PA41B:
Developing Comprehensive Assessment Strategies for Mining-Impacted Landscapes to Inform Land and Water Management Decisions I Posters

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Session ID#: 13952

Session Description:
The interdisciplinary nature of ecotoxicology and fluvial geomorphology makes this an active and dynamic area of research at both source areas, mine sites, and in depositional environments, including wetlands and reservoirs. Comprehensive site characterization and assessment techniques in contaminated areas that inform land and water management decisions may reduce exposure to metals and other contaminants from mine impacted landscapes. Characterization of landscapes disturbed by mining using traditional sampling methods developed for undisturbed landscapes with normally distributed populations is likely to have type two error. Lacking adequate characterization techniques, impacted sites may undergo remediation that is not comprehensive and has short term benefits. In addition, the temporal and spatial variability associated with biogeochemical cycling in mine-impacted waters and exposed soils has the potential to have long-term impacts on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems on site and in downstream deposition zones.
Primary Convener:  Carrie Monohan, The Sierra Fund, Nevada City, CA, United States
Conveners:  Elizabeth Martin, The Sierra Fund, Nevada City, CA, United States and Alexandria Kathleen Keeble-Toll, The Sierra Fund, Nevada City, CA, United States
Chairs:  Carrie Monohan, The Sierra Fund, Nevada City, CA, United States and Alexandria Kathleen Keeble-Toll, The Sierra Fund, Nevada City, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Carrie Monohan, The Sierra Fund, Nevada City, CA, United States
Index Terms:

1825 Geomorphology: fluvial [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
6304 Benefit-cost analysis [POLICY SCIENCES]
6334 Regional planning [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Mercury in Fish of the American and Bear River Watershed Reservoirs: Tissue Analysis and Strategies for Minimizing Exposure at Lake Clementine and Rollins Reservoir, California (131884)
Alexandria Kathleen Keeble-Toll1, Carrie Monohan1, David L Brown2 and Glen Pearson2, (1)The Sierra Fund, Nevada City, CA, United States, (2)CSU CHICO, Chico, CA, United States
Leaching characteristics, ecotoxicity, and risk assessment based management of mine wastes (153683)
Jeonghwan Kim1, Won Jung Ju2, Eun Hea Jho3, Kyoungphile Nam4 and Jin-Kyung Hong3, (1)Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Department of Environmental Science, Yongin, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (3)Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin, Korea, Republic of (South), (4)Seoul National University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul, South Korea
Sediment Source Analysis at Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park, California (181846)
Alfred John Ward IV1,2, Carrie Monohan3, Sandrine J Matiasek4, Charles N Alpers1, Jennifer Curtis1, Kate M Campbell5, David A Roth6 and Jim Howle7, (1)USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States, (2)Chico State University, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Chico, CA, United States, (3)The Sierra Fund, Nevada City, CA, United States, (4)California State University, Chico, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chico, United States, (5)USGS, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)U.S. Geological Survey, Water Mission Area, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)usgs, truckee, CA, United States
Due Diligence Processes for Public Acquisition of Mining-Impacted Landscapes (194366)
Elizabeth Martin, Carrie Monohan and Alexandria Kathleen Keeble-Toll, The Sierra Fund, Nevada City, CA, United States
Mechanical Mercury Extraction Process® Test Results at Combie Reservoir (195147)
Carrie Monohan, The Sierra Fund, Nevada City, CA, United States, Charles N Alpers, USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States and Mark C Marvin-DiPasquale, USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States

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