B53H:
Characterizing Spatial and Temporal Variability of Hydrological and Biogeochemical Processes Across Scales II
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Session ID#: 32075
Session Description:
Biogeochemical processes are often spatially discrete (hotspots) and temporally restricted (hot moments) due to variability in controlling factors like hydrologic fluxes, lithologic characteristics, microbial composition, vegetation, etc. Although this scale-dependence of biogeochemical processes accounts for a high percentage of nutrient cycling, the ability to identify and incorporate them into reactive transport models remains a significant challenge. This session invites contributions that identify spatial and temporal patterns in biogeochemical variables, implement such variability in reactive transport models, and/or document the extent that hot spots/moments influence larger-scale system functioning. This session will focus on exchanging ideas on (1) new techniques for identifying biogeochemical hotspots and hot moments across scales, (2) understanding the governing controls such as, soil-landscape features, flux-inputs, vegetation characteristics that leads to this emergent behavior, (3) incorporating this spatio-temporal variability in models and/or designing scale-aware parameterizations, and (4) quantifying the significance of incorporating this emergent behavior in reactive transport models.
Primary Convener: Bhavna Arora, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States
Convener: Haruko M Wainwright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
Chairs: Haruko M Wainwright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, Bhavna Arora, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, James Stegen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Joel C Rowland, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States
OSPA Liaison: Haruko M Wainwright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Jon Chorover1, Paul D Brooks2, Rachel E Gallery3, Jennifer C McIntosh4, Yaniv Olshansky5 and Craig Rasmussen5, (1)University of Arizona, Department of Environmental Science, Tucson, United States, (2)University of Utah, Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, United States, (5)University of Arizona, Soil, Water and Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States
Kevin J McGuire, Virginia Tech, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation/Virginia Water Resources Research Center, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Scott W Bailey, US Forest Service Durham, Northern Research Station, Durham, NH, United States and Donald S Ross, University of Vermont, Plant and Soil Science, Burlington, VT, United States
Yadi Wang, University of Arizona, Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States, Moises Umanzor, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Antonio Alves Meira Neto, Colorado State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fort Collins, United States, Aditi Sengupta, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Mary Kay Amistadi, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Robert Root, University of Arizona, Environmental Science, Tucson, United States, Peter Troch, Biosphere 2, Tucson, AZ, United States; University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, United States and Jon Chorover, University of Arizona, Department of Environmental Science, Tucson, United States
Amanda Cantu Swanson, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States, Diego Dierick, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States, Nicole A. Trahan, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, Michael F Allen, University of California Riverside, Center for Conservation Biology, Riverside, CA, United States, Luitgard Schwendenmann, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Thomas C Harmon, Univ California Merced, Merced, United States, Steven F Oberbauer, Florida International University, Biological Sciences, Miami, United States, Angel Santiago Fernandez Bou, Union of Concerned Scientists, Merced, United States and Tamara Jane Zelikova, Univ Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
Ken Krauss, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), 8124 Highway 56, Chauvin, LA 70344 USA, LUMCON, Chauvin, United States; U.S. Geological Survey Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Lafayette, LA, United States, Gregory B Noe, U.S. Geological Survey, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, United States, Jamie A. Duberstein, Clemson University, Georgetown, SC, United States, William H. Conner, Clemson University, Belle W. Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science, Georgetown, SC, United States, Camille LaFosse Stagg, U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Lafayette, United States, Miriam Jones, U.S. Geological Survey., Reston, United States, Christopher E Bernhardt, U.S. Geological Survey., Reston, VA, United States and Nicole Cormier, U.S.Geological Survey National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, LA, United States
Natalie Nelson, North Carolina State University, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Raleigh, NC, United States, Prof. Rafael Munoz-Carpena, Ph.D., University of Florida (Visiting Professor at Public University of Navarra, Spain), Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Gainesville, FL, United States, Patrick Neale, Smithsonian Env Research Ctr, Edgewater, MD, United States, Maria Tzortziou, City College of New York, New York, NY, United States and Patrick Megonigal, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, United States
Audrey H Sawyer1, Rebecca Barnes2, Corey David Wallace3, Deon Knights3, Delaney Tight4 and Mitch Bayer5, (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)Colorado College, Colorado Springs, United States, (3)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (4)Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, United States, (5)Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
David Brankovits, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Marine Biology, Galveston, TX, United States; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States, John Pohlman, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, United States, Neil K Ganju, Department of the Interior Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, Nick S Lowell, Dartmouth College, Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States, Erich Roth, Director of Software Engineering, North Falmouth, United States and Laura Lapham, UMCES, Chesapeake Bio. Lab, Solomons, United States
