H33K:
Disturbance Hydrology: Assessing the Impacts of Abrupt Landscape Changes on Watershed Hydrology II


Session ID#: 10553

Session Description:
Environmental changes associated with human and natural disturbances have far reaching and long-lasting impacts on watershed response. Abrupt changes to land cover and catchment structure resulting from vegetation clearing, natural resources extraction, and extreme events such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods, and landslides all alter hydrological processes. Whereas research in watershed hydrology has focused largely on undisturbed settings, arguably the majority of terrestrial landscapes are disturbed, either episodically or regularly. Despite an increasing frequency of disturbances associated with population growth and climate change, our understanding of how disturbance regimes influence flow paths, rainfall partitioning, and storage dynamics remain limited. The goal of this session is to share recent scientific findings about the role of disturbances as the primary driver of hydrology, hydrologic regime, hydrogeomorphic processes, and hydrologic variability. We welcome investigations across spatial and temporal scales that use field measurements and experimentation, data analysis, and hydrologic modeling.
Primary Convener:  Nicolas Zegre, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
Conveners:  Christian Mohr, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, Nicolas Zegre, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States and Benjamin B Mirus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geological Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Chairs:  Nicolas Zegre, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States and Benjamin B Mirus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geological Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Benjamin B Mirus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geological Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1804 Catchment [HYDROLOGY]
1894 Instruments and techniques: modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1895 Instruments and techniques: monitoring [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Evidence of an Emerging Disturbance of Earthen Levees Causing Disastrous Floods in Italy (62867)
Stefano Orlandini1, Giovanni Moretti1 and John D Albertson2, (1)Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Enzo Ferrari, Modena, Italy, (2)Cornell University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States
Reconstructing Historical Changes in Watersheds from Environmental Records: An Information Theory Approach (69782)
Francisco J J. Guerrero1, Jeff A Hatten1, Benjamin Ruddell2, Victor Penaranda3 and Paulo Murillo1, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)National University of Colombia, Civil Engineering, Medellin, Colombia
New Approaches to Assessing and Predicting the Hydrologic Impacts of Urban Disturbance Using Isotopes and Transit Time Analysis (62411)
Josie Geris1, Chris Soulsby2, Christian Birkel3 and Doerthe Tetzlaff1, (1)University of Aberdeen, Northern Rivers Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (2)University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (3)University of Costa Rica, Department of Geography and Water and Global Change Observatory, San Jose, Costa Rica
The Influence of Surface Coal Mining on Runoff Processes and Stream Chemistry in the Elk Valley, British Colubmbia, Canada (Invited) (60888)
Sean Kevin Carey, McMaster University, School of Earth, Environment and Society, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Christopher C Wellen, McMaster University, School of Geography & Earth Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada and Nadine J Shatilla, McMaster University, School of Geography and Earth Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada
When Everything Changes: Mountaintop Mining Effects on Watershed Hydrology (Invited) (78883)
Fabian Nippgen1, Matthew R. V. Ross2, Brian L McGlynn1 and Emily S Bernhardt3, (1)Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)Duke University, Biology, Durham, NC, United States
Assessing mining impacts utilizing a Landsat derived vegetation moisture index to characterize impacts of longwall subsidence on forest ecosystems (80373)
Erin Kathleen Pfeil-McCullough, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus, Pittsburgh, PA, United States and Daniel Bain, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus, Department of Geology and Environmental Science, Pittsburgh, United States
Impacts of road construction and removal on the hydrologic and geochemical function of a fen peatland (82453)
Richard M Petrone1, Corey Moran Wells2, George Sutherland2 and Jonathan S Price2, (1)University of Waterloo, Geography and Environmental Management, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (2)University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Streamflow responses to Chilean Megathrust earthquakes during the 20th and 21st centuries (81326)
Christian Mohr1, Michael Manga2, Chi-Yuen Wang3 and Oliver Korup1, (1)University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, (2)University of California, Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States

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