Hosted by the Department of Geological Oceanography(DGO),Xiamen University,China
October 11-12,2019
Introduction
This international workshop will outline future research directions and collaborative opportunities for exploring material transport and transformation across Asian continental margins. Asian mega-rivers and inputs from adjacent highstanding islands (e.g., Taiwan) play a disproportionately large role in earth surface processes and together “feed” nearly half the world’s population. Whereas the mega-rivers share a common source (see figure above), they display a contrasting range of human and natural influences on their fate. We aim to develop plans for holistic studies that consider continental-margin sedimentary systems as a continuum requiring coordinated and linked studies across the margin in order to understand the flux, transformation and burial of dissolved and particulate matter. The timescale of interest spans seconds to millennia in order to consider the continuum of individual events and resulting stratigraphy, with emphasis on trends and trajectories through the Holocene and Anthropocene. This workshop aims to: 1) Identify new and innovative approaches that can be successfully applied to advance studies of Asian margins; 2) Propose candidate research area(s) for integrated, interdisciplinary studies, and; 3) Foster international and interdisciplinary studies that will produce major advances in knowledge over the next decade.
Workshop Sponsors
Department of Geological Oceanography (DGO), Xiamen University
College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University
State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Sciences (MEL), Xiamen University
State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University
Institute of Oceanography, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
Meeting Conveners
Steven Kuehl, Virginia Institute of Marine Science and Xiamen University
Shouye Yang, Tongji University
Local Organizers
Steven Kuehl, Virginia Institute of Marine Science and Xiamen University
Fengling Yu, Department of Geological Oceanography, Xiamen University
Scientific Steering Committee
Yoann Copard, University of Rouen-Normandy, France
Steven Kuehl, Virginia Institute of Marine Science and Xiamen University
James T. Liu, National Sun Yat-sen University
Charles Nittrouer, University of Washington, USA
Jingping Xu, Southern University of Science and Technology
Shouye Yang, Tongji University
Fengling Yu, Xiamen University
Presentation Guidelines
Oral Presentations
Each oral presentation is 15 minutes long, and should allow 2-3 minutes for discussion.No audio or video recording is allowed in any of the session rooms during the symposium.
Please upload your files to the presentation PC 10 minutes before the start of your session. Only PowerPoint, Kyenote and PDF files will be accepted. Your files will be erased after the symposium.
To assure fluency of the meeting, we encourage to avoid connecting their own laptops to computer projectors. This will save the transition time.
Please be sure to check your presentation for viruses before uploading and presenting at the meeting.
Poster Presentations
Poster dimensions should not exceed 120 cm (height) and 90 cm (width), and should be in portrait orientation.
The text should be readable from five feet (1.5 meters) away. Use a minimum font size of 20 points.
We recommend you hang up your poster before lunch time on Friday. All posters should remain on display throughout the symposium. Posters will be displayed in Multifunction Hall, 1st floor.
The poster presenter should be available for at least 1 hour during the designated poster session on Friday (1715-1830).
All posters should be removed by 1800 Saturday, Oct. 12.
