FOR THE RIO DE LA PLATA CRATON: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ATLANTICA SUPERCONTINENT: A E Rapalini, E D Badgen, L Sanchez Bettucci, C A Vasquez 0840h GP31E-04 The Proterozoic Saga of Amazônian Craton: a paleomagnetic view: M S D’Agrella-Filho, R I Trindade 0855h GP31E-05 The Melville Bugt dyke swarm of Greenland: a connection to the 1.5-1.6 Ga Fennoscandian Rapakivi granite province?: H C Halls, M A Hamilton, S W Denyszyn 0910h GP31E-06 The CRG Triumvirate: J G Meert, M K Pandit, V R Pradhan, C C Turner 0925h GP31E-07 Precise U-Pb Baddeleyite Ages from Neoproterozoic Mafic Dykes in Bahia, Brazil, and their Paleomagnetic/Paleogeographic Implications: D A Evans, L M Heaman, R I Trindade, M S D’Agrella-Filho, A V Smirnov, E L Catelani 0935h GP31E-08 THE RIO APA CRATON: CORRELATIONS AND TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE IN THE PROCESS OF AGGLUTINATION OF GONDWANA: U G Cordani, W Teixeira 0945h GP31E-09 Precambrian Large Igneous Provinces: An Overview: L M Heaman Global Environmental Change GC31A Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 0800h Modeling and Analysis of the Present and Future Hydroclimate of the La Plata Basin I Posters (joint with A, H, NH) Presiding: D L Herdies, INPE; M Barreiro, Facultad de Ciencias 0800h GC31A-01 POSTER Droughts in the River Plata Basin: an analysis of dry spells using daily data: W M Vargas, G Naumann 0800h GC31A-02 POSTER CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS FOR SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH AMERICA: M Bidegain, J Verocai, V Pshennikov, Title of Team: Scientific Team of Climate change in coastal areas of Uruguay 0800h GC31A-03 POSTER La Niña events before and after 1979 and their impact over southeastern South America, during summer: S Talento, G Cazes-Boezio 54 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 0800h GC31A-04 POSTER Daily extreme rainfall and temperature events over South America as represented by four regional models and observations: B Tencer, F Robledo, A C Remedio, A A Sörensson, D Jacob, L Li, C Menendez, O C Penalba, M Rusticucci, E Sanchez, P Samuelsson, H Le Treut 0800h GC31A-05 POSTER Canonical and Modoki ENSO and influences on South America Precipitation: focus in the La Plata Basin: R G Tedeschi, I F Cavalcanti 0800h GC31A-06 POSTER Bayesian estimates of ensemble precipitation forecasts based on synoptic patterns in the Plata basin: A Murguía Espinosa, P Silva Dias 0800h GC31A-07 POSTER The Hydrology of the Iberá Wetlands in Argentina as depicted by Observed Data and Regional Climate Models: N Montroull, R Saurral, I Camilloni 0800h GC31A-08 POSTER Impacts of Land Use Change in Southern South American Climate: N L Pessacg, S A Solman 0800h GC31A-09 POSTER Simulation of Severe Drought Conditions in Southeastern South America with the Regional Eta Model during the Period 2008–2009: P L Antico 0800h GC31A-10 POSTER A Southeastern South American daily gridded data set of observed surface minimum and maximum temperature for 1991-2000: B Tencer, M Rusticucci, P D Jones 0800h GC31A-11 POSTER Experiments Using New Initial Soil Moisture Conditions and Soil Map in the Eta Model Over La Plata Basin: M E Doyle, J Tomasella 0800h GC31A-12 POSTER Impacts of the Precipitation and Evaporation Patterns over the La Plata Basin Streamflow: J Z de Mattos, L Goncalves, D L Herdies 0800h GC31A-13 POSTER Error Detection in Daily Climate Temperature Time Series: A Farall, J Boulanger, L Orellana 0800h GC31A-14 POSTER Dynamics of the impact of ENSO flavors on rainfall over La Plata Basin: L Zamboni, F Kucharski, M Barreiro, A Cherchi GC31B Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday Monitoring Forests With Airborne and Satellite-Based Sensors Posters 0800h Presiding: S Arko, University of Alaska Fairbanks; D K Atwood, University of Alaska Fairbanks 0800h GC31B-01 POSTER Comparing Classification using SAR data and Optical Remote Sensing: R Montenegro 0800h GC31B-02 WITHDRAWN 0800h GC31B-03 POSTER BIOMASS ESTIMATION FOR BOREAL FORESTS USING FIELD, LIDAR AND L-BAND SAR DATA: D K Atwood, H Andersen 0800h GC31B-04 POSTER Integrating LiDAR and Plot Studies to Asses Light Limitation in the Central Amazon: S C Stark, V Leitold, J Schietti, D Brandão, C Castilho, Y E Shimabukuro, B Enquist, F R Costa, S R Saleska 0800h GC31B-05 POSTER Biomass and carbon estimation in the tropical rain forest of Gabon in Central Africa: K GOITA, J Mouloungou, G B Benie 0800h GC31B-06 POSTER High Precision Methane Isotopologue Ratio Measurements at Ambient Mixing Ratios Using Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy - A Powerful tool for addressing irreversible carbon-cycle climate feedbacks: M F Witinski, D S Sayres, J Anderson GC31C Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 0800h South American Remote Sensing Using the Advanced Land Observing Satellite Posters (joint with B) Presiding: S Arko, University of Alaska Fairbanks; D Atwood, University of Alaska Fairbanks 0800h GC31C-01 POSTER Glacier Monitoring in South American Tropics using ALOS-PRISM Satellite Images: case of Bolivia: E Ramirez, R Ribeiro 0800h GC31C-02 POSTER ALOS-PALSAR applied to wetland mapping in Amazon: H Zani, D Rossetti, T Bertani 0800h GC31C-03 POSTER Evaluating DEM-SRTM and ALOSPALSAR for mapping morphostructural lineaments in Northeastern Brazil: C D Andrades Filho, D Rossetti 0800h GC31C-04 POSTER Using ALOS PRISM Digital Surface Models for South American Mapping: S Arko, R M Guritz 0800h GC31C-05 POSTER Large area mapping of forest and land cover in the Amazon Basin: A comparative analysis of ALOS/ PALSAR and Landsat TM data sources: W S Walker, C Stickler, J M Kellndorfer, K Kirsch, D Nepstad Hydrology H31A Room C3 Wednesday 0800h Ecohydrology in the Context of Land Cover and Climate Changes: Challenges and Opportunities I (joint with B) Presiding: E G Jobbagy, Universidad Nacional de San Luis Argentina; P M Saco, Univ of Newcastle; E F Viglizzo, INTA 0800h H31A-01 Understanding the hydrological and chemical patterns observed at the mouths of major rivers (Invited): R L Victoria, V Ballester, A Krusche, J E Richey 0815h H31A-02 Combined deforestation and fire occurrence in long-term models of forests and savannas in the Brazilian Amazonia: M F Cardoso, G Sampaio, C A Nobre 0830h H31A-03 Deforestation and the onset of the rainy season in Rondonia, Brazil (Invited): M H Costa, P A Oliveira, D D Silva 0850h H31A-04 Exploring the continuum between rainfed and stress-avoidance irrigation in seasonally-dry regions (Invited): A M Porporato, G Vico, S Manzoni 0910h H31A-05 Ecohydrologic responses of mountain forested watersheds to climate warming: interactions among snowmelt, storage and vegetation water use: C Tague, A L Dugger 0925h H31A-06 Reduced soil moisture after tree conversion to herbaceous vegetation and implications for changes in water availability thresholds: A Fernald, H Garduno 0940h H31A-07 Assessing the impact of climate change on an aspect and elevation controlled semiarid ecosystem using a treeshrub-grass competition model: The role of local interactions on global outcomes (Invited): E Istanbulluoglu, X Zhou Natural Hazards NH31A Room Cedro I Wednesday 0800h Drought in the Intra-America Seas (joint with GC, H, A, ED, B, G) 0820h NH31A-02 State of the Art in the Use of Benchmarks and Indicators of Desertification and Drought in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC): E M Abraham, L Torres 0840h NH31A-03 Revisiting the Southwest Caribbean (Invited): M A Taylor, T Stephenson, A Owino, A Chen 0900h NH31A-04 The Mid-Summer Dry Spell (MSD) and Water Sustainability in Jamaica: S Curtis, D W Gamble, D Campbell, T L Allen, S Jessop 0915h NH31A-05 Climate change, drought, and Jamaican agriculture: Local knowledge and the climate record: D Gamble, D Campbell, S Curtis 0930h NH31A-06 The Intra-Americas Sea Moisture Transport and its Impact on the Precipitation Variability in the Central United States: A Nunes, E Yulaeva 0945h NH31A-07 WITHDRAWN Ocean Sciences OS31A Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 0800h Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions Over the Tropical Atlantic I Posters (joint with A) Presiding: D F Urbano, INPE; R R Rodrigues, University of Sao Paulo 0800h OS31A-01 POSTER Impacts of interruption of the Agulhas leakage on the Guinea Dome in coupled ocean-atmosphere simulations: C B Gramcianinov, R R Rodrigues, R J Haarsma, E J Campos 0800h OS31A-02 POSTER Remote Interaction Between the IndoPacific and the ZCAS Regions During MJO Events Through PSA: A B Barbosa, R Camargo, D Blitzkow, A O de Matos 0800h OS31A-03 POSTER A Study of the Global Trends of Wind Variability Using QuikSCAT Scatterometer: C D Costa, P S Polito 0800h OS31A-04 POSTER Cluster Analysis of Low Level Thermodynamics Profiles to Characterise Cloud Regimes on Tropics and Subtropics Oceans: M J Bottino, P Nobre OS31B Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 0800h El Niño–Southern Oscillation in a Changing Climate: Dynamics, Predictability, and Modeling I Posters (joint with NG, PP) Presiding: B Dewitte, LEGOS/IRD; F Jin, SOEST, University of Hawaii at Manoa; J KUG, KORDI; J Luo 0800h OS31B-01 POSTER Study on Cause Chain of El Nino Event in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific: L Feng 0800h OS31B-02 POSTER Three-Dimensional Moisture Exchange in the Tropical Atmosphere During the Culmination Phases of the El-Nino – Southern Oscillation Event: E V Sokolikhina, N N Sokolikhina, E K Semenov 0800h OS31B-03 POSTER Vertical Structure Variability and Associated Equatorial Waves during Warm Pool and Cold Tongue El Niños: B Dewitte, J Choi, S An 0800h OS31B-04 POSTER Predictability of El Niño and La Niña conditions effects off the Peruvian coast: a probabilistic model based on contingency tables: S Purca, J Tam, C Quispe Presiding: S Curtis, East Carolina University; D W Gamble, UNC Wilmington; A Nunes, SIO 0800h NH31A-01 The role of regional SST warming variations in the drying of Meso-America in future climate projections (Invited): S A Rauscher, F Kucharski, D B Enfield 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 55 OS31C Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 0800h Regional and Global Ocean Observing Systems: Assessing and Forecasting the State of Oceans and Coasts I Posters OS31E Room C2 Wednesday 0800h Multiscale Momentum and Scalar Transports in Geophysical Flows: Measurements and Modeling (joint with A) Presiding: R Nunez; Z S Willis, NOAA Presiding: Y D Chashechkin, Institute for Problems in Mechanics RAS; D Bolster, UPC; J H Fernando 0800h OS31C-01 POSTER The Wave Glider, an energy-harvesting platform for coastal observation: J Manley, N Trenaman, R G Hine 0800h OS31C-02 POSTER REMOTE SENSING AND IN SITU MEASUREMENTS OF BIO-OPTICAL VARIABILITY IN COASTAL WATERS OF UBATUBA, SOUTH BRAZIL BIGHT: M Kampel, S A Gaeta, M Pompeu, N M Rudorff 0800h OS31C-03 POSTER The ATLAS-B Project: Development of a Brazilian Prototype of the Atlas Buoy for Monitoring OceanAtmosphere fluxes in the South Atlantic: L V Nonnato, E J Campos 0800h OS31C-04 POSTER Variations in Marine Optical Properties during the Period 2000-2009 at the Antares EPEA Station (Argentina): V Lutz, V Segura, R Negri, R Silva, D Cucchi-Colleoni, R Guerrero, G Molinari 0800h OS31C-05 POSTER CariCOOS’s Multiscale Wave Modeling and Observations Program in the NE Caribbean: M Canals, C Anselmi, J Gonzalez, J Capella, J Morell, A Mercado, J Corredor 0800h OS31C-06 POSTER Coastal margin science in the era of collaboratories: learning from long-term and high resolution time series: A M Baptista, J A Needoba 0800h OS31C-07 POSTER The Cape Verde Ocean Observatory (TENATSO): Early Results And Future Developments: D Wallace, A Medina, O Melicio, C Santos, P Silva, I Monteiro, N Vieira, A Koertzinger, B Fiedler, P L Croot, M I Heller, J LaRoche, M Visbeck, T Kanzow, R Kiko, F Melzner OS31D Room C1 Wednesday Continental Shelf: Deep-Ocean Exchanges I 0800h Presiding: A R Piola, Servicio Hidrografia Naval; K H Brink, WHOI; R P Matano, Oregon State University 0800h OS31D-01 Estimates of Shelf-Interior Ocean Exchange from Coastal Assimilating and Non-Assimilating Models: A L Kurapov, J Osborne, G D Egbert, J S Allen, P T Strub, D G Foley 0815h OS31D-02 CARIACO BASIN DYNAMICS: STUDY OF THE THERMOCLINE DEPTH VARIABILITY AND ITS RELATION WITH OPEN OCEAN CONDITIONS: A Alvera-Azcarate, A Barth, R H Weisberg, J J Castañeda, L Vandenbulcke, J Beckers 0830h OS31D-03 Observing changes in oxygen deficient waters over the continental shelf off Central Chile: O Pizarro 0845h OS31D-04 Intraseasonal Variability of Sea Surface Temperature and Wind Stress along the coast of Peru (2000-2008): Satellite Observations and Model Results: B Dewitte, J Boucharel, K Goubanova, L Renault, S Illig, K Takahashi, S Purca 0900h OS31D-05 Oxygen Dynamics and Exchange Between the Oregon Shelf System and the Deep Ocean: a Modeling Approach: Y H Spitz, A O Koch, H P Batchelder 0915h OS31D-06 Mechanisms of Shelf-break Upwelling off Southeastern Brazil: C P Campos, E J Campos 0930h OS31D-07 An investigation of the Coastal-Trapped Waves propagation along the Brazilian shoreline using observed data and modeling results: P D Castro, D R Veleda, M Araujo 0945h OS31D-08 Seasonal dynamics and phytoplankton composition of deep chlorophyll maximum layers in the shelf off Santa Catarina, southern Brazil: F P Brandini, M S Simião, J U Codina, M Nogueira Jr, M A Noernberg 56 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 0800h OS31E-01 PASSIVE AND CONTRA DIFFUSION TRANSPORT OF AN ADMIXTURE IN STRATIFIED OR ROTATING FLOWS: Y D Chashechkin 0815h OS31E-02 WITHDRAWN 0830h OS31E-03 Investigation of Carbon Monoxide and Sensible Heat Fluxes over the City of Sao Paulo Using LES Model: E Barbaro, A P Oliveira, J Soares, M Ferreira 0845h OS31E-04 Numerical experiments on the development of the boundary layer in the equatorial Atlantic ocean: F Fonseca, J Soares 0900h OS31E-05 Numerical Analysis of Pollutant Dispersion in Marine Environment by Means of Lagrangian Stochastic Models (Invited): P Monti, G Leuzzi 0915h OS31E-06 WITHDRAWN 0930h OS31E-07 Validation of Simplified Mathematical Model for Turbidity Currents: L F Martha, L R Bitton, F P Figueiredo, D Waltham 0945h OS31E-08 Computational Simulation of Low Density Turbidity Currents for Basin Sedimentation: F P Figueiredo, L F Martha, D Waltham Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology PP31A Room A2 Wednesday 0800h Climate of the Americas Over the Past 2000 Years From High-Resolution Climate Proxies, Instrumental Records, and Modeling Studies (joint with GC, OS) Presiding: K L DeLong, Louisiana State University; K H Kilbourne, UMCES- Chesapeake Biological Laboratory; R K Kikuchi, Federal Universidade of Bahia 0800h PP31A-01 The Atlantic Warm Pool and Its Impact on Climate (Invited): C Wang, S Lee, D B Enfield, C R Mechoso 0815h PP31A-02 Climatological patterns of the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer interactions at the Southwest Atlantic Ocean (Invited): L P Pezzi, R B Souza, O Acevedo 0830h PP31A-03 Impacts of Climate, Sea Ice and Phenological Changes in Labrador/Nunatsiavut: Evidence from Moravian Records: G Demarée, A Ogilvie 0845h PP31A-04 A tree-ring based reconstruction of the Southern Bolivian Altiplano precipitation since A.D. 1300: M Morales, D Christie, R Villalba, J Argollo, A Lara, J Pacajes, C Soliz 0900h PP31A-05 Do Three Massive Coral Species from the Same Reef Record the Same SST Signal? A Test from the Dry Tortugas, Florida Keys: K L DeLong, R Z Poore, C D Reich, J A Flannery, C R Maupin, T M Quinn 0915h PP31A-06 Multidecadal rainfall variability in Mesoamerica over the Little Ice Age and Medieval time from a Mexican speleothem (Invited): M S Lachniet, J P Bernal, Y Asmerom, V J Polyak 0930h PP31A-07 Coral Density Banding Pattern in Western South Atlantic: R K Kikuchi, M D Oliveira, Z M Le āo 0945h PP31A-08 Caribbean climate since 1469: a coral perspective on tropical Atlantic multidecadal variability: K H Kilbourne, T M Quinn, R S Webb, T P Guilderson, A Winter, J Nyberg Planetary Sciences P31A Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday Discussions on Extrasolar Planetary Systems I Posters Seismology 0800h Presiding: J R de Medeiros, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte; S Ferraz-Mello, University of Sao Paulo; C A Griffith; G Tinetti, University College London; C Beauge, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba; L Pasquini, ESO; M Marley, NASA Ames Research Center 0800h P31A-01 POSTER STABILITY OF A CIRCUMBINARY DISK IN A TRIPLE STAR SYSTEM: R D Domingos, O C Winter 0800h P31A-02 POSTER Homogeneous Rotation Velocities for Stars with Planets: S Vieira, S Alves do Nascimento, M das Chagas, J C Santana, B L Canto Martins, J R de Medeiros 0800h P31A-03 POSTER On the rotational behavior of parent stars of extrasolar planets: S Alves do Nascimento, J do Nascimento, J R de Medeiros P31B Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday Planetary Sciences General Contributions I Posters 0800h Presiding: R V Yelle, University of Arizona 0800h P31B-01 POSTER Investigating Martian and Venusian hyperspectral datasets through Positive Source Separation: E Tréguier, F Schmidt, A Schmidt, S Moussaoui, N Dobigeon, S Erard, A Cardesín, P Pinet, P Martin 0800h P31B-02 POSTER Planetary Habitability in our Solar System: P H Rampelotto 0800h P31B-03 POSTER Photo Rate Coefficients for Dissociation and Ionization: J Mukherjee, W F Huebner 0800h P31B-04 POSTER Present-day and early heat flows on Mars: implications for thermal evolution: J Ruiz, V Lopez 0800h P31B-05 POSTER A Shallow-Wave Model for Layered Ejecta Deposits on Mars: S A Fagents, S M Baloga, L S Glaze P31C Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday Saturn Satellites: Inside and Out I Posters 0800h Presiding: R V Yelle, University of Arizona 0800h P31C-01 POSTER Dynamics of pickup ion velocity distribution in Titan’s plasma environment: 3D hybrid simulation and comparison with CAPS’s observations: A S Lipatov, E C Sittler, R E Hartle 0800h P31C-02 POSTER Tholin Aerosols in the Lower Atmosphere and on the Surface of Titan: H Keller, A V Rodin, N V Evdokimova, S E Schröder, Y V Skorov, I V Mingalev 0800h P31C-03 POSTER HCN in Titan’s Upper Atmosphere: R V Yelle, C A Griffith, F J Martin-Torres 0800h P31C-04 POSTER Planetesimal delivery of volatiles to Titan: Temperature constraints from the presence of atmospheric methane and (near) absence of primordial argon: I Mosqueira, M Takagi, P R Estrada 0800h P31C-05 POSTER Dust-plasma interaction near Enceladus South Pole: M Shafiq, J Wahlund, M Morooka, Title of Team: RPWS LP Team 0800h P31C-06 POSTER VIMS Observations of the Vertical Structure of Titan’s Atmosphere: P Penteado S31A Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 0800h The Earthquake Source: Observations and Modeling II Posters (joint with T, NH) Presiding: J Polet, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; E Polanco-Rivera, Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo 0800h S31A-01 POSTER Non-Double-Couple Components of Seismic Moment Tensors for Aftershocks of the 1999 Izmit Earthquake: V Vavrycuk, E Stierle, M Bohnhoff, J Sileny 0800h S31A-02 POSTER Source mechanisms of the May 2009 AlEis earthquake sequence Near Yanbu, Saudi Arabia: K Aldamegh, K Abou Elenean 0800h S31A-03 WITHDRAWN 0800h S31A-04 POSTER Anomalous microseism before the 2010 Haiti earthquake: X Hao, X Hu 0800h S31A-05 POSTER Magnitude determination of regional earthquakes in Brazil: a comparison of the new IASPEI magnitude formulas: A Barcelos, M Assumpcao, M Pirchiner 0800h S31A-06 POSTER The 5.2 mb Sao Vicente Earthquake of 2008 in the Continental Shelf off SE Brazil: Using Reflection Seismic Sections to Constrain the Fault Plane: J C Dourado, M Assumpcao 0800h S31A-07 POSTER A Search for Rainfall-Triggered Earthquake Activity in the Parana Basin, Southeastern Brazil: J R Barbosa, M Assumpcao, A V Lopes 0800h S31A-08 POSTER Observation and modeling of microseisms generated in deep ocean basins: E Stutzmann, M Schimmel, F Ardhuin, A Mangeney 0800h S31A-09 POSTER Near Real-Time Determination of Source Characteristics of Global Earthquakes and Tsunami Wave Height and Inundation Forecasting: J Polet, H K Thio, P S Earle 0800h S31A-10 POSTER Radiated Seismic Energy and Apparent Stress, Constraints for Composite Source Modeling of the Strong Ground Motion Prediction: L Meng, B Shi 0800h S31A-11 POSTER Radiated S-wave Energy of a Circular Fault Based on the Breakdown Zone Model Connected with SlipWeakening Relation: B Liu, B Shi 0800h S31A-12 POSTER Long Period Signals in Seismograms; Are Solitary Waves or Instrumental Response?: R Contreras, K Bataille 0800h S31A-13 POSTER Four Big Earthquakes in Accordance with the Cycles propposed by me in Acapulco 2007: G Rodriguez S31B Room Iguacu I Wednesday 0800h Standarization of Seismic Hazard Methods in South America I (joint with NH, G) Presiding: M Bufaliza; D Huaco, Centro Regional de Sismologia para America del Sur; M D Petersen, U.S. Geological Survey 0800h S31B-01 The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) - Calculating and communicating seismic risk: R Pinho 0815h S31B-02 Preliminary Seismic Hazard Model for South America: M D Petersen, S C Harmsen, K M Haller, C S Mueller, N Luco, G P Hayes, J W Dewey, K S Rukstales 0830h S31B-03 Exploring Seismic Design Maps for South America using Preliminary Hazard Results: N Luco 0845h S31B-04 Comparing the Humanitarian and Economic Risk of South American Capital Cities (Invited): M L Zoback, C Cabrera, P Vaziri, T Tabucchi, A Baca, H A Yepes, J Singaucho, A Pomonis, M Sullivan 0900h S31B-05 Characterizing earthquake-triggered landslide risk in South American Andean capital cities: G E Hilley, M L Zoback 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 57 0915h S31B-06 Seismicity and seismic hazard assessment in Northeastern Brazil: J M Ferreira, A F do Nascimento, F H Bezerra 0930h S31B-07 GROUND MOTION EQUATION IN PERU SUBDUCTION ZONE: D Huaco Oviedo, L Olivar Pérez, Title of Team: GROUND MOTION EQUATION IN PERU SUBDUCTION ZONE 0945h S31B-08 Mapping the Seismic Hazard of Panama: H K Thio, A Abrego, R W Graves, L Mejia SPA-Aeronomy SA31A Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday Ionospheric Distributed Observatories II Posters 0800h Presiding: E R de Paula, National Institute for Space Research-INPE; C E Valladares, Boston College 0800h SA31A-01 POSTER Drift of ionospheric bubbles between two Brazilian stations as inferred from GPS and radar data: E Bonelli, R I Cueva, E R de Paula, ÁLVARO E Soares 0800h SA31A-02 POSTER Imaging of the Ionosphere over Brazil: I J Kantor, M T Muella, E R de Paula, C N Mitchell, P M Kintner 0800h SA31A-03 POSTER VARIABILITY OF VTEC IN 1998-2009 BASED ON GPS GLOBAL IGS MAPS AND IRI MODEL: A M Meza, M P Natali 0800h SA31A-04 POSTER Statistical Behavior of 3-m Spread F irregularities at Christmas Island Coherent Radar: R de la cruz cueva, E R de Paula, K M Groves, E Kherani, M T Muella 0800h SA31A-05 POSTER Assessment of ionospheric conductivities over Tucuman (26.8°S, 65.2°W) using ionosonde observations: B F de Haro Barbas, M Zossi de Artigas, A Elias, V H Rios SA31B Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 0800h Studies of the Equatorial and Low-Latitude Upper Atmosphere and Ionosphere at Different Longitudinal Sectors III Posters (joint with SM) Presiding: A A Pimenta, National Institute For Space Research INPE; J P Raulin, Presbyterian Mackenzie University; P R Fagundes, UNIVAP 0800h SA31B-01 POSTER Observations of MSTIDs/GWs at the F2 layer heights in the near equatorial region: N Silva de Lima, Title of Team: Rutenio Luiz Castro de Araujo 0800h SA31B-02 POSTER Relevant aspects of medium scale traveling ionospheric disturbances in the F-region associated with Perkins instability under solar activity conditions: D C Amorim, A A Pimenta 0800h SA31B-03 POSTER The ionosphere around equinoxes during low solar activity: L Liu, W Wan, B Ning, M He 0800h SA31B-04 POSTER Traveling Planetary Wave Ionospheric Disturbances and Their Role on Generation of Equatorial Spread F During Extremely Low Solar Activity: A J de Abreu, P R Fagundes, Y Sahai, C M Wrasse, R D Jesus, V G Pillat, H T Lan 0800h SA31B-05 POSTER Observed Effects in the Ionospheric F-Region in the Brazilian and Japanese Sectors During HighIntensity Long-Duration Continuous AE Activity (HILDCAA) Events: R D Jesus, F L Guarnieri, Y Sahai, P R Fagundes, A J de Abreu, T Nagatsuma, V G Pillat 0800h SA31B-06 POSTER Characteristics of mesospheric gravity waves observed at Palmas, Brazil: C M Wrasse, L M Almeida, J R Abalde, J V Bageston, I Paulino, V G Pillat, W L Lima 58 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 0800h SA31B-07 POSTER Lunar tides in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere over Santa Maria (29.7°S; 53.8° W): A R Paulino, P P Batista, B R Clemesha, N J Schuch 0800h SA31B-08 POSTER Vertical TEC and NmF2 maps obtained by the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC satellites and comparison with the SUPIM model: C Vogel Ely, I S Batista, J R Souza 0800h SA31B-09 POSTER On the bifurcation of plasma bubbles in the ionospheric tropical region: C S Machado, A A Pimenta 0800h SA31B-10 POSTER Terminator time method for atmospheric and low Ionosphere studies using the South America VLF Network: J Samanes, J Raulin, F Bertoni, P Kaufmann, G Fernandez 0800h SA31B-11 POSTER Studies of midnight brightness waves observed by all-sky images of the OI 630 nm emission over the Brazilian sector: L Lopes, Y Sahai, A A Pimenta, P R Fagundes, J R Abalde, J A Bittencourt SA31C Room Iguassu III Wednesday 0800h Space Weather Over American Continents I (joint with SH, SM) Presiding: T J Fuller-Rowell, CIRES; J E Costa, National Institute for Space Research 0800h SA31C-01 WITHDRAWN 0815h SA31C-02 First light of the solar monitoring of the EMBRACE program: J E Costa, H S Sawant, J R Cecatto, N Sant’Anna 0825h SA31C-03 On Geomagnetic Hazards at the Low- and MidLatitudes of Brazil (Invited): I Vitorello, W Kabata, M B Pádua, N Trivedi 0840h SA31C-04 GPS phase scintillation in the cusp and in the nightside auroral oval: Why are they different?: P Prikryl, P T Jayachandran, S C Mushini, E F Donovan, E L Spanswick 0850h SA31C-05 Ionosphere Data Assimilation Models for Physics and Applications (Invited): R W Schunk, L Scherliess, J J Sojka, D C Thompson, L Zhu 0905h SA31C-06 Characterization of the response of the low ionosphere due to solar flares: H R Gavilan, E Correia, J P Raulin, F Bertoni, A Dal Lago 0915h SA31C-07 Occurrence of TEC depletions and TEC perturbations using the LISN network: C E Valladares, G K Seemala, P H Doherty 0930h SA31C-08 Cosmic ray precursory phenomena associated to small and moderate storms: C R Braga, A Dal Lago, M R da Silva, N J Schuch, K Munakata, C Kato, J W Bieber, P A Evenson, M Tokumaru, M L Duldig, J E Humble, I S Sabbah 0940h SA31C-09 Sources of Ionosphere Structure and Variability at Mid and Low Latitudes (Invited): T J Fuller-Rowell, R A Akmaev, F Wu, H Wang, T Fang, M Codrescu SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics SH31D Room Iguassu V Wednesday 0800h Physical Processes in the Heliosheaths: Relating Local and Global Properties of the Heliosphere I Presiding: N V Pogorelov, University of Alabama in Huntsville; M Opher, Physics and Astronomy 0800h SH31D-01 Characteristics of Termination Shock Particles from Voyager Observations (Invited): A C Cummings, E C Stone 0815h SH31D-02 Transport and acceleration of pickup ions in the heliosheath: M Zhang, K Gamayunov, P Zuo, H Rassoul 0830h SH31D-03 WITHDRAWN 0840h SH31D-04 Modeling the Acceleration of ACRs at the Blunt Termination Shock in 3D: J Kota 0850h SH31D-05 Is the Magnetic Field in the Outer Heliosheath Laminar?: M Opher, J F Drake, M M Swisdak, G Toth, T I Gombosi 0900h SH31D-06 Magnetic field fluctuations in the heliosphere: Lessons from Voyager: J Safrankova, O Gutynska, Z Nemecek, A Lynnyk, J D Richardson 0910h SH31D-07 Complex 3D structure of the heliospheric boundaries: implications to IBEX and Voyager observations (Invited): V Izmodenov 0925h SH31D-08 The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Observations of the Heliosheath (Invited): E R Christian 0940h SH31D-09 Pickup Ions in the Heliosheath and Location of the Heliopause: G Gloeckler, L A Fisk 0950h SH31D-10 RELATING THE IBEX AND VOYAGER DATA THROUGH GLOBAL NUMERCAL MODELING: N V Pogorelov, S Borovikov, J Heerikhuisen, G P Zank Tectonophysics T31A Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 0800h Andean Tectonics and Geodynamics II Posters (joint with V, S, GP, G) Presiding: F A Audemard, Venezuelan Foundation for Seismological Research -FUNVISIS-; A Tassara, Universidad de Concepción; M Weber, Universidad Nacional de Colombia 0800h T31A-01 POSTER Neogene to Quaternary Extensional Reactivation of a Fold and Thrust Belt in The Southern Central Andes Determined from Gravity Models (38- 39S): E A Rojas Vera, A Folguera, M E Gimenez, G Zamora Balcarce, G L Bottesi, P Martinez, F Ruiz, V A Ramos 0800h T31A-02 POSTER The Malargüe Fold and Thrust Belt at 36 LS and Its Interaction with Peri-Gondwanic Extensional Depocenters, Southern Central Andes, Argentina: D L Orts, A Folguera, M E Gimenez, V A Ramos 0800h T31A-03 POSTER The Pehuenche Fase Deformation, Principal Cordillera (31-32 LS), San Juan Province, Argentina: D J Pérez, J M Sanchez Magariños, Title of Team: Laboratorio de Tectónica Andina 0800h T31A-04 POSTER Blind Thrust-related Quaternary Folding At The Andean Orogenic Front, (32°12’S) Argentina: E A Ahumada, C H Costa 0800h T31A-05 POSTER Brazilian Amazônia: A “hybrid” flower mega-structure: E Franzinelli, H Igreja 0800h T31A-06 POSTER GEORED PROJECT: A GPS NETWORK FOR GEODYNAMICS RESEARCH IN COLOMBIA, SOUTH AMERICA: H Mora-Paez, S A Lopez-Isaza, R A Trenkamp 0800h T31A-07 WITHDRAWN 0800h T31A-08 POSTER PROVENANCE AND TECTONIC SETTING OF MAFIC VOLCANIC CLASTS IN PALEOGENE CONGLOMERATES FROM NOTHERN COLOMBIA, CARIBBEAN REGION: C BUSTAMANTE, A Cardona, C Montes, C Ayala, O Montenegro, C Ojeda, V Valencia, G Bayona, G Guzman 0800h T31A-09 POSTER Neogene relations between sedimentation, exhumation, and recycling in the Mérida Andes foothills: M A Bermudez, E Carrillo, F A Audemard, M Bernet, C Hoorn, P Van Der Beek, J Mora, J I Garver T31B Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday Divergent Margins II Posters (joint with V, S, GP, G) 0800h Presiding: W R Buck, LDEO; W U Mohriak, Petrobras; A R Viana, Petrobras 0800h T31B-01 POSTER 3D seismic interpretation of halokinetic structures in the Namorado oil field, Campos Basin, offshore Brazil: J Campos, W Mohriak 0800h T31B-02 POSTER KINEMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE VITORIA-ECOPORANGA DYKES SWARM: C O Aristizabal, A L Ferrari, C G Silva 0800h T31B-03 POSTER Post-orogenic exhumation model and cooling history