H31H:
Hydrologic, Water Quality, and Ecological Responses to Climatic Variability and Change at the Watershed Scale II Posters

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Jason Knouft, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, United States, Darren L Ficklin, Indiana University - Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, Laurel Saito, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States and Iris T Stewart, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Jason Knouft, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, United States
Co-conveners:  Darren L Ficklin, Indiana University - Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, Iris T Stewart, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, United States and Laurel Saito, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Laurel Saito, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

714
 
Effects of Urbanization and Climate Change on Hydrological Processes over the San Antonio River Basin, Texas
Gang Zhao, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States, Huilin Gao, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States and Lan Cuo, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
715
 
Characterizing Past and Future Flood Regimes of California’s Cosumnes River: A Hydroinformatic Approach
Alison A Whipple, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Laura E Condon, Bureau of Reclamation Denver, Technical Service Center, Denver, CO, United States; Colorado School of Mines, Hydrologic Science and Engineering Program and Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, CO, United States and Joshua H Viers, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States
716
 
Using a Physically-based Model to Examine the Potential Effects of Climate Change on Ecologically Relevant Aspects of Streamflow Regime
Nazmus Shams Sazib1, David G Tarboton1, Sulochan Dhungel2 and Charles P Hawkins3, (1)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Logan, UT, United States, (3)Utah State University, Department of Watershed Sciences, Logan, UT, United States
717
 
Dynamically downscaled climate outputs for estimating hydrological responses for a Wyoming watershed
Jagath Vithanage, Scott N Miller, Ginger B Paige and Thijs Kelleners, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
718
 
Characterizing changes in streamflow under historical and current climates for the Russian River, California
Jennifer Curtis, U.S. Geological Survey, Eureka, CA, United States and Lorraine E Flint, US Geological Survey, Sacramento, CA, United States
719
 
Water Table Response to Climate Variability In The Northeastern United State
David F Boutt, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
720
 
A High Resolution, Integrated Approach to Modeling Climate Change Impacts to a Mountain Headwaters Catchment using ParFlow
Christine Elizabeth Pribulick1, Reed M Maxwell1, Kenneth Hurst Williams2 and Rosemary W H Carroll3, (1)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States
721
 
Watershed Model Parameterization for Assessing Impacts due to Climate Change
Guido Andres Yactayo, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Annapolis, MD, United States and Gopal Bhatt, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
722
 
The Use of Oceanic Indices Variations Due to Climate Change to Predict Annual Discharge Variations in Northeastern United States
Rouzbeh Berton1, Stephen B Shaw2, David G Chandler1 and Charles T Driscoll1, (1)Syracuse University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse, NY, United States, (2)SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Department of Environmental Resources Engineering, Syracuse, NY, United States
723
 
Assessing the Vulnerability of Streams to Increased Frequency and Severity of Low Flows in the Southeastern United States
Christopher P Konrad, USGS Washington Water Science Center, Tacoma, WA, United States
725
 
A Hierarchical Modeling Approach to Simulating the Geomorphic Response of River Systems to Climate Change
Sarah J Praskievicz, University of Alabama, Geography, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
727
 
Impacts of Intra-Annual Climate Variability and Change on Phosphorus Loads in the Great Lakes Basin
Veronica Webster Griffis1, Alex S Mayer2 and Meredith B Labeau1, (1)Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States, (2)Michigan Technological Univ, Houghton, MI, United States
728
 
Significant runoff exports of particulate nitrogen (PN) with large tropical storms: Implications of climate variability for watersheds and aquatic ecosystems
Shreeram P Inamdar, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and Gurbir Dhillon, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
729
 
An Empirical Approach to Predicting Effects of Climate Change on Stream Water Chemistry
John R Olson, Utah State University, Smithfield, UT, United States; Desert Research Institute Las Vegas, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Henderson, NV, United States and Charles P Hawkins, Utah State University, Department of Watershed Sciences, Logan, UT, United States
731
 
