H21L:
New Developments in Tracer Applications in Catchment Hydrology I

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Josie Geris, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom and Kevin J McGuire, Virginia Tech-Natural Resource, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Josie Geris, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Kevin J McGuire, Virginia Tech-Natural Resource, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Daniele Penna Sr., ETH Zurich, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Zurich, Switzerland and Julian Klaus, Centre de Recherche Public Gabriel Lippmann, Environment and Agro-biotechnologies, Belvaux, Luxembourg
OSPA Liaisons:  Josie Geris, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Linking tracers and travel time distributions: the emergence of age mixing patterns
Paolo Benettin1, James W Kirchner2, Kevin J McGuire3, Andrea Rinaldo4 and Gianluca Botter1, (1)University of Padua, Padua, Italy, (2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)Virginia Tech-Natural Resource, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (4)EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
8:15 AM
 
The Modeling of Time-Varying Stream Water Age Distributions: Preliminary Investigations with Non-Conservative Solutes
Daniel C Wilusz, Ciaran J Harman and William P Ball, Johns Hopkins University, Geography and Environmental Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States
8:30 AM
 
Non-stationarity of solute travel time distribution observed in a controlled hydrologic transport volume
Pierre Queloz1, Enrico Bertuzzo1, Luca Carraro1,2, Gianluca Botter2, Franco Miglietta3, P. Suresh Rao4 and Andrea Rinaldo1,2, (1)EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, (2)University of Padua, Padua, Italy, (3)Istituto di Biometeorologia IBIMET-CNR, Firenze, Italy, (4)Purdue University, Civil engineering, West Lafayette, IN, United States
8:45 AM
 
Long Term and High Frequency Non-Destructive Monitoring of Soil Water Stable Isotope Compositions in the Laboratory
Youri Rothfuss, Steffen Merz, Andreas J Pohlmeier, Harry Vereecken and Nicolas Brueggemann, Agrosphere Institute (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Deutschland, Germany
9:00 AM
 
Combining natural and man-made DNA tracers to advance understanding of hydrologic flow pathway evolution
Helen E Dahlke, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Michael Todd Walter, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Steve W Lyon, Stockholm University, Physical Geography & Quaternary Geology, Stockholm, Sweden and Gunhild Ninis Rosqvist, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
9:15 AM
 
Streamflow life cycles spanning the USA
Scott Jasechko, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Jeffrey McDonnell, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada and Jeffrey M Welker, University of Alaska Anchorage, Department of Biological Sciences, Anchorage, AK, United States
9:30 AM
 
Noble Gas Signatures in Groundwater and Rainwater on the Island of Maui, Hawaii – Developing a New Noble Gas Application in Fractured, Volcanic Systems
M. Clara Castro1, Yi Niu1, Rohit Balakrishna Warrier1, Chris M Hall1, Stephen Bryan Gingerich2, Martha A Scholl3 and Laura Bouvier1, (1)University of Michigan, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)USGS PIWSC, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States
9:45 AM
 
Geostatistical Analysis of Tritium, 3H/3He Age and Noble Gas Derived Parameters in California Groundwater
Ate Visser1, Michael J Singleton1, Jean E Moran2, Miranda S Fram3, Justin T Kulongoski4 and Bradley K Esser1, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)California State University East Bay, Hayward, CA, United States, (3)USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States, (4)USGS California Water Science Center San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
 
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