OSPA Winners: 2012

Antoinette Abeyta
Presentation Title: Transport dynamics of mass failures along weakly cohesive clinoform foresets
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Ocean Sciences

Sanyogita Andriyas
Presentation Title: Bayesian Belief Networks Approach for Modeling Irrigation Behavior
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Hydrology

Martin Owain Archer
Presentation Title: Magnetosheath dynamic pressure pulses: Generation & magnetospheric impact
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Space Physics and Aeronomy

Andrew Peter Ballinger
Presentation Title: Influence of the zonal mean circulation on tropical cyclone frequency
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences

Timothy C Bartholomaus
Presentation Title: Tidewater terminus tug-of-war
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Cryosphere

Markus C Battarbee
Presentation Title: Seed Population Encounters with Coronal Shocks of Varied Geometry
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Space Physics and Aeronomy

Knut Arne Birkedal
Presentation Title: Electrical Resistivity Measurements in Sandstone During CH4 Hydrate Formation and CH4-CO2 Exchange
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Ocean Sciences

Tobias Bischoff
Presentation Title: Impact of ocean heat transport variations on the zonal mean circulation in an idealized moist GCM
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences

Lauren W Blum
Presentation Title: A Holocene record of atmospheric methyl chloride from Antarctic ice cores
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Cryosphere

Michael L Bramnik
Presentation Title: Utilizing a Single Three-Component Geophone to Detect Near-Surface Seismic Sources for Military, Energy Exploration, and Engineering Applications
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Seismology

Maryjo N Brounce
Presentation Title: Fe3+/∑Fe variation in Mariana arc and back-arc magmas and primary fO2 of the mantle wedge
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Tectonophysics

Tyler C Brown
Presentation Title: Gabbro microstructure and crystallography from Pito Deep: Evidence for Gabbro Glacier Flow
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Ocean Sciences

Ryan Cain Cahalan
Presentation Title: Coupled diffusion of lithium and yttrium (+HREE) in garnet
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology

David Alexander Cameron
Presentation Title: Closed-loop aquifer management for geological carbon storage
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Hydrology

Estelle Chaussard
Presentation Title: Precursory deformation and depths of magma storage revealed by regional InSAR time series surveys: example of the Indonesian and Mexican volcanic arcs
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Geodesy

Anita Di Chiara
Presentation Title: Paleomagnetic secular variation at the Azores during the last 3 ka
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism and Electromagnetism

Jane Chui
Presentation Title: Interface Evolution during Miscible Viscous Fingering
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Hydrology

Douglas B Collins
Presentation Title: Chemical and Biological Influences on the Organic Composition and Cloud Activity of Sea Spray Aerosol
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences

Jaime Convers
Presentation Title: Weak rupture along the shallow megathrust evidenced by high frequency seismic energy release rates
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Seismology

Lee B Corbett
Presentation Title: Holocene Paleolimnological Records from Thule, Northwestern Greenland
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Marine Denolle
Presentation Title: Constrained Linear Least Squares Inversion to Improve Ambient Seismic Field Green's Functions
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Seismology

Jake Diamond
Presentation Title: Concentration-discharge relationships for variably sized streams in Florida: Patterns and drivers in long-term catchment studies
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Hydrology

James T. Dietrich
Presentation Title: Mapping Land and Water Surface Topography with instantaneous Structure from Motion
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Hydrology

Cathleen Doherty
Presentation Title: Constraining the dynamic response of subcontinental lithospheric mantle to rifting using Re-Os model ages in the Western Ross Sea, Antarctica
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Tectonophysics

Sarah Elizabeth Donne
Presentation Title: Towards a quantification of ocean wave height off the west coast of Ireland using land based seismic data
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Ocean Sciences

Aryeh J Drager
Presentation Title: CloudSat-derived Morphology of Deep Convection over Tropical Oceans
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences

