Agenda

• 8:45   Opening Remarks – Chris Bernhardt

Morning Oral PAPER Session

• 9:00      The Southern Appalachian Blue Ridge: a natural laboratory to examine conceptual models of fault zones at different crustal levels – Arthur Merschat
• 9:20      The role of sea level rise and storms in formation and resilience of Florida Bay islands, Everglades National Park – Lynn Wingard
• 9:40      Stratigraphic mapping of the Devonian Foreknobs Formation using LiDAR imagery – Dan Doctor
• 10:00    Intense hurricane variability in the Florida panhandle from sedimentary archives: Centennial-scale context for hurricane Michael and other major storms – Jessica Rodysill
• 10:20    Not your parent’s pluton: New age controls on the emplacement of the Petersburg Granite and on the rocks into which it intrudes, central-eastern Virginia Piedmont, USA – Mark Carter
• 10:40    Bering Sea sea-ice dynamics driven by changes in ocean-atmosphere circulation over the last 5.5 ka – Miriam Jones

POSTER Session and lunch (11:00 – 1:00pm)

1. Developing reference values for paleoecological interpretation of Florida Bay: analysis of stable carbon and nitrogen isotope and elemental values of plants and algae – Kristen Hoefke
2. Diamond Mining and Conflict in the Central African Republic – Sarah Bergstresser
3. Exploring the limitations of automated classification and feature extraction: A case study examining clay kilns in North Kabul, Afghanistan
4. Benthic foraminiferal community changes across the Pliocene Yorktown Formation, southeastern Virginia – Whittney Spivey
5. Geospatial analysis to detect changes of Florida Bay islands due to Hurricane Irma – Sarah Bergstresser
6. Oxygen isotopic analysis of peatland plant cellulose as a proxy for Holocene hydroclimate on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska – Bailey Nash
7. Molluscan and seagrass response post 2015 die-off event in Florida Bay – Bethany Stackhouse

Afternoon Oral PAPER Session

• 1:00      Quaternary Eolian Systems and Carolina Bays of the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain Province – Chris Swezey
• 1:20      Arctic Ocean. Climate and sea-ice variability in the Arctic: mid-latitude connections – Tom Cronin
• 1:40      Reaction softening and the age of the Blue Ridge thrust: #structuralpetrology – Ryan McAleer
• 2:00      The presence of denitrifiers in microbial communities of urban stormwater BMPs – Natalie Hall
• 2:20      Investigating pre-Cretaceous basement rocks beneath the Southeastern U.S. Coastal Plain – Wright Horton
• 2:40      ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating constraints on the age and cooling history of pre-Cretaceous basement rocks beneath the mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain of Maryland and Virginia – Mick Kunk