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Canadian Geophysical Union
Union Géophysique Canadienne
Annual Eastern Student Meeting of the Canadian Geophysical Union – Biogeosciences, Hydrology and
Earth Surface Processes sections.
Cold Regions Research Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON
7 February, 2015
Friday, 6 February
18:30 -
The Huether Hotel
(upstairs). 59 King
Street N., Waterloo
Informal gathering for dinner and/or refreshments.
Saturday, 7 February
8:30 – 9:00
Registration and Refreshments
BIOGEOSCIENCES SESSIONS: Paul Martin Centre
9:00 – 10:30
Session 1: Water & Energy Dynamics
9:00 – 9:15
Allison McManus
9:15 – 9:30
Catherine Dieleman
9:30 – 9:45
Kimisha Ghunowa
9:45 – 10:00
Jason Krompart
10:00 – 10:15
Tyler Jamieson
10:15 – 10:30
Matthew Morison
10:30 – 11:00
Break & Poster Viewing (see list of posters below)
Implications of galling herbivory on ground thaw
through shrub-soil heat transfers within Canada’s
northern boreal forest
Accelerated decomposition under experimental climate
change drives shifts in both the quantity and quality of
peatland dissolved organic matter
Detecting primary production in ponds of Churchill,
Manitoba
Evaluating a pocket wetland for flow attenuation and
water quality improvements of urban runoff in
Brampton, Ontario
Effects of timber harvest residues on nutrient export in
headwater streams located in the Canadian Shield
region of south-central Ontario
Hungry ponds in a thawing world: variations in subarctic
pond runoff quality and quantity depend on peatland
moisture and frost conditions
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11:00 – 12:30
Session 2: Vegetation BioGeoscience
11:00 – 11:15
Jung Lee
11:15 – 11:30
Tristan Gingras-Hill
11:30 – 11:45
Shawn McKenzie
11:45 – 12:00
Cory Wallace
12:00 – 12:15
Brandon MacKinnon
12:15 – 12:30
Rachel Skubel
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch & Poster Viewing (see list of posters below)
13:30 – 15:00
Session 3: Carbon Fluxes
13:30 – 13:45
Olalekan Balogun
13:45 – 14:00
Ryan Rimas
14:00 – 14:15
Emma Buckley
14:15 – 14:30
Felix Chan
14:30 – 14:45
Katelynn Daly
14:45 – 15:00
Carolyn Gibson
15:00 – 15:30
Break & Poster Viewing (see list of posters below)
15:30 – 17:00
Session 4: Soil processes & Dynamics
15:30 – 15:45
Kelli-Nicole
Croucher
Midori Depante
15:45 – 16:00
Economic potential of conifer afforestation across North
America using a growth process model
Assessing upland self-sustainability during the early
stages of succession fallowing fen watershed
reconstruction
Forest Management Controls on Tree-Ring Growth in an
Age-Sequence of White Pine Plantations
Spatial patterns of Alnus viridis shrub patches in the
Mackenzie River Delta Region of the Northwest
Territories
Hydrophobicity Controls Post-Fire Peatland Vegetation
Recovery
Selective thinning effects on hydraulic functionality of a
native-species forest plantation
Interpreting Atmospheric CO2 and CH4 Observations
Using a Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model (STILT)
Characterizing the influences of respiration in shallow
subarctic ponds in the Hudson Bay Lowlands near
Churchill, Manitoba
Spatial and temporal patterns of net carbon exchange in
the polar semi-desert vegetation community on Melville
Island, NU
Effects of Climate Variability and Environmental Controls
on Carbon Fluxes in a Young White Pine Plantation
Monitoring Soil Respiration in a Southern Ontario
Temperate Deciduous Forest Ecosystem
Controls on carbon accumulation in vegetation following
wildfire in interior Alaska
Characterizing the influence of base saturation on the
effects of road salt on roadside soil
Nitrate (NO3-), ammonium (NH4+), and extractablephosphorus (Ext-P) nutrient supply rates across a
peatland-upland gradient in the Western Boreal Plains
of Alberta post-fire disturbance
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16:00 – 16:15
Kristine Haynes
16:15 – 16:30
Felix Nwaishi
16:30 – 16:45
Theresa Treasure
16:45 – 17:00
Jason Paul
Hydrological and Vegetation Impacts on Soil-Air Mercury
Fluxes in Peatland Ecosystems under a Changing Climate
Above and Below-ground Biogeochemical Processes of
Constructed and Natural Peatlands in the Alberta Oil
Sands Region, Canada
The effect of selective forest harvesting on soil nutrient
concentrations in an oligotrophic catchment in southcentral Ontario
Relative importance of geological versus ecological
conditions on permafrost ice content of fine-grained
sediments in the boreal forest near Yellowknife, NWT
HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES SESSIONS: Senate Chamber
9:00 – 10:30
Session 1: Eco-Hydrology
9:00 – 9:15
Rebecca Warren
9:15 – 9:30
Stacey Van Opstal
9:30 – 9:45
Stephanie Roy
9:45 – 10:00
Max Lukenbach
10:00 – 10:15
Branden Walker
10:15 – 10:30
Phil Mann
10:30 – 11:00
Break & Poster Viewing (see list of posters below)
11:00 – 12:30
Session 2: Hydrology of Constructed Wetlands
11:00 – 11:15
Matthew Elmes
11:15 – 11:30
Erin Nicholls
11:30 – 11:45
Kelly Biagi
11:45 – 12:00
Scott Ketcheson
Analysis of Soil Water Dynamics and Black Spruce (Picea
mariana) Water Use On A Permafrost Peat Plateau
Black Spruce Root Network Impact on Soil Thermal
Conductivity and Active Layer Thaw
Developing a hydroecological monitoring program for
lakes in Wapusk National Park, northern Manitoba
Hydrogeological controls on post-fire moss recovery in
peatlands
Impacts of Increasing Shrub Intensification on
Permafrost in Northern Tundra Environments
Redistribution of snow over the Trail Valley basin and
the role of increasing shrubs in changing end of winter
snow distribution
Applying linkages between natural uplands, sand lenses,
and a rich fen to the optimization of hydrological
function and design of a reclaimed fen in Northern
Alberta
Multi-year water balance assessment of a constructed
wetland, Fort McMurray, Alberta
Understanding flow pathways, major chemical
transformations and water sources using hydrochemical
and hydrometric data in a reclaimed fen, Fort McMurray
Canada.