Daniel H Eakin
Presentation Title: Milestones in arc-continent collision evolution: The transition from intra-oceanic subduction to incipient collision
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Tectonophysics

Mostafa Elag
Presentation Title: Design and Application of an Ontology for Component-Based Modeling of Water Systems
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Earth and Space Science Informatics

Carmen Emmel
Presentation Title: Determining the vertical carbon dioxide source/sink distribution in a mountain pine beetle attacked forest: A comparison of eddy-covariance and ecophysiological approaches
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Biogeosciences

Anton Ermakov
Presentation Title: Modeling of Vesta's interior structure using gravity and shape model from the Dawn mission and hydrodynamic impact simulations
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Planetary Sciences

Jessica P Feenstra
Presentation Title: Analysis of microseismic activity detected by the WIZARD array, Alpine Fault, New Zealand
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Seismology

Xue Feng
Presentation Title: Changes in rainfall seasonality in the tropics
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Hydrology

Azadeh Fereidoni
Presentation Title: Statistical Features of Aftershock Temporal Behavior in the St. Lawrence Valley
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Seismology

Dorothy L Fibiger
Presentation Title: Towards the Tracing of NOx Sources by Isotopic Signature
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Biogeosciences

Michele Fondriest
Presentation Title: Mirror-like slip surfaces in dolostone: field and experimental constraints on a potential seismic marker.
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Seismology

Bonne Ford
Presentation Title: Aerosol loading in the Southeastern United States: Reconciling surface and satellite observations
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences

Will Fortin
Presentation Title: Seismic Imaging of the Cascadia Plate Boundary with Four Source Array Configurations
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Tectonophysics

Abigail Fraeman
Presentation Title: Hematite Bearing Ridge as Evidence of Anoxic Water Discharge in Gale Crater
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Planetary Sciences

Jeffrey Geddes
Presentation Title: Observations of reactive nitrogen oxide fluxes by eddy covariance above a mid-latitude mixed hardwood forest
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Biogeosciences

Lindsay Glesener
Presentation Title: The Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Space Physics and Aeronomy

Kevin L Graf
Presentation Title: Extended lateral heating of the nighttime D region by very low frequency transmitters: Subionospheric observations & modeling
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Space Physics and Aeronomy

Daniel Griffin
Presentation Title: Monsoon failure enhances drought in southwestern North America
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Global Environmental Change

Steven J Hall
Presentation Title: Minerals vs. Microbes: Biogeochemical Controls on Carbon Storage in Humid Tropical Forest Soils
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Biogeosciences

Andrea Miller Hanna
Presentation Title: Development after Disaster: Multidecadal Impacts of Tropical Cyclones upon Long-run Economic Growth
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Natural Hazards

Matthew W Herman
Presentation Title: Using Regional Moment Tensors to Constrain the Kinematics and Stress Evolution During the 2010-2012 Canterbury, New Zealand, Earthquake Sequence
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Tectonophysics

David L Hochstetler
Presentation Title: Impact of Compound-Specific Transverse Mixing on Steady-State Reactive Plumes
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Hydrology

David Honegger
Presentation Title: A synopsis of X-band radar-derived results from New River Inlet, NC (May 2012): Wave transformation, bathymetry, and tidal currents
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Ocean Sciences

Gabriel A Isaacman-VanWertz
Presentation Title: Heterogeneous OH oxidation of motor oil particles causes selective depletion of branched and less cyclic hydrocarbons
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences

Adam D Jew
Presentation Title: A Sequential Chemical Extraction and Spectroscopic Assessment of the Potential Bioavailability of Mercury Released From the Inoperative New Idria Mercury Mine, San Benito Co., CA
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Biogeosciences

Xiaoman Jiang
Presentation Title: Diagnostic analysis of a heavy rainfall event over Beijing on July 21-22, 2012
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Natural Hazards

Amir Jina
Presentation Title: Development after Disaster: Multidecadal Impacts of Tropical Cyclones upon Long-run Economic Growth
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Natural Hazards