of the Greater Pearl River Delta Region: P Tsang, L S Chan 0800h T31B-04 POSTER Far-field Deformational Effects of the Oblique Caribbean Plate Collision on the Passive Margin of Northeastern South America in the Guyana Basin: P Mann, W Yang, A Escalona 0800h T31B-05 POSTER 3D THERMOMECHANICAL MODELING OF THE LITHOSPHERE APPLIED TO THE EVOLUTION OF SEDIMENTARY BASINS IN PASSIVE MARGINS: J Guigon, V Sacek, L Corrêa, V Pinto 0800h T31B-06 WITHDRAWN T31C Room Iguassu IV Wednesday 0800h The Chile-Argentina Flat Slab: Structure, Evolution, and Interactions With Mantle and Overlying Lithosphere (joint with G, GP, S, V) Presiding: M C Pomposiello, CONICET; J R Booker, Univ. of Washington 0800h T31C-01 The Pampean flat-subduction (Invited): V A Ramos, A Folguera 0825h T31C-02 WITHDRAWN 0840h T31C-03 Implications of Mantle Electrical Conductivity for the Chile-Argentina Nazca Flat Slab: J R Booker, R L Mackie, M C Pomposiello, A Favetto, A I Burd 0855h T31C-04 Crustal structure of the Sierras Pampeanas, central Chile and Argentina (Invited): H J Gilbert, S L Beck, G Zandt, P M Alvarado, C Gans 0920h T31C-05 Mantle Structure and Dynamics Associated with the Central Chile-Argentina Flat Slab: L S Wagner, S L Beck 0935h T31C-06 Active Crustal Deformation over Flat Subuction Determined by GPS and Seismology. (Invited): R Smalley, M G Bevis, E C Kendrick, B A Brooks, S R Cimbaro Union U32A Room C2 Climate Impacts of Megacities II Wednesday 1030h Presiding: E D Freitas, University of São Paulo; R Y Ynoue, University of São Paulo 1030h U32A-01 Source apportionment for fine particles in six Brazilian cities: M Andrade, R M Miranda, A Fornaro, A Kerr, P A Andre, P Saldiva 1040h U32A-02 Mega-cities emissions and their impacts (Invited): L T Molina 1110h U32A-03 São Paulo Megacity Air Pollution Emissions and its Impacts on Health: An Overview (Invited): L D Martins, J A Martins, M G Oliveira, C Mazzoli, E D Freitas, M Andrade, P Saldiva 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 59 1130h U32A-04 An urban emissions inventory for South America and its application in numerical modeling of atmospheric chemical composition at local and regional scales: M F Alonso, K Longo, S R Freitas, R Fonseca, V Marécal, M Pirre, L G Klenner 1150h U32A-05 IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE FUTURE URBAN AIR POLLUTION OF EUROPEAN MEGACITIES: P Jimenez-Guerrero, S Jerez, J J Gomez-Navarro, R Lorente, J A Garcia-Valero, J P Montavez 1210h U32A-06 THE SENSITIVITY OF THE SURFACE OZONE FORMATION IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA OF RIO DE JANEIRO TO NOX AND VOCS CONCENTRATIONS USING THE CMAQ MODEL: L C Santolim, E Nascimento, A Simoes, T Albuquerque, T Morais, K Cavassani, F Curbani, A Baumgarten, C de Jesus, I Araujo, Z Pimenta Atmospheric Sciences A32A Room Expocenter I Wednesday 1030h Multiscale Organization of Tropical Convection:Year of Tropical Convection Presiding: M W Moncrieff, NCAR; C Jones, UCSB 1030h A32A-01 Year of Tropical Convection (YOTC): Status and Research Agenda (Invited): M W Moncrieff, D E Waliser 1042h A32A-02 The Madden-Julian Oscillation and forecasts of extreme precipitation in the contiguous United States (Invited): C Jones, J Gottschalck, L V Carvalho, W Higgins 1054h A32A-03 Moisture transport and Intraseasonal Variability in the South America Monsoon System (Invited): L V Carvalho, A E da Silva, C Jones, B Liebmann, P L Silva Dias 1106h A32A-04 Intraseasonal and Interseasonal Oscillations in the South American Monsoon System: V Krishnamurthy 1118h A32A-05 Diabatic Heating Profiles over Tropical South America: C Zhang 1130h A32A-06 WITHDRAWN 1142h A32A-07 Nonlinear Interactions in the Equatorial Long Wave Equation: E Ramirez Gutierrez, P Silva Dias, C Raupp 1154h A32A-08 Microphysics in Convection and its Effects on Cloud Simulation in the NCAR CAM3: G J Zhang, X Song 1206h A32A-09 WITHDRAWN 1218h A32A-10 Development of a GNSS Ground-Based Meteorological Network in Amazonia: D K Adams, R M Fernandes, J M Maia, E R Kursinski, L F Sapucci A32B Room A1 Wednesday 1030h Scale Interactions, Climate Sensitivity, and Feedbacks: Uncertainties for Projecting Global and Regional Climate Responses I Presiding: N G Andronova, University of Michigan; S C Sherwood, University of New South Wales 1030h A32B-01 Transient Climate Sensitivity as Constrained by Observation (Invited): K K Tung, C D Camp 1100h A32B-02 Arctic Climate Sensitivity: Anthropogenic Warming and Multi-Decadal Variability (Invited): P Chylek, C K Folland 1130h A32B-03 How adiabatic is the liquid water content in Scu clouds?: C Paredes, C Maturana, R F Rondanelli 1145h A32B-04 WITHDRAWN 1200h A32B-05 On the usage of GCM to assess the spatial and seasonal characteristics and uncertainty of climate and vegetation biophysical process feedbacks: Y Xue, F De Sales, R Vasic, C R Mechoso, A ARAKAWA, S D Prince 60 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1215h A32B-06 Constraining the tropical mean atmospheric water vapor and cloud feedback from the satellite observations and model simulations: N G Andronova Biogeosciences B32A Room A3 Wednesday 1030h Linking Hydrology and Nutrient Cycling in Large Wetland Ecosystems I (joint with H) Presiding: V Engel, Everglades National Park; L O Sternberg, University of Miami 1030h B32A-01 TWO ANALYSIS OF HYDRO-ECOLOGICAL SEASONAL VARIATION IN THE PANTANAL WETLAND, BRAZIL: D F Calheiros, M D Oliveira, M Dantas, R R Rosa, M N Futter 1045h B32A-02 The effects of hydro-biogeochemical processes on groundwater chemistry including nutrient concentrations in an oligotrophic wetland: Examples from the Florida Everglades: R M Price, P L Sullivan, X Zapata 1100h B32A-03 NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF TREE SPECIES AND AVAILABILITY OF SOIL NUTRIENTS IN VÁRZEA AND IGAPÓ INUNDATION FORESTS IN THE AMAZON: M Haridasan, C D Ferreira, A C Franco, M F Piedade 1115h B32A-04 Small-scale Spatial Variation of Inundation Dynamics in a Floodplain of the Pantanal (Brazil): P Girard, I Fantin-Cruz, S M de Oliveira, S K Hamilton 1130h B32A-05 Linking hydrology and nutrient cycling in the Everglades mangrove ecotone across scales of space and time (Invited): S E Davis 1145h B32A-06 Sediment vs. subsurface nutrient redistribution as agents of wetland landscape change: Lessons learned from modeling and field studies in the Everglades (Invited): L G Larsen, J W Harvey, G B Noe, M Maglio 1200h B32A-07 Foliar nutrient accumulation in subtropical tree islands: A new link between remote sensing and stable isotope measurements: D O Fuller, X Wang, L O Sternberg 1215h B32A-08 Determining Large-scale Flow Patterns in the Florida Everglades with SF6 Tracer Release Experiments: F Kai, D T Ho, V Engel, S Ferron Smith, S Eggleston Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism GP32A Room Iguacu II Wednesday 1030h Paleomagnetic Studies for the Reconstruction of Tectonic Processes II (joint with V, T) Presiding: F Cifelli, Roma TRE University; C M Spagnuolo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina; M D’Agrella Filho, University of Sao Paulo 1030h GP32A-01 Combining AMS data and remanent magnetizations to better constrain the tectonic evolution of deformed areas: some examples from the Andes (Invited): P Roperch, C Arriagada, A Chauvin, V Carlotto 1045h GP32A-02 Tectonic rotations in central Chile: The Vallenar and Maipo oroclines: C ARRIAGADA, P Roperch, C Mpodozis 1100h GP32A-03 The evolution of the Bolivian orocline: application of the Pplates deformable plate tectonic reconstruction software to the question of straightening the Andes: T P O’Kane, G S Lister, J Kurtz 1112h GP32A-04 Eocene to Late Miocene Tectonic Evolution of Central-Western Mexico as Inferred from Palaeomagnetic and Geochronologic data: J Rosas-Elguera, A Goguitchaichvili, L M AlvaValdivia 1127h GP32A-05 Paraguay belt folding and oroclinal bending during the final assembly of Western Gondwana (Invited): R I Trindade, E Tohver, A C Nogueira, C Riccomini 1142h GP32A-06 The imprint of true polar wander in the palaeogeography and palaeoclimate of Jurassic Pangea: M P Iglesia Llanos, C B Prezzi 1154h GP32A-07 Paleogeographic evolution of the South West Gondwana margin based on the Apparent Polar Wander Path during the Permian–Triassic boundary: R N Tomezzoli, L E Kleiman, H Tickyj, M E Woroszylo, J Salvarredi 1206h GP32A-08 Widespread remagnetization in Jurassic limestones from the High Atlas of Morocco. Tectonic implications in the evolution of the Jurassic basins: J Villalain, A Casas, V RUIZMARTINEZ, H El Ouardi, A Mahmoudi, B Moussaid 1218h GP32A-09 Paleomagnetic investigation of the Balangbaru Formation, SW Sulawesi, Indonesia: T H Kwong, J R Ali Hydrology H32A Room C3 Rivers I Wednesday 1030h Presiding: M H Garcia, University of Illinois; J M Nelson, US Geological Survey 1030h H32A-01 Some Recent Advances in River Network Scaling Theory and Methodology: S P Neuman 1045h H32A-02 In-channel large wood in two natural forested mountain catchments in Southern Chile: abundance, mobility, flow resistance and hydro-morphological effect analysis: A IROUME, A Andreoli, M A Lenzi, H Ulloa 1100h H32A-03 Simulating the impact of bypassing and nourishing sediment down hydropower dams: C Sloff, Y Kitamura, M Yossef 1115h H32A-04 First Analysis Of Discharge Measurements With Multy Frequency and Phased Array Doppler Meters : P E Gamaro, L H Maldonado, K A Lima, S Tulio, S N Ribeiro 1125h H32A-05 Challenges to the Understanding and Modeling of Flow and Transport in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California (Invited): F A Bombardelli, J R Kohne 1150h H32A-06 PAST AND PRESENT RELATIONSHIPS IN THE MORPHODYNAMICS OF THE PARANÁ RIVER: C G Ramonell, E M Latrubesse 1205h H32A-07 SUBMERGED SAND BARS IN THE PARANÁ RIVER FROM SATELLITE IMAGES: M S Pereira, C G Ramonell, E M Latrubesse, R N Szupiany 1215h H32A-08 Rivers as Corridors of Diarrheal Disease Transmission: Role of Coastal and Terrestrial Hydroclimatology: A S Akanda, A S Jutla, S Islam, Title of Team: WE REASoN (Water and Environmental Research, Education, & Actionable Solutions Network) Natural Hazards NH32A Room Cedro I Wednesday 1030h Land-Ocean-Atmospheric Processes Over the Americas: Implication for Natural Hazards and the Global Carbon Cycle (joint with GC, A, H, OS, S, G) Presiding: Y A Kontar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; R P Singh, Indian Institute of Technology 1030h NH32A-01 Efficience of tsunami generation by submarine earthquakes in different tsunamigenic zones of the Pacific (Invited): V K Gusiakov 1045h NH32A-02 National Geophysical Data Center Historical Natural Hazard Event Databases (Invited): P K Dunbar, K J Stroker, H McCullough 1100h NH32A-03 Electromagnetic triggering of earthquakes: natural and man-made phenomena and their application for earthquake hazard mitigation (Invited): V Novikov 1115h NH32A-04 Tsunami in the Hudson ~2300 BP-Have We Found the Oceanic Source Crater? (Invited): D H Abbott, K T Cagen, S M Carbotte, F O Nitsche, A West, T E Bunch, L Weber, N Gogan, V Reppucci, D Breger, M Collela 1130h NH32A-05 Preliminary evaluation of the ENSO’s impacts in hydric conditions of the pampean area through the LST and the EVI: M E Holzman, R Rivas, Title of Team: Remote Sensig in hidrology 1145h NH32A-06 Wabash Valley Geophysical Experiment in Illinois: Y A Kontar, F Boadu, J A Conder, Y Hashash, A M Ismail, M D Long, R S Nelson, W J Nelson, M S Zhdanov 1200h NH32A-07 Effects of the Climate Change in the Hydrologic Cycle of México: M López Pérez, F I Arreguin Cortés Ocean Sciences OS32A Room C1 Wednesday Continental Shelf: Deep-Ocean Exchanges II 1030h Presiding: A R Piola, Servicio Hidrografia Naval; K H Brink, WHOI; R P Matano, Oregon State University 1030h OS32A-01 Comparison of chemical exchange across the continental shelves of the Southeastern Atlantic US and Southern Brazil. (Invited): H Windom 1045h OS32A-02 Physical Oceanography of the Eastern North American Continental Shelf: K H Brink, G Gawarkiewicz, S J Lentz 1100h OS32A-03 Western Boundary Currents Forcing on the Southwestern Atlantic Shelf: E D Palma, R P Matano, A R Piola 1115h OS32A-04 Ecological Processes in the SW Atlantic Shelf Break Front: O O Iribarne 1130h OS32A-05 The Upwelling and Cross-Shelf Exchanges of Patagonia: R P Matano, E D Palma 1145h OS32A-06 Extending Along-Track Altimeter SSH Over the Patagonia Shelf: P T Strub, R P Matano, C James 1200h OS32A-07 Multiple jets in the Malvinas Current: A R Piola, B C Franco, E D Palma, M Saraceno 1215h OS32A-08 Structure of Plankton Communities in the Southern Patagonian Shelf: Spring Mesozooplankton Patterns and Trophic Relationships Associated with Hydrology: M Sabatini, R Akselman, R Reta, R Negri, V Lutz, R Silva, V Segura, M Gil, N Santinelli, V Sastre, C Daponte, J Antacli 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 61 Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology SPA-Magnetospheric Physics PP32A Room A2 Wednesday 1030h Quaternary Ecosystem Dynamics in Tropical South America (joint with GC) SM32A Room Iguassu III Wednesday Progress in Understanding the Near-Earth Space Environment I (joint with SA, SH) Presiding: M Ledru; M J Power, University of Utah; D Urrego, Florida Inst. of Technology Presiding: V Jordanova, Los Alamos National Laboratory; H Matsui, Univ New Hampshire 1030h PP32A-01 WITHDRAWN 1045h PP32A-02 Differentiation of pollen spectra from Amazonian rainforest communities and implications for lowland palaeoecology in tropical South America: M J Burn, F Mayle, T Killeen 1100h PP32A-03 Biomass burning in the Americas after 1500AD: European contact or climate?: M J Power, F Mayle, P J Bartlein, Title of Team: Global Palaeofire Working Group Members 1115h PP32A-04 WITHDRAWN 1130h PP32A-05 WITHDRAWN 1145h PP32A-06 A 12,000-record of climate change and human impacts from Lake Nicaragua: R Dull, S Bowen, A Bloom, J Slate, K McIntosh, P Mann 1200h PP32A-07 Late Holocene environmental changes from the Lago Cabaliana in the Central Amazonia, Brazil: M L Absy, N D Sá, E A Soares 1215h PP32A-08 Fire and Seasonality Changes in Northeastern Amazonia since the Last Millennium: D H Urrego, M Conte, M Bush 1030h SM32A-01 Self-consistent coupling of Global MHD with the RCM: Recent Progress (Invited): F Toffoletto, S Sazykin, A D Pembroke, J Lyon, V G Merkin, M J Wiltberger, P Schmitt 1045h SM32A-02 Progress in understanding plasmasphere dynamics (Invited): F Darrouzet, J M De Keyser, V Pierrard, H Matsui, P Puhl-Quinn 1100h SM32A-03 RAM-SCB Simulations of the Near-Earth Magnetosphere: Effect of Plasma Sheet Conditions and Induced Electric Fields: S G Zaharia, V Jordanova, D T Welling 1112h SM32A-04 Can magnetospheric wave power at Pc5 ULF frequencies be inferred from solar wind conditions? (Invited): S R Elkington, S G Claudepierre, M J Wiltberger 1127h SM32A-05 Observation of Langmuir Wave-Electron Phase Bunching (Invited): C Kletzing, S R Bounds, S Kaeppler, J W Labelle, M Dombrowski 1142h SM32A-06 Heating rates calculated for outer radiation belt electrons from measurements at geosynchronous orbit: M H Denton, J E Borovsky 1154h SM32A-07 Determining the Loss of Radiation Belt Electrons: What Measurements and Models are Required?: X Li, W Tu, D L Turner, R S Selesnick, M D Looper 1206h SM32A-08 A Statistical Study of EMIC Waves at Geosynchronous Orbit: B J Fraser, R Grew, H J Singer 1218h SM32A-09 Wavelet Statistical Analysis for Dst Index and Low Latitude Geomagnetic Data: A F Akel, A R Papa Seismology S32A Room Iguacu I Wednesday 1030h Seismic Microzoning and Risk Management in Latin America (joint with NH, G) Presiding: O D Cardona, Universidad Nacional de Colombia; M Schmitz, FUNVISIS; H Tavera 1030h S32A-01 Updating the Seismic Microzonations in Colombia: The Development of Automatic Post-earthquake Damage Evaluation Systems on Buildings (Invited): L E Yamin, O D Cardona, M G Ordaz 1045h S32A-02 WITHDRAWN 1100h S32A-03 The Iquique Local Network (ILN) project and its role in risk Management: M Sobiesiak, M Olcay, S Eggert, H Goetze 1115h S32A-04 A First-order Microzonation Map of Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A Yong, S E Hough, L Christiansen, M J Abrams 1130h S32A-05 Earthquake Hazard and Risk Assessment in Central America: D H Lang, S Molina, C D Lindholm, E Erduran, J Crempien, M B Benito, V Gutiérrez C. 1145h S32A-06 Comprehensive Approach for Probabilistic Risk Assessment (CAPRA): International Initiative for Disaster Risk Management Effectiveness: O D Cardona, M G Ordaz, A H Barbat 1200h S32A-07 Challenges for implementation of the results of the Caracas, Venezuela, Seismic Microzoning Project: M Schmitz, J J Hernandez, K Mendes, Title of Team: Caracas Seismic Microzoning Project Working Group 1215h S32A-08 Design and Implementation of Earthquake Insurance to Cover Low-income Homeowners by Cross-subsidies using a Seismic Microzonation (Invited): M C Marulanda, O D Cardona, A H Barbat 62 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1030h SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics SH32A Room Iguassu V Wednesday 1030h Shocks, Reconnection, and Particle Acceleration in Turbulent Heliospheric Plasmas I Presiding: J R Jokipii, University of Arizona; M Opher, Physics and Astronomy 1030h SH32A-01 Particle Acceleration by the Sun (Invited): R P Lin 1045h SH32A-02 The Acceleration of Solar Energetic Particles (Invited): C M Cohen 1100h SH32A-03 Particle Acceleration at CME-driven Interplanetary shocks (Invited): M I Desai, G M Mason 1115h SH32A-04 THE PITCH-ANGLE DISTRIBUTION WIDTH BETWEEN 100 eV to 100 keV DURING THE SOLAR ELECTRON BURST OF 2002 MARCH 22: C A de Koning, J T Gosling, R M Skoug, J T Steinberg, R P Lin, L Wang 1125h SH32A-05 Reconnection of weakly stochastic magnetic field and energetic particle acceleration (Invited): A Lazarian 1140h SH32A-06 A reconnection mechanism for the generation of anomalous cosmic rays: M Opher, J F Drake, M M Swisdak 1150h SH32A-07 Acceleration of Charged Particles in Magnetic Reconnection Sites: J R Jokipii 1200h SH32A-08 Particle acceleration at a rippling quasiperpendicular shock: G Li, L Zhao 1210h SH32A-09 Hybrid simulations of the termination shock: Suprathermal ion velocity distributions in the heliosheath: S P Gary, P Wu, K Liu, D Winske, N A Schwadron, H O Funsten 1220h SH32A-10 Particle acceleration by turbulence, reconnection and alfvenic fluctuations: P Dmitruk, W H Matthaeus Tectonophysics T32A Room Iguassu IV Wednesday Flat Slab Subduction I (joint with S, V, GP, G) 1030h Presiding: V Manea, UNAM; M Manea, Computational Geodynamics Laboratory; M Pérez-Gussinyé 1030h T32A-01 Seismic-Tomographic Observations of Spatial Variations in Subduction Angle along the Strike of the Andes (Invited): S van der Lee 1050h T32A-02 Timing and Mechanism of Flat Subduction in the Central Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (Invited): L Ferrari, M Orozco Esquivel 1110h T32A-03 The Role of Flat Slab Subduction on the Silica Enrichment of the Continental Lithosphere. (Invited): L S Wagner 1130h T32A-04 Numerical modeling of subduction initiation along Atlantic American margins: K Nikolaeva, T Gerya, F O Marques 1145h T32A-05 Subduction Initiation at Passive Margins: the Brazilian Margin as a Prototype Candidate: F O Marques, T Gerya, K Nikolaeva, M Assumpcao, A Nascimento, F H Bezerra, J M Ferreira, W Medeiros 1200h T32A-06 Thermal state of overriding plate and its influence on subduction dynamics and flat subduction: J RodriguezGonzalez, A M Negredo, M I Billen 1215h T32A-07 Curie point depth estimates and correlation with subduction in Mexico: M Manea, V Manea Wednesday P.M. Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism GP15A Room Iguacu II LATINMAG Lecture Wednesday 1245h Presiding: A Goguitchaichrili, UNAM; A E Rapalini, Universidad de Buenos Aires 1245h GP15A-01 Mid-Cretaceous Global Plate Reorganization and its Relation with Present Day, Major Orogenic Systems: R Somoza Atmospheric Sciences A33A Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 1400h Extreme Weather Events in the Americas: Observations, Forecasts and Projections IV Posters (joint with NH, G) Presiding: C Jones, UCSB; L V Carvalho, University of California Santa Barbara 1400h A33A-01 POSTER Strong ENSO episodes and zonal variation of blocking flow events in the Southern Hemisphere: F M de Oliveira, L V Carvalho, T Ambrizzi, Title of Team: Group for Studies in Multi-Scales 1400h A33A-02 POSTER EXTREME METEOROLOGICAL EVENT IN THE URUGUAYAN COAST AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE SEA LEVEL: V Pshennikov, J Verocai, M Bidegain, Title of Team: Scientific Team: Climatic change in the coastal area of Uruguay 1400h A33A-03 POSTER Extreme Value Analysis on the Colombian Caribbean Catchment by Using the Regional Climate Model REMO: I C Hoyos, A Baquero-Bernal 1400h A33A-04 POSTER Cut off lows over southern South America: Validation of two numerical weather prediction models: M Saucedo, C Campetella, J J Ruiz 1400h A33A-05 POSTER CUT OFF LOWS AND ITS RELATION WITH EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS OVER SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: A A Godoy, F Robledo, C Campetella 1400h A33A-06 POSTER Evaluation of Meso-Eta Forecasts, Based on Severe Storm Indices, to Predict Extreme Storm Events in the State of São Paulo, Brazil: M Teixeira, G Held, J M Bassan 1400h A33A-07 POSTER DYNAMICS AND SYNOPTIC ANALYSIS OF THE EXTREME EVENT OCCURRED IN THE SANTA MARIA – SOUTH OF BRAZIL: G Frasson Verardo, S Ferraz 1400h A33A-08 POSTER PREDICTABILITY STUDY OF HEAVY PRECIPITATION EVENTS OVER SOUTHEAST BRAZIL USING SHORT-RANGE ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS: J Bustamante, S Chou 1400h A33A-09 POSTER Performance and sensitivity study of BRAMS forecast in an organized mesoscale convective event: Y Garcia Skabar, L Vidal, P Salio, M Nicolini 1400h A33A-10 POSTER Predictability Study of a Baroclinic Wave: Comparison between a Real Case and Idealized Experiment: J Blázquez, N L Pessacg, P González 1400h A33A-11 WITHDRAWN 1400h A33A-12 POSTER IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT PRECIPITATION PARTITION DEPENDENCE ON HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION FOR A SOUTH ATLANTIC CONVERGENCE ZONE CASE: J L Gomes, S Chou 1400h A33A-13 POSTER Trends in Indices of Daily Temperature Extremes in Rio de Janeiro: W L Silva, C Dereczynski, M Valverde 1400h A33A-14 POSTER Extreme Droughts in La Plata Basin. The Climate of the Region is Going Drier?: J A Rivera, O C Penalba 1400h A33A-15 POSTER Interannual variability of cyclone trajectories in South America using probabilistic clustering techniques: D Dechat, M Pulido, M M Lucini 1400h A33A-16 POSTER Atmospheric Electric Field Network : A Possible Way to Improve Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Nowcasting for Critical Areas: M R Jusevicius, A Heilmann, C Beneti A33B Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 1400h Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Interactions in the Subtropical Southeastern Pacific III Posters (joint with OS) Presiding: C Grados, IMARPE; J A Rutllant, Universidad de Chile 1400h A33B-01 POSTER Wind and cloudiness transitions in a coastal boundary layer: Observations at the Mejillones Peninsula (23°S; Chile): R C Muñoz, J A Rutllant 1400h A33B-02 POSTER Numerical Investigation of Air-Sea Interaction using One Dimensional Second Order Closure Model – Cloud Effect on the Oceanic-Atmospheric PBL Diurnal Evolution: M S Dourado, A P Oliveira 1400h A33B-03 POSTER Impact of Tropical-Extratropical Teleconnections on Upwelling Favourable Winds Along the West Coast of South America: K Goubanova, B Dewitte, J Kug 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 63 1400h A33B-04 POSTER CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND BRAZILIAN PANTANAL RIVER OUTFLOWS: C B Silva, M E Silva 1400h A33B-05 POSTER Seasonal Variability of the alongshore flows off central Chile: C Aguirre, O Pizarro 1400h A33B-06 POSTER CYCLOGENESIS OVER THE BRAZILMALVINAS CONFLUENCE FRONT BASED ON A COUPLED OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODEL REANALYSES: R M Palmeira, V Santos Da Costa, A M Paiva 1400h A33B-07 POSTER Observational analysis of the joint tendencies in low-level clouds, subsidence inversion, and thermodynamic properties of the Antofagasta (23.4°S, 70.4°W): R Zamora Aguirre, R C Muñoz, J A Rutllant 1400h A33B-08 POSTER Trajectory Visualizations of In-situ Tracers of Continental Aerosol Sources in Google Earth: Relationships to Low Clouds in the SEP: S Freitag, A D Clarke, T L Campos, J R Snider, V Brekhovskikh, V N Kapustin, S G Howell, L Shank, C S McNaughton 1400h A33B-09 POSTER Sea Surface Temperature Biases in the Southeast Pacific Stratus Cloud Region in 19 IPCC AR4 Coupled General Circulation Models: T Shinoda, Y Zheng, J Lin, G N Kiladis A33C Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 1400h Scale Interactions, Climate Sensitivity, and Feedbacks: Uncertainties for Projecting Global and Regional Climate Responses II Posters Presiding: R E Dickinson, University of Texas at Austin; N G Andronova, University of Michigan; S C Sherwood, University of New South Wales 1400h A33C-01 POSTER The impact of deforestation of the Gran Chaco in the precipitation of Gran Chaco and surrounding region: S P Blatter, J J Ruiz, M Pulido 1400h A33C-02 POSTER Land Surface Radiation Constructed from Spherical Bush Scattering Properties and Feedback Consequences: R E Dickinson 1400h A33C-03 POSTER VEGETATION PATTERNS IN AMAZONIA ASSOCIATED WITH RISING CO2: UNCERTAINTIES RELATED TO SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES: M P Pereira, M H Costa 1400h A33C-04 POSTER Polar Vortex Trend Responses to Pacific and Indian Ocean Warming: S Li 1400h A33C-05 POSTER REMOTE REGIONS PREFERRED FOR GENERATION OF RAINFALL IN SOUTH AMERICA: D Pedroso, S E Ferraz, T Ambrizzi, M L Sacco, Title of Team: Simone Erotildes Telegiski Ferraz 1400h A33C-06 POSTER Effects of different deforestation levels on the Amazon rainforest regrowth in a mid-XXI century A2 CO2 scenario: L C Dias, M H Costa, L B Pinto 1400h A33C-07 POSTER Effects of Amazon and Central Brazil deforestation scenarios on the duration of the dry season in the arc of deforestation: G F Pires, M H Costa 1400h A33C-08 POSTER Pacific Decadal Oscillation Influence Over China Rainfall Patterns: A D Maia, C Albuquerque, M H Silveira, L C Molion 1400h A33C-09 POSTER Land-atmosphere coupling at regional scales: implications in present variability and regional climate projections: J P Montavez, S Jerez, J J Gomez-Navarro, J A GarciaValero, R Lorente, P Jimenez-Guerrero, F J Gonzalez-Rouco, Title of Team: Regional Atmospheric Modelling Group 64 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1400h A33C-10 POSTER Dependence of wet-season precipitation in the Central Andes on Pacific SST anomaly patterns and tropospheric temperature, pressure and humidity fields: M Rohrer, D Acuña, P S Calanca, C Huggel, T Konzelmann, N D Salzmann, M Schwarb, E Silvestre 1400h A33C-11 POSTER Persistence of Cloudiness on the East Coast of Sao Paulo State - Synoptic and Regional Influences: F L Augusto, R de Camargo 1400h A33C-12 POSTER Southward Moisture Transport from Amazonia and Rainfall in SE South America: J M Arraut, C A Nobre 1400h A33C-13 POSTER AN APPLICATION OF THE MULTIMODEL TECHNIQUE IN ENSEMBLE WEATHER FORECASTING AT CPTEC/INPE: C A Cunningham, A M Mendonça, R W Mendonça, G M Carneiro, A P Maciel 1400h A33C-14 POSTER Contribution of Amazon’s Evapotranspiration To The Moisture Flux Over South America: H M Barbosa, C A Nobre 1400h A33C-15 POSTER Teleconnections between South American Monsoon and African Rainfall: A M Grimm, C Reason A33D Room Expocenter I Wednesday 1400h South American Monsoon System: Past, Present, and Future I (joint with H, PP, G) Presiding: L V Carvalho, University of California Santa Barbara; C Jones, UCSB 1405h A33D-01 Developments on the functioning, characteristics and variability of the South American Monsoon System: Past, Present and Future: J A Marrengo 1425h A33D-02 On the recent changes in amplitude of the American monsoons: L V Carvalho 1440h A33D-03 Precipitation Year-To-Year Variability over Southeastern South America in the Context of Climate Change: C Vera, C Junquas, H Le Treut 1500h A33D-04 South Atlantic Convergence Zone and Impacts of Soil Moisture Conditions upon the Precipitation: A Nóbile Tomaziello, A W Gandu 1515h A33D-05 Tropical and extratropical impacts on the South American Summer Monsoon: F E Hirata, C Hoyos, P J Webster 1530h A33D-06 Relative Influence of Atlantic and Pacific Oceans on the South American Climate Variability: V Krishnamurthy 1545h A33D-07 Evolution of regional differences in precipitation system intensity prior to and during South American monsoon onset: T M Rickenbach, R Nieto-Ferreira, R Barnhill, S Nesbitt A33E Room A1 Wednesday 1400h Stratosphere/Troposphere Couplings Within the Southern Hemisphere I Presiding: A Yuchechen, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina; P O Canziani, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina / CONICET 1400h A33E-01 Gravity and Rossby Wave Signatures in the Tropical Tropopause Layer (TTL) over the Equatorial Americas Based on SHADOZ (Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes) Soundings, 1998-2008: A M Thompson, J C Witte, S K Miller, F Schmidlin, F R daSilva, N P Leme, G Verver, H Voemel, J Valverde, G Morris 1415h A33E-02 Annular modes in a changing climate: M P Baldwin, E P Gerber 1430h A33E-03 SWIFT – An Extremely Fast Semi-empirical Module for Including Polar Ozone Loss in Climate Model Systems: M Rex, P Huck, S Kremser, G E Bodeker, M L Santee, P F Bernath 1445h A33E-04 Vertical Structure of the Troposphere/Lower Stratosphere over the southern tip of South America and Antarctica as Evidenced by an EOF Analysis. Part I: Relationships with Single Tropopauses: A Yuchechen, S Bischoff, P O Canziani 1500h A33E-05 SH Quasi-stationary Wave 1 Phase Variability and its Interactions With UTLS Variability: P O Canziani, E A Agosta 1515h A33E-06 A Comparison of Stratosphere-Troposphere Dynamical Coupling during Vortex-Splitting Major Stratospheric Sudden Warmings in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres: T Hirooka, T Ichimaru, Y Harada, H Naoe, H Mukougawa 1530h A33E-07 Troposphere-Stratosphere Communication through Local Vertical Waveguides: D Hodyss, T R Nathan 1545h A33E-08 Response of the Antarctic Stratosphere to Two Types of El Niño Events: M Hurwitz, P A Newman, L Oman, A M Molod, E Nielsen Biogeosciences B33A Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday Biogeochemical Transformations of Contaminants in Freshwater Systems Posters (joint with H) 1400h Presiding: H Castro-Gonzalez, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1400h B33A-01 POSTER Metal ions fate modeling in natural waters: an uncompleted task (Invited): J Torres, V Pintos, L Gonzatto, C Kremer, S Domínguez, E Kremer 