H12D:
Advancing Catchment Science: Process Understanding and Societal Benefits from Long-Term Observation and Experimentation II


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Session ID#: 63686

Session Description:
Long-term catchment studies are sentinel sites that have proved invaluable for detecting, documenting, and understanding environmental change. The watershed approach fosters hydrological, biogeochemical, and ecological process understanding at a site, while a collective network of catchment observatories offers a broader context to synthesize understanding across a range of climates and geologies. Also, experimental manipulations designed to assess the effects of land management and climate change are more readily interpreted in well-understood systems. Increasingly, scientists need to deliver policy-relevant and management-oriented results with public funds. Multi-catchment comparisons at various temporal and spatial scales provide information needed to manage ecosystems, and to inform hydrological or Earth systems models. In this session, we seek contributions from observatory, long-term, and experimental catchment studies that include analysis of processes and temporal trends. We especially encourage submissions that illustrate the societal relevance of catchment science.
Primary Convener:  Jonathan M Duncan, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, University Park, United States
Conveners:  Suzanne P Anderson, Univ of Colorado, Department of Geological Sciences and Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, Susan L Brantley, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States and Stephen D Sebestyen, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jonathan M Duncan, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, University Park, United States
Chairs:  Jonathan M Duncan, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, University Park, United States and Stephen D Sebestyen, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jonathan M Duncan, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, University Park, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:

1804 Catchment [HYDROLOGY]
1879 Watershed [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
1895 Instruments and techniques: monitoring [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Critical Zone Science Can Put the “earth” in Earth System Models (Invited) (352011)
Ying Fan, Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, United States and William E Dietrich, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States
Agricultural Impacts on Deep Critical Zone Processes in the Midwestern United States (440438)
Ashlee Laura Denton Dere1, Andrew W Miller2, Kasie Knapp1, Sara Parcher1 and Elmer Arthur Bettis III3, (1)University of Nebraska at Omaha, Geography/Geology, Omaha, NE, United States, (2)University of Nebraska at Omaha, Chemistry, Omaha, NE, United States, (3)University of Iowa, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Iowa City, IA, United States
From the Critical Zone to Critical Zones: the human habitats (432020)
Jerome Gaillardet1, Braud Isabelle Braud2 and Fatim Hankard1, (1)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (2)IRSTEA Lyon, Villeurbanne Cedex, France
The scientific and societal value of long-term watershed research. (Invited) (451152)
James B Shanley1, Stephen D Sebestyen2, William H McDowell3, Pavel Kram4 and Filip Oulehle4, (1)United States Geological Survey, New England Water Science Center, Montpelier, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Durham, United States, (4)Czech Geological Survey, Prague, Czech Republic
Combining long-term observations with experiments to test hypotheses on stream water dissolved organic carbon dynamics at the Sleepers River Research Watershed (407615)
Julia N Perdrial1, Malayika M Cincotta2, Jesse Armfield2, Thomas Adler3, James B Shanley4, Kristen Underwood5, Donna M Rizzo6, Hang Wen7, Li Li8, Adrian Harpold9 and Gary Sterle9, (1)University of Vermont, Department of Geography & Geoscience, Burlington, United States, (2)University of Vermont, Burlington, United States, (3)University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States, (4)United States Geological Survey, New England Water Science Center, Montpelier, United States, (5)University of Vermont, Civil & Environmental Engineering; Water Resources Institute, Burlington, United States, (6)University of Vermont, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Burlington, United States, (7)Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, United States, (8)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States, (9)University of Nevada Reno, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States
Linking biogeochemical and geomorphic processes to further our understanding of organic matter dynamics in the critical zone (Invited) (381153)
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, University of California Merced, Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, CA, United States

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