Hi Ecologgers-
I wanted to highlight an AGU session I'm co-convening on the impact of
land use/cover change and water resources. In particular, we would love to
see submissions on feedbacks between ecological processes (terrestrial and
aquatic) and water resources, and how land use/cover change might impact
those feedbacks.
Here is the session info; I've copied the abstract at the bottom of this
message:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session29367
Feel free to contact me with any questions, and hope to see you there!
-Sam ([email protected])
H126: Understanding the extent and impacts of land-use/land-cover change
on water resources
Land-use and land cover change have the potential to drastically alter the
hydrologic cycle and alter the spatiotemporal movements of water
resources. The emerging challenges of land system changes from a natural
resource perspective are (1) Observing/estimating land-use and land-cover
change and (2) Quantifying/predicting subsequent hydrologic impacts. This
session invites submissions that use emerging geospatial techniques such
as remote sensing, modeling, assimilation of observed vegetation
characteristics, and in situ observations like isotopes. Studies are
welcomed that quantify hydrologically-relevant landscape change and/or
examine land-use and land-cover impacts on: (i) Regional water
balance/water resource change; (ii) groundwater resources/groundwater-
surface water interactions; (iii) Subsurface-land-atmosphere feedbacks;
(iv) Regional climate/drought characteristics; (v) Hydro-chemical fluxes
and nutrient cycling. We also welcome studies exploring disturbance from
natural versus anthropogenic sources and those dealing with uncertainty in
selection of land cover datasets, statistical methods, or numerical
modeling.