1400h B33A-02 POSTER Bacterial Communities Associated with Mercury Contaminated Stream Sediments: H Castro, D A Elias, T A Vishnivetskaya, J J Mosher, M Podar, S D Brown, S C Brooks, S L Carroll, M M Drake, C C Brandt, A V Palumbo 1400h B33A-03 POSTER TRACE ELEMENTS AND MAJOR SPECIES IN PRECIPITATION AT WESTERM AMAZONIA STATIONS: CONCENTRATIONS AND SOURCES: P Seyler, A M Horbe, B A Honorio 1400h B33A-04 POSTER HYDROGEN PEROXIDE CONSUMPTION AS AN INDICATOR OF THE DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER LABILITY IN TURVO/GRANDE WATERSHED: M C Bisinoti, C B Antunes, P S Ferreira, A B Moreira, Title of Team: Laboratório De Estudos em Ciências Ambientais 1400h B33A-05 POSTER COPPER COMPLEXATION BY NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER AND AQUATIC HUMIC SUBSTANCE EXTRACTED FROM PRETO RIVER, SÃO PAULO STATE, BRAZIL: A B Moreira, A R Santos, A M Tadini, M C Bisinoti, Title of Team: Laboratório de Estudos em Ciências Ambientais B33B Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 1400h Inland and Littoral Waters as a Land-Ocean-Atmosphere Interface in the Global Carbon Cycle II Posters (joint with NH, GC) Presiding: G Abril, IRD/CNRS/UEA; J Kim, NIOZ; F Roland, Juiz de Fora Federal University 1400h B33B-01 POSTER Source of archaeal and bacterial membrane lipids in the Amazon River and floodplain lakes: C I Zell, J Kim, L Villanueva, J Mortillaro, T Meziane, R Sobrinho, M Bernardes, G Abril, J S Sinninghe Damsté 1400h B33B-02 POSTER Bacterial and phytoplankton biomass compared dynamics in different aquatic systems of the central Amazonas River: L Artigas, E A Oliveira, J Chicheportiche, S Brugel, M Mendoza, B Lamback, G Abril, M Bonnet, F Lizon, R Paranhos, M Pérez, J Martinez, P F Moreira-Turcq 1400h B33B-03 POSTER Seasonal contribution of lignin phenols to organic matter composition in Amazon floodplain lakes sediments: R L Sobrinho, M Bernardes, C I Zell, P Moreira-Turcq, J Kim 1400h B33B-04 POSTER Properties and Reactivity of Aquatic Organic Matter from an Amazonian Floodplain System: M Pérez, P Moreira-Turcq, M F Benedetti B33C Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 1400h Land-Water Interactions in the Amazon II Posters (joint with H) Presiding: A Krusche, CENA-USP; J E Richey, School of Oceanography 1400h B33C-01 POSTER IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS ON WATER BUDGET OF WESTERN AMAZONIA: A Liberato, J I Brito 1400h B33C-02 POSTER CO2 EFFLUX FROM FLUVIAL SYSTEMS OF DIFFERENT ORDERS IN THE SOUTHWESTERN OF AMAZONIA, ACRE, BRAZIL: E Sousa, A Krusche, C Salimon 1400h B33C-03 POSTER Temporal variation of phytoplankton communities in an Amazonian floodplain lake (Janauacá), in response to the flood pulse of the Solimões River: E A Oliveira, M Bonnet, G R Boaventura, S Brugel, J Chicheportiche, L Artigas 1400h B33C-04 POSTER DOC and DIC Seasonal Dynamics in a Slow Flowing River of Eastern Amazonia (FLONA Caxiuanã, Pará): D M Melo, A Krusche, V Ballester, R L Victoria, J F Berrêdo, M E Sales, J E Richey 1400h B33C-05 POSTER Floristic composition and structure of a riparian forest in Southwestern Amazon, Brazil: G M Cabianchi, A Krusche, N K LEITE, V Ballester 1400h B33C-06 POSTER Factors influencing soil solution chemistry in a riparian forest in Rondônia, Brazil: N K LEITE, A Krusche, G M Cabianchi, P L Pequeno, R F Souza, D C Victoria B33D Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 1400h Linking Hydrology and Nutrient Cycling in Large Wetland Ecosystems II Posters (joint with H) Presiding: V Engel, Everglades National Park; L O Sternberg, University of Miami 1400h B33D-01 POSTER Using Stable Isotopes to Study Ecophysiological Processes in the Everglades Tree Islands: X Wang, L O Sternberg, A K Saha, V Engel, M S Ross 1400h B33D-02 POSTER Interactions of biological and hydrogeochemical processes facilitate phosphorus dynamics in an Everglades tree island: T Troxler, C Coronado-Molina, D Rondeau, S Krupa, F Sklar 1400h B33D-03 POSTER Parallel Vegetation Patterns in the Everglades Form Through Nutrient-Hydrologic Interactions: V C Engel, Y Cheng, M Stieglitz, G Turk 1400h B33D-04 POSTER Water utilization and nutrient uptake in flood-intolerant woody vegetation in a large subtropical wetland: A Saha, L O Sternberg, M S Ross, F R Miralles-Wilhelm 1400h B33D-05 WITHDRAWN 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 65 B33E Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 1400h Marine and Coastal Ecosystems Biodiversity II Posters (joint with GC, OS) Presiding: R Armstrong, University of Puerto Rico; C Eakin, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; L S Guild, NASA Ames Research Center; J Sicoli Seoane, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro 1400h B33E-01 POSTER A GIS-ready database for coral reef faunal distribution patterns - Recife de Fora, Bahia, Brazil: J Sicoli Seoane, R C Arantes, E C Tedesco, C B Castro, C F Barbosa, D Pires, Title of Team: CORAL VIVO 1400h B33E-02 POSTER Benthic Environmental Quality to Support Coral Reefs Based on Foraminifera - Rocas Atoll, Equatorial Atlantic: C F Barbosa, A B Gaspar, A C Fonseca, J S Seoane, B P Ferreira, M Hollerbach, Title of Team: FOCO Project B33F Room A3 Wednesday 1400h Nitrogen Cycling in Latin America: What We Know, Where We Stand, and Future Scenarios (joint with A) Presiding: M Bustamante, Universidade de Brasília; L Martinelli; T Perez, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research; I Trebs, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry 1400h B33F-01 The function of riparian zones in the nitrogen dynamics in soils of agricultural slopes in Southeast region of Brazil: M O Bezerra, L Martinelli, W Manfrinato 1415h B33F-02 Possible effects of anthropic increased atmospheric nitrogen input on a Bioma - Nitrogen status, net mineralization and nitrification rates in soil of the Mata Atlântica forest, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: J E Maddock, L C de Brito 1430h B33F-03 What do we know about nitrogen deposition in the Amazon Basin?: I Trebs, F X Meixner, P Artaxo, M O Andreae 1445h B33F-04 Replacement of pasture by soybean cultivation in Amazonia: consequences on nitrogen dynamics: A S Figueira, E A Davidson, S J Hayhoe, C Neill, S Porder, L Martinelli 1500h B33F-05 Variation in Plant Nitrogen Use in White-Sand Vegetations in Central Brazilian Amazon – an Isotopic View: S F Mardegan, G Nardoto, N Higuchi, L Martinelli 1515h B33F-06 Atmospheric deposition and tropical rivers fluxes of dissolved organic nitrogen to the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela: R Rasse, T Perez, A Giuliante, L Donoso, A Rojas, J Flores, L Lorenzoni, F Muller-Karger, J Saturno 1530h B33F-07 Urban nitrogen flows and fate: a comparison between the São Paulo and Paris metropolitan areas: G B Nardoto, A Svirejeva-Hopkins, L Martinelli 1545h B33F-08 A Southern perspective on N deposition and its ecological consequences: should we worry? (Invited): A Austin, M A Adams, M Bustamante, M Forti, J Ometto, T Perez, S Schmidt, M C Scholes Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism GP33A Room Iguacu II Wednesday 1400h Advances in Tectonic Interpretation of Magnetic Fabrics and in their Experimental Techniques (joint with T) Presiding: B Henry, IPGP; M B Raposo, São Paulo University; P F Silva, IDL 1400h GP33A-01 Understanding Magnetic Fabrics for Tectonic interpretation (Invited): A M Hirt 66 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1413h GP33A-02 AMS method applied to the mapping of the Gastre Fault System, Central Patagonia: an insight in deformation conditions and superimposed magnetic fabrics (Invited): C B Zaffarana, R Somoza 1426h GP33A-03 Frequency-dependent AMS of rocks: indicator of SP grain fabric ?: F Hrouda 1439h GP33A-04 Magnetic Fabrics and Rock-magnetism Studies of Mesozoic Mafic Dike Swarms from Ilhabela Island (São Paulo state, Brazil): preliminary results: M B Raposo 1452h GP33A-05 Towards the identification of composite magnetic fabrics in thick and deep-seated dolerite dykes: their origin and implications regarding magma flow: P F Silva, B Henry, P Madureira, F O Marques, A M Hirt, E Font, N Lourenco 1505h GP33A-06 AMS Analysis to Determine Flow Source and Emplacement Mechanisms: Study of Three Mexican Ignimbrites (Invited): C I Caballero-Miranda 1518h GP33A-07 Magnetic Fabrics of Ignimbrites: Implications for Paleomagnetism: M M Domeier, R Van Der Voo 1531h GP33A-08 What does represent the magnetic fabric in intrusive plutons ? (Invited): B Henry 1544h GP33A-09 Magnetic Fabrics of the Permian Prieto Pluton (Northern Patagonia, Argentina): Integration of Petrography and Magnetic Mineralogy: C I Martínez Dopico, A E Rapalini, M G Lopez de Luchi Global Environmental Change GC33A Room C2 Wednesday 1400h Modeling and Analysis of the Present and Future Hydroclimate of the La Plata Basin II (joint with A, H, NH) Presiding: I F Cavalcanti, National Institute for Space Reseach; A M Grimm, Universidade Federal do Paraná 1400h GC33A-01 A Europe-South America Network for Climate Change Assessment and Impact Studies in La Plata Basin (CLARIS LPB): J Boulanger, Title of Team: CLARIS LPB Consortium and Executive Teams 1430h GC33A-02 Present climate validation of an ensemble of regional climate models over South America forced by 1989-2008 ERAinterim reanalysis: E Sanchez, E H Berbery, S A Solman, R García-Ochoa, P Samuelsson, A C Remedio, D Jacob, M Rojas, A A Sörensson, C Menendez, R P da Rocha, M Castro, N L Pessacg, J A Marengo, S Chou, L Li, H Le Treut, Title of Team: The CLARISLPB WP5 regional climate modelling team 1445h GC33A-03 The Future of the La Plata Basin Hydrological Cycle as Simulated Under Different WCRP-CMIP3 Dataset Emission Scenarios: R Saurral 1500h GC33A-04 MONTHLY AND SEASONAL PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES VARIABILITY OVER TWO SECTORS OF LA PLATA BASIN AND EXTREMES-OBSERVATIONS AND SIMULATIONS FROM CPTEC/COLA AGCM: I F Cavalcanti 1515h GC33A-05 Characterization of the ENSO 1982-83 South American MCCs using the Eta model: E A Collini, I Velasco, E H Berbery 1530h GC33A-06 Characterization of the Regional Hydrologic Cycle of the South America: M L Quadro, M A Silva Dias, L Goncalves, D L Herdies, E H Berbery 1545h GC33A-07 Modeling Daily Rainfall Amounts: A Comparative Analysis Applied to La Plata River Basin: D M Detzel, M M Mine, Title of Team: “Laboratório de Hidrologia e Estudos Energéticos PPGERHA” Hydrology H33A Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday Contemporary Urban Ecohydrology Posters 1400h Presiding: E F Viglizzo, INTA; E G Jobbagy, Universidad Nacional de San Luis - Argentina 1400h H33A-01 WITHDRAWN 1400h H33A-02 POSTER Study of ground and surface waters contamination in the storage sites of mining and chemical industries waste products: I Galitskaya 1400h H33A-03 POSTER Groundwater regime analysis using wavelet-transform: G Batrak 1400h H33A-04 WITHDRAWN H33B Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 1400h Ecohydrology in the Context of Land Cover and Climate Changes: Challenges and Opportunities II Posters (joint with B) Presiding: E G Jobbagy, Universidad Nacional de San Luis Argentina; P M Saco, Univ of Newcastle; E F Viglizzo, INTA 1400h H33B-01 POSTER How do vegetation characteristics affect groundwater recharge?: J H Kim, R B Jackson, E G Jobbagy, D Jayawickreme 1400h H33B-02 WITHDRAWN 1400h H33B-03 POSTER Novel experiences and lessons from applied ecohydrology at challenging transboundary South American biomes under change: E M Mendiondo 1400h H33B-04 POSTER Water use and water use efficiency of farming in the Pampas of Argentina: F C Frank, E F Viglizzo 1400h H33B-05 POSTER Water subsidies from mountains to deserts: Their role sustaining groundwater-fed oases in a sandy landscape: E G Jobbagy, M D Nosetto, P E Villagra, R B Jackson 1400h H33B-06 POSTER Reconstruction of precipitation regimes in central Argentina through dendrochronological studies on Prosopis caldenia forests: E G Dussart, E F Viglizzo, E G Jobbagy 1400h H33B-07 POSTER HIDRIC VULNERABILITY FOR RELATHIONSHIPS BETWEEN CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND COVER CHANGUE IN THE NATURAL VEGETATION OF THE UP MAIPO BASIN (CHILE): O Puertas, N Bambach, F J Meza 1400h H33B-08 POSTER Field Assessment of Spatiotemporal Variation of River Metabolism in a Human-Dominated Watershed: T Harmon, S R Villamizar, H Pai, C A Butler 1400h H33B-09 POSTER Basin responses to climate change in heterogeneous hydrologic landscape regions: H Chang 1400h H33B-10 POSTER Effects of Vegetation Patchiness, Topography and Soils on the Surface Connectivity of Well Preserved and Degraded Semiarid Areas: P M Saco, M Moreno de las Heras, G R Willgoose 1400h H33B-11 POSTER Relationships between land-cover/landuse, precipitation and groundwater in a semiarid zone of central Argentina (Invited): V S Salvador, Z Roberto, E Jobbágy, E F Viglizzo H33C Room Expocenter II-III Rivers II Posters Wednesday 1400h Presiding: M H Garcia, University of Illinois; J M Nelson, US Geological Survey 1400h H33C-01 POSTER Impact of Watershed Development on Seasonal Flooding and Fish Habitat in the Main Stream of the Mekong River: S Kameyama, S Nohara, T Sato, Y Fujii 1400h H33C-02 POSTER High-precision stream gauging with a field fluorometer: P A Schnegg 1400h H33C-03 POSTER Physically-based bank evolution and long-term meander migration: a computational platform: D Motta, J D Abad, E J Langendoen, M H Garcia 1400h H33C-04 POSTER The role of flow structure and suspended bed sediment dynamics at large braid-bar bifurcations: R N Szupiany, J Hernandez, M Amsler, D Parsosns, J Best, E Fornari, A Trento 1400h H33C-05 POSTER Hydraulic Geometry of the Parana’s main watersheds: F Grison, M Kobiyama 1400h H33C-06 POSTER Correlation between discharges of Madeira river in north of Brazil and SST over Pacific and Atlantic Oceans: E R Silva, E E Silva 1400h H33C-07 POSTER INVESTIGATIONS AT SEVERAL SPATIAL SCALES IN A LARGE FLUVIAL SYSTEM OF CHILE PRESENTING MORPHOLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL CHANGING PROCESSES DUE TO HUGE LAND USE CHANGE IN THE LAST 30 YEARS: A Andreoli, C Cano 1400h H33C-08 POSTER Modeling Flow and Morphodynamics in Rivers Using Remotely Sensed River Bathymetry: J M Nelson, C J Legleiter, P J Kinzel H33D Room C3 Wednesday General Session on Precipitation I (joint with A) 1400h Presiding: E Amitai, NASA/GSFC & Chapman University; Y Hong, University of Oklahoma 1400h H33D-01 Patterns of Rainfall over Forested and Deforested Areas of the Amazon Basin (Invited): R L Bras, R G Knox, G Bisht, J Wang 1415h H33D-02 WITHDRAWN 1430h H33D-03 Verification of the Regional Ensemble Precipitation Forecast System for the State of Ceara, Brazil: C D Silveira, D S Reis Jr., M B Firmino, A A Costa 1445h H33D-04 relationship between cloud to ground lightning events and precipitation. the spatial and time resolution problem: C M Minjarez, K L Cummins, C L Castro, E P Krider 1500h H33D-05 Improving microwave precipitation retrieval using total lightning data: A look into GOES-R and GPM multisensor and multiplatform era: R I Albrecht, K Gopalan, N Wang, E C Bruning, S J Goodman, R R Ferraro 1515h H33D-06 A TRMM/GPM Footprint-Scale Variability of Rainfall: A Tokay, P G Bashor, K Ozturk 1530h H33D-07 Q2: A National Multi-Sensor QPE System: K W Howard, J Zhang 1545h H33D-08 Systematic Anomalies in Rainfall Intensity Estimates Over the Continental U.S: E Amitai, W A Petersen, X Llort, S Vasiloff Natural Hazards NH33A Room Cedro I Wednesday 1400h Advances in Volcano Monitoring in Latin America (joint with S, A, NS, G) Presiding: M C Ruiz, Escuela Politecnica Nacional; H Kumagai, NIED 1400h NH33A-01 Distinguishing between potential eruptive styles at Tungurahua volcano using seismic and SO2 fluxes data: S Hidalgo, J Bourquin, P Palacios, S Arellano, B Galle, F Vasconez, S Arrais 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 67 1415h NH33A-02 Recent developments in remote gas monitoring at Mexican volcanoes (Invited): H Delgado Granados, L Cárdenas González, J M Alvarez nieves 1450h NH33A-03 Seismic and infrasound patterns of eruptive activity of Reventador volcano, Ecuador: M C Ruiz, L A Manzanillas 1505h NH33A-04 Time Series and Levels of Seismic Activity of Tungurahua Volcano: P Palacios, H Yepes 1520h NH33A-05 Seismic volcano monitoring using deterministic and stochastic approaches: Application to Tungurahua and Cotopaxi volcanoes, Ecuador (Invited): H Kumagai, M C Ruiz, P Palacios, H Yepes, T Yamashina Ocean Sciences OS33A Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday Coastal and Estuarine Physical Processes I Posters 1400h Presiding: E Siegle, University of Sao Paulo; C A França Schettini, Universidade Federal do Ceará; E E Toldo, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 1400h OS33A-01 POSTER Caravelas river estuary (Bahia State): hydrodymanics and hydrography: V M Izumi, L B Miranda 1400h OS33A-02 POSTER Thermohaline Characteristics and Hydrodynamics in the South Region of Caravelas River Estuarine System, BA, Brazil: F M Chagas, L B Miranda, C A França Schettini 1400h OS33A-03 POSTER Interactions between Storms and Beach Volume in a Headland Beach in the Southern of Brazil: F E Souza, J T de Menezes, A Klein, L Benedet, M Signorin, R Bonanata 1400h OS33A-04 POSTER Storms Hydrodynamics in a Flash-Flood Dominated Estuary: E C Truccolo, C A França Schettini 1400h OS33A-05 POSTER NUMERICAL MODELING OF SEWAGE PLUME DISPERSION FOR THE SANTOS OUTFALL: H P Gregório, B M Castro 1400h OS33A-06 POSTER Numerical Modeling of the Disposal of Dredged Material in the Port of Santos (SP, Brazil): T M Coelho, J Harari, E Siegle 1400h OS33A-07 POSTER Changes in the Location and Intensity of the Rio de la Plata Estuarine Plume Front Observed by an Airborne Microwave Salinity Mapper: D M Burrage, C Martinez, J C Wesson, T Perez, A R Piola 1400h OS33A-08 POSTER Coastal Erosion in Paulista (Pernambuco, Brasil): Natural or Induced Process?: T C Araújo, D B Mallmann, V V Manso 1400h OS33A-09 POSTER Water Masses of the Continental Shelf off Jaguaribe River (4°S) – Northeastern, Brazil: F D Dias, B M Castro, D Lacerda 1400h OS33A-10 POSTER ADCP as A Tool in the Hydrodynamic Characterization of the São Francisco Estuary: D D Beserra, P I Teixeira, H Vital, W F Tabosa, J L Dominguez, K Stattegger 1400h OS33A-11 POSTER Variability of Water Masses in the Jaguaribe River Plume (Northeastern-Brazil): F D Dias, B M Castro, D Lacerda 1400h OS33A-12 POSTER Hydrographic Conditions at the Entrance of Patos Lagoon: Sinoptic, Seasonal and Interannual Variability: M P Abe, O O Möller 1400h OS33A-13 POSTER Hydrological Dynamics in a Tropical Estuary During a Spring Tide Cycle: The Jaguaribe River Case (Northeast-Brazil): L de Lacerda, F D Dias, B M Castro 68 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1400h OS33A-14 POSTER The Impact of Two Jetties in Morphodynamics and Hydrodynamics in the entrance area of Patos Lagoon (32°S, Brazil) Through the Analysis of Bathymetric Charts: A M Cavalcanti, O O Möller, B Möller, F Garcia, E H Fernandes 1400h OS33A-15 POSTER Wind Stress Effects Analysis Using ROMS and Analytical Model: D Ruffato, T M Coelho, F D Dias, J B Leite 1400h OS33A-16 POSTER Seasonal current variability on the Paraná inner shelf: M A Noernberg, J P Netto Júnior, E Marone 1400h OS33A-17 POSTER Spatial Variability in Temperature, Condutivity and SPM in a Tropical Estuarine System: V S Quaresma, A C Bastos, R C Neves 1400h OS33A-18 POSTER The small estuarine area of Contas River (Bahia State – Northeastern Brazil): F De Paula, A C Ovalle, C A Falcão-Filho 1400h OS33A-19 POSTER High concentrations of Ba in mangrove porewater, suggesting active interactions with ocean and submarine groundwater discharge: (Sepetiba Bay, Brazil): C J Sanders, E SilvaFilho, R Barcellos 1400h OS33A-20 POSTER MORPHODYNAMIC BEACH STATES OF THE WEST COAST OF AQUIRAZ (CE), BRAZIL: P H Sousa, M R Moura, J O Morais 1400h OS33A-21 POSTER Links between sand bypassing in river mouth and shoreline sand wave migration: A R Alves, E Siegle OS33B Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday Continental Shelf: Deep-Ocean Exchanges III Posters 1400h Presiding: A R Piola, Servicio Hidrografia Naval; K H Brink, WHOI; R P Matano, Oregon State University 1400h OS33B-01 POSTER The Upwelling of Downwelling Currents: Analytical and Numerical Results Compared: R Miller, R P Matano, E D Palma 1400h OS33B-02 POSTER Continental Shelf Waters in the BrazilMalvinas Confluence: A C Freitas, A A Bianchi, E D Palma 1400h OS33B-03 POSTER Boundary current along the continental slope off French Guiana and North Brazil during AMANDES project: A C Silva, R Chuchla, F Lyard, M Araujo, J Grelet, F Roubaud, C Jeandel 1400h OS33B-04 POSTER Plankton Community and Environmental Conditions During a Mid Shelf Waters Intrusion and Upwelling at the EPEA Station (Argentina): R Negri, R Akselman, M Carignan, D Cucchi-Colleoni, M Díaz, N Diovisalvi, C Hozbor, E Leonarduzzi, V Lutz, G Molinari, M Pájaro, R Silva, V Segura, M D Viñas 1400h OS33B-05 POSTER Spatial Analysis of the Sea Surface Temperature in the Southwestern Atlantic: M Saraceno, L A Ruiz Etcheverry 1400h OS33B-06 POSTER Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Reflectance Variability and Evaluation of the OC4v4 Algorithm at the Patagonian Shelf-break Region: A Ferreira, C A Garcia, V M Garcia 1400h OS33B-07 POSTER Source and Composition of Organic Matter in Sediments from Two Submarine Canyons in Campos Basin, Brazil, Using Lipid Biomarkers: R S Carreira, L G Cordeiro, D R Oliveira, A D Wagener, A Falcão, M P Fernandez, C G Massone 1400h OS33B-08 POSTER Currents and Thermohaline Properties at Sinaloa Shelf, Entrance to the Gulf of California, México: period 2007-2009: R Castro, M O Gutierrez Villanueva, A Martinez, A D Mascarenhas, C A Collins OS33C Room A2 Wednesday 1400h El Niño–Southern Oscillation in a Changing Climate: Dynamics, Predictability, and Modeling II (joint with NG, PP) Presiding: B Dewitte, LEGOS/IRD; F Jin, SOEST, University of Hawaii at Manoa; J KUG, KORDI; J Luo 1400h OS33C-01 Changes of Tropical Pacific SST during the future global warming (Invited): S An, J Kim, B Kim, J Choi, S Im 1415h OS33C-02 Robust Climate Response of the Equatorial Pacific to Global Warming: Implications for Seasonal and ENSOlike Variability (Invited): P N Di Nezio, A C Clement, G A Vecchi, B P Kirtman 1430h OS33C-03 Intensified El Nino teleconnection under the greenhouse warming: J KUG, M Kwon 1445h OS33C-04 The future of the Tropical Pacific Ocean in the CMIP3 models: A Sen Gupta, A S Ganachaud 1500h OS33C-05 ENSO nonlinearity in a warming climate: J Boucharel, B Dewitte, Y du Penhoat, S Yeh, J Kug, B Garel 1515h OS33C-06 New Transformed Nino Indices for Warm-Pool and Cold-Tongue ENSO: H Ren, F Jin 1530h OS33C-07 Sensitivity of ENSO to Stratification in a Conceptual Model: S Thual, B Dewitte, N K Ayoub 1545h OS33C-08 Change in the seasonal cycle of the equatorial wind stress from before and after 2000: K Mosquera, B Dewitte Planetary Sciences P33A Room Iguassu V Wednesday Discussions on Extrasolar Planetary Systems II 1400h Presiding: G Tinetti, University College London; S Ferraz-Mello, University of Sao Paulo; L Pasquini, ESO; J R de Medeiros, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte OS33D Room C1 Wednesday 1400h Regional and Global Ocean Observing Systems: Assessing and Forecasting the State of Oceans and Coasts II 1400h P33A-01 The Role of Clouds and Hazes in Exoplanet Atmospheres (Invited): M Marley 1415h P33A-02 Ground-based Optical and Near-IR Emission from Exoplanets Atmospheres: M Lopez-Morales 1428h P33A-03 Observational constraints on the composition and structure of exoplanets: C A Griffith, G Tinetti, J Tennyson, B Barber 1440h P33A-04 Planets around Evolved Stars (Invited): L Pasquini 1455h P33A-05 From Planetesimals To Terrestrial Planets: Formation Of Habitable Planets In Binary Star Systems: N Haghighipour, J Sudol, O C Winter 1508h P33A-06 Planetary Formation in Binary Systems (Invited): C Beaugé 1521h P33A-07 On the rotational behavior of parent stars of extrasolar planets: J D do Nascimento, S Alves do Nascimento, J R de Medeiros 1534h P33A-08 THE TWO SUPER-EARTHS AROUND COROT-7: S Ferraz-Mello, Title of Team: Corot Exoplanets Science Team 1547h P33A-09 Thermal State of Earth-like Exoplanets: Implications for CoRoT-7b: F Sohl, L Noack, V Stamenkovic, D Breuer, F W Wagner Presiding: K D Alverson, IOC of UNESCO; L Lorenzoni, University of South Florida Seismology 1400h OS33D-01 The Draft U.S. National Ocean Policy and Its Implications for International Cooperation in Ocean Observing (Invited): J L Miller 1415h OS33D-02 “Integrated Ocean Observing System Program in the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration”: Z Willis 1430h OS33D-03 The Near-Surface Circulation of the South Atlantic Ocean Observed by Drifters of the PNBOIA Project (Invited): O T Sato 1445h OS33D-04 Temperature and fCO2 changes in the Cariaco Basin from 1996 to 2008 (Invited): Y Astor, L Lorenzoni, R Thunell, F Muller-Karger, R Varela, M I Scranton, G T Taylor, E Tappa 1500h OS33D-05 The Antares network of time series stations: An effort of the Americas to monitor global change (Invited): E Santamaria del Angel, M Kampel, V Lutz, R Millan-Nuñez, A Gonzalez-Silvera, A Dogliotti, R Frouin, F E Muller-Karger, Title of Team: Antares Network 1515h OS33D-06 CarICOOS: a coastal observing system for the NE Caribbean: J Morell, J Capella, J Corredor, A Mercado, J Gonzalez, M Canals, C Anselmi, L Aponte 1530h OS33D-07 Regional Ocean Observing Systems in the Arctic and Southern Oceans: K D Alverson, P Bates 1545h OS33D-08 Regional ocean observing systems in the Indian Ocean and Australian regions: N DAdamo, C B Pattiaratchi, T Moltmann, K Hill, Y Masumoto, W Yu S33A Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 1400h Standarization of Seismic Hazard Methods in South America II Posters (joint with NH, G) Presiding: M Bufaliza; D Huaco, Centro Regional de Sismologia para America del Sur; M D Petersen, U.S. Geological Survey 1400h S33A-01 WITHDRAWN 1400h S33A-02 WITHDRAWN 1400h S33A-03 POSTER SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS IN TIERRA DEL FUEGO PROVINCE, ARGENTINA: N C Sabbione, N Barbosa, C Buffoni, G A Badi, G Connon, J L Hormaechea 1400h S33A-04 POSTER The use of geoprocessing to analyse the Earthquakes of Brazil: K Tomé de Sousa Algarte, H Roig, G França, M G Von Huelsen 1400h S33A-05 POSTER Effects of large Andean earthquakes in the Itaipu Binational dam: L V Barros, J Patias, E C Porto, D F Caixeta 1400h S33A-06 POSTER Brazilian Seismic Data (BL Network) Stored at IRIS: 15 Years of Temporary Deployments Made Available: M Pirchiner, M Assumpcao, J Barbosa, M Bianchi 1400h S33A-07 POSTER The Brazilian Geophysical Equipment Pool – PEGBr: D Nascimento, S L Fontes 1400h S33A-08 POSTER PROPUESTA DE ESPECTROS DE DISEÑO PARA EDIFICACIONES EN EL PERÚ: A Muñoz Peláez 1400h S33A-09 POSTER Estimating Probabilistic Seismic Hazard For Ecuador: An On-Going Project: H A Yepes, C Beauval, A Alvarado, Title of Team: The Seismology Group at IG-EPN 1400h S33A-10 POSTER Seismic microzoning of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico: A Gomez, M Cardenas, F J Nunez-Cornu, J J Sanchez, E Trejo 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 69 1400h S33A-11 POSTER OVER ONE HUNDREAD YEARS OF MONITORING SEISMIC PHENOMENA BY UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO: L Alcantara, C Valdes, D Almora, M Torres, M A Macias, A Mora 1400h S33A-12 POSTER Geoelectrical Characterization of Merida City Northern Area Soils, Venezuela, from Shallow Vertical Electrical Soundings as a contribution to Seismic Microzoning Studies: F Mazuera, E Plaza, M Cerrada, R Navas 1400h S33A-13 POSTER AMPLIFICATION FACTOR FOR MICROZONATION OF LIMA PERU: D Huaco Oviedo, L Olivar Pérez, Title of Team: AMPLIFICATION FACTOR FOR MICROZONATION OF LIMA PERU S33B Room Iguacu I Wednesday 1400h Seismicity Induced by Human Technological Activity I (joint with NH, T) Presiding: A F do Nascimento, UFRN; G S França 1400h S33B-01 Microearthquakes Induced by Fluid Injection: Double Couple and Non-Double Couple Source Mechanisms (Invited): J Sileny 1417h S33B-02 Seismic Activity Triggered by Water Wells in the Paraná Basin, Brazil: T H Yamabe, M Assumpcao, J R Barbosa, A V Lopes 1429h S33B-03 Hydromechanics of the Koyna–Warna Region, India: I Dura Gomez, P Talwani 1441h S33B-04 Insights into the mechanisms of natural earthquakes from a study of reservoir induced seismicity. (Invited): P Talwani 1458h S33B-05 Updated Compilation of Reservoir Triggered Seismicity in Brazil: G S Franca, M Assumpcao, L Ribotta, M G Von Huelsen, C N Chimpliganond 1510h S33B-06 Pore pressure changes, pre-existing faults and present-day stress field: the Castanhão reservoir (NE Brazil) example: A F do Nascimento, B I Nunes, F H Bezerra, J M Ferreira 1522h S33B-07 Imaging the mechanical evolution of faults at shallow depths (Invited): S Pytharouli, J D Kirkpatrick, R J Lunn, Z K Shipton, A F do Nascimento 1539h S33B-08 WITHDRAWN SPA-Aeronomy SA33A Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday Aeronomy Studies in Latin America II Posters 1400h Presiding: I S Batista, INPE 1400h SA33A-01 POSTER A CASE STUDY OF A MESOSPHERIC BORE EVENT OBSERVED WITH AN ALL-SKY AIRGLOW IMAGER AT FERRAZ STATION (62°S), ANTARCTICA: J V Bageston, C M Wrasse, D Gobbi, H Takahashi, P P Batista, R E Hibbins, D C Fritts 1400h SA33A-02 POSTER A STUDY OF ATMOSPHERIC TIDES IN THE MESOSPHERE / LOWER THERMOSPHERE IN THE SOUTH OF BRAZIL: C P da Silva, B R Clemesha, N J Schuch, V F Andrioli, C E Antunes 1400h SA33A-03 POSTER Can Solar Flares Cause Detectable Effects on the Equatorial Sporadic E-Layer Electron Density?: L C Resende, C M Denardini, I S Batista, P D Almeida, J Moro, L M Guizelli 70 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1400h SA33A-04 POSTER SEMIDIURNAL MODULATION OF ZONAL AND MERIDIONAL WIND VARIANCES DUE TO GRAVITY WAVE ACTIVITY FROM 80 TO 100 KM ALTITUDE OVER CACHOEIRA PAULISTA (22.7°S, 45.0°W): V F Andrioli, B R Clemesha, P P Batista 1400h SA33A-05 POSTER Discussion on Some Aspects Regarding the Low Latitude Ionospheric Coupling to the Neutral Atmosphere and to the High Latitude Ionosphere: C M Denardini, P D Almeida, L C Resende, J Moro, L M Guizelli, J H Sobral 1400h SA33A-06 POSTER A STUDY OF THE ULTRA-FAST KELVIN WAVE ON THE BRAZILIAN EQUATORIAL IONOSPHERE USING OBSERVATIONS AND MODELLING: A N Onohara, H Takahashi, I S Batista, P P Batista, B R Clemesha, L Lima 1400h SA33A-07 POSTER Optical And Radio Diagnostic Of F-Region Equatorial And Mid Latitude Ionospheric Processes: C R Martinis, J L Baumgardner, P Zablowski, J Wroten, M Mendillo 1400h SA33A-08 POSTER The analysis of ionospheric absorption of galactic radio noise in three geomagnetic disturbed periods using imaging riometer: J Moro, E Correia, C M Denardini, M A Abdu, K Makita, N J Schuch, L C Resende, P