Abstracts and Program

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Oral and Working Sessions

Monday, Sept. 26, 2011

8:30 - 9:00 am
Welcome and Introduction
Gabe Bowen

9:00 - 10:00 am
Keynote: Some Thoughts on Isoscapes
Graham Farquhar

10:00 - 10:30 am
Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00 am
Willamette Basin Surface Water Isoscape (d18O and d2H) for Interpreting Temporal Changes of Source Water within the River
J. Renee Brooks

11:00 - 11:30 am
Continental-scale Distributions of Plant Carbon Isotope Ratios
Chris Still

11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Isoscapes of Atmospheric Nitrate: What do they tell us?
Greg Michalski

12:00 -1:00 pm
Lunch

1:00 - 3:00 pm
Introduction to IsoMAP
IsoMAP project team

3:00 - 3:30 pm
Coffee Break

3:30 - 5:00 pm
Breakout Session 1: Isoscapes Science

Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011

8:30 - 9:00 am
Reconstructing the Hydrologic Cycle Using Hydrogen Isotopes in Leaf-wax Molecules: Modern Calibration and an Isoscape Approach to the Miocene Water Cycle of California
Pratigya Polissar

9:00 - 9:30 am
Isotopic Analysis and Ancient Human Mobility: Recent Advances, Current Challenges, and Variability in the Nile Valley
Michele Buzon

9:30 - 10:00 am
Forensic Applications of Isoscapes
Lesley Chesson and Brett Tipple

10:00 - 10:30 am
Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00 am
Tracking Animal Movements with Isoscapes
Keith Hobson

11:00 - 11:20 am
Generating Precipitation Isoscapes for New Zealand: Comparison of Conventional vs Enhanced Climate Detail
W. Troy Baisden

11:20 - 11:40 am
Investigating the Source, Transport, and Fate of Ammonia Emissions Using Stable Isotopes
J. David Felix

11:40 am -12:00 pm
Development of Next-generation, Off-axis ICOS Analyzers for Long Term Isotope Monitoring in the Field
Manish Gupta

12:00 - 1:00 pm
Lunch

1:00 - 1:30 pm
CyberGIS for Empowering Geospatial Sciences
Shaowen Wang

1:30 - 2:15 pm
Introduction to Environmental Web-GIS
Gabe Bowen, Jason West and Chris Miller

2:15 - 4:00 pm
Breakout Session 2: Cyberinfrastructure for Isoscapes (Coffee Available)

4:00 - 5:00 pm
Group Reports and Synthesis

Poster Session

1. Stephen P. Good, Keir Soderberg, Lixin Wang, Kathleen Ryan and Kelly K. Caylor
Air Mass Trajectory Influence on East African Rainfall Isotopic Composition

2. R. J. Colon-Rivera, R. A. Feagin, J. B. West and K. M. Yeager
Hydrological Connectivity in Salt Marsh Ponds: Multiple Methods Including Gauges, Water Isotopes, and LIDAR Elevation Models

3. Joshua Blackstock and Travis Horton
Tracing Groundwater Recharge Source Areas Using Groundwater Isoscapes and Groundwater Level Mapping

4. Shuning Li, Naomi E. Levin and Lesley A. Chesson
Triple Oxygen Isotope Composition of Tap Waters from the Conterminous United States

5. Katherine M. Redling and Emily M. Elliott
Isoscapes of Dry Nitrogen Deposition Across Local and Rregional Scales

6. Adam G. West, Edmund C. February and Gabriel J. Bowen
South African Tap Water Isoscapes

7. Jason E. Laffoon and Menno L. P. Hoogland
A Bioavailable Strontium Isoscape: Caribbean Region

8. Clement P. Bataille and Gabriel J. Bowen
Mapping 87Sr/86Sr Variations in Bedrock and Water for Regional Migration Studies

9. Robert Posey, Henriette Ueckerman, Khudooma Al Na'imi and Jurian Hoogewerff
Development of Spatial Prediction "Isoscape" Maps for the Determination of Provenance of Unidentified Human Remains: A new Probabilistic Approach

10. Steven L. Van Wilgenburg, Keith A. Hobson and Leonard I. Wassenaar
Refining Geographic Assignments of Animals to Isoscapes: Examples Using Informed Priors and Biological Constraints

11. Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson, Garret Hart, Helen Kreuzer, Jim Ehleringer and Jason West
Integration of C, N, O, H, and Sr Isotope Ratios for Geographic Sourcing of Castor Seeds

12. Anastasia Holobinko, Wolfram Meier-Augenstein, Helen F. Kemp, Tracy Prowse and Henry Schwarcz
2H Stable Isotope Analysis of Human Tooth Dentine: A Pilot Study

13. Peter E. Sauer, Herve Bocherens, Darren R. Grocke, Anne Bridault, Dorothee G. Drucker and Mietje Germonpre
Hydrogen Isotopic Variations in Mammalian Bone Collagen from Late Glacial- to Holocene Archeological Sites in Western Europe

14. Maura Pellegrini, Julia Lee-Thorp and Randolph Donahue
Investigating Faunal Transhumance in Late-Glacial Central Italy

15. Andrew J. Laughlin, D. Ryan Norris, David W. Winkler and Caz M. Taylor
Establishing the Migratory Connectivity of Tree Swallows Using a Stable Isotope Basemap

16. K. Rogers, L.I. Wassenaar, D.X. Soto and J.A. Bartle
A Feather-precipitation Hydrogen Isoscape for New Zealand

17. Kirsteen M. MacKenzie, Clive N. Trueman and Martin R. Palmer
Towards Dynamic Marine Isoscapes: A Case Study Using d13C Values in Salmon

18. Kara R. Radabaugh, Sheri A. Huelster, David J. Hollander and Ernst B. Peebles
Application of d13C and d15N Isoscapes to Studies of Fish Site Fidelity and Basal Resource Variation on the West Florida Shelf

19. Norton Ribeiro de Freitas Jr., Andrea Lini and Marisa Domingos
Documenting and Understanding Ecological Changes Affecting the Sustainability of Forest Ecosystem Services in Sao Paulo, Brazil

20. Jorge del-Castillo, Juan Pedro Ferrio, Monica Aguilera and Jordi Voltas
Modeling the Spatial Variability of d13C in Tree-Rings Using Geographical Information Systems (GIS)

21. Breanna A. Skeets, Anya B. Byers and Holly R. Barnard
Transpiration Source Water and Geomorphological Potential of Root Growth in the Boulder Creek CZO, Colorado

22. Glendon B. Hunsinger and Libby A. Stern
Resolving N2 Interferences for d18O Analysis of N-rich Organics by TC/EA

23. Robert J. Panetta, Riana Parvez, Danthu Vu and Aaron Van Pelt
Sapping Pines and Curdling Cheese: Induction Module CRDS analysis of matrix-bound waters

24. C.C. Miller, Lan Zhao, Ajay Kalangi, Hyojeong Lee, Gabriel J. Bowen, Jason West, Tonglin Zhang and Zhongfang Liu
The IsoMAP CI Stack: The Open Source, Grid-Enabled Technologies Behind the IsoMAP Project

25. Jason B. West, Shivani Mittal, Gabriel J. Bowen, Ajay Kalangi, Hyojeong Lee, Chris Miller, Tonglin Zhang and Lan Zhao
Web-based Leaf Water Isoscapes in IsoMAP Using Raster Modeling

26. Tonglin Zhang, Zhongfang Liu, Hyojeong Lee, Chris Miller, Jason West, Lan Zhao and Gabriel J. Bowen
The Statistical Method in the IsoMAP Precipitation Toolkit