9th National Monitoring Conference, Cincinnati, OH, April 28-May 2, 2014
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Highlights from the 8th Biennial National Conference
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Conference Results |
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ES A2: Workshop: USGS Water Information NOWOrganized by Donna Myers, USGS |
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C1: Innovative Condition Assessments
Moderator: Richard Bartz, USGS |
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Anti-degradation Protection of Water Quality for the Delaware River Basin: Expansion of the Control Point Approach to Monitoring and Assessment | Limbeck (DRBC) | |
Status, Trend and Change Evaluation and Web Displays of Data for Healthy Watershed Assessments | Paradies (California Central Coast Ambient Monitoring Program) | |
The Development and Application of a Temperature Assessment Methodology for Coldwater Streams in Maryland | Stover (MDE) | |
Extending Trophic State Assessments Using Volunteer-Collected Water Quality Data | Thorpe (University of Missour) | |
C2: National Water Quality Portal: Lessons Learned
Moderator: Dwane Young, USEPA |
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The Water Quality Exchange: A Streamlined Way for Sharing Water Quality Data | Kovatch (USEPA) |
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Two Years of the Water Quality Portal: Improvements, Lessons, and Plans for the Future | Kreft (USGS) | |
A National Compilation of Water-Quality Monitoring Data to Support Local, Regional, and National Scale Water Quality Assessments | Argue (USGS) | |
Duplicate Water Data - Causes, Implications, Solutions | Gellenbeck (USGS) | |
ES C3: Panel - Continuous Water-Quality Information Anywhere and at Anytime! How Do We Get There?Organized by Andy Ziegler, USGS Panel Members: |
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Continuous Water-Quality Information Anywhere and at Anytime! How Do We Get There? | Ziegler (USGS) | |
Applications of Optical Sensors for High Frequency Water Quality Monitoring and Research in Rivers and Streams | Pellerin (USGS) | |
Quantifying Uncertainty in Time-Series Water-Quality Data | Rounds (USGS) | |
C4: Communicating Science for Action
Moderator: Sara Steiner, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services |
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Fox River Low Flow Dissolved Oxygen Monitoring: A Collaborative Effort | Stevenson (IL State Water Survey) | |
Visual Stream Monitoring: Exploring Georgia's Newly Developed Habitat Assessment Program | Harbert (GA EPD) | |
EcoAtlas and CRAM: Online Resource Management Support Tools | Grosso (SFEI) | |
Iowa's Water Quality Index - From Data to Action | Skopec (IA DNR) | |
C5: Nutrient Monitoring and Modeling to Restore and Protect Coastal Water Quality
Moderator: Jerad Bales, USGS |
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Hypoxia Forecast Models in Coastal Waters Used to Inform Nutrient Management | Lewitus (NOAA) | |
NEW Web-Based Capabilities for Using Spatially Referenced Regression Models to Support Decisions Related to the Management of Nutrient Loads to the Nation's Estuaries | Preston (USGS) | |
Nutrient Threshold Development for Saint Louis Bay, Mississippi: Content and Context | Paul (Tetra Tech, Inc.) | |
Monitoring Nutrient and Sediment Inputs to Texas Bays and Estuaries: A Comparison of Selected High Flow Events, 2009-13 | Lee (USGS) | |
C6: Best Management Practices for Protecting Water Quality
Moderator: Michael Eberle, USFS |
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Monitoring Forest Service's BMPs - Assessing the First Year of National Program Implementation | Eberle (USFS) | |
Stormwater Monitoring in the Cherry Creek Basin, Colorado | Love (GEI Consultants, Inc.) | |
The Potential Importance of Conservation, Restoration and Altered Management Practices for Water Quality in the Wabash River Watershed | Yang (USEPA - ORISE) | |
How Paired is Paired? Comparing Nitrate Concentrations in Three Iowa Drainage Districts | Seeman (Iowa Soybean Association) | |
C7: Evaluating Changes and Trends Using Statistical Surveys
Moderator: Sarah Lehmann, USEPA |
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Watershed-Scale Biological Monitoring and Assessment for Ecological Protection and Restoration Planning | Stribling (Tetra Tech, Inc.) | |
Using Probabilistic Monitoring Data to Recommend Stressor Risk Levels in Aquatic Life Use Total Maximum Daily Load Studies | Hill (VA DEQ) | |
Looking at Statewide Trends in Water Quality through State-Scale Statistical Survey Data | Chestnut (SC DHEC) | |
An Emerging Picture of Changes in Coastal Water Quality: Preliminary Results from the 2010 National Coastal Condition Assessment | Grayson (USEPA) | |
ES C8: Workshop - Volunteer Monitoring: Getting Started and Growing Successfully, Part 1
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Volunteer Monitoring: Getting Started and Growing Successfully | Donkersloot (NJDEP) |
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NJDEP, Water Monitoring & Standards, Bureau of Environmental Restoration and Analysis | Donkersloot (NJDEP) | |
Cooperative Extension and Volunteer Monitoring: Rhode Island's Experience | Green (URI) | |
PA: Community-based Stream Monitoring | Vastine (ALLARM) | |
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ES C9: Workshop - Building, Empowering and Sustaining State, Regional and Tribal Water Monitoring Councils, Partnerships and Alliances
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D1: Remote Sensing: Tools and Applications
Moderator: Steven Wolfe, Gulf of Mexico Alliance/Florida Institute of Oceanography |
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Initial Results from the Workshop on Developing a Great Lakes Remote Sensing Community | Liou (NASA Glenn Research Center) | |
Use of MODIS Earth Observation Data in Regional-Scale Models of Reactive Nitrogen in Watersheds | Smith (USGS) | |
Using Remote Sensing Tools to Target Stream Protection and Wastewater Treatment BMPs in Rural Kentucky | Tonning (Tetra Tech, Inc.) | |
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D2: Temporal Changes in Groundwater Quality
Moderator: Glenn Skuta, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency |
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Trends in Groundwater Quality in Principal Aquifers of the United States, 1988-2012 | Lindsey (USGS) | |
Pesticides in Groundwater of the United States: Decadal-Scale Changes, 193-2011 | Toccalino (USGS) | |
Chloride and Nitrate Trends in Ohio's Public Water System Wells | Slattery (OH EPA) | |
Temporal Variations in Temperature, Water Level, and Specific Conductivity in Groundwater and Combined Storm Sewers in a Sustainable Streetscapes Best Management Practice (BMP) Area in Chicago, Illinois | Morrow (USGS) | |
D3: Continuous Monitoring: Innovations in Applications and Instrumentation, Part 1
Moderator: Brian Pellerin, USGS |