D Almeida, L M Guizelli 1400h SA33A-09 POSTER Long Term Decrease of the Height of the F-region Peak in the Ionosphere Over Arecibo: C G Brum, P T Santos, S A Gonzalez 1400h SA33A-10 POSTER The Long-Term Trend of the Thermospheric Neutral Winds observed at Arecibo during the last 30 years: P T Santos, C A Tepley, C G Brum, S A Gonzalez, E Robles, R Garcia 1400h SA33A-11 POSTER H-alpha and OII 732.0nm Observations using the Arecibo’s new low resolution FPI: P T Santos, R B Kerr, J Noto, C G Brum, M Migliozzi, R Garcia 1400h SA33A-12 POSTER Semi annual anomaly and annual asymmetry: a consequence of the Sun-Earth electrodynamics interaction?: F Azpilicueta, C Brunini SA33B Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 1400h Space Weather Over American Continents II Posters (joint with SH, SM) Presiding: H S Sawant, National Institute for Space Research; H Takahashi, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espacias 1400h SA33B-01 POSTER Solar Flare Effects on the ionosphere observed near the South Magnetic Anomaly center: T C Stekel, N J Schuch, E Echer, K Makita, J P Raulin, C M Denardini, P R Fagundes, J Moro, C E Antunes, C M Paulo 1400h SA33B-02 POSTER Space weather in the thermosphericionospheric domain over the Brazilian region: A comparison of occurrences and dynamics of ionospheric plasma bubbles in the subequatorial and low-latitude region: D Koga, J H Sobral, M A Abdu, V M de Castilho, M Mascarenhas, D C Arruda, C J Zamlutti, H Takahashi, A F Medeiros, R A Buriti 1400h SA33B-03 POSTER Space Weather Program in Brazil: H Takahashi, J S da Silva, J E Costa 1400h SA33B-04 POSTER Nowcasting of ionospheric conditions over Brazilian territory and prediction of the ionospheric scintillation: E R de Paula, I S Batista, L C Rezende, F BeckerGuedes, K S Correa, A P Dutra, M T Muella, S Stephany, A C Neto, P M Siqueira, I J Kantor, C Guedes 1400h SA33B-05 POSTER Ionosphere Monitoring and Forecasting Over the Brazilian Equatorial and Low Latitude Region: F BeckerGuedes, H Takahashi, E R de Paula, I S Batista, J R Souza, I J Kantor, L C Rezende, P M Siqueira, K S Correa, A P Dutra, C Guedes 1400h SA33B-06 POSTER Fine structures on a decimetric solar burst observed with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT): H S Sawant, F R Madsen, H Meszarosova, A Subramaniam 1400h SA33B-07 POSTER Monitoring of Solar Radio Emission Potentially Disturbing to Wireless Systems: J R Cecatto 1400h SA33B-08 POSTER Solar Data Investigation Using HRESSI X-Ray Images and Artificial Neural Networks: M C Andrade, R R Rosa, A Rios Neto, H S Sawant, J R Cecatto 1400h SA33B-09 POSTER Estimation of Spatiotemporal Solar Data Using Artificial Neural Networks and Gradient Pattern Analysis: M C Andrade, R R Rosa, A Rios Neto, H S Sawant, J R Cecatto 1400h SA33B-10 POSTER What the Alcantara-2003 and Baikonur-1960 accidents may have in common?: A S Paschoa 1435h SM33B-03 Plasma Connections Studied during High-SpeedStream-Driven Storms (Invited): J E Borovsky, M H Denton 1452h SM33B-04 Inner Magnetosphere Modeling with RAM-SCB: V Jordanova, D T Welling, S G Zaharia, G Toth, G D Reeves 1509h SM33B-05 Recent results from auroral conjugacy studies (Invited): N Ostgaard, K Laundal 1526h SM33B-06 Coupling of Fast Plasma Sheet Flows to the Ionosphere: R L Lysak, Y Song 1543h SM33B-07 Storm electric field effects in the global lowlatitude ionosphere (Invited): J R Souza, B G Fejer, M A Abdu, I S Batista, G J Bailey SPA-Magnetospheric Physics SH33A Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 1400h Extreme Energetic Particle Events From the Sun I Posters (joint with SA, SM) SM33A Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday Progress in Understanding the Near-Earth Space Environment II Posters (joint with SA, SH) 1400h Presiding: R A Mewaldt, Caltech; J F Valdes-Galicia, UNAM Presiding: V Jordanova, Los Alamos National Laboratory; B J Fraser 1400h SM33A-01 POSTER An improved forecast system for relativistic electrons at geosynchronous orbit: D L Turner, X Li 1400h SM33A-02 POSTER The temporary electron radiation belts in the inner magnetosphere: I M Martin, A A Gusev, G I Pugacheva, W N Spjeldvik, M A Alves 1400h SM33A-03 POSTER Simulations of the dynamics of the radiation belts using VERB 3D code: Y Shprits, D Subbotin, B Ni 1400h SM33A-04 POSTER Development of an electric field model in the inner magnetosphere: H Matsui, R B Torbert, Y V Khotyaintsev, P Lindqvist 1400h SM33A-05 POSTER Plasmaspheric EUV images taken by the Japan’s lunar orbiter (KAGUYA): I Yoshikawa, G Murakami, K Yoshioka, A Yamazaki, K Sakai, T Honma, Y Obana 1400h SM33A-06 POSTER Modeling Stormtime Plasma Instabilities in the Inner Magnetosphere: V Jordanova 1400h SM33A-07 POSTER Particle and optical observations of subauroral proton precipitation: F Soraas, K Laundal 1400h SM33A-08 POSTER On the Role of Global Magnetic Field Configuration in Affecting Ring Current Dynamics: Y Zheng, S G Zaharia, M H Fok 1400h SM33A-09 POSTER Heating of the Earth’s Outer Electron Radiation Belt by Magnetic Pumping: J E Borovsky, M H Denton, R B Horne, N P Meredith 1400h SM33A-10 WITHDRAWN 1400h SM33A-11 POSTER Predicting geomagnetic activity using neural networks and the Boyle Index: P H Reiff, R Bala 1400h SM33A-12 POSTER Local-time variations of geomagnetic disturbances during intense geomagnetic storms: A L Clua de Gonzalez, W D Gonzalez SM33B Room Iguassu III Wednesday The Magnetosphere/Ionosphere as a Coupled System: Modeling and Observational Results I (joint with SA) SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics 1400h Presiding: M H Denton, Lancaster University; P T Santos, Arecibo Observatory 1400h SM33B-01 Dependence of Magnetospheric Transfer Function on Dynamic Pressure and F10.7 (Invited): R L McPherron 1418h SM33B-02 The bow shock as the source of magnetospheric energy during periods of large IMF: R E Lopez 1400h SH33A-01 POSTER Spectra and Properties of GroundLevel Events during Solar Cycle 23: R A Mewaldt, M D Looper, D K Haggerty, C M Cohen, A W Labrador, R A Leske, G M Mason, J E Mazur 1400h SH33A-02 POSTER Effects of Magnetic Bottlenecks in the Observed Fluence of SEP Events: D J Maia, J Blanco Rodríguez SH33B Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 1400h Physical Processes in the Heliosheaths: Relating Local and Global Properties of the Heliosphere II Posters Presiding: M Opher, Physics and Astronomy; N V Pogorelov, University of Alabama in Huntsville; J D Richardson, M.I.T. 1400h SH33B-01 POSTER Recent Plasma Results from the Heliosheath: J D Richardson SH33C Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 1400h Shocks, Reconnection, and Particle Acceleration in Turbulent Heliospheric Plasmas II Posters Presiding: J R Jokipii, University of Arizona; M Opher, Physics and Astronomy 1400h SH33C-01 POSTER The modulation of galactic cosmicray electrons in the heliosheath: R Caballero-Lopez, H Moraal, F B McDonald 1400h SH33C-02 WITHDRAWN 1400h SH33C-03 WITHDRAWN 1400h SH33C-04 WITHDRAWN 1400h SH33C-05 POSTER Cascading effects in the acceleration and heating of ions in the Solar Wind: J A Valdivia, P S Moya, V Muñoz, J Rogan SH33D Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 1400h Solar Eruptions and Interplanetary Consequences I Posters Presiding: J Chen, Naval Research Laboratory 1400h SH33D-01 POSTER Determining CMEs heliospheric properties from simulations and stereoscopic observations: J Hernandez Charpak, N Lugaz, I I Roussev, C Davis, A Vourlidas, J Davies 1400h SH33D-02 WITHDRAWN 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 71 1400h SH33D-03 POSTER Mass and Energy Evolution of “Failed” Coronal Mass Ejections: F M Podestá Martínez, H Cremades, A Vourlidas 1400h SH33D-04 POSTER Parametric study of the coefficients governing the momentum transfer between ICMEs and the solar wind: A I Borgazzi, A Lara, M V Alves, E Echer 1400h SH33D-05 POSTER Propagation and evolution of CMEs in the interplanetary medium: analysis of remote sensing and in situ observations: T Nieves-Chinchilla, A Vourlidas, R Gómez-Herrero, O Malandraki, A Szabo, A Viñas, N Dresing, J M Davila 1400h SH33D-06 POSTER Temporal and Physical Connection Between CMEs and Flares: J Chen, V Kunkel 1400h SH33D-07 WITHDRAWN 1400h SH33D-08 POSTER Magnetic Field Fluctuations as Possible Enhancers of Geomagnetic Storms: G A Stenborg, T NievesChinchilla, W D Gonzalez, A Figueroa-Vinas SH33E Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 1400h Solving the Coronal Heating Riddle: Recent Developments and Future Directions I Posters Presiding: G Vekstein, University of Manchester 1400h SH33E-01 POSTER The Role of Energetic Ions in Heating the Solar Corona: G M Simnett 1400h SH33E-02 POSTER A cellular automaton nanoflare model of coronal loops: M Lopez-Fuentes, J A Klimchuk 1400h SM41B-04 POSTER Heating of the Solar Chromosphere through Strong Damping of Alfvén Waves: P Song, V Vasyliunas SH33F Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 1400h Transient Heliospheric Phenomena, Propagation, and Space Weather I Posters (joint with P, SA) Presiding: J C Johnston, AFRL; S P Plunkett, Naval Research Laboratory 1400h SH33F-01 POSTER Coronal Mass Ejection Dynamics in terms of Radial and Expansion Speeds: N R Rigozo, A Dal Lago, N J Schuch 1400h SH33F-03 POSTER Comparing remote and in-situ CME measurements during quadrature: A A Reinard, T Mulligan, B J Lynch 1400h SH33F-04 POSTER Public Access to NOAA’s Historic POES and GOES Space Weather Data: D C Wilkinson Tectonophysics T33A Room Iguassu IV Wednesday 1400h Subduction Zones: From the Trench to the Arc (joint with G, NH, S, V) Presiding: M Protti, Universidad Nacional; N Kukowski; S E Barrientos, Universidad de Chile; G Suarez, Instituto de Geofisica 1400h T33A-01 Subducted Nazca plate intraplate seismicity deeper than the down-dip rupture extension of a large shallow earthquake between latitudes 32.5°-35°S: S V Nacif, E G Triep 1415h T33A-02 Time Variable Gravity Changes and Subduction Processes: Results and Perspectives for Earthquakes Studies in North and Central Chile: S Bonvalot, J Hinderer, G Gabalda, D Remy, B Luck, N Lemoigne, S E Barrientos 72 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1430h T33A-03 RAYLEIGH WAVE DISPERSION AND TOMOGRAPHY OF THE SLAB IN MEXICO: I Stubailo, C Beghein, P M Davis 1445h T33A-04 Variations in the Subduction Style From Nicaragua to Southern Costa Rica: M Protti, V González, S Y Schwartz 1500h T33A-05 THE PARADOX OF WET EARTHQUAKES AND DRY MANTLE DURING FLAT SLAB SUBDUCTION (Invited): S L Beck, L S Wagner, G Zandt, C Gans, R C Porter, L Linkimer 1515h T33A-06 Regional-Global Tomography and DoubleDifference Relocation of Earthquakes Along the Sumatra-Andaman Subduction Zone: C H Thurber, J D Pesicek, H Zhang, H R DeShon, E R Engdahl, S Widiyantoro 1530h T33A-07 Time function and spatial migration of nonvolcanic tremor: S Ide 1545h T33A-08 Identification, Location and Stress Modeling of Tremor Dynamically Triggered in Subduction Zones: H GonzalezHuizar, A A Velasco, C R Escudero Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology V33A Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday 1400h Understanding Magmatism: From Crystals to Provinces Posters (CANCELLED: Papers moved to V33B) Presiding: J Dufek, Georgia Institute of Technology; C F Miller V33B Room Expocenter II-III Wednesday Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology General Contributions Posters (joint with T, S, NH) 1400h Presiding: J G Viramonte, Universidad Nacional de Salta; S M Kay, Cornell University; M J Haller, Universidad de la Patagonia 1400h V33B-01 POSTER Record of Cretaceous Gondwana break-up and Cenozoic plate reorganization by Madagascar volcanic provinces: J Bardintzeff, L Jean-Paul, B Bonin, H Bellon, G Rasamimanana 1400h V33B-02 POSTER Chemical and Geomechanical Characteristics Variation of Jurassic Granite and Orthogneiss in Wonju Area, Korea Due to Accelerated Artificial Chemical Weathering Tests: I Woo, J Um, H Park 1400h V33B-04 POSTER Prolonged Low Pyroclastic Fountaining Eruption at Azufral Volcano, Colombia: Considerations and TITAN2D Simulations: H Murcia, G Cortés 1400h V33B-05 POSTER ZIRCON AND APATITE FISSION TRACKS METHOD: COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION OF SERRA DA MANTIQUEIRA AND MAR MOUNTAIN RANGES AND TAUBATÉ BASIN FORMATION: G V Pereira, C A Tello, V M Tachibana, A N Dias, C J Soares, R S Resende, A R Mello, M R Gomes, L A Pereira, E M Marmolejo, A Osório, Title of Team: Research Group of Solid State Nuclear Tracks Detectors, DETRANES 1400h V33B-06 POSTER Distribution of Late Holocene Volcanic Ashes in the Coastal Region of Ecuador: S X Vallejo Vargas, P A Mothes, M L Hall 1400h V33B-07 POSTER DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW PORTABLE DIGITAL SYSTEM FOR LAHARS MONITORING COTOPAXI AND TUNGURAHUA VOLCANOES: C Macías, C Ramos, R C Toapanta 1400h V33B-07 POSTER RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SHEARING AND GRANITIC MAGMA EMPLACEMENT: THE REMÍGIOPOCINHOS SHEAR ZONE IN THE SÃO JOSÉ DO CAMPESTRE MASSIF, NE BRAZIL: R C Nascimento, A C Galindo, I McReatu 1400h V33B-08 POSTER Unusual Mineralization of Marble in Jordan: H N Khory 1400h V33B-09 POSTER Effect of crystal structure parameters on oxygen-isotope fractionation in hematite and goethite: B Karamiqucham 1400h V33B-10 POSTER Geochemical Characterization and Exploration of Chromites in the Greek Territory: K Vatalis, S Platias, N Platias, G Charalambides 1400h V33B-11 WITHDRAWN 1400h V33B-12 POSTER High precision U-Pb geochronology and elemental analysis by LA-ICPMS at UNAM, México: O Pérez-Arvizu, C Ortega Obregón, L Solari, A Gomez-Tuena 1400h V33B-13 POSTER Thinning and asthenospheric replacement of the dominantly Paleoproterozoic subcontinental lihospheric mantle evidenced by ultramafic xenoliths in Cenozoic basalts of Korea: K Park 1400h V33B-14 POSTER Differences and Similarities of Central and Southern Andes Pleistocene to Holocene Volcanic Debris Avalanches: J Clavero, E Godoy, G Arancibia, C Rojas 1400h V33B-15 POSTER SHRIMP U-Pb zircon ages of high-pressure mafic and pelitic granulites and associated rocks in the Jiaobei massif: Constraints on the metamorphic ages of the Paleoproterozoic Jiao-Liao-Ji Belt in the North China Craton: P Tam, G Zhao, F Liu, X Zhou, M Sun, S Li 1400h V33B-16 WITHDRAWN 1400h V33B-17 WITHDRAWN 1400h V33B-18 POSTER Evidence for SP generation by convective air flow through a small volcanic cone at Piton de La Fournaise volcano, La Réunion Island: R Antoine, D Baratoux, M Rabinowicz, G Saracco, D Hermitte, T Lopez, J Darrozes, G Gabalda, P Bachelery, T Staudacher 1400h V33B-19 POSTER Fission Track-Geochronology applied on Presidente Prudente Formation, Bauru Group, Brazil: M Constancio Junior, C A Tello, A N Dias, C J Soares, R S Resende, A R Mello, M R Gomes, L A Pereira, G V Pereira, E M Marmolejo, A Osório 1400h V33B-20 POSTER Thermal Images: A useful tool to Identify and Map Recent Lava Flows, Examples on Reventador Volcano: S X Vallejo Vargas, P A Ramón 1400h V33B-21 WITHDRAWN 1400h V33B-22 POSTER Hafnium isotope evidence for slab-melt contributions in young hot slab arcs: example of the central Mexican Volcanic Belt: Y Cai, S L Goldstein, C H Langmuir, A B LaGatta, A Gomez-Tuena, L Capra, S M Straub, A Martin 1400h V43A-03 POSTER Stratigraphy and Geochemistry of the Chacana Caldera Complex (Ecuador): F M Villares, B O Beate 1400h V33A-01 POSTER Geochemistry and geochronology study of Mesozoic felsic rocks from eastern Zhejiang, South China: constraints on the suture zone between the Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks: J Wong, M Sun 1400h V33A-02 POSTER Zircon Dating And Spectral Analysis As A New Tool For Unraveling The Chronology Of Magmatic Events: O M Lovera, A K Schmitt, D F Stockli, J M Lindsay, R Robertson, R Kislitsyn 1400h V33A-03 POSTER Geochemistry, Distribution and Age of Bimodal Volcanic Rock Suites in Western Anatolia (Turkey): S Altunkaynak Atmospheric Sciences A34A Room A1 Wednesday Atmospheric Deposition I (joint with B) 1630h Presiding: A Fornaro, University of Sao Paulo; R Y Ynoue, University of São Paulo 1630h A34A-01 AMBIENT FINE PARTICLES IN HELSINKI DURING WINTER AND SPRING 2009 (Invited): S Carbone, S Saarikoski, M Aurela, H Timonen, K Saarnio, K Teinilä, T Mäkelä, N L Ng, M Canagaratna, D R Worsnop, M T Kulmala, R Hillamo 1645h A34A-02 Pre-operational birch pollen forecast in Switzerland and Germany using the numerical pollen dispersion model COSMOART (Invited): A Pauling, H Vogel, B Vogel, P Kaufmann, B Clot, U Kaminski 1700h A34A-03 AN ANALYSIS OF POLLUTANT SCAVENGING COEFFICIENT IN FUNCTION OF DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS FROM DIFFERENT LOCALITIES IN GERMANY AND BRAZIL: F L Goncalves, Title of Team: Gonçalves, Fábio Luiz Teixeira and Massambani, Oswaldo 1715h A34A-04 Wet Deposition of Volatile and Total Dissolved Organic Carbon in rural Sao Paulo State – Brazil: M A Campos, R F Nogueira, D G Silva 1730h A34A-05 Parameterization of size-resolved particle scavenging by rain, particle dry deposition, and bi-directional ammonia air-surface exchange for applications in chemical transport models: L Zhang, X Wang, A Petroff, L Murphy, M D Moran, W A Asman 1745h A34A-06 Laboratory Evaluation of Amazonian Forest Biomass Burning: T G Neto, J A Carvalho Jr., E V Cortez, R G Azevedo, R A Oliveira, W R Fidalgo, J C Santos A34B Room Expocenter I Wednesday 1630h South American Monsoon System: Past, Present, and Future II (joint with H, PP, G) Presiding: R P da Rocha, Universidade de Sao Paulo; T Ambrizzi, University of Sao Paulo 1635h A34B-01 Relations between the South American Monsoon and the Atlantic ITCZ: M T Kayano, S R Garcia 1655h A34B-02 Onset and Demise of the South American Monsoon Simulated by RegCM3: M S Reboita, L F Krüger, R P da Rocha, T Ambrizzi 1710h A34B-03 The role of cold fronts in the onset of the South Atlantic Convergence Zone: R Nieto-Ferreira, T M Rickenbach, E Wright 1725h A34B-04 Changing Grell and BATS Schemes Parameter: Impacts Over South America Climatology: R da Rocha, S Cuadra, M S Reboita, L Kruger 1740h A34B-05 EOF analysis of seasonal-interannual variability of long-term wind simulated over Brazilian Northeast: J L Oliveira, P Santiago de Maria, O L Menezes, A A Costa, F D Vasconcelos Junior 1755h A34B-06 Analysis of the Physical Mechanisms Responsible for the Chaco Low Development: M E Seluchi, C Saulo 1810h A34B-07 Numerical Simulation of the South American Monsoon System by CPTEC Climate AGCM: S N Figueroa, H M Barbosa, P Silva Dias, J P Bonatti 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 73 Biogeosciences B34A Room A3 Wednesday 1630h Response of Soil Carbon Pools to Land Use Change: Local to Global Scales (joint with GC) Presiding: P B Camargo, University of Sao Paulo; C Cerri, ESALQUSP; E Marin-Spiotta, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1630h B34A-01 Dynamics of Carbon in Amazon Forest Soils Constrains Response of Soils to Land-Use Change: S Trumbore, P B Camargo, L Martinelli, E A Davidson 1645h B34A-02 Effects of soil use and vegetation cover on soil carbon stocks and residence time: J E Maddock, R D Barreto, B Madari, L Mendonca 1700h B34A-03 Predicting fate of soil carbon with changes in land use: a pantropical data synthesis: E Marin-Spiotta, E A Atkinson 1715h B34A-04 Carbon in Terrestrial Landscapes: Is the Past a Key to the Future?: J W Harden, J A O’Donnell, C R Lawrence, K Manies 1730h B34A-05 Characterizing Soil Carbon Dynamics in Tropical Plantation Forestry: Long-term effects of intensive forest management on soil carbon sequestration: R L Cook, J L Stape, D Binkley 1745h B34A-06 Testing C Emission Mitigation Scenarios in the Amazon Soil Using the Century Model: A D Pinto, M Bustamante 1800h B34A-07 Soil Carbon Dynamics in a Rubber-Tree Plantation in Northwestern Paraná, Brazil: S R Maggiotto, C Wagner-Riddle, M Y Leclerc, P H Caramori, N L Dias, L Grodzki, C J Marur, D Oliveira, J P Pereira, A L Ramos, S M Stivari, P Voroney 1815h B34A-08 Analytical model to describe the hysteresis of the soil respiration with soil temperature: F B Zanchi, A Meesters, M Waterloo, A Manzi, A J Dolman 1815h GP34A-08 Crustal Framework of the Southern Part of the São Francisco Craton,Brazil, Based on Airborne Geophysical Data: A M Silva, C B Toledo Global Environmental Change GC34A Room C2 Wednesday 1630h Modeling and Analysis of the Present and Future Hydroclimate of the La Plata Basin III (joint with A, H, NH) Presiding: J Boulanger, IRD; M E Doyle, CIMA- UBA/CONICET 1630h GC34A-01 The SINERGIA Project: An Attempt to Obtain Results Corresponding to the Real Needs of End Users in Adapting to Climate Change: P Girard 1700h GC34A-02 Detection of inter-annual trends in landsurface properties of La Plata Basin using Ecosystem Functional Types derived from LTDR (1981-2000) and MODIS (2000-2010): D Alcaraz-Segura, E H Berbery, J M Paruelo 1715h GC34A-03 Interdecadal Predictability of Late Fall Air Surface Temperature over Southeastern South America: M Barreiro, N Diaz 1730h GC34A-04 Decadal and Multidecadal Variations of Precipitation in The La Plata Basin and Its Relationship with SST Variability: C Vera, G Silvestri 1745h GC34A-05 Streamflow predictability in Rincón del Bonete and Salto Grande (Uruguay): S Talento, G Cazes-Boezio, R Terra 1800h GC34A-06 Heat Wave over South America: Spatial Patterns and their Relationship with the Large Scale Circulation: L Zamboni, A Cherchi, A Carril 1815h GC34A-07 A Disaggregation Model for Synthetic Monthly Precipitation: M M Mine, H D Fill, A F Santana, Title of Team: “Laboratório de Hidrologia e Estudos Energéticos - PPGERHA” Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Hydrology GP34A Room Iguacu II Wednesday 1630h The Acquisition, Processing, and Interpretation of Magnetic and Gravity Data I (joint with NS) H34A Room C3 Wednesday 1630h Surface Water and Groundwater Interactions in the Americas I (joint with OS, V) Presiding: V C Barbosa, Observatorio Nacional; S Maus, CIRES, University of Colorado Presiding: H Bokuniewicz, Stony Brook University; P J Depetris, CONICET; Y A Kontar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; F Niencheski; H Windom, Skidaway Inst Oceanography 1630h GP34A-01 THE MAGNETIC OBSERVATORY NETWORK IN ARGENTINA: J C Gianibelli, M Marino, R E Garcia, G Rodriguez, I R Cabassi, N M Quaglino, Title of Team: Geomagnetism and Aeronomy Team, La Plata National University 1645h GP34A-02 Processing and inversion of full tensor gravity gradiometry data (Invited): J C Lyrio 1700h GP34A-03 Generalized Hilbert transforms of the effect of single magnetic sources: F Guspí, I Novara, G Carugati 1715h GP34A-04 Airborne Geophysical Data to Characterize Minerals and Metals Related to Potential Human Health Issues (Invited): A E McCafferty 1730h GP34A-05 Tectonic and magmatic framework of the Late Cenozoic Bodie Hills volcanic field, California and Nevada: A geophysical perspective: R J Blakely, D A John, E A Mankinen, E A du Bray, R J Fleck 1745h GP34A-06 WITHDRAWN 1800h GP34A-07 Constructing a 3D Geological Model from Potential Field Data in a Region of Limited Outcrop: the Neoproterozoic-Early Palaeozoic Koonenberry Belt, New South Wales, Australia: R J Musgrave, S Dick 74 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1630h H34A-01 Analytical Models of Benthic Flux and Submarine Groundwater Discharge Driven by Forces that Generate the Groundwater Tidal Prism: Application to Patos Lagoon Coastal Zone, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Invited): J N King 1645h H34A-02 Priestley-Taylor equation for its use with AQUA and SAC/D data: Application to the Pampean Region: F Carmona, R Rivas 1700h H34A-03 Nutrient Subterranean Fluxes to Coastal Zone of Southern Brazil: L H Niencheski, H Windom, W S Moore, J Brandes 1715h H34A-04 Regional effects of hypersaline cooling canals on saltwater intrusion in a coastal aquifer: L K Brakefield 1730h H34A-05 Drilling water wells is provoking seismic activity: new cases in the Northern Paraná Basin, Brazil: T H Yamabe, M Assumpcao, J R Barbosa 1745h H34A-06 Groundwater Salinization in the Coastal Aquifer of Recife (Brazil): F Lamego, S G Montenegro, D Lauria 1800h H34A-07 FRESHWATER INFLUENCE ON THE COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT. BAHÍA BLANCA ESTUARY (ARGENTINA) AS A STUDY CASE: J E Marcovecchio, F Limbozzi 1815h H34A-08 Toward global assays of climatic changes to coastal groundwater: H Bokuniewicz, J P Rapaglia, A Vafeidis, T Pick 1815h OS34A-08 Upper ocean circulation in the northwestern South Atlantic: D Urbano Natural Hazards OS34B Room A2 Wednesday 1630h El Niño-Southern Oscillation in a Changing Climate: Dynamics, Predictability, and Modeling III (joint with NG, PP) NH34A Room Cedro I Wednesday 1630h Tsunamis on the Pacific and Atlantic Coasts of America II (joint with S, OS, G) Presiding: A Rabinovich, Institute of Ocean Sciences; R N Candella, Instituto de Estudos do Mar Almirante Paulo Moreira; V K Gusiakov, Institite of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics 1630h NH34A-01 FROM SUMATRA 2004 TO CHILE 2010: HAVE WE BECOME WISER ? (Invited): E Okal 1645h NH34A-02 Science of Tsunami Forecasting: From 2004 Sumatra to 2010 Chile (Invited): V V Titov, E N Bernard 1700h NH34A-03 The February 27, 2010 Chilean earthquake and tsunami and its place in the row of historical Chilean tsunamis: V K Gusiakov 1715h NH34A-04 Stress state in tsunamigenic zones and models of tsunami generating earthquakes: S Mukhamediev, A Galybin, J Irsa 1730h NH34A-05 The 1960 and 2010 Chilean tsunamis in the Pacific Ocean: Observations, analysis and numerical modeling: A Rabinovich, R Thomson, I Fine 1745h NH34A-06 Haiti Tsunamis triggered by the 12 January 2010 Earthquake: H M Fritz, J Hillaire, E Moliere 1800h NH34A-07 The 2004 Sumatra Tsunami on the Atlantic Coast of South America: Observations and Analysis: R N Candella, A Rabinovich, R E Thomson 1815h NH34A-08 Meteo-Tsunamis in Brazil: E Melo, M Romeu, U Oliveira Ocean Sciences OS34A Room C1 Wednesday 1630h Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions Over the Tropical Atlantic II (joint with A) Presiding: R R Rodrigues, University of Sao Paulo; W E Johns, University of Miami; D F Urbano, INPE 1630h OS34A-01 Interaction between the Atlantic meridional and Nino modes during 2009 (Invited): G R Foltz, M J McPhaden, R Lumpkin 1645h OS34A-02 On the connection between Benguela and Equatorial Atlantic Ninos: J F Lubbecke, C W Boening, N S Keenlyside, S Xie 1700h OS34A-03 Local and Remote Modes of Variability of the Atlantic cold Tongue Mode: R F De Almeida, P Nobre 1715h OS34A-04 Equatorial Atlantic Impact on ENSO: H Ding, N S Keenlyside, M Latif 1730h OS34A-05 The mechanisms involved in the inter-El Nino variability of the Tropical and South Atlantic: R R Rodrigues, E Campos, R Haarsma 1745h OS34A-06 Uncoupled variations of the Tropical Equatorial climate in a coupled ocean-atmosphere model: P Nobre, R de Almeida, D Urbano, M Malagutti 1800h OS34A-07 Ocean Surface Heat Budget from a Regional Interannual Simulation in the Southwestern Tropical Atlantic: M Silva, M Araujo Presiding: B Dewitte, LEGOS/IRD; F Jin, SOEST, University of Hawaii at Manoa; J KUG, KORDI; J Luo 1630h OS34B-01 DYNAMICS OF ENSO COMPLEXITY: F Jin 1645h OS34B-02 Interaction between El Nino and Extreme Indian Ocean Dipole: J Luo, S K Behera, Y Masumoto, F Jin, R Lukas, T Yamagata 1700h OS34B-03 Quantifying the Role of Atmospheric HighFrequency Wind Perturbations in ENSO: C Zhang 1715h OS34B-04 Modulation of the seasonal relationship between intraseasonal tropical variability and ENSO: D Gushchina, B Dewitte 1730h OS34B-05 Period irregularity of ENSO in coupled GCMs: M Kwon, J KUG 1745h OS34B-06 ENSO Hindcast Experiments with a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere GCM: Y Yu, L Yan 1800h OS34B-07 ENSO US LANDFALL PROBABILITIES REVISITED: J J O’Brien, J Cossuth, D Zierden 1815h OS34B-08 Teleconnections between Central-Western Pacific Warming and the Australian Monsoon: A S Taschetto, A Sen Gupta, C C Ummenhofer, M H England Planetary Sciences P34A Room Iguassu V Wednesday Saturn Satellites: Inside and Out II 1630h Presiding: P Penteado, IAG - USP; P R Estrada, Carl Sagan Center 1630h P34A-01 Formation of Prebiotic Molecules in a Titan Atmosphere Simulation Experiment (Invited): S M Hörst, R V Yelle, A Buch, N Carrasco, G Cernogora, O Dutuit, E Quirico, E SciammaO’Brien, M A Smith, ÁRPáD Somogyi, C Szopa, R Thissen, V Vuitton 1645h P34A-02 Evidence of the effects of magnetospheric electron precipitation on the structure of the Titan ionosphere as observed by Cassini radio occultations: A J Kliore, A F Nagy, E A Marouf, F M Flasar, T E Cravens, D G Mitchell, Title of Team: JPL Cassini Radio Science Operations Team 1700h P34A-03 Is Titan like Ganymede or like Callisto?: I Mosqueira, P R Estrada 1715h P34A-04 Titan’s Cold Accretion and its Internal Structure: P R Estrada, I Mosqueira 1730h P34A-05 A Year on Titan : A Comparison of Voyager, HST and Cassini views of Titan’s Haze Asymmetry: R D Lorenz 1745h P34A-06 Unexplained Surface Temperature Variations on Mimas (Invited): C Howett, J R Spencer, J C Pearl, T Hurford, M Segura, P Schenk, C Paranicas, Title of Team: Cassini CIRS Team 1800h P34A-07 Observations and modeling of Titan’s Tropospheric Clouds: E L Schaller, C A Griffith, H G Roe, M E Brown 1815h P34A-08 Polar clouds, lake effects, methane bogs, and seasonal change on Titan: M E Brown 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 75 SPA-Magnetospheric Physics Global Environmental Change SM34A Room Iguassu III Wednesday 1630h Advanced Modeling Methods for Dynamic Geospace Plasmas I (joint with SH, SA, NG) GC35A Room Expocenter I Wednesday Global Environmental Change Plenary Session Presiding: A M Jorgensen, New Mexico Tech; M V Stepanova, Universidad de Santiago de Chile 1630h SM34A-01 Interplanetary Coherent Structures and their Signatures in the Earth’s magnetosphere (Invited): A C Chian, R A Miranda, P R Munoz 1650h SM34A-02 Comparison of Multiple Magnetic Correlation Scales in the Solar Wind and in the Foreshock: J M Weygand, M G Kivelson, W H Matthaeus, S Dasso 1703h SM34A-03 Concerning the Perturbations Generated by Flux Transfer Events (Invited): D G Sibeck 1723h SM34A-04 Dynamical shock: Theory, observations and computer simulations (Invited): V Krasnoselskikh, M Scholer, H Comisel, J Soucek, D J Sundkvist, M Balikhin, M Gedalin, S Bale 1743h SM34A-05 Specifying the Earth’s Plasmasphere With Data Assimilation of Ground-Based Measurements: A M Jorgensen, N McCarthy, S Rivera, D M Ober, J Lichtenberger, E Zesta, P J Chi, M Moldwin, A J Ridley 1756h SM34A-06 Development of a Dynamical Magnetosphere Model by Coupling the WINDMI Plasma Physics Model to an Analytical Magnetospheric Magnetic Field Configuration (Invited): E A Spencer, S Patra, W Horton 1816h SM34A-07 Electron plasma density around the Earth: The WHISPER relaxation sounder measurements made onboard the