H123
Water Quality and Watersheds: From Scientific Innovations to Actions
Session ID#: 157160
Session Description:
Hydrologists, biogeochemists, ecologists, and watershed scientists continue to push the envelope within and across their disciplines, generating innovative hydrological and water quality science (e.g., related to nutrients and emerging contaminants) using novel measurement and modeling approaches. Recent advances in in-situ sensor and remote sensing technologies, for example, are generating “big” environmental data with unprecedented temporal resolution and spatial coverage. Access to these data streams has catalyzed considerable strides in scientific understanding and modeling capabilities. However, converting scientific information to real-world action that contributes to improved on-the-ground environmental and water quality management, and fulfills broader impacts of federally funded scientific research, remains a challenge. In this session, we encourage presentations that highlight research at varying stages that aims to apply novel measurements, models, and scientific innovations in hydrology and water quality to real world management solutions across multi-scale watersheds.
Index Terms:
0470 Nutrients and nutrient cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1831 Groundwater quality [HYDROLOGY]
1871 Surface water quality [HYDROLOGY]
1879 Watershed [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener: Heather E Golden, US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research & Development, Cincinnati, United States
Conveners: Allison Rhea, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, Jonathan M Duncan, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Ecosystem Science and Management, University Park, PA, United States and Tim P Covino, Montana State University, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Bozeman, United States
Coupling fast and slow data to understand the role of regulated water releases on downstream water quality (Invited) (1042940)
Natalie Nelson, North Carolina State University, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Raleigh, United States, Natalie Von Tress, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Raleigh, NC, United States, Lise Montefiore, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, Eric C. Milbrandt, Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, Sanibel, FL, United States, Edward J Phlips, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Elise S Morrison, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, United States and David A Kaplan, University of Florida, Environmental Engineering Sciences, Gainesville, United States
Hydrologic connectivity: a management frontier for water quality conservation (Invited) (1043554)
Admin Husic, University of Kansas, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Lawrence, KS, United States, Amirreza Zarnaghsh, University of Kansas, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Lawrence, KS, United States, Isaac McVey, University of Kansas, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States, Abigal Percich, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States and Alexander Michalek, University of Iowa, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Iowa City, IA, United States
Nutrient limitation of phytoplankton in three tributaries of Chesapeake Bay: Detecting ecosystem recovery following nutrient reductions (1053439)
Qian Zhang1, Thomas R Fisher2, Claire Buchanan3, Anne B Gustafson2, Renee Karrh4, Rebecca R Murphy1, Jeremy M Testa5, Richard Tian1 and Peter J Tango6, (1)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, USEPA Chesapeake Bay Program, Annapolis, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States, (3)Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, Rockville, MD, United States, (4)Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Annapolis, MD, United States, (5)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD, United States, (6)U.S. Geological Survey, USEPA Chesapeake Bay Program, Annapolis, MD, United States
An Exploration of Nutrient Management Case Studies to Assess the Impacts of BMPs (1068456)
Abbey Johnson1, Saurav Kumar1, Phoebe Aron2, Isabel Uribe3, Santosh S Palmate3 and William Joshua Weiss4, (1)Texas A&M University, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, El Paso, TX, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)Texas A&M AgriLife Research, El Paso, United States, (4)Hazen and Sawyer, P.C., Baltimore, MD, United States
Using Sensor Real-time Feedback Control to Improve Nitrate Removal from Agricultural Drainage in Woodchip Bioreactors (1083413)
Zihao Zhang1, Sofia Echavarria1, Yi Sang2, Scott Steinschneider2, Nils Napp2 and Matthew Charles Reid2, (1)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
Catalyzing bottom-up solutions to environmental grand challenges through transdisciplinary research: application to the freshwater salinization syndrome (1100656)
Stanley Baugh Grant, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Megan Rippy, Virginia Tech, Manassas, VA, United States, Thomas A Birkland, North Carolina State University Raleigh, School of Public and International Affairs, Raleigh, NC, United States, Sujay Kaushal, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and Peter J Vikesland, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States
Deforestation Intensifies the Indirect Effects of Global Change on Reservoir Water Quality (1103362)
Salman Ghaffar1, Xiangzhen Kong2, Michael Rode3, Seifeddine Jomaa3, Maria Determann2, Kurt Friese2, Chenxi Mi2, Tom Shatwell2 and Karsten Rinke2, (1)Technische Universit ̈at Braunschweig, Leichtweiß-Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources, Braunschweig, Germany, (2)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Magdeburg, Department of Lake Research, Magdeburg, Germany, (3)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Magdeburg, Department Aquatic Ecosystem Analysis and Management, Magdeburg, Germany
Assessment of Irish Water Quality Using Earth Observations (1107591)
Minyan Zhao, University College Dublin, School of Civil Engineering, Dublin, Ireland and Fiachra O'Loughlin, Dooge Centre for Water Resources Research, School of Civil Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Isotopic Investigation on the Sources and Transport of Nitrate in a Tile-Drained Corn-soybean Rotation System (1110608)
Yinchao Hu1, Zhongjie Yu2, Lowell Gentry2, Wendy H Yang3, Corey Mitchell2, Naglis Subacius1 and Hope Liu1, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Urbana, United States, (2)Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Departments of Plant Biology and Geology, Urbana, IL, United States
Developing Predictive Water Quality Models for Forecasting Shellfish Water Closures (1112628)
Natalie Chazal1, Megan Carr1, Sheila M. Saia2, A.K. Leight3 and Natalie Nelson4, (1)North Carolina State University Raleigh, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Raleigh, NC, United States, (2)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)Cooperative Oxford Laboratory, NOAA, Oxford, United States, (4)North Carolina State University, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Raleigh, United States
