Chapman Source to Sink

AGU Chapman Conference on Source to Sink Systems Around the World and Through Time

Recent Advances in Understanding Production, Transfer, and Burial of Terrestrial and Marine Materials on the Earth Surface

Oxnard, California, USA
24–27 January 2011

Conveners

Charles A. Nittrouer
School of Oceanography, Univeristy of Washington
nittroue@ocean.washington.edu

Steven A. Kuehl
Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, College of William & Mary
kuehl@vims.edu

Conference Objectives and General Description

The general goal of this conference is to articulate the ideas that are the foundation for a holistic understanding of sediment dispersal from land origins to marine accumulation, and to explore the theoretical and observational studies that support them.

This Chapman Conference will substantially expand the results of individual source-to-sink research projects by contrasting diverse dispersal systems. An attempt will be made to resolve fundamental differences in the operation of processes that transfer mass across the Earth surface. This effort will develop a global perspective with studies from around the world, and will facilitate the synthesis and integration of S2S research as part of an inclusive international conference, a digital text, and classroom materials.

One example of such material is the Google-Earth based database that documents paper on major river systems. Feel free to simply list your papers here

Financial Support

The conference organizers acknowledge the generous support of the following organizations:

Program

Meeting at a glance
Final program and abstracts

Oral Presentations

Presenter	Title
Aller, Robert	Source to sink serial reactors and the critical importance of energetic topsets in biogeochemical cycling
Anderson, John	Different Stratigraphic Architectures Offshore Texas Reflect Spatial and Temporal Variability in Sediment Supply and Dispersal
Blair, Neal	The Role of Watershed Storage on Exported Riverine Organic Carbon Signatures
Clift, Peter	Controls on the Flux of Sediment to the Arabian Sea from the Western Himalaya since the Last Glacial Maximum
Cowan, Ellen	Fjord Sedimentation from Tidewater Glaciers
Dietrich, William	Sediment Supply to Rivers: Rates, Controls and Predictability
Droxler, Andre	Plio-Pleistocene Evolution of Barrier Reefs along Mixed Continental Shelf Edges
Gomez, Basil	Flood Production
Harris, Courtney	Sediment Dispersal Offshore Of Small Mountainous Rivers: Insights from Numerical Models
Hovius, Niels	Sediment Production, Mobilization, Storage and Remobilization in Uplands
Howard, Alan	Thinking Source-to-Sink on Mars and Titan
Jaeger, John	Cross-Margin Signal Transfer in a Glacial Source-To-Sink Sedimentary System, Southern Alaska
Kineke, Gail	The Role of High Concentration Suspensions in Dispersal of River Sediment
Koppes, Michele	On The Rate Of Production And Transfer Of Sediment From Glaciated Terrains
Kurtz, Andrew	Upland Weathering Processes in the Fly River System
Leverich, Glen	Geomorphic Landscape Units: An effective approach to quantify relative sediment-production rates across large areas, as applied to the Santa Clara River watershed in southern California
Martinsen, Ole	Perspectives on source to sink: methods, tools and development for subsurface interpretation and energy exploration and exploitation
McKee, Brent	Variable Geochemical Supply to the Ocean
Milliman, John	Episodic Events and Resulting Sediment Discharge from Small Mountainous Rivers
Mohrig, David	Connecting the Flow and Sediment-Transport in Coastal Rivers to Short- and Long-Term Patterns of Delta Sedimentation
Orpin, Alan	The continental slope as a pathway and sink for terrigenous sediment: Source-to-Sink studies of contrasting systems since the last glacial
Paola, Chris	Experimental studies of linked depositional systems
Parker, Gary	Turbidity Currents and Submarine Debris Flows: Mechanisms for the Dispersal of Sediment from the Nearshore Zone to Deep Water
Plink-Bjorklund, Piret	Stratigraphic Record of Terrestrial Floods: Impact of Monsoon Pattern Changes
Powell, Ross	Interaction of Eustasy, Ice Sheet Dynamics and Glacial Regime Controlling Sediment Yields, Glacial Sequences and High Latitude Continental Margin Architecture
Puig, Pere	Shelf-to-canyon sediment supply mechanisms in the Gulf of Lions and Eel margins
Roering, Joshua	Hillslope form, function, and sediment contribution
Romans, Brian	Source-to-sink in the stratigraphic record: capturing the long-term, deep-time evolution of sedimentary systems
Slingerland, Rudy	Modification of Sediment Fluxes by the Transfer Fluvial System
Syvitski, James	Source to Sink Numerical Modeling of Whole Dispersal Systems
Sømme, Tor	Use of source-to-sink concepts to provide insight to the stratigraphic record
Warrick, Jonathan	A Summary of the Source-to-Sink Sediment System of the Semiarid Santa Barbara Channel, California
Wheatcroft, Robert	Timing is Everything: The Role of River-Ocean Coincidence in Ocean Sediment Dispersal and Accumulation
Wiberg, Patricia	Mechanisms for Entrapment of Sediment Reaching the Coastal Ocean

