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Publications Details for Grant Number R831369

A Watershed Classification System for Improved Monitoring and Restoration: Landscape Indicators of Watershed Impairment

RFA: Development of Watershed Classification Systems for Diagnosis of Biological Impairment in Watersheds and Their Receiving Water Bodies (2003)

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Book Chapter Goetz S, Fiske GJ. On the relationship between stream biotic diversity and exurbanization in the Northeastern USA. In:Lawrence PL, ed. Geospatial Tools for Urban Water Resources. Geotechnologies and the Environment. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer Science, 2013, Chapter 4, pp. 61-78. R831369 (Final)
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Book Chapter Goetz SJ, Jantz CA, Prince SD, Smith AJ, Varlyguin D, Wright RK. Integrated analysis of ecosystem interactions with land use change: the Chesapeake Bay watershed. In:DeFries RS, Asner GP, Houghton RA, eds. Ecosystems and Land Use Change. Geophysical Monograph Series, Vol. 153. Washington, DC:American Geophysical Union, 2004, pp. 263-275. R831369 (Final)
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Book Chapter Gregory S, Allen AW, Baker M, Boyer K, Dillaha T, Elliott J. Realistic expectations of timing between conservation and restoration actions and ecological responses. In: Schnepf M, Cox C, eds. Managing Agricultural Landscapes for Environmental Quality. Ankeny, IA: Soil and Water Conservation Society, 2007, pp. 115-146. R831369 (2006)
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Book Chapter Tarboton DG, Baker ME. Toward an algebra for terrain-based flow analysis. In: Mount N, Harvey G, Priesthall G, Aplin P, Priestnall G, eds. Representing, Modelling, and Visualizing the Natural Environment. Innovations in GIS Series. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2009, Chapter 12, pp. 167-194. R831369 (Final)
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Journal Article Baker ME, Weller DE, Jordan TE. Improved methods for quantifying potential nutrient interception by riparian buffers. Landscape Ecology 2006;21(8):1327-1345. R828684 (Final)
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Journal Article Baker ME, Weller DE, Jordan TE. Effects of stream map resolution on measures of riparian buffer distribution and nutrient retention potential. Landscape Ecology 2007;22(7):973-992. R828684 (Final)
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Journal Article Goetz S, Fiske G. Linking the diversity and abundance of stream biota to landscapes in the mid-Atlantic USA. Remote Sensing of Environment 2008;112(11):4075-4085. R828684 (Final)
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Journal Article Goetz SJ. Remote sensing of riparian buffers: past progress and future prospects. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 2006;42(1):133-143. R828684 (Final)
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Journal Article Goetz SJ, Gardiner N, Viers JH. Monitoring freshwater, estuarine and near-shore benthic ecosystems with multi-sensor remote sensing:an introduction to the special issue. Remote Sensing of Environment 2008;112(11):3993-3995. R831369 (Final)
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Journal Article Jantz CA, Goetz SJ. Can smart growth save the Chesapeake Bay? Journal of Green Building 2007;2(3):41-51. R831369 (Final)
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Journal Article Jantz P, Goetz S, Jantz C. Urbanization and the loss of resource lands in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Environmental Management 2005;36(6):808-825. R831369 (2004)
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Journal Article Lang MW, Kasischke ES, Prince SD, Pittman KW. Assessment of C-band synthetic aperture radar for mapping and monitoring Coastal Plain forested wetlands in the Mid-Atlantic Region, U.S.A. Remote Sensing of Environment 2008;112(11):4120-4130. R831369 (Final)
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Journal Article Maloney KO, Weller DE, Russell MJ, Hothorn T. Classifying the biological condition of small streams: an example using benthic macroinvertebrates. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 2009;28(4):869-884. R831369 (Final)
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Journal Article Maloney KO, Munguia P, Mitchell RM. Anthropogenic disturbance and landscape patterns affect diversity patterns of aquatic benthic macroinvertebrates. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 2011;30(1):284-295. R831369 (Final)
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Journal Article Nielsen EM, Prince SD, Koeln GT. Wetland change mapping for the U.S. mid-Atlantic region using an outlier detection technique. Remote Sensing of Environment 2008;112(11):4061-4074. R831369 (Final)
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Journal Article Roberts AD, Prince SD, Jantz CA, Goetz SJ. Effects of projected future urban land cover on nitrogen and phosphorus runoff to Chesapeake Bay. Ecological Engineering 2009;35(12):1758-1772. R831369 (Final)
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Journal Article Roberts AD, Prince SD. Effects of urban and non-urban land cover on nitrogen and phosphorus runoff to Chesapeake Bay. Ecological Indicators 2010;10(2):459-474. R831369 (Final)
