Name
H08 - Tracer Applications in Hydrologic Studies
Date & Time
Wednesday, May 10, 2023, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Description

Use of tracers, radioactive and stable isotopes, geochemical, including stable isotopes of water, and artificial tracers are invaluable tools in the study of watershed function and variation in hydrological processes, and the investigation of impacts of climate change, and other anthropogenic influences on hydrological systems. Tracer-based approaches help to advance our knowledge of hydrological function across a wide range of scales and landscapes by investigation of source water contributions to streamflow, mean transit times, spatial and temporal dynamics in dominant hydrological processes, flowpaths and nutrient transport, and soil-plant relationships. Moreover, tracer-enabled distributed hydrologic models are a new generation of models that simulate hydrological processes constrained by both hydrometric measurements (e.g. streamflow) and tracers (e.g., stable isotopes of water). The potential of these models to advance flood prediction and estimate the impacts of climate change on water resources, and variation in source water contribution to the streamflow are an exciting evolving field of study. This session aims to attract a spectrum of recent studies that apply tracer-enabled approaches to study and/or solve hydrology-related issues for a wide range of applications, including the following themes: 

Use of tracer-based approaches to investigate hydrological processes 
Application of tracer-enabled hydrological models 
Advances in tracer-enabled model representation, calibration and verification approaches 
Use of tracers and tracer-enabled models to investigate the impacts of climate change and other anthropogenic influences

Oral talks:

1:30 - 1:45: Dissolved radon characterization of stream-groundwater connectivity across an alluvial fan in the South Okanagan Valley, British Columbia
Presenter(s): Schafer Montgomery1, Chani Welch2, and Edward Hornibrook1, 1 Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, 1177 Research Road, Kelowna, BC, VIV 1V7, 2 Okanagan Na

1:45 - 2:00: Lake level influence on groundwater upwelling in shore-spawning kokanee habitat in Kootenay Lake, British Columbia
Presenter(s): Cameron Spooner, MSc Student, The University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus, Edward Hornibrook - Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Natasha Neumann - BC Ministry of Forests, Kootenay Boundary Region. Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences, The University of B

2:00 - 2:15: Impacts of Climate Change on Streamflow and Hydrologic Partitioning Across a Mesoscale Precambrian Shield Watershed in Northeastern Ontario
Presenter(s): Arghavan Tafvizi, PhD Candidate, Laurentian University, April James, Nipissing University, Tricia Stadnyk, University of Calgary, Tegan Holmes, University of Calgary, Huaxia Yao, Dorset Environmental Science Centre, Ontario Ministry of Environment, Charles Ramcharan, Laurentian University

2:15 - 2:30: Surface water Groundwater Interaction in the Oil Sands Region of Alberta
Presenter(s): Tricia Stadnyk, Professor, University of Calgary, Tegan Holmes, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Manitoba

2:30 - 2:45: Improving flow simulations with isotope-enabled hydrologic model calibration
Presenter(s): Tegan Holmes, Research Associate, University of Calgary, Tricia Stadnyk, University of Calgary, Masoud Asadzadeh, University of Manitoba, John J. Gibson, InnoTech Alberta

2:45 - 3:00: Subcatchment characteristics drive spatial hydrologic connectivity and hydrochemical patterns in a mesoscale subarctic mountain catchment
Presenter(s): Arsh Grewal, Student, McMaster University, Sean K. Carey (McMaster University, School of Earth, Environment, and Society)

Session Type
Keynote