Matthew Jungers
Presentation Title: Mid-Pleistocene Erosion-Deposition Cycles in the Hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Earth and Planetary Surface Processes

Myung G Kim
Presentation Title: Assessing CO2 emissions from Canada's oil sands developments — an inversion approach combined with stable isotope data
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences

Malin Klawonn
Presentation Title: Reproducibility of isopach data and estimates of dispersal and eruption volumes
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology

Miranda Tsz Yan Ko
Presentation Title: Preliminary Strategies to Automate Data Quality Control of USArray Transportable Array Stations
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences

Hyuck Jin Kwon
Presentation Title: Relationship between Earthward magnetotail flow bursts and low-latitude Pi2 pulsations
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Space Physics and Aeronomy

Jessica Zinger LeRoy
Presentation Title: From meander bend to oxbow lake: flow, channel morphology and sedimentology of an evolving chute cutoff on the Wabash River, IL-IN
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Earth and Planetary Surface Processes

Dan Li
Presentation Title: Hydro-meteorological and micro-climatic impacts of urbanization
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Hydrology

Benjamin Linhoff
Presentation Title: Greenland ice sheet hydrology: insights from an isotope mixing model during the 2011 and 2012 melt seasons
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Cryosphere

Yuwei Liu
Presentation Title: Teleconnection mechanisms from extratropical North Atlantic cooling to reduced Sahel rainfall
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Global Environmental Change

Jessica A Lodewyk
Presentation Title: The southern Chile earthquake of 14 June 1970: Not an interplate thrust event!
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Seismology

Matthew Phillip Loocke
Presentation Title: Contrasting MORB-Boninite reaction trends in IBM forearc mantle
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Tectonophysics

Christof Lorenz
Presentation Title: Improving the spatial resolution of terrestrial water storage changes from GRACE using hydrological- and hydro-meteorological information
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Geodesy

Ben E Mandler
Presentation Title: Magma storage conditions prior to the caldera-forming eruption of Newberry Volcano, Oregon
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology

Chris Marsh
Presentation Title: Implications of mountain shading on calculating energy for snowmelt using unstructured triangular meshes
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Cryosphere

Kelly E McCusker
Presentation Title: Climate response to abrupt cessation of solar radiation management
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Global Environmental Change

Brooke Medley
Presentation Title: New, High-Resolution Spatio-Temporal Accumulation Rate Measurements and Their Validation of Climate Models and Implication for the Recent Sea-Level Contribution from West Antarctica
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Cryosphere

Toby W Meierbachtol
Presentation Title: Rapid Adjustment of Greenland Subglacial System to Discharge Perturbations: In Situ Measurements in Boreholes
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Cryosphere

Jose M Mier
Presentation Title: 3D LDV Measurements in Oscillatory Boundary Layers
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Earth and Planetary Surface Processes

Franziska Moebius
Presentation Title: Pore invasion dynamics during fluid front displacement in porous media - functional pore size distribution and phase entrapment
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Hydrology

Shibabrat Naik
Presentation Title: Lobe dynamics and homoclinic tangles in atmospheric flows
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Nonlinear Geophysics

Phu Nguyen
Presentation Title: Improving flash flood forecasting through coupling of a distributed hydrologic rainfall-runoff model (HL-RDHM) with a hydraulic model (BreZo)
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Hydrology

Lindsay Olinde
Presentation Title: Evaluating bedload transport with RFID and accelerometer tracers, airborne LiDAR, and HEC-GeoRAS modeling: field experiments in Reynolds Creek, Idaho
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Earth and Planetary Surface Processes

Devon A Orme
Presentation Title: Basin Evolution and Exhumation of the Xigaze Forearc, Southern Tibet: Insight from Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Geo-Thermochronology
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Tectonophysics

