Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences (A)
Session Sub-categoryHydrology & Water Environment (HW)
Session IDA-HW24
TitleMaterial transportation and cycling at the land-sea interface: from headwaters to the ocean
Short TitleMaterial cycle at the land-sea interface
Main Convener NameJun Yasumoto
AffiliationUniversity of the Ryukyus, Faculty of Agriculuture
Co-Convener 1NameMasahiro Kobayashi
AffiliationForestry and Forest Products Research Institute
Co-Convener 2NameNoboru Okuda
AffiliationKobe University
Co-Convener 3NameAdina Paytan
AffiliationUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Session LanguageE
ScopeThis session aims to synthetize watershed-based sciences to better understand dynamic processes in transportation and cycling of materials and nutrients at the land-sea interface from headwaters to the ocean via rivers, groundwater, and coastal lakes. The session will integrate research from various disciplines including limnology, groundwater hydrology, coastal oceanography, meteorology, soil science, sedimentology, forestry, agriculture, fishery, ecology, social science, and other related fields. This session calls for sharing new methods such as tracers and molecular techniques, hydrological modeling, paleontological approaches, and chemical analyses that help to elucidate physical, chemical, and biological mechanisms in terrestrial-aquatic ecosystems. Moreover, it seeks to shed light on the complex and dynamic terrestrial-aquatic systems and their spatio-temporal variations in a changing climate and environment. Laboratory-based and field-based studies, social and socioeconomic evaluation of ecosystem services and social-ecological systems are also welcomed. Through this session, we would like to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration among participants to create a new watershed-based science that considers the overall interrelationship between headwaters and the ocean.
Presentation FormatOral and Poster session
Joint with
Co-sponsoredThe Oceanographic Society of Japan, Japanese Association of Hydrological Sciences , Japan Society of Hydrology & Water Resources , The Sedimentological Society of Japan, Japan Association for Quaternary Research, Japanese Association of Groundwater Hydrol