H057
Exploring linkages between headwater systems and water availability for downstream human and ecosystem uses in a changing climate
Session ID#: 85456
Session Description:
Worldwide, human communities and ecosystems rely on water from glaciers, snowpack, and groundwater in headwater watersheds often in mountainous areas. Water quantity, quality, and variability from headwater systems to downstream communities are predicted to shift with climate change. New experimental, modeling, and field studies are needed to understand the response, resilience, and sustainability of water resources in a changing climate and to enable stakeholders to optimize future water infrastructure, legislation, and economy. Resilience in these social-ecological systems is complex, involving the impacts of warming trends and precipitation variability on headwater storage systems and the adaptation strategies necessary for long-term water security. This session invites contributions on hydrological processes in headwater systems (e.g., model, field, and laboratory) and their linkages with geochemical and ecological processes, challenges and progress made on coupling knowledge of watershed hydro-climatology and downstream human development in watersheds, surface/subsurface interaction in different bedrock weathering environments, and cross-site comparisons.
Index Terms:
1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1830 Groundwater/surface water interaction [HYDROLOGY]
1834 Human impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1879 Watershed [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener: Jan Boll, Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States
Conveners: Ye Zhang, Univ of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States, Mark C Stone, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Department of Civil Engineering, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Kenneth Hurst Williams, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison: Jan Boll, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
Continental-scale hydraulic gradients (Invited) (489256)
Scott Jasechko, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, Hansjoerg F Seybold, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Debra Perrone, University of California - Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Ying Fan, Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, NJ, United States and James W Kirchner, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Zurich, Switzerland
Adaptive basin management of a headwater system considering socioeconomic factors to increase resilience. A case study of the Laja basin in southern Chile. (Invited) (489639)
Enrique Munoz, Universidad Catolica de la Santisima Concepcion, Concepci�n, Chile, Jose Luis Arumi, Universidad de Concepcion, Chillan, Chile, Jan Boll, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States and Christian Guzman, Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States
Subsurface hydrological connectivity between Laramie Range and mountain front aquifers in southeastern Wyoming (495045)
Ye Zhang, University of Wyoming, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States, Noriaki Ohara, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States and Bradley Carr, University of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States
How Much Do Lowlands Depend on Mountain Water Resources? Global Development from Mid-20th to Mid-21st Century. (496467)
Daniel Viviroli, University of Zurich, Department of Geography, Zurich, Switzerland, Matti Kummu, Aalto University, Water and Development Research Group, Aalto, Finland, Michel Meybeck, University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI, CNRS, Paris, France and Yoshihide Wada, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Snowmelt runoff efficiency mediated through multi-year climatic controls on groundwater recharge in the Wasatch Mountains, Utah, USA. (519430)
Meg Wolf1, Andrew Gelderloos2, Courtenay Strong3, Logan Jamison4, Douglas Kip Solomon1 and Paul D Brooks1, (1)University of Utah, Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Utah, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (4)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States
Aculeo Lake disappearance: What happened? Some lessons for water management under climate change (525391)
Cristian Chadwick1, Pilar Barria2, Jonas Valdivieso2, Raul Diaz-Vasconcellos2, Mauricio Humberto Galleguillos2, David Poblete3, Pablo Vivero2, Anahi Ocampo2 and Eduardo Rubio4, (1)Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservación de la Naturaleza, Santiago, Chile, (2)University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, (3)Universidad de Valparaíso, Escuela de Ingeniería Civil, Valparaíso, Chile, (4)Eridanus LTDA, Ingeniería en Recursos Hídricos, Santiago, Chile
Quantifying the role of vegetation in partitioning “green” and “blue” water fluxes in drought-sensitive lowland headwaters: implications for sustainable and land and water management under climate change. (532577)
