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Douglas L. Moyer

Doug Moyer is the Associate Director for Studies and a Supervisory Hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey's Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center in Richmond, VA.

Doug has been involved with a wide variety of USGS water-resources investigations throughout the Chesapeake Bay region since 1998. A primary focus of his work has been on monitoring and modeling the fate and transport of nutrients and suspended sediment across multiple watershed scales throughout Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Education and Certifications

  • B.S. in Biology (1995), University of New Mexico

  • M.S. in Biology (1998), University of New Mexico

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Chesapake Bay Watershed Satellite Image.

River Input Monitoring

The objective of this study is to provide concentrations and estimates of loads and trends of suspended solids, nitrogen, phosphorus, and other selected constituents at the James, Rappahannock, Appomattox, Pamunkey, and Mattaponi Rivers.
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Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center
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River Input Monitoring

The objective of this study is to provide concentrations and estimates of loads and trends of suspended solids, nitrogen, phosphorus, and other selected constituents at the James, Rappahannock, Appomattox, Pamunkey, and Mattaponi Rivers.
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USGS-Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed Model Image 1

USGS-Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed Model

The USGS is collaborating with the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) to incorporate the USGS Potomac Watershed and Chesapeake Bay Virginia Watershed models into Phase 5 of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Model (CBWM).
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Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center
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USGS-Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed Model

The USGS is collaborating with the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) to incorporate the USGS Potomac Watershed and Chesapeake Bay Virginia Watershed models into Phase 5 of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Model (CBWM).
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Evaluation and application of regional turbidity-sediment regression models in Virginia

Conventional thinking has long held that turbidity-sediment surrogate-regression equations are site specific and that regression equations developed at a single monitoring station should not be applied to another station; however, few studies have evaluated this issue in a rigorous manner. If robust regional turbidity-sediment models can be developed successfully, their applications could greatly
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Kenneth Hyer, John D. Jastram, Douglas Moyer, James S. Webber, Jeffrey G. Chanat
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Water Resources Mission Area, Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center

Knowledge and understanding of dissolved solids in the Rio Grande–San Acacia, New Mexico, to Fort Quitman, Texas, and plan for future studies and monitoring

Availability of water in the Rio Grande Basin has long been a primary concern for water-resource managers. The transport and delivery of water in the basin have been engineered by using reservoirs, irrigation canals and drains, and transmountain-water diversions to meet the agricultural, residential, and industrial demand. In contrast, despite the widespread recognition of critical water-quality p
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Douglas Moyer, Scott K. Anderholm, James F. Hogan, Fred M. Phillips, Barry J. Hibbs, James C. Witcher, Anne Marie Matherne, Sarah E. Falk
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Water Resources Mission Area, New Mexico Water Science Center

Total nutrient and sediment loads, trends, yields, and nontidal water-quality indicators for selected nontidal stations, Chesapeake Bay Watershed, 1985–2011

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) partners, routinely reports long-term concentration trends and monthly and annual constituent loads for stream water-quality monitoring stations across the Chesapeake Bay watershed. This report documents flow-adjusted trends in sediment and total nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations for 31 stations in the years 1985–201
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Michael J. Langland, Joel D. Blomquist, Douglas Moyer, Kenneth Hyer, Jeffrey G. Chanat
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Water Resources Mission Area, Chesapeake Bay Activities, Pennsylvania Water Science Center

Comparison of two regression-based approaches for determining nutrient and sediment fluxes and trends in the Chesapeake Bay watershed

Nutrient and sediment fluxes and changes in fluxes over time are key indicators that water resource managers can use to assess the progress being made in improving the structure and function of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. The U.S. Geological Survey collects annual nutrient (nitrogen and phosphorus) and sediment flux data and computes trends that describe the extent to which water-quality conditi
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Douglas Moyer, Robert M. Hirsch, Kenneth Hyer
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Water Resources Mission Area, Chesapeake Bay Activities, Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center

Weighted regressions on time, discharge, and season (WRTDS), with an application to Chesapeake Bay River inputs

