41st International Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium

Geospatial Technologies & Geomorphological Mapping
October 15 to 17, 2010 - University of South Carolina - Columbia, SC

Tentative Program Schedule (subject to revision) 

Friday, October 15th

• 11:30-12:30  Registration
• 12:30-5:00  Field trip to Congaree National Monument led by John Kupfer, Kimberly Meitzen, and Will Graf
• 6:30-10:00 pm  Icebreaker & Registration in Top of Carolina, Capstone Building (revolving restaurant with overview of Columbia)
  

Saturday, October 16

• 7:30-8:30 Continental Breakfast & Poster Setup
• 7:30-10:00 Registration and proceedings volume sales
  • 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 -  Alan D. Howard [2], University of Virginia.
  • 9:10 – 9:40 Introduction: Concepts, Issues, and Research Directions - Michael P. Bishop, University of Nebraska, Omaha; Stephen Walsh [3], University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Allan James [4], University South Carolina.
• 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 [5] , University of Nevada, Reno.
  • 10:40 – 11:10 Airborne and Terrestrial LiDAR Technology for Assessing Topography, Michael Hodgson [6] and John R. Jensen [7], University South Carolina.
  • 11:10 – 11:40 Microwave Remote Sensing, Scott Hensley [8], Jet Propulsion Lab.
  • 11:40 – 12:10 Recent Developments in Geophysical Methods for Landform Studies - Remke L. Van Dam [9], Michigan State University.
  • 12:10 – 12:30  Discussion
• 12:30-1:30 Lunch (BGS Steering Committee Meeting)
• 1:30-3:30 Session III – REMOTE SENSING, Applications
  • 1:30 – 2:00 Making Riverscapes Real -  Patrice Carbonneau [10], University of Durham; Mark A. Fonstad [11], Texas State University, San Marcos; W. Andrew Marcus [12], University of Oregon; S. 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 [13], University of Aberystwyth, UK.
  • 2:30 – 3:00 Snow distribution in the Wind River Range, Wyoming: the influence of topography and regional climate – Dorothy Hall, NASA
• 3:00 – 3:30 Coffee Break & Poster Session II
• 3:30 – 5:00 Session IV – GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE
  • 3:30 – 4:00 Geomorphometry, Landform Representations, and Geomorphic Mapping - Ian Evans [14], Durham University, UK.
  • 4:00 – 4:30 Digital Terrain Modeling - John Wilson [15], University of Southern California.
  • 4:30 – 4:30 Scientific Visualization of Landscape and Landforms - Helena Mitasova [16], North Carolina State University.
  • 4:30 – 5:00  Discussion
• 7:00-9:00 pm Banquet
  
  • Spatial Scale in Geomorphology - Jonathan D. Phillips [17], University of Kentucky.
    

Sunday, October 17th

• 8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast & Poster Session III
• 9:00-12:00  Session V –GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE
  • 9:00 – 9:30 Spatial Analysis and Mapping in Geomorphology - Thomas R. Allen [18], East Carolina University.
  • 9:30 – 10:00 Soil Mapping and Modeling - Jon Pelletier [19], University of Arizona.
  • 10:00 – 10:30 GIS-based Hydrological Modeling and Mapping - Lawrence Band [20], University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
  • 10:30 – 11:00 Landscape Evolution Modeling and Mapping - Peter Koons [21], University of Maine
  • 11:00 – 11:30 Geospatial Analysis and Time: Historical Reconstructions and Change Detection - Allan James [4] and Subhajit Ghoshal, University of South Carolina, Mary Megison, Michael Singer, and Rolf Aalto.
  • 11:30-12:00 - Discussion
• 12:00 Adjourn