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项目编号0707162
Collaborative Research (SGER): Wildfire Impacts on Catchment Hydrochemistry: Metal and Nutrient Transport after the Day Fire, 2006
Terri Hogue
主持机构University of California-Los Angeles
开始日期2007-01-15
结束日期2008-12-31
资助经费87617(USD)
项目类别Continuing Grant
资助机构US-NSF(美国国家科学基金会)
项目所属计划EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES, HYDROLOGIC SCIENCES
语种英语
国家美国
英文简介Proposal Summary
Wildfire, although a natural and periodic phenomena, has an immediate and sometimes devastating
effect on watersheds. The impacts of wildfire can include high rates of overland flow, high
sedimentation rates, decreased water quality, and destructive debris flows. Southern California is
prone to widespread fires at the urban-wildland interface due to its Mediterranean climate (wet
winters, dry summers), prevalent Santa Anna winds during the fall season, and an ever-expanding
population which is responsible for igniting many of the observed fires. The Day Fire, which
recently occurred north of Los Angeles, consumed nearly 254 square miles of National Forest and
designated wilderness areas. Several major drinking water reservoirs for the metropolitan region are
located downstream from the Day Fire burn area, presenting an immediate and serious concern for
water resource managers. One of these reservoirs, located on the eastern fringe of the burn, is
Pyramid Lake, which stores water from the California Aqueduct as well as natural inflows from the
Piru Creek watershed. The objective of this proposal is to understand the physical and chemical
mechanisms that control nutrient, metal and other contaminant fluxes in post-fire watersheds, with a
focus on the Pyramid Lake reservoir system. A SGER grant is critical to this objective as it allows an
immediate field campaign focused on the physical and chemical parameters related to likely primary
problems.
Intellectual Merit. This work addresses fundamental questions on the impacts of fire on metal and
nutrient transport and cycling in watershed systems. By enabling coordinated, spatiotemporally
dense observations of multiple parameters in terrestrial, aqueous and sediment phases within one
watershed system, we will be able to elucidate complex transport relationships in post-fire
watersheds. While there has been considerable literature demonstrating the effects of fire on
hydrologic processes, we do not fully understand the relationships between sediment flux and
nutrient and metal transport in post-fire systems. Ultimately, we plan to use the collected data to
develop mechanistic and watershed scale models of nutrients, metals and sediment transport in postfire
watershed systems.
Broader Impacts. The proposed research represents a unique opportunity to understand a crucial water
quality issue, while also synergizing with on-going hydrological and geomorphologic studies to
define and address issues fundamental to response and recovery in burned watersheds. Our study
will be the first to investigate the potential effects of fire on nutrient and metal transport in a streamreservoir
system which is an integral part of the regional water supply in a semi-arid region.
Ecosystem and water supply managers will be able to utilize information gathered in this study to
develop mitigation and warning strategies for reducing the impacts from increased metal and
nutrient fluxes in burned watersheds. This proposal will also contribute to the education of one
Ph.D. graduate student at UCLA, as well as undergraduate students at the University of the Pacific
and UCLA. UCLA undergraduate students will develop undergraduate research projects (taken as
CEE199) involving data collection and analysis, field surveys, and/or modeling studies, and Pacific
undergraduate students will incorporate data collection and analysis into Senior Thesis projects.
来源学科分类Geosciences
URLhttps://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0707162
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条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/342407
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