Dear Colleagues,
We will be offering an exciting special session on all aspects of nonpoint source pollution in groundwater,the vadose zone, and watersheds at AGU's Fall Meeting in San Francisco: Nonpoint source flux impact on groundwater, vadose zone, and surface waters: assessment, mechanisms, and control strategies Session ID#: 3142 Confirmed Invited Speakers: Randall Hunt, USGS Jan Hopmans, UC Davis and President, Soil Science Society of America Karen Burow, USGS NAWQA Program Gurpal Toor, University of Florida Session Description: Nonpoint source fluxes in the subsurface and in surface water are critical to pressing societal issues including agricultural sustainability, water quality and management, ecosystem health, and global change. Cutting edge studies are improving the understanding and the control of biogeochemical and anthropogenic factors affecting diffuse mass fluxes, fate, transport, and remediation of nutrients, pathogens, pesticides, emerging contaminants, trace elements, greenhouse gases etc. We invite contributions assessing governing processes, mechanisms, and mass fluxes in and between groundwater, the vadose zone, or surface water using field, laboratory, and modeling approaches (lab, plot, or watershed/(sub)basin scale). We further invite presentations on innovative strategies that involve applied approaches to control or remediate NPS pollution in urban, agricultural, and forest watersheds/groundwater basins with a positive impact on management. Studies that address linkages between chemical, biological, hydro(geo)logical, and/or social factors are especially encouraged. Conveners: Thomas Harter, Univ California, Davis, CA Laura Schifman, University of Rhode Island, Geosciences, Kingston, RI Jennifer Cooper, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, and Christopher Green, U. S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA.