Characterizing Flow and Suspended Sediment Trends in the Sacramento River Basin, CA Using Hydrologic Simulation Program – FORTRAN (HSPF)
Michelle A Stern1, Lorraine E Flint1, Alan L Flint1, Scott A Wright2 and J. Toby Minear3, (1)USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Sacramento, CA, United States, (3)Univ California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
732
 
Response of Dissolved Organic Matter to Warming and Nitrogen Addition
Jung Hyun Choi and Hang Nguyen, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
733
 
Predicting Nitrogen Loading in Streams Under Climate Change Scenarios in the Continental United States.
Eva Sinha1,2 and Anna M Michalak1,3, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States
734
 
Impact of Climate Change on Mercury Transport along the Carson River-Lahontan Reservoir System
Allison Flickinger1,2, Rosemary W H Carroll2, John J Warwick3 and Rina Schumer2, (1)University of Nevada Reno, GPHS, Reno, NV, United States, (2)Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States, (3)University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, United States
735
 
Increases in Extreme Streamflow Events and Stream Temperature for the Sierra Nevada and Colorado River Basin
Carlos Carrillo1, Iris T Stewart1 and Darren L Ficklin2, (1)Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, United States, (2)Indiana University - Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States
736
 
Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on the Distribution of Trout Species in the Sierra Nevada Region of California Using Output from a Landscape Scale Hydrological Model
Melissa Marie Anthony1, Darren L Ficklin2, Iris T Stewart3 and Jason Knouft1, (1)Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, United States, (2)Indiana University - Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, (3)Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, United States
737
 
ENVIRONMENTAL RISK OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION ON ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN A DANISH CATCHMENT
Lauren Paige Seaby, Eva Boegh and Niels H Jensen, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
739
 
Assessing Water Temperature Zones in Idealized Holding Pools for Chinook Salmon: A Hypothetical Study Based on the Regulated Lower San Joaquin River
Kumaraswamy Sivakumaran1, Sandra R Villamizar1, Henry Pai2, Andres Aguilar3 and Thomas C Harmon1,4, (1)University of California Merced, School of Engineering, Merced, CA, United States, (2)University of California Merced, Environmental Systems, Merced, CA, United States, (3)California State University Los Angeles, Biological Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of California Merced, Sierra Nevada Research Institute, Merced, CA, United States
740
 
CE-QUAL-W2 Modeling of Head-of-Reservoir Conditions at Shasta Reservoir, California
Katherine Marie Clancey1, Laurel Saito1, Connie Svoboda2, Merlynn D Bender2 and John Hannon3, (1)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (2)Bureau of Reclamation Denver - USBR, Technical Service Center, Denver, CO, United States, (3)Bureau of Reclamation Sacramento - USBR, Bay-Delta Office, Sacramento, CA, United States
741
 
Modeling Shasta Dam operations to regulate temperatures for Chinook salmon under extreme climate and climate change
Arthur Dai1, Laurel Saito2, Joseph R Sapin2, Balaji Rajagopalan3, R. Blair Hanna4 and Derek L Kauneckis5, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Univ of Nevada Reno, Natural Resources and Environmental Science and Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, NV, United States, (3)Univ Colorado, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Water and Earth Technologies, Inc, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States
742
 
Understanding the climate science policy nexus: Lessons from modeling climate impacts to temperature control regimes on Lake Shasta, CA
Derek L Kauneckis1, Laurel Saito2, Joseph R Sapin2, Balaji Rajagopalan3 and R. Blair Hanna4, (1)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (2)Univ of Nevada Reno, Natural Resources and Environmental Science and Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, NV, United States, (3)Univ Colorado, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Water and Earth Technologies, Inc, Fort Collins, CO, United States
744
 
Nonparametric Stochastic Hydroclimate Simulation for Water Temperature Modeling in Lake Shasta
Balaji Rajagopalan, Univ Colorado, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Joseph R Sapin, Univ of Nevada Reno, Natural Resources and Environmental Science and Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, NV, United States and Laurel Saito, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States
 
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