A new approach to the analysis of long‐term surface water‐quality data is proposed and implemented. The goal of this approach is to increase the amount of information that is extracted from the types of rich water‐quality datasets that now exist. The method is formulated to allow for maximum flexibility in representations of the long‐term trend, seasonal components, and discharge‐related component
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Robert M. Hirsch, Douglas Moyer, Stacey A. Archfield
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Water Resources Mission Area, Chesapeake Bay Activities

A Comparison of Turbidity-Based and Streamflow-Based Estimates of Suspended-Sediment Concentrations in Three Chesapeake Bay Tributaries

Fluvial transport of sediment into the Chesapeake Bay estuary is a persistent water-quality issue with major implications for the overall health of the bay ecosystem. Accurately and precisely estimating the suspended-sediment concentrations (SSC) and loads that are delivered to the bay, however, remains challenging. Although manual sampling of SSC produces an accurate series of point-in-time measu
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John D. Jastram, Douglas Moyer, Kenneth Hyer
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Water Resources Mission Area, Chesapeake Bay Activities, Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center

Continuous Turbidity Monitoring in the Indian Creek Watershed, Tazewell County, Virginia, 2006-08

Thousands of miles of natural gas pipelines are installed annually in the United States. These pipelines commonly cross streams, rivers, and other water bodies during pipeline construction. A major concern associated with pipelines crossing water bodies is increased sediment loading and the subsequent impact to the ecology of the aquatic system. Several studies have investigated the techniques use
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Douglas Moyer, Kenneth Hyer
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Water Resources Mission Area, Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center

Changes in streamflow, concentrations, and loads in selected nontidal basins in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, 1985-2006

Water-quality and streamflow data from 34 sites in nontidal parts of the Chesapeake Bay watershed are presented to document annual nutrient and sediment loads and trends for 1985 through 2006, as part of an annual evaluation of water-quality conditions by the U.S. EPA Chesapeake Bay Program. This study presents the results of trends analysis for streamflow, loads, and concentrations. Annual mean f
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Michael J. Langland, Douglas Moyer, Joel Blomquist
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Water Resources Mission Area, Pennsylvania Water Science Center, Chesapeake Bay Activities

Development of relations of stream stage to channel geometry and discharge for stream segments simulated with Hydrologic Simulation Program-Fortran (HSPF), Chesapeake Bay Watershed and adjacent parts of Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP), Interstate Commission for the Potomac River Basin (ICPRB), Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE), Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (VADCR), and University of Maryland (UMD) are collaborating to improve the resolution of the Chesapeake Bay Regional Watershed Model
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Douglas Moyer, Mark Bennett
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Water Resources Mission Area, Chesapeake Bay Activities, Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center

Changes in streamflow and water quality in selected nontidal basins in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, 1985-2004

As part of an annual evaluation of water-quality conditions by the Chesapeake Bay Program, water-quality and streamflow data from 32 sites in nontidal parts of the Chesapeake Bay watershed were analyzed to document annual nutrient and sediment trends for 1985 through 2004. This study also formalized different trend tests and methodologies used in assessing the effectiveness of man-agement actions
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Michael J. Langland, Jeff P. Raffensperger, Douglas Moyer, Jurate M. Landwehr, Gregory E. Schwarz
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Water Resources Mission Area, Pennsylvania Water Science Center, Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Water Science Center, Chesapeake Bay Activities

Nutrient and sediment concentrations, loads, and trends for four nontidal tributaries in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, 1997-2001

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Michael P. Senus, Michael J. Langland, Douglas Moyer
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Chesapeake Bay Activities

Biogeochemical and metabolic responses to the flood pulse in a semiarid floodplain

Flood pulse inundation of riparian forests alters rates of nutrient retention and organic matter processing in the aquatic ecosystems formed in the forest interior. Along the Middle Rio Grande (New Mexico, USA), impoundment and levee construction have created riparian forests that differ in their inter-flood intervals (IFIs) because some floodplains are still regularly inundated by the flood pulse
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H. M. Valett, M. A. Baker, J. A. Morrice, C. S. Crawford, M. C. Molles, Clifford N. Dahm, D. L. Moyer, J. R. Thibault, L. M. Ellis

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