EP14A:
Modeling the Critical Zone: Integrating Processes and Data Across Disciplines and Scales II


Submit an Abstract to this Session


Session ID#: 61814

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 and Harry Vereecken, Geoverbund ABC/J, Centre for High-Performance Scientific Computing in Terrestrial Systems (TerrSys), Jülich, Germany
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 critical zone approach to solving the stream discharge problem in vulnerable tropical glacierized watersheds (Invited) (371583)
Gene-Hua Crystal Ng1, Leila Saberi2, Jeff La Frenierre3, Andrew D Wickert4, Li Li5, Daniel Stanton6, Bobby Schulz7 and Leah Nelson2, (1)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (2)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, United States, (3)Gustavus Adolphus College, Department of Geography, Saint Peter, MN, United States, (4)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (5)Pennsylvania State University, University Park, United States, (6)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (7)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, United States
Combining Hydrological Modeling (NIM) and Hydrogeochemical Modeling (KIRMAT) to Capture the Variability of Water Chemistry in an Elementary Watershed (Strengbach, France). (429823)
Julien Ackerer1, Benjamin Jeannot2, Sylvain Weill2, Yann Lucas3, Daniel Viville3, Francois Chabaux3 and Fred Delay2, (1)LHyGeS Laboratoire d'Hydrologie et de Géochimie de Strasbourg, Strasbourg Cedex, France, (2)Lhyges, Strasbourg, France, (3)LHyGeS-UMR7517, EOST, INSU/CNRS, Strasbourg, France
Lateral flow and bedrock weathering in hillslopes: a simple steady-state model of how stream incision rates might control subsurface relief, porosity and permeability (456025)
Ciaran J Harman1, Minseok Kim2 and Cassandra Cosans1, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)Pusan National University, Civil Engineering, Busan, South Korea
Reactive transport modeling of the oxalate-carbonate pathway to assess carbon sequestration by the Iroko tree (418299)
Hannah Gatz-Miller, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Frédéric Gérard, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Montpellier, France, Eric P Verrecchia, University of Lausanne, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, Lausanne, Switzerland and Ulrich K. Mayer, University of British Columbia, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada
The Challenges of Soil Biogeochemistry Mechanistic Modeling – A Reality Check (Invited) (382895)
Simone Fatichi, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Stefano Manzoni, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, Dani Or, ETH Zurich, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Zürich, Switzerland and Athanasios Paschalis, Imperial College London, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, United Kingdom
Forecasting effects of climate and land use on terrestrial water dynamics, soil development, and biogeochemical cycling (393150)
Pamela L Sullivan, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States, Sharon A Billings, University of Kansas, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Kansas Biological Survey and Center for Ecological Research, Lawrence, KS, United States, Daniel Hirmas, Texas Tech University, Department of Plant and Soil Science, Lubbock, TX, United States, Alejandro N Flores, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, Matthew G Sena, University of Kansas, Lawrence, United States, Ligia Souza, University of Kansas, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Kansas Biological Survey and Center for Ecological Research, Lawrence, United States and Li Li, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States
Watershed-Scale Rock Property Responses to Regional Thermal Gradients: Implications for Integrating Critical Zone Processes (452526)
Rania Eldam Pommer, Colorado School of Mines, Geology, Golden, CO, United States and Alexis Navarre-Sitchler, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geology & Geological Engineering, Hydrologic Science & Engineering, Golden, United States
The controls of present-day topographic stress on subsurface bedrock fracture openness in Forsmark, Sweden (419795)
Seulgi Moon1, J Taylor Perron2, Stephen J Martel3, Brad Goodfellow4, Diego Mas Ivars5, Assen Simeonov5, Raymond Munier6 and Jens-Ove Naslund5, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (3)Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)Lund University, Department of Geology, Lund, Sweden, (5)SKB Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management, Stockholm, Sweden, (6)SKB Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste, Stockholm, Sweden

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