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Workshop Schedule
Thursday October 10,2019
1600-1800 Meeting Registration, Wutong (Business School) Hotel on Xiamen Univetsity Siming Campus
1800-2000 Icebreaker, Wutong (Business School) Hotel on Xiamen University Siming Campus
Friday October 11,2019
0800 Welcoming comments by Profs. Minhan Dai and Kejian Wang
0815 Opening comments by meeting conveners and organizers: Steven Kuehl, Shouye Yang and Fengling Yu
Session I – Moving Holistic Sediment Studies Forward
0830 Charles Nittrouer, University of Washington,“Linking past and future investigations of sedi-ment dispersal systems”
0845 Courtney Harris, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, “Sediment transport in coastal envi-ronments: advancements in numerical modeling and applications to interdisciplinary prob-lems”
0900 Andrea Ogston, University of Washington, "Modulation of sediment source signals through a tidal river, and impacts on coastal sedimentary processes"
0915 James T. Liu, National Sun Yat-sen University, “Coupling between physical processes and biogeochemical responses along pathways of river plume dispersal”
0930 Group Photo
0940 Coffee Break
Session II – From Shelf to Slope
1000 Gary Parker, University of Illinois, “Continental shelves: how to get siliclastic sediment on them, and how to get sediment to bypass them”
1015 Toshiki Iwasaki, Hokkaido Unversity, "Autogenic subaqueous mechanism for continental shelf formation associated with clinoform migration: dissolved salt, gravity-driven and wave-supported turbidity currents"
1030 Qian Yu, Nanjing University, “Gravity-driven sediment transport on the inner continental shelf of the South Yellow sea”
1045 Jingping Xu, Southern University of Science and Technology, “Near-realtime monitoring of submarine landslides on continental slope”
1100 Break-out Group Discussions
Group A (Room#5) – Stratigraphic Record and Environmental Change
Discussion Leaders: Shouye Yang and Paul Liu
Group B (Room#4) – Key Questions in Sediment Routing from Mountains to Ocean
Discussion Leaders: Gary Parker and Jingping Xu
1200 Lunch
Session III - Organic Matter Burial
1330 Tom Bianchi, University of Florida, “Carbon remineralization and burial in the coastal mar-gin: linkages in the Anthropocene”
1345 Minhan Dai, Xiamen University, “Diagnosis of carbon cycling in River-Dominated Ocean Margins”
1400 Christophe Rabouille, CESL, Paris, "Carbon remineralization and burial in river deltas: a case study in the Rhône delta emphasizing extreme events"
1415 Meixun Zhao, Ocean University of China, “Terrestrial biomolecular burial efficiencies on continental margins”
1430 Coffee Break
Session IV – Carbon Budgets and Diagenesis
1500 Wolfgang Ludwig, University of Perpignan, “Controls and budgets of riverine sediment, carbon and contaminant fluxes at global and regional scales”
1515 Robert Aller, Stony Brook Unversity, "Elemental fluxes and biogeochemical reactions during sediment transit: concepts of local and 3-D system diagenesis"
1530 Xiting Liu, Ocean University of China, "Authigenic pyrite and sulfur isotope in mud sedi-ments of the East China Sea inner shelf"
1545 Yoann Copard, University of Rouen-Normandy, "The route of fossil organic carbon within the land to sea continuum”
1600 Mark Torres, Rice University, “The autogenic carbon cycle: source to sink coupling between sedimentation and organic matter cycling”
1615 Break-out Group Discussions
Group A (Room #4)– Carbon Transformation and Burial from Floodplains to Shelf
Discussion Leaders Tom Bianchi and Meixun Zhao
Group B (Room# 5)– Processes at the Land-Ocean Interface
Discussion Leaders – Shu Gao and Andrea Ogston
1715-1830 Poster Presentations
1900-2100 Workshop Dinner
Saturday October 12,2019
Session V - Sediment Dispersal in the China Seas
0845 Houjie Wang, Ocean University of China, “Yellow River-derived sediment input and dispersal system in coastal and shelf sea”
0900 Jeffrey Nittrouer, Rice University, “Universal relation for fine-grained sediment transport: applications to the Yellow River”
0915 Shouye Yang, Tongji University, "An integrated study on the boundary exchange in the Changjiang (Yangtze) Estuary and East China Sea”
0930 Zhifei Liu, Tongji University, “In-situ observation on flux and dynamic processes of fluvial sediment transport in the South China Sea”
0945 Coffee Break
Session VI - Human Impacts on Land-Sea Interactions
1000 Shu Gao, East China Normal University, “Human impacts on rivers and shelves: an over-view”
1015 Kimberly Rogers, East Carolina University, “Dams, diversions, dikes and their impact on sediment transfer across the land-sea boundary”
1030 Jianhua Gao, Nanjing University, “Rapid response of the Changjiang (Yangtze) River and East China Sea source-to-sink conveying system to human induced catchment perturbations”
1045 Paul Liu, North Carolina State University, “Fates of sediments transport on the shelf: the Yangtze vs Mekong, and the Ayeyarwady vs Ganges Brahmaputra”
1100 Break-out Group Discussions
Group A (Room#4)– Future Research Strategies
Discussion Leaders – Robert Aller and James Liu
Group B (Room#5) – Promising Research Field Areas
Discussion Leaders – Houjie Wang and Chuck Nittrouer
1200 Lunch
Session VII – Focus on Deltas
1330 Yongqiang Zong, Hong Kong University, “Current understanding and future research on delta evolution: a case from the Pearl River delta/bay area”
1345 Simon Engelhart, University of Durham, “The importance of understanding relative sea-level changes at temporal scales from minutes to millennia”
1400 Daidu Fan, Tongji University, “Comparison study of late-Quaternary small-river deltaic sys-tems across the Taiwan Straight
