Three out of four of the members of Sedimentary Systems Research group will be attending the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall 2019 meeting in San Francisco next week. Here’s a rundown of our activities:

Monday (Dec 9) morning:

• Ph.D. candidate Drew Parent is presenting a poster summarizing our flume experiment research testing the ‘sortable silt’ bottom-current proxy — Sorting of silt by bottom currents part II: Grain-size metrics and applicability to paleoceanography (PP11D-1415)
• Also check out part I of this work, a companion poster in the same session led by our collaborator Kyle Strom from the Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, which summarizes the flume design and details about the experiments — Sorting of silt by bottom currents part I: Laboratory experiments (PP11D-1412)

Friday (Dec 13) morning:

• Brian Romans is giving a talk in the session Multiproxy Approaches to Resolving Climatic and Tectonic Controls on Landscape Evolution about sediment recycling based on work from the Magallanes Basin — Effects of intrabasinal recycling on the preservation of tectonic and climate signal determined from provenance analysis (T52B-02) — this talk is at 10:35am in Moscone West 2004 L2

Friday (Dec 13) afternoon:

• Ph.D. candidate Natalia Varela is presenting a poster in the session Southern Ocean Climate and Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics with some brand new results from IODP Exp 374 core samples analyzed over the past several months — A physical record of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) outflow in the Ross Sea from the late Pliocene (3.3 Ma) through present (PP53C-1456)

We are looking forward to sharing our latest work, hope to see you there!