C21A:
Changing Cold Regions Hydrology and Hydrogeology I Posters

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Session ID#: 22455

Session Description:
Frozen ground, which underlies half of the exposed land surface in the Northern Hemisphere, is found extensively at high latitudes and intermittently at high elevations at lower latitudes. In these cold regions, frozen ground exerts a primary control on the timing and distribution of surface and subsurface water flow and storage. As global air temperatures increase, frozen ground is expected to degrade, altering hydrologic conditions through changes in soil moisture, groundwater-surface water interactions, streamflow seasonality, and surface water body connectivity. This session welcomes studies across the disciplines of hydrology, global environmental change, and the cryosphere that explore ongoing changes to the hydrology and hydrogeology of cold regions. These include, but are not limited to, studies that utilize field observations, remote sensing datasets, geophysical techniques, and numerical modeling. We particularly encourage presentations that highlight cold region groundwater-surface water interactions as well as hydrologic and ecologic consequences of frozen ground thaw.
Primary Convener:  Sarah G Evans, Appalachian State University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Boone, NC, United States
Conveners:  Barret Kurylyk, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Michelle A Walvoord, U. S. Geological Survey, Earth System Processes Division, Denver, QC, Canada and Elchin E. Jafarov, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Chairs:  Sarah G Evans, Appalachian State University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Boone, NC, United States, Michelle A Walvoord, U. S. Geological Survey, Earth System Processes Division, Denver, QC, Canada and Barret Kurylyk, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
OSPA Liaison:  Sarah G Evans, Appalachian State University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Boone, NC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0702 Permafrost [CRYOSPHERE]
1621 Cryospheric change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1875 Vadose zone [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Modeling drivers of discontinuous permafrost on a hillslope transect using climatological data from Nome, Alaska (221543)
Elchin E Jafarov1, Ethan Coon2, Dylan R Harp3, Cathy Jean Wilson3, Scott L Painter2 and Adam Lee Atchley3, (1)Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Evaluating repeated temperature-depth observations to assess the fate of warm discontinuous permafrost in the hydrogeologically active source area of the Yellow River, China (261943)
Victor Bense1, ACE Neefjes1, H. Jin2 and S. Yu2, (1)Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen, Netherlands, (2)CAREERI/CAS Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Lanzhou, China
Simulation on Permafrost and Shallow Groundwater Evolution in Different Climate in the Source Area of the Yellow River, NE QTP, China (266269)
Shuhui Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soils Engineering, Beijing, China, Huijun Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Frozen, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute Soil Engineering, Beijing, China; School of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China and Lanzhi Lv, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soils Engineering, Lanzhou, China
Progress in studies on hydrological impacts of degrading permafrost in the Source Area of Yellow River on NE Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, SW China (253934)
Huijun Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soils Engineering, Beijing, China, Qiang Ma, CAS Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijng, China and Xiaoying Jin, Northeast Forestry University, School of Ecology, Harbin, China
Simulating the combined heat transfer and water balance at and below the land surface with GSSHA model (268322)
Anna M Wagner, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), Fort Wainwright, AK, United States, Nawa Raj Pradhan, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Hydrologic Systems Branch, Vicksburg, United States, Charles W Downer, Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Hydrologic Systems Branch, Vicksburg, MS, United States, Daniel Gambill, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Champaign, IL, United States and Mark Wahl, Engineer Research and Development Center Vicksburg, Coastal and Hydrualic Laboratory, Hydrologic Systems Branch, Vicksburg, MS, United States
Modeling snowmelt infiltration in seasonally frozen ground (278493)
Sujata Budhathoki and Andrew M Ireson, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Accommodating permafrost in contaminant transport modeling, a preliminary approach to modify the TREECS modeling tools (278647)
Jodi L Ryder, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Environmental Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, United States, Mark S Dortch, Under contract to LimnoTech, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, which was under contract to the Environmental Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS, United States and Billy E. Johnson, US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Environmental Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, United States
Coupling of snow and permafrost processes using the Basic Modeling Interface (BMI) (296648)
Kang Wang, University of Colorado, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Irina Overeem, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Earth Science, Boulder, United States, Elchin E Jafarov, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, Mark Piper, University of Colorado Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Scott Stewart, Exploratory Thinking, Longmont, CO, United States, Gary D Clow, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States and Kevin M Schaefer, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A, Boulder, United States
A Mixed-dimensional Model for Determining the Impact of Permafrost Polygonal Ground Degradation on Arctic Hydrology. (Invited) (275962)
Ethan Coon1, Ahmad Jan Khattak2, Scott L Painter1, John D Moulton3 and Cathy Jean Wilson4, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Watershed Systems Modeling Group, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Hydrogeological Characterization of the Upper Camp Bird III Rock Glacier in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado Using Electromagnetic Induction (285977)
Raquel Granados-Aguilar1, John R Giardino1, Mark Edward Everett1, Potpreecha Pondthai1, Cameron E. Ramsey1, Dennis Mmasa1, Maximilian Witek1 and Rodrigo Rodriguez2, (1)Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (2)University of Guanajuato, Leon, Mexico
Effects of Accelerated Deglaciation on Chemical Characteristics of Sub-arctic Lakes and Rivers in South and West Iceland (216892)
Madaline Ritter, Dickinson College, Environmental Studies, Carlisle, PA, United States, Kristin Strock, Dickinson College, Environmental Science, Carlisle, PA, United States and Benjamin R Edwards, Dickinson College, Department of Geosciences, Carlisle, PA, United States
Soil Variable Permeability and Water Phase Change Dynamics in a Wastewater Spray Irrigation Agricultural System Located in a Seasonably Cold Climate (226464)
Timothy John Daniel1, Grace Billy2, Isaac Hopkins2, Li Guo3, Zewen Jin4, Heather E Gall4, Henry Lin2 and Christophe J G Darnault5, (1)Clemson University, Environmental Engineering and Earth Science, Clemson, SC, United States, (2)Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, (3)College of Water Resource and Hydropower, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, (4)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (5)Clemson University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Clemson, United States
Permafrost degradation in high-latitude regions in recent decades (257629)
Jing Tao1, Randal D Koster2, Rolf H Reichle3, Barton A Forman4 and Yuan Xue4, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard SFC, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
Quantifying the Interactions Between Soil Thermal Characteristics, Soil Physical Properties, Hydro-geomorphological Conditions and Vegetation Distribution in an Arctic Watershed (258261)
Emmanuel Leger1, Baptiste Dafflon1, Yves Robert1, Craig Ulrich1, John E Peterson2, Florian Soom3, Sebastien Biraud1, Anh Phuong Tran1 and Susan S. Hubbard4, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
The Effects of Different Scales of Topographic Variation on Shallow Groundwater Flow in an Arctic Watershed (282387)
Kindra Diane Nicholaides, University of Texas at Austin, Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States, Michael O'Connor, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, M Bayani Cardenas, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, Bethany T Neilson, Utah State University, Utah Water Research Laboratory, Logan, United States and George W Kling, University of Michigan, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Identification of a dynamic temperature threshold for soil moisture freeze/thaw (F/T) state classification using soil real dielectric constant derivatives. (288131)
Renato Pardo1, Aaron A Berg2 and Jon Steven Warland1, (1)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)University of Guelph, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, Guelph, ON, Canada
Factors Impacting Spatial Patterns of Snow Distribution in a Small Catchment near Nome, AK (288508)
Min Chen1, Cathy Jean Wilson1, Lauren Charsley-Groffman1, Robert Busey2 and Bob Bolton2, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, United States
Understanding the Relative Importance of Vertical and Horizontal Flow in Ice-Wedge Polygon Landscapes Using Tracers (275051)
Nathan A Wales, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Brent D Newman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, United States, Cathy Jean Wilson, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Baptiste Dafflon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Florian Soom, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, United States, Stan Wullschleger, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, United States and Jesus D Gomez-Velez, New Mexico Tech, Earth & Environmental Science, Socorro, United States
Near-Surface Profiles of Water Stable Isotope Components and Indicated Transitional History of Ice-Wedge Polygons Near Barrow (293804)
Dr. Go Iwahana, PhD, University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Cathy Jean Wilson, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Brent D Newman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, United States, Jeffrey M Heikoop, LANL, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Robert Busey, University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, United States
Evaluating permafrost thaw vulnerabilities and hydrologic impacts in boreal Alaska (USA) watersheds using field data and cryohydrogeologic modeling (221862)
Michelle A Walvoord, U.S. Geological Survey, Earth System Processes Division, Water Resources Mission Area, Lakewood, United States, Cliff Voss, USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Brian A Ebel, USGS, Earth System Processes Division, Water Mission Area, Denver, United States and Burke J Minsley, U.S. Geological Survey, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, United States

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