EP43F:
Advancing River Ecosystem Understanding and Management I

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Session ID#: 35108

Session Description:
Physical and biological processes operating at a range of spatial and temporal scales produce diverse river and floodplain ecosystems. There is increasing recognition that understanding these processes, and their interactions, is necessary for successful river management and restoration actions. This session explores these themes and will emphasize contributions that i) advance our mechanistic understanding of biophysical processes in rivers and/or ii) demonstrate how the practice of river management improves by leveraging this process knowledge. Example topics may include: quantifying biota-hydraulic interactions (environmental fluid mechanics), network response to disturbances, and restoration design under uncertainty and changing environmental conditions.
Primary Convener:  Mathias J Collins, NOAA Fisheries Greater Atlantic Region - Gloucester, Gloucester, MA, United States
Conveners:  John M Buffington, US Forest Service Boise, Boise, ID, United States, Lee Harrison, NOAA Fisheries, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Joseph M Wheaton, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
Chairs:  Joseph M Wheaton, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States and Mathias J Collins, NOAA Fisheries Greater Atlantic Region - Gloucester, Gloucester, MA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Lee Harrison, NOAA, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1820 Floodplain dynamics [HYDROLOGY]
1825 Geomorphology: fluvial [HYDROLOGY]
1879 Watershed [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

How Physical Processes are Informing River Management Actions at Marble Bluff Dam, Truckee River, Nevada (Invited) (263254)
Jennifer Bountry, Jeanne Godaire and D. Nathan Bradley, Bureau of Reclamation Denver, Denver, CO, United States
Considering direct and indirect habitat influences on stream biota in eco-geomorphology research to better understand, model, and manage riverine ecosystems (300587)
Piotr Cienciala, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geography and GIS, Urbana, United States and Andrew D Nelson, Northwest Hydraulic Consultants, Seattle, WA, United States
The varying stability of benthic homes: hydrologic regime and sediment supply control the timing and intensity of bed mobility (256131)
Allison M Pfeiffer, University of Washington, Seattle, United States and Noah J Finnegan, UC Santa Cruz, EPS, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Insights into the Sensitivity and Resilience of Riparian Ecosystems to Flow Regime Shifts Through a Coupled Ecogeomorpic Model (236092)
Rebecca Manners Diehl1, Andrew C Wilcox1 and David M Merritt2, (1)University of Montana, Geosciences, Missoula, MT, United States, (2)Forest Service, National Stream and Aquatic Ecology Center, Fort Collins, CO, United States
The Mobility and Dispersal of Augmented Gravel in Upland Channels: a Knowledge-limited Practise in Supply-limited Channels (Invited) (259471)
Peter W Downs1,2 and David J Gilvear2, (1)Plymouth University, Plymouth, PL4, United Kingdom, (2)Plymouth University, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Avulsion research using flume experiments and highly accurate and temporal-rich SfM datasets (269440)
Walter Bertoldi1, Luke Javernick2 and Alfonso Vitti1, (1)University of Trento, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Trento, Italy, (2)University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Geomorphic Effects of Gravel Augmentation and Bank Re-erosion on the Old Rhine River Downstream From The Kembs Dam (France, Germany) (268939)
Valentin Chardon1, Laurent Schmitt2, Hervé Piegay3, Fanny Arnaud3, Jérôme Houssier2, Jordane Serouilou2 and Anne Clutier4, (1)Laboratoire Image Ville Environnement (LIVE), UMR 7362 CNRS/ENGEES, LTER, ZAEU & Environnement Ville et Société (EVS), UMR 5600 CNRS, ENS de Lyon, Strasbourg & Lyon, France, (2)Laboratoire Image Ville Environnement (LIVE), UMR 7362 CNRS/ENGEES, LTER, ZAEU, Strasbourg, France, (3)Environnement Ville et Société (EVS), UMR 5600 CNRS, ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France, (4)Électricité de France, Centre d'Ingenierie Hydraulique (CIH), Le Bourget-du-Lac, France
Modeling the Effects of Reservoir Releases on the Bed Material Sediment Flux of the Colorado River in western Colorado and eastern Utah (263503)
John Pitlick, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Simone Bizzi, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Milan, Italy and Rafael J. P. Schmitt, UC Santa Barbara, Environmental Studies, Santa Barbara, United States

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