H14E:
New Insights in Stream and Watershed Restoration: Linking Restoration Design, Habitat Conditions, and Ecological Outcomes I


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Session ID#: 62064

Session Description:
Disturbances associated with urbanization, agriculture, and extraction industries are known to profoundly affect the distribution, abundance, and diversity of aquatic organisms (vegetation, macroinvertebrates, or fish). These disturbances affect habitat conditions in the aquatic environment, including geomorphology (channel form, sediment composition and mobility, substrate permeability), hydrology (flow regime, spatial patterns in flow characteristics), and water quality (temperature and dissolved oxygen), complicating efforts for ecosystem restoration.  Successful river and watershed restoration requires identification of the key habitat conditions limiting ecological response and the implementation of appropriate restoration designs.  This session welcomes presentations that link stream and watershed restoration design to habitat conditions and their ecological outcomes. We encourage studies that employ novel approaches to habitat assessment and ecological monitoring, and multi-stressor studies investigating factors driving changes in aquatic communities in degraded stream ecosystems.
Primary Convener:  Rosemary Fanelli, U.S. Geological Survey, South Atlantic Water Science Center, Raleigh, United States
Conveners:  Matthew Joseph Cashman, USGS Maryland/Delaware/District of Columbia Water Science Center, Baltimore, MD, United States, Karen L Prestegaard, Univ Maryland, Department of Geology, College Park, United States and Robert Grabowski, Cranfield University, Water Science Institute, School of Water, Energy, and Environment, Cranfield, MK43, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Matthew Joseph Cashman, USGS Maryland/Delaware/District of Columbia Water Science Center, Baltimore, MD, United States
Chairs:  Rosemary Fanelli, U.S. Geological Survey, South Atlantic Water Science Center, Raleigh, United States and Matthew Joseph Cashman, U.S. Geological Survey, Earth System Processes Division, Baltimore, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Rosemary Fanelli, U.S. Geological Survey, South Atlantic Water Science Center, Raleigh, United States
Co-Organized with:
Hydrology, and Earth and Planetary Surface Processes

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
Index Terms:

0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0481 Restoration [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1825 Geomorphology: fluvial [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Faith-based restoration and the conundrum of “restoring” urban watersheds (Invited) (386952)
Derek B Booth, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States; Stillwater Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States
Designing Functional Rivers with the River Builder R Package. (Invited) (370170)
Gregory B Pasternack, University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States
Interception-Rearing Complexes: An Explicit Experiment in Large-River Restoration to Promote Survival of Larvae of the Endangered Pallid Sturgeon (441480)
Robert B Jacobson1, David Marmorek2, Carl Schwarz3, Brian Ma2, Susannah O. Erwin4, Nathan Gosch5, Todd Gemeinhardt6 and Joseph L. Bonneau7, (1)U. S. Geological Survey, Columbia Environmental Research Center, Columbia, MO, United States, (2)ESSA Technologies Ltd., Vancouver, BC, Canada, (3)Palo Alto, CA, United States, (4)US Geological Survey, Columbia, MO, United States, (5)U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City, MO, United States, (6)US Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City, MO, United States, (7)U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Threatened and Endangered Species Section, Yankton, United States
Environmental trade-offs of stream restoration for managing stormwater and nutrients in urban ecosystems (402393)
Paul M Mayer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Pacific Ecological Systems Division, Ecological Effects Branch, Corvallis, United States, Shuiwang Duan, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Sujay Kaushal, University of Maryland, Department of Geology and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, United States, Barret Wessel, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States and Thomas Johnson, U.S. EPA, ORD, Washington, DC, United States
THERMAL HABITAT RESTORATION IN URBAN AREAS: HOW SPECIFIC THERMAL DRIVERS CAN OFFSET THE RESTORATION OUTCOMES. (430035)
Valerie Ouellet1, Anne Timm2, Danny Croghan1, Anne Van Loon3 and Prof. David M. Hannah, PhD4, (1)University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom, (2)USDA Forest Service, 5523 Research Park Drive, Suite 350, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Water and Climate Risk, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (4)University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Using Taxonomic and Functional Trait-Based Approaches to Investigate the Effect of Large Wood-Induced Hydro-Geomorphological Processes on River Invertebrates to Inform River Restoration Design (408621)
Chiara Magliozzi1, Robert Grabowski2, Anne Robertson3, Albin Meyer4 and Philippe Usseglio-Polatera4, (1)Cranfield University, Water Science Institute, School of Water, Energy, and Environment, Cranfield, MK43, United Kingdom, (2)Cranfield University, Water Science Institute, School of Water, Energy, and Environment, Cranfield, MK43, United Kingdom, (3)University of Roehampton, Centre for Research in Ecology, London, United Kingdom, (4)Université de Lorraine, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environments Continentaux, Metz, France
Restoring Riffle-pool Structure in an Incised, Straightened Urban Stream Channel Using an Ecohydraulic-based Mesohabitat Design Approach (421508)
John S Schwartz, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States and Brian Alford, University of Tennessee, Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries, Knoxville, TN, United States

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