Since I promote other professional journals, why not promote the flagship journal of one society upon whose board I sit? Here are the highlights [taken from the AWRA blog] from the August 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Water Resources Association. You can view article abstracts for free but you cannot freely download articles unless you are an AWRA member.
Volume 45 Issue 4 (August 2009) - View Current Issue
Leh and Chaubey compare two GIS-based approaches to hillslope runoff generation: a topographic index model and a likelihood indicator model.
Miller et al. perform a series of drought simulations for the California Central Valley for a range of droughts from mild to severe for time periods lasting up to 60 years.
Smiley et al., noting protocols designed for monitoring studies are not appropriate for impact assessments, develop guiding principles for designing impact assessments of ecological responses to conservation practices.
Larson examines public attitudes about an array of resource management efforts in Portland, Oregon. She outlines a conceptual approach for future assessments of environmental attitudes in particular settings while highlighting important value-based dimensions of judgments.
Zhang and Srinivasan explore a number of spatial interpolation techniques applied to aerial estimation of precipitation in a study area in China. Their results suggest advanced geostatistics methods that incorporate auxiliary information improve spatial precipitation estimation for hydrologic models.
Pure et al. use the SPARROW model to explore watershed and hydrological characteristics as the probable sources and delivery mechanisms of waterborne pathogens and their indicator (E. coli) in Guadalupe and San Antonio River basins in Texas.
Golden et al. report on nitrate sampling in mixed land cover watersheds draining to Cayuga Lake. They found a high degree of spatial heterogeneity in catchment response.
Schwede et al. present the Watershed Deposition Tool (WDT), an important tool for providing the linkage between air and water-quality modeling needed for determining the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) and for analyzing related nonpoint-source impacts on watersheds.
Asleson et al. describe the development and evaluation of three approaches for performance assessment of rain gardens: visual inspection, infiltration rate testing, and synthetic drawdown testing. They found a combination of visual inspection and infiltration rate testing is particularly useful for developing maintenance tasks and schedules.
Enjoy!
"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious." -- Alfred North Whitehead
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