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Real-Time Nitrate Monitoring in Groundwater within a Mixed-Use Watershed in Central Illinois | Warner (USGS) | |
Using Continuous Real-Time Water-Quality Data to Estimate Organic Carbon Export from an Urban Stream | Goldman (USGS) | |
Characterization of Water-Quality Gradients in an Urban Midwestern Stream Using a Floating Sensor Platform Developed for Lagrangian Data Collection | Foster (USGS) | |
The Application and Utility of Continuous Instream Monitoring as Part of a Large River Assessment of the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania | Shull (PA DEP) | |
D4-D8: Networking - Meet Your Peers - Who is Working in Your Backyard? |
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D9: Panel - Using Quantitative PCR as a Tool for Evaluating Microbial Water Quality
Organized by Natasha Isaacs and Christopher Kephart, USGS |
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E1: Building Capacity with the National Aquatic Resource Surveys (NARS)
Moderator: Charles Faulkner, USEPA |
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The aquamet Package for R: A Tool for Use with the National Rivers and Stream Assessment | Blocksom (USEPA) | |
Implementation of Oklahoma's Statewide Probabilistic Survey Design for Surface Waters: Considerations, Implications, and Results | Porter (OK WRB) | |
Assessing the Ecologic Condition of Wetlands at National and Regional Scales: Status, Implications, and Preliminary Results of the National Wetland Condition Assessment | Serenbetz (USEPA) | |
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E2: Successful Collaborative Monitoring Approaches
Organized by David Neils, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services |
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Rural Action Watershed Restoration Program: Partnering to Improve the Future | Schlater (Rural Action) | |
The Role of Collaborations in Volunteer Monitoring for Share Gas Impacts | Tomsho (Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring at Dicinson College) | |
Butler County Stream Team: A Unique and Effective Partnership | McCollum, Del Valle, and Zacharyasz (Miami University) | |
Incorporating Citizen Volunteer Monitoring into Regional Water Quality Management | Herron (ID DEQ) | |
E3: Continuous Monitoring: Innovations in Applications and Instrumentation, Part 2
Moderator: Andrew Ziegler, USGS |
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Results from a National Monitoring Network Lake Michigan Pilot Study: Integrated Surveys of Water Quality and Hydrodynamics in Two Rivermouth Mixing Zones Using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle | Jackson (USGS) | |
Use of High Frequency Water Quality Data to Scale Ecological Processes in Estuaries | Murrell (USEPA) | |
Relations between Continuous Real-Time and Discrete Water-Quality Constituents in the Little Arkansas River, Sout -Central Kansas, 1995-2011 | Rasmussen (USGS) | |
Sound Science: Sediment Monitoring Using Acoustic Surrogates in the U.S. Geological Survey | Landers (USGS) | |
E4: Assessing Effects of Climate Change
Moderator: Michael Higgins, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service |
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Regional Vulnerability Assessments to Detect Climate Change Effects in Streams | Bierwagen (USEPA) | |
Stream Classification in Support of Regional Monitoring to Detect Climate Change Effects | Witt (USEPA) | |
Coastal Monitoring Network to Study Effects of Climate Change on Ecosystem Processes | Matthews (RTI International) | |
Rising Air and Stream-Water Temperatures in Chesapeake Bay Region, USA | Jastram (USGS) | |
E5: Nutrient Monitoring and Modeling to Restore and Protect Freshwaters
Moderator: Jeffrey Frey, USGS |
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Total Phosphorus Mass Balance Modeling in the Lower Boise River, Southwestern, Idaho | Etheridge (USGS) | |
Continuous Nitrate Measurements in an Urban Stream Affected by Wastewater | Graham (USGS) | |
Identifying Nutrient Reference Sites in Nutrient-Enriched Regions: Using Algal, Invertebrate, and Fish-Community Measures to Identify Stressor-Breakpoint Thresholds in Indiana Rivers and Streams, 2005-9 | Selvaratnam (IN DEM) | |
Publicly Accessible Decision Support System of the SPAtially Referenced Regressions on Watershed attributes (SPARROW) Model and Model Enhancements in South Carolina | Journey (USGS) | |
E6: Monitoring the Benefits of Green Infrastructure on Water Quality
Moderator: Chris French, Filterra Bioretention Systems |
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Evaluation of Soil Media, Vegetative Diversity, and Projected Precipitation Effects on Bioretention Performance and Emission of Greenhouse Gases | Cording (University of Vermont) | |
Multimetric Evaluation of Detention Basin Retrofit to Reduce Hydrologic Alteration of Urbanization and Restore Stream Stability | Hawley (Sustainable Streams, Inc.) | |
Application of Automatic Stormwater Monitoring Systems for Integrated Management of Urban Streams in Daejoen, Korea | Seo (Chungnam National University) | |
Tracking the Recovery of Onondaga Lake, NY: Monitoring the Effect of Gray and Green Infrastructure Improvements in Achieving Phosphorus TMDL Numerical Water Quality Targets | Suryadevara (Onondaga County Deparment of Water Environment Protection) | |
E7: Century Scale Trends in Water Quality
Moderator: Edward Stets (USGS) |
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The Perennial Value of Water-Quality Data for Long-Term Trend Analysis | Myers (USGS | |
Acidifying Processes in Watersheds Inferred from Century-scal Changes in Alkalinity and Major Ion Ratios | Stets (USGS) | |
Using a Century of Carbon and Nitrogen Records to Quantify Social-ecological Relationships in Watersheds of the Continental U.S. | Broussard (Univeristy of Louisiana at Lafayette) | |
Laboratory Analysis Rescue: Preserving Water-Quality Records from the Early 20th Century | Swanson (USGS) | |
E8: Workshop - Volunteer Monitoring: Getting Started and Growing Successfully, Part 2
Organized by Julie Vastine, Director, Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring |
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Tools of the Trade: Georgia's Water Quality Database | Harbert (GA EPD) | |
E9: Understand, Restore, and Protect Our Waters: The National Water Quality Monitoring Council's Programs, Initiatives, and Products
Organized by Mike Yurewicz, USGS |
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Tools of the Trade: Georgia's Water Quality Database | Harbert (GA EPD) | |
F1: State Applications of Statistical Surveys
Moderator: Amina Pollard, USEPA |
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Lakeshore Habitat Condition of Wisconsin Lakes across Gradients in Land Use and Lake Area: Building on the National Lkae Assessment | Hein (WI DNR) | |
Using Probabilistic and Targeted Sampling Strategies to Asses Wisconsin's Wadeable Streams | Shupryt (WI DNR) | |
Using R to Analyze Data from Probabilistic Monitoring in Oklahoma | Lemmon (OK Conservation Commission) | |