Alejandra C Ortiz
Presentation Title: Turbulent and Mean Velocity Near Rigid and Flexible Plants, and Implications for Deposition
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Earth and Planetary Surface Processes

Birgir V Oskarsson
Presentation Title: The architecture of tholeiitic lava flows in the Neogene flood basalt piles of eastern Iceland: constraints on the mode of emplacemement
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology

Ross E Parnell-Turner
Presentation Title: Caught in the Act: A Hot Mantle Pulse beneath the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Study of Earth's Deep Interior

Divya Allu Peddinti
Presentation Title: Convection Models for Ice-Water System: Dynamical Investigation of Phase Transition
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Planetary Sciences

Adrienne Janell Phillips
Presentation Title: Biofilm-induced calcium carbonate precipitation: application in the subsurface
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Biogeosciences

Rania Eldam Pommer
Presentation Title: Petrogenesis of Franciscan Complex and Coast Range Ophiolite Serpentinites in northern California
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology

Jianqi Qin
Presentation Title: Dependence of positive and negative sprite morphology on lightning characteristics and upper atmospheric ambient conditions
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric and Space Electricity

Jodie Barker Ream
Presentation Title: Generation of Pi2 Pulsations by Intermittent Earthward Propagating Dipolarization Fronts: An MHD Case Study
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Space Physics and Aeronomy

David E Reed
Presentation Title: Contrasting ecosystem drivers of mass and energy fluxes at upper and lower elevation sagebrush steppe sites
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Biogeosciences

Jeremy Reich
Presentation Title: Photochemistry of Tetrabromobisphenol A in Frozen and Liquid Aqueous Solutions
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences

Ben Reineman
Presentation Title: Development and testing of instrumentation for ship-based UAV measurements of ocean surface processes and the marine atmospheric boundary layer
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Ocean Sciences

Julia Ribeiro
Presentation Title: First results from TN273 studies of the SE Mariana Forearc rift
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Tectonophysics

Bryan V Riel
Presentation Title: Multiscale Transient Signal Detection: Localizing Transients in Geodetic Data Through Wavelet Transforms and Sparse Estimation Techniques
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Geodesy

Nicholas J Roberts
Presentation Title: Landslide-generated tsunami geomorphology at Chehalis Lake, British Columbia
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Natural Hazards

Alexander Rohrmann
Presentation Title: Stream-water stable isotopes, moisture flux, complex topography and isotopic fractionation along the South Central Andes
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Tectonophysics

Antonia Rosati
Presentation Title: Facilitating NCAR Data Discovery by Connecting Related Resources
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Earth and Space Science Informatics

Lucy Rose
Presentation Title: Highly variable δ15N and δ18O of event-based precipitation nitrate indicate dynamic contributions from biogenic and anthropogenic NOx sources
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Biogeosciences

Nicole Rudolph-Mohr
Presentation Title: Highly resolved imaging at the soil - plant root interface: A combination of fluorescence imaging and neutron radiography
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Hydrology

Jacob Scheff
Presentation Title: Robust future precipitation declines in CMIP5 largely reflect the poleward expansion of model subtropical dry zones
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences

Jonathan Schueth
Presentation Title: The Role of Survivor Incumbency on the Evolutionary Recovery of Calcareous Nannoplankton from the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) Mass Extinction
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

David E Shean
Presentation Title: Quantifying Ice-sheet/Ice-shelf Dynamics and Variability with Meter-scale DEM and Velocity Timeseries
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Cryosphere

Yoichi Paolo Shiga
Presentation Title: Exploring the Ability of Inverse Methods to Isolate the Fossil Fuel Emission Signal from Atmospheric CO2 Measurements
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Global Environmental Change

Elizabeth C Sibert
Presentation Title: Using Ichthyoliths to Determine the Fish Response to the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Corliss Kin I Sio
Presentation Title: Telling zoned from zoned: LA-MC-ICPMS and SIMS iron isotopic measurements of olivine
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Mineral and Rock Physics

