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Matthew B Hicks

Matthew B Hicks is a Ecologist in the Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center, Duty Station: Jackson, Mississippi.

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Unintended consequences of biofuels production?The effects of large-scale crop conversion on water quality and quantity

In the search for renewable fuel alternatives, biofuels have gained strong political momentum. In the last decade, extensive mandates, policies, and subsidies have been adopted to foster the development of a biofuels industry in the United States. The Biofuels Initiative in the Mississippi Delta resulted in a 47-percent decrease in cotton acreage with a concurrent 288-percent increase in corn acre
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Heather L. Welch, Christopher T. Green, Richard A. Rebich, Jeannie R.B. Barlow, Matthew B. Hicks
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Water Resources Mission Area

Water-quality data for selected streams in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain ecoregion, northwestern Mississippi, September – October 2007

From September through October 2007, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, collected and analyzed water-quality samples from streams in the Yazoo River basin within the Mississippi Alluvial Plain ecoregion in northwestern Mississippi. Water-quality samples were collected at 56 sites in the study area and analyzed for various physical and chemical
Authors
Matthew B. Hicks, Shane J. Stocks
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Water Resources Mission Area
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Mississippi Watershed Restoration & Protection Studies (319 Monitoring)

Watershed Restoration & Protection Studies (319 Monitoring) - Mississippi

The USGS-MWSC partners with various federal, state and local cooperating agencies to implement Monitoring Plans for watershed restoration or protection projects. The purpose of monitoring is to measure change in water quality throughout the duration of watershed specific restoration efforts targeted to remediate specific pollutants of concern. The goal is to document, using defensible scientific...
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Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center
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Watershed Restoration & Protection Studies (319 Monitoring) - Mississippi

The USGS-MWSC partners with various federal, state and local cooperating agencies to implement Monitoring Plans for watershed restoration or protection projects. The purpose of monitoring is to measure change in water quality throughout the duration of watershed specific restoration efforts targeted to remediate specific pollutants of concern. The goal is to document, using defensible scientific...
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Science and Products

  • Publications

    Unintended consequences of biofuels production?The effects of large-scale crop conversion on water quality and quantity

    In the search for renewable fuel alternatives, biofuels have gained strong political momentum. In the last decade, extensive mandates, policies, and subsidies have been adopted to foster the development of a biofuels industry in the United States. The Biofuels Initiative in the Mississippi Delta resulted in a 47-percent decrease in cotton acreage with a concurrent 288-percent increase in corn acre
    Authors
    Heather L. Welch, Christopher T. Green, Richard A. Rebich, Jeannie R.B. Barlow, Matthew B. Hicks
    By
    Water Resources Mission Area

    Water-quality data for selected streams in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain ecoregion, northwestern Mississippi, September – October 2007

    From September through October 2007, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, collected and analyzed water-quality samples from streams in the Yazoo River basin within the Mississippi Alluvial Plain ecoregion in northwestern Mississippi. Water-quality samples were collected at 56 sites in the study area and analyzed for various physical and chemical
    Authors
    Matthew B. Hicks, Shane J. Stocks
    By
    Water Resources Mission Area
  • Science
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    Mississippi Watershed Restoration & Protection Studies (319 Monitoring)

    Watershed Restoration & Protection Studies (319 Monitoring) - Mississippi

    The USGS-MWSC partners with various federal, state and local cooperating agencies to implement Monitoring Plans for watershed restoration or protection projects. The purpose of monitoring is to measure change in water quality throughout the duration of watershed specific restoration efforts targeted to remediate specific pollutants of concern. The goal is to document, using defensible scientific...
    By
    Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center
    link

    Watershed Restoration & Protection Studies (319 Monitoring) - Mississippi

    The USGS-MWSC partners with various federal, state and local cooperating agencies to implement Monitoring Plans for watershed restoration or protection projects. The purpose of monitoring is to measure change in water quality throughout the duration of watershed specific restoration efforts targeted to remediate specific pollutants of concern. The goal is to document, using defensible scientific...
    Learn More