H32E:
Thermal Riverscapes: Understanding River Temperature Patterns, Processes, and Implications across Multiple Scales I

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Session ID#: 17288

Session Description:
The potential consequences of climate change for river environments makes the need to understand the mechanisms controlling river temperature patterns more crucial than ever.  While recent years have seen significant advances in river temperature research, there remains a lack of information focusing on the drivers and processes responsible for river temperature patterns across multiple temporal and spatial scales.  Thus, addressing this key knowledge gap is essential to increase scientific understanding for fluvial environments and for mitigating/adapting to the effects of climate change on river ecosystems.  This session will serve as a forum to bring together recent research on this topic, addressing current knowledge shortfalls and identifying directions for future investigation.  We invite presentations covering all aspects of research into river temperature dynamics.  Papers focusing on novel river temperature monitoring methodologies or the linkages between temperature and ecological patterns are welcome.
Primary Convener:  Prof. David M. Hannah, PhD, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Christian E. Torgersen, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, Barret Kurylyk, University of Calgary, Department of Geoscience, Calgary, AB, Canada and Jason A Leach, Natural Resources Canada, Sault Ste Marie, ON, Canada
Chairs:  Prof. David M. Hannah, PhD, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom and Christian E. Torgersen, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Prof. David M. Hannah, PhD, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1871 Surface water quality [HYDROLOGY]
1894 Instruments and techniques: modeling [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Interplay of Geology, Vegetation and Mankind Controlling Patterns and Dynamics of Thermal Riverscapes (Invited) (155199)
Markus Weiler1, Matthias Ritter1,2, Theresa Blume3 and Ernestine Lieder4, (1)Chair of Hydrology, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, (2)Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Freiberg, Germany, (3)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Hydrology, Potsdam, Germany, (4)GFZ German Research Centre, Potsdam, Germany
Thermal landscapes in a changing climate: How different are water temperature patterns in our most extreme years? (136731)
E Ashley Steel, US Forest Service Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States, Aimee H Fullerton, NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States, Amy Marsha, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Statistics, Seattle, WA, United States, Julian D Olden, University of Washington, School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States and Narasimhan K Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA, United States
Changing stream temperatures in a changing world: evaluating spatio-temporal patterns and trends across the eastern US (187887)
Christa Kelleher, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States and Stacey A Archfield, USGS Office of Groundwater, Reston, United States
An analysis of the downstream propagation of stream temperature changes following headwater forest management in western Oregon (163418)
Nicholas Cook, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Kevin D. Bladon, Oregon State University, Department of Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management, Corvallis,, OR, United States and Catalina Segura, Oregon State University, Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management, Corvallis, OR, United States
Strong seepage of shallow groundwater shifts the timing of the annual thermal signals in stream water (175829)
Martin A Briggs1, Zachary C Johnson2, Craig Snyder3, Nathaniel P Hitt3, Eric A White4, John W Lane Jr5 and David L Nelms6, (1)USGS Water Mission Area, Hydrologic Remote Sensing Branch, Storrs, United States, (2)USGS Leetown Science Center, Kearneysville, WV, United States, (3)US Geological Survey, Eastern Ecological Science Center, Kearneysville, WV, United States, (4)USGS Office of Groundwater, Reston, VA, United States, (5)USGS Hydrogeophysics Branch, Storrs, CT, United States, (6)USGS Virginia Water Science Center, Richmond, VA, United States
Understanding Cold-Water Refuges and Thermal Stratification in a Large Regulated River (170953)
Francine H Mejia1, Christian E. Torgersen1, Eric Karl Berntsen2 and Joseph Maroney2, (1)USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, Cascadia Field Station, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Kalispel Natural Resources Department, Usk, WA, United States
Evaluating Changes in Distributions of Summer Stream Temperature following Forest Harvest (166588)
Sherri L Johnson, USFS - Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, United States, Maryanne Reiter, Weyerhaeuser Company, Springfield, OR, United States and Jay Jones, Weyerhaeuser Company, Federal Way, WA, United States
Thermal infrared remote sensing for riverscape analysis of water temperature heterogeneity: current research and future directions (Invited) (123464)
Stephen Dugdale, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Prof. David M. Hannah, PhD, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Iain Malcolm, Marine Scotland Science, Freshwater Fisheries Laboratory, Pitlochry, United Kingdom, Normand Bergeron, INRS, Quebec, QC, Canada and André St-Hilaire, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Eau Terre Environnement INRS-ETE, Quebec City, QC, Canada

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