Evaluation of a Geometric Sampliing Design Used to Assess Stream Resources and Identify Environmental Stressors in Watersheds | Miller (WI DNR) | |
F2: Bridging the Gap: Diverse Strategies for Better Decision-Making
Moderator: Douglas McLaughlin, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc. |
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Toward Sustainable Water Information: Are Existing Water Monitoring Data Sufficient to Make Scientifically Sound Water Policy Decisions? | Betanzo (NEMWI) | |
Partnering to Establish a Sustainable Biological Monitoring Program | Wood (Charles River Watershed Association) | |
The Water Quality Framework | Young (USEPA) | |
Evaluating the Representativeness, Accuracy and Potential Use of Facility Wastewater Discharge Information for Toxic Chemicals in the Mid-Atlantic REgion | Davis (USEPA) | |
F3: Continuous Monitoring: Regulatory Applications
Moderator: Jim Dorsch, Metro Wastewater Reclamation District |
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Adapting Methods of Near Real Time Water-quality Monitoring to Meet Scientific and Regulatory Needs | Canova (USGS) | |
Utilizing Continuous Water Quality Monitoring Data for Regulatory Assessment and Discharge Permit Development along an Effluent-Dominated Segment of the South Platte River | Parman and Dorsch (Metro Wastewater Reclamation District) | |
Adaptive Management for Low Dissolved Oxygen in Grand and Hudson Lake | Phillips (OK WRB) | |
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F4: Harmful Algal Bloom and Cyanotoxin Reconnaissance
Moderator: Jennifer Graham, USGS |
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Harmful Algal Bloom Monitoring By Citizen Scientists to Protect Human Health and Strengthen Stewardship | Oleskiewicz (Ohio Lake Management Society) | |
Indiana's Cyanobacteria Monitoring Program: Analyzing Cyanobacteria and Cyanotoxins | Wagner and Arnold (IN DEM) | |
Cyanobacteria and Associated Toxins in Illinois | Terrio (USGS) | |
Determination of Algal Toxin Concentrations in Surface Waters at Isle Royale National Park (ISRO), Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (SLBE), and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (PIRO) | Duris (USGS) | |
F5: Best Management Practices in Urban and Suburban Landscapes
Moderator: Callie Oblinger, USGS |
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Digesting Multiple Lines of Evidence to Evaluate Possible Designated Use Impairments and Promising Restoration Options - Western Bays, Long Island, NY | Gulbransen (Battelle Memorial Institute) | |
Assessing Watershed Scale Responses to BMP Implementation in Urban Watersheds | Jastram (USGS) | |
Evaluation of Pollutants in Wastewater Generated by Mobile Commercial Car Washing Operations in Durham, NC | Raber (City of Durham) | |
Enumerating the Return of Investments for Restoration Projects in an Urban Watershed through Successful Partnerships and Volunteer Monitoring Efforts | Scheerhorn (Mill Creek Watershed Council of Communities) | |
F6: Integrating Remote Sensing into Assessment Programs
Moderator: Blake Schaeffer, USEPA |
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Remote Sensing of Wintertime Groundcover on Agricultural Fields within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed: Performance of Winter Cover Crops for Water Quality Protection | Hively (USGS) | |
Satellite Remotes Sensing and Crowd Sourcing to Monitor and Predict Cyanobacteria Blooms | Schaeffer (USEPA) | |
Multispectral Monitoring of New England Freshwater Resources to Assess Turbidity, Algal Blooms, and Water Quality for Enhanced Natural Resource Management | Orne (NASA DEVELOP National Program) | |
Predicting Algal Concentrations form Landsat Satellite Imagery in Kentucky Lakes | Martin (KY DEP) | |
F7: Pollutant Trading: Overviews and Perspectives at Different Scales
Moderator: Matthew Heberling, USEPA |
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Water Quality Trading in the US: National Overview under the Clean Water Act | Rose (USEPA) | |
Point/Nonpoint Water Quality Trading: How Data and Monitoring Can Reduce Market Impediments | Ribaudo (USDA ERS) | |
Nutrient Trading: How Farmers and Chesapeake Bay TMDL Efforts Can Find "Value" in Trading Tool Inventories - A Success Story of the Early Use of the Maryland Nutrient Trading Tool | York (Green Earth Connection LLC) | |
The Ohio River Basin Water Quality Trading Project | Youngstrom (Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission) | |
ES F8: Panel - Exploring the Worlds of Volunteer Monitoring and Citizen ScienceOrganized by Julie Vastine, Director, Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring |
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Co-Created Volunteer Monitoring Approach | Vastine (ALLARM) | |
Cooperative Extension Volunteer Monitoring: Contributory - Collaborative Programs | Green (URI) | |
The Current State and Future Prospects for Citizen Science | Phillips (Cornell) | |
A Look at These Citizen Science Models in Volunteer Water Monitoring Programs Across the United States | Stepenuck (University of Wisconsin - Extension and WI DNR) | |
F9: Adapting to an Extreme Climate - Best Practices, Solutions, and Unanswered Questions
Organized by Monty Porter, Oklahoma Water Resources Board |
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Importance of extreme events | Hirsch (USGS) | |
Monitoring After Severe Floods/Storms in NJ: Challenges, Solutions & Unanswered Questions | McGeorge (NJDEP) | |
Effect of Drought | Porter (OWRB) | |
Lessons from the Iowa Floods of 2008: Water Quality Issues | Skopec (IA DNR) | |
G1: National Lake Assessment: National and State Perspectives
Moderator: Aaron Borisenko, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality |
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National Lakes Assessment: Project Overview, Status Update, and Preliminary Results | Pollard (USEPA) | |
Minnesota's 2012 National Lakes Assessment: National, State and Ecoregion-based Approach | Heiskary (Minnesota Pollution Control Agency) | |
Comparison of Wisconsin's Results from National Lake Assessments in 2007 and 2012 | Garrison (WI DNR) | |
Using the Results of the 2007 National Lakes Assessment to Influence Lake Management Policy in Vermont | Matthews (VT DEC) | |
G2: Groundwater Monitoring and Protection
Moderator: Greg Pettit, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality |
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Relationships between Discharge and Water Quality in Florida Springs | Shortelle (Suwannee River Water Management District) | |
Determining the Sources of Water for Conduit "Sandboil" Springs at the Nature Conservancy's Nachusa Grasslands Preserve, Franklin Grove, Illinois | Bailey (USGS) | |
The Ohio Ambient Ground Water Quality Monitoring Program Documents Water Quality Impacts | Kenah (OH EPA) | |
Efforts to Characterize Ground Water Quality in Indiana through the Statewide Ground Water Monitoring Network | Spindler (IN DEM) | |
G3: Continuous Monitoring: Uncertainty and Bias and Precision... Oh My!
