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The hidden costs of coastal hazards: Implications for risk assessment and mitigation The hidden costs of coastal hazards: Implications for risk assessment and mitigation
Two-year study undertaken by the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment to develop new strategies to identify and reduce the costs of weather-related hazards associated with rapidly increasing coastal development activities.
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H. Kunreuther, R. Platt, S. Baruch, R. L. Bernknopf, M. Buckley, V. Burkett, D. Conrad, T. Davidson, K. Deutsch, D. Geis, M. Jannereth, A. Knap, H. Lane, G. Ljung, M. McCauley, D. Mileti, T. Miller, B. Morrow, J. Meyers, R. Pielke, A. Pratt, J. Tripp
Book review: Carbon sequestration in soils: Science monitoring and beyond: Conference proceedings: St. Micheals Workshop, Maryland, December 3–5, 1998, NJ: Rosenberg, N.J. Book review: Carbon sequestration in soils: Science monitoring and beyond: Conference proceedings: St. Micheals Workshop, Maryland, December 3–5, 1998, NJ: Rosenberg, N.J.
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Thomas G. Huntington
Effects of animal feeding operations on water resources and the environment; proceedings of the technical meeting, Fort Collins, Colorado, August 30-September 1, 1999 Effects of animal feeding operations on water resources and the environment; proceedings of the technical meeting, Fort Collins, Colorado, August 30-September 1, 1999
No abstract available.
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Franceska D. Wilde, L. J. Britton, C.V. Miller, D.W. Kolpin
Ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (EROD) activity in fish as a biomarker of chemical exposure Ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (EROD) activity in fish as a biomarker of chemical exposure
This review compiles and evaluates existing scientific information on the use, limitations, and procedural considerations for EROD activity (a catalytic measurement of cytochrome P4501A induction) as a biomarker in fish. A multitude of chemicals induce EROD activity in a variety of fish species, the most potent inducers being structural analogs of 2,3,7,8-tetracholordibenzo-p-dioxin...
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J.J. Whyte, R.E. Jung, C. J. Schmitt, D. E. Tillitt
Water-quality assessment of the Eastern Iowa Basins: Hydrologic and biologic data, October 1996 through September 1998 Water-quality assessment of the Eastern Iowa Basins: Hydrologic and biologic data, October 1996 through September 1998
Hydrologic and biologic data collected from October 1996 through September 1998 in the Eastern Iowa Basins study unit of the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Program are presented in this report. Monthly data collected from 12 sites on rivers and streams included measurements of physical properties and determinations of the concentrations of nutrients, major ions...
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Kimberlee K. Akers, Denise L. Montgomery, Daniel E. Christiansen, Mark E. Savoca, Douglas J. Schnoebelen, Kent Becher, Eric M. Sadorf
Conveying multiple, complex themes and classes for natural resource assessments Conveying multiple, complex themes and classes for natural resource assessments
Two methods were used to convey the spatial association between a classified forested landscape, the distribution of a hurricane impact, and the subsequent recovery of the habitat from the storm. The first method used a constant hue matrix with varying intensity to visually represent combinations of impact and recovery magnitudes. The second combined two colors of constant hue to...
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Elijah Ramsey III, Marshall L. Strong
Panola Mountain, Georgia: A Water, Energy, and Biogeochemical Budgets Program Site Panola Mountain, Georgia: A Water, Energy, and Biogeochemical Budgets Program Site
The Panola Mountain Research Watershed (PMRW) is a 41-hectare forested watershed in the southern Piedmont physiographic province near Atlanta, Georgia. The watershed contains a naturally regenerated second-growth forest on abandoned agricultural land, typical of the Piedmont. Research at PMRW has focused on how streamflow is generated, and in particular, on how water and solutes move...
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Norman E. Peters, Richard P. Hooper, Thomas G. Huntington, Brent T. Aulenback
PCBs, liver lesions, and biomarker responses in adult walleye (Stizostedium vitreum vitreum) collected from Green Bay, Wisconsin PCBs, liver lesions, and biomarker responses in adult walleye (Stizostedium vitreum vitreum) collected from Green Bay, Wisconsin
Adult walleye were collected from several locations in the Lower Fox River and Green Bay, Wisconsin (the assessment area) and two relatively uncontaminated reference locations (Lake Winnebago and Patten Lake, Wisconsin) between July and October in 1996 and 1997. Whole body and liver samples collected in 1996 were analyzed for total PCBs, PCB congeners, and liver histological lesions...
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Mace G. Barron, Michael J. Anderson, Dave Cacela, Joshua Lipton, Swee J. Teh, David E. Hinton, Judith T. Zelikoff, Audrey L. Dikkeboom, Donald E. Tillitt, Mark Holey, Nancy Denslow
The potential for calcium depletion in forest ecosystems of southeastern United States: Review and analysis The potential for calcium depletion in forest ecosystems of southeastern United States: Review and analysis
Biogeochemical mass balance assessments of calcium status in southeastern forests indicate that losses through harvesting and soil leaching often exceed inputs from atmospheric deposition and weathering. Many forest soils of the southeastern United States are particularly sensitive because these soils and the underlying saprolite from which these soils are derived are largely depleted of
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Thomas G. Huntington
Nutrients discharged to the Mississippi River from eastern Iowa watersheds, 1996-1997 Nutrients discharged to the Mississippi River from eastern Iowa watersheds, 1996-1997
The introduction of nutrients from chemical fertilizer, animal manure, wastewater, and atmospheric deposition to the eastern Iowa environment creates a large potential for nutrient transport in watersheds. Agriculture constitutes 93 percent of all land use in eastern Iowa. As part of the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Quality Assessment Program, water samples were collected...
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Kent Becher, Douglas J. Schnoebelen, Kimberlee K. Akers
Summary of the major water-quality findings from the Eastern Iowa Basins study unit of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program Summary of the major water-quality findings from the Eastern Iowa Basins study unit of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program
An integrated assessment of the water quality in streams and aquifers in the Wapsipinicon, Iowa, Cedar, and Skunk River basins was conducted in 1996 through 1998 as part of the Eastern Iowa Basins (EIWA) study unit of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA). The EIWA study unit is one of 59 study units across the Nation designed to assess the status...
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Stephen J. Kalkhoff