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Wildfire and Water Quality: Processes, Impacts and Challenges
June 11-14, 2012 The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada
- Impacts of wildfire on hill slope hydrology
- Effects of wildfire on soil composition
- Changes in sediment transport dynamics and yields
- Effect of biofilms on sediment storage and nutrient transport dynamics
- Changes in aquatic ecology
- Changes in sediment source, transport and fate
- Frameworks and methodologies to evaluate the provenance and fate of impacted sediments and associated contaminants
- Developments in flocculation and sediment transport modeling
- Prediction of hydrologic and sediment transport recovery trajectories
- Site-scale changes and catchment-scale processes
- Post-fire sedimentation and water quality impacts in reservoirs
- Management actions to reduce the impact of wildfires on river ecosystems, water supply and treatment