Charles Lane, Senior Research Systems Ecologist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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ABSTRACT

Non-floodplain wetlands – those located outside the floodplains – have emerged as integral components to watershed resilience, contributing hydrologic and biogeochemical functions affecting watershed-scale flooding extent, drought magnitude, and water-quality maintenance. Multiple avenues of evidence demonstrate these meaningful watershed-scale effects. An US EPA Office of Research and Development research team has been collaborating for several years on mapping, modeling, and measuring the downstream effects of non-floodplain wetlands (also known as geographically isolated wetlands). The presentation will describe recent findings and contextualizes these findings in light of resource management outcomes, focusing on hydrological and biogeochemical processing at multiple scales.

BIO

Dr. Charles Lane is a Senior Research Systems Ecologist with the US EPA’s Office of Research and Development, Ecosystem Processes Division in Athens, Georgia. His undergraduate degree is in economics from UNC Chapel Hill, and his M.S. and Ph.D. is in Systems Ecology from the University of Florida’s College of Engineering. Since joining the EPA/ORD in 2003, he has focused on wetland hydrological and biogeochemical dynamics and contributions to down-gradient systems, in particular researching the connectivity and functional nexus between non-floodplain wetlands and stream networks at watershed scales. He is an Associate Editor for the journal Wetland Ecology and Management.

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