This session will highlight research contributions falling within the broad discipline of aquatic biogeochemistry. We invite contributions from limnologists who work on questions of biogeochemistry, and biogeochemists who work in aquatic systems, but aren’t quite ready to self-identify as limnologists. We are especially interested in work that investigates the transport, storage, and transformation of carbon, macro and micro-nutrients, and pollutants in aquatic systems, from tropical regions to polar environments. Studies examining water quality dynamics, nutrient cycling, contaminant behaviour or greenhouse gas exchanges in streams, wetland, lakes or reservoirs are welcomed. Field and model-based analyses ranging from fine-scale mechanisms to landscape-scale patterns and processes are all within scope. We also encourage synthesis of results within a wider context of aquatic environments and human health, climate and land-use change impacts, or aquatic ecosystem dynamics and recovery following disturbances.
Oral talks:
10:00 - 10:30: Digging into dugouts: Lessons in biogeochemistry from ponds and reservoirs in the northern great plains
Presenter(s): Kerri Finlay
10:45 - 11:00: Investigating ecosystem service loss associated with wetland drainage in the Prairies: an interdisciplinary modelling approach
Presenter(s): Colin Whitfield, University of Saskatchewan, Colin Whitfield1,Zhihua He, Kevin Shook, Christopher Spence, John W. Pomeroy, Helen M. Baulch1, Emily Cavaliere, Robert G Clark and Jared D. Wolfe, School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
11:00 - 11:15: Seasonal and interannual coupling of phosphorus and iron in a lanthanum remediated lake
Presenter(s): Wessam Neweshy, PhD candidate, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Laval university, Wessam Neweshy *a,d, Dolorès Planas b, Nicole Sanderson c, Raoul-Marie Couture a,d
a-Department of Chemistry, Université Laval, Québec Canada
b-Département de Sciences Biologiques, Université de Québec à Montréal, Canada
c-Centre de recherche sur la dynam
11:15 - 11:30: Surprises from over a year of nutrient transformation in the life of a constructed urban pond
Presenter(s): TIM DUVAL, Associate Professor, University of Toronto Mississauga, Tal Litmanovitch, University of Toronto Mississauga; Jonathan Waugh, University of Toronto Mississauga