Dear Ecologgers: We would like to invite your contributions to our session at the AGU 2014 Meeting on the importance of hot spots and hot moments across scales. We are hoping to get a diverse set of presentations spanning in-stream and terrestrial foci as well as multiple elements.
The session description is: There has been a large focus on spatiotemporal heterogeneity (i.e., “hot spots” and “hot moments”) in landscape and aquatic ecosystems, where disproportionate amounts of constituent (e.g., C, N, S, P, Hg) transformations and transport can occur in small portions of a watershed for brief periods of time. Advances in high frequency sensors and high-resolution mapping, allow better assessment of how the spatial and temporal structure of heterogeneity impacts water quality concentrations and loads. A central challenge is discerning the extent and range of geomorphic, hydrological, and biogeochemical conditions to answer the question: how important are hot spots and hot moments for understanding water quality at larger scales? This session welcomes submissions that focus on field methods, analyses, and models that explicitly locate, quantify, and/or predict how soil, ground, and surface water quality can be controlled by aquatic or terrestrial biogeochemical and hydrological hot spots and hot moments. We are pleased to have the following confirmed invited presenters: Antoine Aubeneau, Notre Dame Laura Lautz, Syracuse University Kevin McGuire, Virginia Tech Jen Morse, Portland State University Session ID#: 2669 Session website: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/webprogrampreliminary/Session2669.html Abstract submission website: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2014/scientific-program/ Sincerely, Conveners: Jonathan M Duncan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Bethany T Neilson, Utah State University Heather E Golden, US EPA, ORD, NERL, EERD --- Jonathan M. Duncan Postdoctoral Research Associate Institute for the Environment University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Terrestrial Hydro-Ecological Modeling Group [email protected]