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Journal Article Russell MJ, Weller DE, Jordan TE, Sigwart KJ, Sullivan KJ. Net anthropogenic phosphorus inputs:spatial and temporal variability in the Chesapeake Bay region. Biogeochemistry 2008;88(3):285-304. R831369 (Final)
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Journal Article Snyder MN, Goetz SJ, Wright RK. Stream health rankings predicted by satellite derived land cover metrics. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 2005;41(3):659-677. R831369 (2005)
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Presentation Baker ME, Tarboton DG. New approaches for representing uncertainty in watershed connectivity. Presented at the US Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE), Madison, WI, April 6-10, 2008. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Baker ME, Tarboton DG. Generalized models of flow across terrain using digital elevation models. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 15-19, 2008. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Baker ME, van Appledorn M, Weller DE, Jordan TE. Strategic Tools for Targeted Riparian Buffer Restoration:developing priorities and reasonable expectations for nutrient reductions. Presented at the 2009 CRC Regional Conference: Ecosystem Based Management:the Chesapeake and Other Systems, Baltimore, MD, March 22-25, 2009. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Baker M. Watershed-scale thresholds in the potential effectiveness of riparian buffers. Presented at the US Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE), San Diego, CA, March 28-31, 2006. R831369 (2006)
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Presentation Baker M. Effects of stream map resolution on measures of riparian buffer distribution and nutrient retention potential. Presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Joint Assembly, Baltimore, MD, May 23-26, 2006. R831369 (2006)
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Presentation Baker M. Using land surface phenology to explore the effects of landscape and riparian features on nutrient discharges in tributary watersheds of Chesapeake Bay. Presented at the US Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE), Tucson, AZ, April 9-13, 2007. R831369 (2006)
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Presentation Boomer K, Weller DE, Baker ME. A watershed classification system for improved monitoring and restoration: landscape indicators of watershed impairment. Presented at the Environmental Research Seminar, EPA Region I, Boston, MA, October 24, 2007. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Boomer K, Weller DE, Baker ME. Assessing floodplain and riparian functions with fine-scale topography data. Presented at the SI GIS Conference, January 14, 2009. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Boomer K, Weller DE, Baker ME, Jordan TE. Using LiDAR data to infer denitrification potential in riparian wetlands. Presented at the Society of Wetland Scientists International Conference, Washington, DC, May 26-30, 2008. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Boomer K, Weller DE, Baker ME, Jordan TE. Using fine-resolution topography data to infer groundwater flowpaths and denitrification potential in riparian wetlands in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Presented at the American Water Resources Assocation (AWRA) Summer Specialty Conference, Virginia Beach, VA, June 30-July 2, 2008. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Geotz S. Land use change, loss of resource lands, and stream health in the Mid-Atlantic Region using satellite remote sensing. Presented at the Marine Biological Laboratory Monthly Seminar Series, Woods Hole, MA, March 2005. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Goetz SG, et al. Implications of exurbanization on the small watersheds of the Delaware upper scenic river. Presented to the National Park Service, New York, NY, May 2009. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Goetz SG, et al. Land cover links with stream health in the mid-Atlantic USA. Presented at the Maryland Biological Stream Survey Symposium, Westminster MD, August 10-13, 2005. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Goetz SG, et al. Land use change and stream health in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Presented at the Departments of Environmental Sciences and Geology Seminar Series, Brown University, Providence, RI, February 2005. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Goetz SG, et al. Monitoring resource lands and stream health in the Chesapeake Bay watershed using satellite remote sensing. Presented at the Environmental, Earth and Ocean Sciences Department Seminar Series, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, February 2005. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Goetz SG. Observing and and modeling land use change from urbanization across the Mid-Atlantic Region and its ecological implications. Presented at the North American Network for Remote Sensing Park Ecological Condition Meeting, Sante Fe, NM, March 6-8, 2007. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Jordan TE, Weller DE. Nutrient removal by restored wetlands in agricultural watersheds. Presented at the 10th International Symposium on Wetland Biogeochemistry, Annapolis, MD, April 2007. (Invited talk at the workshop "Quantifying the Role of Wetlands in Achieving Nutrient and Sediment Reductions in Chesapeake Bay"). R831369 (2006)
