S2S Integration and Synthesis Workshop

Gisborne, NZ April 5-9 2009

SundayParticipants Arrive Gisborne, Airport Pickups, Check into Rooms Portside Hotel

1700 – Ice Breaker, Portside Hotel, Poolside

Traditional Kiwiana Activities

1900 - Poolside Kiwiana BBQ Dinner, Portside Hotel

Monday 0700-0830 - Breakfast buffet, LaQuay Deli-Café-Bar

0830 – BRIEF OVERVIEW OF MEETING GOALS

Meeting Co-Conveners

Mission Statement: “The integrated approach fostered by this study should pave the way for greater coherence and direction in future studies in sedimentary geology that will go far beyond the scope of source to sink or MARGINS.”

Three fundamental themes were raised that shaped the approach for S2S and the questions proposed:

1. Forcing parameters that regulate the production, transfer and storage from sources to sinks

2. Processes that initiate erosion and transfer, and their feedback links

3. Long-term variations that build the stratigraphic record of global change

0845 - INTRODUCTIONS

Mayor Meng Foon, Bil Haq, Geoff Abers

0900 - OVERVIEW TALK

PNG and NZ Focus Areas, Retrospective of Key Questions and Fundamental Forcing Functions

Presenter: Chuck Nittrouer

OVERVIEW OF FLY AND WAIPAOA – MAJOR ADVANCES

FLY

0930 – Terrestrial – Andrew Kurtz

1000 – Coastal – Sergio Fagherazzi

1030 - Tea

1100 - Shelf – Miguel Goni

1130 - Marine – Andre Droxler

1200 - Lunch (Pacific Quay Conference Centre)

WAIPAOA

1300 - Terrestrial – Nicola Litchfield

1330 - Coastal – Jesse McNinch

1400 - Shelf – Lionel Carter

1430 - Slope – Clark Alexander

1500 – Poster Session and Tea Reception

1730 – Depart for Dinner at Bushmere Arms

1800 – Reservation at Bushmere

21:30 – Depart Bushmere Arms

Tuesday0700 - 0830 Breakfast buffet, LaQuay Deli-Café-Bar

INTEGRATION OF THE S2S SYSTEMS; COMPARE AND CONTRAST, FLY v.s. WAIPAOA

0830 - HILLSLOPE EROSION AND SOURCE SIGNALS

Discussion Leader: Noel Trustrum

Presenters: Mike Page, Rolf Aalto

0915- KEY CONTROLS ON MARINE SEDIMENT TRANSPORT PROCESSES

Discussion Leader: JP Walsh

Presenters: Courtney Harris, Andrea Ogston

1000 - Tea

1030 - INTERPRETING EVENT-BASED SEDIMENTATION

Discussion Leader: Reide Corbett

Presenters: Sam Bentley, Mike Page

1115 - TRANSPORT AND TRANSFORMATION OF CARBON AND SOLUTES THROUGH THE SOURCE TO SINK SYSTEM

Discussion Leader: Ann Carey

Presenters: Bob Aller, Neal Blair

FIELD TRIP

12:00 – Pick up box lunches at PQCC

1215 – Vans Depart from Hotel for Field Trip (Box Lunch)

Kaiti Hill Lookout – Nicola Litchfield, Jesse McNinch, Matt Wolinsky

Te Karaka (comfort stop)

Whatatutu - Nicola Litchfield, Mike Marden

Tarndale Rd - Eric Bilderback

Tarndale - Mike Marden

Hotel by 1730

1830-1900 – Walk into Gisborne for Dinner at The Works

Wednesday0700- 0830 Breakfast buffet, LaQuay Deli-Café-Bar

0830 – OVERVIEW TALK

Interbasin Signal Correlations

Presenter: Basil Gomez

0900 - INTEGRATING SEDIMENTATION OVER MILLENNIAL TIME SCALES

Discussion Leader: Liz Sikes

Presenters: Larry Peterson, Alan Orpin

0945 – BASE LEVEL CONTROLS ON SEDIMENT PRODUCTION AND DISPERSAL

Discussion Leader: Jarg Pettinga

Presenters: Matt Wolinsky, Wes Lauer

1030–Morning Tea

INTEGRATED MODELING SOLUTIONS

1045 -OVERVIEW TALK

Surface Dynamic Modeling and Data Acquisition

Presenter: James Syvitski

1115 - DEVELOPMENT OF NUMERICAL MODELS, DATA ACQUISITION, AND FEEDBACKS: WHERE DO WE STAND?

Discussion Leader:Josh Roering

Presenters: Matt Wolinsky, Ben Crosby

1200 – Update on MARGINS II and future directions/opportunities

Geoff Abers

1215 - Lunch (Pacific Quay Conference Centre)

1315 – MOVING TOWARDS THE FUTURE – REMAINING QUESTIONS AND CRITICAL NEEDS FOR FOCUS AREAS

Marching orders from Workshop Co-Conveners then break into discussion groups.

SUGGESTED BREAKOUT GROUPS (Final Themes TBD)

CLIMATE-OCEAN DRIVERS OF SOURCE-TO-SINK SYSTEMS

Facilitator: Lionel Carter, John Milliman

ROLE OF CARBON AND SOLUTE FLUX STUDIES IN S2S RESEARCH

Facilitators - Elizabeth Canuel, Lonnie Leithold

TRANSFERRING THE SOURCE-TO-SINK TEMPLATE TO OTHER SYSTEMS

Facilitators - Daniel Lawson, Albert Kettner

BUILDING PREDICTIVE ABILITY FROM SOURCE TO SINK STUDIES

Facilitators: James Syvitski, Josh Roering

BRIDGING THE GAP – PROCESSES TO PRODUCT OR PRODUCT TO PROCESSES – HOW DO WE APPROCH A WHOLISTIC UNDERSTANDING OF BASIN SCALE STRATIGRAPHY

Facilitators – Kelvin Berryman, Jarg Pettinga

“...we are presently unable to anticipate how perturbations in one part of the system will affect another.”

“...we need improved quantitative methods for predicting bed characteristics and architecture that exist in the subsurface.”

“We need to decipher how input signals are filtered or amplified along a dispersal system.”

“A definitive answer to this issue requires an improved understanding of the leads and lags in river response or perturbations.”

1500 – Tea Time

1630 – Conclusion of Break-Out Group Discussions

1700 – Coaches depart hotel for dinner at Dive Tatapouri

1730 – Reservation at Dive Tatapouri for BBQ dinner

21:30 – Depart Dive Tatapouri to arrive at Portside by 22:00

Thursday0700 - 0830 – Breakfast buffet, LaQuay Deli-Café-Bar

0830 – BREAK-OUT GROUP SUMMARIES AND DISCUSSION

1000 – Tea Time

1030DISCUSSION OF FUTURE DIRECTIONS

Summary of key advances

Summary of critical gaps and needs for S2S

Promising future directions

Group discussion

1130 - MEETING WRAP UP

1200 - DISPERSE