Poster presentations

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Author(s)	Title	Download (pdf)
Shouye Yang	The sediment source-to-sink patterns in large drainage basins and marginal seas: the Changjiang (Yangtze River) example
Steven L. Goodbred Jr., Rachel Beavins Tracy, Michael T. Ramirez, Tom D. Dillehay, and Mario Pino	Source-to-margin behavior of an arid, El Niño-influenced mountain drainage and coastal plain: The Chicama River, northern Peru
Zuosheng YANG, Naishuang BI, Youjun JI, Houjie WANG, and Yoshiki Saito.	Sediment transport and deposition off the Huanghe (Yellow River) Delta and in the adjacent Bohai Sea and seasonal comparison
Rick Yang, James T. Liu	The temporal variability of particle composition in the river plume of a small mountainous river
Alexander R. Simms, Taylor Troiani, Tim Dellapenna, Erin Piper, and Yusuke Yokoyama	The importance of winds in controlling deposition and reconstructing climate within the estuaries of the Gulf Coast, USA
Penny M. Youngs, and Steven L. Goodbred	Geochemical fingerprints unravel complex source-to-sink behavior under a variety of forcing conditions: Unparalleled insights from the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta
Irina Overeem, Benjamin Hudson, Maureen Berlin, Daniel McGrath, James Syvitski, and Sebastian Mernild	Fjord Sediment Plumes as Indicators of West Greenland Meltwater Flux
Phaedra Upton, Nicola Litchfield, Alan Orpin, Albert Kettner, Murray Hicks, Marcus Vandergoes	Modelling Source-to-Sink systems in New Zealand: The Waipaoa and Waitaki catchments.
Gordon D.M. Cameron, and Edward (Ned) L. King	Possible flood events in large shelf crossing troughs on the Southeast Canadian Margin
Daniel Livsey, and Alexander Simms	Depositional facies of estuarine upper-bay deposits in arid climates; Baffin Bay, Texas
Eric Bilderback, Jarg Pettinga, Nicola Litchfield, Mark Quigley, Michael Marden, Josh Roering, Alan Palmer and Mike Page	Timing and Magnitude of Latest Pleistocene and Holocene deep-seated Landslides in the Waipaoa Sedimentary System, New Zealand
Curt Storlazzi, Joshua Logan, Christopher Conaway, Henry Chezar, and David Rubin	Spatial and Temporal Variability in Coastal Grain Size due to River Floods and Storm Waves
Edward (Ned) L. King	Canyon-head evolution and the influence of glacial regime along the southeast Canadian margin
N. Litchfield, K. Berryman, W. Smith, and K. Clark	Tectonic controls on Source to Sink Systems and the interplay with sea level change: Examples from northeastern New Zealand
Vamsi Ganti, Kyle M. Straub, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, and Chris Paola	Space-Time Dynamics of Delta Evolution and Implications for Stratigraphy
Robert W.R. Weight, John B. Anderson, and Rodrigo Fernandez	Holocene mud accumulation on the central Texas shelf linked to climate change and sea-level rise
Maarten Lupker, Christian France-Lanord, and Valler Galy.	Glacial-interglacial weathering in the Himalayan system: a source to sink approach
Daniel J. Nowacki, and Andrea S. Ogston	Multiple scales of controls on sediment transport in intertidal flats: tidal stage, storms, and seasons
T.A. Kniskern, K.L. Fransworth, and J.A. Warrick	River discharge along the US West Coast margin: identifying river basins that flood concurrently