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Presentation Jordan TE, Weller DE, Correll DL, Baker M, Whigham DF. Factors affecting nutrient discharges from Chesapeake watersheds. Presented at a Chesapeake Bay Program Meeting, Non-tidal Working Group, Baltimore, MD, September 2008. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Jordan TE, Weller DE, Correll DL, Whigham DF. Factors affecting watershed discharge of organic carbon. Presented at the Baltimore Ecosystem Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Meeting, Baltimore, MD, April 2008. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Jordan TE, Weller DE, Whigham DF. Multi-scale assessment of wetland ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes. Presented at the Workshop on Assessing Ecosystem Services of Wetlands, hosted by the USDA Agricultural Research Service and Natural Resource Conservation Service, Conservation Effects Assessment Program, Beltsville, MD, December 2007. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Jordan TE, Weller DE, Correll DL, Whigham DF, Baker M. Nutrient removal by wetlands and riparian buffers. Presented at the Chesapeake Bay Program, Monitoring and Analysis Subcommittee Workshop, Baltimore, MD, November 2008. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation King RS. Urbanization and ecological thresholds: examples from stream and estuarine ecosystems. Presented at the Water Initiative Seminar Series, Utah State University, Logan, UT, November 14, 2006. R831369 (2006)
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Presentation King RS. Watershed urbanization, nutrients, and ecological thresholds in streams. Presented at the Institute of Applied Sciences Seminar Series, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, April 13, 2007. R831369 (2006)
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Presentation King RS. Additive indicator species on environmental gradients: a new technique for estimating ecological thresholds. Presented at the Ecological Thresholds Workshop, sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey/National Parks Service, Duluth, MN, April 2008 (invited). R831369 (Final)
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Presentation King RS. Attack of the clones! Urbanization thresholds and phragmites invasion of North American tidal wetlands. Presented at the Ecological Thresholds Workshop, sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey/National Park Service, Duluth, MN, April 2008 (invited). R831369 (Final)
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Presentation King RS. Watershed urbanization and ecological community thresholds in streams. Presented at the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Seminar, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, November 2008 (invited). R831369 (Final)
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Presentation King RS. Watershed urbanization, nutrient enrichment, and ecological thresholds in streams. Presented at the Special Symposium on Urbanization and Water Resources, Joint Meeting of the Texas River and Reservoir Management Society (TRRMS) and Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX, May 2007 (invited). R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Maloney KO. Land use legacies: the imprint of historical land use on contemporary ecosystems. Presented at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, March 4, 2009. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Maloney KO, Weller DE, Jordan TE, Russell MJ, Baker ME, Prince SD, Goetz S. Landscape indicators of watershed impairment: classification of stream conditions of the Chesapeake Bay Basin, USA. Poster presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Milwaukee, WI, August 3-8, 2008. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Maloney KO, Weller DE, Russell MJ. Stream integrity in the Chesapeake Bay watershed: a classification of biological condition using benthic macroinvertebrates and fish. Presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the North American Benthological Society, Salt Lake City, UT, May 25-30, 2008. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Prince SD. Remote sensing applications in freshwater ecosystems. Presented at the Society for Conservation Biology Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA, June 24-28, 2006 (invited). R831369 (2006)
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Presentation Prince SD. Urban growth impacts on stream ecology in mid-Atlantic watersheds. Presented at the Land-Cover/Land-Use Change Program Annual Meeting, College Park MD, October 2006 (invited). R831369 (2006)
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Presentation Prince SD. Land cover and urbanization links with Chesapeake restoration. Presented at the Bren School Departmental Seminar, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, September 2006 (invited). R831369 (2006)
