EP23B:
Critical Zone Research As an Incubator for Interdisciplinary, Cross-Site, Process-Oriented Science II Posters

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Colin B Phillips, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States and Jessica M Driscoll, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Conveners:  Colin B Phillips, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Co-conveners:  Julia N Perdrial, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States, Jessica M Driscoll, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Andrew L Neal, University of Arizona, State College, PA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Julia N Perdrial, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Impact of Wildfire on Microbial Biomass in Critical Zone Observatory
Margretta A Murphy, Dawson Fairbanks, Jon Chorover, Rachel E Gallery and Virginia Isabel Rich, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Impact of fire, landscape position, aspect, and soil depth on microbial extracellular enzyme activities in the Jemez River Basin Critical Zone Observatory.
Dawson Fairbanks, Margretta A Murphy, Gayle Frost, Jon Chorover, Rachel E Gallery and Virginia Isabel Rich, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Soil Inorganic Carbon Formation: Can Parent Material Overcome Climate?
Christopher Stanbery1, Ryan M Will2, Mark S Seyfried3, Shawn G Benner1, Alejandro N Flores1, James Guilinger1, Kathleen A Lohse4, Alison Good1, Cody Black1 and Jennifer L Pierce1, (1)Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, (2)Boise State University, Boise, United States, (3)US Dept Agr ARS, Boise, ID, United States, (4)Idaho State University, Biological Sciences, Pocatello, ID, United States
 
Parallel observations of groundwater and stream water chemistry through the critical zone: new insight into the concentration-discharge relationships
Hyojin Kim1, William E Dietrich2, James K B Bishop2 and Inez Y Fung2, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Probing Subsurface and Stream Particle Composition Through Optical Analysis at the Eel River Critical Zone Observatory
Athena Nghiem1, Benjamin Michael Thurnhoffer1, James K B Bishop1 and Hyojin Kim2, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
 
Spatial Heterogeneity of Stream Water Chemistry in the Elder Creek Catchment at the Eel River Critical Zone Observatory.
Benjamin Michael Thurnhoffer1, Sky M Lovill1, Athena Nghiem1, Hyojin Kim2 and James K B Bishop1, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
 
Terrestrial and stream chemical linkages reveal extent of rock weathering in the perhumid coastal temperate rainforest of Alaska.
David V D'Amore, U.S. Forest Service, Juneau, AK, United States and Tom Trainor, University of Alaska Fairbanks - UAF, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
The effects of rock type and landscape position on solution chemistry of soils in the Biosphere 2 Desert Site of the Santa Catalina Mountains Critical Zone Observatory
Shanti Bhattacharya Penprase1, Nate Abramson2, Kelsie LaSharr3 and Jon Chorover3, (1)Carleton College, Northfield, MN, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Hydrology and Water Resources, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Soil, Water and Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Modeling three-dimensional topographic stress and its effects on bedrock fractures
Seulgi Moon1, James Taylor St. Clair2, J Taylor Perron1, Stephen J Martel3, W Steven Holbrook2 and Kamini Singha4, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (3)Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States
 
Investigating the influence of subsurface heterogeneity on chemical weathering in the critical zone using high resolution reactive transport models
Sachin Pandey and Harihar Rajaram, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
The role of run-of-river impoundments in CO2 and CH4 emissions from floodplains of the Delaware Piedmont, Christina River Basin Critical Zone Observatory
Adam Pearson, University of Delaware, Geological Sciences, Newark, DE, United States, James Eugene Pizzuto, Univ Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and Rodrigo Vargas, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
 
Systematic Investigation of REE Mobility and Fractionation During Continental Shale Weathering Along a Climate Gradient
Lixin Jin1, Lin Ma1, Ashlee Laura Denton Dere2, Tim White2 and Susan L Brantley3, (1)University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States, (2)Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States, (3)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
 
Quantifying the Chemical Weathering Efficiency of Basaltic Catchments
Daniel E Ibarra1, Jeremy K Caves1, Dana Thomas2, C Page Chamberlain1 and Katharine Maher2, (1)Stanford University, Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Controls over the thickness and elemental enrichment patterns in microscopic weathering-zones in exposed and terra-rossa covered carbonate bedrock surfaces
Uri Ryb1, Yigal Erel2 and Ari Matmon2, (1)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, (2)Hebrew Univ, Jerusalem, Israel
 
Characterization of the spatial distribution of porosity in the eogenetic karst Miami Limestone using ground penetrating radar
Gregory J. Mount1, Xavier Comas2, William J Wright2 and Matthew D McClellan3, (1)Indiana University of Pennsylvania Main Campus, GeoSciences, Indiana, PA, United States, (2)Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, United States, (3)Florida Atlantic University, GeoSciences, Boca Raton, FL, United States
 
DISSOLUTION AND CAVE FORMATION IN EOGENETIC LIMESTONE AQUIFERS BY SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY IN PCO2 AT WATER TABLES
Jason D Gulley1, Jonathan B Martin2, Paul J Moore3, Amy Brown2, Patricia Spellman1 and John Ezell2, (1)Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States, (2)University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, (3)Karst Waters Institute, Leesburg, VA, United States
 
Carbon Cycling in the Karst of Northwestern Arkansas: Linking the Soil and Cave Environments
Katherine Knierim, Erik D. Pollock, Phillip D Hays and Matthew D Covington, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States