H34B:
Disturbance Hydrology: Assessing the Impacts of Abrupt Landscape Changes on Watershed Hydrology III


Session ID#: 10554

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:  Benjamin B Mirus, USGS Colorado Water Science Center Denver, Denver, CO, United States and Christian Mohr, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Chairs:  Nicolas Zegre, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States and Christian Mohr, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
OSPA Liaison:  Nicolas Zegre, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 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:

Realtime Prediction in Disturbed Landscapes: Identifying Highest Priority Disturbance Characteristics Impacting Streamflow Response in a CONUS-Scale Operational Model (84696)
Aubrey L Dugger1, David J Gochis1, Wei Yu2, James L McCreight1 and Michael J Barlage3, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Weather Tech Services, LLC, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NCAR/RAL, Boulder, United States
Slope Stability Analysis of Mountain Pine Beetle Impacted Areas (82920)
Nicole Marie Bogenschuetz, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, Lindsay A Bearup, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, United States, Reed M Maxwell, Colorado School of Mines, Hydrologic Science and Engineering Program and Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, CO, United States and Paul M Santi, Colorado School of Mines, Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, CO, United States
Disturbance Hydrology in the Tropics: The Galápagos Islands as a Case Study (Invited) (60880)
Diego A Riveros-Iregui1, Sarah Schmitt2, Madelyn Percy2, Jia Hu3, Kamini Singha4 and Benjamin B Mirus5, (1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geography, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (2)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (3)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (4)Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, (5)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geological Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Factors Affecting Source-Water Quality after Disturbance of Forests by Wildfire (Invited) (62010)
Sheila F Murphy, USGS Water Mission Area, Boulder, United States, Deborah A Martin, USGS, Boulder, CO, United States, Richard Blaine McCleskey, USGS Colorado Water Science Center Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Jeffrey H Writer, University of Colorado at Boulder, Education, Boulder, CO, United States
Monitoring Effects of Wildfire Mitigation Treatments on Water Budget Components: A Paired-Basin Study in the Santa Fe River Watershed, New Mexico (63749)
Amy C Lewis, Consulting Hydrologist, Sante Fe, NM, United States
Rainfall-Runoff Dynamics Following Wildfire in Mountainous Headwater Catchments, Alberta, Canada. (82298)
Chris HS Williams1, Uldis Silins2, Kevin D. Bladon3, Amanda Mary Martens1, Michael J Wagner4 and Axel Anderson1, (1)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)University of Alberta, Renewable Resources, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (3)Deleted, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)Alberta Ministry of Forestry and Parks, Calgary, AB, Canada
Are Springs Important in the Post-fire Revegetation of Semiarid, Snow-dominated, Mountainous Watersheds? (82877)
Lani Tsinnajinnie, New Mexico Tech, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Socorro, NM, United States, Marty D Frisbee, Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States and John L Wilson, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, United States
An Examination of the Changing Hydrological Environment in Choctaw County Mississippi since 1995, With a Focus on an Area Surrounding an Industrial Complex established in 1998. (67350)
Jeremy Foote and Darrel Schmitz, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States

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