Characterization of Intensively Managed Landscapes: Illinois River Basin Case Study

HR: 0800h
AN: H11A-1257 [Abstracts]
TI: Characterization of Intensively Managed Landscapes: Illinois River Basin Case Study
AU: * Kumar, P
EM: kumar1@uiuc.edu
AF: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Urbana, 61801
AU: Andrews, E
H11A-1257 AF: University of Wisconsin, 716 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53706
AU: Bland, W
H11A-1257 AF: University of Wisconsin, 716 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53706
AU: Borah, D
H11A-1257 AF: Illinois State Water Survey, Derek Winstanley, Chief 2204 Griffith Dr., Champaign, IL 61820-7495
AU: Braden, J
H11A-1257 AF: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Urbana, 61801
AU: Cooke, R
H11A-1257 AF: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Urbana, 61801
AU: Eheart, W
H11A-1257 AF: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Urbana, 61801
AU: Herricks, E
H11A-1257 AF: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Urbana, 61801
AU: Hollinger, S
H11A-1257 AF: Illinois State Water Survey, Derek Winstanley, Chief 2204 Griffith Dr., Champaign, IL 61820-7495
AU: Holmes, R
H11A-1257 AF: USGS Illinois Water Science Center, 1201 W. University Ave., Suite 100, Urbana, IL 61801
AU: Johnson, T
H11A-1257 AF: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Urbana, 61801
AU: Keefer, D
H11A-1257 AF: Illinois State Water Survey, Derek Winstanley, Chief 2204 Griffith Dr., Champaign, IL 61820-7495
AU: Keefer, L
H11A-1257 AF: Illinois State Water Survey, Derek Winstanley, Chief 2204 Griffith Dr., Champaign, IL 61820-7495
AU: Krajewski, W
H11A-1257 AF: University of Iowa, Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
AU: Krug, E
H11A-1257 AF: Illinois State Water Survey, Derek Winstanley, Chief 2204 Griffith Dr., Champaign, IL 61820-7495
AU: Kunkel, K
H11A-1257 AF: Illinois State Water Survey, Derek Winstanley, Chief 2204 Griffith Dr., Champaign, IL 61820-7495
AU: Liang, X
H11A-1257 AF: Illinois State Water Survey, Derek Winstanley, Chief 2204 Griffith Dr., Champaign, IL 61820-7495
AU: McIsaac, G
H11A-1257 AF: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Urbana, 61801
AU: Mehnert, E
H11A-1257 AF: Illinois State Geological Survey, 615 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL 61820
AU: Over, T
H11A-1257 AF: USGS Illinois Water Science Center, 1201 W. University Ave., Suite 100, Urbana, IL 61801
AU: Packman, A
H11A-1257 AF: Northwestern University, 633 Clark Street, Evanston, IL 60208
AU: Papanicolaou, T
H11A-1257 AF: University of Iowa, Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
AU: Rao, G
H11A-1257 AF: Purdue University, 550 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907
AU: Rhoads, B
H11A-1257 AF: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Urbana, 61801
AU: Ruddell, B
H11A-1257 AF: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Urbana, 61801
AU: Sivapalan, M
H11A-1257 AF: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Urbana, 61801
AU: Sparks, R
H11A-1257 AF: Great Rivers Research and Education Center, Urbana, Urbana, IL 61801
AU: Talley, J
H11A-1257 AF: University of Notre Dame, 156 Fitzpatric Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556
AU: Weber, L
H11A-1257 AF: University of Iowa, Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
AU: Wehrmann, A
H11A-1257 AF: Illinois State Water Survey, Derek Winstanley, Chief 2204 Griffith Dr., Champaign, IL 61820-7495
AU: Winstanley, D
H11A-1257 AF: Illinois State Water Survey, Derek Winstanley, Chief 2204 Griffith Dr., Champaign, IL 61820-7495
AU: Wuebbles, D
H11A-1257 AF: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Urbana, 61801
AB: With rapid growth of the world population, doubling to over 6 billion in the last 40 years, with an expected increase to 9 billion in another 40 years, our landscape and environment are being transformed in unprecedented ways across the globe with local, regional and continental scale impacts. Intensively managed landscapes (IMLs), such as the Midwestern US, are characterized by extensive modification of the land for agriculture and urban use. These include alteration of natural vegetation, modification of rivers for navigation, increased loading of fertilizers and chemicals in water bodies, decline of ground water levels, etc. They induce significant modification of the water cycle and as a result all the systems that are linked such as climate, biogeochemistry, and ecology. The adverse effects of these stressors are evident through the degradation of the water quality, erosion, loss of wetlands and biodiversity, deterioration of recreational opportunities, and ultimately the quality of human life. These effects are further exacerbated by the uncertainty of the changing climate. The Illinois River Basin, because of an extensive infrastructure of observing systems, offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the human impact on the alterations of the water cycle. The challenges associated with watershed characterization for addressing this problem are unique and span a range of space and time scales. The presentation will articulate the lessons learnt in watershed characterization by the Illinois River Basin Observatory team.
DE: 0900 EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS
DE: 1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling (0412, 0414, 0793, 4805, 4912)
DE: 1836 Hydrological cycles and budgets (1218, 1655)
DE: 1860 Streamflow
DE: 5139 Transport properties
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005