Doerthe Tetzlaff1,2, Aaron Smith1, Lukas Kleine3 and Chris Soulsby4, (1)Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany, (2)Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (3)Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany, (4)University of Aberdeen, Northern Rivers Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Contribution of ice and snowmelt to surface water flow and groundwater recharge in the Rocky Mountain region, Colorado, USA. (540052)
Garrett Lee Radzikowski1, Zelalem K Bedaso2 and Umesh K Haritashya1, (1)University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, United States, (2)University of Dayton, Geology, Dayton, OH, United States
The role of snow in the spatial and temporal dynamics of water sources in the Snoqualmie River, WA (558376)
Lillian McGill, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management, Seattle, WA, United States, J Renee Brooks, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Corvallis, Western Ecology Division, Ecological Effects Branch, Corvallis, OR, United States, Ashley Steel, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Statistics, Seattle, WA, United States and Aimee H Fullerton, NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Hydrogeochemical characterization of glacierized volcanic watersheds in the subhumid inner tropics (563849)
Leah Irene Nelson, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth Science, Minneapolis, MN, United States, G. H. Crystal Ng, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Department of Earth Science, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Jeff La Frenierre, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN, United States, Leila Saberi, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Andrew D Wickert, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Morgan Johnstone, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth Science, Minneapolis, United States
Resilience of headwater systems and water availability for downstream human and ecosystem uses across a Transect of the Americas. (566027)
Jan Boll1, Mark C Stone2, Alexander K Fremier1, Julie Padowski3, Marygold Walsh-Dilley4 and Christopher A Scott5, (1)Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States, (2)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Department of Civil Engineering, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)Washington State University, State of Washington Water Research Center, Pullman, WA, United States, (4)University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, United States, (5)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Headwater-Dependent Systems: Definition, Drivers of Change and Potential Futures (591269)
Christopher A Scott1, Alexander K Fremier2, Julie Padowski3, Marygold Walsh-Dilley4, Rolando Célleri5, Jose Luis Arumi6, Ricardo Barra7, Enrique Munoz8, Jan Boll2 and Mark C Stone9, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States, (3)Washington State University, State of Washington Water Research Center, Pullman, WA, United States, (4)University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, United States, (5)Universidad de Cuenca, Departamento de Recursos Hídricos y Ciencias Ambientales & Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Cuenca, Ecuador, (6)Universidad de Concepcion, Chillan, Chile, (7)Universidad de Concepción, Concepcion, Chile, (8)Universidad Catolica de la Santisima Concepcion, Concepci�n, Chile, (9)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Department of Civil Engineering, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Identification, explanation and quantification of the hydrologically important components of an Andean Watershed (608692)
Jasper Oshun1, Margaret Lang2, Kristina Keating3, Wyeth Wunderlich4, Logan Schmidt5, Hunter Murray6, Wilner Bandera Perez7, Rene Pumallayalli Saloma8, Alyssa Virgil9, Edward Davis1, Laurel Smith9 and Nolan Marshall1, (1)Humboldt State University, Geology, Arcata, CA, United States, (2)Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, United States, (3)Rutgers University Newark, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, NJ, United States, (4)Sebastopol, California, United States, (5)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (6)Temple University, Philadelphia, United States, (7)Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Geology, Cusco, Peru, (8)Unu Kamachiq Consulting, Cusco, Peru, (9)Humboldt State University, Environmental Resources Engineering, Arcata, CA, United States
Understanding Hydrologic Connectivity in a Relatively Unmanaged Watershed by Combining Integrated Hydrologic Modeling, Remote Sensing, and Isotope Analyses (608995)
P. James Dennedy-Frank1, Fadji Zaouna Maina1, Ate Visser2 and Erica R Siirila-Woodburn1, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Forest Restoration, Streamflow, and Stakeholder Engagement: Integrating Forest Owner & Manager Input with Hydro-Ecological Simulations (612717)
Ryan Niemeyer, University of California, California, United States, Christina (Naomi) Tague, UC Santa Barbara, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Jennifer C Adam, Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States, William Burke, University of California Santa Barbara, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Andrew B. Perleberg, Washington State University, Pullman, United States and Chris Schnepf, University of Idaho, Moscow, United States
