My talk this year at AGU in New Orleans is scheduled on Monday, December 11, 4:00-4:15, and is titled Modeling Anthropogenic Impact on Sediment Balance and Relative Sea-Level Rise in Contemporary and Future Deltas. Most of this work is based on our recent Geomorphology paper, though I'll share some newer results as well.

I'm also co-convening a session in the timeslot immediately before my talk, *Tides and Rivers: Estuaries and Deltas," with some great sounding abstracts. Posters will be Tuesday morning.

A new paper was published online today: A model of water and sediment balance as determinants of relative sea level rise in contemporary and future deltas. We aim to introduce a more robust and process-based relative sea-level rise model to use for monitoring potential land subsidence and relative sea-level rise as a result of anthropogenic activity in upstream, local, and offshore domains. This will be published as part of a special issue in Geomorphology later this year, and is associated with the 48th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, where I'll be presenting this work later this month. This years conference, and ...

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I'm pleased to share that I'm going to be joining the editorial board of a new open access peer-reviewed journal, Anthropocene Coasts, a joint publication between Canadian Science Publishing (a not-for-profit publisher) and East China Normal University.

The journal publishes multidisciplinary research on the effects of human activities, broadly defined, on estuarine and coastal systems. Publication fees are being waived for all manuscripts submitted in 2018, so please submit your papers!

I'll be co-convening an AGU session on deltas and sea-level rise. The full title reflects the joint focus on natural and social drivers of change: Deltas and Sea-Level Rise: Geological and Social-Ecological Perspectives. We have a number of very intersting abstracts in both oral and poster sessions. Looking forward to seeing you there!

A new paper was published online today: A global empirical typology of anthropogenic drivers of environmental change in deltas. In this paper, we develop a methodology to classify coastal river deltas by major anthropogenic drivers of environmental change. This will be published as part of a special issue in Sustainability Science later this year, titled Sustainable Deltas: Livelihoods, Ecosystem Services, And Policy Implications.

Abstract: It is broadly recognized that river delta systems around the world are under threat from a range of anthropogenic activities. These activities occur at the local delta scale, at the regional river and watershed scale, and ...

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My talk at AGU is scheduled on Thursday, December 17, 4:00-4:15, and titled The Geophysical, Anthropogenic, and Social Dimensions of Delta Risk: Estimating Contemporary and Future Risks at the Global Scale (GC44C-01). I'll be speaking in the Sustainable Deltas: Multidisciplinary Analyses of Complex Systems III session. Looking forward to sharing our recent work and hearing what others have been working on. I'll make sure to post the presentation here after the talk.

My collegues and I have a new research paper being published in the August 7, 2015 edition of Science, titled Profiling risk and sustainability in coastal deltas of the world. We have incorporated relative sea-level rise (RSLR, the combination of oceanic sea-level rise and land subsidence) into a risk framework that account for varying exposure to hazardous events, as well as the vast differences in socio-economic vulnerabilty across the world's deltas. We've developed proxies for these risk components based on global remote sensing and numerical modeling, and estimated how risk is changing due to RSLR in 48 deltas ...

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I've written a piece on TheConversation.com, to provide a shorter summary of the research recently published in Science. This should provide more context about what and why we did this work than one usually finds in academic papers. Please let me know what you think!

Those interested in more details about the global delta risk research being published today can find information, data sets, and delta maps developed for the study at www.globaldeltarisk.net. Thanks to Tian Luan, Fabio Corsi, and Anthony Cak at the CUNY Environmental CrossRoads Initiative for their help getting this site off the ground!

I'm pleased to note that I've been invited to present a talk at the AGU Fall Meeting session Sustainable Deltas: Multidisciplinary Analyses of Complex Systems. My talk will be about recent research on delta risk and vulnerability metrics: "The Geophysical, Anthropogenic, and Social Dimensions of Delta Risk: Estimating Contemporary and Future Risks at the Global Scale". More details about this research and a forthcoming publication will be posted here soon!

This year at AGU I will be co-convening a session on river fluxes and their response to environmental change with co-convenors Sagy Cohen (U-Alabama), Albert Kettner (U-Colorado), and Christopher Hackney (U-Southampton). The full title is "Numerical Modeling and applications of river fluxes in large basins under changing environmental conditions" (Session ID 8280). Here's the description:

Large river basins, extending from headwater sources, through the river system, to lakes, estuaries and coastal seas, are key components of the global (bio)geochemical cycles that couple the atmosphere, continents and oceans. Aquatic fluxes of carbon, nutrients and sediment from river systems play ...

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tl;dr: Using SCons for data workflows has its quirks, but can be very effective. And with a little upfront work, easy parallelism.

Recently I set to work updating an analysis of Mekong and Ganges surface water inundation trends that I was working on last year. In the time since then, my colleagues at City College have developed a new version of the global inundation product, SWAMPS (Surface Water Microwave Product Series, R. Schroeder et al., publication in prep). This analysis workflow involves importing inundation, precipitation, wave model output, and hydrological model output data, reprojecting to a common map projection ...

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Thanks to all the people who submitted abstracts to our Deltas and Coastal Wetlands session, and in particular our invited speakers, David Mohrig, Irina Overeem, and Houjie Wang. I even learned from Fedor Baart and collegues at Deltares and Delft University of Technology that the three inmates who escaped from Alcatraz in 1962 may have indeed made it to shore [pdf].

With co-convenors Yoshiki Saito (Geological Survey of Japan/AIST), Wenhong Li (Duke University) and Ge Sun (USDA Forest Service), we are convening oral and poster sessions on "Impacts of Global Change on Deltas and Coastal Wetland Ecosystems: Scientific Advances in Support of Socioecological Resilience." The poster session is on Tuesday morning, Aug 16, in Moscone West. The oral session is Tuesday afternoon, 1:40-3:40, in Moscone West 3007. We had a good number of very interesting abstracts submitted to the session. The oral talks were chosen to span both a range of delta and wetland systems (Wax Lake, Mekong ...

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I'll be presenting a talk showing recent results on our development of an empirical surface inundation model. Key to this work is a new remote sensing inundation product out of Kyle McDonald's group here at CCNY.

I'm co-organizing a workshop, Science-to-Action, at the Deltas in Times of Climate Change conference at the end of the month, in Rotterdam. Hoping for a good crowd of scientists, stakeholders, and practitioners.