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Monitoring, Modeling, and Emergent Toxicology in the East Fork Watershed: Developing a Test Bed for Water Quality Management.
Citation:
NIETCH, C. T. AND D. S. BROWN. Monitoring, Modeling, and Emergent Toxicology in the East Fork Watershed: Developing a Test Bed for Water Quality Management. In Proceedings, AWWA Water Quality Technology Conference, Cincinnati, OH, November 16 - 20, 2008. American Water Works Association, Denver, CO, ,, (2008).
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Description:
Overarching objectives for the development of the East Fork Watershed Test Bed in Southwestern Ohio include: 1) providing research infrastructure for integrating risk assessment and management research on the scale of a large multi-use watershed (1295 km2); 2) Focusing on process-level understanding of ecotoxicology and fate/transport for emerging contaminants and stressful mixtures for linking stressor dynamics to instream ecology; 3) Developing and maintaining long-term continuity in base analytics for ecosystem structure and function useful for meta-analyses and continual testing of new indicators of stress-response, monitoring technologies, and modeling functions. The key components proposed as requisite for a watershed test bed are described here, along with an example of how they have been combined to address a pertinent question related to water quality management.