Predicting estuarine fecal indicator bacteria concentrations using sensor data (1119215)
Julia Harrison1, Natalie Nelson2, Angela Harris3 and Chris L Osburn1, (1)North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, (2)North Carolina State University, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Raleigh, United States, (3)North Carolina State University Raleigh, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Raleigh, NC, United States
Estimating Stream Salinity Impairment Across the Delaware River Basin Using Space- and Time-Aware Machine Learning (1120155)
Jared David Smith, U.S. Geological Survey, Integrated Modeling and Prediction Division, Reston, VA, United States, Lauren Koenig, U.S. Geological Survey, Albany, NY, United States, Margaux Sleckman, U.S. Geological Survey, San Francisco, CA, United States and Jeffrey M. Sadler, Oaklahoma State University, Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering, Stillwater, OK, United States
Global river water pollution: exploring current challenges and future prospects (1124488)
David M Hannah1, Benjamin W Abbott2, Kieran Khamis3, Christa Kelleher4, Iseult Lynch5, Stefan Krause5 and Adam S Ward6,7, (1)University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom, (2)Brigham Young University, Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Provo, United States, (3)University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom, (4)Lafayette College, Easton, United States, (5)University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (6)Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, IN, United States, (7)Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
Attributing phosphorus in the Maumee River Basin to polluting sources by integrating a network model into a Bayesian framework (1129985)
Sarfaraz Alam, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Miki Verma, Stanford University, Symbolic Systems, Stanford, CA, United States, Zihan Wei, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, United States, Maggie Hilderbran, Stanford University, Stanford, United States, Daniel Ho, Stanford University, School of Law, Stanford, CA, United States and Jenny Suckale, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
The importance of understanding river temperatures in a human-dominated world (1151266)
Darren L Ficklin, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Geography, Bloomington, IN, United States, David M Hannah, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Niko Wanders, Utrecht University, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, Stephen Dugdale, University of Nottingham, School of Geography, Nottingham, United Kingdom, Judy England, Environment agency, Bristol, United Kingdom, Julian Klaus, University of Bonn, Department of Geography, Bonn, Germany and Christa Kelleher, Lafayette College, Easton, United States
Assessing Watershed-Scale Nutrient Loss Reduction Using SWATplus and Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm (1152233)
Manas Khan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, UNITED STATES, Elias G Bekele, Illinois State Water Survey, Champaign, United States and Rabin Bhattarai, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Urbana, United States
Catchment and in-stream processing contributions to sediment and phosphorus fluxes from a Midwest USA watershed (1162740)
Diana L Karwan, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Forest Resources, Minneapolis, United States, Lucy Rose, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, United States, Ethan D. Pawlowski, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Forest Resources, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Ryan Hankins, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Brent Dalzell, U.S. Department of Agriculture, St. Paul, MN, United States and Randall K Kolka, USDA Forest Service, Grand Rapids, United States
Water Quality Trading in Practice: A Comparative Analysis of Adoption Practices between Water Quality Credits and more Traditional Water Quality Compliance Options in Roanoke, Virginia (1166797)
Jacob Nelson1, Jonathan L Goodall2, Marcus Aguilar3, Kurt Stephenson4 and Linnea Saby1, (1)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (2)University of Virginia, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (3)City of Roanoke, Virginia, Stormwater Division, Roanoke, United States, (4)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Agriculture and Applied Economics, Blacksburg, United States
A Novel Raft-Based Sampling Approach to Measure Spatial Variations in Nutrient Loading, Transformations, and Export within an Agricultural Watershed. (1167455)
Brent J Dalzell1, Kade Flynn2, Ryan Felton2 and John M Baker3, (1)USDA Agriculture Research Service - Soil & Water Mgmt, St. Paul, MN, United States, (2)USDA-ARS & University of Minnesota, Soil, Water, and Climate, St. Paul, MN, United States, (3)USDA Agriculture Research Service - Soil & Water Mgmt, Saint Paul, MN, United States
Statistical prediction of phosphorus export and speciation in urban catchments: model development and potential applications for stormwater management (1170188)
Mahyar Shafii1, Stephanie Slowinski1, Yubraj Bhusal2, Sarah Kaykhosravi3, Calvin Hitch4, William Withers5, Fereidoun Rezanezhad1 and Philippe Van Cappellen1, (1)University of Waterloo, Ecohydrology Research Group, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (2)University of Waterloo, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (3)University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (4)Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, Engineering Services, Toronto, ON, Canada, (5)City of Richmond Hill, RichmondHill, ON, Canada
Investigating the causes of the reemerging growth of harmful algae in the Maumee River Basin (1185305)
Belinda Saint-Louis1, Jenny Suckale2 and Sarfaraz Alam1, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
Earth Observation-integrated Water Quality Modeling System for the United States (1191968)
Adnan Rajib1, Qianjin Zheng2, Sujay V Kumar3, Christopher Hain4, Krutikkumar Patel5, Heather E Golden6, Charles R. Lane7 and Jay Christensen6, (1)Texas A&M University Kingsville, Environmental Engineering, Kingsville, United States, (2)Texas A&M University Kingsville, Environmental Engineering, Kingsville, TX, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (4)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Earth Science Office, Huntsville, United States, (5)Texas A&M University - Kingsville, Environmental Engineering, Kingsville, United States, (6)US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research & Development, Cincinnati, United States, (7)US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research & Development, Athens, United States
Multiscale differences of concentration-discharge relationships: implications for process inference and watershed management (1202267)
Jonathan M Duncan1, Melinda Marsh1, Anthony R Buda2, Casey D Kennedy3 and Dave Millar4, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Ecosystem Science and Management, University Park, PA, United States, (2)USDA ARS, University Park, PA, United States, (3)USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States, (4)USDA ARS, East Wareham, MA, United States
