EP41D:
Ecohydraulics: Flow-Biota and Sediment-Biota Interactions I

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Session ID#: 35281

Session Description:
The need to understand interactions among hydraulic, ecological, and geomorphic processes in natural and managed systems has become urgent for societies struggling to cope with the rapidly changing 21st century climate. The result has been a surge of interdisciplinary projects in fields related to ecohydraulics. Such projects have included computational, laboratory, and field studies across a wide range of scales to understand the effects of underlying physical and biological processes on flow-biota-substrate interactions. This session focuses on the lessons learned from such approaches: advantages, limitations, best practices, and the future of the field. Research topics include, but are not limited to: 1) Hydrodynamics and geomorphic impacts of aquatic vegetation, 2) Organism-Habitat interaction, 3) The role of biota as ecosystem engineers, 4) Effects of flow-biota interactions on nutrient and pollutant transport. We encourage submissions that address the challenge of transferring information across scales, and findings that are packaged for landscape managers.
Primary Convener:  Rafael O Tinoco, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Conveners:  Christopher R Esposito, Tulane University of Louisiana, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, United States, Heide Friedrich, University of Auckland, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Auckland, New Zealand and Melissa Millman Baustian, The Water Institute, Baton Rouge, United States
Chairs:  Christopher R Esposito, Tulane University of Louisiana, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, United States, Heide Friedrich, University of Auckland, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Auckland, New Zealand, Melissa Millman Baustian, The Water Institute, Baton Rouge, United States and Rafael O Tinoco, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Christopher R Esposito, Tulane University of Louisiana, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • H - Hydrology
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0481 Restoration [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1825 Geomorphology: fluvial [HYDROLOGY]
1890 Wetlands [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Flow-sediment-oyster interaction around degraded, restored, and reference oyster reefs in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon (298863)
Vasileios Kitsikoudis1, Kelly Maren Kibler2 and David Willem Spiering1, (1)University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, Orlando, FL, United States, (2)University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, Orlando, United States
Fluvial gravel stabilization by net-spinning Hydropsychid caddisflies: exploring the magnitude and geographic scope of ecosystem engineering effect and evaluating resistance to anthropogenic stresses (296013)
Melinda Daniels1, Lindsey Albertson2, Leonard S Sklar3, Ben Tumolo2 and Molly Katherine Mclaughlin4, (1)Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale, United States, (2)Montana State University, Ecology, Bozeman, MT, United States, (3)Concordia University, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Montreal, QC, Canada, (4)San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States
Sediment-stabilizing and Destabilizing Ecoengineering Species from River to Estuary: the Case of the Scheldt System (238910)
Sanja Selakovic1, Francesco Cozzoli2, Jasper R.F.W. Leuven3, Alexander Van Braeckel4, Jeroen Speybroeck4, Maarten G Kleinhans3 and Tjeerd Bouma5, (1)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2)Salento University, Lecce, Italy, (3)Utrecht University, Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (4)Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek (INBO), Brussels, Belgium, (5)NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Estuarine and Delta Systems, Yerseke, Netherlands
Flow over Canopies with Complex Morphologies (228834)
Simonetta Rubol1, Bowen Ling1 and Ilenia Battiato2, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Uprooting of flexible riparian vegetation: field and laboratory observations (234638)
Luca Solari, University of Florence, Dept. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florence, Italy, Giulio Calvani, University of Florence, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florence, Italy and Simona Francalanci, University of Florence, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florence, Italy
The impact of vegetation on near-bed turbulence and bedload transport rate in the low transport regime (207097)
Judy Qingjun Yang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States and Heidi Margaret Nepf, MIT, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, United States
Are mangroves as tough as a seawall? Flow-vegetation interaction in a living shoreline restoration (Invited) (266242)
Kelly Maren Kibler, University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, Orlando, United States, Vasileios Kitsikoudis, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States and David Willem Spiering, University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, Orlando, FL, United States

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