Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Albuquerque 2001

PC07 Spatial and Temporal Connections

Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2001

Location: Southwest Hall

Trick, C, G, THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO, LONDON, Canada, CYANO@JULIAN.UWO.CA

Creed, I, F, THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO, LONDON, Canada, ICREED@JULIAN.UWO.CA

Krezek, C, C, THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO, LONDON, Canada, CKREZEK@JULIAN.UWO.CA

Heterington, E, D, E.D. HETHERINGTON & ASSOCIATES LTD., VICTORIA, Canada, EDH@PACIFICCOAST.NET

Tschaplinski, P, J, BC MINISTRY OF FORESTS, VICTORIA, Canada, PETER.TSCHAPLINSKI@GEMS4.GOV.BC.CA

CARNATION CREEK: A CANADIAN LONG-TERM EXPERIMENTAL COASTAL WATERSHED.

Located on Vancouver Island in British Columbia (BC), the Carnation Creek Experimental Watershed Project, initiated in 1970, is the longest, continuous study of the effects of forestry practices on biological and physical watershed processes in Canada. This experimental watershed is in its 30th year, with 6 years of pre-harvest monitoring, 6 years of harvesting, and 18 years of post-harvest monitoring. In 1996, a new initiative, the Land-to-Oceans Project, was initiated to extend our understanding of coastal watershed processes to impacts on the coastal ecosystem. Pressures to develop this region have intensified which may have serious impacts on the coastal ecosystem. We present a research program which uses previous data from Carnation Creek to (1) develop coastal watershed models to predict the distribution and export of water, carbon and nitrogen and (2) explore linkages between changes in climate and land cover/land use, changes in loadings of dissolved and particulate organic matter from the watersheds to the coastal zone, and the patterns of growth and toxicity of harmful algal blooms.

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