EP42A:
Ecohydraulics and Ecogeomorphology: From Basic Interactions to Management Techniques II

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Session ID#: 35653

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, Rafael O Tinoco, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, Laurel Larsen, University of California, Department of Geography, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, United States and Ehab A Meselhe, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Melissa Millman Baustian, The Water Institute, Baton Rouge, 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:

Biogeomorphic feedbacks in the Southwestern USA: exploring the mechanisms of geomorphic change and the effectiveness of mitigation measures (232402)
David J Dean, US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Rebecca M Diehl, University of Montana, Department of Geosciences, Missoula, MT, United States and David J. Topping, US Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Uncertainties in the Forecasted Performance of Sediment Diversions Associated with Differences Between “Optimized” Diversion Design Criteria and the Natural Crevasse-Splay Sub-Delta Life-Cycle (288242)
Gary Brown, Engineer Research and Development Center Vicksburg, Vicksburg, MS, United States
The relative importance of physical and biological energy in landscape evolution (223408)
Jens Martin Turowski, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany and Wolfgang Schwanghart, University of Potsdam, Institute for Earth and Environmental Sciences, Potsdam, Germany
Runoff thresholds and land-to-marine ecosystem connectivity in a dry tropical setting: St. John, US Virgin Islands (220301)
Carlos E Ramos-Scharron, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geography & the Environment, Austin, United States, Matthew C LaFevor, University of Alabama, Department of Geography and the Environment, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States and Jeremiah Roy, W & M Environmental Group, Austin, TX, United States
Mechanisms of Cottonwood Establishment in Gravel-Bed Rivers, across Scales from the Bar to the Reach (252881)
Claudio I Meier, University of Memphis, Department of Civil Engineering, Memphis, TN, United States
Reciprocal interactions between fluvial processes and riparian plants at multiple scales: ecogeomorphic feedbacks drive coevolution of floodplain morphology and vegetation communities (236246)
John Christopher Stella, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Forest and Natural Resources Management, Syracuse, NY, United States, LI Kui, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Environmental Science, Syracuse, NY, United States, Rebecca Manners Diehl, University of Vermont, Department of Geography and Geosciences, Burlington, VT, United States, Sharon Bywater-Reyes, University of Northern Colorado, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Greeley, United States, Andrew C Wilcox, University of Montana, Geosciences, Missoula, MT, United States, Patrick B Shafroth, U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins, United States and Anne Lightbody, University of New Hampshire, Earth Sciences, Durham, United States
Plant community dynamics and restoring Louisiana's wetland ecosystems (Invited) (275925)
Scott Michael Duke-Sylvester and Jenneke Visser, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States

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