Conference registration is now open. Early bird registration is available until April 1st, 2019 and abstracts in the form of poster or oral presentations will be accepted until March 15th, 2019.
Building an Understanding of Ecohydrologic Process through Model-Data Fusion
Dr. James O. Knighton
Biological & Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
Recent advances in ecohydrology have been facilitated by the parallel emergence of ecohydrological models, high resolution hydrologic datasets, and data analytic techniques. In this talk I will first examine the hypothesis of ecohydrological separation (i.e. the Two Water Worlds Hypothesis) from the perspective of physically-based models and high frequency soil water isotopic measurements along a hillslope.
Defining the Intersection of Geology, Geochemistry and Microbiology in Hydrothermal Environments
Dr. Daniel Colman
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Montana State University
Hydrothermal systems provide excellent model systems to deconvolute the dynamic interplay between geology and geochemistry and the ecology and evolution of microorganisms. Extensive geochemical variation exists in hydrothermal systems that sets the stage for an incredible amount of microbial taxonomic and functional biodiversity. Further, microorganisms inhabiting hydrothermal systems can have profound roles in shaping the geochemistry of their environments through geo-biological feedbacks resulting from biological transformations of inorganic and organic chemical constituents.
Examining Hydrogeological Processes in Freezing Soils Using Remote Geophysical and Numerical Techniques
Vital signs in the low energy microbial world: linking physiology to ecosystem function
Dr. Jacqueline Goordial
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Maine
Microorganisms are the most diverse and abundant lifeforms on Earth, but less than 1% have been cultured in the laboratory for study. Thus, our knowledge of the metabolic potential of the vast majority of microorganisms is based primarily on genomic and metagenomic sequencing. Compounding these unknowns is evidence that bacteria commonly exist in prolonged states of low metabolic activity or non-growth states in environmental settings. This gap in our knowledge necessitates uniting physiology and molecular microbiology to understand the roles that bacterial communities play in biogeochemical cycling and ecosystem function.
The Ecohydrology Research Group is excited to present our seventh annual research symposium in celebration of World Wetlands Day at the University of Waterloo!
Investigating New Approaches for Mapping Groundwater Systems in Karstic Carbonate Bedrock: A Case Study in the Early Silurian Formations of the Niagara Escarpment Cuesta Southern Ontario, Canada
Dr. Taylor Maavara
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Rivers are the great connectors of the freshwater cycle, providing essential services to humans and ecosystems, including drinking water, transportation channels, food security, waste assimilation, and water purification.
Aquatic Greenhouse Gas Emissions in a Changing World
Dr. Tonya DelSontro
Department F.-A. Forel for Environmental and Aquatic Science; Faculty of Science
University of Geneva, Switzerland
It is now widely known that inland waters (i.e., lakes, reservoirs and rivers) emit significant amounts of greenhouse gases (GHG; i.e., CO2, CH4, N2O) – one aspect of the role inland waters play in climate change and in the global carbon cycle.