Sunday |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Thresholds in Time and Space: Exploring at the Big Picture |
| Discussion Leaders: John Stoddard (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USA) and Holly Barnard (University of Colorado, USA) |
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:55 pm - 8:25 pm | Irena Creed (University of Western Ontario, Canada) "How Catchment Science Can Be Used to Predict (apparently) Random Toxic Cyanobacteria Blooms" |
8:25 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
8:40 pm - 9:30 pm | General Discussion |
Monday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Conceptual Frameworks: Are Thresholds and Resilience Useful Frameworks for Understanding Catchment Behavior? |
| Discussion Leaders: Patricia Soranno (Michigan State University, USA) and Daniele Penna (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Kathryn Cottingham (Dartmouth College, USA) "Environmental Thresholds: Ecological Concepts, Models and Case Studies" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Brian McGlynn (Duke University, USA) "Moving
from Field Observations of Hydrologic Connectivity
to Modeling Conceptualizations" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Tim Peterson (The University of Melbourne, Australia) "Catchments at the Water Divide - Identification of Multiple Hydrological Steady States" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Richard Pouyat (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, USA) "Thresholds and Policy: A Perfect Match?" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Dynamical Thresholds in Water Quality |
| Discussion Leaders: Patricia Soranno (Michigan State University, USA) and Daniele Penna (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | James Kirchner (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) "Water Quality Dynamics from Hours to Decades, and H+ to U" |
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:35 pm | Wim Clymans (Lund University, Sweden) "The Biogeochemistry of Silicon at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest" |
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 9:30 pm | General Discussion |
Tuesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Observations: What's To Be Learned from Catchment Experiments and Models? |
| Discussion Leaders: Gary Lovett (Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, USA) and Ilja van Meerveld (University of Zurich, Switzerland) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Christine Alewell (University of Basel, Switzerland) "Source Sediments Tracking from Soils to Oceans: Linking Biogeochemical Concepts of Isotope Geochemistry with Geophysical Data" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Louise Bracken (Durham University, United Kingdom) "Water Connections - Hydrological Connectivity at the Catchment Scale" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Rita Adrian (Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Germany) "Knowledge Derived from Data Driven Lake Case Studies" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:30 pm | General Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Where Observations Fall Short |
| Discussion Leaders: Gary Lovett (Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, USA) and Ilja van Meerveld (University of Zurich, Switzerland) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Matthew Ross (Duke University, USA) "When Everything Changes: Catchment Scale Biogeochemical Impacts of Mountaintop Mining" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Emily Stanley (University of Wisconsin, USA) "Finding Steps in Time and
Space for Diverse Hydrologic Landscapes" |
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 9:30 pm | General Discussion |
Wednesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Predicting Thresholds Under the Wings of Change |
| Discussion Leaders: Stacey Archfield (U.S. Geological Survey, USA) and Vazken Andreassian (Irstea, France) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Genevieve Ali (University of Manitoba, Canada) "Tackling Natural and
Human-Driven Variability in Hydrological Dynamics: Can Thresholds Really Help?" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Ype van der Velde (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) "Wetlands, Forests, and Rivers: How Structured Landscapes Form Through Hydrological Feedbacks" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Hilary McMillan (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand) "Hydrological Signatures: Use and Abuse" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Stefan Gerber (University of Florida, USA) "Nitrogen Retention and Limitation: Application of Global
Land Models at
the Watershed Scale" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Is It Possible to Predict Surprises? |
| Discussion Leaders: Stacey Archfield (U.S. Geological Survey, USA) and Vazken Andreassian (Irstea, France) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Margaret Zimmer (Duke University, USA) "Flowpath and Stream Network Activation Threshold Influences on Piedmont Runoff Generation and Biogeochemistry" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Michael Pace (University of Virginia, USA) "Lake Experiments to Test for Early Warnings of Regime Shift" |
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 9:30 pm | General Discussion |
Thursday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | From Vertical to Horizontal Frontiers: Exploring Resilience and Elasticity in Catchments |
| Discussion Leaders: Tom Harmon (University of California, Merced, USA) and Elizabeth Boyer (Pennsylvania State University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Jan Fleckenstein (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany) "Surface and Subsurface Waters: Identifying Interactions and Their Importance for Catchment Solute Dynamics" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Alberto Montanari (University of Bologna, Italy) "New Data for Deciphering the Human Pressure on River Ecosystems: A Step Forward to Assess Global Water Emergency" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Stephen Sebestyen (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, USA) "Learning About Thresholds and Change from Small Catchment Studies: Some New Tricks for an Old Dog" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Beverley Wemple (University of Vermont, USA) "Understanding the Role of Rural Transportation Networks on Runoff Production and Erosion: Implications for Adaptive Design and Community Resilience" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Frontiers in Time and Space: Practical Applications of Thresholds |
| Discussion Leaders: Tom Harmon (University of California, Merced, USA) and Elizabeth Boyer (Pennsylvania State University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Gabrielle Boisrame (University of California, Berkeley, USA) "Seeing the Forest Without the Trees: Long-Term Influence of Wildfire on the Ecohydrology of a Mountain Watershed" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Jennifer Tank (University of Notre Dame, USA) "Can Changes in Land Cover and Floodplain Connection Alter Nutrient Export from Agricultural Watersheds?" |
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 9:30 pm | General Discussion |
Friday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |