EP31C:
Connected Hillslopes and Aquatic Environments in the Mountainous Tropics: Sediment and Contaminant Transport and Ecosystem Impacts Posters

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Session ID#: 26186

Session Description:
Tropical mountainous systems have steep pathways that link hillslope watersheds to fragile aquatic environments, which often contain ecosystems that underpin the local economy and way of life. Anthropogenic land use, rapidly increasing due to rising population and development in tropical regions, enhances erosion and sediment and contaminant transport. Furthermore, tropical storm frequency and intensity is expected to increase in response to climate change. As a result, tropical systems and their connected aquatic environments are increasingly vulnerable. Yet a critical knowledge gap exists regarding the relationships between geomorphic and bathymetric conditions, processes that control sediment and contaminant transport and deposition, and ecologic tolerances of the mobilized sediment and contaminants. We encourage multidisciplinary integrated submissions from geomorphology, hydrology, ecology, coastal science, and geochemistry presenting new field data, experimental analyses, and/or theoretical modeling of sediment and contaminant transport and ecosystem impacts in the mountainous tropics.
Primary Convener:  Trevor Nulton Browning, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
Conveners:  Jenna C Hill, Ohio State University Main Campus, Earth Sciences, Columbus, United States, Beverley Coghill Wemple, University of Vermont, Geography & Geosciences; Water Resources Institute, Burlington, VT, United States and Carlos E Ramos-Scharron, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geography & the Environment, Austin, United States
Chairs:  Jenna C Hill, Ohio State University Main Campus, Earth Sciences, Columbus, United States and Trevor Nulton Browning, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Trevor Nulton Browning, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1824 Geomorphology: general [HYDROLOGY]
1862 Sediment transport [HYDROLOGY]
3022 Marine sediments: processes and transport [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Illuminating Sediment Transport Pathways From Source to Sink with Multibeam Bathymetry Data: Coral Bay, St. John USVI (218115)
Trevor Nulton Browning, Derek Sawyer and Paul Russell, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
Spatio-temporal Distribution of Soil Erosion in Two Coffee Farms Located in the Western Interior Highlands of Puerto Rico (244889)
Yasiel Figueroa, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, PR, United States, Carlos E Ramos-Scharron, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX, United States and HICE-Puerto Rico
Spatial and Temporal Variability of Water Quality in Mixed Páramo, Forest and Agricultural Catchments of the Southern Ecuadorian Andes (247315)
Beverley Coghill Wemple1, Diana Curillo2, Valeria Arévalo2, Johana Maza2, Inés Malo2 and Pablo Arévalo2, (1)University of Vermont, Geography & Geosciences; Water Resources Institute, Burlington, VT, United States, (2)Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Biotechnology, Cuenca, Ecuador
Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Cayo Jutías, Cuba Using Aerial and Satellite Images and Sediment Cores. (275551)
Adrian Martinez Suarez1, Maickel Armenteros-Almanza2, Misael Diaz Asencio3, Migeul Ribot4, Rebekka A Larson5,6, Rachael Alyese Kalin5 and Gregg Brooks7, (1)Universidad de La Habana, Centro de Invesigaciones Marinas, Habana, Cuba, (2)National Autonomous UNiversity of Mexico, Limnology and Oceanography, Ciudad de México, Mexico, (3)Centro de Estudios Ambientales de Cienfuegos, Cienfuegos, Cuba, (4)Institute of Tropical Geography, Habana, Cuba, (5)Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (6)University of South Florida St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (7)Eckerd College, Marine Science, St. Petersburg, United States
Mitigation of sediment loads to a coral reef: Separating storm characteristics and management impacts (286015)
Trent W Biggs, San Diego State University, Department of Geography, San Diego, CA, United States and Alex T Messina, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States
Recent Sedimentation Patterns off the NW Coast of Cuba: Initial Observations (286961)
Rebekka A Larson, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, FL, United States, Gregg Brooks, Eckerd College, Marine Science, St. Petersburg, United States, Patrick T Schwing, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, United States, Maickel Armenteros-Almanza, National Autonomous UNiversity of Mexico, Limnology and Oceanography, Ciudad de México, Mexico, Misael Diaz Asencio, Centro de Estudios Ambientales de Cienfuegos, Cienfuegos, Cuba, Adrian Martinez Suarez, Universidad de La Habana, Centro de Invesigaciones Marinas, Habana, Cuba, Gabriela Hidalgo-Perez, GeoCuba Estudios Marinos, Habana, Cuba and David J Hollander, University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States

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