Moderator: Mary Giorgino, USGS |
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Sensor Signal Integrity and Data Quality Management: Who is Doing What? | Katznelson (UCAL Extension) | |
High Quality Monitoring at the Water's Edge Using In Situ Automatic Measurement Stations that Incorporate Real-Time Data Quality Analysis Tools | Copp (Primodal Systems Inc.) | |
Quantifying Uncertainty: Adding Value to USGS Time-Series Water-Quality Data | Rounds (USGS) | |
Estimating the Uncertainty of Mean Daily Water Temperature Using the GUM | Fulford (USGS) | |
G4: Detecting and Predicting Cyanotoxins
Moderator: Martha Clark Mettler, Indiana Department of Environmental Management |
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Long-term and Seasonal Trends in Phosphorus Loading to Lake Erie: Links to Harmful Algal Blooms with Insights from 2011 and 2012 | Johnson (National Center for Water Quality Research, Heidelberg University) | |
Understanding and Predicting Harmful Cyanobacterial Algal Blooms at Lake Erie and Ohio Inland Beaches | Stelzer (USGS) | |
Development of a Molecular Toolbox for Analyses of Bloom-Forming and Toxin-Producing Cyanobacteria in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon | Eldridge (USGS) | |
Estimating Geosmin and Microcystin Occurrences with Real-Time Water-Quality Monitors, Cheney Reservoir, Kansas, 2001-2012 | Graham (USGS) | |
G5: Quantifying the Source and Fate of Nutrients
Moderator: Jane Caffrey, University of West Florida |
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Evaluation of Nitrogen Sources and Transport Processes in the Smith Creek Watershed, An Agricultural Basin in Virginia | Hyer (USGS) | |
Development of Statistical Models to Quantify Sediment and Phosphorus Loads in Small, Rural Watersheds | Russell (Illinois State water Survey) | |
Connecting the Dots - Continuous Nitrate, Phosphorus, and Sediment Loads in the Illinois River | Terrio (USGS) | |
Nitrogen in Minnesota Rivers: Conditions, Trends, Sources, and Reductions | Wall (MN PCA) | |
G6: Challenging and Innovative Networks, Models, and Application of Conservation Information that Support the Chesapeake Bay TMDL
Moderator: Tony Shaw, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection |
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Give and Take: Building and Sustaining Integrated Long-term Water Quality Monitoring Networks in the Chesapeake Bay and Basin | Tango (USGS) | |
Recording Progress in Agricultural Conservation on Chesapeake Bay Farms Using USDA Data Records: Balancing Privacy with Useful Information | Hively (USGS) | |
Linking Models of the Atmosphere, Watershed, and Estuary to Inform the Chesapeake Bay TMDL | Shenk (EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office) | |
Application of the Chesapeake Bay Program Partnership's Watershed Model in Support of the Chesapeake Bay TMDL | Shenk (EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office) | |
G7: Developing and Using Local and Regional Water Quality Data Exchanges
Moderator: Jim Kreft, USGS |
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The AL-MS-KY Multi-State Configurable System: Promoting Data Consistency and Comparability, Improving Efficiency, and Reducing Costs of Managing State Agency Water Quality Monitoring Data | Huff (AL DEM) | |
WaDE: An Interoperable Data Exchange Network for Sharing Water Planning and Use Data | Larsen (WSWC) | |
New Mexico's SQUID (Surface water QUality Information Database): Integrating Water Quality Data Management and CWA 303(d)/305(b) Reporting | Bell and Guevara (NM Envtl. Dept.) | |
Using Cloud Computing to Protect Ecology, Economy, and Tradition through the Wild Rice Wetlands Water Quality Data Sharing Project | Schuldt (Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Reservation Environmental Program) and LeBaron (Gold Systems, Inc.) | |
G8: Panel - Better Data, Better Partnerships: How Can New Technologies Increase the Participation and Use of Volunteer Biomonitoring Data?
Organized by Jim Lazorchak, US Environmental Protection Agency |
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G9: Multi-disciplinary Approaches to Biomonitoring of Large Rivers
Organizaed by Jeff Thomas, ORSANCO |
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EMAP-GRE and ORSANCO's Ohio River Biological Monitoring Program | Argo (ORSANCO) | |
National Rivers and Streams Assessment: Nonwadeables | Lehmann (USEPA) | |
Lessons Learned from the USEPA Environmental Monitoring Assessment Program for Great River Ecosystems | Pearson (USEPA) | |
Oklahoma's Large River Sampling Program | Porter (OWRB) | |
Multi-disciplinary Approaches to Biomonitoring of Large Rivers - Large River Sampling in Pennsylvania | Spear (PA DEP) | |
H1: Monitoring and Assessing Large River Ecosystems
Moderator: Rob Tewes, Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission |
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Creation of a Multi-metric Macroinvertebrate Index and Implications for Annual Ohio River Assessments | Argo (Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission) | |
A Multi-Disciplinary Large River Assessment of Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania | Lookenbill (PA DEP) | |
Ranking Relative Effects of Environmental Factors at Various Spatial Scales on Ohio River Biotic Condition | Thomas (Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission) | |
The New England Non-wadeable Rivers Fish Assemblage Assessment Project | Yoder (Midwest Biodiversity Institute) | |
H2: Monitoring Councils and Coalitions: Examples and Lessons
Moderator: Dan Boward, Maryland Department of Natural Resources |
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The Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership: A Forum Regional Coordination | Hayslip (USEPA) | |
Measuring the Effectiveness of California's Water Quality Monitoring Council | Marschack (CA WQMC) | |
Partnerships for Communication and Cost Savings | Ruhlman (NC DWR) | |
The Evolution of the Virginia Water Monitoring Council: Becoming a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization | French (VA WMC) | |
ES H3/I3: Workshop - Megadata - Working with Continuous Time-Series Water-Quality Data
Organized by Dan Sullivan, US Geological Survey |
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Optical DO Sensor (oDo) | Sihalla (HydroTech) | |
Surrogate Analysis and Index Developer (SAID) Tool | Straub (USGS) | |
GSqwsr: An R Package to Develop Surrogate Regressions for Real-Time Water Quality Prediction | Thompson (USGS) | |
Data Models and Data Sharing Networks: Continuous and Discrete Data | Young (USEPA) and Pollak (CUAHSI) | |
H4: Contaminants of Emerging Concern
Moderator: Leslie McGeorge, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection |
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Bottoms Up? Chemical and Microbial Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Source Water and Treated Drinking Water of the United States | Glassmeyer (USEPA) | |
Pharmaceuticals and Other Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) in Source and Treated Drinking Waters from 25 Drinking Water Treatment Plants: Compositions, Concentrations, and Reductions | Furlong (USGS) | |
Effects of Treated Wastewater Effluent on Water-Quality, Sediment-Quality, and Biological Condition in Spirit Creek, Fort Gordon, Georgia | Bradley (USGS) | |
Development of Indicators for Emerging Trace Organic Compounds | Turner (LimnoTech) | |
H5: Methods and Management of Dissolved Oxygen Issues
Moderator: Alan Lewitus, NOAA |
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Maximizing the Value of Existing Monitoring Technologies: Stream Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen as Best Case Examples | Rose (USEPA) | |
