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Session Proposal: Landscape Biophysical Interactions: Hydrodynamics, Sedimentary Processes, and Morphodynamics (AGU25)

EP023
Landscape Biophysical Interactions: Hydrodynamics, Sedimentary Processes, and Morphodynamics

Session ID#: 251149

Session Description:
Biophysical interactions between hydro-morphodynamic, biological, and ecological processes shape riverine, estuarine, and near-shore coastal landscapes. Organisms within the water column and the substrate can affect flow, sediment transport, and geomorphology at various scales. This session welcomes scientific advances in biogeomorphic interactions across environments. Areas of interest may include sediment-vegetation-faunal interactions and their effects on flow, sediment transport, mixing, and carbon sequestration. Research topics may include biophysical responses to human impacts, extreme events, climate change, and management practices aimed at improving ecosystem resilience. We encourage the participation of studies that include aquatic vegetation, microbial mats, algae, oyster and coral reefs, fish, and micro- and macrofauna. This session covers a wide range of freshwater to near-shore marine settings, including steep and low-relief streams, estuaries, deltas, barrier islands, coastal lagoons, marshes, mangroves, seagrasses, and reefs. We welcome contributions connecting ecological and physical processes using field, laboratory, remote sensing, theoretical, statistical, and numerical methods.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0408 Benthic processes [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0442 Estuarine and nearshore processes [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0497 Wetlands [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
3022 Marine sediments: processes and transport [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
Primary Convener:  Jorge Emilio San Juan, North Carolina State University, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Raleigh, United States
Conveners:  Muriel Zazie Madeleine Brückner, Louisiana State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Dr. Pallav Ranjan, University of California San Diego, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, La Jolla, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Caitlin Turner, Louisiana State University, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
 
Vegetation Characteristics Drive Morphodynamic Change and Carbon Storage Potential in Coastal Marshes (1854054)
Kendall Fontenot, University of Washington Seattle, Seattle, WA, UNITED STATES, Kendall Valentine, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States, Madeline Foster-Martinez, University of New Orleans, Earth and Environmental Sciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering, New Orleans, LA, United States and Marley Allen, University of New Orleans, Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, United States
 
Reconstructing the morphodynamic trajectory of the Wax Lake Delta: How important is vegetation? (Invited) (1864943)
Giulio Mariotti, Louisiana State University, Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
 
Wood dynamics and biophysical response in mountain streams following extreme precipitation (Invited) (1873647)
Anna E Marshall1, Bradley Gordon Johnson2, Ella Saunders1, Graham Ponder2, Neve Rauscher2 and Torin Linton2, (1)University of Tennessee, Geography & Sustainability, Knoxville, United States, (2)Davidson College, Environmental Studies, Davidson, United States
 
Immediate Hydrodynamic Impacts of an Engineered Oyster Reef: Flow Attenuation and Turbulence Dynamics (1878162)
Manisha Thenuwara1, Kelly Maren Kibler1, Peter Vein2, Jyotismita Taye3 and Namritha Ramakrishnan1, (1)University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, Orlando, United States, (2)University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental, & Construction Engineering, Orlando, United States, (3)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
 
HYDRODYNAMIC FLOW-FOCUSED DATA ANALYSIS: PCA CONSTRUCTION FOR LAKE SEMINOLE (1880408)
Sydney Crisanti1, Amanda Tritinger2, Danielle Tarpley2, Peter Tereszkiewicz3, Luca Cortese4 and Noah P Snyder5, (1)University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, United States, (2)U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, United States, (3)University of West Florida, Pensacola, United States, (4)Boston University, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston, United States, (5)Boston College, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chestnut Hill, United States
 
A Unified Framework for Bed Shear Stress and Bottom Boundary Layer Thickness for Bare and Vegetated Beds (1882050)
Bingrun LIU, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China and Heidi Margaret Nepf, MIT, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, United States
 
Cliff Erosion Observations and Modelling at the Wierum Salt Marsh in the Dutch Wadden Sea: The Importance of Local Water Levels and Site-Specific Calibration (1907066)
Sarah Dzimballa1, Vasileios Kitsikoudis2, Pim Willemsen3, Eelke Folmer4, Bas Borsje5, Ioannis Y Georgiou6, Martijn Bregman7 and Denie CM Augustijn2, (1)University of Twente, Water Engineering and Management, Enschede, 7500, Netherlands, (2)University of Twente, Marine and Fluvial Systems, Department of Civil Engineering and Management, Enschede, Netherlands, (3)Wageningen University & Research, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen, Netherlands, (4)Lumax Ecological Analytics, Lemmer, Netherlands, (5)University of Twente, Marine and Fluvial Systems, Faculty of Engineering Technology, Enschede, Netherlands, (6)The Water Institute, New Orleans, United States, (7)The Water Institute, Baton Rouge, United States
 
Biogeomorphological Response of a Tidal Marsh to Salinity-Induced Vegetation Shifts (1907548)
Jesse Bootsma1, Bas Borsje1, Daphne Van der Wal2,3 and Suzanne J. M. H. Hulscher1, (1)University of Twente, Marine and Fluvial Systems, Faculty of Engineering Technology, Enschede, Netherlands, (2)University of Twente, Water Resources, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Enschede, Netherlands, (3)Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, Yerseke, Netherlands
 