four Cluster spacecraft: J Trotignon, J Rauch, X Vallieres Tectonophysics T34A Room Iguassu IV Wednesday 1630h Seismogenesis of Intraplate Earthquakes I (joint with S, NH, G) Presiding: F H Bezerra, University of Rio Grande do Norte; A F do Nascimento, UFRN; P Talwani, University of South Carolina 1630h T34A-01 Seismogenesis of Earthquakes in Ancient Rift Basin of Kachchh, Western India (Invited): B K Rastogi 1645h T34A-02 Seismogenesis of Intraplate Earthquakes in India: B K Rastogi 1700h T34A-03 WITHDRAWN 1715h T34A-04 Integrative Lithospheric Strength and Seismicity in Central and Eastern North America (Invited): W D Mooney, J E Ritsema 1730h T34A-05 Towards a Consistent Model for Strain Renewal and Release in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, Central U.S: S E Hough, M T Page 1745h T34A-06 A Genesis Model of Intraplate Earthquakes and Corresponding Monitoring System: Z Zeng, W Yang, J Wang, Title of Team: Earthquake and Its Secondary Geo-Hazard 1800h T34A-07 Models for Intraplate earthquakes- A new look: P Talwani, A K Gangopadhyay 1815h T34A-08 Mechanism of the Intraplate Earthquakes in and around the Korean Peninsula: M Jun, J Jeon 76 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1845h Presiding: R S Bradley, University of Massachusetts 1845h GC35A-01 Impacts of Climate Change in South America: C A Nobre Thursday A.M. Union U41A Room Expocenter II-III Thursday The 2010 Haiti and Chile Earthquakes Posters 0800h Presiding: S E Barrientos, Universidad de Chile; R M Russo, University of Florida 0800h U41A-01 WITHDRAWN 0800h U41A-02 POSTER Seismological and Field Observations of the Mw 7.0 Haiti Earthquake of January 12, 2010: W D Mooney 0800h U41A-03 POSTER Effects of the 2010 Chile Earthquake on geometry and rotation of the Earth: T Nilsson, J Boehm, H Schuh 0800h U41A-04 POSTER The free oscillation modes of Cile 2010 and 1960 events observed with the Grotta Gigante Horizontal Pendulums : C F Braitenberg, M Zadro, I Nagy 0800h U41A-05 POSTER Normal modes excited by the 2010 Chile earthquake: no evidence for an ultra-slow component to the source: S Hongsresawat, E Okal, S A Stein 0800h U41A-06 POSTER Targeting the Next Mega-Earthquake: the 27 February 2010 Chile Case: V G Kossobokov, L L Romashkova, A K Nekrasova 0800h U41A-07 POSTER Results and Lessons from the QuakeCatcher Network Rapid Aftershock Mobilization Program (QCNRAMP) Following the M8.8 Maule, Chile Earthquake: A I Chung, C Neighbors, A Belmonte, M Miller, H H Sepulveda, E S Cochran, C M Christensen, J F Lawrence 0800h U41A-08 POSTER Detection of 8.8 Mw Maule, Chile earthquake through a system of monitoring wells: J C Dourado, H K Chang, M Assumpcao 0800h U41A-09 POSTER HORIZONTAL ACCELERATION RESPONSE SPECTRUM CORRESPONDING TO THE ACCELERATION RECORDED IN BUENOS AIRES CITY, ARGENTINA, DURING THE Mw=8.8 FEBRUARY 27, 2010 GREAT CHILEAN SEISMIC EVENT: J S Carmona, N C Sabbione, Title of Team: BUENOS AIRES BUILDING EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE TEAM 0800h U41A-10 POSTER Source Process and strong ground motion simulation of the Central-Chile, Maule earthquake: N E Pulido Hernandez, Y Yagi 0800h U41A-11 POSTER The Maule Earthquake observed by the Geodetic Observatory TIGO in Concepción: H Hase, A Böer, B Sierk, J Ihde, G Weber, H Wilmes, R Falk, U Hessels, P Neumaier, W Söhne, H Wziontek, G Engelhard 0800h U41A-12 POSTER GPS capabilities to detect post-seismic crustal movements: V F Rofatto, J F Monico, G P Rosa 0800h U41A-13 POSTER Heterogeneous shear strength of the Chilean megathrust, rupture of the Mw8.8 Maule 2010 earthquake and models for earthquake growing: A Tassara, R I Hackney, D Legrand, A Echaurren 0800h U41A-14 POSTER Fore-arc Geology from Free-Air Gravity – Implications for Co-seismic slip during the 2010, 1985, and 1960 Chile Earthquakes: R E Wells, R J Blakely, K M Keranen 0800h U41A-15 POSTER On the relationship between great earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in Chile since 1900, with an aplication to the damage caused by the recent M=8.8 offshore Maule event: C A Farías, J A Valdivia 0800h U41A-16 POSTER Reconnaissance of the 27 February 2010 Tsunami in Chile: H M Fritz, C M Petroff, P A Catalan, R Cienfuegos, P Winckler, N Kalligeris, R Weiss, G Meneses, C W Ebeling, A Papadopoulos, M Contreras, R Almar, J Dominguez, S E Barrientos, C Synolakis 0800h U41A-17 POSTER Assessment of Forecast Accuracies of 2010 Chilean Tsunami: E N Bernard, V V Titov, Y Wei 0800h U41A-18 POSTER Magnitude and Impact From the 2010 Chilean Tsunami: M Lagos, M Ramirez, D Arcas, C Garcia, R Severino 0800h U41A-19 POSTER Observation of Intermittency in Oceanic Wave Turbulence: the Chile Tsunami Event of 27 February 2010: A C Chian, B A Toledo, R A Miranda, P R Munoz, E L Rempel, J A Valdivia 0800h U41A-20 POSTER Dust clouds formed after strong recent earthquakes: the case of Haiti, Chile and Baja California: G Tancredi, L Sanchez Bettucci, A Maciel, I Elgue 0800h U41A-21 POSTER Maule earthquake M 8.8 effects on the plasma of the SAMA region: P A Sallago, Title of Team: Geomagnetism and Aeronomy Department & Magnetohydrodynamics Research Team 0800h U41A-22 POSTER LUNAR CYCLES IN CHILE EARTHQUAKES.-: G Rodriguez U41B Room A3 Thursday 0800h Synthesis of Major Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in the Amazonia Research Results I Presiding: E A Davidson, Woods Hole Research Ctr; R Mesquita, INPA 0805h U41B-01 Advances in Land-use and Land Cover Change Research Under the LBA Experiment (Invited): C M Souza, D C Morton, Title of Team: Imazon Remote Sensing Team 0825h U41B-02 Carbon Cycling in Amazonia: A Synthesis of Results from the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) (Invited): M M Keller 0845h U41B-03 Nutrient cycling and emissions of trace gases in Amazon and Cerrado (Invited): M Bustamante, E A Davidson, M M Keller 0910h U41B-04 River Corridors of the Amazon Basin and their Response to Anthropogenic Change: A look back and a glimpse forward. (Invited): D Markewitz, M T Coe, R D Figueiredo, J M Melack, E Novo, J E Richey, J Tomasella 0930h U41B-05 Atmospheric composition changes in Amazonia: Measurements and effects (Invited): P Artaxo, M O Andreae Atmospheric Sciences A41A Room Expocenter II-III Thursday Atmospheric Deposition II Posters (joint with B) 0800h 0800h A41A-02 POSTER Design and Development of a New Passive Particulate Matter Sampler: I G Hetem, M Andrade 0800h A41A-03 POSTER Atmospheric Deposition of Water-Soluble Species on the Lake Shihwa, Korea: Y Jang, J Jung, I Yoon, B Seo, H Lee, G Lee 0800h A41A-04 POSTER Rainwater chemical composition in Cubatão: A L Lopes, M V Filho, A Fornaro, Title of Team: LAPAtQuim - Laboratório de Análises de Processos Atmosféricos Química 0800h A41A-05 POSTER Inorganic Reactive Nitrogen Dispersion and Deposition in Rural Southeast Brazil: A Simple Dry Deposition Model Based on NO2 Measurements: A Allen, C M Machado, A A Cardoso 0800h A41A-06 POSTER Coherent Strutures In Turbulent Flow Above Primary Forest And Deforested Area in Western Amazon: A Comparative Study: C Q Dias, L D Sá 0800h A41A-07 POSTER Influence of Biomass Burning on the Wet Deposition of Major Elements in rural São Paulo State- Brazil: M A Campos, C H Coelho, A Allen, A Fornaro 0800h A41A-08 POSTER Characterization of particulate matter from a heavily industrial environment: S Valarini, R Y Ynoue, Title of Team: Lapat 0800h A41A-09 POSTER RP-RainNet: The Rio de la Plata Atmospheric Deposition Network. Evaluation of a new collector design and first year’s results: C Michel, G Pineiro, E G Jobbagy, S Portela, C S Santoni, C M Di Bella, R B Jackson 0800h A41A-10 POSTER Fine Particulate Emission Sources Identification in the Atmosphere of São Paulo: B Oyama, M Andrade 0800h A41A-11 POSTER Dustfall water soluble compounds in continental area, Cuiabá City – Mato Grosso State, Brazil: R Marques, A Fornaro, R Astolfo, C A Zamparoni, E D Silva, V S Araujo, W G Oliveira, L D França 0800h A41A-12 POSTER Characterization of inhalable particulate matter chemical composition during transition period between dry and wet season in Brazil Central Western: R Marques, A Fornaro, R Astolfo, R M Miranda, E D Silva, C A Zamparoni A41B Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 0800h Large-Scale Atmospheric Properties of Trace Gases and Aerosols in Amazonia I Posters (joint with B, GC) Presiding: M O Andreae, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry; P Artaxo, University of São Paulo; C Gerbig, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry; S C Wofsy, Harvard University 0800h A41B-01 POSTER Isotopic characterization of methane elevations over the Amazon basin during BARCA: T Roeckmann, C Sapart, C van der Veen, V Beck, O Kolle, N Juergens, C Gerbig 0800h A41B-02 POSTER Evaluation of Photosynthetically Active Radiation Fraction Absorbed by Primary Tropical Forest in the Amazon During the Dry Season of 2007: R K Braghiere 0800h A41B-03 POSTER Discrepancies Between Measured and Modeled Solar Irradiance at the Surface: The Role of Variability of Aerosol Intensive Optical Properties: N E Rosario, H Brindley, M Yamasoe 0800h A41B-04 POSTER Assimilation of Air-borne Aerosol Measurements in Central Brazil During the 2007 Burning Season Using the Regional CCATT-BRAMS Model: G B Munchow, J J Hoelzemann, K Longo, D L Herdies, S R Freitas Presiding: A Fornaro, University of Sao Paulo; F L Goncalves 0800h A41A-01 POSTER Ionic composition evaluation of the wet deposition in São Paulo and Cubatão cities: M V Filho, A L Lopes, J Pedrotti, A Fornaro 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 77 A41C Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 0800h Solar Global and UV Radiation and Their Effect on Humans, Ecosystems, and Climate Change II Posters A41E Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 0800h Stratosphere/Troposphere Couplings Within the Southern Hemisphere II Posters Presiding: J R Herman, University of Maryland Baltimore Campus; R D Piacentini, Instituto de Física Rosario Presiding: P O Canziani, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina / CONICET; A Yuchechen, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina 0800h A41C-01 POSTER Ultraviolet light exposure influence skin cancer according to latitude: M Rivas, R Elisa, C Gloria, A M. Cristina, T Gaston, Title of Team: Solar Ultraviolet Laboratory 0800h A41C-02 POSTER Study of the aerosol particle effects on the ultraviolet and visible downward surface irradiance in the city of Sao Paulo: L P Gabrich, M Yamasoe 0800h A41C-03 POSTER UV index values, trend and forecast at Santiago de Chile: A Ipina Hernandez, R D Piacentini, S Cabrera 0800h A41C-04 POSTER Analysis of the relationship between UV index and cloud optical depth intercomparing ground based and satellite measurements at Río Gallegos, South of Argentina: P F Orte, E Wolfram, J Salvador, R D’Elia, N M Paes Leme, O Bonfili 0800h A41C-05 POSTER Cloud effects on UV radiation derived from 10 years of observations and measurements at Lauder, New Zealand: J Calbo Angrill, J Badosa, R L McKenzie, J Gonzalez 0800h A41E-01 POSTER Cirrus Clouds in relationship with multiple tropopause events: S G Lakkis, M Lavorato 0800h A41E-02 POSTER Vertical Structure of the Troposphere/ Lower Stratosphere over the southern tip of South America and Antarctica as Evidenced by an EOF Analysis. Part II: Double Tropopauses: A Yuchechen, P O Canziani, S Bischoff 0800h A41E-03 POSTER Aura Microwave Limb Sounder Observations of the Polar Middle Atmosphere: Dynamics and Transport of CO and H2O: J N Lee, D L Wu, G L Manney, M J Schwartz, N J Livesey 0800h A41E-04 POSTER Comparison of Southern and Northern Annular Modes in MLS Products and Analyses: M J Schwartz, G L Manney, J N Lee, K Hoppel, S Pawson, S Polavarapu 0800h A41E-05 POSTER Upper air climatology for South America: I B Campos 0800h A41E-06 POSTER The African Easterly Jet of the Southern Hemisphere: An Analog to the SALLJ?: S E Nicholson A41D Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 0800h South American Monsoon System: Past, Present, and Future III Posters (joint with H, PP, G) Presiding: R P da Rocha, Universidade de Sao Paulo 0800h A41D-01 POSTER Impact of the PDO on monhtly precipitation over South America during the 20th century: L F Prado, A Pereira 0800h A41D-02 POSTER Recycling and External Precipitation over the South America Monsoon Region: A E da Silva, H R da Rocha, L V Carvalho 0800h A41D-03 POSTER A CASE STUDY OF EXTREMELY DRY PERIODS ON THE SOUTHEAST OF BRAZIL AND ITS RELATION TO THE SOUTH ATLANTIC SST: L A Pampuch, T Ambrizzi, S E Ferraz 0800h A41D-04 POSTER NUMERICAL MODELING OF THE SEASONAL VARIABILITY OF RAINFALL IN THE STATE OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL – SOUTHERN BRAZIL: S E Ferraz, V D Guerra 0800h A41D-05 POSTER CLIMATIC VARIABILITY IN PRECIPITATION AND TEMPERATURE IN GRANDE DO SUL IN THE XXI CENTURY: J Ceolin Cera, S E Ferraz 0800h A41D-06 POSTER A Lagrangian identification of the air masses that compose the South American Low Level Jet: T Ambrizzi, A R Drumond, J A Marengo, L Gimeno, R O Nieto 0800h A41D-07 POSTER The roles of small-scale cloud processes and tropical ocean coupling on the intraseasonal variability in the South American monsoon in the Community Atmosphere Model: A B Harper, D A Randall, J J Benedict 0800h A41D-08 POSTER Projection of Precipitation and Temperature Low-Frequency Anomalies over east-central South America and Relationships with Brazilian Savanna Vegetation: M Muza, L V Carvalho, C Jones 78 2010 The Meeting of the Americas A41F Room Expocenter II-III Thursday Tropical Clouds and Radiation I Posters (joint with H) 0800h Presiding: L Machado, INPE; S S Costa 0800h A41F-01 POSTER A comparison of cloud products from ISCCP and MODIS/TERRA: implication on Radiation Budget Estimation: S S Costa 0800h A41F-02 POSTER Observational study of importance of convection in the amazon east region: relationship between the thermodynamics variables and the convective precipitation: D C Souza, M A Mota, J C Cohen, P Y Kubota 0800h A41F-03 POSTER Cloud Classification in Satellite Imagery applied to Assessment of Sunshine Duration and Global Solar Radiation: J C Ceballos, M L Rodrigues A41G Room Expocenter I Thursday 0800h Airborne Dust,Transport, and Deposition: Implications in Geology and Human Health I (joint with GP, NS) Presiding: W A Sprigg, The University of Arizona; E Williams, MIT 0800h A41G-01 WITHDRAWN 0825h A41G-02 Inclusion of Aerosol Impacts on Medium Range Forecasts of Weather and Air Quality in the FIM (Flow-Following Finite Volume Icosahedral Model) Global Model: G A Grell, S R Freitas, S G Benjamin, J Lee, J M Brown, T B Henderson, J Bao, R Bleck 0840h A41G-03 Belterra Clay Genesis in the Manaus Area: a Synthesis: Y Lucas, C R Montes, A J Melfi 0905h A41G-04 On the special link between the Bodélé Depression and the Amazon forest (Invited): I Koren, Y Ben Ami, Y Rudich, P Artaxo, S T Martin, M O Andreae, J V Martins 0930h A41G-05 The Belterra Cclay: A Topsoil Cover in Amazon Region: M L Costa, Title of Team: Grupo de Mineralogia e Geoquímica Aplicada CNPQ 0945h A41G-06 Factors controlling the genesis of red soils in Peninsula de Yucatán, Mexico: a record of geomorphic processes and landscape stability: H Cabadas Báez, E Solleiro, S Sedov, T Pi, J Alcalá, E Lounejeva, J Rivas, L Flores A41H Room A1 Thursday Stratospheric Ozone and Climate I 0800h Presiding: M I Hegglin, University of Toronto; M P Baldwin, NWRA 0800h A41H-01 Ozone layer: Science and its assessments (Invited): A R Ravishankara 0830h A41H-02 Separating the effects of GHGs and ODSs in future ozone changes: R W Portmann 0845h A41H-03 Is There a Hole in the Global OH Shield Over the Tropical Western Pacific Warm Pool?: M Rex, F Immler, R Lehmann, K Krüger, V Mohr, S Tegtmeier, S Wache 0900h A41H-04 Transport in chemistry-climate models: Comparisons to observations and implications for projections of 21st century ozone (Invited): J L Neu 0930h A41H-05 Trend Analysis and Detection of Changes in the Stratospheric Circulation: L Oman, A R Douglass, J M Rodriguez, R S Stolarski, D W Waugh 0945h A41H-06 Analysis of stratospheric circulation changes using measurements and a tropical leaky pipe model: K H Rosenlof, E A Ray, F L Moore, S M Davis, H Boenisch Biogeosciences B41A Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 0800h Astrobiology and Prebiotic Chemistry Posters (joint with P) Presiding: N G Holm, Stockholm University; D Zaia 0800h B41A-01 POSTER The Chemistry of Life as We Do Not Know It: P H Rampelotto 0800h B41A-02 POSTER Reduction of Oxidized Carbon and Nitrogen Compounds during Serpentinization of Mafic Rocks and Prebiotic Formation of Early Life Molecules: N G Holm 0800h B41A-03 POSTER Interaction of nucleic acid bases of DNA/ RNA with normal and modified montmorillonite: spectroscopic and X-ray diffractometry studies: D Zaia, C E Carneiro, H de Santana, J Baú, E di Mauro, I de Souza, A da Costa, C Zaia, A Paesano Jr. 0800h B41A-04 POSTER Hydrocarbons and Their Relationship to the Origin of Life in the Earth and Beyond: C Vasconcelos, P Szatmari 0800h B41A-05 POSTER Evidence of abiotic methanethiol formation in a terrestrial hydrothermal pool, Yellowstone National Park: An analog of prebiotic organic synthesis: P Bennett, D K Nordstrom, R B McCleskey, A A Jones 0800h B41A-06 POSTER Evidence for Major Mantle Source of Commercial Oil Deposits: P Szatmari 0800h B41A-07 POSTER Dose deposition by particulate radiation on a Martian-like planetary surface: T Gallo, D Galante, E J Pacheco 0800h B41A-08 POSTER The Possibility of Life in Titan’s Liquid Hydrocarbons: L Norman, A D Fortes, I Crawford Cryosphere C41A Room Expocenter II-III Thursday The Dynamic Cryosphere Posters (joint with GC, H) 0800h Presiding: S M Tulaczyk, University of California Santa Cruz; P Winberry, Central Washington 0800h C41A-01 WITHDRAWN 0800h C41A-02 POSTER A multi-parametric analysis of the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice since 1979: N M Neto, H E da Silva, K Fonseca, C A Garcia, M Penello 0800h C41A-03 POSTER IMPACTS OF THE ROSS SEA ANOMALOUS SEA ICE CONDITIONS ON THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE ATMOSPHERE: C A Cunningham, J P Bonatti 0800h C41A-04 POSTER Kinematic and Seismic Analysis of Giant Tabular Iceberg Breakup at Cape Adare, Antarctica: D R MacAyeal, E Okal 0800h C41A-05 POSTER The cryosphere’s role in abrupt climate events in the glacial North Atlantic: C Li, T M Dokken, K H Nisancioglu, D S Battisti 0800h C41A-06 POSTER Recent behavior of Whillans and Kamb ice streams, West Antarctica: S M Tulaczyk 0800h C41A-07 POSTER Observing ice stream dynamics with passive seismic and GPS observations: P Winberry Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism GP41A Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 0800h Magnetic Methods Applied to Hydrocarbon Exploration II Posters Presiding: R D Elmore, University of Oklahoma 0800h GP41A-01 POSTER Oil-bearing sediment-lava interactions in the Alto Paraguay Basalts: L Sanchez Bettucci, M Koukharsky, A Goguitchaichrili, R Trindade 0800h GP41A-02 POSTER A new magnetic mineral based technique for detecting hydrocarbons: S Emmerton, A R Muxworthy, M A Sephton 0800h GP41A-03 POSTER Hydrocarbon-induced Magnetic Contrasts in Venezuelan and Colombian Oil Fields: V Costanzo, M Aldana 0800h GP41A-04 POSTER A Paleomagnetic Study of the Marcellus Shale, Appalachian Valley and Ridge Province, Pennsylvania, United States: E B Manning, S Pannalal, S Anzaldua, R D Elmore GP41B Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 0800h Magnetostratigraphy: Not Only a Dating Tool II Posters Presiding: L Jovane, Western Washington University; L Hinnov, Earth and Planetary Sciences; D R Franco, Observatorio Nacional 0800h GP41B-01 POSTER Reassessment of the Paleocene to Middle Eocene magneto-, bio-, chrono- and stable isotope stratigraphy based on evidence from the Contessa section (Gubbio, Italy) and implications for the study of the Early Paleogene hyperthermal events and Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (Invited): R Coccioni, G Bancalà, R Catanzariti, F Florindo, E Fornaciari, F Frontalini, L Giusberti, E Guasti, L Jovane, V Luciani, S Monechi, M Sprovieri 0800h GP41B-02 POSTER Paleomagnetism and rock magnetism of Core AND-2A, ANDRILL Southern McMurdo Sound Project, Antarctica: L Jovane, G Acton, F Florindo, C Ohneiser, L Sagnotti, E Strada, K L Verosub, G S Wilson 0800h GP41B-03 POSTER Rock magnetic cyclostratigraphy of an Eocene flysch: a record of astronomically forced Mediterranean climate (Invited): L Hinnov, K P Kodama, D J Anastasio 0800h GP41B-04 POSTER SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF PALEOZOIC MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHIC TIME SERIES: RECOGNITION OF MILLENNIAL SCALE CLIMATIC FORCING PARAMETERS: D R Franco, L Hinnov, M Ernesto 0800h GP41B-05 POSTER Estimating common harmonic features in short unevenly time series: paleomagnetic variations and climate variability: G Caminha-Maciel Filho, M Ernesto 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 79 GP41C Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 0800h Probing Tectonic Processes With Electromagnetic Methods III Posters Presiding: M C Pomposiello, CONICET; J R Booker, Univ. of Washington; A Favetto, CONICET 0800h GP41C-01 POSTER Effect of Al2O3 on the electrical conductivity of orthoenstatite and its implications for the electrical structure in the upper mantle: B Zhang, T Yoshino, C A McCammon, T Katsura, X Wu 0800h GP41C-02 POSTER THE ALPINE MOUNTAIN CHAIN AS AN INTERRUPTION OF CRUSTAL CONDUCTORS - RESULTS FROM A MAGNETOTELLURIC AND GEOMAGNETIC DEPTH SOUNDING SURVEY IN THE WESTERN EUROPEAN ALPS: D AlHalbouni, K Bahr 0800h GP41C-03 POSTER ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELLING FROM AEROELECTROMAGNETIC DATA IN THE FREQUENCY DOMAIN (AFDEM) IN THE REGION OF QUADRILÁTERO FERRÍFERO (Brazil, Minas Gerais): M G Von Huelsen, J D Carneiro, U Travaglia, T M Araújo 0800h GP41C-04 POSTER Continental Collisions And Magmatic Activity Process Of Southern Alto Paranaíba Ígneous Province, Brazil, Implied From Magnetotellurics: M S Bologna, A L Padilha, I Vitorello, M B Pádua 0800h GP41C-05 POSTER Anomalous Electrical Structure In The Northern Paraná Basin, Brazil, Observed With Broadband Magnetotellurics: H O Nunes, M S Bologna, A L Padilha, I Vitorello, M B Pádua 0800h GP41C-06 POSTER Imaging geoelectrical structure of the lithosphere in NE São Francisco Craton: Preliminary Analysis: M Furlan, I Vitorello, E P Oliveira, M B Pádua, A C Santos GP41D Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 0800h The Acquisition, Processing, and Interpretation of Magnetic and Gravity Data II Posters (joint with NS) Presiding: R J Blakely, U.S Geological Survey 0800h GP41D-01 POSTER Location of magnetic bodies of interest from the Euler Deconvolution: T M Paris, L Johansen, A C Santos, M A Mane 0800h GP41D-02 POSTER Magnetic anomalies of the Goias Alkaline Province, Central Brazil: A C Dutra, Y R Marangoni 0800h GP41D-03 POSTER Magnetometric beahavior of alkaline rocks in Ipora region, Southwest of Goiás, central Brazil: L M Feitoza, A C Carmelo, A C Pires, J O Araujo Filho, R M Vidotti, Title of Team: Laboratory of Applied Geophysics-IG/UnB 0800h GP41D-04 POSTER Gravimetry and Magnetometry on the Pitanga, Artemis, Pau D’Alho and Jibóia Structural Domes Northeast Portion of the Paraná Basin: M Fries, W Malagutti Filho, J C Dourado, M A Fernandes, F G Silva GP41E Room Iguacu II Thursday Magnetic Anomalies of Equatorial Area and Southern Hemisphere II (joint with NS) 0800h Presiding: M E Ghidella, Instituto Antartico Argentino; J V Korhonen, Geologian tutkimuskeskus; M S Mantovani, IAGUSP 0815h GP41E-01 Mapping lithospheric magnetic anomalies of the southern hemisphere (Invited): S Maus 0830h GP41E-02 Brazilian Main Anomalies (Invited): R A de Moraes 80 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 0845h GP41E-03 Gluing Data Together: Geophysical Data Integration of Multiple Types from Multiple Sources. (Invited): M E Odegard 0900h GP41E-04 EASTERN CONTINENTAL MARGIN ANOMALY UPDATES OF THE ANTARCTIC MAGNETIC ANOMALY MAP (Invited): A V Golynsky, D Damaske, S Ivanov, W Jokat, R R von Frese, Title of Team: ADMAP Working Group 0915h GP41E-05 Magnetic anomaly data offshore Argentina: a review: M E Ghidella, D A Abraham, C M Paterlini, B Schreckenberger 0930h GP41E-06 New global compilation of marine magnetic data for WDMAM: T Ishihara, J M Luis, M Catalan, Y Quesnel, U Barckhausen 0945h GP41E-07 Updating World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map from 2007 to 2011 version: J V Korhonen, Title of Team: WDMAM executive team Hydrology H41A Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 0800h General Session on Precipitation II Posters (joint with A) Presiding: E Amitai, NASA/GSFC & Chapman University; Y Hong, University of Oklahoma 0800h H41A-01 POSTER Some Comments On Homogeneity Of Brazilian Instrumental Rainfall Data: R Silveira, S Sugahara, R P da Rocha 0800h H41A-02 WITHDRAWN 0800h H41A-03 POSTER Adapted GMSRA for Operative Rainfall Estimation in Southeast South America: S Gomez Gomez, D Barrera 0800h H41A-04 POSTER Estimating distributions of precipitation extremes by the region-of-influence method: applications in observed data and climate model simulations: J Kysely, L Gaal, R Beranova 0800h H41A-05 POSTER Lack of Orographic Precipitation Enhancement in the Lowest 3000 m of the Elqui Watershed, Chile (30°S): M L Scaff, J A Rutllant, S Gascoin 0800h H41A-06 WITHDRAWN 0800h H41A-07 POSTER Deterministic Local Models Applied to Rainfall in the City of Rio de Janeiro: T T Brito, N Moura, C Magalhães, G B Lyra, J F Oliveira Júnior 0800h H41A-08 WITHDRAWN 0800h H41A-09 POSTER Observation System for Severe Weather (SOS): The Precipitation Nowcasting by Meteorological Satellite and Radar: A J Calheiros, L Machado, C F Angelis, A P Queiroz 0800h H41A-10 POSTER Analysis and Forecasts for the Rainy Season Onset, Offset and Duration Across Northeast Brazil: C H Lima, U Lall H41B Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 0800h Surface Water and Groundwater Interactions in the Americas II Posters (joint with OS, V) Presiding: H Bokuniewicz, Stony Brook University; P J Depetris, CONICET; Y A Kontar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; F Niencheski; H Windom, Skidaway Inst Oceanography 0800h H41B-01 POSTER Source of iron to groundwater-surface water systems of the southern coast of Brazil: H Windom 0800h H41B-02 POSTER The de la Plata River Drainage Basin: a Water Source for the Guaraní Aquifer?: P J Depetris, A Pasquini, M G García, K L Lecomte 0800h H41B-03 POSTER Water Storage Temporal Estimates in the La Plata Basin from GRACE Monthly Models: A Pereira, S Miranda, M C Pacino, R Forsberg 0800h H41B-04 POSTER Surface and Groundwater Dynamics in Sedimentary Plains of the Western Pampas (Argentina): R Aragón, E G Jobbagy, E F Viglizzo 0800h H41B-05 POSTER TIME-VARIATIONS OF EQUIVALENT WATER HEIGHTS FROM GRACE MISSION AND IN-SITU RIVER STAGES IN THE AMAZON BASIN: F G Vaz de Almeida, S Calmant, F S Seyler, D Blitzkow, G Ramillien, A O de Matos, J SANTOS DA SILVA 0800h H41B-06 POSTER PHASE ANALYSIS OF THE WATER LEVEL TEMPORAL VARIATION AT BRAZILIAN BASINS USING GRACE: I D Campos, A O de Matos, D Blitzkow, G Guimaraes 0800h H41B-07 POSTER Groundwater/Surface Water Exchange in Lake Michigan - Nutrient/Element Cycling, Ecological Significance and Climate Change (Invited): Y A Kontar, Y Cao, D Dolan, B Dugan, M S Jaffe, D Kane, A Krause, F Lupi, X Miao, J Miner, A Paytan, K J Rattan, R Rediske, R A Shuchman, L D Slater, A Stumpf, P W Swarzenski, N R Urban, D J Wuebbles H41C Room C3 Thursday 0800h The Complementary Roles of Modeling and Monitoring in Environmental Management and Remediation I Presiding: M Van Genuchten, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; B Faybishenko, LBNL; J Su; T J Nicholson, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 0800h H41C-01 Modeling of acid rock drainage generation in a waste rock pile with convective oxygen supply (Invited): E A Vargas, O Sracek, J C Silva 0815h H41C-02 Modeling In Situ Uranium Bioremediation at a Former Uranium Mill Tailings Site (Invited): S Yabusaki, Y Fang, S Waichler, C J Murray, A L Ward, P E Long 0830h H41C-03 Long-term Analyses of Environmental Management Problems Using the HP1 Biogeochemical Transport Simulator: D Mallants, D Jacques, M Van Genuchten, J Simunek 0845h H41C-04 Abilities of Generic and Site-Specific Pedotransfer Functions, Bayesian Updating and Inverse Modeling to Estimate Hydraulic Parameter Variations in a Deep Vadose Zone (Invited): M G Schaap, Z Fang, S P Neuman 0900h H41C-05 Hydrological Field Performance of a Double Capillary Barrier Cover at a Pilot Coal Mining Waste Lysimeter at South Brazil: M Barbosa, B P Triane, A Borghetti 0915h H41C-06 WITHDRAWN 0930h H41C-07 Using Organic Wastewater Compounds as Tracers for Subsurface Disposal and Transport of Buoyant Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluent in Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA: A L Foster, J N King, B G Katz 0945h H41C-08 Monitoring, Modeling, Management, and Mitigation: Potential for Densification, Subsurface Disposal, and Transport of Buoyant Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluent in Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA: J N King, A L Foster, L K Brakefield, V Walsh Ocean Sciences OS41A Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 0800h New Advances in Ocean Drilling Science: Linking the Geosphere, Hydrosphere, Biosphere, and Atmosphere I Posters (joint with C, GC, PP, V, T) Presiding: K B Costa, Universidade de Sao Paulo; G M Filippelli, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; M E Raymo, Boston University 0800h OS41A-01 POSTER New deglacial and Holocene micropaleontological and geochemical records from the southern margin of the Svalbard Archipelago (Arctic Ocean): A Rigual Hernandez, E Colmenero-Hidalgo, J A Flores, F J Sierro, M Bárcena, R Lucchi, G Herrera, I Cacho Lascorz, B Martrat, A Camerlenghi, J Grimalt, A de Vernal 0800h OS41A-02 POSTER Sewage Contamination Degree in Surface Sediments at Saco da Ribeira, Ubatuba, SP, Brazil: C D Costa, V F Patire, S Taniguchi, R R Weber 0800h OS41A-03 POSTER Planktonic Foraminifera Biostratigraphy and Oxygen Isotopic Data from Southwestern Atlantic: F S Iwai, F A Toledo, K B Costa 0800h OS41A-04 POSTER Planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy of one piston core from continental slope of Campos Basin-Brazil: A A Santarosa, L Franco, L Tokutake, K B Costa, F A Toledo 0800h OS41A-05 POSTER Productivity changes of Southwestern Atlantic over the past 15000 years based on calcareous nannofossil survey: H B Ferrarese, F A Toledo 0800h OS41A-06 POSTER Sedimentation changes over the past 15000 years in a piston core from southeastern Brazilian continental slope: