Call for Abstracts: AGU 2026 Session on River and Floodplain Dynamics (EP027)

[Lorenzo Innocenti]

Dear colleagues,

we would like to invite you to consider submitting an abstract to our session at this December's AGU Fall Meeting:

EP027. River and Floodplain Dynamics: Linking Geomorphic Processes in Pristine and Recovered Systems

Session description: Rivers and their floodplains are among the most altered landscapes on Earth, yet they provide critical ecosystem services-sediment routing, carbon storage, groundwater recharge, flood attenuation, and biodiversity support. Decades of channelization, flow regulation, and riparian removal have disrupted the lateral and vertical connectivity that sustains floodplain function. Growing investment in river and floodplain restoration demands a quantitative, process-based understanding of how these systems function where they remain relatively unaltered and how they respond to interventions across multiple spatial and temporal scales. This session invites contributions that advance understanding of river-floodplain dynamics across natural and managed systems. Topics may include sediment and wood dynamics, floodplain evolution, system responses to restoration activities such as dam removal, levee setbacks, and channel remeandering, and linkages between physical recovery and ecological or biogeochemical function. We welcome studies spanning field, experimental, and numerical approaches, and encourage submissions from early-career researchers and underrepresented groups.

The submission link for our session is here., the abstract submission deadline is August 5.

Best wishes,
Lorenzo Innocenti (Univerisity of Florence)
Anna Marshall (University of Tennessee)
Ryan Morrison (Colorado State University)
Elisabetta Persi (University of Pavia)

[Lixin Wang]

Dear colleagues,  

We would like to invite you to submit abstracts to our AGU 2026 Fall Meeting Session: "H010 - Advances in ecohydrology of water-limited environments”. We have been running this session every year since 2010 (17^th year!!).

 

Session submission link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prelim.cgi/Session/224621

 

Confirmed invited speakers this year:

 

Julia Green, University of Arizona

Alan Knapp, Colorado State University

 

Water is fundamental to sustaining ecosystem functions in water-limited environments. In these systems, water availability is tightly coupled with ecosystem productivity, surface energy balance, and biogeochemical cycles. Both climatic drivers (e.g., increasing aridity and recurrent droughts) and anthropogenic pressures (e.g., agriculture, grazing, and energy development) are increasingly altering system dynamics. Understanding how hydrological changes cascade through and reshape other ecosystem functions is therefore critical. We invite submissions that advance knowledge of ecohydrological processes and feedbacks in water-limited environments, including the quantification of these processes and feedbacks using novel approaches. Contributions may also address the broader implications of these processes for key challenges, including land-use change, water resource management, desertification, and the food-energy-water nexus.

 

Conveners

Lixin Wang (Indiana University Indianapolis)

Sujith Ravi (Temple University)

 

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Professor

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Indiana University Indianapolis

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Editor-in-Chief: Journal of Arid Environments

Editor: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Editorial Board Member: Scientific Data

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[Lorenzo Innocenti]

Dear colleagues,


we would like to renew our invitation to submit an abstract to our session session at this December's AGU Fall Meeting:

EP027. River and Floodplain Dynamics: Linking Geomorphic Processes in Pristine and Recovered Systems

We are pleased to announce the two invited speakers for the session:

Caroline Nash (Rio Applied Science & Engineering)

Juli Scamardo (Utah State University)

Session description: Rivers and their floodplains are among the most altered landscapes on Earth, yet they provide critical ecosystem services-sediment routing, carbon storage, groundwater recharge, flood attenuation, and biodiversity support. Decades of channelization, flow regulation, and riparian removal have disrupted the lateral and vertical connectivity that sustains floodplain function. Growing investment in river and floodplain restoration demands a quantitative, process-based understanding of how these systems function where they remain relatively unaltered and how they respond to interventions across multiple spatial and temporal scales. This session invites contributions that advance understanding of river-floodplain dynamics across natural and managed systems. Topics may include sediment and wood dynamics, floodplain evolution, system responses to restoration activities such as dam removal, levee setbacks, and channel remeandering, and linkages between physical recovery and ecological or biogeochemical function. We welcome studies spanning field, experimental, and numerical approaches, and encourage submissions from early-career researchers and underrepresented groups.

The submission link for our session is here, the abstract submission deadline is August 5.