H54G:
Wetland and Floodplain/Riparian Zone Effects on Water Quality, Quantity, and Ecology in Downstream Waters I

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Session ID#: 34252

Session Description:
Wetlands and river corridors, including floodplain/riparian zones, have significant effects on watershed hydrology, biogeochemical cycling, and ecology. These ecosystems capture and transform nutrients and other contaminants, store water to mitigate downgradient peak hydrologic flows, and serve as habitat for the movement of species throughout landscapes. This session brings together researchers with diverse approaches to quantifying the downstream effects of these ecosystems on water quality, quantity, and ecological functions. The scope of this session includes both natural and constructed wetlands and floodplain/riparian zones, so as to better characterize the role of targeted ecosystem conservation and/or restoration at large spatial scales and thus guide land use resource management decisions. We welcome process-level experimental studies at the patch scale and remote sensing, modeling, and spatial analyses at watershed scale. We especially welcome contributions that span these scales and that use emerging process-level understanding to address knowledge gaps and data needs of larger-scale studies.
Primary Convener:  Adnan Rajib, US Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Cincinnati, OH, United States
Conveners:  Natalie Nelson, North Carolina State University, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Raleigh, NC, United States, Adam N Wlostowski, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Grey Rogers Evenson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, VA, United States; US Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH, United States
Chairs:  Natalie Nelson, North Carolina State University, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Raleigh, NC, United States and Heather E Golden, Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Adam N Wlostowski, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0483 Riparian systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0497 Wetlands [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Biogeochemical Hotspots: Small Geographically Isolated Wetlands and their Impacts at the Landscape Scale (Invited) (283447)
Nandita B Basu, University of Waterloo, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Combining Field Monitoring with Remote Sensing to Reconstruct Historical Hydroperiod: a Case Study in a Degrading Tropical Wetland (289240)
Alice Alonso, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, 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 and David A Kaplan, University of Florida, Environmental Engineering Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
Increased Hydrologic Connectivity: Consequences of Reduced Water Storage Capacity in the Delmarva Peninsula (U.S.) (278711)
Daniel L Mclaughlin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, United States, C. Nathan Jones, University of Alabama, Biological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, Grey Rogers Evenson, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, c/o US EPA Office of Research and Development, Cincinnati, OH, United States, Heather E Golden, Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, United States, Charles R. Lane, Environmental Protection Agency Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States, Laurie Alexander, US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Arlington, United States and Megan Lang, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Washington, DC, United States
Evaluating the role of river-floodplain connectivity in providing beneficial hydrologic services in mountain landscapes (Invited) (284386)
Tim P Covino, Montana State University, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, Pamela Wegener, Colorado State University, Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Tristan Weiss, Colorado State University Fort Collins, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University, Geosciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Charles Rhoades, US Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO, United States
High Frequency Monitoring of Isotopic Signatures Elucidates Potential Effects of Restoring Floodplain Habitat in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California, USA (245216)
Bobby James Nakamoto, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, Marilyn L Fogel, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States, Carson Jeffres, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Joshua H Viers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced, United States

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