EP41A:
Ecohydraulics: Flow–Biota and Sediment–Biota Interactions I


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Session ID#: 61741

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 rapidly changing climate, resulting in 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 and riparian vegetation, 2) Organism-Habitat interaction, 3) Biota as ecosystem engineers, 4) Effects of flow-biota interactions on nutrient and pollutant transport. We encourage submissions addressing the challenge of transferring information across scales, from stem-scale to landscape scale, 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:  Judy Qingjun Yang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, Simona Francalanci, University of Florence, Dept. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florence, Italy and Heide Friedrich, University of Auckland, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Auckland, New Zealand
Primary Liaison:  Rafael O Tinoco, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States
Chairs:  Rafael O Tinoco, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States and Judy Qingjun Yang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Judy Qingjun Yang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
Index Terms:

0498 General or miscellaneous [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1894 Instruments and techniques: modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1895 Instruments and techniques: monitoring [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Impacts of Plant Deformation on Particle Transport in Turbulent Canopy Flows (386613)
Ying Pan1, Marcelo Chamecki2, Heidi Margaret Nepf3 and Scott A Isard1, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)MIT, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, United States
The Influence of Flexural Rigidity on Wave-induced Hydrodynamics within Aquatic Vegetation Canopies (430935)
Robert C Houseago1, Dominic Alexander van der A2, Stuart McLelland3, Tom O'Donoghue2 and Daniel R Parsons4, (1)University of Hull, School of Environmental Sciences, Hull, United Kingdom, (2)University of Aberdeen, School of Engineering, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (3)University of Hull, Energy and Environment Institute, Hull, United Kingdom, (4)University of Hull, Energy & Environment Institute, Hull, United Kingdom
Establishment and growth of dynamic saltmarsh affecting highly dynamic estuarine bar morphology (404197)
Muriel Zazie Madeleine Brückner1, Christian Schwarz2, Mijke van Oorschot3, Wout Matthijs van Dijk4 and Maarten G Kleinhans4, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (3)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, (4)Utrecht University, Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands
Bed Sediment Bio-Stabilization in Shallow Tidal Environments: the Effect of Microphytobenthos (442499)
Mattia Pivato, University of Padova, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Padova, Italy, Luca Carniello, University of Padua, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Padua, Italy, Paolo D'Odorico, University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States and Isabella Moro, University of Padova, Biology, Padova, Italy
Functional habitat dependence on ecohydraulics and life-cycle specific hydrogeomorphic processes (416192)
Jason Wiener, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Gregory B Pasternack, University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States
Laboratory Experiments to Evaluate Hydraulic Factors Mediating Dispersal of an Endangered Sturgeon (438001)
Susannah O. Erwin1, Kimberly Chojnacki2, Jeffrey DG Marr3, Maura O'Brien4, Jessica L Kozarek5 and Aaron J. DeLonay2, (1)US Geological Survey, Columbia, MO, United States, (2)U. S. Geological Survey, Columbia Environmental Research Center, Columbia, MO, United States, (3)St Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, United States, (4)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (5)University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States

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