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River Corridor SFA: River Corridor Hydrobiogeochemistry from Reaction to Basin Scale

The River Corridor Scientific Focus Area works to improve understanding of the changes in space and time on the hydrobiogeochemical functions of river corridors,

river corridor

The land area adjacent to a river that is required to accommodate the dimensions, slope, planform, and buffer of the naturally stable channel and that is necessary for the natural maintenance or natural restoration of a dynamic equilibrium condition.

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from molecular reaction to watershed and basin scales. We use the knowledge we gain to improve representation of river corridor processes, and their response to disturbances, in multiscale models of integrated hydrobiogeochemical function.

Keywords	AI/ML, biogeochemistry, biogeochemistry Studies the cycle of key elements like carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus within Earth's systems. It explores how these elements interact and the factors influencing their cycles. Source: Oak Ridge Biogeochemical Dynamics Source crowdsourced data, groundwater, groundwater Water that occurs below Earth's surface. When rain falls to the ground, a portion percolates (sinks) into the ground and collects in spaces in the underground rocks. Source: A student's guide to Global Climate Change Source hydrology, hydrology The science that deals with water, its properties, circulation, or distribution on Earth's surface, and in the atmosphere through evapotranspiration. Source: NASA earth observatory Source microbial ecology, microbial ecology Studies the relationships of germs across many settings, including the diversity and abundance of germs within microbiomes. Source: Centers for disease control and prevention Source model-data integration, modeling, multiscale, organic matter, pyrogenic organic matter, pyrogenic organic matter (PyOM) Pyrogenic organic matter (PyOM) is produced by the incomplete combustion of organic matter. PyOM can represent a large portion of total soil organic carbon in fire-affected systems, and where PyOM is added intentionally as a soil amendment. Source: Science Direct Source respiration, respiration The process whereby living organisms consume CO², convert it to energy, and release it as O². Source: EPA Environmental Protection Agency Source rivers, watershed, WHONDRS, wildfire
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Keywords

AI/ML, biogeochemistry, crowdsourced data, groundwater, hydrology, microbial ecology, model-data integration, modeling, multiscale, organic matter, pyrogenic organic matter, respiration, rivers, watershed, WHONDRS, wildfire

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Scientific Focus Area

Principal Investigator (PI)

Tim Scheibe

Lead Institution

Other Collaborators

Colorado State University Oregon State University U. S. Geological Survey University of Montana University of Nebraska Lincoln Washington State University

Kayaks are used to map the water depth upstream of measurements used to estimate ecosystem respiration. (Image credit: Morgan Barnes, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

For more information

Tim Scheibe
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

https://www.pnnl.gov/projects/river-corridor