Allan James 

Geospatial Technologies & Geomorphological Mapping
Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium
Symposium
 

  The meeting will be held primarily in Callcott Building, home of the Geography Department.  This is located on Bull Street next to the Russell House student union (map).  The icebreaker Friday night and the banquet Saturday night will be held in Capstone building ~3/4 km northeast of Callcott Building.

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Overview

Friday, October 15th

7:45-8:45

8:15-3:30

Registration; Callcott building main floor

Fieldtrip - meet at registration table at 8:00 a.m.

6:30-8:30 p.m. Registration, Capstone Building Lobby

6:30-10:00pm

Icebreaker, Top of Carolina in Capstone Building (revolving restaurant overlooking Columbia)

Saturday, October 16

7:30-8:30

Registration, Callcott building main floor

Continental Breakfast & Poster Setup; Callcott Building ground floor.

8:30-12:30

Sessions I & II:  Introductions and Papers

12:30-1:30

Lunch (BGS Steering Committee Meeting)

1:30-5:00

Sessions III & IV:  Papers and Discussion

7:00-9:00

Banquet  -  Russell House Ballroom

Sunday, October 17th

8:00-9:00

Continental Breakfast & Posters; Callcott Building ground floor.

9:00-11:30

Session V - Papers

11:30-12:15

Discussion

12:15

Adjourn

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Details 

Friday, October 15th

7:45-8:45 am - Registration, Callcott building main floor lobby

8:15-3:30 - Field trip to Congaree National Park led by John Kupfer and Kimberly Meitzen

6:30-8:30 pm - Registration in Capstone Building Lobby

6:30-10:00 pm  Icebreaker in Top of Carolina, Capstone Building (revolving restaurant with overview of Columbia). Bar closes at 9:30.

 

Saturday, October 16

7:30-8:30 Continental Breakfast & Poster Setup; Callcott building ground floor

7:30-10:00 Registration, Callcott building main floor lobby

8:30-10:00  Session I -  INTRODUCTIONS

8:30 - 8:40  Welcome to Columbia - Will Graf, Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Arts and Sciences, USC

8:40 - 9:10  Convocation: Taking the Measure of a Landscape: Comparing a Simulated and Natural Landscape in the Virginia Coastal PlainAlan D. Howard, University of Virginia, Heather E. Tierney, Charlottesville, VA.

      9:10 - 9:40  Introduction: Geospatial Technologies and Digital Geomorphological Mapping: Concepts, Issues,

         and Research - Michael P. Bishop, University of Nebraska, Omaha; Allan James, University South Carolina;

         John F. Shroder, University of Nebraska, Omaha;  Stephen Walsh, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

9:40 - 10:10   Coffee Break & Poster Session I

10:10-12:30   Session II - REMOTE SENSING, Methods and Technology

10:10 - 10:40  Mapping Surface Mineralogy Using Imaging Spectrometry - Fred A. Kruse , University of Nevada, Reno.

10:40 - 11:10  Airborne and Terrestrial LiDAR Technology for Assessing Topography, Michael Hodgson and John R. Jensen, University South Carolina.

11:10 - 11:40   Microwave Remote Sensing , Scott Hensley, Jet Propulsion Lab.

11:40 - 12:10   Landform Characterization Using Geophysics - Recent Advances, Applications, and Emerging Tools - Remke L. Van Dam, Michigan State University.

12:10 - 12:30  Discussion

12:30-1:30  Lunch in Grand Market next door (BGS Steering Committee Meeting)

1:30-3:00   Session III - REMOTE SENSING, Applications

1:30 - 2:00   Making Riverscapes Real Patrice Carbonneau, University of Durham; Mark A. Fonstad , Texas State University, San Marcos; W. Andrew Marcus, University of Oregon; Stephen. J. Dugdale, APEM Ltd., Riverview, Embankment Business Park, Heaton Mersey, United Kingdom.

2:00 - 2:30   High-Resolution Mapping and Modeling of Floodplains - James Brasington, University of Aberystwyth, UK; Damià Vericat, Univ. Aberystwyth, UK and Forest Tech. Centre of Catalunya, Spain.

2:30 - 3:00   Relationship between Satellite-Derived Snow Cover and Snowmelt-Runoff Timing and Stream Power in the Wind River Range, Wyoming - Dorothy K. Hall and James L. Foster, NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterNicolo E. DiGirolamo and George A. Riggs, SSAI, Lanham, MD.

3:00 - 3:30   Coffee Break & Poster Session II

3:30 - 5:00   Session IV - GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE

3:30 - 4:00   Geomorphometry and landform mapping: what is a landform? - Ian S. Evans, Durham University, UK.

4:00 - 4:30   Digital Terrain Modeling - John Wilson, University of Southern California.

      4:30 - 5:00   Scientific Visualization of Landscape and Landforms - Helena Mitasova, North Carolina State

          University; Russell S. Harmon, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Durham, NC; Katherine Weaver, North

          Carolina State University; Nathan Lyons, North Carolina State University; Margery F. Overton, North Carolina

          State University.

5:00 - 5:30  Discussion

5:30 - 6:15  Cordial with Refreshments

7:00-9:00 pm   Banquet; Russell House Ballroom next door to Callcott Building  

    Keynote: Synchronization and Scale in Geomorphic Systems - Jonathan D. Phillips, University of Kentucky.

 

Sunday, October 17th; Callcott Building

8:00-9:00   Continental Breakfast & All Posters; Highlight Student Poster Winners

9:00-12:15  Session V - GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE

9:00 - 9:30   Spatial Analysis and Mapping in Coastal Geomorphology - Thomas R. Allen, East Carolina University, George Oertel; Old Dominion University, and Paul Gares, East Carolina University.

9:30 - 10:00   Soil Mapping and Modeling - Jon Pelletier, University of Arizona.

10:00 - 10:30   GIS-based Hydrological Modeling and Mapping - Lawrence E. Band, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, T. Hwang, University of North Carolina,  T.C. Hales, University Cardiff,  James Vose and Chelcy Ford, U.S. Forest Service, Southern Research Station.

10:30 - 11:00   The influence of mechanical properties on the link between tectonic and topographic evolution - Peter O. Koons, University of Maine

11:00 - 11:30   Geomorphic Change Detection Using Historic Maps and DEMs:  The Temporal Dimension of Geospatial Analysis - L. Allan James, Michael Hodgson, Subhajit Ghoshal, and Mary Megison Latiolais, University of South Carolina.

11:30-12:15 - Discussion

12:15  Adjourn

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