Coming Up for Air: Perspectives from Five Years of DO Monitoring in Illinois | Slowikowski (IL State Water Survey) | |
Causes of Low Dissolved Oxygen in the Smithland Pool of the Ohio River | Youngstrom (Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission) | |
Hopkins Pond Restoration Using Underwater Aeration and Artificial Floating Wetlands | Haberland (Rutgers University) | |
H6: Monitoring the Effectiveness of Stream Restoration
Moderator: William Wilber, USGS |
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Water Quality Benefits of Stream Reclamation - Cherry Creek Basin, Colorado | Wolf (GEI Consultants, Inc.) | |
Bloomington's EPA National Monitoring Project Demonstrated Improved Water Quality with Significant Nutrient Reduction and Enhanced Biotic Response from the Restoration of a Prairie Stream/Slough | Roseboom (USGS) | |
Watershed Restoration Using In-Stream Lime Dosing for Treating Acid Mine Drainage | Vukovich (WV DEP) | |
Top 5 Tips for Working on Stream Projects with Teens: Lessons from Austin Youth River Watch | Lyles (Austin Youth River Watch) | |
H7: Pathogen Source Identification and Management
Moderator: Michael Higgins, US Fish & Wildlife Service |
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Evaluation of Stream Chemistry Trends in U.S. Geological Survey Reference Watersheds, 1970-2010 | Mast (USGS) | |
The Triangle Area Water Supply Monitoring Project: Tracking Water-Quality Trends and Emerging Issues for 25 Years | Giorgino (USGS) | |
Nitrogen and Phosphorus Concentrations and Loads in the Great Miami River Basin, Ohio | Ekberg (Miami Conservancy District) | |
Long-Term Trends in Concentrations of Selected Constituents | Risch (USGS) | |
ES H8: Workshop - Bacteria Monitoring 101: Get Hands-On with Four Methods to Monitor Bacteria in Your Local WaterwayOrganized by Kristine Stepenuck, University of Wisconsin-Extension and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources |
ES H9: Panel - National and State Perspectives on Implementing the National Coastal Condition Assessment Organized by Hugh Sullivan and Treda Grayson, US Environmental Protection Agency |
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South Carolina State-Scale Estuarine Statistical Survey and the NARS National Coastal Condition Assessment | Chestnut (SC DHEC) | |
I1: Implementing EPA's Healthy Watersheds Program
Moderator: Amina Pollard, USEPA |
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Using Integrated Assessments to Identify Healthy Watersheds at the State Scale | McDonough (USEP - ORISE) | |
Application of EPA's Healthy Watersheds Initiative Concepts Enhances Protection of California's Streams and Watersheds | Ode (CA DFW) | |
Wisconsin's Healthy Watersheds Initiative: Ranking Watersheds to Inform Managment Actions | Hein (WI DNR) | |
Alabama's Healthy Watershed Initiative and Biological Condition Gradient: Two Tools for Prioritizing Restoration and Protection Efforts | Huff (AL DEM) | |
I2: Assessing the Effects of Prolonged Drought and Wildfires on Water Quality and Habitat
Moderator: Kathy Warner, USGS |
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Application of Continuous and Periodic Monitoring to the Assessment of the Impacts of the 2012-2013 Drought on Groundwater Conditions in Illinois | Kay (USGS) | |
Trial by Fire: Dedicated Volunteers Test Water During Extreme Drought in Texas | Apodaca (Lower Colorado River Authority) | |
Effect of Drought on the Transport of Nitrate in a Midwest Stream | Kalkhoff (USGS) | |
Monitoring the Recovery of Streams in the San Gabriel Mountains (CA) Following the Largest Wildfire in Los Angeles County History: Station Fire - 2009 | Patrick (Aquatic Bioassay & Consulting Labs) | |
I3: Workshop - Megadata - Working With Continuous Time-Series WaterQuality Data, Part 2
Organized by Dan Sullivan, US Geological Survey |
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I4: Contaminants of Emerging Concern: Perfluorinated Compounds (PFCs)
Moderator: Edward Furlong, US Geological Survey |
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Occurrence of Perfluorinated Compounds in New Jersey Public Water Supplies | Post (NJ DEP) | |
Presence of Perfluorinated Compounds in Source and Treated Drinking Waters from 25 Drinking Water Treatment Plants in the United States | Glassmeyer (USEPA) | |
PFC Contamination at the Former Wurtsmith Air Force Base; Extent, Sources, Fish Uptake, Human Exposure, Fate and Transport | Delaney (State of Michigan) | |
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I5: Indicator Bacteria and Predictive Modeling
Moderator: Curtis Cude, Oregon Health Authority |
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A Comprehensive Assessment of the Occurrence and Distribution of Pathogenic Bacteria in Great Lakes Tributaries, March-September 2011 | Brennan (USGS) | |
Assessing Enterococci in the Nation's Lakes, Reservoirs, Streams and Rivers: Results from the National Aquatic Resource Surveys | Lehmann (USEPA) | |
Improving Predictions of Bacterial Water Quality with Real-time Networked Sensors and Online Models | Wetherill (University of Massachusetts Boston) | |
Advancing the Use of Predictive Models for Estimating Recreational Water Quality at Beaches | Francy (USGS) | |
I6: Data Management Approaches for Diverse Monitoring Groups
Moderator: Elizabeth Herron, University of Rhode Island Watershed Watch |
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Davis (USEPA) | ||
The Kentucky Interagency Groundwater Monitoring Network: A Collaborative Effort in Grooundwater Resource Characterization | Davidson (KY Geological Survey) | |
Developing an Interactive Database for Volunteer Stream Monitoring Results | Stratton (Davey Resource Group) | |
Managing Spatial Data: The FlexiGrid Experience | Katznelson (University of California Extension | |
I7: Measuring Invertebrates to Quantify Lake and Reservoir Conditions
Moderator: W. Reed Green, USGS |
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Impact of Invasive Dreissenid Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha and Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) and Invasive Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus) on the Benthic Macroinvertebrate Community and Ecological State of Lake Simcoe (Ontario, Canada) | Ginn (Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority) | |
Late Summer Crustacean Zooplankton Communities in Western US Reservoirs Reflect Ecoregion, Temperature and Latitude | Beaver (BSA Environmental Services, Inc.) | |
Water Quality and Biological Assessment of the Lower Reservoirs of the Susquehanna River | Steffy and Henning (Susquehanna River Basin Commission) | |
Assessing Water Quality Effects of the Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Facility Reservoir Breach and Evaluating Recovery and Restoration Efforts | Michaelson (MO DNR) | |
ES I8: Workshop - Craft A Powerful MessageOrganized by Martha Merson, Technical Education Research Centers (TERC) |
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I9: Cancelled |
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J1: National-Scale Water Quality Assessments
Moderator: Greg Pettit, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality |
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The National Network of Reference Watersheds | McHale (USGS) | |
A Multi-Scale Monitoring and Modeling Approach for Assessing the Quality of the Nation's Groundwater: Perspectives from the USGS National Water Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA) | Belitz (USGS) | |
Status and Trends of the Nation's Surface-Water Quality: The U.S. Geological Survey's National Fixed Site Network | Crawford (USGS) | |
