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In two papers, Lerch et al. analyze trends in atrazine, acetochlor, alachlor, metolachlor, and metribuzin concentration and load in Goodwater Creek Experimental Watershed from 1992 to 2006, and conduct a retrospective assessment of the potential aquatic ecosystem impacts.
Spackman Jones et al. show how turbidity can be used to develop high frequency time series for total suspended solids and total phosphorus.| view abstract »
Saleh et al. calculate mass loadings for four pesticides in two watersheds with different land uses in the Central Valley, California, by using two parametric models: (1) the Seasonal Wave model (SeaWave), and (2) the Sine Wave model.| view abstract »
Johnson et al. estimate trends in pesticide concentrations in streams in California, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho arising from changes in use amount and application method in their associated catchments.| view abstract »
Khalili et al. develop multi-site weather generator using the concept of spatial autocorrelation.| view abstract »
Stanfield and Jackson studied how geology and an index of land use?land cover influenced peak flows following rainfall events in 110 headwater stream sites that were studied over a four-month period during a drought year. These findings demonstrate the challenges to accurately predict flow conditions in headwater streams during periods of extreme weather that concurrently have the greatest potential effect on biota.| view abstract »
Romeis et al. collected continuous streamflow and mixed-frequency water quality datasets from nine commercial poultry-pasture and three forested headwater streams in the upper Etowah River basin of Georgia to estimate total P loads, and examined variability of hydrologic response and water quality of storm and nonstorm-flow regimes.| view abstract »
Caruso and Haynes classified streams in semiarid USEPA Region 8 based on hydrologic permanence and stream order using NHDPlus and GIS to provide information across broad spatial scales to aid with jurisdictional determinations.| view abstract »
Kibler et al. propose a refined conceptual model describing downstream geomorphic processes following small dam removal when upstream fill is dominated by coarse sediments.| view abstract »
Mittelstet et al. compared two approaches to administration of groundwater law on a hydrologic model of the North Canadian River, an alluvial aquifer in northwestern Oklahoma.| view abstract »
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"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." -- Harry Lime (played by Orson Welles), in The Third Man (see this post)
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