Kimberly G. Rogers, and Steven L. Goodbred Jr.	Gateway to the deep sea: highstand interactions between canyon and clinoform
Sheet, B.A., Fricke, A.T., Allison, M.A., and Nittrouer, C.A.	Linking terrestrial and submarine sedimentary processes: a preliminary bathymetric and sub-bottom survey of the Stehekin Delta, Lake Chelan, WA
Katie Boldt, Charles Nittrouer, Bernard hallet, Michele Koppes, Carlos Moffat, Adam barker, Andres Rivera, and John Anderson	The impact of marine melting and sedimentation on glacier advance and retreat: Southern Patagonia Icefield, Chile
Bastiaan Notebaert, and Gert Verstraeten	Late-Holocene hillslope and fluvial sediment dynamics: a field and modeling approach
Hans Middelkoop, Gilles Erkens, and Marcel van der Perk	The Rhine Delta – A record of fluvial sediment trapping over various time scales
Paul Liu, John Milliman, Zuosheng Yang, Anchun Li, Shu Gao, Char-shine Liu, Nguyen van Lap, and Tran Duc Thanh	Fates of Major Asian River‐Derived Sediments to the Ocean
James T. Liu and The FATES Team	From the Highest to the Deepest: A River-Sea Dispersal System on the NE Edge of the South China Sea
Lonnie Leithold, Neal Blair, Laurel Childress, and Mike Marden	Using continental margin organic geochemical stratigraphy to reconstruct watershed history – Lessons from the Waipaoa Sedimentary System, New Zealand
Sean P.S. Gulick, John M. Jarger, Robert S. Reece, Lindsay L. Worthington, Aaron L. Berger, James M. Spotila, Kenneth D. Ridgway, Terry L. Pavlis, and Gail L. Christeson	Varying Neogene Impact of Glacial Sediment Flux from Source to Sink on Tectonics and Stratigraphy in the Gulf of Alaska
Jung-Hyun Kim, Claudia Zeli, Patricia Moreira-Turcq, Marcela Andrea Pérez, David Hollander, Dorthe Klitgaard Kristensen, Roselyne Buscail, and Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté	Tracing soil organic matter from source to sink
Tian-Jian Hsu, C. Emre Ozdemir, Patrick J. Snyder, Xiao Yu, Jia-Lin Chen, and Fengyan Shi	The Trapping and Delivering of Fine Sediment in the Coastal Environment
Timothy Eglinton, Valier Galy, Nick Drenzek, Angie Dickens, Enno Schefuss, Daniel Montlucon, Ying Wu, and Xiaojuan Feng	Developing a global perspective on the dynamics of fluvial transfer of terrestrial biospheric carbon to the ocean
Som Dutta, Mariano Ignacio Cantero, Gary Parker, Carlos Pantano-Rubino, and Marcelo H. Garcia	Turbulence Modulation due to Stratification in Turbidity Currents : Numerical Modeling and Implications for Turbidites
Jingping Xu	Modes of Suspended Sediment Transport in Hueneme Submarine Canyon, Southern California
Remo Cossu, and Mathew Wells	Coriolis forces influence the secondary circulation of gravity currents flowing in large scale sinuous submarine channel systems
Rebecca Dorsey, Greg Lazear	A Preliminary Mass Balance for Colorado River Sediment
Joseph Carlin, and Timothy Dellapenna	Salt wedge controlled sediment dynamics of the Brazos River, TX: Storage in the lower river, transport to the shelf
André Sawakuchi, Carlos Guedes, Regina DeWitt, Paulo Giannini, Michael Blair, Daniel Nascimento Jr., and Frederico Faleiros	OSL Sensitivity as a Tracer of Quartz sand grains in a coastal barrier from Southern Brazil