Assessing the Nation's Waters: Accomplishments of the First Ten Years of the National Aquatic Resource Surveys (NARS) and Challenges for the Next Ten | Lehmann (USEPA) | |
J2: Novel Biotic Indices
Moderator: Jeff Ostermiller, Utah Division of Water Quality |
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Upper Mississippi River Mussel Community Assessment Tool | Dunn (Ecological Specialists, Inc.) | |
Implementation of a Long-Term Quantitative Mussel Monitoring Program in Kentucky | Culp (KY DEP) | |
Validation of a Headwater Index of Biotic Integrity for New Jersey's High Gradient Streams | Henning (NJ DEP) | |
Investigating a Rapid Floristic Quality Assessment Method for Mid-Atlantic Wetlands or What's a Nice Intensive Assessment Method Like You Doing in a Rapid Assessment World Like This? | Chamberlain (Penn State University) | |
J3: Continuous Monitoring: Tools and Tricks for Data Management
Moderator: Dan Sullivan, USGS |
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Database Design for In Situ Water Quality Data | Russell (Illinois State Water Survey) | |
Combining Monitoring Data Spanning Multiple Temporal and Spatial Scales to Evaluate Water Quality Affecting Seagrass Habitat Extent in Northwest Florida Estuaries | Hagy (USEPA) | |
ODM Tools Python: Open Source Software for Managing Hydrologic and Water Quality Time Series Data | Horsburgh (Utah State University) | |
Temporarily Dynamic Representations of Continuous Monitor Data through Animated Graphing | Yagecic (DRBC) | |
J4: Monitoring Methods and Effects of Floods on Water Quality and Human and Ecological Health
Moderator: Terry Schertz, USGS |
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Concentrations and Transport of Nutrients and Suspended Sediment in the Lower Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin during the 2011 Mississippi River Flood, April through July | Welch (USGS) | |
The Occurrence and Transport of Pesticides in the Lower Mississippi River during the 2011 Flood | Coupe (USGS) | |
Long Term Contaminant Threats to Ecosystems and Humans Due to Hurricane Sandy | Focazio (USGS) | |
Training and Equipment Required to Collect Water-Quality Samples on Large Rivers during High Flows | Skrobialowski (USGS) | |
J5: Pesticide Monitoring, Modeling, and Risk Assessment
Moderator: Tracy Perry (USEPA) |
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Integration of Surface and Groundwater Modeling and Monitoring Data in Pesticide Ecological Risk Assessments | Corbin (USEPA) | |
Use of the Co-occurrence Pesticide Species Tool (CoPST) to Model Seasonal and Temporal Patterns of Pesticide Presence to Guide Water Quality Monitoring Timing and Location | Breuer (State Water Resources Control Board, California Environmental Protection Agency) | |
Pesticide Surface Water Monitoring: Bias Factors to Estimate Peak Concentrations and PRZM-Hybrid to Complete Measured Chemographs | Truman (Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC) | |
Pesticide Toxicity Index - A Tool for Assessing Complex Mixtures of Pesticides in Streams | Norman (USGS) | |
J6: Web and Smart Phone Apps for Collecting and Presenting Data
Moderator: Charles Kovatch, USEPA |
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Better Public Access and Integration of Point Source Wastewater Pollutant Discharge Information and Receiving Waterbody Quality and Assessment Data | Davis (USEPA) | |
Recr8OhioRiver: A Water Quality Recreation Management Application to Have a Safe and Enjoyable Time on the Ohio River | Alfaqih (Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati) | |
TestTheWater.org a Digital Water Data Management Solution | Tremblay and Warren (4Marbles, Inc.) | |
A High Quality Cellphone-Based Portable Microscope for Stream Side Data Collection | Steinberg (Southern California Coastal Water Research Project) | |
J7: Using Volunteer Data to Meet State Clean Water Act Goals
Moderator: Aaron Borisenko, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality |
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Monitoring Rhode Island's Waters | Herron (University of Rhode Island) | |
Citizen Monitoring Programs Helpig to Keep Tahoe Blue: Locating Aquatic Invasive Species and Prioritizing Storm Water Point Sources | Patterson (League to Save Lake Tahoe) | |
Using Biological Monitoring Data for Assessment - Our "A-Ha" Moment | Donkersloot (NJ DEP) | |
Utilizing Volunteer Monitoring to Meet Local Stormwater Program Objectives | Beckley (VA DEQ) and French (Filterra Bioretention Systems and VWMC) | |
ES J8: Panel - Coastal Monitoring and Regional Ocean Partnership Alliances: Data Comparability and Links to the National Monitoring NetworkOrganized by David Graves, South Carolina Deparment of Health and Environmental Control |
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Interstate Monitoring Issues - Why Can't We All Just Get Along | Chestnut (SCDHEC) | |
State and Federal Collaboration As Part of the Albemarle Sound Demonstration Study for the National Monitoring Network | Moorman (USGS) and Reid (NCDWR) | |
Interstate Monitoring Issues | Sullivan (USEPA) | |
Integrating Coastal Monitoring - The GOMA Experience | Wolfe (GOMA) | |
ES J9: Panel - National Water Quality Initiative: Using Watershed Monitoring to Track Water Quality Improvement from Conservation SystemsOrganized by Stuart Lehmann, US Environmental Protection Agency |
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NRCS Edge-of-Field Water Quality Monitoring | Anderson (NRCS) | |
Monitoring Water Quality In Streams to Identify Water Quality Changes Due to Agricultural Conservation Practice | Lehmann (USEPA) | |
Why, What, and Where to Monitor, and What to Do With the Data | Stribling (Tetra Tech, Inc.) | |
K1: Monitoring and Modeling to Restore and Protect Coastal Water Quality
Moderator: Jim Hagy, USEPA |
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Adaptation of a Weighted Regression Approach to Evaluate Water Quality Trends in Tampa Bay, Florida | Beck (USEPA - ORISE) | |
Albemarle Sound Demonstration Study of the National Monitoring Network for U.S. Coastal Waters and Their Tributaries | Moorman (USGS) | |
Suspended Sediment-Bound Toxic Chemical Loads from Large Rivers to Puget Sound, Washington | Conn (USGS) | |
Evaluating Water and Sediment Quality in the Gulf of Mexico Coastal National Parks | Caffrey (University of West Florida) | |
K2: Characterization of Regional Groundwater Systems
Moderator: Kenneth Belitz, USGS |
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Measuring Hydrostratigraphy in Two Minnesota Bedrock Wells: A Case Study of Methods for Better Understanding Ground-Water/Surface-Water Interaction, Water Quality, and Well Productivity | Berglund (MN Department of Health) | |
Factors Affecting Public-Supply-Well Vulnerability to Contamination: Understanding Observed Water Quality and Anticipating Future Water Quality | Eberts (USGS) | |
The Kentucky Interagency Groundwater Monitoring Network: Expanded Monitoring Programs | Blair (Kentucky Division of Water) | |
Assessing the Quality of Groundwater Used for Public Supply in Principal Aquifers of the Western United States | Bexfield (USGS) | |
K3: Continuous Monitoring: Sensor Developments in Energy Production/Hydrofracking
Moderator: Pete Penoyer, National Park Service |
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Application of an Aqueous Methane Sensor to Evaluate Spatial and Temporal Changes in Dissolved Methane Concentrations in a Groundwater Monitoring Well | Barton (Battelle Memorial Institute) | |
Continuous Monitoring of Methanol Concentration in Water Treatment Processes Associated with Hydrofracturing | Reardon (OptiEnz Sensors, LLC) | |
