Primary Convener:
Jorge San Juan, North Carolina State University

Convener:
Muriel Brückner, Louisiana State University
Pallav Ranjan, University of California San Diego

Early Career Convener:
Caitlin Turner, Louisiana State University

Chair:
Jorge San Juan, North Carolina State University
Muriel Brückner, Louisiana State University

Biophysical interactions between hydro-morphodynamic, biological, and ecological processes shape riverine, estuarine, and near-shore coastal landscapes. Organisms within the water column and the substrate can affect flow, sediment transport, and geomorphology at various scales. This session welcomes scientific advances in biogeomorphic interactions across environments. Areas of interest may include sediment-vegetation-faunal interactions and their effects on flow, sediment transport, mixing, and carbon sequestration. Research topics may include biophysical responses to human impacts, extreme events, climate change, and management practices aimed at improving ecosystem resilience. We encourage the participation of studies that include aquatic vegetation, microbial mats, algae, oyster and coral reefs, fish, and micro- and macrofauna. This session covers a wide range of freshwater to near-shore marine settings, including steep and low-relief streams, estuaries, deltas, barrier islands, coastal lagoons, marshes, mangroves, seagrasses, and reefs. We welcome contributions connecting ecological and physical processes using field, laboratory, remote sensing, theoretical, statistical, and numerical methods.

Index Terms
0408 Benthic processes
0442 Estuarine and nearshore processes
0497 Wetlands
3022 Marine sediments: processes and transport

Cross-Listed:
B - Biogeosciences
H - Hydrology

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering