Wildfire and Water Quality
IAHS-ICCE International Conference
Wildfire and Water Quality: Processes, Impacts and Challenges
June 11-15, 2012 The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada
The International Committee on Continental Erosion (ICCE) of the International Association for Hydrological Science (IAHS) is pleased to announce the Wildfire and Water Quality: Processes, Impacts and Challenges conference focused on bringing together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields of hydrology, sediment transport, water quality and watershed management to improve knowledge of the impacts of large scale landscape disturbances by wildfire on freshwater ecosystems and better elucidate processes that influence the source, transport and fate of contaminants in the environment. A key goal of this conference is to enable key stakeholders to utilize this information to better model, plan and manage wildfire impacted watersheds.
THEMES
Impacts of wildfire on hill slope hydrology
Effects of wildfire on soil composition
Changes in sediment transport dynamics and yields
Effect of biofilms on sediment storage and nutrient transport dynamics
Changes in aquatic ecology
Changes in sediment source, transport and fate
Frameworks and methodologies to evaluate the provenance and fate of impacted sediments and associated contaminants
Developments in flocculation and sediment transport modeling
Prediction of hydrologic and sediment transport recovery trajectories
Site-scale changes and catchment-scale processes
Post-fire sedimentation and water quality impacts in reservoirs
Management actions to reduce the impact of wildfires on river ecosystems, water supply and treatment
For further information regarding to conference topics, abstract submission, registration, etc. please explore the conference website via following website:
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