B008
Advances in Understanding Post-Fire Environmental Impacts in Watersheds
Session ID#: 83811
Session Description:
Fires have increased in frequency in many places around the world, including the Western United States. While much research on fires has been devoted to preventing and tracking fire, a significant knowledge gap remains for how fires impact environmental, ecosystem, and biogeochemical conditions within the watershed. Examples of environmental impacts include water quality and hydrological changes, disruption to ecosystem services, transitions in carbon and nitrogen cycles, shifts in plant communities and foliar nutrient ratios, changes in surface albedo, evapotranspiration, water infiltration and runoff, hydrophobicity of soils, and feedbacks to surface energy fluxes. In this session we invite research examining the impacts of fires (natural, man-made, prescribed) on groundwater, surface water, soils, and the canopy, with particular emphasis in snow-dominated watersheds where fires are expected to increase under future climate conditions and in the wildland-urban interface. We seek contributions using novel statistical, analytical, experimental, field, and modeling techniques, including remote sensing.
Index Terms:
0468 Natural hazards [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0496 Water quality [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener: Michelle E Newcomer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners: Margaret S Torn, Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and E. Natasha Stavros, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Carbon Cycles group, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison: Erin Hestir, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States
Restoring a Natural Fire Regime Alters Streamflow, Snowpack, and Storage in a Sierra Nevada Catchment (489297)
Gabrielle F.S. Boisrame, Desert Research Institute Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States, Sally E Thompson, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, United States, Christina (Naomi) Tague, UC Santa Barbara, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Scott Stephens, University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States and Ekaterina Rakhmatulina, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Partitioning post-forest-fire hydrologic response into climate and catchment components using the Budyko framework (492315)
Tyler B Hampton1 and Nandita B Basu1,2, (1)University of Waterloo, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (2)University of Waterloo, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Fire Effects on Vegetation: Towards a Process Model Linking Fire Behaviour, Plant Traits, and Plant Physiology (492483)
Elizabeth Kleynhans, University of British Columbia, Botany, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Adam L Atchley, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Sean T Michaletz, University of British Columbia, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research Centre, Vancouver, Canada
Streamflow is Resilient to Landscape-Scale Wildfires in the Lower Colorado River Basin (507326)
Joel A Biederman, Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson, AZ, United States, Marcos Robles, The Nature Conservancy, Center for Science and Public Policy, Tucson, AZ, United States and Russell L Scott, USDA-ARS, Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson, AZ, United States
Remobilization of historical mine waste to water supplies after wildfire (Invited) (508430)
Sheila F Murphy1, Richard Blaine McCleskey2, JoAnn M Holloway3, Deborah A Martin1 and Jeffrey H Writer4, (1)USGS, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Water Mission Area, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)USGS, Geology, Geophysics and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Education, Boulder, CO, United States
Hydrological predictors of fire danger: using satellite observations for monthly to seasonal forecasting (Invited) (513382)
John T Reager II, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, E. Natasha Stavros, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Carbon Cycles group, Pasadena, CA, United States and Alireza Farahmand, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Fire-induced Changes in Soil Physicochemical Properties and Infiltration: Assessment Based on Prescribed Burns of Forested Watersheds in the Southeastern U.S (516189)
Morgan Anne Neuendorf1, Abdullah Al Mamun2, Devendra Man Amatya3, Carl Trettin4, Charles Harrison5, Carrington Moore6, Stephen M Moysey2, Brian A Powell2, Larry C Murdoch2 and Christophe J G Darnault7, (1)Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States, (2)Clemson University, Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Clemson, SC, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Newtown Square, PA, United States, (4)USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Cordesville, SC, United States, (5)USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Cordesville, United States, (6)Clemson University, Biosystems Engineering, Clemson, United States, (7)Clemson University, Department of Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Clemson, SC, United States
Evaluating Response of Southern California Chaparral Landscapes to Short-interval Fire and Drought (1984-2018) (520142)
Emanuel Storey, San Diego State University, Department of Geography, San Diego, CA, United States, Douglas A Stow, San Diego State University, Geography, San Diego, CA, United States, Dar A Roberts, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Frank W Davis, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and John O'Leary, San Diego State University, Geography, San Diego, United States
Assessing metal release in the wildland-urban interface of Paradise following the Camp Fire. (538674)
Morgane Desmau1, Julius B Lucks2, Kirsten Jung2, Khalid K Alam2, Jackson Webster3, Sandrine J Matiasek3 and Jean-Francois Gaillard1, (1)Northwestern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Evanston, IL, United States, (2)Northwestern University, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Evanston, United States, (3)California State University Chico, Chico, CA, United States
Forest ecosystem responses to interacting bark beetle and fire disturbance (539342)
Mario Bretfeld1, Andy Parsekian2, John M Frank3, Daniel Beverly4 and Brent E Ewers4, (1)Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (3)U.S. Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)University of Wyoming, Botany, Laramie, WY, United States
Mechanistic Fire Disturbance and Ecosystem Response Model: Cycled fire disturbances in longleaf pine ecosystems (561122)
Adam Lee Atchley1, Elchin E. Jafarov2, Alexandra K Jonko2, Rodman Linn2, Louise E Loudermilk3, Elizabeth Kleynhans4, Sean T Michaletz5, Kevin Heirs6 and Brett Williams7, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)U.S Forest Service, Athens, GA, United States, (4)University of British Columbia, Botany, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (5)University of British Columbia, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research Centre, Vancouver, Canada, (6)Tall Timbers, Tallahassee, United States, (7)US Air Force, Eglin Air Force Base, United States
Wildfires in subarctic Canada have no impact on downstream mercury transport but cause decreased delivery of dissolved carbon and nutrients (593023)
Ryan H.S. Hutchins, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Suzanne Tank, University of Alberta, Biological Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada, David Olefeldt, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, William L Quinton, Wilfrid Laurier University, Geography and Environmental Studies, Waterloo, ON, Canada, Christopher Spence, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Watershed Hydrology and Ecology Research Division, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Nicole Dion, Government of the Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, NT, Canada and Samson G Mengistu, National Research Council c/o US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Cincinnati, OH, United States
An Open-Access Framework to Track Post-fire Shifts in Dominant Plant Functional Type at the Watershed Scale (611491)
Timothy Assal1, Collin Haffey2, Ellis Margolis3 and Craig D Allen3, (1)Kent State University Kent Campus, Kent, OH, United States, (2)The Nature Conservancy, Santa Fe, NM, United States, (3)USGS Jemez Mountains Field Station, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Hydrologic and Soil Mercury Processes After Fire in a Semi-arid Urban Creek (615291)
Quinn Alkin1, Alicia M Kinoshita1, Natalie Mladenov2 and David P Krabbenhoft3, (1)San Diego State University, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, San Diego, CA, United States, (2)San Diego State University, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, San Diego, CA, United States, (3)USGS Upper Midwest Water Science Center, Middleton, WI, United States
Characterizing ecohydrological wildfire feedbacks with satellite-derived evapotranspiration (633511)
Adam J Purdy, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States, Gregory Halverson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, E. Natasha Stavros, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Carbon Cycles group, Pasadena, CA, United States and Joshua Fisher, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