An Open-Source Model for Dynamic Coupling of Vegetation Processes and Hydro-Morphodynamics in Coastal Environments (1933653)
Nelson Tull, Louisiana State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Baton Rouge, United States and Muriel Zazie Madeleine Brückner, Louisiana State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
 
The Biophysical Foundations of Tidal Marshes: A Focus on Soil-Root Interactions (1944431)
Claudia Zoccarato1, Holly A Michael2, Anna Roat3, Christopher L. Meehan4, Pietro Teatini5, Christian Schwarz6 and Siamak Yoosefi Sigari4, (1)University of Padua, Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Padua, Italy, (2)University of Delaware, Earth Sciences, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Newark, DE, United States, (3)University of Delaware, Earth Sciences, Newark, United States, (4)University of Delaware, Department of Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Newark, United States, (5)University of Padova, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Padova, Italy, (6)KU Leuven, Department of Civil Engineering, Leuven, Belgium
 
Simulating live wetlands: Biogeochemistry + Biophysical (1953451)
Yiyang Xu and Cristina Schultz, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States
 
Coupled Modeling of Hydrodynamic and Biogeochemical Responses within the Mississippi Sound and Bight to the 2019 Bonnet Carré Spillway Openings (1964949)
Hameed Ajibade, University of Southern Mississippi, Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, United States, Ardian Rizal, University of Southern Mississippi, Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Brandy Armstrong, University of Southern Mississippi, School of Ocean Science and Engineering, Stennis Space Center, United States, Sandeep Kalathupurath Kuttan, University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, United States, Mustafa Kemal Cambazoglu, The University of Southern Mississippi, School of Ocean Science and Engineering, Stennis Space Center, United States and Jeremy David Wiggert, The University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, United States
 
Morphologic Evolution and Environmental Controls on Lateral Growth in Natural Intertidal Oyster Reefs (1970548)
Eve R. Eisemann, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute of Marine Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Antonio B Rodriguez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Joel Fodrie, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute of Marine Sciences, Chapel Hill, United States
 
Relationship Between Vegetation and Belowground Biomass Across Nine Louisiana Coastal Basins (1975695)
Marley Allen, The University of New Orleans, New Olreans, United States
 
Water Salinity Impacts Aggregation, Settling, and Deposition of Fluvial sediment: Potential Implications for Wetland Restoration (1982579)
Philip Brahana, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Bhuvnesh Bharti, Louisiana State University, Cain Department of Chemical Engineering, Baton Rouge, United States
 
Investigating Water Quality, Sediment, and Location Preferences of Oyster Drill (Stramomita haemastoma complex) Populations within the Grand Bay NERR Estuary (1983725)
Coen McGarrah, University of South Florida Tampa, Tampa, FL, United States and Jennifer DeBose, Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve and Mississippi State University, Coastal Research Extension Center, Moss Point, United States
 
The Impact of Large-amplitude Interannual Variation in Fluvial Inputs on the Coastal Hydrodynamics that Govern Shellfishery Viability within Mississippi Sound (1984214)
Jeremy David Wiggert1, Ardian Rizal2, Hameed Ajibade3, Marc Diard4, Nicholas Gagliano4, Brandy Armstrong5, Mustafa Kemal Cambazoglu6 and Sandeep K K7, (1)University of Southern Mississippi, Department of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (2)University of Southern Mississippi, Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (3)University of Southern Mississippi, Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, United States, (4)University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, United States, (5)University of Southern Mississippi, School of Ocean Science and Engineering, Stennis Space Center, United States, (6)The University of Southern Mississippi, School of Ocean Science and Engineering, Stennis Space Center, United States, (7)Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India
 
Hydrodynamic and inundation characteristics in deltas under varying streamflow conditions and their implications for vegetation establishment (1988348)
Vindhyawasini Prasad, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Muriel Zazie Madeleine Brückner, Louisiana State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
 
WATER QUALITY-FOCUSED DATA ANALYSIS: PCA CONSTRUCTION (1994951)
Sydney Crisanti1, Amanda Tritinger2, Danielle Tarpley2, Peter Tereszkiewicz3, Luca Cortese4 and Noah P Snyder5, (1)University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, United States, (2)U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, United States, (3)University of West Florida, Pensacola, United States, (4)Boston University, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston, United States, (5)Boston College, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chestnut Hill, United States
 
Monitoring the Environmental Impacts of Invasive Aquatic Vegetation: A Holistic Methodology (1996569)
Peter Tereszkiewicz1, Danielle Tarpley2, Amanda Tritinger2, Sydney Crisanti2, Kelsey Fall3 and Taylor Cagle4, (1)US Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, United States, (2)U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, United States, (3)University of Delaware, Newark, United States, (4)Natural Systems Design, Seattle, United States
 
LAKE SEMINOLE, GEORGIA, GENERAL FINDINGS: DATA ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF VEGETATION ON HYDRODYNAMICS (1998151)
Danielle Tarpley1, Peter Tereszkiewicz2, Sydney Crisanti3, Amanda Tritinger3, Luca Cortese4, Noah P Snyder5 and Peter Tereszkiewicz, (1)US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, United States, (2)US Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, United States, (3)U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, United States, (4)Boston University, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston, United States, (5)Boston College, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chestnut Hill, United States