Colleagues, Consider submitting your research for the upcoming AGU fall conference (14-18 Dec. 2015, San Francisco, CA).
Your paper or poster contribution to this session is welcome, and more information on the session may be found below. Deadline for abstracts is 05 August. With our regards, Charles Lane, US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development Claire Ruffing, University of Alaska – Fairbanks, Stream Resiliency Research Coordination Network [Session ID 9104] Watershed Resilience: Emerging Understanding from Interactions at Multiple Scales (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/preliminaryview.cgi/Session9104.html) Invited Speakers Craig Allen (Univ. of Nebraska – Lincoln and the USGS) Tamara Harms (University of Alaska – Fairbanks) Albert Ruhí (Arizona State University) Holly Nesbit (Simon Fraser University) Watersheds include aquatic and terrestrial landscape elements interacting through hydrological, biogeochemical, organismal, and human-dominated pathways. Modified timing, intensity, magnitude, and duration of material fluxes in/to aquatic systems alters their typical functioning and integrity and can result in undesirable steady states. Understanding the factors affecting resilience and determining state-change thresholds in the context of a changing world is a central challenge for improving watershed management. Vulnerability and resistance vary within and between watersheds yet mechanisms driving resilience are not well understood. Watershed resilience studies integrate and assess the resistance and vulnerability of interacting aquatic and landscape elements across spatial and temporal scales. Contributions to this session quantify and qualify the resilience of watersheds and aquatic systems experiencing altered functioning and integrity due to human-dominated and natural fluctuations in controlling variables. Research contributions reporting large and/or small-scale spatial and temporal phenomena, interactions, thresholds, and controls on system and component-level resilience are encouraged.
