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Puerto Rico, Haiti, Florida & the Caribbean: GSA's 2013 Southeastern Section Meeting

March 11th, 2013

Geoscientists from across the southeastern U.S., Puerto Rico, and beyond will convene in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on 20-21 March to discuss infrastructure, earthquakes, sustainability, waste-water management and sanitation, and coastal vulnerability and take time to explore the area's stunning geology and history. Puerto Rico's wide variety of geologic and geographic settings includes a world-class karst province, limestone cliffs, a central mountain range, and the only tropical rain forest in the U.S. National Forest system.

Topics of interest presented on Wednesday include the proposed U.S. presidential initiative to expand and modernize Kennedy Space Center infrastructure, which is within 500 meters of the Atlantic coastline in Florida. Another paper covers the Governors' South Atlantic Alliance, established in 2009 by North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida as a regional forum for addressing the environmental sustainability, natural resources, and socioeconomic environment of the southeastern states. Wednesday's poster session "Sustainable Water Resources and Water Treatment in Haiti" includes presentations by scientists from Haiti's Université Quisqueya.

Thursday sessions include analysis of Caribbean earthquakes and tsunamis, with discussion of the use of untethered free-vehicles to explore the Puerto Rico Trench and Muertos Trough. International collaboration as part of the Puerto Rico Seismic Network is also highlighted.

Selected Highlights of the Scientific Program

The scientific program is composed of oral and poster presentations organized into 17 themed sessions plus an array of research in general discipline areas. Go to http://www.geosociety.org/Sections/se/2013mtg/techprog.htm to learn more.

WEDNESDAY, 20 MARCH

Assessing Coastal Vulnerability: Technical and Management Considerations

Chester W. Jackson Jr. of Georgia Southern University and Clark Alexander of the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, presiding, 8 a.m. to noon (session 1).

Abstracts: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2013SE/webprogram/Session31885.html

Paper 1-8: Regional Collaborative Research in the Southeastern US: Progress Toward a New Coastal Hazard Vulnerability Assessment Tool. Lead author: Clark Alexander of Skidaway Institute of Oceanography: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2013SE/webprogram/Paper216501.html (10:50 a.m.)
Paper 1-9: A Science-Based Decision Support System for the Management of Critical Infrastructure along NASA Kennedy Space Center Shoreline, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Lead author: Richard A. Mackenzie III of the University of Florida-Gainesville: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2013SE/webprogram/Paper214712.html (11:10 a.m.).

Sustainable Water Resources and Water Treatment in Haiti

Peter J. Wampler of Grand Valley State University, Richard R. Rediske of the Annis Water Resources Institute at Grand Valley State University, and Azizur R. Molla of Grand Valley State University, presiding, 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (session 21).

Abstracts: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2013SE/webprogram/Session31899.html

Paper 21-2: Water and Sanitation in Haiti—An Ethnographic Perspective. Lead author: Azizur R. Molla of Grand Valley State University: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2013SE/webprogram/Paper216454.html (3:25 p.m.).
Posters: Sustainable Water Resources and Water Treatment in Haiti
8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with authors present from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. (session 18): https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2013SE/webprogram/Session32585.html.

THURSDAY, 21 MARCH

Caribbean Earthquakes and Tsunamis

Alberto López of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez and Christa von Hillebrandt of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service, presiding, 8 a.m. to noon (session 25).

Abstracts: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2013SE/webprogram/Session31888.html

Paper 25-1: Exploration of the Puerto Rico Trench and Muertos Trough with Untethered Free-Vehicles. Lead author: Wilford Schmidt of the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2013SE/webprogram/Paper215743.html (8:05 a.m.).

Collaborative Seismology in the Caribbean and Central America

Jay Pulliam of Baylor University, Víctor Huérfano Moreno of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, and Olga Cabello of the IRIS Consortium, presiding, 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (session 39).

Abstracts: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2013SE/webprogram/Session31901.html

Provided by Geological Society of America

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