H54D:
Interactions of Land Management, Wildfire, and Water at Multiple Scales II

Friday, 19 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Ge Sun, USDA Forest Svc, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Raleigh, NC, United States and Kevin D. Bladon, Oregon State University, Department of Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management, Corvallis,, OR, United States
Primary Conveners:  Ge Sun, USDA Forest Svc, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Raleigh, NC, United States
Co-conveners:  Kevin D. Bladon, Oregon State University, Department of Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management, Corvallis,, OR, United States and Li Chen, Desert Research Institute, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Las Vegas, NV, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Li Chen, Desert Research Institute, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Las Vegas, NV, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
Climate Change, Wildland Fires and Water in the 21st Century
Mike Flannigan1, Daniel K Thompson2 and Xianli Wang1, (1)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada
4:15 PM
 
Integrating Hydrological Effects of Wildland Fire into Strategic Landscape Planning
Steven P Norman and Danny C Lee, USDA Forest Service, Eastern Threat Assessment Center, Asheville, NC, United States
4:30 PM
 
Comparing the Effects of Fuel Treatments and Wildfire on Small Catchment Runoff and Sediment Yield at Two Spatial Scales
Peter R Robichaud1, Joseph W. Wagenbrenner2, Keenan A Storrar1 and William J Elliot1, (1)Rocky Mountain Rsch Station, Moscow, ID, United States, (2)Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States
4:45 PM
 
Assessing the Impact of Active Land Management in Mitigating Wildfire Threat to Source Water Supply Quality
Kevin D. Bladon1,2, Uldis Silins1, Monica B. Emelko3, Mike Flannigan1, Diane Dupont4, Francois Robinne1, Xianli Wang1, Marc-Andre Parisien5, Micheal Stone3, Dan K Thompson6, Cordy Tymstra7, Dave Schroeder7, Stefan Werner Kienzle8 and Axel Anderson9, (1)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)Oregon State University, Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (4)Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada, (5)Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (6)Canadian Forest Service, Ottawa, AB, Canada, (7)Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, Calgary, AB, Canada, (8)Univ Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, (9)Foothills Research Institute, Hinton, AB, Canada
5:00 PM
 
Seeing the Forest Without the Trees: Long-Term Influence of Wildfire on the Ecohydrology of a Mountain Watershed
Gabrielle F.S. Boisrame1, Miguel Naranjo2, Scott Stephens2, Sally E Thompson1 and Andy Wong2, (1)University of California Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, ESPM, Berkeley, CA, United States
5:15 PM
 
RHESSys-WMFire: coupling wildfire to hydrology and vegetation to project the effects of climate change on mountain watersheds.
Maureen C Kennedy, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and Donald McKenzie, US Forest Service, Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
5:30 PM
 
Exploring wildfire impact on post-fire runoff water quality: field and laboratory investigation
LI Chen1, Kumud Acharya2, Julianne Miller2 and Markus Berli1, (1)Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas, NV, United States, (2)Desert Research Institute Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States
5:45 PM
 
Flooding after fire: Impacts of the 2013 Colorado Front Range floods on the High Park Fire burn scar
Stephanie K Kampf, Sarah Schmeer, Lee H MacDonald, Daniel Joseph Brogan and Peter A Nelson, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
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