H42B
Hot Spots and Hot Moments at System Interfaces: Novel Sensors and Modeling Approaches for Transforming Understanding of Catchment Heterogeneity I

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
3022 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Melanie A Mayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Jonathan M Duncan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Stefan Krause, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Chairs:  Jonathan M Duncan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Stefan Krause, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom and Melanie A Mayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Melanie A Mayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
10:20
Biological Soil Crusts are Ecohydrological Hotspots in Dryland and Subhumid Regions (Invited) (62661)
Jayne Belnap, Southwest Biological Science Center Moab, Moab, UT, United States and Sonia Chamizo de la Piedra, University of Granada, Spain, Department of Physics, Granada, Spain
10:35
Parameter Measurement and Estimation at Variable Scales: Example of Soil Temperature in Complex Terrain (Invited) (66599)
Mark S Seyfried, USDA - ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States
10:50
Optimization methods for multi-scale sampling of soil moisture and snow in the Southern Sierra Nevada (Invited) (69486)
Carlos Oroza, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
11:05
Moving the Watershed Ecosystem Approach Beyond the Black Box with Sensor Technologies and New Conceptual Models (Invited) (75664)
Scott W Bailey, USDA Forest Service, North Woodstock, NH, United States, Kevin J McGuire, Virginia Tech-Natural Resource, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Donald S Ross, Univ Vermont-Jeffords Hall, Burlington, VT, United States
11:20
Interpreting high-frequency sensor data to quantify spatial and temporal variability in the source and transport of water and solutes at the catchment scale (Invited) (60803)
Matthew P Miller1, Anthony J Tesoriero2, Paul D Capel3, Brian A Pellerin4, Douglas A Burns5, Kenneth E Hyer6, David Susong1, Susan Buto7 and Christine Rumsey8, (1)USGS, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)USGS Oregon Water Science Center, Portland, OR, United States, (3)USGS, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (4)USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States, (5)University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (6)US Geological Survey WRD, Richmond, VA, United States, (7)USGS, Nevada Water Science Center, Carson City, NV, United States, (8)Utah Water Science Center, West Valley City, UT, United States
11:35
A tale of two interfaces: Dynamic nitrate removal in the hyporheic zone of a tidal fresh river (Invited) (60392)
Audrey H Sawyer1, Deon Hanley Knights1, Rebecca T Barnes2, Corey Wallace1, Samuel Nathan Bray2 and Cole Musial3, (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, United States, (3)AECOM, Cincinnati, OH, United States
12:05
Green light: gross primary production influences seasonal stream N export by controlling fine-scale temporal N dynamics (Invited) (75287)
Susana Bernal1, Anna Lupon2, Francesc Sabater2 and Eugenia Martí Roca1, (1)CEAB-CSIC, Girona, Spain, (2)Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
 
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