Preliminary Findings from Continuous Water Chemistry Monitoring in Watersheds Impacted by Shale Gas Drilling in the Susquehanna River Basin | Hintz (Susquehanna River Basin Commission) | |
Natural Variation of Specific Conductivity and Major Ions in Wadeable Streams of the Conterminous United States | Griffith (USEPA) | |
K4: Microbial Source Tracking and Health Effects
Moderator: David Chestnut, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control |
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Location of E. coli Bacteria Sources in an Urban Watershed in Seattle, Washington Using a Combination of Repeat In-Stream Sampling, Rapid Bio-assessment, IDDE Sampling of Storm Drains, CCTV of Sanitary Drains, Bacteroides Analysis and Information on Urban Homeless Encampments | Frodge (Seattle Public Utilities) | |
Examining Indicator Bacteria at Freshwater Swim Sites in the Los Angeles River Watershed, California | Morris (Council for Watershed Health) | |
Epidemiology Studies of Swimming-Associated Illness at Beaches with Non-Point Sources of Fecal Pollution | Cao (Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Authority) | |
Implementing a Fecal Coliform TMDL Using Volunteer and Shellfish Sanitation Program Data to Identify Sources and Transport Pathways | Libes (Coastal Carolina University) | |
K5: Monitoring to Reflect Water Quality Changes from Management Actions
Moderator: Michael Eberle, U.S. Forest Service |
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Water Quality and Biological Trends in Ohio: Pre-Construction Grants Program to the Present | Miltner (Ohio EPA) | |
Monitoring and Analyzing the Effectiveness of the Lower Minnesota River Low Dissolved Oxygen Total Maximum Daily Load Study's Wastewater Phosphorus Permitting Implementation Activities | Skuta (MN PCA) | |
Farms, Fish, Phosphorus and Phytoplankton: Long-Term Dynamics of a Reservoir Ecosystem Associated with Changes in Watershed Agricultural Practices | Vanni (Miami University) | |
Multiple Uses of Data from an Automated Monitoring Network in a 6-Mile Urban Stormwater Tunnel | Suppes (Capitol Region Watershed District) | |
K6: Statistical Analysis Tools
Moderator: Mary Skopec, Iowa Department of Natural Resources |
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Linked Micromaps: Statistical Summaries of Monitoring Data in a Spatial Context | McManus (USEPA) | |
STORET Analytical Tools | Wesley-Snider (RTI International) | |
Disaggregation of Pollutant Sources through the Implementation of Continuous, Surrogate-Based Regression Equations | Riddle and Hammond (Woolpert, Inc.) | |
Accounting for Confounders Leads to Clearer Effects-Thresholds for Some Stressors | Buchanan (Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin) | |
K7: Research and Achievements in Community-Based Science
Moderator: Julie Vastine, Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring @ Dickinson College |
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Assessing the Needs of US Volunteer Monitoring Programs: Recentt Survey Results and Implications | Green (URI Cooperative Extension) | |
"I Want to Help Whoever Can Help the Water": Explaining Citizen Involvement in Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Programs | McCauley (Northern Kentucky University) | |
Improving Understanding of Impacts of Volunteer Water Monitoring Programs on Natural Resource Policy and Management | Stepenuck (University of Wisconsin-Extension) | |
Citizen Science and the Management of Natural Resources and Environments: A Systems Approach | Glynn (USGS) | |
ES K8: Panel - National Scale Water Portals: Why Do We Have More Than One?Organized by James Kreft, US Geological Survey |
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National Ground Water Monitoring Network and Network Portal | Cunningham (USGS) | |
USGS Sediment Data Portal | Lee (USGS) | |
The CUAHSI Water Data Center | Pollak (CUAHSI) | |
ES K9: Panel - Approaches to Reviewing and Assessing Monitoring ProgramsOrganized by Mike Yurewicz, US Geological Survey |
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Maryland's Approach to Reviewing and Assessing Monitoring Programs | Boward (MD DNR) | |
North Dakota's Water Quality Monitoring Program for Surface Waters: An Ambient Monitoring Program Case History | Ell | |
Approaches to Assessing and Reviewing Monitoring Programs - Oregon's Enterprise Approach | Pettit (OR DEQ) | |
Surface Water Quality Monitoring | Wise (TCEQ) | |
L1: The Big Picture: Holistic Approaches to Water Quality Assessments
Moderator: Barb Horn, Colorado Parks & Wildlife |
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Determining How Much Algae is too Much Algae in West Virginia Streams | Coyne (WV DEP) | |
Projected Economic Benefits Associated with the Removal of Excess Nitrogen and Phosphorus from Utah's Lakes and Streams | Ostermiller (UT DEQ) | |
Collaborative Science and Monitoring to Support Integrated Watershed Planning | Watts (University of New Hampshire) | |
Next-Generation of Urban Water Systems | Ma (USEPA) | |
L2: Assessment of Stream Condition with Macroinvertebrates, Part 1
Moderator: Timothy Oden, USGS |
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Evaluation of an Alternate Benthic Macroinvertebrate Sampling Method for Low Gradient Streams Sampled in the National Rivers and Streams Assessment | Blocksom (USEPA) | |
A Credible Water Quality Assessment Using Citizen-Collected Macroinvertebrate Data | Onion (New York State Department of Environmental Conservation) | |
Overview of the Biological and Water Quality Assessment Program and the Results for Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati Service Area, Cincinnati, Ohio | Alfaqih (Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati) | |
Environmental Drivers of Biological Stability and Persistence at Reference and Managed Sites within the Interior Columbia River Basin | Miller (Utah State University) | |
L3: Energy Production Impacts
Moderator: Pete Penoyer, National Park Service |
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Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in a Tropical Brazillian Reservoir | Andrade (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) | |
Disinfection By-Products Formed During the Treatment of Produced Waters at Wastewater Treatment Plants | Hladik (USGS) | |
Wheeling, West Virginia Experience With Frackwater: What "Brinewater" and "Residual Waste" Trucks Are Really Carrying | Stout (Wheeling Jesuit University) | |
Preliminary Interpretation of the Impacts of Marcellus Shale Gas Extraction Activities on Small Streams, Based on Volunteer-Collected Data | Wilderman (Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring @ Dickinson College) | |
L4: Integrated Monitoring and Modeling to Restore and Protect a National Estuary - Barnegat Bay
Moderator: Diane Switzer, USEPA |
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Collaborative Water Quality Monitoring Program to Support Modeling and Restoration of Barnegat Bay | Pang (NJ DEP) | |
Hydrodynamic Modeling of Temperature-Salinity Dynamics in Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor Estuary, NJ | Defne (USGS) | |
Modeling of Water-Quality Dynamics and Responses to Nutrient and Other Stresses in Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey | Spitz (USGS) | |
Monitoring and Assessing the Restoration and Protection of the Barnegat Bay: Quo Vadimus? | Hales, Jr. (Barnegat Bay Partnership, Ocean County College) | |
L5: Multiple Stressors and Water Quality Impairments
Moderator: Jaysson Funkhouser, USGS |
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Software for Analysis of Chemical Mixtures: Composition, Occurrence, Distribution, and Possible Toxicity | Skach (USGS) | |