Water table dynamics and hydrophysical variability of
reclamation material properties in a constructed fen
watershed
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12:00 – 12:15
Catherine Brown
Determining the Impacts of Sub-Surface Irrigation on
Sphagnum moss Carbon Uptake in a Reclaimed Peatland
Plot-scale variability in placed peat soil water dynamics
of a constructed fen in a post-mined oil sands landscape,
Fort McMurray, Alberta
12:15 – 12:30
Sarah Scarlett
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch & Poster Viewing (see list of posters below)
13:30 – 15:00
Session 3: Water Balance in Contrasting Landscapes
13:30 – 13:45
Max Boreux
13:45 – 14:00
Daniel Lamhonwah
14:00 – 14:15
Michael Braverman
14:15 – 14:30
Ryan Connon
14:30 – 14:45
14:45 – 15:00
Emily Haughton
Elise Gabrielli
15:00 – 15:30
Break & Poster Viewing (see list of posters below)
15:30 – 17:00
Session 4: Isotopes and Modelling
15:30 – 15:45
Colin McCarter
15:45 – 16:00
Ashley Rudy
16:00 – 16:15
Bhaleka Persaud
16:15 – 16:30
Nicole Meyers
16:30 – 16:45
Jessica Peters
16:45 – 17:00
Hilary White
Hydrogeochemistry and groundwater interactions in
spring-fed lakes in an esker complex
The Impacts of Thermal Perturbation and Permafrost
Disturbances on Runoff Pathways and Stream Water
Quality in a High Arctic Watershed, Cape Bounty,
Melville Island, Nunavut
Permafrost thaw under linear disturbances: Impact on
hydrological regime in regions of discontinuous
permafrost
Formation and Hydrologic Function of a Bog Cascade in
Discontinuous Permafrost
Snow Ablation and Energy Balance at Scotty Creek, NWT
Quantifying and Characterizing Conifer
Evapotranspiration in two Natural Boreal Fens, Fort
McMurray, Alberta, Canada
Transport and Hydrological Response of Simulated
Wastewater from a Continuous Point Source in a
Northern Ribbed Fen
Landscape Susceptibility Modeling to Understand the
Drivers of Permafrost Disturbance and Change
Wavelet Spectral Analysis of Precipitation and
Temperature of the Lower Liard River Basin
Use of Water Isotope Tracers to Characterize Hydrology
of Prairie Wetlands in Alberta
Characterizing the hydrological processes of the Apex
River region (Nunavut) using water isotope tracers
Isotopic evidence of shifting hydrological regimes in
shallow subarctic lakes, western Hudson Bay Lowlands,
Manitoba
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LIST OF POSTERS (see poster sessions above)
Biogeosciences:
Amy Blaser
Cameron Irvine
Matthew Malone
Courtney Soden
Seasonal dynamics of ecosystem carbon exchange for a wet sedge vegetation
community, Melville Island, NU
Temporal dynamics of phosphorus export in the Hopewell Creek Watershed,
Ontario, Canada
Hot Phenomena of Biogeochemical Fluxes: Throughfall and Stemflow Induced
Pulses in Temperate Swamps
Green house gas flux dynamics at a bay mouth coastal marsh undergoing
sediment removal
Hydrological Sciences:
Shishir Handa
Sarah Irvine
Aime Kayembe
Patrick Padovan
Jenna Pilon
Olena Volik
Eric Kessel
Kaitlyn Roberts
Peatland Reclamation in the Canadian Oil Sands region: Challenges and
Opportunities
The Effect of Black Spruce Afforestation on Peatland Burn Severity
Flow and electrical conductivity, an urban stream story
Urban development impacts on runoff ratios in the Etobicoke Creek Watershed,
Brampton, ON
Characterizing Physical and Hydraulic Properties of the Peat Column:A
Hydrogeological Assessment of Temporary Access Infrastructure Impact, and
the Immediate Effects on Surrounding Fen Hydrology
Evolution of a saline fen near Fort McMurray, Alberta: applications from
paleoecology to wetland reclamation
The transport of sodium and Naphthenic Acids from tailings sands to a
constructed fen peatland
Characterizing recent environmental change with otolith trace element
variability in two Canadian High Arctic lake systems
Earth Surface Processes:
Lindsay Davis
Samantha Feist
Matthew Gillman
Pauline Leduc
Jesse Van Patter
Challenges in winter habitat monitoring of minnow species
Reconstructed sediment mobilization processes in a large reservoir using short
sediment cores
Changes to runoff ratios in the Upper Thames River watershed: agricultural tile
drainage density changes as a potential cause
Image-based Particle Analysis in Gravel-Bed Rivers
Muddy Waters: Is the Runoff and Turbidity Relationship Uniform through
Varying Event Magnitudes in Schoharie Creek, New York?
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