55th Anniversary Juried Member's Exhibit - 2023
- August 11, 2023
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- Artwork
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- Artists
Wildfire and Stream Chemistry
- Adobe Photoshop
- Amanda Riley
Factors that affect stream chemistry before and after wildfire: landscape heterogeneity (vegetation, slope, soil), wildfire character, post-fire recovery and ecosystem change, precipitation (type, amount, duration, intensity, season), and evolving landscape recovery and diversity. Zoom-ins show the evolution of leaf litter and soil composition, specifically ash and burned material, that generate and impact sources of stream solutes. I got to work with Dr. Christina Richardson and team at UC Santa Cruz to make this conceptual diagram for their upcoming paper, "Non-uniform stream water chemistry responses to wildfire in watersheds with varying burn extents," a study of stream and soil chemistry in the Santa Cruz mountains before and after the CZU Lightning Complex fires of fall 2020.
- Subject Matter: Wildfire biogeochemistry