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Presentation Roberts AD, Prince SD. Effects of urban and non-urban land cover on nitrogen and phosphorus runoff to Chesapeake Bay. Presented at the Chesapeake Modeling Symposium, Annapolis, MD, May 12-14, 2008. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Roberts A. The effects of changes in land cover/land use (LC/LU) on nutrient loadings to the Chesapeake Bay estuary using forecasts of future urbanization. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 11-15, 2006. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Russell MJ, Jordan TE, Weller DE. Net anthropogenic nitrogen and phosphorus inputs in the Chesapeake Bay drainage: landscape indicators of watershed impairment. Presented at the American Water Resources Association 2006 Annual Water Resources Conference, Baltimore, MD, November 6-9, 2006. R831369 (2006)
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Presentation Russell MJ, Jordan TE, Weller DE. Net anthropogenic nitrogen and phosphorus inputs in the Chesapeake Bay drainage. Presented at the Atlantic Estuarine Research Society Fall Conference, Baltimore, MD, October 5-7, 2006. R831369 (2006)
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Presentation Russell MJ, Weller DE, Jordan TE. Land use and phosphorus use intensity are key factors influencing nutrient discharge from watersheds. Presented at the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando FL, March 2-7, 2008. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Russell MJ, Weller DE, Jordan TE. Landscape Indicators of watershed impairment-nutrients. Presented at the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 2-7, 2008. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Russell MJ, Weller DE, Jordan TE. Nitrogen to phosphorus ratios in anthropogenic inputs and watershed discharges to Chesapeake Bay. Presented at the Estuarine Research Federation Conference, Providence, RI, November 4-8, 2007. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Tarboton DG, Baker ME. Generalized methods for terrain-based flow analysis of digital elevation models. Presented at the American Water Resources Spring Specialty Conference - GIS and Water Resources V, San Mateo, CA, March 17-19, 2008. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Tarboton DG, Schreuders KA, Baker ME. New TauDEM tools for deriving hydrologic information from digital elevation models. Presented at the American Water Resources Spring Specialty Conference - GIS and Water Resources V, San Mateo, CA, March 17-19, 2008. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Tarboton DG, Baker ME, Schreuders KA. Terrain analysis and the modeling of catchment architecture. Presented at the European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 13-18, 2008. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Van Appledorn M, Baker ME. A comparison of riparian restoration strategies for water quality improvement within and among watersheds. Presented at the American Water Resources Assocation (AWRA) Summer Specialty Conference, Virginia Beach, VA, June 30-July 2, 2008. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Van Appledorn M, Baker ME. A simulation comparing spatially-explicit riparian restoration strategies for water quality improvement within and among watersheds. Presented at the US Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE), Madison, WI, April 6-10, 2008. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Weller DE, Baker ME, King RS, Jordan TE. Riparian buffer effects on whole watershed nutrient discharges. Presented at the USDA Conservation Effects Assessment Project–Wetlands National Component (CEAP-Wetlands) Gulf-Atlantic Coastal Flats/Rolling Plain Regional Assessment Scoping Meeting, Edgewater, MD, November 7-8, 2006 (invited talk). R831369 (2006)
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Presentation Weller DE, Baker ME, Jordan TE. Progress and challenges in demonstrating riparian buffer effects on nutrient discharges from whole catchments. Presented at the International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE) World Congress, Wageningen, The Netherlands, July 8-12, 2007. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Weller DE, Baker ME, Jordan TE. Riparian buffer effects on discharges of watershed nitrate discharges: new models and management implications. Presented at the 2009 CRC Regional Conference Ecosystem Based Management: the Chesapeake and Other Systems, Baltimore, MD, March 22-25, 2009. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Weller DE, Baker ME, King RS, Jordan TE. Riparian buffer effects on whole watershed nitrate discharges: new models and management implications. Presented at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Studies, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD, May 6, 2009. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Weller DE, Baker ME, Jordan TE. Testing for riparian buffer effects on nutrient discharges from whole catchments. Presented at the American Water Resources Assocation (AWRA) Summer Specialty Conference, Virginia Beach, VA, June 30-July 2, 2008. R831369 (Final)
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Presentation Goetz, et al. 2005. Marine Biological Laboratory, Monthly Seminar Series, “Land use change, loss of resource lands, and stream health in the mid-Atlantic region using satellite remote sensing,” (March 2005, Woods Hole, Massachusetts). R831369 (Final)
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