L M Bariani, K B Costa, F A Toledo 0800h OS41A-07 POSTER Factor Analysis in Quantitative Studies of Microfossils from Santos Basin - Brazil: M V Hirama, F A Toledo 0800h OS41A-08 POSTER THE G. BULLOIDES/G. RUBER RATIO AS A TRACER FOR PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC CHANGES DURING THE LAST 30,000 YEARS AT BRAZILIAN CONTINENTAL MARGIN: E Camillo, F A Toledo, K B Costa OS41B Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 0800h Operational Ocean Prediction and Data Assimilation I Posters (joint with A) Presiding: C A Tanajura, Federal university of Bahia; E Campos, University of Sao Paulo; L P Pezzi; I D Soares, FURG 0800h OS41B-01 POSTER Regional modeling of the Brazilian eastern coast: The use of an Optimal Interpolation method aimed on data assimilation: I O Monteiro, R B Piovesan, G Ruggiero, H Bastos, I D Soares 0800h OS41B-02 POSTER A Higth Resolution System Of Oceanic Prediction With Data Assimilation Over The Western South Atlantic Basin, Using The Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (Hycom): W S Junior, F C Cabral, J A Lima, R Parkinson Martins, E J Campos 0800h OS41B-03 POSTER Comparison of HYCOM Model Results with Observational Data: Toward an Operational Modeling System for Southwest Atlantic Prediction: R L Mello, A C Freitas, J Oliveira, L Russo, J Alvarenga 0800h OS41B-04 POSTER Experiments with global CPTEC Ocean Data Assimilation System (CODAS) using real and simulated observations: P Gannabathula, L P Pezzi, D L Herdies 0800h OS41B-05 POSTER Study of physical characteristics in the Brazil-Malvinas Confluence: the radiosonde data assimilation: L Russo, L P Pezzi, L F Sapucci 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 81 0800h OS41B-06 POSTER The Continental Shelf Waters influence in the Brazil-Malvinas Confluence: An observational and numerical study: A C Freitas, R L Mello, L Russo, J O Felix, J Alvarenga 0800h OS41B-07 POSTER Processing of altimetry data for the assimilation in numeric oceanographic models: R C Paes, V B Daher, G B França 0800h OS41B-08 POSTER Application of the Barnes Objective Analysis method at sea surface temperature data via Multi-Satellite: A N Oliveira, B Ruivo, G B França, A Neto 0800h OS41B-09 POSTER ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A PRE-OPERATIONAL SYSTEM IN THE SOUTHERN BRAZILIAN COAST AND PATOS LAGOON WITH ROMS: H B Oliveira, I D Soares, I O Monteiro 0800h OS41B-10 POSTER An Experiment of Altimetry Data Assimilation over the South Atlantic with HYCOM: C A Tanajura, R Ramos-da-Silva, G Ruggiero, J Einsiedler, V B Daher, Title of Team: Oceanographic Modeling and Observation Research Network (REMO) OS41C Room C1 Thursday Coastal and Estuarine Physical Processes II 0800h Presiding: E Siegle, University of Sao Paulo; C A França Schettini, Universidade Federal do Ceará; E E Toldo, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 0800h OS41C-01 Reassessment of fundamental estuarine hydrodynamics (Invited): A Valle-Levinson, R Chant, M Li 0830h OS41C-02 WITHDRAWN 0845h OS41C-03 Changes in the dynamics of the Patos Lagoon Estuary during the last century: E H Fernandes, O O Möller, A M Cavalcanti 0900h OS41C-04 ADCP Observations of the Circulation of a Tropical Tidal Inlet: R A Morales Perez, A F Waterhouse, H Vélez, G Gutiérrez, A Valle-Levinson, J A Laurel 0915h OS41C-05 Straining and advection contributions to the mixing process of the Patos Lagoon estuary, Brazil: W C Marques, E H Fernandes, L A Rocha 0930h OS41C-06 Effects of Acid Waters in the Fine Sediment Dynamics in a Flash Flood Estuary: C F Schettini, M A Couceiro, G A Manique 0945h OS41C-07 Sediment transport at a low energy ebb-tidal delta system: C P Barroso, E Siegle, C F Schettini, L B Miranda OS41D Room C2 Thursday 0800h Oceanographic Complexity and Biological Processes in the Southwestern Atlantic I Presiding: C Bremec; J H Muelbert, Universidade Federal do RIo Grande 0800h OS41D-01 Origin and composition of sedimentary organic matter on the inner shelf off Ubatuba (São Paulo, Brazil): A lipid biomarkers analysis: B R Alves, P Y Sumida 0815h OS41D-02 Occurrence of Magellanic Penguins along the Brazilian NE coast during 2008 austral winter: R Ramos-da-Silva, J Pereira, C A Tanajura, C Lentini, M Cirano, P D Boersma 0830h OS41D-03 Dynamic of the Atmospheric Circulation and its impact on the SST anomalies variability and exploitation of fish stocks in Southwestern Atlantic: P A Montes, D Severov, V Pshennikov, C R Mechoso 0845h OS41D-04 IMPACT OF CLIMATE VARIABILITY ON LARGE MARINE ECOSYSTEMS OF THE WESTERN SOUTH ATLANTIC: D F Gherardi, E T Paes, H C Soares, L P Pezzi, M T Kayano 82 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 0900h OS41D-05 ENSO AND ANTARTIC OSCILLATION (AAO) INFLUENCES ON THE INTERANUAL ABUNDANCE OF MULLET JUVENILES (Mugil platanus GÜNTHER, 1880) IN THE PATOS LAGOON ESTUARY: E T Paes, A M Garcia, J P Vieira 0915h OS41D-06 Interannual Simulation of Circulation around St. Peter and St. Paul Archipelago at Western Equatorial Atlantic: Evidences of Physical Processes Influencing Nutrients Enrichment through Euphotic Zone: M Cintra, M Silva, M Araujo 0930h OS41D-07 Temporal and Spacial Variability of Bacterioplankton Activity and Particles Flux on Arraial do Cabo (RJ) Upwelling System: S A Coelho-Souza, G C Pereira, R N Candella, J R Guimarães, R Coutinho 0945h OS41D-08 Distribution of Phytoplankton Functional Tipes in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean: C Y Omachi, C A Garcia, V M Garcia, E J Campos Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology PP41A Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 0800h Paleoclimatic and Environmental Reconstructions in South America for the Late Glacial and Holocene: Combining Empirical and Modeling Evidence I Posters (joint with GC) Presiding: J Massaferro, CENAC-APN; A Schwalb, TU Braunschweig; S Wagner, FU Berlin 0800h PP41A-01 POSTER Quaternary Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction Based On Fossil Imprints And Palynological Data From Villa Escolar, Eastern Chaco Plain, Argentina: S A Contreras 0800h PP41A-02 POSTER Astronomical Forcing and early peopling of SouthAmerica during the Quaternary Period: A Sanchez, R Fariña 0800h PP41A-03 POSTER Palynology and Paleoenvironmental Interpretation of Late Pleistocene to Holocene Deposits at the São Bento do Sul Plateau: Santa Catarina State, Southern Brazil: G L Lima, S G Bauermann, M A Oliveira 0800h PP41A-04 POSTER Radar Stratigraphy, Proxy Data and Highland Peatland Evolution Since the Late Pleistocene of Santa Catarina State, Southern Brazil: M A Oliveira, J L Porsani, G L Lima, V Jeske-Pieruschka, H Behling 0800h PP41A-05 POSTER Vegetation, fire and climate during the late-Pleistocene and Holocene in the Andes of central Patagonia revealed by a pollen record from Lago Augusta (47°S): R P VillaMartínez, P I Moreno, M Valenzuela 0800h PP41A-06 POSTER Recent Ostracods From Patagonia, Argentina, as Paleoenvironmental Indicators: A Schwalb, G Cusminsky, D Pineda, F Viehberg, V Markgraf, D Ariztegui, A Gilli 0800h PP41A-07 POSTER Post-Columbian Environmental History of Lago Petén Itzá, Guatemala: A Schwalb, L Pérez, R Bugja, J Massaferro, P Steeb, R van Geldern, P Frenzel, M Brenner, B Scharf 0800h PP41A-08 POSTER Climate Simulations of the MidHolocene as Produced by the CPTEC Atmospheric General Circulation Model In The South America: M L Melo 0800h PP41A-09 POSTER Regional climate simulations in southern and central South America during the Holocene: Investigations of the climate-circulation relationship: S Wagner, F Schenk PP41B Room A2 Thursday 0800h Oceanography and Paleoceanography of the Marine Upwelling Systems of South America I (joint with B, GC, OS) Presiding: A Sifeddine, IRD; P A Meyers, University of Michigan 0800h PP41B-01 Paleoceanographic reconstruction of Late Quaternary Cabo Frio Coastal upwelling (Invited): A Albuquerque, D D Lessa, D D Souto, U N Mendoza, H R Santos, M D Gurgel, A Ayres, A Sifeddine, B Turcq, Title of Team: Scientific Team of Projeto Ressurgência - Petrobras 0815h PP41B-02 The establishment of the Cabo Frio/RJ coastal upwelling process: microclimatic implications: R H Nagai, S D Sousa, M Mahiques 0830h PP41B-03 Sea Surface Temperature, Sedimentary Sterols and Fatty Acids as Indicators of a Coastal Upwelling in SE Brazil over the Holocene: C A Magalhães, M C Bícego, M Mahiques 0845h PP41B-04 SEDIMENTARY PALEOARCHIVES OF THE OCEAN CLIMATE IN THE TROPICAL SOUTH EASTERN PACIFIC DURING THE LATE HOLOCENE: D Gutierrez, A Sifeddine, I Bouloubassi, M Boussafir, M Gurgel, R Salvatteci, D Field, G Vargas, F Velazco, L Ortlieb 0900h PP41B-05 Paleoproductivity and Paleoxygenation in a coastal zone of the Humboldt Current System; during the last millennium: Mejillones Bay, northern Chile: J R Valdés, M Guiñez, A Sifeddine, M Boussafir, L Ortlieb 0915h PP41B-06 Mineralogía, petrografía y geoquímica del material sedimentable en la bahía Mejillones del Sur (23 S): Una caracterización asociada a la Zona de Mínimo Oxígeno: M I Guiñez, J Valdès, A Sifeddine, M Boussafir, Title of Team: PALEOTRACES 0930h PP41B-07 Considering Late Holocene Climate Variability by Exploring Environmental Conditions of two Contrasting Upwelling Sites in South America: M H Gurgel, A Sifeddine, M Boussafir, D Gutierrez, E Lallier-Vergès, A Albuquerque, L Ortlieb, F Velazco, Title of Team: Projeto Ressurgência 0945h PP41B-08 Organic Matter Molecular and Isotopic Evidence for Pleistocene Variations in Water Mass Properties in the Benguela Current Upwelling System: P A Meyers, I Bouloubassi, R D Pancost Planetary Sciences P41A Room Cedro I Thursday 0800h Impact Structures in South America and Shock in Basaltic Targets I (joint with V) Presiding: D Baratoux, Obseravtoire Midi-Pyrénées; G Tancredi, Fac. Ciencias; A Crosta, UNICAMP; P H Schultz, Brown University 0800h P41A-01 Widespread occurrence of high-calcium pyroxene in bright-ray craters on the lunar highland discovered by the Spectral Profiler onboard SELENE (Kaguya) (Invited): Y Ogawa, T Matsunaga, R Nakamura, K Saiki, T Hiroi, H Takeda, M Ohtake, T Arai, Y Yokota, S Yamamoto, T Sugihara, S Sasaki, J Haruyama, N Hirata, T Morota, C Honda, H Demura, K Kitazato, J Terazono, N Asada 0815h P41A-02 Time-resolved spectroscopic observation of impact-induced silicate vaporization (Invited): S Sugita, K Kurosawa, T Kadono, K Shigemori, Y Hironaka, N Ozaki, Y Cho, T Sakaiya, S Fujioka, S Tachibana, T Matsui 0830h P41A-03 Alternate Twin Deformation of Plagioclase at Low Shock Pressures: Implications for Recognizing and Interpreting Impacts in Basalt (Invited): R Harris, S Jaret, S N Rodesney, D T King, P H Schultz 0845h P41A-04 A Review of the Basaltic Impact Craters of the Paraná Basin, Brazil: A P Crosta 0900h P41A-05 Shock metamorphism in basalt: observations from the Vista Alegre impact crater, Brazil (Invited): C Koeberl, L Pittarello, A Crosta 0915h P41A-06 Shock-effects on the Magnetization of Parana flood Basalts: The Vista Alegre Impact Structure: E Yokoyama, R I Trindade, D Baratoux, A Nedelec, A P Crosta 0930h P41A-07 Experimental study on impact craters formed on basalt covered with sediments: M Arakawa, K Dohi, C Okamoto, S Hasegawa 0945h P41A-08 Geophysical Signatures of two Craters at Bajada del Diablo Crater Strewn Field, Argentine (Invited): C Prezzi, M Orgeira, R Acevedo, F Ponce, O Martínez, C A Vasquez, H Corbella, M González, J Rabassa Seismology S41A Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 0800h Seismicity Induced by Human Technological Activity II Posters (joint with NH, T) Presiding: G S Franca, Universidade de Brasília 0800h S41A-01 POSTER The Importance of Stuctural Geology Support Mapping to Reservoir Potential Seismicity – example of the Irapé Reservoir, SE Brazil: J O de Araújo, M G Von Huelsen, G S Franca 0800h S41A-02 POSTER Geophysical integration and triggered seismicity at the Irapé Reservoir, Minas Gerais State, Brazil: D R Matos, M G Von Huelsen, A A Braga, C Chimpliganond, G S Franca, L V Barros, J O de Araújo 0800h S41A-03 POSTER Reservoir Triggered Seismicity in Carmo do Cajuru - MG - Review: J A Cruz Vieira, M G Von Huelsen, G S Franca, Title of Team: Observatorio Sismologico 0800h S41A-04 POSTER SEISMICITY INDUCED IN 4 DEEP RESERVOIRS,SOUTHERN BRAZIL: L Ribotta, M Assumpcao, J Manuzzi, A Carvalho, J Regina 0800h S41A-05 POSTER Relocation of Hypocenters of the Induced Activity in Bebedouro, Paraná Basin, Brazil: G Dicelis, M Assumpcao, J R Barbosa 0800h S41A-06 POSTER A Comparison Between Directivity Effects on the Dahuiyeh (Zarand) Earthquake of 2005 February 22 (Mw 6.4) in Central Iran and Small Magnitude Reservoir Induced Earthquakes in Brazil: K Behzadafshar, M Shahpasandzadeh, A Abbaszadeh Shahri 0800h S41A-07 WITHDRAWN 0800h S41A-08 WITHDRAWN 0800h S41A-09 POSTER Research Progresses of the Three Gorges Project reservoir-induced Seismicity: Q Wang, Title of Team: YAO Yun-sheng,WANG Dun, LI Jing-gang,ZHANG Li-fen,LIAO Wu-lin S41B Room Iguacu I Thursday 0800h Seeds of Cooperation: Geophysical Monitoring, International Collaborations, and Sustainable Scientific Growth (joint with T, G, NH) Presiding: A Lerner-Lam, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; A Meltzer, Lehigh University; H Yepes, INSTITUTO DE GEOFISICA- ECUADOR 0800h S41B-01 ISC: Integrating Seismic Bulletins in Latin America (1960-2010): D A Storchak, B Vera, J Eve, J Harris 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 83 0815h S41B-02 COCONet: A Concept for an Integrated Geodetic Network for the Caribbean Region: K Feaux, A A Borsa, J J Braun, E Calais, M E Jackson, C M Meertens, D Mencin, M M Miller, J Normandeau, G Wang 0830h S41B-03 COCONet: Data Policies and Data Infrastructure: A A Borsa, F M Boler, J J Braun, E Calais, K Feaux, M E Jackson, C M Meertens, M M Miller, G Wang 0845h S41B-04 A New Seismological and Geodetic Network for Ecuador: H A Yepes, Title of Team: The Seismology and Volcanology Groups at IG-EPN 0900h S41B-05 Engaging Haiti on the path toward sustainable earthquake safety: E Calais, A Lerner-Lam, A Morton, C Prepetit, R Momplaisir 0915h S41B-06 Emerging Multi-purpose Geophysical Monitoring Network in the Caribbean Basin: L Lynch 0930h S41B-07 WITHDRAWN 0945h S41B-08 Site Dependence |Response Spectra Attenuation Modeling: SW Nigeria case study: A A Adepelumi, A Y Akinsola SPA-Magnetospheric Physics SM41A Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 0800h Advanced Modeling Methods for Dynamic Geospace Plasmas II Posters (joint with SH, SA, NG) Presiding: J A Valdivia, Universidad de Chile; D Vassiliadis 0800h SM41A-01 POSTER One Dimensional Electromagnetic Simulation of Multiple Electron Beams Propagating in Space Plasmas: M V Alves, F J Simoes, R Gaelzer 0800h SM41A-02 POSTER Statistical study of the properties of the turbulent plasma sheet during quiet time and substorms: M V Stepanova, J A Valdivia, V A Pinto, E E Antonova 0800h SM41A-03 POSTER Modes of electron diffusion in Earth’s radiation belts: D Vassiliadis, X Shao, M Tornquist 0800h SM41A-04 WITHDRAWN 0800h SM41A-05 POSTER Impact of Magnetic Draping, Convection, and Field Line Tying on Magnetopause Reconnection Under Northward IMF: D E Wendel, P H Reiff, M L Goldstein SM41B Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 0800h The Magnetosphere/Ionosphere as a Coupled System: Modeling and Observational Results II Posters (joint with SA) Presiding: M H Denton, Lancaster University; P T Santos, Arecibo Observatory 0800h SM41B-01 POSTER Energy Estimate During Magnetic Storm Long Recovery Phase Events in the Polar Region: F R Cardoso, M V Alves, G K Parks, M O Fillingim 0800h SM41B-02 POSTER Multiscale Coupling Between a Solar Wind Driven Magnetospheric Generator and Dayside Aurora: M Echim, R Maggiolo, J M De Keyser, S Wing, J Johnson 0800h SM41B-03 POSTER Wavelet analysis to assess geomagnetic/ ionospheric storms using magnetograms and vTEC from GPS: L I Fernandez, A M Meza, M A Van Zele 0800h SM41B-05 POSTER Global Alfvenic Interaction and Formation of Substorm Auroras: Y Song, R L Lysak, N Lin 84 2010 The Meeting of the Americas SM41C Room Iguassu III Thursday 0800h Multipoint Perspectives of Space Plasma I (joint with P, SA, SH) Presiding: W D Gonzalez; D G Sibeck, Space Weather Laboratory 0800h SM41C-01 A preliminary comparison between SuperDARN flow vectors and Equivalent ionospheric currents from the GIMA, Greenland, MACCS, THEMIS, CARISMA, and CANMOS ground magnetometer arrays: J M Weygand, M G Kivelson, O Amm, W A Bristow, V Angelopoulos, B Beheshti, H Gudipati, E S Steinmetz, M J Engebretson, D Murr, A Viljanen, A Pulkkinen, H Gleisner, I R Mann, C T Russell, K Hayashi 0812h SM41C-02 Multipoint geospace science in 3D: The Paired Ionosphere-Thermosphere Orbiters (PITO) mission: J H Clemmons, R L Walterscheid, D A Nigg, D C Judnick, J A Lang, J F Spann 0824h SM41C-03 Substorm dynamics from the THEMIS multi-station ground based observations: S B Mende, H U Frey, V Angelopoulos, E F Donovan 0836h SM41C-04 Global Substorm Dynamics and 3D Current System from Simultaneous IMAGE/HENA and Cluster Observations: P C Brandt, S Ohtani, I S Dandouras, K Keika, N A Tsyganenko, M I Sitnov, E C Roelof, S W Hsieh 0848h SM41C-05 The Future of Global Auroral Imaging: E F Donovan 0900h SM41C-06 TWINS, THEMIS, and DMSP: An Imaging and In-Situ Constellation for Observing the Terrestrial Ring Current: J Goldstein, J D Perez, P C Brandt, D Bazell, D J McComas 0920h SM41C-07 Outer radiation belt relativistic electron loss and enhanced outward radial diffusion (Invited): P T Loto’aniu, H J Singer, C L Waters, V Angelopoulos, I R Mann, S R Elkington 0940h SM41C-08 Fast acceleration of Van Allen radiation belt electrons by interplanetary shocks: Q Zong SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics SH41A Room Iguassu V Thursday Solar Eruptions and Interplanetary Consequences II 0800h Presiding: S Dasso, Inst Astronomia Fisica Espacio (IAFE); J Chen, Naval Research Laboratory 0800h SH41A-01 CME-ICME evolution and tracking from the Sun to the Earth (Invited): L Rodriguez 0820h SH41A-02 CME dynamics using coronagraph and interplanetary ejecta observations (Invited): A Dal Lago, W D Gonzalez, M R da Silva, A de Lucas, C R Braga 0840h SH41A-03 Heliospheric Evolution of Magnetic Flux Ropes: A M Gulisano, S Dasso, P Demoulin, E Marsch 0855h SH41A-04 Evolution of CMEs and Their Magnetic Fields in Interplanetary Space: Theory and STEREO Observation: V Kunkel, J Chen 0910h SH41A-05 Tracking of Interplanetary CME/Shocks Using Radio Observations in the Kilometric Domain (Invited): E AguilarRodriguez 0930h SH41A-06 Prediction of Secondary Acceleration of Coronal Mass Ejections due to Reconnection of the Flux Rope with the Overlying Coronal Field: R M Evans, M Opher, J Zhang 0945h SH41A-07 3D Speed Profile of Coronal Mass Ejections: A Lara, G Michalek, N Gopalswamy, S Yashiro Tectonophysics T41A Room Expocenter II-III Thursday Flat Slab Subduction II Posters (joint with S, V, GP, G) 0800h Presiding: V Manea, UNAM; M Manea, Computational Geodynamics Laboratory 0800h T41A-01 POSTER Re-examining the Cause of Flat Subduction: S Skinner, R W Clayton 0800h T41A-02 POSTER Flat-slab thermal structure and evolution beneath Central Mexico: V Manea, M Manea 0800h T41A-03 POSTER PERU SUBDUCTION ZONE SEISMIC EXPERIMENT: RESULTS FROM THE MOLLENDO-LAKE TITICACA-CUZCO SEISMIC NETWORK: I Stubailo, R Guy, M L Lukac, P M Davis, V Aguilar, R W Clayton, S Skinner, K E Phillips, H Tavera 0800h T41A-04 POSTER Intermediate deep earthquakes 5.8≤Mw≤6.4 from flat to normal sections in Chile-Argentina Nazca plate: S L Spagnotto, E G Triep, S V Nacif, R Furlani 0800h T41A-05 POSTER Imaging the Flat Slab Beneath the Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina, Using Receiver Functions: Evidence for Overthickened and Broken Subducted Oceanic Crust: C Gans, S L Beck, G Zandt, H J Gilbert, P M Alvarado 0800h T41A-06 POSTER Crustal Deformation between Precordillera and Sierras Pampeanas (Argentina) Constrained by Magnetotelluric Survey: L A Orozco, M C Pomposiello, A Favetto, E Rossello, J Booker T41B Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 0800h Seismogenesis of Intraplate Earthquakes II Posters (joint with S, NH, G) Presiding: F H Bezerra, University of Rio Grande do Norte; A F do Nascimento, UFRN; P Talwani, University of South Carolina 0800h T41B-01 POSTER Intraplate Stress Patterns in Brazil with Recent Focal Mechanism Studies: Predominance of Mid-Continent Compressional Stresses and Flexural Effects at the Continental Margin: A V Lopes, M Assumpcao, I A Zevallos 0800h T41B-02 POSTER Monitoring and studying intraplate earthquakes in Northeastern Brazil: J M Ferreira, A F do Nascimento, F H Bezerra, H C de Lima, R A Fuck 0800h T41B-03 POSTER HIGH RESOLUTION SOURCE PARAMETERS OF INTRAPLATE EARTHQUAKES IN NE BRAZIL: I P Candido, A F do Nascimento, J M Ferreira, G S Franca 0800h T41B-04 POSTER The Seismogenic Cascavel fault in intraplate north-eastern Brazil: M O Sousa, C S Vilar, J M Ferreira, F H Bezerra, A F do Nascimento, D L Castro 0800h T41B-05 POSTER RECENT INTRAPLATE SEISMICITY IN SOBRAL, NE BRAZIL: P Oliveira, J M Ferreira, A F do Nascimento, F H Bezerra, J P Soares, R A Fuck 0800h T41B-06 POSTER The 2007 coseismic reactivation of the Pernambuco Lineament in the Sao Caetano area, Brazil: H C de Lima, J M Ferreira, A F do Nascimento, F H Bezerra 0800h T41B-07 POSTER The Samambaia intraplate fault revealed by seismological and magnetic data: F C Nogueira, F H Bezerra, A M Silva, D L Castro, J M Ferreira, A Farias do Nascimento 0800h T41B-08 POSTER GPR Investigation of Quaternary Liquefaction Structures in Gravels, Northeastern Brazil: D L de Castro, F H Bezerra, E Moura-Lima, F P Lima Filho, M O Sousa 0800h T41B-09 POSTER Evidence of paleoseismicity in northeastern Brazil: F H Bezerra, J M Ferreira, A F do Nascimento, M O Sousa 0800h T41B-10 POSTER Quaternary Offset and Seismic Activities of an Intra-continental Oblique-slip Fault System: The Ravar Fault, South of Central Iran: M Shahpasandzadeh, A Shafeii Bafti, F Iranmanesh 0800h T41B-11 POSTER Bayesian analysis of time evolution of earthquake near João Câmara, northeast Brazil: G S Franca, D B de Freitas, M G Atanazio, L S Pedro, C S Vilar 0800h T41B-12 POSTER Source parameters estimation of microearthquakes in the Caraíbas-Itacarambi seismic area, São Francisco Craton, Brazil: C Chimpliganond, G S Franca, M Assumpcao 0800h T41B-13 POSTER Seismicity, tectonic stresses and crustal structure of the Porto dos Gaúchos seismic zone in the Amazon Craton – Brazil: L V Barros, M Assumpcao, R Quintero 0800h T41B-14 POSTER The 4.8 mb Intraplate Earthquake of 2009 in the Pantanal Wetlands, Western Brazil: R C Dantas, M Assumpcao, G S Franca, E Facincani, M G Von Huelsen T41C Room Iguassu IV Thursday 0800h Margins of the Americas: Constraining the Interactions Between Slabs, Plates, and Keels I (joint with S, V, GP, G) Presiding: M S Miller, University of Southern California; T W Becker, USC 0800h T41C-01 Dynamic effects of continental lithosphere and flat-slab subduction (Invited): V Manea, M Pérez-Gussinyé, M Manea 0820h T41C-02 Evidence of a Miocene Collision between the Yucatan Block and Mexico (Invited): Y Kim, R W Clayton, F Keppie 0840h T41C-03 Shear Wave Splitting and Upper Mantle Flow Beneath the Subducted Cocos and Rivera Plates: R M Russo 0855h T41C-04 WITHDRAWN 0910h T41C-05 Stress distribution and internal deformation of plates in an Andean subduction zone: numerical models based on Chilean specificities (Invited): M Gerbault 0930h T41C-06 On the shutdown of arc volcanism by an advancing subduction front (Invited): S Rondenay, L G Montesi, G A Abers Union U42A Room A3 Thursday 1030h South American Climate and Landscape Evolution During the Late Cenozoic I Presiding: P A Baker, Duke University; C A Rigsby; J C Stevaux, University of Maringa 1040h U42A-01 Applying DEM-SRTM for reconstructing Quaternary paleodrainage in Amazonia: E H Hayakawa, D Rossetti, M Valeriano 1055h U42A-02 The late Pleistocene-Holocene record of sea level in Northeastern Brazil and its relation to climate, eustasy and tectonics: D Rossetti, F H Bezerra, A Góes, M Valeriano, C Andrades Filho, J Millani, S Tatumi, B B Brito Neves 1110h U42A-03 The record of Cenozoic fossil vertebrates in the Amazon (Invited): M A Cozzuol 1130h U42A-04 THE MEGAFANS OF THE CHACO: A REVIEW OF THEIR BOUNDARIES AND FAN AREAS: E Cafaro, E M Latrubesse, C G Ramonell 1145h U42A-05 The Late Cenozoic Pantanal Basin, West-Central Brazil (Invited): M L Assine 1205h U42A-06 Presumed History of the South American Summer Monsoon on Evolutionary Timescales: P A Baker, S C Fritz, C A Rigsby 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 85 Atmospheric Sciences A42A Room A1 Thursday Stratospheric Ozone and Climate II Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism 1030h Presiding: K H Rosenlof, NOAA ESRL CSD; M Rex, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research 1030h A42A-01 The Ozone Hole and Southern Hemisphere Climate Change: A Multimodel Assessment (Invited): S Son, Title of Team: CCMVal2 team 1100h A42A-02 Influence of ozone recovery and greenhouse gas increases on Southern Hemisphere circulation: A Y Karpechko, N P Gillett, L J Gray, M Dall’Amico 1115h A42A-03 How Ozone Depletion Causes Southern Hemispheric Climate Change: P Staten, T Reichler, J J Rutz, J Kim 1130h A42A-04 Coupling between stratospheric ozone and climate: latest CMAM results: T G Shepherd 1145h A42A-05 Global Climate Model Simulations with a New Stratospheric Ozone Data Set: P Young, B Hassler, G E Bodeker, J Lamarque, R W Portmann, S Solomon 1200h A42A-06 The lower stratospheric ozone and temperature response to the solar cycle calculated by the CCSR/NIES CCM: Y Yamashita, K Sakamoto, H Akiyoshi, M Takahashi, T Nagashima, L Zhou A42B Room Expocenter I Thursday 1030h Climatic Effects of Aerosols in the Amazon Region I (joint with B, GC) Presiding: M O Andreae, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry; P Artaxo, University of São Paulo; S T Martin, Harvard; M A Silva Dias, Universidade de Sao Paulo 1030h A42B-01 Optical properties of biogenic aerosol particles in Central Amazonia: P Artaxo, L Rizzo, M O Andreae, S T Martin, K T Wiedemann, M Paixao 1050h A42B-02 Pristine Amazonian rainforest aerosols: composition, mixing state and climate interactions (Invited): U Pöschl, S Martin, B Sinha, Q Chen, S S Gunthe, J A Huffman, S Borrmann, D Farmer, R M Garland, G Helas, J L Jimenez, S M King, A Manzi, E Mikhailov, T Pauliquevis, M D Petters, A J Prenni, P Roldin, D Rose, J Schneider, H Su, S R Zorn, P Artaxo, M O Andreae 1110h A42B-03 Aerosol Characterization in the Amazon Basin during AMAZE-08: Fine Particle Composition and Source Apportionment: Q Chen, D K Farmer, J Schneider, S R Zorn, S Borrmann, C L Heald, T Karl, A B Guenther, J D Allan, N H Robinson, H Coe, U Pöschl, M O Andreae, J L Jimenez, P Artaxo, S T Martin 1125h A42B-04 Secondary Organic Aerosol from Isoprene Oxidation over Tropical Forested Regions (Invited): H Coe, N H Robinson, J F Hamilton, J D Allan, B Langford, D Oram, Q Chen, K Docherty, D K Farmer, J L Jimenez, M Ward, N Hewitt, M Barley, M Jenkin, A R Rickard, S T Martin, G McFiggans 1145h A42B-05 Automated Raman Lidar Measurements in the Amazon Rain Forest during the Wet and Dry Season 2008: H Baars, D Althausen, R Engelmann, A Ansmann, D Müller, P Artaxo, T Pauliquevis, R Souza, S T Martin 1200h A42B-06 Numerical Study of the Forward Scattering of Photosynthetically Active Radiation Caused by Aerosol Particles Emitted from Biomass Burning in Amazonia: T Costa, M Yamasoe 1215h A42B-07 Impact of Smoke from the Alaska 2004 Wildfires on Radiation and Cloud Microphysics Using WRF-Chem: G A Grell, S R Freitas, M Stuefer, K Longo 86 2010 The Meeting of the Americas GP42A Room Iguacu II Thursday 1030h Geomagnetism, Earth Rotation Rate, and Solar Variability II (joint with P, SM) Presiding: R Abarca del Rio; Y V Barkin, Sternberg Astronomical Institute; S N Duhau, Buenos Aires University; J Shirley, Caltech-JPL 1030h GP42A-01 Evidence for Solar Forcing of the semi-annual Variation of the Length-of-Day: J Le Mouel, E Blanter, M Shnirman, V E Courtillot 1045h GP42A-02 Solar Orbit-Spin Coupling and the Variability of Solar Meridional Flows (Invited): J H Shirley, S N Duhau 1100h GP42A-03 Gravitational Exitation Of The Earth’s Shell System And Variations Of Seismic, Volcanic And Climatic Processes: Y V Barkin, J M Ferradiz 1115h GP42A-04 Long-term relations between the solar inertial motion (SIM), solar, geomagnetic and volcanic activities and climate: I Charvátová GP42B Room Iguacu II Thursday 1130h Planetary Magnetism: Meteorites, Impact Craters, and Planetary Dynamos II (joint with P, SM) Presiding: J U Fucugauchi, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; E Tohver, University of Western Australia; R I Trindade, University of Sao Paulo 1130h GP42B-01 A SHARPER IMAGE OF MARS CRUSTAL MAGNETISM (Invited): J E Connerney, J R Espley 1145h GP42B-02 Minerals generating magnetic anomalies on Mars (Invited): G Kletetschka, R J Lillis, N F Ness, J E Connerney, Title of Team: MGS MAG/ER Science Team 1200h GP42B-03 Magnetic polarity reversals in the Earth, laboratory and numerical models (Invited): E Dormy, S Fauve, C Gissinger, F Pétrélis, J M Valet 1215h GP42B-04 WITHDRAWN Hydrology H42A Room C3 Thursday 1030h Water Resources Under Stress: Climate Variability, Land Use Change, and Atmospheric Deposition I (joint with B) Presiding: J Barco, UCLA; L A Cuartas, INPE; T S Hogue, UCLA; J A Marengo, CCST INPE 1030h H42A-01 Atmospheric deposition of nitrate, sulphate and ammonium on the Brazilian Territory: what do we know? (Invited): M Forti, K Longo 1045h H42A-02 Rainwater chemistry in the Eastern Amazon along a Gradient from the Ocean: R D Figueiredo, D Markewitz, E A Davidson, C D Pires, P Gerhard 1100h H42A-03 Hydrological Response of the Amazon River to the Droughts of 1996-97 and 2004-2005 (Invited): J Tomasella, L Borma, J A Marengo, D Rodriguez, L A Cuartas, C A Nobre, C Prado 1115h H42A-04 Development of Archetypal Watersheds and Climate Scenarios to Evaluate Climate Change Along Southern California’s Coast: S R Lopez, T S Hogue, E D Stein, D C Ackerman 1130h H42A-05 Can we manage risks from climate variability and land use change with adaptive insurance models of multiscale water footprint vulnerability? (Invited): E M Mendiondo, P F CaballeroCampos, M C Graciosa 1145h H42A-06 Understanding the effect of native forest replacement on hydrologic ecosystem services in the Valdivian Temperate Rainforest Ecoregion (34° – 40° S) (Invited): J P McPhee 1200h H42A-07 Energy-Water Interdependence: C A Christie, J A Tindall 1215h H42A-08 Using Satellite Observations and Modeling Products for Water Resources Management in the Americas: D L Toll, B Doorn, L G de Goncalves, R G Lawford, T Engman Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Ocean Sciences OS42A Room C2 Thursday 1030h Application of HF Radar Networks to