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Image showing a schematic of the SPARROW model components

SPARROW modeling: Estimating nutrient, sediment, and dissolved solids transport

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Study area, Wickford, Rhode Island

Assessment of Nutrient Transport and Discharge to Coastal Embayments, Wickford, Rhode Island

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Photo of a plane dropping flame retardant on a wildfire

Effects of Wildfire and Fire Retardants on Nutrient Transport in California Watersheds

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Cows by a stream.

Evaluation Of Wastewater Treatments To Reduce Nutrient Transport From Land Application Of Dairy Manure

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Monitoring set-up at the watersheds site which includes boards and such to direct water flow to drainage.

Nutrient Monitoring Activities

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Exit Creek and a waterfall behind it

Studying the Influence of Streamflow Variability on Fish Populations to Understand Nutrient Transport in Hawaiian and Alaskan Streams in a Changing Climate

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Mount Konocti on the western shore of Clear Lake, California

Scotts Creek Nutrient Erosion Study, Lake County, California

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Western shore of the Chesapeake Bay

Sources, Fate, and Transport of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed—Interpretations and Applications of Spatially Referenced Regression on Watershed Attributes (SPARROW) Nutrient Model Results

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Connecticut River in Northfield MA outreach event

Nutrient Loads from the Upper Connecticut River Watershed

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Spatial Distribution of incremental sediment yields in the Chesapeake Bay

Sediment Sources and Transport in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

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View looks out from land to sea on a harbor with breaking waves and breakwater structures.

Circulation and Sediment, Nutrient, Contaminant, and Larval Dynamics on Reefs

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Stalker Creek, Idaho, in summer

Effects of Nutrient Enrichment on Stream Ecosystems (Upper Snake River Basin NAWQA)

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Biologist Ethan Enos

Assessing Sediment Nutrient Storage and Release in California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

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Lake Koocanusa

Evidence of selenium transport from Elk River Valley, Canada to the Columbia River

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Study location map of the lower South San Francisco Bay (red transect lines) and sloughs (green transect lines).

High-Speed Mapping of Nutrient Distributions and Water Quality Survey - Lower South San Francisco Bay

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Continuous water quality station on the Mystic River at the Mystic Seaport, Mystic CT

Embayment Monitoring to Support Nutrient Management Activities in Connecticut for Long Island Sound

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A man stands in a shallow stream with a flow meter.

USGS Develops Finer-Scale Approach to Find Areas of High Nitrogen Input to Groundwater

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Sleepers River Research Watershed

Mountains to sea – fluvial transport of carbon and nutrients and effects on ecosystems and people

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Map of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed showing Urban Land Use

Science Summary—Sediment and Nutrient Trapping in the Flood Plain of Difficult Run, Virginia, and Implications for the Restoration of Chesapeake Bay

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A map of Connecticut with certain sections colored in blue, green and yellow.

USGS Calculates Groundwater-Transported Nitrogen into Long Island Sound from Connecticut

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Great Dismal Swamp Project image

Hydrologic and Water-Quality Factors Affecting Habitat Restoration and Management of the Great Dismal Swamp

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Spider under night vision close to the camera lens

Delaware NAWQA SPARROW

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Agriculture - A River Runs Through It - Video

Agriculture - A River Runs Through It

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Satellite image of a dust cloud from the Sahara Desert moving across the Atlantic Ocean

Nutrients in Dust from the Sahara Desert cause Microbial Blooms on the East Coast of the United States

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Locations of USGS streamgages in the Potomac River, Smith Creek, and Difficult Run Basins in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

High-frequency nitrate-concentration data

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Collage of vessel, glacier, mineral, and scientist testing substances in pipets.

New Review of Sediment Science Informs Choices of Management Actions in the Chesapeake

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Lake Powell and research boat

Lake Powell Research

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Connecticut River in Northfield MA outreach event

Surface Water Quality Monitoring in Connecticut

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Sediment trapping, mineral and organic in flood plain of Difficult Run Virginia

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Science Summary—Vegetation traps nutrients and sediment in the flood plain of an urban stream in the Chesapeake Bay watershed

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Water quality sample preparation

City of Austin Water Quality Data Review and Analysis

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