Primary Convener:
Michelle Newcomer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Convener:
Andrew Gray, University of California Riverside
Rachel Meyer, University of California Santa Cruz

Early Career Convener:
Andrew Gray, University of California Riverside

Chair:
Michelle Newcomer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Andrew Gray, University of California Riverside

Wildfires have increased in frequency around the world and are a catalyst for environmental change. By examining wildfire impacts within watersheds, we can use system response, resilience, and recovery from wildfire as a means for investigating lateral movement of life and biogeochemistry across landscapes. There remains a significant knowledge gap in cross-disciplinary analyses investigating how fires impact watershed processes from the genomic, molecular, field, to the landscape level. Wildfire disturbances may impact water quality, hydrology, microbial community composition, geomorphology, total biodiversity, organic matter chemistry, ecosystem services, wildlife habitat, soil biogeochemical cycles, plant community composition, ecosystem function, surface albedo, and impact feedbacks to surface energy fluxes that exacerbate future fire probability. In this session we invite research examining these impacts after natural and anthropogenic (wild)fire, including prescribed burns, and work that incorporates traditional knowledge. We seek contributions using novel statistical, analytical, experimental, field, molecular, remote sensing, and modeling techniques.

Index Terms
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling
1806 Chemistry of fresh water
1855 Remote sensing
4313 Extreme events

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering

Cross-Listed:
H - Hydrology
GC - Global Environmental Change