The 15th International Symposium on Biogeochemistry of Wetlands & Aquatic Systems

This symposium is designed to bring together those actively engaged in applying principles of biogeochemistry to solve environmental and social problems in diverse wetland and aquatic ecosystems. Biogeochemistry, an interdisciplinary science, integrates biological, geological, and chemical processes with hydrological forcing to govern the movement and transformation of nutrients and contaminants. The goal is to improve our understanding of the role wetlands and aquatic systems perform in regulating and mitigating impacts of a changing world, from a mechanistic to whole ecosystem scales. The symposium theme acknowledges the broad scale of biogeochemical research being conducted, from micro and pore level up to the ecosystem scale, and highlights the urgent need for data across all scales to help train and validate useful ecosystem models. Presentations will cover diverse topics including, but not limited to, biogeochemical indicators for wetland assessment, biogeochemistry of mangrove ecosystems, carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions, coastal hypoxia, constructed wetlands performance, coupled biogeochemical cycles, fate of toxic organic compounds, and impacts of large-scale disturbances.