EP11C:
Modeling the Critical Zone: Integrating Processes and Data Across Disciplines and Scales I Posters


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Session ID#: 48705

Session Description:
The Critical Zone (CZ) is the Earth’s skin where climate, geology, ecosystems, and human activities converge. The evolution and function of the CZ are governed by multiple processes (e.g., meteorological, hydrological, pedological,  geochemical, geomorphological, and biological) over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. This session aims to showcase contributions that highlight recent model development and applications to develop a predictive understanding of CZ.  We invite abstracts that: 1) demonstrate the synergy between field experiments, observations and modeling efforts; 2) elucidate underlying processes at and across multiple scales; 3) reveal new understanding about the CZ response to changing climate and land use; and 4) synthesize data or test hypotheses across multiple study sites.  The session is intended to serve as an exploration of the breadth of CZ sciences and to facilitate comparison across different sites. We encourage submissions from modeling endeavors within and across disciplines.
Primary Convener:  Li Li, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
Conveners:  Bhavna Arora, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States and Harry Vereecken, Geoverbund ABC/J, Centre for High-Performance Scientific Computing in Terrestrial Systems (TerrSys), Jülich, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Bhavna Arora, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Chairs:  Li Li, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States, Harry Vereecken, Geoverbund ABC/J, Centre for High-Performance Scientific Computing in Terrestrial Systems (TerrSys), Jülich, Germany and Bhavna Arora, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Bhavna Arora, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States
Co-Organized with:
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, and Hydrology

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1805 Computational hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A new approach for hydraulic conductivity scaling in unsaturated porous media via direct averaging (468689)
Leonardo Sandoval Pabon Sr1, Alberto Guadagnini2, Monica Riva2 and Leonardo David Donado3, (1)Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia, (2)Politecnico di Milano, Milano, 20133, Italy, (3)Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Bogota, Bogota Dc, Colombia
Characterization Length-Scales to Determine Atmospheric Forcing to Simulate Evaporation and Shallow Subsurface Soil Moisture Dynamics (411642)
Andrew Trautz, Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, Tissa H Illangasekare, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Civil and & Environmental Engineering, Golden, United States, Stacy E Howington, Engineer R&D Center, Vicksburg, MS, United States, Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, Texas A&M University College Station, Ocean Engineering, College Station, TX, United States, Abdullah Cihan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States and Rainer Helmig, Universitaet Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Critical measurements of hydrologic response in a first-order, forested catchment at the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (SSHCZO) (411761)
Dacheng Xiao, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, University Park, PA, United States, Yuning Shi, Penn State University, Unviersity Park, United States, Qicheng Tang, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Henry Lin, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, David M Eissenstat, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, University Park, PA, United States, Susan Brantley, Pennsylvania State University, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States and Li Li, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States
Identification of Landslide Prone Areas in the Dahan River Watershed in a Geotemporal Context (404202)
Su-Ting Cheng, National Taiwan University, School of Forestry & Resource Conservation, Taipei, Taiwan and Zih-Yang Wang, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Modeling Hydrochemical Dynamics in a Glacierized Watershed Using an Integrated Reactive-Transport Watershed Model (386892)
Leila Saberi1, Gene-Hua Crystal Ng2, Rachel McLaughlin3, Jeff La Frenierre4, Andrew D Wickert5, Wei Zhi6, Li Li7 and Leah Nelson1, (1)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, United States, (2)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, United States, (3)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (4)Gustavus Adolphus College, Department of Geography, Saint Peter, MN, United States, (5)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, United States, (6)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, United States, (7)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States
A Model of Shale Weathering at the Eel River-CZO Constrained by High Resolution Spatiotemporal Observations of Solute and Gas Profiles Across the Vadose Zone (448507)
Jia Jia Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Alison K. Tune, Running Tide Technologies, Portland, United States, Daniella Marie Rempe, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States and Jennifer L Druhan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States
Solving the switching-form Richards' equation for modeling unsaturated-saturated flow and solute transport across scales (372673)
J Zeng1, Yuanyuan Zha1, Ian White2 and Jinzhong Yang1, (1)Wuhan University, School of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, Wuhan, China, (2)Australian National University, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Spatio-temporal Dynamic Modelling and Optimisation of Land Use in Water Source Basin, South-East Hilly Area of China (371387)
Yan Li, Guangzhou University, School of Geographical Sciences, Guangzhou, China and Hengpeng Li, Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
Terrestrial Carbon Storage: Improving Estimates of Net Ecosystem Exchange using Soil Profile Measures of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Flux in a Cold Sage-Steppe Ecosystem (397973)
Dr. David P Huber, MS Soil Physics; PhD Biology1, Ken Aho2, Mark S Seyfried1, Gerald N Flerchinger3 and Kathleen A Lohse2, (1)USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, United States, (2)Idaho State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Pocatello, United States, (3)USDA Agriculture Research Service, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States
The role of land use and rainfall on the characteristic scale unit of specific sediment flux: a catchment approach (374465)
Benjamin K Abban1, Thanos Papanicolaou2, Christos Giannopoulos1 and Christopher G Wilson1, (1)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, (2)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States
The use of 87Sr/86Sr ratios as indicator of flowpaths on a large-scale instability: the Séchilienne landslide (Isère, France). (373020)
Pierre Nevers1, Mr. Julien Bouchez, PhD2, Jerome Gaillardet2 and Catherine Bertrand3, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (3)Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Chrono-Environnement UMR UFC CNRS 6249, Besançon, France
Understanding Contrasting Concentration-discharge (CQ) Behaviors in a Seasonally Snow-covered Watershed (349628)
Wei Zhi, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, United States, Li Li, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States, Jason P Kaye, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, University Park, PA, United States, Wenming Dong, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, United States, Wendy Brown, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, United States, Carl I Steefel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States and Kenneth Hurst Williams, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States
Vegetation Dynamics Control Hillslope Asymmetry In Semiarid Ecosystems (428762)
Nikul Kumari1, Omer Yetemen2, Ankur Srivastava1, Kwok Pan Chun3, Jose Fernando Rodriguez4 and Patricia M Saco5,6, (1)University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia, (2)University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, (3)Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, (4)The University of Newcastle, School of Engineering, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, (5)The University of Newcastle, Centre for Water Security and Environmental Sustainability and School of Engineering, Callaghan, Australia, (6)Univ Newcastle, Centre for Water Security and Environmental Sustainability and School of Engineering, Callaghan, Australia

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