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Mitigating cyanotoxin production is essential to protecting aquatic ecosystems and public health. However, current harmful cyanobacterial bloom (HCB) control strategies have significant shortcomings. Because predicting HCBs is difficult, current HCB control strategies are employe...

Wildfires have increased in frequency and area burned, trends expected to continue with climate change. Among other effects, fires release pollutants into the atmosphere, representing a risk to human health and downwind terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. While human health risks...

The goal of the project is to assess the precipitation intensity duration frequencies (PIDF) and their applications in sizing of road-stream crossing structures, experiencing increased peak-flow magnitudes resulting from the growing intensity of extreme precipitation events on Fo...

Emerald ash borer (EAB) has killed millions of ash trees in the United States and Canada, yet impacts on terrestrial-aquatic linkages are largely unknown. Ash tree death along streams creates canopy gaps, increasing light to riparian plants and potentially affecting organic matte...

Summary: Please join us for talks and discussion previewing tools and innovative approaches to enhancing resilience and sustainability in Brownfields. Attendees will leave this session with actionable takeaway messages including Brownfields applications of cutting-edge tools rece...

Invasive species threaten the biodiversity, structure, and function of aquatic ecosystems. Once established, eradicating invasive species is an arduous task, imposing a significant financial burden on environmental management entities. Early detection of invasive species is cruci...

Hydrologic modifications in urban ecosystems impact water quality via soil compaction, impervious surface cover, drainage, and channelization. &nbsp;Urban stream restoration strategies that are designed to regain lost ecosystem function such as nutrient uptake may have unintended...

Exposure to&nbsp;tropospheric ozone&nbsp;pollution impairs photosynthesis and growth in plants and this can have consequences for ecosystems. However, exposure-response research in the United States (U.S.) has historically focused on trees and crops, and less attention has been g...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses a water quality index (WQI) to estimate benefits of proposed Clean Water Act regulations. The WQI is relevant to human use value, such as recreation, but may not fully capture aspects of nonuse value, such as existence value. Here...

Stressors such as climate change, pollution, and development affect ecosystem condition and consequently, they affect the goods and services that people use, appreciate, or enjoy that are produced by those ecosystems (i.e., ecosystem services, ES). Anticipating how ES are affecte...

An understanding of the combined effects of climate change (CC) and other anthropogenic stressors, such as chemical exposures, is essential for improving ecological risk assessments of vulnerable ecosystems. In the Great Barrier Reef, coral reefs are under increasingly severe dur...

Developing Precipitation-Intensity-Duration-Frequency (Onsite-PIDF) and design discharge estimates using onsite long-term datasets to accommodate ongoing effects of climate change, is crucial in the design and planning of climate-resilient forest road-stream crossing structures (...

Many benthic indices have been created in the last two decades for monitoring coastal ecosystems, however direct comparisons between indices are often difficult. To address this, M-AMBIUS has replaced regional indices used by the US Environmental Protection Agency. Objectives of ...

Major ion concentrations in freshwaters are increasing in many world regions due to diverse causes such as:&nbsp; land use change, resource extraction, climate change, saltwater intrusion, and accelerated weathering.&nbsp; Freshwater Salinization Syndrome (FSS) refers to the inte...

Anthropogenic salt inputs have increasingly impacted many streams in the U.S. for more than a century. Urban stream salinity is often chronically elevated and punctuated by episodic salinization events after applications of road salt, which can last hours to days after snowstorms...

Populations of resident, non-migratory Canada geese are rapidly increasing. Canadian geese are known to transmit viral and bacterial diseases, posing a possible threat to human health. The most prevalent pathogens vectored by geese are Campylobacter species, yet the current under...

Deltas play a critical role in the ambition to achieve global sustainable development given their relatively large shares in population and productive croplands, as well as their precarious low-lying position between upstream river basin development and rising seas. The large pre...

Although many laws governing human activities have indirect impacts on biodiversity, this article summarizes the major laws and regulations that directly target biodiversity protection by influencing how genes, species, habitats and ecosystems are used and conserved. While the le...

As salt marshes attempt to migrate upland due to&nbsp;sea level&nbsp;rise, they will encounter many kinds of land development and infrastructure in highly populated, urbanized coastal communities. Hazardous and contaminated sites (HCSs) -- facilities and infrastructure that store...

Frequent observations of surface water at fine spatial scales will provide critical data to support the management of aquatic habitat, flood risk and water quality. Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellites can provide such observations, but algorithms are still needed that perform we...

The multivariate AMBI (M-AMBI) is an extension of the AZTI marine biotic index and is used to grade benthic habitat condition. It was adapted to the United States and adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for monitoring coastal ecosystems at the national level, repl...

As we consider the effects of climate change on riverine ecosystems, water temperature often plays a starring role. We are increasingly able to characterize temperature through space and time and understand its physiological effects on fishes. Historically, empirical data on diss...

Floodplains provide critical ecosystem services; however, loss of natural floodplain functions caused by human alterations increase flood risks and lead to massive loss of life and property. Despite recent calls for improved floodplain protection and management, a comprehensive, ...

Wildfires can have complex effects on aquatic ecosystems that vary widely depending on the characteristics of the fire and the ecological context of the watershed, making predictions of fire effects on species of social and conservation interest, like salmonid fishes (Oncorhynchu...

Wildfires can have complex effects on aquatic ecosystems that vary widely depending on the characteristics of the fire and the ecological context of the watershed, making predictions of fire effects on species of social and conservation interest, like salmonid fishes (Oncorhynchu...