1415 Zhongyuan Chen, East China Normal University, “Sedimentary system of the Yangtze delta: how much we do not know?”
1430 Steven Kuehl, Virginia Institute of Marine Science and Xiamen University, “Insight to the offshore development of the last unstudied Asian delta, the Ayeyarwady”
1445 Coffee Break
1530 10-minute Summaries of Break-out Group Discussion and Plenary Discussion
1550 Conveners’ Summary and Future Directions in Plenary
1600 Free Discussions
1700 Formal Workshop Closes
Sunday October 13,2019
0800 10-minute Finalize Workshop Report (Conveners, Discussion Leaders and Science Steering Committee), Wutong (Business School) Hotel on Xiamen Siming Campus
0900-1200 Research Working Group Meetings
1200 Lunch
List of Poster Presentations
Lei Bi, Tongji University, “Lithium isotopes reveal the cannibalistic nature of continental weathering and erosion in Changjiang river basin”
Yuan-Pin Chang, National Sun Yat-sen University, “The evolution of depositional environment at Cen-tral Taiwan alluvial plain based on carbon indicators”
Yulong Guo, Tongji University, “Geochemistry indicates human activities intensively altered the natural sediment routing processes in the Huanghe (Yellow River)”
Zhigang Guo, Fudan University, “Tracing the sources and fate of mercury in sediments in the large riv-er-dominated estuarine-inner shelf sediments using stable mercury isotopic compositions”
Courtney Harris, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, “Tidal and wave spatial variability in the Anda-man Sea and Gulf of Martaban: numerical modeling results”
Shuqing Qiao, First Institute of Oceanography, MNR, “Sediment characteristics and budget in the East China seas”
Ni Su, Tongji University, “Revisit of radiogenic and stable strontium isotope systematics in mountain streams: constraints about weathering processes”
Aimei Wang, Ocean University of China,“Combined wave-tide actions on bottom sediment resuspen-sion in the southern Yellow Sea”
Yaping Wang, Nanjing University, “Winter storm induced sediment transport along the southern Yellow Sea coasts”
Zhongbo Wang, Qingdao Inst. of Marine Geology, “Paleo-fluvial sedimentation on the shelf of East China Sea and sea-level change since LGM”
Bochao Xu, Ocean University of China, “Using multi-isotopes to assess sedimentary dynamics in the East China Sea”
Fengling Yu, Xiamen University, “About the small land-sea interaction systems in southern China”
Bin Zhao, Ocean University of China, “Burial of sedimentary organic carbon in the Eastern China Marginal Seas”
Gaocong Li, Guangdong Ocean University, “ Predicting the sediment flux of the continental shelf islands in southeast China”
Zhiyan Chen, Southern University of Science and Technology, “ A comparative study on sources of sedimentary organic carbon in Xiwan (Shenzhen) and Maipo (Hong Kong) Bay”
Wenpeng Li, Southern University of Science and Technology, “Disturbed sediment accumulation indicated from biomarker study in Pearl River Estuary”
