MRB Project Updates Feb. '06

Nutrient & Sediment

• MRB 1-E: Trends in Nutrient Loads to Inland and Coastal Waters of the Northeastern U.S. (Elaine Todd Trench)
• MRB 2-C:
• Water-Quality Trends and Loads in the Southern Atlantic Gulf and Tennessee River Basins (Douglas Harned)
• Assembling the set of observed loads to calibrate SPARROW nitrogen and phosphorus models for the South Atlantic-Gulf and Tennessee River Basins (Anne Hoos)
• Estimation of Nutrient Loads from Point Sources in MRB2 (Jerry McMahon)
• MRB 3-A: Trends and Loads of Nutrients in the Great Lakes, Upper Mississippi River, Ohio River, and Red River Basins (Dave Lorenz and Dale Robertson)
• MRB 4-A:
• Trends of Nutrients and Suspended Sediment in the Missouri River Basin (Lori Sprague)
• Spatial Scale and the Proximity Factor for Water Quality-Landscape Correlations (Ron Zelt)
• Ground Water Trends in the Missouri River Basin – 3 Case Studies (Jennifer Flynn)
• Long-term water-quality trends at MRB4 sites (Melanie Clark)
• Spatial comparisons of sediment load in the Missouri River Basin (Dave Rus)
• MRB 5-A: Trends In Nutrient & Suspended-Sediment Concentrations & Loads as a Function of Human & Natural Factors in the South-Central U.S. (Richard Rebich)
• MRB 7-A: Trends in nutrient and suspended sediment concentrations, loads, and yield in relation to landscape and climate – Columbia River Basin, Puget Sound, and other river in the Pacific Northwest (Greg Fuhrer and Joe Rinella)
• MRB 8-A Trends in nutrient concentrations and sources in California streams, 1975 to 2003  (Charlie Kratzer)

Pesticides

• MRB 1-B: Trends in diazinon and other urban pesticides due to changes in management practices (Pat Phillips)
• MRB 5-B: Changes in pesticide concentrations in relation to changes in use in the Lower Mississippi--Texas Gulf River Basins (Patty Ging)
• IR-1: Pesticides in Streams of Corn-Soybean Agricultural Areas of the U.S. (Dan Sullivan and Judith Thomas)

Surface-Water/Ground-Water Interaction

• SW/GW-2: Dissolved solids in basin-fill aquifers and major river systems in the Southwest (Dave Anning)

Ecology

• MRB 3-D: Effects of multi-scale environmental characteristics on agricultural stream biota in Midwestern U.S.A. (Julie Berkman, Barbara Scudder, and Michelle Lutz)
• IR-2: Relation of hydrology and physical features to aquatic communities of low-gradient streams in agricultural settings in the Midwest and Northeastern United States (Jennifer Hogan, Julie Berkman, Jonathan Kennan, and Karen Riva-Murray)

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