Stefany M Sit
Presentation Title: Six years of tectonic tremor observations prior to the Mw 7.4 March 20, 2012 Ometepec Earthquake
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Seismology

Jeremy Smith
Presentation Title: Light Absorption by Secondary Organic Aerosol Produced from Aqueous Reaction of Phenols with an Organic Triplet Excited State and Hydroxyl Radical
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences

Lydia Staisch
Presentation Title: Revised depositional age of the Fenghuoshan Group, Hoh Xil Basin, north-central Qiangtang terrane: implications for the pre- and early-collisional tectonic evolution of the Tibetan Plateau
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Tectonophysics

Scott R Stephenson
Presentation Title: Impacts of projected sea ice changes on trans-Arctic navigation
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Global Environmental Change

Sarah A Styler
Presentation Title: Heterogeneous Photochemistry of Fluorotelomer Alcohols: An Unexplored Loss Pathway
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences

Chenguang Sun
Presentation Title: A REE-in-two-pyroxene Thermometer and a REE-in-garnet-cpx Thermometer for Mafic and Ultramafic Rocks
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology

Carolyn M Tewksbury-Christle
Presentation Title: Comparing Theoretical Predictions with Experimental Data Showing the Relationship Between Ground Penetrating Radar Amplitude Response and Fluid Salinity, Fracture Aperture, and Channel Width of a Fractured Bedrock Analog
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Near Surface Geophysics

Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert
Presentation Title: Expanding diversity of potential bacterial partners of the methanotrophic ANME archaea using Magneto-FISH
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Biogeosciences

Samantha K. Trumbo
Presentation Title: A Mathematical Model for Estimation of Kelp Bed Productivity: Age Dependence and Contributions of Subsurface Kelp
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Biogeosciences

Kristal R Verhulst
Presentation Title: A Holocene record of atmospheric methyl chloride from Antarctic ice cores
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Cryosphere

Jim Walker
Presentation Title: A new instrument for measuring the evolving light extinction by single aerosol particles
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences

Siyuan Wang
Presentation Title: Sources and Sinks of OVOCs in the Tropical Free Troposphere during TORERO
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences

Kevin Michael Ward
Presentation Title: The Structure of the Crust and Uppermost Mantle Beneath the Central Andes from Ambient Noise Tomography: Imaging the Neogene to Modern Batholith
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Tectonophysics

Greg Wentworth
Presentation Title: Atmosphere-Surface Exchange of Reactive Nitrogen and its Implications for PM2.5
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences

Andrew D Wickert
Presentation Title: Ice Age Geomorphology of North America
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Earth and Planetary Surface Processes

Maya Wildgoose
Presentation Title: Delineating the P-T-t History of Blueschist Rocks in the Ruby Terrane, Alaska, using 40Ar/39Ar UV Laser Ablation and Lu-Hf
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology

Kelsey B Williams
Presentation Title: The Effect of Cr content on the Reflectance Properties of Mg-Spinel
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Planetary Sciences

Aaron S Wolf
Presentation Title: A Simplified Cation Speciation Model for Silicate Liquids at Mantle Pressures and Temperatures
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Mineral and Rock Physics

Sumi Natalie Wren
Presentation Title: Photochemical Chlorine Activation From Artificial Saline Snowpacks
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences

Ting Wu
Presentation Title: Discharge height of lightning narrow bipolar events and new observation with phased array radar
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric and Space Electricity

Wenbo Wu
Presentation Title: Teleseismic P wave coda from oceanic trench and other bathymetric features
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Seismology

Jonathan Yee
Presentation Title: Characterizing Nonspecular Trails and the Signal Dependence with Aspect Angle
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences

Xia Zhu-Barker
Presentation Title: Influence of oxygen content on N2O produce from nitrifier denitrification
Event: 2012 Fall Meeting
Section: Biogeosciences