Ocean Forecasts I (joint with GC) Presiding: M Mano, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; D Barrick, CODAR Ocean Sensors; J Harlan, NOAA 1030h OS42A-01 US National High Frequency Radar Surface Current Mapping Network: J Harlan 1045h OS42A-02 Assimilation of HF Radar into 3-dimensional Coastal Ocean Circulation Models to Enable Real-Time Forecasting: Y Chao, Z Li, J D Farrara, X Wang 1100h OS42A-03 A Nested Ensemble Kalman-Based Forecasting System for the Gulf of Mexico Circulation (Invited): G Gopalakrishnan, I Hoteit, T J Hoar, B D Cornuelle, E Terrill 1115h OS42A-04 Short-term Current Forecasts from an Empirical Statistical Model (Invited): B C Zelenke, M Kosro 1130h OS42A-05 Ensemble-based assimilation of high-frequency radar surface currents in regional ocean models (Invited): A Barth, A Alvera-Azcarate, J Beckers, E V Stanev, R H Weisberg 1145h OS42A-06 Variational Assimilation of High-Frequency (HF) Radar Surface Current Observations in the Coastal Ocean Model off Oregon (Invited): A L Kurapov, P Yu, G D Egbert, M Kosro 1200h OS42A-07 Extrapolation, interpolation, and filtering of surface radar data using modal analysis and domain mirroring: F Lekien 1215h OS42A-08 Normal mode analysis: Objective mapping with boundary constraints (Invited): B L Lipphardt, H S Huntley, A D Kirwan OS42B Room C1 Thursday Coastal and Estuarine Physical Processes III 1200h OS42B-07 Significance of active growth faulting to northern Gulf of Mexico coastal marsh accretion processes: K M Yeager, R A Feagin, C A Brunner, M Kulp, K J Schindler, J Prouhet, D Fischer, J M Johnson 1215h OS42B-08 Evaluation of the mud deposits effects in the wave energy potential throughout the Rio Grande do Sul State coastal area (Brazil): D C Cuchiara, W C Marques, E H Fernandes 1030h Presiding: E Siegle, University of Sao Paulo; C A França Schettini, Universidade Federal do Ceará; E E Toldo, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 1030h OS42B-01 Longshore Current Vertical Profile on a Dissipative Beach: G B Jung, E E Toldo 1045h OS42B-02 Boussinesq Modeling of Surfzone Tracer Plumes: F Feddersen, D B Clark, R T Guza 1100h OS42B-03 TIDAL MODULATION OF WAVE HEIGHT ON A BRAZILIAN CORAL REEF: M B Costa, M Araujo, T C Araújo 1115h OS42B-04 Storm-Induced Hydrodynamic and Sediment Transport Modeling in a Shallow Coastal Lake: Louisiana, USA: A Freeman, F Jose, H H Roberts 1130h OS42B-05 ACCELERATED EROSION AT CARNAUBINHA BEACH (CE), BRAZIL: P H Sousa, M R Moura, L D Pinheiro 1145h OS42B-06 Hydrodynamics and coastline impacts the due to harbor expansion. Study of case: Ponta do Ubu (Brazil): E Yassuda, G Clauzet, M Correa, H Tonin PP42A Room A2 Thursday 1030h Precambrian Paleoenvironments and Paleoecosystems I (joint with B) Presiding: M Ader, Institut de Physique du globa de Paris; C Vasconcelos, ETH-Zurich 1030h PP42A-01 Oxygenated Oceanic Environments and Mn(IV) Respiration Prior to the Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen at ~ 2.32 Ga: Evidence from Iron and Manganese Formations (Invited): N J Beukes, J Gutzmer 1050h PP42A-02 High-resolution SO2 spectra: Implications for sulfur MIF in the Archean atmosphere (Invited): J R Lyons, G Stark, D Blackie, J Pickering 1110h PP42A-03 C and N Isotopes in Late Archean Sedimentary Rocks from the Hamersley Range (Western Australia): V Busigny, O Lebeau, M Ader, A Bekker 1125h PP42A-04 Experimental and numerical modelling of continental weathering during Precambrian times: S Fabre, G Berger, A Nédélec 1140h PP42A-05 WITHDRAWN 1200h PP42A-06 CARBON ISOTOPE EVIDENCE FOR LOW pCO2 IN THE AFTERMATH OF NEOPROTEROZOIC GLACIATIONS: P Sansjofre, M Ader, R I Trindade, P Cartigny, A C Nogueira 1215h PP42A-07 Recent and Late Pleistocene stromatolites in lacustrine closed-basins of northern Patagonia east of the Andes: D Ariztegui, G Hunger, V Martinuzzi, C Vasconcelos Planetary Sciences P42A Room Cedro I Thursday 1030h Impact Structures in South America and Shock in Basaltic Targets II Presiding: A Crosta, UNICAMP; P H Schultz, Brown University 1030h P42A-01 The Carancas hypervelocity impact occurred on September 15, 2007 (Invited): G Tancredi, J Ishitsuka, P H Schultz, R S Harris, D Rosales, E Vidal 1045h P42A-02 Production of impact-derived felsic melts within Earth’s earliest crust:clues from the Araguainha structure,Brazil (Invited): C Lana, D Silva, C R Souza, G Stevens 1100h P42A-03 Latest results on field data of excavations at the Campo del Cielo, Argentina crater field (Invited): S P Wright, W A Cassidy, M Vesconi 1115h P42A-04 Sequence of Ejecta Emplacement around Impact Craters in the Argentine Pampean Sediments: P H Schultz, R Harris, M Zarate 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 87 P42B Room Cedro I Thursday Terrestrial Analog Studies of Martian and Planetary Environments I 1130h SM42A Room Iguassu III Thursday 1030h Multipoint Perspectives of Space Plasma II (joint with P, SA, SH) Presiding: N T Bridges, Applied Physics Laboratory; C R Souza, Geosciences Institute - University of Campinas 1130h P42B-01 The Banded Iron Formation of Serra dos Carajas, Brazil : A Candidate Analog Site for Primitive Marine and Biologically-rich Environments on Mars (Invited): C R Souza, N T Bridges, S J Hook, J K Crowley, B J Thomson 1142h P42B-02 Simulation of Mars Visible-Infrared Remote Sensing Data Using Terrestrial Analogs (Invited): N T Bridges, F P Seelos, S J Hook, A M Baldridge, C R Souza, B J Thomson 1154h P42B-03 Understanding Gully Formation on Mars using Terrestrial Analogs: V C Gulick 1206h P42B-04 Gully Formation on Mars: Are Terrestrial Analogs Applicable?: A S McEwen, S Byrne, C M Dundas, S Diniega, N T Bridges, L Ojha, Title of Team: HiRISE Team 1218h P42B-05 Terrestrial Analogs for Titan : Rivers, Dunes and Lakes (Invited): R D Lorenz, J Radebaugh Seismology S42A Room Iguacu I Thursday The International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks: Perspectives in Latin America 1030h Presiding: G Suarez, Instituto de Geofisica; T K Ahern, IRIS; S E Barrientos, Universidad de Chile; T V Eck, ORFEUS 1030h S42A-01 The Brazilian Permanent Seismographic Network: Current Plans and Preliminary Results (Invited): M Assumpcao, J M Ferreira, D Nascimento, S L Fontes, M Pirchiner, L V Barros, G S França, J Dourado, A F do Nascimento 1045h S42A-02 A new Mexican regional seismic network, a necessary tool for surveying the Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico: J M Gomez Gonzalez, C Mendoza, R Barboza-Gudiño, J C Montalvo-Arrieta, R A Leon-Loya, A Rojas-Ledezma 1100h S42A-03 Three Broadband Seismic Networks Operated by OVSICORI-UNA in Costa Rica (Invited): M Protti, V González, J F Pacheco, S Y Schwartz, A V Newman 1115h S42A-04 Seismic Background Noise of Puerto Rico: R A Pujols, H M Ierkic, V Huerfano, D E McNamara, C von Hillebrandt-Andrade 1130h S42A-05 Monitoring Earthquakes in the Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands Region with a Modern Broadband Network: G BaezSanchez, V Huerfano 1145h S42A-06 The Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (CARIBE EWS) and its Seismic Monitoring Component (Invited): C von HillebrandtAndrade, Title of Team: Working Group 1, UNESCO IOC CARIBE EWS 1200h S42A-07 Present and Future of the Venezuelan Seismological Network: H Rendón, R López, M Palma 1215h S42A-08 The Global Seismographic Network (Invited): R Butler, K R Anderson, J Berger, P Davis, J Derr, L S Gee, X Song 88 2010 The Meeting of the Americas SPA-Magnetospheric Physics Presiding: W D Gonzalez; J F Spann 1030h SM42A-01 Three-Spacecraft Spatial Gradient Estimation: Accuracy Studies and Current Sheet Applications: A Albert, J Vogt, O Marghitu 1042h SM42A-02 Cascades2: Multi-Payload Sounding Rocket Investigation of Auroral Hiss: E T Lundberg, P M Kintner, K A Lynch, M R Mella 1054h SM42A-03 THEMIS Observations of A Series of Hot Flow Anomaly Events: H Zhang, D G Sibeck, Q Zong, J P McFadden, D E Larson, K Glassmeier, J W Bonnell, A Roux, S P Gary 1106h SM42A-04 A Statistical Study of THEMIS-observed Transient Flows in the Dayside Magnetosheath Enabled by the Virtual Magnetospheric Observatory: J Merka, D G Sibeck, T W Narock 1118h SM42A-05 Satellite observations of lower-hybrid waves and related anomalous resistivity in a fast reconnection event (Invited): C Xiao, X Wang, Z Pu 1138h SM42A-06 Multi-point Measurements of Composition in Magnetic Reconnection: D T Young, J L Burch, M Hesse 1150h SM42A-07 Structure and thickness of the LLBL: Z Nemecek, O Tkachenko, J Safrankova, S Dusik, G Granko, K Jelinek 1202h SM42A-08 Comparison of Models of Flux Transfer Event Formation using Predicted and Observed Asymmetry (Invited): R Fear, S E Milan, D G Sibeck, J Raeder SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics SH42A Room Iguassu V Thursday 1030h Transient Heliospheric Phenomena, Propagation, and Space Weather II (joint with P, SA) Presiding: J C Johnston, AFRL; S P Plunkett, Naval Research Laboratory; D F Webb, Boston College 1036h SH42A-01 Blowing in the Wind – Past and Present Views of Coronal Mass Ejections (Invited): V Bothmer 1059h SH42A-02 AFRL Space Weather Forecasting Laboratory: Constructing a Hybrid CME Forecast Methodology (Invited): J C Johnston, T A Kuchar, D F Webb 1122h SH33F-02 Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections and Cosmic Ray Forbush Decreases During Solar Cycle 23: I G Richardson, H V Cane 1145h SH42A-04 Using observations of subsurface helicity to predict flare occurrence: A A Reinard, J Henthorn, R Komm, F Hill 1200h SH42A-05 Transient Heliospheric Phenomena: A Forecast of Heliospheric Parameters at Earth: B Jackson, P Hick, J Clover, A Buffington, M Bisi 1215h SH42A-06 Geometric and Polarimetric Localization and the J-Map: Space Weather Tools to Calculate CME Velocity in 3D Space: C A de Koning, C Davis Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology V42A Room Iguassu IV Thursday Mantle Plumes in the Atlantic Ocean (joint with P, S) 1030h Presiding: M Humayun, Florida State University; C Beier, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 1030h V42A-01 Partial Melting in a Volatile-bearing, Heterogeneous Mantle and Genesis of HIMU-EM Ocean Island Basalts (Invited): R Dasgupta, K Tsuno, C Gerbode 1045h V42A-02 A possible layering of mantle convection at the top of the Iceland Plume: a crosscheck between physical, petrological and tomographic models: M Rabinowicz, M D Calvet, M Toplis 1100h V42A-03 Mantle plumes above ridge axes: C Beier, K M Haase, S Turner, F Genske, B F Schaefer 1115h V42A-04 The lithosphere influence on the composition of plume magmas at the Cape Verde archipelago (Invited): J Mata, S Martins, C Mourão, J Munhá 1130h V42A-05 Shona Aseismic Ridge Systems and the South Atlantic DUPAL Anomaly Revisited (Invited): C Class, A P le Roex, J M O’Connor, W Jokat 1145h V42A-06 South Atlantic mantle plumes: origin of compositional anomalies (Invited): A P le Roex, C Class, D Long 1200h V42A-07 High Fe/Mn Ratios in Gough Island Basalts: M Humayun, A P le Roex 1215h V42A-08 A Non-Plume Origin for the Paraná Magmatic Province (Southern Brazil): Constraints from Geochemical, Isotopic, Geochronological and Geophysical data: L S Marques, M Ernesto, A R Nardy Thursday P.M. Union U43A Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 1400h South American Climate and Landscape Evolution During the Late Cenozoic II Posters Presiding: P A Baker, Duke University; C A Rigsby; J C Stevaux, University of Maringa 1400h U43A-01 POSTER The Late Miocene Paleogeography of the Amazon Basin and the evolution of the Amazon River system: E M Latrubesse, M A Cozzuol, S A Silva-Caminha, C A Rigsby, M L Absy, C Jaramillo 1400h U43A-02 POSTER Holocene Landscape Evolution of the Llanos de Moxos, NE Bolivia: A Plotzki, H Veit 1400h U43A-03 POSTER Evaluate of sedimentation and neotectonic in Low Terrace of Upper Paraná River (Brazil): ÉDIPO H Cremon, E E Souza Filho U43B Room A3 Thursday 1400h The 2010 Haiti Earthquake: Lessons for Seismic Hazard and Societal Impacts in the Caribbean Presiding: J U Fucugauchi, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; E Calais, Purdue University; C Prepetit, Bureau of Mines 1400h U43B-01 The January 12, 2010, Mw 7.0 earthquake in Haiti: context and mechanism from an integrated geodetic study (Invited): E Calais, G S Mattioli, A M Freed, P E Jansma, F Amelung, T H Dixon, E Chaussard, D S Stamps, R Momplaisir, C Prepetit, J Macly, M Saint Louis, D Belizaire 1415h U43B-02 Preliminary Analysis of Aftershocks Recorded Following the M7.0 Haiti Earthquake of 12 January 2010: Insights into the Distribution of Damage in Port au Prince (Invited): S E Hough, J R Altidor, D Anglade, H Benz, W L Ellsworth, D D Given, J L Hardebeck, M G Janvier, J Z Maharrey, Y Mazabraud, D E McNamara, B F Mercier De Lepinay, M E Meremonte, M Saint Louis, C Prepetit, A K Yong 1430h U43B-03 Project REPONS: Offshore Faults, Tectonic Deformation Mapping and Turbidite Record Reconnaissance in Response to the January 12 2010 Earthquake, Haiti (Invited): C M McHugh, S Gulick, M Cormier, N Braudy, M Davis, N Dieudonne, J B Diebold, R Douilly, M Hornbach, H E Johnson, L Seeber, K E Mishkin, C C Sorlien, M S Steckler, S J Symithe, J Templeton, Title of Team: The REPONS (Rapid Enriquillo Plantain Offshore Neotectonic Study) Scientific Team 1445h U43B-04 Geologic Effects of the January 12, 2010, Haiti Earthquake: Tectonic Geomorphology, Surface Rupture, and Coastal Uplift (Invited): P Mann, C S Prentice, R W Briggs, F W Taylor, A J Crone, R D Gold, K W Hudnut, R D Koehler, P Jean 1500h U43B-05 Haiti-OBS : a rapid response to January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake: Aftershocks analysis, correlation with the geodynamic framework of southern Hispaniola: B F Mercier De Lepinay, F Klingelhoefer, D Graindorge, B Marcaillou, V Clouard, Y Mazabraud, P Charvis, A Deschamps, J Perrot, B Delouis, M Vallee 1515h U43B-06 Vertical deformations related to the January 12 2010 Haiti earthquake: Insights from microatolls: J Weil Accardo, N Feuillet, E Jacques, Y Klinger, J Saurel, R Lacassin, P tapponnier, D Anglade, P Deschamps 1530h U43B-07 Seismic Monitoring in the Dominican Republic and its Contribution to January 12th 2010 Haiti Earthquake: R A Pujols, E Polanco-Rivera 1545h U43B-08 Deforestation and hurricanes as triggers for the 2010 Haiti earthquake: S Wdowinski Atmospheric Sciences A43A Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 1400h Airborne Dust,Transport, and Deposition: Implications in Geology and Human Health II Posters (joint with GP) Presiding: D K Adams, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas; W A Sprigg, The University of Arizona 1400h A43A-01 POSTER MINERALOGY AND CHEMISTRY OF THE SOIL TYPE BELTERRA CLAY IN THE WEST OF THE AMAZON: I C Pereira, A M Horbe 1400h A43A-02 POSTER An Aerosol Black Carbon Emission Survey from the Brazilian Automotive Fleet: A Castagna, H E da Silva 1400h A43A-03 POSTER The WMO Sand & Dust Storm Warning Advisory & Assessment System: A Proposed Pan-American Participation: W A Sprigg, M Kafatos, L A Barrie, S Nickovic 1400h A43A-04 POSTER Dust Analysis and Prediction over East Asia with 4D-EnKF Data Assimilation: T T Sekiyama, T Y Tanaka 1400h A43A-05 WITHDRAWN 1400h A43A-06 POSTER O and H Isotopes from a Belterra Clay Profile in Amazonia: A M Horbe 1400h A43A-07 POSTER Belterra Clay in Brazil: Addressing the African Dust Hypothesis: E Williams, D D Eberl, J W Rosa, D K Adams, M Todd, D BOU KARAM, S Huang, W Balsam, N O Renno 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 89 A43B Room Expocenter II-III Thursday Stratospheric Ozone and Climate III Posters 1400h Presiding: A Y Karpechko, Finnish Meteorological Institute 1400h A43B-01 POSTER Arctic stratosphere contribution to extreme ozone minimum events over the Tibetan Plateau during winters 1987–2001: Y Liu, C Liu, Z Cai, S Gao 1400h A43B-02 POSTER Influence of the Antarctic Ozone Hole on the American South Cone 1992-2009: C Casiccia, N M Paes Leme, F Zamorano, E Wolfram, E J Quel, R Viana 1400h A43B-03 POSTER Influence of the Antarctic Ozone Hole on South of Brazil in the XXI Century: E Kall, L V Peres, D K Pinheiro, N J Schuch, N M Paes Leme 1400h A43B-04 POSTER Multi-analysis Ensemble in Polar Regions: M M Lucini, T G Shepherd, N A McFarlane, S Polavarapu 1400h A43B-05 POSTER Systematic Ozone Profile Measurements in South Patagonia: Preliminary Result Analysis: E Wolfram, J Salvador, R D’Elia, P F Orte, F Zamorano, C Casiccia, N M Paes Leme, S Godin-Beekmann, E J Quel 1400h A43B-06 POSTER Multi-model assessment of the factors driving the ozone evolution over the 21st century: L Oman, D Plummer, D W Waugh, J Austin, J Scinocca, Title of Team: CCMVal Model PI’s 1400h A43B-07 WITHDRAWN A43C Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 1400h Climatic Effects of Aerosols in the Amazon Region II Posters (joint with B, GC) Presiding: M O Andreae, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry; P Artaxo, University of São Paulo; M A Silva Dias, Universidade de Sao Paulo 1400h A43C-01 POSTER A study of the interaction between Aerosol Optical Depth and Cloud Cover Fraction in Amazon from 2002 to 2008 using MODIS data: V R da Rocha, M Yamasoe 1400h A43C-02 POSTER Characterization of Aerosol Particles, by the Spectrometry Method: F B Santanna, P H Arruda, E H Arruda, L ÂNGELO Vidal, G B Seixas, F J Carrilho, J S Nogueira 1400h A43C-03 POSTER Effects of Biomass Burning Aerosols and Land Cover Use Change on the Hydrological Cycle and Surface Fluxes in the Amazon Region: R Siqueira, S R Freitas, K Longo, J J Hoelzemann, D França, R S Lima, R Fonseca, A Castro, C M Silva 1400h A43C-04 POSTER The dynamics of cloud droplet condensational growth in the clean atmosphere of the Amazon basin: a modelling study: T Pauliquevis, M F Dias, A Manzi, S S Gunthe, S T Martin, P Artaxo 1400h A43C-05 POSTER Cloud condensation nuclei in pristine tropical rainforest air of Amazonia: size-resolved measurements and modeling of atmospheric aerosol composition and CCN activity: S S Gunthe, S M King, D Rose, Q Chen, P Roldin, D Farmer, J L Jimenez, P Artaxo, M O Andreae, S T Martin, U Pöschl 1400h A43C-06 POSTER Assessing the impact of biomass burning aerosols in Amazon Basin’s radiation budget using remote sensing and in situ measurements: E T Sena, P Artaxo, A L Correia A43D Room Expocenter I Thursday 1400h Large-Scale Atmospheric Properties of Trace Gases and Aerosols in Amazonia II: Carbon Dioxide and Methane (joint with B, GC) Presiding: M O Andreae, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry; P Artaxo, University of São Paulo 1400h A43D-01 Basin scale studies of sources and sinks of CO2 and associated greenhouse gases and aerosols in Amazonia using aircraft. (Invited): S C Wofsy, C Gerbig, P Artaxo, K M Longo, M O Andreae, L V Gatti, J B Miller, V Y Chow, E W Gottlieb, M Longo, G Santoni, B Munger, O Kolle, H Chen, J Steinbach, V Beck, K T Wiedemann, F Morais, M Bela, S R Freitas, N Jurgens 1415h A43D-02 Methane concentration, flux and vertical gradient measurements in a Brazilian Amazonian forest site (Invited): T Roeckmann, C A Querino, P Smeets, R Holzinger, V Moura, L V Gatti, A Araujo, A Manzi 1430h A43D-03 Soil CH4, CO2, and N2O Fluxes From Eastern Amazonia in a Drought Experiment and Terra Preta Soils: E B Vasconcellos, J L Van Haren, A L Pereira, L Hovland 1445h A43D-04 HOW DO THE FLUXES OF CO2 AND CH4 FROM FLUVIAL AND WETLAND ENVIRONMENTS ACROSS THE AMAZON CONTRIBUTE AS SOURCES TO THE ATMOSPHERE?: J E Richey, J M Melack, A Krusche 1500h A43D-05 Comparison of WRF-Chem simulations to in-situ measurements during BARCA: Potential for constraining sources of methane: V Beck, C Gerbig, R Kretschmer, T Koch, D K Pillai, R Ahmadov, M M Bela, K Longo, S R Freitas, V Y Chow, S C Wofsy, P Artaxo, T Roeckmann, C A Querino, C van der Veen, C J Sapart, P M Bergamaschi, H Chen, A Jordan, O Kolle, J Steinbach, E W Gottlieb, M Longo, B C Daube, J W Munger, K T Wiedemann, F Morais, A C Ribeiro, M O Andreae, N Juergens 1515h A43D-06 High resolution WRF-VPRM modeling of atmospheric CO2 over the Amazon during BARCA: Assessment of representativeness: C Gerbig, V Y Chow, V Beck, R Kretschmer, T Koch, D K Pillai, M M Bela, K Longo, S R Freitas, S C Wofsy, P Artaxo, H Chen, O Kolle, J Steinbach, E W Gottlieb, M Longo, B C Daube, J W Munger, G Santoni, F Morais, A C Ribeiro, M O Andreae, N Juergens, C A Querino, T Roeckmann 1530h A43D-07 Estimating the Carbon Budget of the Amazon during the BARCA Campaigns: V Y Chow, C Gerbig, M Longo, B Munger, C Wiedinmyer, H Chen, O Kolle, J Steinbach, B C Daube, E W Gottlieb, G Santoni, L V Gatti, J B Miller, R Kretschmer, M O Andreae, N Jurgens, S C Wofsy 1545h A43D-08 Estimating the seasonality of the ecosystem carbon budget in the Amazon during BARCA using a coupled ecological-atmospheric model (ED2-BRAMS): M Longo, R G Knox, Y Kim, D Medvigy, N M Levine, V Y Chow, J W Munger, K Longo, S R Freitas, S R Saleska, C Gerbig, P Artaxo, R L Bras, P R Moorcroft, S C Wofsy A43E Room A1 Thursday Tropical Clouds and Radiation II (joint with H) 1400h Presiding: B Lin, NASA Langley Research Ctr; L Machado, INPE; S S Costa, CPTEC/INPE 1400h A43E-01 Changes of Cloudiness and Surface Radiation over the Amazon: Causes and Implication to Tropical Ecosystem (Invited): R Fu, P A Arias 1420h A43E-02 The Vertical Profile of Droplet Sizes and Thermodynamic Phases for Convective Clouds and their Response to Aerosols – A New Measurement Approach (Invited): J V Martins, L A Remer, I Koren, A L Correia, A Marshak 90 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1440h A43E-03 Effect of aerosol particles emitted by biomass burning in the Amazon Basin on solar radiation and its consequences (Invited): M Yamasoe, N E Rosario, V R da Rocha, T Costa, R K Braghiere 1500h A43E-04 Tropical Cloud Profiles Observed by CloudSat, CALIPSO and Aura MLS: J H Jiang, H Su, R Bhawar 1515h A43E-05 Global statistics of supercooled water clouds from combined CALIPSO and MODIS measurements: Y Hu 1530h A43E-06 Satellite observations of the impact of Saharan dusts on convective systems: B Lin, Q Min, R Li 1545h A43E-07 Cloud Streets and Surface Interactions in the Amazon: R Ramos-da-Silva, A W Gandu, L Sá, M A Silva Dias 1400h H43A-04 POSTER Joint Optimization of Remediation Design and Monitoring for DNAPL Sites Considering Model and Data Uncertainty: J Parker 1400h H43A-05 POSTER Biofuels Production in Brazil: Implications for Groundwater Vulnerability: M M Nobre, R C Nobre 1400h H43A-06 POSTER Monitoring and Modeling Water Quality in the Choptank River Watershed, Coastal Plain, Maryland, USA: G W McCarty, C Hapeman, D Hively, M W Lang, L McConnell, A Sadeghi, A Sexton Biogeosciences Presiding: J Barco, UCLA; L A Cuartas, INPE; T S Hogue, UCLA; J A Marengo, CCST INPE B43A Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 1400h Andean Amazon: Bridging Upper and Lower Basins II Posters (joint with H, GC) 1400h H43B-01 POSTER Effect of the Climate Change on the Water Availability in the Paracatu River Basin: E L Mello, R F Silva, F B Justino, F F Pruski 1400h H43B-02 POSTER Variability and trends in hydroclimatology in a watershed in the altiplano, Peru: M Mazzarino, C M Brown, P Barten 1400h H43B-03 POSTER Shifting flow patterns in the Brahmaputra and Ganges basins: Signals of regional climate warming in the Eastern Himalayas?: A S Akanda, D K Prashar, D L Small, A S Jutla, S Islam, Title of Team: WE REASoN (Water and Environmental Research, Education, & Actionable Solutions Network) 1400h H43B-04 POSTER Understanding the Climatology of Thermodynamic Signatures around Artificial Reservoirs: F Hossain, A Degu 1400h H43B-05 POSTER Integrating MODIS-based products into MIKE-SHE simulations of burned watersheds in Southern California: A M Kinoshita, T S Hogue 1400h H43B-06 WITHDRAWN Presiding: L F Suarez, Alas Peruanas University; J F Garcia-Quijano 1400h B43A-01 POSTER Revisiting a latest Quaternary megafan in Western Amazonia applying remote sensing: E H Hayakawa, D Rossetti 1400h B43A-02 POSTER Paleohydrological reconstruction of an Amazonian floodplain: a geophysical and geochemical approach: M A Amorim, P F Moreira-Turcq, B Turcq, R C Cordeiro 1400h B43A-03 POSTER Role of Andeans and sub-Andeans domains on weathering budget and CO2 consumption rates of Amazon basin: J Moquet, J Viers, A Crave, P Seyler, E Chavarry, C Lagane, W Lavado, L Noriega, R Pombosa, J Guyot, Title of Team: research program HYBAM (present-day hydro-geodynamics of the Amazon Basin) 1400h B43A-04 POSTER Challenges for transfrontier river basin management in southwestern Amazonia: examples from Acre State, Brazil: A W Melo, V L Reis, S S Silva, F Brown 1400h B43A-05 POSTER TRANSBOUNDARY AIR POLLUTION IN SOUTHERN AMAZON OF PERU: L Suarez, K Jeremias, J Tovar 1400h B43A-06 POSTER Fish diversity, migration, habitats and conservation issues along the Urubamba and Inambari rivers basins in Peru: H Ortega, M Hidalgo, B Rengifo, V Palacios, E Correa, J Espino, R Argomedo Hydrology H43A Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 1400h The Complementary Roles of Modeling and Monitoring in Environmental Management and Remediation II Posters Presiding: M Van Genuchten, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; B Faybishenko, LBNL; J Su; T J Nicholson, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1400h H43A-01 POSTER Simulations of 226Ra Transport in a Cerrado Soil Profile Following the Long-Term Use of Phosphogypsum as a Soil Conditioner: M S Batalha, C R Bezerra, E M Pontedeiro, M Barbosa, M Van Genuchten 1400h H43A-02 WITHDRAWN 1400h H43A-03 POSTER Study of Hydrocarbons Aquifer Contamination Using Computational Modeling: B E Távora, S Koide H43B Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 1400h Water Resources Under Stress: Climate Variability, Land Use Change, and Atmospheric Deposition II Posters (joint with B) H43C Room C3 Thursday 1400h Transboundary Hydrologic and Climate Research:Toward Sustainability in a Multidisciplinary and International Context (joint with A) Presiding: F Munoz-Arriola, University of Washington; G M Garfin, Institute of the Environment 1400h H43C-01 The Development of an International Drought Clearinghouse and Its Application to Transboundary Hydrologic Basin Decisions and Research (Invited): R R Heim, M Brewer 1415h H43C-02 THE GLOBAL EARTH OBSERVATION SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS (GEOSS) AND WATER CYCLE CAPACITY BUILDING IN LATIN AND CARIBBEAN AMERICA: R Lawford, A Gutierrez-Magness, D L Toll, T Engman 1430h H43C-03 A Decision Support System for the Delineation of Water Resources Regions: A Coelho Maran, D Fontane, B Braga, E Vlachos 1445h H43C-04 Toward the Resolution of Transboundary Water Disputes in Central and South Asia using Geospatial Imagery: K L Verosub 1500h H43C-05 Water 2100 for South Asia: Create Actionable Knowledge through Water Diplomacy: S Islam, A S Akanda, Y Gao, Title of Team: WE REASoN (Water and Environmental Research, Education, & Actionable Solutions Network) 1515h H43C-06 Hydrology of the Grijalva-Usumacinta River Basin: An assessment to understand historical and future flood events: S Shukla, F Munoz-Arriola, J Salgado Rabadán, E Aguilar Garduño, O Rodríguez Lopez, R Lobato Sánchez, J rosario de la Cruz 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 91 1530h H43C-07 Hydroclimatic Variability in Patagonia: Characterization of Precipitation Patterns and Orographic Effects from Combining a RCM and Ground-based Rainfall and Streamflow data: J P McPhee, M Rojas, C Alvarez-Garreton, P Mendoza-Zuñiga 1545h H43C-08 Climate and Hydrology Research Coordination for Adaptation to Climate Change in North America: G M Garfin Ocean Sciences OS43A Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 1400h Application of HF Radar Networks to Ocean Forecasts II Posters (joint with GC) Presiding: D Barrick, CODAR Ocean Sensors; J Harlan, NOAA; M Mano, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro 1400h OS43A-01 POSTER A Parameter-free Method for Interpolation of the Sea Surface Velocity Field Measured by HF Radars: M Yaremchuk, A Sentchev 1400h OS43A-02 POSTER High resolution surface current observations using high-frequency radar network on the U.S. West Coast: S Kim, E Terrill, B Cornuelle 1400h OS43A-03 POSTER Comparing Two Low Computational Cost Methodologies that Apply HF Radar to Ocean Forecasts: M Mano, F Alves 1400h OS43A-04 POSTER Constraining and Extending HF Observed Currents Using Navier-Stokes Equations (Invited): D Barrick 1400h OS43A-05 WITHDRAWN OS43B Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 1400h Oceanographic Complexity and Biological Processes in the Southwestern Atlantic II Posters Presiding: P D Lana, Universidade Federal do Parana; H Mianzan 1400h OS43B-01 POSTER PHYTOPLANKTON BIOMASS LEVELS ASSOCIATED WITH WATER MASSES IN THE BRAZIL-MALVINAS CONFLUENCE REGION: R G Araujo, V M Garcia, C A Garcia, Title of Team: High Latitude Oceanography Group - GOAL 1400h OS43B-02 POSTER Intensive Fish Feeding on Zooplankton Aggregations in the South Patagonian Frontal Region: L Padovani, M D Viñas, F Sánchez, H Mianzan 1400h OS43B-03 POSTER Brazil Current Confluence System: characteristics and waters dynamics: D Severov, A Remeslo, V Pshennikov 1400h OS43B-04 POSTER Dissolved Nutrients and Chlorophyll-a of the Northeast Brazilian Economic Exclusive Zone (7°S – 10°S): S J Macedo, M J Flores Montes, K Muniz 1400h OS43B-05 POSTER Variation in Nematoda community along a gradient of influence of Arraial do Cabo upwelling, RJ, Brazil: L M Lage, R Coutinho 1400h OS43B-06 POSTER Regional biogeochemical modelling in the Southwestern tropical Atlantic: N Bouchonneau, M Silva, A C Silva, M Araujo 1400h OS43B-07 POSTER Bio-optical and Hydrographic Measurements in the Continental Shelf and Slope of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: M F Giannini, V M Garcia, ÁUREA M Ciotti, G A Moser, C A Garcia 92 2010 The Meeting of the Americas OS43C Room C1 Thursday Coastal and Estuarine Physical Processes IV 1400h Presiding: E Siegle, University of Sao Paulo; C A França Schettini, Universidade Federal do Ceará; E E Toldo, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 1400h OS43C-01 Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) observations of Oceanic Internal Waves in North Bay of Bengal: R Meka 1415h OS43C-02 WITHDRAWN 1430h OS43C-03 Numerical simulation of climatological circulation in the Southeastern Brazilian shelf and Santos estuary: C A França, P Luyten, E J Campos 1445h OS43C-04 Analysis of the wind stress influence on the circulation of a coastal region in the northeastern Brazil: F S Leite, M Araujo, R A Silva 1500h OS43C-05 Numerical study of the effect of synoptic wind variability on the coastal sea surface temperature off Central Chile: C Aguirre, R Garreaud, J A Rutllant 1515h OS43C-06 Calibration and Validation of a Hydrodynamic Model in the Coastal Area of the Suape Harbor, Northeastern Brazil: R A Silva, M Silva, M Araujo 1530h