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Putting Connectivity in Context: Overview on Geographically Isolated Wetland Research
Citation:
Lane, C., H. Golden, K. Kirkman, S. Leibowitz, D. Mushet, M. Rains, AND L. Smith. Putting Connectivity in Context: Overview on Geographically Isolated Wetland Research. 2017 AWRA Spring Specialty Conference on Aquatic System Connectivity, Snowbird, UT, May 01 - 03, 2017.
Impact/Purpose:
Presentation at AWRA Spring Specialty Conference in Snowbird, UT May 1-3, 2017
Description:
Geographically isolated wetlands (GIWs) affect and contribute to the integrity of other waters through biological, chemical, and hydrological (or physical) processes that vary in timing, duration, and magnitude of their impact. Research quantifying contributions and effects of so-called GIWs on downstream systems accelerated in North America following the catalyzing Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) vs. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (531 U.S. 159) and Rapanos (547 U.S. 715) US Supreme Court decisions in 2001 and 2006, respectively. Though many scientific advances have highlighted potential contributions of types and classes of GIWs to other waters, we remain tantalizingly close to – yet simultaneously far from – empirically quantifying the impacts and effects of GIWs on other waters across broad spatial and temporal scales. This presentation introduces the session and provides an overview of research to quantify biological, chemical, and hydrological GIW effects on landscape and watershed functions, focusing on two collaborative efforts from scientific work groups hosted by (1) the US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development (U.S. EPA/ORD) and Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center at Ichauway in 2013, and (2) a US Geological Survey-sponsored John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis working group in 2015–2016.
