2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
5/25/2021 | 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM | Soil Salinity in Wetlands: How Much Road Salt Do Stormwater Wetlands Retain? | Virtual Platform
Soil Salinity in Wetlands: How Much Road Salt Do Stormwater Wetlands Retain?
During the winter, roads are treated with salt (NaCl) to prevent dangerous accidents resulting from precipitation and cold temperatures. However, road salt contributes to increased salt concentrations in freshwater ecosystems which can harm plants and animals that are adapted to live in freshwater. Preliminary work in the Kinsman-Costello lab has shown evidence that wetlands can remove salt from water and reduce transport of harmful concentrations of salt, but the fate of salt entering urban wetlands is unknown. The project will explore the fate of anthropogenic salt in a local wetland at Kent State University. We hypothesize that anthropogenic salt is stored in wetland soils. The two predictions that come out of this hypothesis is that A) salt concentrations decline along a flow path from the inflow to the outflow and B) soil salt concentrations will be elevated, indicating salt storage. Preliminary results from conductivity loggers suggest an overall decrease in salt concentrations. Comparison of rain gauge data and connectivity data suggest that rain combined with snow melt and heavy road salting, contributed to an increase in salt concentrations. Soil sampling and analysis of salt anion and cation concentrations is ongoing.
- Anthropogenic
- Conductivity
- Salinity
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Daiyanera Kelsey
(), Kent State University, dkelsey3@kent.edu;
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