Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit your abstract to our session on
the legacy effects of land use on water quality (Session H148) at AGU
this December.
Session ID: 26392
Session Title: H148. Yesterday is History, The Future is a Mystery:
Legacy Effects of Land Use on Water Quality
Section/Focus Group: Hydrology
Session Viewer Link:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session26392
To predict how human land use and management affect current and future
water quality, it is crucial to understand not only contemporary, but
historic human influences on watersheds. Human activity over decades
of urbanization, resource extraction, and intensive agriculture has
led to an accumulation of contaminants within the landscape. These
legacies of human use can influence water quality over decadal time
scales, with legacy-associated lag times in catchment response
presenting unique problems with regard to setting water quality
targets. In this session, we welcome submissions using modeling, data
synthesis, and experimental approaches to address legacy effects on
water quality. Examples of relevant topics include long-term effects
of forest management and forest fires on stream chemistry, acid mine
drainage in watersheds with legacy mines, accumulation of non-point
source nitrogen and phosphorus in soils and sediments, and subsurface
accumulation of road salts and the resulting salinization of our
waterways.
Co-Convenors: Nandita Basu (University of Waterloo), Ashley Helton
(University of Connecticut), Janet Barclay (University of
Connecticut), Kimberly Van Meter (University of Waterloo)
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Dr. Kimberly Van Meter
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Waterloo
200 University Ave. West
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
226-339-6598
kvanme...@uwaterloo.ca
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