Houjie Wang, Naishuang Bi, Zuosheng Yang, and Yoshiki Saito	Hyperpycnal flows at the Mouth of Huanghe (Yellow River): Past, Present and Future
Pere Puig, Marta Ribó, Albert Palanques, Jorge Guillén, Claudio Lo Iacono, Maria Gómez-Ballesteros, and Juan Acosta	Contemporary Off-shelf Sediment Transport on the Ebro Margin (COSTEM)
Jean Noel Proust, Fabien Paquest, Philip Barnes, and Jarg Pettinga	Controls on relief and sediment fluxes of active subduction margins at <<Geological>> time scales: 20-100 ka and 1 Ma. The Hawke Bay forearc domain example from New Zealand
Rip Hale, Andrea S. Ogston, Alan R. Orpin, J.P. Walsh, D. Reide Corbett, and Charles A. Nittrouer	Sediment-Gravity Flows on the Poverty Bay margin, New Zealand
Naishuang Bi, Zuosheng Yang, Houjie Wang, and Yoshiki Saito	Seasonal variation of suspended-sediment transport through the southern Bohai Strait, China
John Shaw, and David Mohrig	Tracking the distal extent and character of distributary channels on the Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana, USA
A. Palanques, P. Puig, X. Durrieu de madron, A. Sanchez-Vidal, C. Pascual, J. Martin, A. Calafat, S. Heussner, and M. Canals	Canyon and Open Slope as Sources of Suspended Sediment Transport in the Margin and Basin of the Western Gulf of Lions
Ray T. Hsu, James T. Liu, and Kevin C. Chang	Variations of bulk floc density and porosity of different sizes in suspended particles in related to organic carbon in the Gaoping river plume in southern Taiwan
Kristen M. Lee, Andrea S. Ogston, and Charles A. Nittrouer	Export and Retention of Fine-Grained Sediment on the Intertidal Complex of a Small Mountainous River: Skagit River Tidal Flats
Rodrigo A. Fernandez, and John B. Anderson	Temporal and Spatial variability in Glacial Erosion and Deposition based on a study of Patagonian and Antarctic Peninsula tidewater glacier settings
Jim Shobe, Andrea S. Ogston, and Mike Field	Terrestrial Sediment Flux Across a Fringing Reef in Moloka'i, Hawai'i
Aaron J. Bever, and Courtney K. Harris	The influence of the geometry of Poverty Bay on sediment dispersal within the Waipaoa Sedimentary System: numerical model investigations comparing Holocene configurations
L. Palamenghi, T. Schwenk, V. Spiess, and H.-R. Kudrass	Anthropogenic stress and natural processes change the sediment partition in the Ganges Brahmaputra subaqueous delta as sink for the Himalaya denudation
Robert S. Reece, Sean P.S. Gulick, Brian Horton, Gail Christeson, Lindsay Worthington, and John Jaeger	Tectonic and climatic influence on the evolution of the Surveyor Fan and Channel system, Gulf of Alaska
Chih-An Huh, and Chorng-Shern Horng	Magnetic properties as tracers for source-to-sink dispersal of sediments: a case study in the Taiwan Strait
Michael Grentell, and Rolf Aalto	Chute Channel Dynamics in Large, Sand-Bed Meandering Rivers
J.M. Moriarty, and C.K. Harris	Wave-and Current-Induced Bed Stress on the Waipaoa Shelf, New Zealand: Variations in Time and Space
Erlangga Septama, and Samuel J. Bentley	Source to sink siliciclastic delivery in the deepwater Gulf of Papua from SEM-MLA aided provenance of the turbidite sand
Geert-Jan Vis, Kees Kasse, Dick Kroon, and Jef Vandenberghe	From Floodplain to Abyssal Plain >> Depocenter Migration of a large European River