Headwaters Stressor Identification Study for the Central Great Plains Ecoregion of Kansas and Nebraska | Matthews (RTI International) | |
Drowning in Data: Leveraging Multi-Parameter Datasets to Inform Adaptive Management-Based Restoration In the Long Creek Watershed, A Small Urban-Impaired Freshwater Stream In Coastal Cumberland County, Maine | McDonald (Cumberland County Soil & Water Conservation District) | |
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L6: Spatial and Temporal Approaches for Monitoring
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USGS Tributary Monitoring Network to Support Great Lakes Restoration Efforts | Sullivan (USGS) | |
Long-Duration High-Frequency Monitoring of Nutrients and Sediments in an Agricultural Watershed | Renwick (Miami University) | |
Using Critical Timing to Couple Continuous Water Quality Monitoring Data and Proposed Nitrate Reduction Strategies | Garrett (USGS) | |
Dissolved Organic Matter as an Indicator of Watershed Processes | Aiken (USGS) | |
L7: Making it Clear for the Public: Techniques in Data Communication, Part 1
Moderator: Alexandra Fried, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science |
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Promoting Recreation in the Willamette River Post CSO Control | Abrams (City of Portland) | |
Turning Monitoring Data from Numbers into Watershed Priorities | Scott (SD1) | |
Volunteer Monitoring for Science and Action | Williams (Buzzards Bay Coalition) | |
How to Turn 3000 Water Quality Measures from 11 Sources into an 8 Page Report Written for the General Public | Obrecht (University of Missouri) | |
ES L8: Workshop - How Can Remote Sensing Address Information Needs and Gaps in Water Quality and Quantity ManagementOrganized by Christine M. Lee, National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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DEVELOP National Program - Partnering with DEVELOP: Program & Projects Overview | Orne (NASA) | |
ES L9: Short Course: New Tools for Water Quality Data Access and Trend Analysis: An Overview of the USGS R Packages: dataRetrieval and EGRETOrganized by Robert M. Hirsch, US Geological Survey |
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M1: Regional Scale Monitoring Strategies
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Assessing the Quality of Groundwater used for Public Supply across the Glacial Aquifer System | Stackelberg (USGS) | |
The Midwest Stream Quality Assessment: A Collaboration Between the USEPA and the U.S. Geological Survey | Frey (USGS) | |
Design Basics for the Gulf Monitoring Network (GMN): Integrating Key Elements of Remote Sensing, Sampling, and Modeling | Wolfe (Gulf of Mexico Alliance/Florida Institute of Oceanography) | |
Design and Implementation of Regional Monitoring Networks to Detect Climate Change Effects in Freshwater Streams | Stamp (Tetra Tech, Inc.) | |
M2: Assessment of Stream Condition with Macroinvertebrates, Part 2
Moderator: Gretchen Hayslip, USEPA |
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Tracking Macroinvertebrate Trends in Water Quality With Respect to Flow Conditions and Other Variables | Martin (Adrian College) | |
Stream Characteristics and Other Considerations for Macroinvertebrate Bioassessment of Puerto Rico Streams | Kurtenbach (USEPA) | |
Evaluating the Effects of Spawning Bed Enhancement on Salmon Habitat, Water Quality, and Benthic Communities in a Yuba River Tributary in Northern California | Wood (Sierra Streams Institute) | |
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M3: Training and Coordinating for Better Results
Moderator: Danielle Donkersloot, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection |
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Training and Educating Digitally - How YouTube is Revolutionizing Water Quality Monitoring | Beckley (VA DEQ) | |
The Maryland Biological Stream Survey Training and Certification Program | Boward (MD DNR) | |
Coaching Volunteers to Obtain Meaningful and Useful Data | Higgins (MO DNR) | |
Large-Scale Sampling Events: Using Volunteers to Monitor at the Watershed Level | Harbert (GA EPD) | |
M4: Mercury in Air, Water, and Fish Tissue
Moderator: Gary Rowe, USGS |
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The Atmospheric Mercury Network: Measurement of Atmospheric Mercury Fractions across North America | Gay (University of Illinois) | |
The Great Lakes Atmospheric Mercury Monitoring Network | Risch (USGS) | |
Wathen (USEPA) | ||
Mercury Monitoring and Assessment in the Ohio River | Heath and Hobbins (Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission) | |
M5: Quantifying Agricultural Nonpoint Sources and Controls
Moderator: Andrea Bolks, USEPA - ORISE |
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A Regional Assessment of the Effects of Conservation Practices on In-Stream Water Quality | Garcia (USGS) | |
Monitoring Methods Used to Improve Agricultural Best Management Practice Evaluations at the Edge-of-Field Scale | Morris (USGS) | |
Neonictinoid Insecticide Occurrence in Iowa Streams During the 2013 Growing Season | Hladik (USGS) | |
The National Water Quality Initiative's Monitoring Framework | Larsen (USEPA - ORISE) | |
M6: Geospatial Tools for Data Integration
Moderator: Stephen Aichele, USGS |
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The National Hydrography Dataset: A Geospatial Tool for Data Integration | Rea (USGS) | |
Innovative Applications of the New National Hydrography Dataset Plus (NHDPlus Version 2) - A National Surfacewater Geofabric | Dewald (USEPA) | |
Georeferencing Water Quality Assessments to NHDPlus Catchments - A New Approach to Evaluating and Measuring Progress in Surface Water Quality | Reid (USEPA) | |
Re-envisioning the National Hydrography Dataset | Aichele (USGS) | |
M7: Making it Clear for the Public: Techniques in Data Communication, Part 2
Moderator: Julie Vastine, Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring @ Dickinson College |
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Talk to Me: Generating Interest in Water Quality through Better Reportin | Steiner (NH DES) | |
Calculating Water Quality Indicator Scores for Ecosystem Health Report Cards | Fries (University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science) | |
Volunteer Stream Monitoring Data for Everyone: Making Information Publicly Accessible to the Community | Powers and Zawadzki (Mid-Michigan Environmental Action Council) | |
Where Are Our Wetlands and How Are They Doing? | Marschack (CA WQMC) | |
M8: Short Course - Dissolved Organic Matter - What, Why, how
Organized by George Aiken, US Geological Survey |
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M9: Short Course - Water Quality Applications of R Statistical SoftwareOrganized by Monty Porter, Oklahoma Water Resources Board |
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Willamette Basin Rivers & Streams Assessment | Borisenko (OR DEQ) | |
South Carolina Ambient Surface Water Monitoring: Our Discovery of R | Rabon and Chestnut (SC DHEC) | |
N1/O1: Strengthening Monitoring Programs through Nonprofit/Government Collaboration
Organized by Erick Burres, California Water Resources Control Board - Clean Water Team |
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Implementing Web-based Digital Technologies for Volunteer Monitoring, Watershed Stewardship Organizations & Agencies | Burres (SWCRB) | |
N2/O2: Workshop - Visualizing Geographically Referenced Data with Linked MicromapsOrganized by Michael G. McManus, US Environmental Protection Agency |
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