This year, from December 11-15, 2023, scientists from across the country will head to San Francisco, CA for "the largest and preeminent Earth and space science meeting in the world", the American Geophysical Union (AGU) annual fall meeting. If you're heading that way, don't miss these presentations, sessions, and posters authored and organized by scientists from the USGS Climate R&D Program.

Monday, December 11, 2023

Benchmarking transient deglacial climate model simulations with sea surface temperature proxies (PP12A-04) 

Jay Alder - Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

10:20 – 11:50 AM PST

A 3.5ka Storm Event-Bed Record from Western Lake on the Florida Panhandle (PP11D-1199) 

Julia Seidenstein, Jessica Rodysill, and Michael Toomey - Florence Bascom Geoscience Center

8:30 – 12:50 PM PST

Shallow Marine Records of Paleocene to Eocene Global Climate and Ecosystem Perturbations on the US Atlantic Coastal Plain (PP11F-1218) 

Marci Robinson - Florence Bascom Geoscience Center

8:30 – 12:50 PM PST

Automated Charcoal Counting and the Application of Machine Learning to Enhance Quality and Speed of Sedimentary Charcoal Quantification (PP13C-1246) 

Luibov Presnetsova, Lysanna Anderson, and David Wahl - Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

2:10 – 6:30 PM PST

A Late-Glacial/Holocene Environmental Reconstruction from Punamanō, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i (B13L-2076) 

David Wahl - Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center and Miriam Jones and Molly Huber - Florence Bascom Geoscience Center

2:10 – 6:30 PM PST 

Unequal distributions of commuter exposure to extreme heat and air pollution at neighborhood and microscales (SY13C-0843) 

Peter Ibsen - Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

2:10 – 6:30 PM PST

Application of paleohydrologic records in drought planning and decision support in the western United States (H14E-01) 

Greg Pederson and Justin Martin - Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center

4:00 – 4:10 PM PST

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Advances in Characterization of Soil Carbon Pools and Transformations (B21A) 

Corey Lawrence - Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

8:30 – 10:00 AM PST

The feasibility of using national-scale datasets for classifying wetlands in Arizona with machine learning (B21E-2004) 

Christopher Soulard, Jessica Walker, Britt Smith and Jason Kreitler - Western Geographic Science Center

8:30  – 12:50 PM PST

When are two pools as good as three for modeling SOC turnover dynamics? (B23D-2127) 

Elizabeth Williams and Corey Lawrence - Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

2:10 – 6:30 PM PST 

Lacustrine Records of Paleohydroclimate from the Pleistocene to Present I Oral (PP24C)

Jessica Rodysill - Florence Bascom Geoscience Center and Scott Starratt - Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

4:00 – 5:30 PM PST

Terrestrial and Lacustrine Paleoenvironmental and Paleoecological Changes from Multi-proxy Lake Records in the Mono Basin of the eastern Sierra Nevada, California, USA, During the Late Pleistocene and Holocene (PP24C-01)

Scott Starratt - Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

4:02 – 4:12 PM PST

Future Directions of Climate and Environmental Change Research in the U.S. Geological Survey Land Change Science Program (TH25G)

Ariana Sutton-Grier - USGS Climate Research & Development Program

6:30 – 7:30 PM PST

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Reconstructing Caribbean Hydroclimate Variability from Lake Enriquillo, Dominican Republic (PP31C-1488)

Julie Richey - St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center and Jessica Rodysill - Florence Bascom Geoscience Center

8:30 – 12:50 PM PST

Twentieth century extreme precipitation recorded in coastal lake sediments from California (PP31C-1484) 

Clarke Knight, Marie Champagne, Lysanna Anderson, Liubov Presnetsova, Jason Addison, Beth Caissie, Scott Starratt and Dave Wahl - Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

8:30 – 12:50 PM PST

Late Holocene Brine Evolution Preserved in Lake Enriquillo, Dominican Republic Sediments (PP31C-1489) 

Jessica Rodysill - Florence Bascom Geoscience Center and Julie Richey - St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

8:30 – 12:50 PM PST

Lacustrine Records of Paleohydroclimate from the Pleistocene to Present II Poster (PP31C)

Jessica Rodysill - Florence Bascom Geoscience Center and Scott Starratt - Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

8:30 – 12:50 PM PST

Impacts of experimental seasonal drought on soil water balance and plant phenology at a dryland ecosystem on the Colorado Plateau (B33E-2284) 

Rebecca Finger-Higgens and Michael Duniway - Southwest Biological Science Center

10:30 – 10:40 AM PST

The art of urban field work: Measuring urban heat at the human scale (SY33B-1014) 

Peter Ibsen - Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

2:10 – 6:30 PM PST

Correlating geophysics and biogeochemistry within a forested permafrost plateau in Interior Alaska (B33H-2322) 

Kristen Manies, Burke Minsley, and Jack Mcfarland - Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

2:10 – 6:30 PM PST

Climate-driven wetland-stream connectivity in the Upper Mississippi River Basin: Co-developing geospatial modeling tools to support conservation investments (H33F-06) 

Owen McKenna - Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

3:00 – 3:10 PM PST

Quantifying wetland carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas fluxes from restored wetlands (GC34B-05) 

Sheel Bansal - Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

4:40 – 4:50 PM PST

Thursday, December 14, 2023

Soil functional classification: Is there utility in clustering soil data to better understand landscape-scale heterogeneity of soil carbon storage? (B41E-2509)

Corey Lawrence and Elizabeth Williams - Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

8:30 – 12:50 PM PST 

Development of bivalve proxy archives along the Florida, USA coastline (PP43E-1707) 

Maddie Mette and Julie Richey - St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

2:10 – 6:30 PM PST 

Friday, December 15, 2023

Did a “Sea-ice Highway” facilitate early human migration from Beringia into North America along the coastal route? (PP51A-05)

Summer Praetorius, Jay Alder, and Beth Caissie - Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

9:12 – 9:22 AM PST 

Microplastic and Black Carbon Particles from Road-tire Wear: Implications for Radiative Effects on the Cryosphere and Atmosphere (C51A-06)

Richard Reynolds, Elizabeth Williams, Corey Lawrence - Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

9:20 – 9:30 AM PST

A new Late Pleistocene to Holocene record of California Current upwelling from the Tanner Basin in the outer California Borderlands (PP51D-1096)

Jason Addison, Summer Praetorius, Beth Caissie, and Clarissa Smith - Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

8:30 – 12:50 PM PST 

Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from natural and agriculturally impacted wetlands (B51G-1856)  

Sheel Bansal, Max Post van der Burg, and Brian Tangen - Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

8:30 – 12:50 PM PST

North Pacific Sea Ice Distribution since the Last Glacial Maximum (PP53B-1105) 

Beth Caissie and Summer Praetorius - Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

2:10 – 6:30 PM PST 

Vegetation loss following vertical drowning of coastal marshes leads to sustained increasesin microbial decomposition (B54A-01)

Courtney Creamer, Mark Waldrop, Kristen Manies, and Sabrina Sevilgen - Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center and Camille LaFosse Stagg and Eric Ward - Wetlands and Aquatic Research Center

4:00 – 4:15 PM PST

Online Poster Available during AGU and January 2024

Simulated Last Interglacial and Projected Future Global Biomes at High Latitudes

Sarah Shafer - Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

Tuesday, 23 January 2024; 8:00 – 09:30 AM PST