H098
Stable Isotopes in the Critical Zone: Methods, Applications, and Process Interpretations
Stable Isotopes in the Critical Zone: Methods, Applications, and Process Interpretations
Session ID#: 156932
Session Description:
Stable isotopes are powerful tools for studying the transport and transformation of water, carbon, and nutrients. Their use has enabled new process understanding of the critical zone and the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. Furthermore, new methodological and technological developments have facilitated using stable isotopes to trace system exchanges and feedback processes on many levels from micro-scale processes to region-scale changes. Thus, new opportunities and insights have emerged, supporting increasingly interdisciplinary perspectives on critical-zone processes. This session aims to bridge bio-hydro-geo-eco communities by presenting studies that use stable isotopes to further understanding of the critical zone, as well as studies that advance relevant stable-isotope methods and application techniques. Studies that cross disciplinary boundaries and use novel approaches to improve process understanding are especially welcome. This session also encourages presentations of opinions, perspectives, and syntheses that guide the critical-zone stable-isotope community.
Index Terms:
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0454 Isotopic composition and chemistry [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1875 Vadose zone [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener: Scott T Allen, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, United States
Conveners: Elizabeth Joy Olson, Union College, Geosciences, Schenectady, United States, Natalie Orlowski, University of Freiburg, Hydrology, Freiberg, Germany and Matthias Sprenger, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States
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