Dear colleagues, We are excited to announce our special session, "Continuous nutrient sensing in research and management," at the 2016 ASLO Summer Meeting in Sante Fe, New Mexico, 5-10 June 2016. The session (SS25) is described below, and abstracts are being accepted through the ASLO website until 2 February. Please forward this announcement to colleagues who may be interested.
SS25: Continuous nutrient sensing in research and management: applications, methods, and lessons learned across aquatic environments and watersheds. Nutrient pollution, with resulting eutrophication, hypoxia, and harmful algal blooms, is one of the most significant environmental problems facing the world today. Continuous nutrient sensing is on the cusp of being a widely employable technique for collecting data on in-water nutrient concentrations (primarily dissolved forms of N and P) to help inform management and mitigation efforts and as tools for fundamental research. As new sensors continue to be developed and used in a variety of applications and environments spanning the water cycle, we invite early adopters of these technologies to share their research products, experiences, methodologies, and lessons learned for ensuring appropriate data quality, analysis, and interpretation. Special consideration for presentations will be given to novel applications of continuous nutrient sensors and/or high frequency data in areas of research and management that have not typically utilized such forms of information, which could include (but is not limited to) water quality criteria development, water resource recovery, real-time risk reduction in drinking water, restoration efforts, best management practices, modeling and forecasting, etc. Thank you, Beth A. Stauffer , University of Louisiana at Lafayette, [email protected] Brian Pellerin , U.S. Geological Survey Mario Tamburri , University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Denice Shaw , U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Tom Johengen , University of Michigan
