H43O:
Catchment Science: Process Understanding and Societal Benefits from Long-Term Observation, Research, and Experimentation I

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Session ID#: 34850

Session Description:
Long-term research catchments are sentinel sites that have proved invaluable for detecting, documenting, and understanding environmental change. The small watershed approach fosters hydrological, biogeochemical, and ecological process understanding at a site, while a collective network of catchment observatories offers a broader context to synthesize understanding across a range of climate and geology. Also, experimental manipulations designed to assess the effects of land management and climate change are more readily interpreted in well-understood systems. Multi-catchment comparisons at various temporal and spatial scales provide information needed to manage ecosystems, and to inform hydrological or Earth systems models. In this session, we seek contributions from observatory, long-term, and experimental catchment studies that include analysis of processes and temporal trends. We especially encourage submissions that illustrate the societal relevance of catchment science.
Primary Convener:  James B Shanley, U.S. Geological Survey, Montpelier, United States
Conveners:  Jonathan M Duncan, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, University Park, United States and Stephen D Sebestyen, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States
Chairs:  Jonathan M Duncan, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, University Park, United States, James B Shanley, U.S. Geological Survey, Montpelier, United States and Stephen D Sebestyen, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Stephen D Sebestyen, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0470 Nutrients and nutrient cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1804 Catchment [HYDROLOGY]
1836 Hydrological cycles and budgets [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Hydrologic Synthesis Across the Critical Zone Observatory Network: A Step Towards Understanding the Coevolution of Critical Zone Function and Structure (256472)
Adam N Wlostowski, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Ciaran J Harman, Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States and Noah P Molotch, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, United States
Understanding Hydrological Processes in Variable Source Areas in the Glaciated Northeastern US Watersheds under Variable Climate Conditions (265070)
Tammo S Steenhuis, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States, Zain Azzaino, University of California, Davis, United States, Linh Hoang, City University of New York/ NYC Department of Environmental Protection, New York, NY, United States, Steve Pacenka, Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY, United States, Abeyou Wale Worqlul, Blackland Research Center, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Temple, TX, United States, Rajith Mukundan, New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Kingston, United States, Cathelijne Stoof, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Emmet M Owens, New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Kingston, NY, United States and Brian K Richards, Cornell University, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States
Form and function relationships revealed by long-term research in a semiarid mountain catchment (242893)
Jim P McNamara1, Shawn Benner1, David G Chandler2, Alejandro N Flores1, Hans-Peter Marshall3, Mark S Seyfried4, Michael J Poulos5 and Jennifer L Pierce6, (1)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (2)Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States, (3)Boise State Univ, Boise, ID, United States, (4)USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, United States, (5)Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, (6)Boise State University, Geosciences, Boise, United States
Benefits of Long-term Catchment/Observatory Research: Reynolds Creek Case (289125)
Mark S Seyfried, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, United States, Danny G Marks, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States, Federick B Pierson, USDA-ARS, Boise, ID, United States, Kathleen A Lohse, Idaho State University, Biological Sciences, Idaho Falls, United States and Gerald N Flerchinger, USDA - ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States
Browning of Adirondack, NY Lakes: Rates and Effects (Invited) (224815)
Charles T Driscoll1, Yaskira Mota2, Habibollah Fakhraei3, Svetoslava Todorova4, Taylor Leach5, Kevin C Rose5 and Susan O'Donnell6, (1)Syracuse University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse, NY, United States, (2)Syracuse University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse, NY, United States, (3)Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carbondale, IL, United States, (4)Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY, United States, (5)Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, Troy, NY, United States, (6)Upstate Freshwater Institute, Syracuse, NY, United States
Changes in precipitation-streamflow transformation around the world: interdecadal variability and trends. (299271)
Margarita Saft, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, Murray Cameron Peel, The University of Melbourne, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, Parkville, VIC, Australia, Vazken Andreassian, IRSTEA, Antony Cedex, France, Juraj Parajka, Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, TU Wien, 1040 Vienna, Austria and Centre for Water Resource Systems, TU Wien, 1040 Vienna, Austria, Vienna, Austria, Gemma Coxon, University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, Jim E Freer, University of Saskatchewan Coldwater Laboratory, Canmore, AB, Canada and Ross A Woods, University of Bristol, Civil Engineering, Bristol, United Kingdom

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