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South Florida is a subtropical environment with diverse ecological and human communities that rely on a complex water system undergoing the costliest restoration in U.S. history. Pesticide and metal input to the aquatic systems of South Florida can impact the capabilities of main...

The global nitrogen science-policy community lacks a holistic framework for assessing nitrogen (N) impacts on food production, ecosystems, health, and climate. This results in reduced effectiveness and societal welfare benefits in addressing N challenges and creates the potential...

In urban systems, a wide variety of processes, including increasing impervious surface cover, road salt application, sewage leaks, and weathering of the built environment, contribute to novel chemical cocktails that are comprised of metals, salts, nutrients, and organic matter. D...

In urban systems, a wide variety of processes, including increasing impervious surface cover, road salt application, sewage leaks, and weathering of the built environment, contribute to novel chemical cocktails that are made up of metals, salts, nutrients, and organic matter. Due...

Climate change is projected to impact river, lake, and wetland hydrology, with global implications for the condition and productivity of aquatic ecosystems. We integrated Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 based algorithms to track monthly surface water extent (2017–2021) for 32 sit...

Climate change and it's impact on watersheds and water quality is an primary concern of resource managers at the regional, state, and federal level. This presentation provides a high-level overview of EPA water quality modeling projects and tools in the context of climate change....

This is the public informational webinar presentation for the request for applications (RFA) EPA-G2024-STAR-C1 titled "Coastal Ecosystems Climate Resilience".

Seagrass beds play a critical role in biodiversity maintenance, serving as nursery habitats for fisheries, and aiding in carbon and sediment sequestration in the ecosystem. These habitats receive dissolved and particulate material inputs, like nutrients and heavy metals, aff...

Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (CyanoHABs) produce excessive amounts of cyanotoxins, mainly microcystins (MCs) and anatoxins (ATXs), significantly threatening aquatic ecosystems and public health. Accurately predicting CyanoHABs is essential to develop effective CyanoHAB pre...

With increasing concerns about freshwater cyanobacteria blooms, there is a need to identify which waterbodies are at risk for developing these blooms, especially those that produce cyanotoxins. To address this concern, we developed spatial statistical models using the US National...

This is a presentation to be delivered to stakeholders along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon as part of a conference convened by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The presentation addresses the impacts of future operations of Glen Canyon Dam on physical landscape form within Gra...

Brownfields are increasingly called upon to be transformed from potentially contaminated, often vacant properties into community assets that provide multiple benefits. Decision-makers are using recent policy tools to encourage brownfields revitalization that helps to combat the c...

The tolerance of aquatic organisms to stressors is widely used to monitor and evaluate the condition of freshwater ecosystems. Tolerance values (TV) derived from analyses of the relationship between species and their environment are considered to be more objective than those that...

Aquatic ecosystem responses to wildfire can vary widely depending on the characteristics of fire and the spatial context of where a fire takes place. Assessment of wildfire risk to aquatic ecosystems requires an understanding of sources of such variability (see Ebersole et al. th...

  Effective governance of social-ecological systems (SES) is an enduring challenge, especially in coastal environments where accelerating impacts of climate change are increasing pressure on already stressed systems. While resilience is often proposed as a suitable f...

Continued large-scale public investment in declining ecosystems depends on demonstrations of “success”. While the public conception of “success” often focuses on restoration to a pre-disturbance condition, the scientific community is more likely to measure...

The development of ecological benchmark values for major ions in fresh water is challenging and a site-specific method based on laboratory tests of synthetic ion mixtures has recently been published by Brent et al. (2022).  Although the method has some appealing attributes, ...

Plastic particles are now found ubiquitously in the environment. As the abundance of plastic increases in marine systems, the magnitude of adverse biological and ecological effects of plastics of various size classes (macro-, micro-, nano-) need to be evaluated for potential risk...

Cyanobacterial overgrowth impacts and can harm aquatic ecosystems, human, animal and plant health. I provide an overview of recent reports and events that illustrate the breadth of the issue.

This presentation on ORD's Wildland Fire Smoke Research is part of a session titled "Tackling the Climate Crisis: Highlighting EPA's Multi-pronged approach to Climate Change and Health" at the 1st Annual CAFE Climate and Health Conference. This presentation will highlig...

Wildfire frequency and intensity are expected to increase in many forested regions. Aquatic biota face multiple wildfire-induced changes in physical, chemical, and biological conditions, and these can vary with burn severity, post-fire weather, geomorphic events, stream features,...

 Increased nutrient loading to coastal ecosystems has fueled a series of intertwined water quality processes that leads to low dissolved oxygen (DO) or hypoxia (DO ≤ 2 mg L-1) and reduced pH, which is also known as nutrient enhanced acidification. While the cumulative imp...

Harmful cyanobacterial blooms (HCBs) are of growing global concern due to their production of toxic compounds, which threaten ecosystems and human health. Saxitoxins (STXs), commonly known as paralytic shellfish poison, are a neurotoxic alkaloid produced by some cyanobacteria. Al...

Low dissolved oxygen (DO) and hypoxia (DO<2 mg l-1) in estuarine ecosystems presents unique challenges to marine species which are worsened by coincident low pH or acidification resulting from eutrophication. Few studies have documented spatiotemporal gradients of hypoxia and ...

High-level overview of the types of nature-based strategies suggested for Crisfield based on matching known success criteria for storm surge and erosion prevention from the literature with conditions in different parts of Crisfield's offshore ecosystems and marshlands. Includes g...