H21C:
Frontiers in Surface Water Quality Measurements, Modeling, and Management I


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Session ID#: 62268

Session Description:
Surface water quality is shaped by the complex interplay among climatic, land use/cover, hydrological, and ecological drivers. Subject to process complexity and uncertainty, available water quality data and models are often inadequate to accurately and robustly predict water quality and ecosystem health at variable time and space scales. In the face of climatic variability and environmental changes, we also need to fill knowledge-gaps to better understand and manage changes in water quality. This session welcomes basic and applied research contributions on water quality in both coastal and inland waters. We encourage abstracts that feature new methods of data collection and analysis, modeling and predictions, and engineering and management of water quality across a wide range of time, space, and process scales. We aim to bring together hydrologists, ecologists, biogeochemists, geomorphologists, engineers, and social scientists to report on and discuss frontier activities in surface water quality measurements, modeling, and management.
Primary Convener:  Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, West Virginia University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Morgantown, WV, United States
Convener:  Douglas A Burns, USGS, Troy, United States
Primary Liaison:  Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, West Virginia University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Morgantown, WV, United States
Chairs:  Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, West Virginia University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Morgantown, WV, United States and Douglas A Burns, USGS, Troy, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, West Virginia University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Morgantown, WV, United States
Co-Organized with:
Hydrology, and Biogeosciences

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • GH - GeoHealth

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

0232 Impacts of climate change: ecosystem health [GEOHEALTH]
0434 Data sets [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1871 Surface water quality [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Metabolic Scaling of River Networks (418325)
Wilfred M Wollheim1, William B Bowden2, Tamara Harms3, Ashley M Helton4, Lauren Koenig4, Andrew Robison5 and NSF Macrosystems Biology SCALER Project Team, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, Burlington, VT, United States, (3)University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)University of Connecticut, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Storrs, CT, United States, (5)University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Longitudinal water chemistry of the upper Colorado River (391086)
Robert Thomas Hensley, National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, United States, Margaret Spangler, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Michael N Gooseff, University of Colorado Boulder, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States, Matthew J Cohen, University of Florida, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Gainesville, Florida, United States, Lauren DeVito, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Talley Cain, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States and Paul Decker, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, FL, United States
How Does Natural Infrastructure Mediate Water Quality and Quantity Across Large River Basins? Insights from "Big" Data and Modeling (414715)
Heather E Golden1, Adnan Rajib2, Samson G Mengistu3, Charles R. Lane4, Ellen D'Amico5 and Amy G Prues5, (1)US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research & Development, Cincinnati, United States, (2)ORISE Fellow at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH, United States, (3)National Research Council c/o US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Cincinnati, OH, United States, (4)US Environmental Protection Agency, Athens, United States, (5)Pegasus Technical Services, Cincinnati, OH, United States
Expanding the EPA Storm Water Management Model (SWMM5) API for Tracking Contamination in Urban Environments (369687)
Katherine M Ratliff, ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, Bryant McDonnell, EmNet, South Bend, IN, United States, Michael Tryby, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH, United States and Anne Mikelonis, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Homeland Security Research Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States
A Novel Multi-Species Physiology-Based Toxicokinetic Modelling Approach in Support of Ecological Risk Assessment (461901)
Markus Brinkmann1, Annika Mangold-Döring2,3, Chelsea Grimard2, Derek Green2, Natacha Hogan2, Lynn Weber2, Henner Hollert3 and Markus Hecker2, (1)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (2)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, (3)RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Climate-related Variability in Streamwater Solute Concentrations and Fluxes in a Small Forested Watershed in the Southeastern United States (356401)
Brent T Aulenbach, USGS South Atlantic Water Science Center, Norcross, GA, United States
The Responses of Stream Ecosystems to Future Scenarios of Atmospheric Deposition Derived from Changing Land-use-related Emission and Projected Future Meteorological Conditions (410256)
Shuai Shao, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States, Charles T Driscoll, Syracuse University, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Syracuse, NY, United States, Huizhong Shen, Southern University of Science and Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China, Yilin Chen, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, United States and Armistead G Russell, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, United States
Water Quality Modeling-Based Approach for Efficient and Direct Source Apportionment at the Watershed Scale (366636)
Yong Liu, Rui Zou, Han Su and Qingsong Jiang, Peking University, Beijing, China

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