H33I:
Water Resources, Climate Change, and Sustainability: Breakthroughs in Process Understanding, Data Availability, and Impact Assessment III Posters


Session ID#: 9840

Session Description:
Water resources are threatened by climate change and human pressures. Climate change can severely affect the magnitude and timing of both water supply and water demand. Increasing human withdrawals puts additional stress on both water quantity and quality. This session seeks contributions that investigate associated vulnerabilities in water resource systems and explore for sustainable solutions from local to regional to global scales.  We invite novel datasets, modeling products and methodological advancements that address (1) natural and anthropogenic factors controlling water resource system vulnerability; (2) ensemble projection of future climate, demand as well as surface and groundwater supply; (3) methods that map vulnerability to drivers of change; and (4) ways to inform decision makers about vulnerability under ranges of natural and anthropogenic conditions. We particularly encourage submissions that recognize large uncertainties in current scenario-led assessments and attempt to bridge between social and policy components to natural science and water resource management.
Primary Convener:  Ali Nazemi, University of Saskatchewan, Global Institute for Water Security, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; Concordia University, Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada
Conveners:  Holly A Michael, University of Delaware, Earth Sciences, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Newark, United States, Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States and Robert Wilby, Loughborough University, Department of Geography, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Chairs:  Robert Wilby, University of Loughborough, Loughborough, United Kingdom, Holly A Michael, University of Delaware, Earth Sciences, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Newark, United States, Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States and Ali Nazemi, Concordia University, Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada
OSPA Liaison:  Ali Nazemi, Concordia University, Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1834 Human impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Evaluating Options for Improving California’s Drought Resilience (72427)
Patrick A Ray1, Andrew Mark Schwarz2, Sungwook Wi3, Matthew Correa2 and Casey Brown3, (1)University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, United States, (2)California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA, United States, (3)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States
Future Climate Impacts on Harmful Algal Blooms in an Agriculturally Dominated Ecosystem (73099)
Noel R Aloysius1, Jay Martin2, Stuart Ludsin1 and Richard P Stumpf3, (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)The Ohio State University, Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Columbus, OH, United States, (3)National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Silver Spring, United States
The impact of snowpack decline on high elevation surface-water flow in the Willamette River: a stable isotope perspective (73496)
J Renee Brooks1, Henry Johnson2, Steven P Cline3 and William Rugh1, (1)U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Pacific Ecological Systems Division, Corvallis, United States, (2)USGS Oregon Water Science Center, Portland, OR, United States, (3)Environmental Protection Agency Corvallis, Pacific Ecological Systems Division, Corvallis, United States
Impacts of Climate and Land-cover Changes on Water Resources in a Humid Subtropical Watershed: a Case Study from East Texas, USA (74955)
Joonghyeok Heo, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Understanding potential futures of riverine chloride impairment in New England USA due to climate change, groundwater storage, and human activities. (75138)
Shan Zuidema1, Alexandra Thorn1, Wilfred M Wollheim2, Cameron P Wake1 and Madeleine Mineau1, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Durham, NH, United States
What controls vulnerability of watersheds to climate and land use change across the United States? (68934)
Ankit Deshmukh and Riddhi Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Hydearbad, India
Estimation of Water Availability Considering Climate Change in the Korean Peninsula (76357)
Sohyun Yoo1, Dong Kun Lee1 and Naota Hanasaki2, (1)Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Center for Global Environmental Research, Tsukuba, Japan
Multi-basin, Multi-sector Drought Economic Impact Model in Python: Development and Applications (76620)
Lian Zhu1, Joseph Lee Gutenson1, Andrew N.S. Ernest1, Abdoul Oubeidillah1, Bennett L Bearden1 and Thomas G Johnson2, (1)University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (2)University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States
From provocative narrative scenarios to quantitative biophysical model results: Simulating plausible futures to 2070 in an urbanizing agricultural watershed in Wisconsin, USA (78868)
Eric Booth1, Xi Chen2, Melissa Motew3, Jiangxiao Qiu4, Sam C Zipper5, Stephen R Carpenter4, Christopher J Kucharik6 and Diego A Riveros-Iregui7, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Agronomy & Civil/Environmental Engineering, Madison, United States, (2)University of Cincinnati, Department of Geography, Cincinnati, OH, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States, (4)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (5)University of Kansas, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, United States, (6)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, Madison, United States, (7)Univ of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States
