H13K:
Aquatic Ecosystem Responses to Human Disturbances and Management: A Comparative Discussion of Inland and Coastal Ecosystems and Their Contributing Watersheds II Posters


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Session ID#: 52095

Session Description:
Inland and coastal ecosystems are often impaired by multiple stressors, which complicates both problem description and restoration. Better understanding ecosystem responses to human disturbances and management is an increasingly important theme of hydrologic studies. Addressing such complex and widespread issues requires multidisciplinary approaches and consideration of ecosystem spatial and temporal characteristics. This session will develop an integrated understanding of how and why ecosystems have responded differently to human disturbances and management, including a synthesis of analysis tools for quantifying ecosystem improvement and establishing linkage to management efforts. The session welcomes large-scale studies (e.g., Chesapeake Bay, Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico, Yangtze River, Baltic Sea) and small-scale studies that have broader implications. The session will feature ecosystem-specific presentations and a collective discussion on cross-system comparison. Presentations are encouraged to discuss a common set of issues, including primary impairments, management actions, watershed characteristics, restoration progress, and factors responsible for lack of progress.
Primary Convener:  Joel Blomquist, U.S. Geological Survey, Integrated Modeling and Prediction Division, Baltimore, United States
Conveners:  Dr. Qian Zhang, Qian Zhang, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, USEPA Chesapeake Bay Program, Annapolis, United States, Edward Stets, U.S. Geological Survey, Water Mission Area, Mounds View, MN, United States and Nandita B Basu, University of Waterloo, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Dr. Qian Zhang, Qian Zhang, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, USEPA Chesapeake Bay Program, Annapolis, United States
Chairs:  Dr. Qian Zhang, Qian Zhang, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, USEPA Chesapeake Bay Program, Annapolis, United States and Joel Blomquist, U.S. Geological Survey, Integrated Modeling and Prediction Division, Baltimore, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Dr. Qian Zhang, Qian Zhang, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, USEPA Chesapeake Bay Program, Annapolis, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0478 Pollution: urban, regional and global [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1803 Anthropogenic effects [HYDROLOGY]
1879 Watershed [HYDROLOGY]
4251 Marine pollution [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Multiple Mining Impacts Induce Widespread Changes in Ecosystem Dynamics in a Boreal Lake (429517)
Atte Korhola, Jan Weckström and Jaakko Johannes Leppänen, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Implications of alternate stable states on organic matter dynamics in Mid-western reservoirs (387038)
Ruchi Bhattacharya1, John R. R Jones2, Jennifer L Gaham3, Daniel V Obrecht4, Anthony P Thorpe2 and Rebecca L North5, (1)University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States, (2)University of Missouri, School of Natural Resources, Columbia, MO, United States, (3)USGS, Kansas Water Science Center, Lawrence, KS, United States, (4)University of Missouri, School of Natural Resources, Columbia, United States, (5)University of Missouri Columbia, School of Natural Resources, Columbia, MO, United States
Temporal Trends and Spatial Patterns of Nutrient Export along the Mississippi River and its Tributaries (431922)
Bryn Stewart, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, United States and Li Li, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States
Recent trends in nutrient and sediment loading to coastal areas of the conterminous U.S. (2002-2012): Insights and global context (432965)
Gretchen P Oelsner, U.S. Geological Survey, New Mexico Water Science Center, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Edward Stets, U.S. Geological Survey, Water Mission Area, Mounds View, MN, United States
Manure and Fertilizer Inputs to Land in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, 1950-2012 (415022)
Jeni Keisman, U.S. Geological Survey, Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Water Science Center, Baltimore, MD, United States, Olivia H. Devereux, DEC Inc., Rockville, MD, United States, Andrew E. LaMotte, U.S. Geological Survey, Catonsville, MD, United States, Andrew Sekellick, USGS Maryland/Delaware/District of Columbia Water Science Center, Baltimore, MD, United States and Joel Blomquist, U.S. Geological Survey, Integrated Modeling and Prediction Division, Baltimore, United States
Estimated and Observed Water Quality Benefits in Reconnected Floodplains of an Outer Coastal Plain Watershed, Maryland, USA (466550)
Kathleen Bailey Boomer, The Nature Conservancy, Bethesda, MD, United States and Greg Noe
The impact of enhanced cover crop coverage on water quality at three spatial scales. (446930)
Rebecca J Fox1, Anne B Gustafson2, Erika L. Koontz2 and Thomas R Fisher2, (1)Washington College, Environmental Science and Studies, Chestertown, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States
The Eastside Type N Riparian Effectiveness Project (ENREP): A New Interdisciplinary Study to Assess the Effects of Forest Practices in the Interior Pacific Northwest, USA (455096)
Dr. Timothy E Link, PhD, University of Idaho, Water Resources Program, Moscow, ID, United States, Greg Stewart, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, Wenatchee, WA, United States, Bill Ehinger, Washington Dept. of Ecology, Olympia, WA, United States, Mark Teply, Cramer Fish Sciences, Lacey, WA, United States, Charles P Hawkins, Utah State University, Department of Watershed Sciences, Logan, UT, United States and Howard Haemmerle, Washington Dept. of Natural Resources, Olympia, WA, United States
A study of beaked whale’s regional habitat use near the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site through passive acoustics (443924)
Kun Li, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States and Natalia Sidorovskaia, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Department of Physics, Lafayette, LA, United States
Physico-chemical influences on Cladophora blooms in a Natural Stream, Korea (464007)
Yongeun Park, Konkuk University, College of Engineering, Division of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, Jae-Ki Shin, Korea Water Resources Corporation, Daejeon, South Korea and Kyung Hwa Cho, School of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Ulsan National Institute Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, South Korea
Colloidal Metal(loid)s and their Bioaccumulation in Plankton in a Coastal Ecosystem (362847)
Jadran Faganeli1, Katja Klun2, Ingrid Falnoga3, Darja Mazej4 and Nives Kovač1, (1)National Institute of Biology, Marine Biology Station, Piran, Slovenia, (2)National Institute of Biology, Piran, Slovenia, (3)Jozef Stefan Institute, Dept. Environ. Sci., Ljubljana, Slovenia, (4)Jozef Stefan Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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