Dear Colleagues,
The 60th Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) will be
held this spring in Detroit, Michigan (May 15-19, 2017),
http://iaglr.org/iaglr2017/. Nandita Basu, Chris Parsons, Philippe
Van Cappellen, and I are organizing a session for the conference
entitled ?Nutrient Sources, Transport and Retention across Scales:
Measurement, Modeling and Management.?
The goal of this session will be to bring together researchers
interested in both short-term and long-term nutrient dynamics at a
range of spatial scales, from whole watersheds, down to small,
reactive interfaces.
We encourage you to submit an abstract to our session (Session 44)!
The deadline for submission is January 13, 2017.
We would greatly appreciate it if you would forward this e-mail to
interested colleagues and students.
#44. Nutrient Sources, Transport & Retention Across Scales:
Measurement, Modeling & Management
Chaired by Kimberly Van Meter, Chris Parsons, Nandita Basu and
Philippe Van Cappellen
Non-point source nutrients are a major source of stress to Great Lakes
watersheds, leading to the occurrence of harmful algal blooms, the
development of offshore anoxic zones, and nuisance levels of
Cladophora. Although significant efforts have been made in recent
decades to implement agricultural best management practices and thus
reduce nutrient loading to the lakes, eutrophication continues to be a
significant problem, with the incidence of cyanobacterial blooms
actually increasing since the mid-1990s. In this session, we welcome
contributions related to nutrient (carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus,
silica and sulfur) dynamics in Great Lakes watersheds, including
inputs, retention mechanisms, and transport processes. We are
particularly interested in work related to coupled nutrient cycles
across a range of scales, from the whole watershed down to small,
reactive interfaces.
____________________________
Kimberly Van Meter
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Waterloo
200 University Ave. West
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
319-621-3906
[email protected]