The Vulnerability of Saskatchewan Water Resource System to Multi-Year Hydrologic Droughts at North and South Saskatchewan Rivers: Fusing Paleo Tree Ring Data with Stochastic Reconstruction (80539)
Ali Nazemi, University of Saskatchewan, Global Institute for Water Security, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Nathalie Brunet, Saskatchewan Water Security Agency, Moose Jaw, Canada and Bart Oegema, Saskatchewan Water Security Agency, Moose Jaw, SK, Canada
Sustainable groundwater development under climate change in the Valle de Azapa, northern Chile (82968)
Paulo Andres Herrera and Ivo Balic, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Developing an Agent-based Model for the Depot-based Water Allocation System in the Bakken Field in Western North Dakota (83887)
Tong Lin1, Zhulu Lin2, Siew Lim2 and Michael Borders2, (1)North Dakota State University Main Campus, Fargo, ND, United States, (2)North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, United States
Groundwater Sustainability in the Michigan Lowlands – Understanding the Complex Interplay of Natural Brine Upwelling, Human Activity, and Climate Change (84171)
Zachary Kristopher Curtis1, Shu-Guang Li2, Prasanna Venkatesh Sampath1 and Huasheng Liao1, (1)Michigan State University, Civil & Environmental Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States, (2)Michigan State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States
Numerical Atmospheric-Hydrologic Modeling-Based Flood Frequency Analysis from Future Climate Projections at Cache Creek Watershed, California. (84710)
Toan Q Trinh1, Kei Ishida2, Ida Fischer1 and ML Levent Kavvas2, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)University of California Davis, Davis, United States
Assessing the Impact of Topography on Groundwater Salinization Due to Storm Surge Inundation (84906)
Xuan Yu1, Jie Yang2, Thomas Graf2, Mohammad Koneshloo3, Michael A. O'Neal4 and Holly A Michael5, (1)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (2)Leibniz University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany, (3)University of Delaware, Department of Geological Sciences, Newark, DE, United States, (4)University of Delaware, Department of Earth Sciences, Newark, United States, (5)University of Delaware, Earth Sciences, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Newark, United States
Method for Assessing Impacts of Global Sea Level Rise on Navigation Gate Operations (86052)
Patrick S Obrien, US Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District, San Francisco, CA, United States, Kathleen D White, US Army Corps of Engineers,, Institute for Water Resources, Washington, DC, United States and Douglas Friedman, Booz Allen Hamilton DC, Washington, DC, United States
Assessing Impact of Climate Change on the Runoffs of Gilgel Abbay Watershed, the upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia (61237)
Hailu Sheferaw Ayele1, Ming-Hsu Li2, Ching-pin Tung3 and Tzu-Ming Liu3, (1)National Central University, Kanagawa, Japan, (2)Graduate Institute of Hydrologic and Oceanic Sciences, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, (3)National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Long Term Empirical Relations between Storm Characteristics and Episodic Groundwater Recharge across Geographic and Land-Use Gradients (63482)
Arik Tashie, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, Benjamin B Mirus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geological Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Tamlin Pavelsky, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, United States
Diminished Wastewater Treatment: Evaluation of Septic System Performance Under a Climate Change Scenario (63955)
Jennifer Cooper1, George Loomis2, David Kalen2, Thomas B Boving2, Ivan Morales2 and Jose Amador2, (1)University of Rhode Island, Natural Resources Science, Narragansett, RI, United States, (2)University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, United States
Integrated Modeling of the Human-Natural System to Improve Local Water Management and Planning (64948)
William J Gutowski Jr1, David Dziubanski2, Kristie Franz2, Jean Goodwin2, Chris R Rehmann2,3, William Warren Simpkins2, Leigh Tesfastion2, Alan D Wanamaker4 and Yu Jie2, (1)Iowa State University, Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA, United States, (2)Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States, (3)Iowa State University, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Ames, United States, (4)Iowa State University, Department of the Earth, Atmosphere, and Climate, Ames, United States
A National Water Network for Future Impacts Analysis (65176)
James A Rising, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Tara Troy, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States and Upmanu Lall, Columbia University of New York, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States
Sensitivity of streamflow to climate change in California (67265)
Ted Grantham, USGS Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Daren Carlisle, USGS, Reston, VA, United States, David Wolock, U.S. Geological Survey Water Mission Area, Lawrence, KS, United States, Gregory J McCabe Jr, USGS, Denver, CO, United States, Michael Wieczorek, U.S. Geological Survey, Maryland-Delaware-DC Water Science Center, Catonsville, United States and Jeanette K Howard, The Nature Conservancy, San Francisco, CA, United States
Long-term reliability of the Athabasca River (Alberta, Canada) as the water source for oil sands mining (71239)
Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques, Concordia University, Geography, Planning and Environment, Montreal, QC, Canada, David Sauchyn, University of Regina, Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative (PARC), Regina, SK, Canada and Brian Henry Luckman, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

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