OS43C-07 Subtidal cross-shelf circulation and transport on the inner shelf off Cartagena de Indias, Caribbean coast of Colombia: M A Maza 1545h OS43C-08 MODELING CIRCULATION AND THERMAL STRUCTURE IN LAKE MICHIGAN AROUND MILWAUKEE: H Bravo, D Purohit OS43D Room C2 Thursday 1400h Operational Ocean Prediction and Data Assimilation II (joint with A) Presiding: C A Tanajura, Federal university of Bahia; E Campos, University of Sao Paulo; L P Pezzi; I D Soares, FURG 1400h OS43D-01 A Hybrid Background Error Covariance Model for Assimilating Glider Data: M Yaremchuk, D Nechaev, C Pan 1415h OS43D-02 Climatology of The Brazil Current Produced by Hindcast Simulations With Hycom With SSH Assimilation: F C Cabral, W S Junior, J A Lima, R Parkinson Martins, E Campos 1430h OS43D-03 Data Assimilation Experiments in the Atlantic Ocean with Different Schemes Using HYCOM, ARGO and PIRATA Data: C A Tanajura, G A Ruggiero, K Belyaev, Title of Team: Oceanographic Modeling and Observation Research Network (REMO) 1445h OS43D-04 Satellite altimeter data assimilation using the Local Ensemble Transformed Kalman Filter and an Optimal Interpolation scheme: A South Atlantic Ocean experiment: G Ruggiero, I O Monteiro, I D Soares, C A Tanajura, K Belyaev 1500h OS43D-05 Observational and numerical studies of SST variability at South Atlantic using the Regional CPTEC Oceanic Data Assimilation System (R-CODAS): R de Camargo, L P Pezzi, D L Herdies 1515h OS43D-06 The Variational Data Assimilation and Forecast System for Coastal Ocean Circulation off Oregon: A L Kurapov, P Yu, G D Egbert 1530h OS43D-07 A Numerical Model Downscaling Approach for an Operational Ocean Forecasting System: G Clauzet, E A Yassuda, H Tonin, M F Guimarães 1545h OS43D-08 The 1/12 degree Global HYCOM Nowcast/ Forecast System (Invited): O M Smedstad, J A Cummings, E Metzger, H E Hurlburt, A J Wallcraft, D S Franklin, J F Shriver, P G Thoppil Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology PP43A Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 1400h Oceanography and Paleoceanography of the Marine Upwelling Systems of South America II Posters (joint with B, GC, OS) Presiding: A Albuquerque, Universidade Federal Fluminense; D Gutierrez, Instituto del Mar del Perú 1400h PP43A-01 POSTER The equatorial Pacific pelagic sedimentary system: N C Mitchell, M Tominaga, M W Lyle 1400h PP43A-02 POSTER Mooring Line for Sediment Traps: Study Case of Coastal Upwelling of Cabo Frio, Southeast Brazil: U N Mendoza, R Candella, L D Assad, A Albuquerque, A Sifeddine, H R Santos, L Azevedo, L Landau, Title of Team: Projeto Ressurgência 1400h PP43A-03 POSTER Upwelling influence on the oxygen and carbon isotopic composition of Globigerina bulloides and Globigerinoides ruber (planktonic foraminifers) during the Holocene in Cabo Frio (RJ-Brazil): D V Lessa, T P Santos, C F Barbosa, A C Oliveira, A Albuquerque, Title of Team: Projeto Ressurgência 1400h PP43A-04 POSTER A 500 Year Record of Redox Conditions Inferred from Benthic Foraminifera of Laminated Sediments from the Central Peruvian Continental Slope: C Almeida, J Cardich, M Morales, N Bilton, C F Barbosa, R Salvatteci, F Velazco, D Gutierrez, A Sifeddine 1400h PP43A-05 POSTER Physical-Chemical of Pore-Water Profiles Related to Sulphur Geochemistry from the Cabo Frio Upwelling System: H L Santos, U N Mendoza, A Albuquerque, M Böttcher, D D Souto, Title of Team: Projeto Ressurgência 1400h PP43A-06 POSTER Paleoproductivity and redox conditions on a Southwestern Atlantic upwelling zone during the Holocene: a multi-proxy record: D D Souto, D D Lessa, A Albuquerque, A Sifeddine, B Turcq 1400h PP43A-07 POSTER Variability during the Holocene of Organic Matter Sources in the Upwelling Region of Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro as Indicated by Lipid Biomarkers: R S Carreira, A Baêta, A D Wagener PP43B Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 1400h Precambrian Paleoenvironments and Paleoecosystems II Posters (joint with B) Presiding: M Ader, Institut de Physique du globa de Paris 1400h PP43B-01 WITHDRAWN 1400h PP43B-02 POSTER Insights on Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes Compositions of Neoproterozoic Carbonates from Clumped Isotope Thermometry: M Bonifacie, T D Raub, D A Fike, J Eiler 1400h PP43B-03 POSTER Toward the snowball earth deglaciation: G Le Hir, Y Donnadieu, G Krinner, G Ramstein 1400h PP43B-04 POSTER Water column stratification variability across the Ediacaran Yangtze platform? Insights from paired Carbon isotopes in the Doushantuo formation (South China): M Ader, R I Trindade, M Macouin, Z Yang, J Besse 1400h PP43B-05 POSTER Extreme Carbon-13 Enrichment in Dolomitic Stromatolites: Role of Methanogens in Modern Carbonate Precipitation, Lagoa Salgada, Brazil: J A McKenzie, R Lundberg, P Meister, T Bontognali, C Vasconcelos 1400h PP43B-06 POSTER Evidence of microbial activity around the K/P boundary, Neuquén Basin, Argentina: B Aguirre-Urreta, M Tunik PP43C Room A2 Thursday 1400h Paleoclimatic and Environmental Reconstructions in South America for the Late Glacial and Holocene: Combining Empirical and Modeling Evidence II (joint with GC) Presiding: J Massaferro, CENAC-APN; A Schwalb, TU Braunschweig; S Wagner, FU Berlin 1400h PP43C-01 Patterns and Controls of Moisture Variation in Tropical South America During the Holocene and Late-glacial Periods as Inferred from Lacustrine Records (Invited): S C Fritz, P A Baker 1420h PP43C-02 Overview of Regional Climate Modeling over South America (Invited): S A Solman 1440h PP43C-03 Sensitivity of the southern westerlies to glacial and orbital forcings over the last 32,000 years: M Rojas, M Kageyama, M Khodri, P Braconnot 1455h PP43C-04 WITHDRAWN 1510h PP43C-05 Past Sea Surface Temperatures over Tropical Oceans and their Possible Influences on Northeastern South America Paleoclimates: A A Costa, F S Rios, T A Dias, F V Pimentel Planetary Sciences P43A Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 1400h Impact Structures in South America and Shock in Basaltic Targets Posters III (joint with V) Presiding: M Arakawa; L Sanchez Bettucci, Facultad de Ciencias 1400h P43A-01 POSTER Occurrences, petrography, and spectroscopy of a range of classes of shocked basalt from Lonar Crater, India: S P Wright, H E Newsom 1400h P43A-02 POSTER Impact Craters in Brazil: Current Knowledge and Recent Progresses: A P Crosta 1400h P43A-03 POSTER Application of Granular Physics to impact processes: G Tancredi, A Maciel, I Elgue, P Richeri, L Heredia, S Nesmachnow 1400h P43A-04 POSTER Shatter cones formation mechanism - the enigma remains: D Baratoux, A Suzuki, E Yokoyama, R I Trindade 1400h P43A-05 POSTER Observations of impact flashes on the Moon: S Bouley, D Baratoux, S Chevrel, A Leroy, Z Benkhaldoun, P Lognonne, R Garcia, R Yamada, M D Calvet, D Mimoun, M Lefeuvre, N Mangold, F Colas, J Renard 1400h P43A-06 POSTER STRUCTURAL MODELING OF THE VICHADA IMPACT STRUCTURE FROM INTERPRETED GROUND GRAVITY AND MAGNETIC ANOMALIES: O Hernandez, R R vonFrese, G C Alexander 1400h P43A-07 POSTER Novel use of electrical resistivity tomography in the study of impact craters: A case study of Araguainha impact structure in Brazil: C Tong, C Lana, Y R Marangoni, V Elis 1400h P43A-08 POSTER Fractured Basalt and Mafic Breccia Dikes from the buried 1.3-km diameter Jwaneng South Structure, Botswana: S Master 1400h P43A-09 POSTER Lunar Mare Craters: Insights into Impacts on Basaltic Targets: J B Plescia 1400h P43A-10 POSTER Petrology, Stratigraphy, and Emplacement of Impact Ejecta from a Loess-Rich Target: The La Dulce Structure, Argentina: R Harris, P H Schultz, M Zarate 1400h P43A-11 POSTER Shock-effects on the Magnetization of Parana Flood Basalts: The Vargeao Impact Structure: R I Trindade, E Yokoyama, G Moreira, A P Crosta, D Baratoux, A Nedelec 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 93 P43B Room Expocenter II-III Thursday Terrestrial Analog Studies of Martian and Planetary Environments II Posters 1400h SM43B Room Iguassu III Thursday 1400h Magnetospheric Processes at the Outer and Exosolar Planets (joint with P) Presiding: N T Bridges, Applied Physics Laboratory; C R Souza, Geosciences Institute - University of Campinas Presiding: E Echer, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais; W D Gonzalez 1400h P43B-01 POSTER Paleoclimatic models of astronomical forcing during the Neogen of Earth and Mars: A Sanchez, A Rossi 1400h P43B-02 POSTER Terrestrial Analog of Boulder Trails on Mars, the Moon, Phobos, and the Asteroids Eros and Itokawa: Tool Marks and Avalanches on the Slopes of Pico Volcano, Fogo, Cape Verde Islands: S Master 1400h P43B-03 POSTER Terrestrial Hydrothermal Silica Sinter Deposits: Hyperspectral Observations of an Analog for Martian Deposits: J B Plescia 1400h SM43B-01 Comparative Magnetospheres: Universal Aspects (Invited): V M Vasyliunas 1418h SM43B-02 Search for Radio Emissions from the Magnetospheres of Extrasolar Planets (Invited): D Winterhalter 1436h SM43B-03 Planetary radio emission, what we learnt from our solar system, what to expect for extra-solar planets (Invited): S Hess 1454h SM43B-04 Jupiter’s and Saturn’s UV auroras as observed by HST: J D Nichols 1512h SM43B-05 The Relation Between Magnetospheric Particle Acceleration and Radio Emissions at Saturn and Earth: Insights into Exomagnetospheric Acceleration Processes?: P C Brandt, D G Mitchell, C M Jackman, P M Zarka, M P Freeman, B H Mauk, D Delcourt, W S Kurth, C Paranicas, A Y Ukhorskiy, J F Carbary 1524h SM43B-06 Study of Altitudinal Profiles of Jupiter’s Auroral Emission: I J Cohen, J T Clarke 1536h SM43B-07 Plasma Properties in Saturn’s Magnetosphere: M F Thomsen, R L Tokar, D T Young, F J Crary, D B Reisenfeld, R J Wilson, E C Sittler 1548h SM43B-08 Solar wind dynamic pressure effects on Jupiter non-Io decametric radio emissions observed at Nançay during Ulysses distant flyby: E Echer, P M Zarka, W D Gonzalez, A Morioka, L Denis SPA-Magnetospheric Physics SM43A Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 1400h Multipoint Perspectives of Space Plasma III Posters (joint with P, SA, SH) Presiding: D G Sibeck, Space Weather Laboratory; J F Spann 1400h SM43A-01 POSTER Advanced Multi-Spacecraft Analysis with Generic Visualization Tools: J Mukherjee, C Gonzalez, J K Jennings, L Vela 1400h SM43A-02 POSTER FTE Analysis Using THEMIS Observations: M V Dias Silveira, W D Gonzalez, A de Lucas, D Koga, A Dal Lago 1400h SM43A-03 POSTER THEMIS Observations of Transient Events: G I Korotova, D G Sibeck 1400h SM43A-04 POSTER THEMIS multi-spacecraft observations of a crater FTE exhibiting distinct plasma flows and an abnormal compression of plasma density: D L Turner, S Eriksson, W Tu, W Liu, X Li 1400h SM43A-05 WITHDRAWN 1400h SM43A-06 POSTER Low Frequency Waves in and around Energy Conversion Regions in the Plasma Sheet: D O Constantinescu, O Marghitu, M Hamrin, K Glassmeier 1400h SM43A-07 POSTER Characteristics of High Latitude Plasma Depletion Layer: F Ersavas, Z Kaymaz, D G Sibeck 1400h SM43A-08 POSTER Analysis of Dayside Reconnection with CCMC Visualization Tools: L Rastaetter, M M Kuznetsova, D Berrios, M Hesse, D G Sibeck 1400h SM43A-09 WITHDRAWN 1400h SM43A-10 WITHDRAWN 1400h SM43A-11 POSTER Study of the radial profiles of the turbulent eddy diffusion coefficients in the plasma sheet using the THEMIS satellite data: V A Pinto, J A Valdivia, M V Stepanova, E E Antonova 1400h SM43A-12 POSTER Searching for Turbulent Spectra in Multiple Spacecraft Reconnection Observations: D E Wendel, M L Goldstein 94 2010 The Meeting of the Americas SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics SH43A Room Iguassu V Thursday 1400h Extreme Energetic Particle Events From the Sun II (joint with SA, SM) Presiding: R A Mewaldt, Caltech; N V Nitta, Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory; J F Valdes-Galicia, UNAM 1400h SH43A-01 Early Ground-Level Solar Cosmic Ray Events: Observations and Physical Questions (Invited): D F Smart, M A Shea 1418h SH43A-02 The Ground Level Enhancements of Solar Cycle 23 (Invited): H Moraal 1436h SH43A-03 Verification of the First Four Ground-level Enhancements (1942-1949) as Impulsive Nitrate Enhancements in Polar Ice Cores from both the Arctic and Antarctic: M A Shea, D F Smart 1447h SH43A-04 Properties of Active Regions for Ground Level Enhancement Events: N V Nitta, Y Liu, M L DeRosa 1458h SH43A-05 Solar Source and CME Properties of Solar Cycle 23 Ground Level Enhancement Events: N Gopalswamy, H Xie, S Yashiro, S Akiyama, P A Makela, I G Usoskin 1509h SH43A-06 Particle Acceleration in Extreme Energetic Particle Events via diffusive Shock acceleration (Invited): G Li 1527h SH43A-07 Comparison of the Composition and Properties of Ground Level Events With Those of >25 MeV Proton Events Observed During Solar Cycle 23: I G Richardson, H V Cane, T T von Rosenvinge 1538h SH43A-08 Why Are Most Ground Level Events Associated with High Fe/O Ratios?: T T von Rosenvinge, I G Richardson, H V Cane 1549h SH43A-09 Can Solar-Flare Neutrons Provide Energetic Seed Particles for Acceleration by CME-Driven Shocks?: R A Mewaldt, E E Chollet, C M Cohen, J Giacalone, D K Haggerty, G M Mason Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology Tectonophysics Presiding: T C Junqueira-Brod, UFG T43A Room Expocenter II-III Thursday 1400h Margins of the Americas: Constraining the Interactions Between Slabs, Plates, and Keels II Posters (joint with S, V, GP, G) Presiding: M S Miller, University of Southern California; T W Becker, USC 1400h T43A-01 POSTER 2D temperature model in deep slabs incorporating kinetics of the 410-km and 660-km phase transformations: S Yoshioka, Y Torii, T Kubo, M R Riedel, H Kawakatsu 1400h T43A-02 POSTER The fractal dimension of the subducted Cocos Plate: M Guzman-Speziale 1400h T43A-03 POSTER Crustal thickness in Venezuela from passive and active seismological methods: C B Quinteros, M Schmitz, F Niu, A Levander, M J Bezada, Title of Team: BOLIVAR Seismic Working Group 1400h T43A-04 POSTER Transfer of the Baja California Microplate by Partial Coupling with the Pacific Plate: C Plattner, R Malservisi, R M Govers 1400h T43A-05 POSTER Evidence for craton formation by slab stacking from receiver functions: M S Miller, D W Eaton 1400h T43A-06 POSTER Caribbean slab-craton interactions constrained by shear wave splitting: T W Becker, M S Miller 1400h T43A-07 POSTER Interaction of slabs, keels and mantle flow affecting deformation of western North America: A Ghosh, T W Becker, E Humphreys, B Schmandt 1400h T43A-08 POSTER Influence of Continental Keels, Oceanic Ridges, and Subducting Slabs on the Lateral Drift of the Lithosphere: M Gérault, T W Becker, B J Kaus, C Faccenna, L N Moresi T43B Room Expocenter II-III Thursday Tectonophysics General Contributions Posters 1400h Presiding: R Raghavan Nair, IIT Kharagpur; N Ussami, Instituto de Astronomia, Geofisica e Ciencias Atmosfericas 1400h T43B-01 POSTER Mechanical anisotropy response of the Indian Shield reflects markers of past major tectonic episode: R Raghavan Nair 1400h T43B-02 POSTER Isostatic Compensation below the Arabian Shield and Platform: S Mogren, A O AL-Jasser, M Mukhopadhyay 1400h T43B-03 POSTER The Central Lau Nanoplate: J A Conder 1400h T43B-04 POSTER New Evidences for a Mixed GravityRotation Solution for Plate Movements: A R Papa, M C Meirelles 1400h T43B-05 POSTER Interaction of Active Faulting and Climate Changes on Erosion Rate in the Alborz Mountains, Northern Iran: K Behzadafshar, M Shahpasandzadeh 1400h T43B-06 POSTER Crustal Configuration below The Arabian Shield And Platform: S Mogren, F Alfouzan, M Mukhopadhyay 1400h T43B-07 WITHDRAWN 1400h T43B-08 POSTER Global Distribution of Mantle Heat Flow: F P Vieira, R R Cardoso, V M Hamza 1400h T43B-09 POSTER Finite Half-Space Model of Oceanic Lithosphere: V Hamza, R R Cardoso V43A Room Iguassu IV Thursday Igneous Rocks and Processes (joint with T) 1400h 1400h V43A-01 Magma conditions in the reservoir and pyroclastic deposits from Ignimbrite Campana super-eruption (Campi Flegrei, Italy): R C Trigila, D Dolfi 1415h V43A-02 Relationship between ultramafic rocks and gabbroic bodies in south Caspian sea ophiolitic complex, North of Iran: A Kananian, F Zaeimnia 1430h V43A-04 Are the “OIB-like” lavas in the Central Mexican Volcanic Belt partial melts of an enriched mantle or a depleted mantle recently metasomatized by slab melts?: P R Castillo 1445h V43A-05 Trace element and Pb-Nd-Sr isotopic signals of Early-Middle Miocene discrete (calc-alkaline and alkaline) magma pulses with orogenic affinity in Simav graben from Western Anatolia Extensional Province, Turkey: Z Karacik, H Coban, O I Ece, D Coleman, M Wampler 1500h V43A-06 The role of carbonatite matrix in understanding confined surges and degassing in carbonatite complexes: T C Junqueira-Brod, J A Brod, M A Dardenne, C S Gomide, M Palmieri, C B Grasso 1515h V43A-07 Trace element and REE variations in amphibole and clinopyroxene of Paleoproterozoic greenstones and tonalites: A new approach for the determination of mineral origin: L Baratoux, M Gregoire, S Naba, M W Jessell Union U44A Room A1 Thursday 1630h Synthesis of Major Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in the Amazonia Research Results II Presiding: E A Davidson, Woods Hole Research Ctr; R Mesquita, INPA 1630h U44A-01 Large-scale patterns in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by variations in soil physical and chemical properties: C A Quesada, J Lloyd, M Schwarz, T Baker, O L Phillips, L Arroyo, S Patiño, C I Green, Y Malhi, F Luizão, M Silveira, E Jiminez, I Vieira, D Neill, N Silva, M C Peñuela, A Monteagudo, R Vásquez, A Prieto, A Rudas, S Almeida, N Higuchi, A Torres, T Erwin, A Di Flore, T L Killeen, A Peña Cruz, N Pitman, P Núñez Vargas, R Salomão 1650h U44A-02 The effects of a long term (7 yr) experimental drought on an Amazon lowland rainforest: a current synthesis: P Meir, A C Lôla da Costa, S Almeida, D Galbraith, D B Metcalf, E D Sotta, M Chaves, R Fisher 1710h U44A-03 Synthesis of remote sensing active fire detection data for Amazonia: Lessons learned from LBA: W Schroeder, I A Csiszar, A W Setzer, C Schmidt, J T Morisette, E Prins, J Brunner, K Longo, S R Freitas 1730h U44A-04 9 years of CO2, CH4 and N2O vertical profiles above eastern Amazonia constrain large-scale fluxes: J B Miller, L V Gatti, M T D’Amelio, A Martinewski, L S Basso, A M Crotwell, P P Tans 1750h U44A-05 Climate Change, Agricultural Productivity and Land Use Patterns in Brazil: J G Feres, E J Reis, J Speranza 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 95 1810h U44A-06 Aspects of the resilience of Amazon ‘biome services’ to climate change and deforestation: B Kruijt, A Carneiro, K Kok, C A Nobre, F B Zanchi, R C Von Randow, L Soler, J Tomasella, P Verburg, R W Hutjes, M Waterloo, F Luizão, Title of Team: LBAWOTRO Integrated programme on resilience of the Amazon U44B Room A3 The 2010 Chile Earthquake Thursday 1630h Presiding: J Vilotte, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris; S L Beck, University of Arizona 1630h U44B-01 International Aftershock Response: S E Barrientos, Title of Team: 2010 Chile International Aftershock Response Group 1640h U44B-02 Teleseismic inversion for rupture process of the 27 February 2010 Chile (Mw 8.8) earthquake (Invited): T Lay, C J Ammon, H Kanamori, K D Koper, O Sufri, A R Hutko 1655h U44B-03 Rupture process of the Maule Mw 8.8 earthquake of 27 February 2010 (Invited): R I Madariaga, S Ruiz, M Lancieri, E Buforn, C Vigny, S Peyrat, Title of Team: LIA Montessus de Balore 1710h U44B-04 Nonlinear elastic effects due to the M=8.8 Chile quake: K Bataille, I Calisto, R Contreras, S E Barrientos, S L Beck 1725h U44B-05 First seismological investigations of the main shock and aftershocks of the 2010 Chilean earthquake off-shore Maule: C Satriano, E Clévédé, B Bukchin, E Buforn, S Peyrat, M Lancieri, A Fuenzalida, J Vilotte, P Bernard, H Lyon-Caen, C Vigny, A Socquet, C Aranda, J A Campos, Title of Team: Scientific Team of the LIA Montessus de Ballore (CNRS-INSU, U. Chile) 1740h U44B-06 The Maule Mw 8.8 earthquake and its consequences monitored by continuous and survey mode GPS (Invited): C Vigny, A Socquet, J A Campos, D Carrizo, J Ruegg, M Métois, S Morvan, C Aranda 1755h U44B-07 Detection of land-surface deformations related to the 2010 Chile Earthquake using satellite-borne microwave radiometer data: T Maeda, T Takano 1810h U44B-08 Modelling the source of the Maule Mw 8.8 earthquake and early afterslip using GPS and InSAR data: S Anne, M Bejar Pizarro, M Doin, S Peyrat, G Ducret, C Vigny, D Carrizo, M Métois, G Peltzer Atmospheric Sciences A44A Room Expocenter I Thursday 1630h Large-Scale Atmospheric Properties of Trace Gases and Aerosols in Amazonia III: Carbon Monoxide, Ozone, and Aerosols (joint with B, GC) Presiding: C Gerbig, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry; S C Wofsy, Harvard University 1630h A44A-01 Carbon Monoxide and Related Trace Gases and Aerosols Over the Amazon Basin During the BARCA Campaigns: M O Andreae, P Artaxo, C Gerbig, N Jurgens, K T Wiedemann, S C Wofsy 1645h A44A-02 CO and CO2 Gradients Across the Amazon During the BARCA Campaign: J W Munger, F R daSilva, N P Leme, P C Alvala, V Y Chow, C Gerbig, M Longo, H Chen, C Wiedinmyer, O Kolle, J Steinbach, K Longo, B C Daube, E W Gottlieb, G Santoni, L V Gatti, J B Miller, R Kretschmer, M O Andreae, N Juergens, P Artaxo, S C Wofsy 1700h A44A-03 Absorption vs Scattering coefficients during BARCA phases A and B: Biomass Burning and Biogenic Aerosols in the Amazon Basin: K T Wiedemann, P Artaxo, S C Wofsy, M O Andreae, C Gerbig 96 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 1715h A44A-04 Concentration and Composition of Aerosol in Amazonian Mato Grosso (Brazil) during the dry season: A Cavicchioli, A Fornaro, E P Morrone, R Marques 1730h A44A-05 Ozone budget in the lower troposphere over Amazonia: K Longo, S R Freitas, M Bela, M Longo, S Wofsy, K T Wiedemann, P Artaxo, N Jurgens, M O Andreae, V Beck, C Gerbig 1745h A44A-06 Production and Transport of Ozone in the Amazon: Comparison of WRF-Chem and CCATT-BRAMS Simulations with In-Situ Observations from the BARCA Campaigns: M M Bela, K Longo, S R Freitas, V Beck, D S Moreira, K T Wiedemann, P Artaxo, N Juergens, M O Andreae, S C Wofsy 1800h A44A-07 Impact Of Including Smoke Aerosols And Observation Based Surface Process On The Numerical Weather Forecast Over Amazonia During the Dry Season: S R Freitas, K Longo Hydrology H44A Room C3 Thursday 1630h Wetlands of the Americas: Surviving Climate and Anthropic Influence (joint with GC) Presiding: J E Canon Barriga, Universidad de Antioquia; J B Valdes, University of Arizona; A M Melesse, Florida Intl Univ 1640h H44A-01 Impact of Tropical Storms on the Vegetation Biomass of Everglades and Chl-a Concentration in Coastal Waters of Everglades: Application of MODIS and SeaWiFS Sensors: A M Melesse, F R Miralles-Wilhelm 1655h H44A-02 WATER-SEDIMENT RELATIONSHIP IN A TROPICAL FLOODPLAIN MARSH: CIENAGA DE AYAPEL, COLOMBIA: N E Villegas Jimenez, M T Florez 1710h H44A-03 Hydroperiod in Ayapel floodplain wetland system, Colombia: A Wills, A Gomez-Giraldo, M Toro-Botero 1725h H44A-04 Cautionary notes on the limnology of six tropical lentic systems in the Andean, Caribbean and Amazonian regions of Colombia-South America: E Hernandez, N Aguirre, J E Canon Barriga, J Palacio, J J Ramirez, S Duque, C Guisande, N Aranguren, M Mogollon 1740h H44A-05 Role of wetlands for lakes and reservoirs under climate change: Y Yamashiki, E M Mendiondo 1755h H44A-06 Impacts of global climate and anthropogenic activities on an Andean lake: the Tota Lake in Colombia: J E Canon Barriga, J B Valdes 1810h H44A-07 Climate Change Effects Propagation through the Hydrologic Cycle: The Verde River (Arizona, US): A SerratCapdevila, J B Valdes, F Dominguez Ocean Sciences OS44A Room C1 Thursday 1630h New Advances in Ocean Drilling Science: Linking the Geosphere, Hydrosphere, Biosphere, and Atmosphere II (joint with C, GC, PP, V, T) Presiding: K B Costa, Universidade de Sao Paulo; G M Filippelli, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; M E Raymo, Boston University 1630h OS44A-01 On-going tectonic uplift of the abyssal mantle massif of the Saint Peter Saint Paul Peridotite Ridge, Equatorial Atlantic Ocean, and its driving force: A Motoki, S E Sichel, T F Campos, P Szatmari, R Soares, K F Motoki 1645h OS44A-02 Scientific Attractiveness of Ocean Drilling along the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean (Invited): A R Viana, D Coelho, R Kowsmann, W U Mohriak 1705h OS44A-03 THE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF NITROGEN GAS IN THE OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE: A Devol, B Chang, S R Emerson, W Naqvi 1720h OS44A-04 TEMPERATURE AND NUTRIENT INDICES ASSESSMENT TO QUATERNARY CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL FROM THE SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN: J P Quadros, F A Toledo, K B Costa 1735h OS44A-05 Hydrographic Changes in the Southwestern Atlantic During Last Deglacial Meltwater Pulses: M A Pivel, F A Toledo, K B Costa 1750h OS44A-06 Thermocline/Nutricline Orbital Dynamics and Primary Productivity in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean for the last 600 ka (Invited): J A Flores, M Álvarez, G Lopez-Otalvaro, F J Sierro 1810h OS44A-07 Response of Global Ice Sheets to Late-Pliocene Early-Pleistocene Changes in Carbon Dioxide and Insolation: M E Raymo, P J Hearty, M O’Leary, R DeConto, J X Mitrovica, M M Robinson, H J Dowsett OS44B Room C2 Thursday 1630h Operational Ocean Prediction and Data Assimilation III (joint with A) Presiding: C A Tanajura, Federal university of Bahia; E Campos, University of Sao Paulo; L P Pezzi; I D Soares, FURG 1630h OS44B-01 Assessing the Impact of Observations on Ocean Circulation Estimates using 4D-Var (Invited): A M Moore, H Arango, G Broquet, C A Edwards, M Veneziani, B Powell 1645h OS44B-02 Assesing the Local Ensemble Dimension for a Model of the Northern Chile Coast: H H Sepulveda, G A Ruggiero, C A Tanajura 1700h OS44B-03 An application of the Operational Ocean Forecast to the Brazilian shelf-slope region: M Marta-Almeida, J Pereira, M Cirano, R P Martins, J A Lima 1715h OS44B-04 A Brazilian Effort Towards Ocean Model Forecast in the South Atlantic – The Oceanographic Modeling and Observation Research Network (REMO): R P Martins, J A Lima, C A Tanajura, A M Paiva, E J Campos, I D Soares, M Cirano, G B França 1730h OS44B-05 BRAZCOAST - Operational Forecasts of Brazilian Coast from large ocean to shelf circulation: R de Camargo, J Harari 1745h OS44B-06 The virtual Columbia River: Multi-scale skill assessment: A M Baptista, K Cho 1800h OS44B-07 An Overview of real-time global and regional forecast systems developed at the Naval Research Laboratory: P Hogan, C Barron, O Smedstad, E Metzger, C D Rowley, J A Cummings, H E Hurlburt 1815h OS44B-08 Uncertainty in trajectory predictions from an operational Navy model of the western Pacific Ocean: B L Lipphardt, H S Huntley, A D Kirwan, P Hogan Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology PP44A Room A2 Thursday 1630h Interhemispheric Teleconnections and Quaternary Marine and Continental Climate Records II (joint with GP, GC, H, OS) Presiding: O Gonzalez-Yajimovich, Univ. A. de Baja California; L L Perez-Cruz, Instituto de Geofisica, UNAM 1630h PP44A-01 U-Th ages of calcitic corals from the Gulf of Aqaba indicate wetter climate conditions during past interglacials in the currently hyper-arid region: M Stein, B Lazar 1645h PP44A-02 High Resolution, Continuous Isotopic Speleothem Record of Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironment from 90-53 ka - the South Coast of South Africa and the Correlation to Marine and Ice Core Records: M Bar-Matthews, C W Marean, Z Jacobs, P Karkanas, E Fisher, A I Herries, K Brown, H M Williams, J Bernatchez, A Ayalon, P Nilssen 1700h PP44A-03 Climate change and the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies between 15000-5000 BP: zonal symmetry or asymmetry?: M Fletcher, P I Moreno 1715h PP44A-04 Reconstruction of paleoclimate and paleoenvironment in south central Mexico during the past 45 Ka by using geochemical proxies from Lake Cuitzeo sediments: H Li, I Israde Alcantara, J L Bischoff, T Kuo, V H Garduño-Monroy 1730h PP44A-05 Holocene climate change records from the southern Gulf of California- their relation with solar activity (Invited): O Gonzalez-Yajimovich, L L Perez-Cruz 1745h PP44A-06 Mechanisms of Tropical Pacific Glacial Climate Change in an Ensemble of Coupled Climate Models: Implications for Detection in Proxies: P N Di Nezio, A C Clement, G A Vecchi 1800h PP44A-07 Paleo-ENSO teleconnections in the last centuries (Invited): L Ortlieb 1815h PP44A-08 THE POTENTIAL OF BRAZILIAN CORALS AS PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC PROXIES: R Domingues, R K Kikuchi, C Lentini, M Zucchi, A Costa Planetary Sciences P44A Room Iguassu III Thursday Planetary Sciences General Contributions II 1630h Presiding: J F Bell, Cornell Univ; J Margot, University of California, Los Angeles 1630h P44A-01 LRO Diviner Lunar Radiometer Observations of the Lunar Polar Regions (Invited): D A Paige, Title of Team: Diviner Lunar Radiometer Team 1645h P44A-02 Imaging of the Moon from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Investigation: J F Bell, M S Robinson, Title of Team: The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera Team 1700h P44A-03 Field Geology from the Mars Exploration Rovers: Recent Results from Spirit and Opportunity: J F Bell, Title of Team: The Mars Exploration Rover Team 1715h P44A-04 Prospects for Earth-based measurements of Europa’s librations: J Margot, D B Campbell, S J Peale 1730h P44A-05 WITHDRAWN 1745h P44A-06 Nature of Variability in Mars Upper Atmosphere from Accelerometer Measurements: G M Keating, M E Theriot, S W Bougher 1800h P44A-07 Carbon dioxide and temperature vertical profiles from the SOIR measurements on board Venus Express: A Mahieux, S Robert, V Wilquet, R Drummond, A Vandaele, J Bertaux 2010 The Meeting of the Americas 97 1815h P44A-08 Ultra-high Performance Mass Spectroscopy for Planetary Missions: D T Young, J H Waite, G P Miller, B A Magee SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics SH44A Room Iguassu V Thursday 1630h Solving the Coronal Heating Riddle: Recent Developments and Future Directions II Presiding: G Vekstein, University of Manchester; M J Aschwanden, Lockheed Martin 1630h SH44A-01 The Coronal Heating Paradox (Invited): M J Aschwanden 1655h SH44A-02 AIA/SDO First Science Results (Invited): M Weber 1720h SH44A-03 A new paradigm for solar coronal heating (Invited): S Poedts, J Vranjes 1740h SH44A-04 Coronal Plasma Motions at the Site of Coronal Heating in Active Region Loops (Invited): H Hara 1800h SH44A-05 Probing nanoflares with observed fluctuations of the coronal EUV and X-ray emission: G Vekstein 1815h SH44A-06 WITHDRAWN 98 2010 The Meeting of the Americas