H21P:
Stream Temperature: Potential Climate Change Adaptation in an Integrated Landscape Context I


Session ID#: 10635

Session Description:
Stream water temperature is highly sensitive to a changing climate. Shifts in flowing water temperature have potential profound impacts on the structure and functioning of freshwater ecosystems.  Consequently, future stream temperature dynamics and potential climate change adaptation measures are of major and growing interest to scientists, environment managers and regulators. Given that stream temperature is a function of multiple, interacting energy and hydrological exchanges as water travels downstream from headwaters to sea, this session seeks to improve our understanding of processes and controls on stream temperature in the context of integrated landscapes. The session will focus on the role of landscape scale processes in determining: (1) appropriate monitoring design to determine the role of landscape processes; (2) stream temperature dynamics; (3) probable future water temperature under scenarios of climate and hydrological change; and (4) the potential of climate change adaptation strategies.
Primary Convener:  Prof. David M. Hannah, PhD, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences & Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom
Conveners:  André St-Hilaire, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique - centre Eau, Terre et Environnement, Quebec city, QC, Canada and Dan Isaak, USDA Forest Service, Boise, ID, United States
Chairs:  Prof. David M. Hannah, PhD, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom and Dan Isaak, USDA Forest Service, Boise, ID, United States
OSPA Liaison:  André St-Hilaire, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Eau Terre Environnement INRS-ETE, Quebec City, QC, Canada

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0496 Water quality [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1840 Hydrometeorology [HYDROLOGY]
1871 Surface water quality [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Influence of Logger Bias on Reported Temperature Trends: Implications for Temperature Monitoring Networks (70458)
Iain Malcolm1, Rob J Fryer2, Philip J Bacon3 and Denise Stirling3, (1)Marine Scotland Science, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (2)Marine Scotland Science, Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (3)Marine Scotland Science, Freshwater Fisheries Lab, Pitlochry, United Kingdom
Influence of Diffuse and Discrete Groundwater Discharge on River Thermal Regimes in Present and Future Climates (Invited) (58810)
Barret Kurylyk, University of Calgary, Department of Geoscience, Calgary, AB, Canada and Kerry T B MacQuarrie, University of New Brunswick, Civil Engineering, Fredericton, NB, Canada
Meltwater Temperature Variations in Rivers Draining Declining Alpine Glaciers (83503)
David Nigel Collins, University of Salford, School of Environment & Life Sciences, Salford, HD4, United Kingdom
Modelling the influence of elevation and snow regime on winter stream temperature in the rain-on-snow zone (Invited) (69350)
Jason Leach, SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umea, Umeå, Sweden and Robert Dan Moore, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Climate change impacts on the temperature of recharge water in a temporate climate (82760)
Evan A Murdock, University of Wisconsin Madison, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Madison, WI, United States
Comparison of Stream Temperature Modeling Approaches: The Case of a High Alpine Watershed in the Context of Climate Change (78624)
Aurelien Gallice, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
The Role of Riparian Vegetation Density, Channel Orientation and Water Velocity in Determining River Water Temperature Dynamics (Invited) (72035)
Grace Garner, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Iain Malcolm, Marine Scotland Science, Freshwater Fisheries Laboratory, Pitlochry, United Kingdom, Jonathan P Sadler, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom and Prof. David M. Hannah, PhD, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom

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