Upper Midwest Water Science Center Products Published Quarter Three, Fiscal Year 2023
By Upper Midwest Water Science Center
July 1, 2023
Below are all products released by the Upper Midwest Water Science Center in the third quarter of fiscal year 2023 (April 1, 2023 - June 20, 2023)
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Stream corridor sources of suspended sediment and sediment-bound phosphorus from an urban tributary to the Great Lakes
Potential sources of suspended sediment and sediment-bound phosphorus (sedP) were studied in the Kinnickinnic River (51 square kilometers), a heavily urbanized tributary to Lake Michigan (90% urban land use) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The river is 60% concrete lined channels, with few unlined reaches. From September 2019 through August 2020, an integrated study of sediment budget and sediment finger
Authors
James Blount, Leah Lenoch, Faith Fitzpatrick
How machine learning can improve predictions and provide insight into fluvial sediment transport in Minnesota
Understanding fluvial sediment transport is critical to addressing many environmental concerns such as exacerbated flooding, degradation of aquatic habitat, excess nutrients, and the economic challenges of restoring aquatic systems. However, fluvial sediment transport is difficult to understand because of the multitude of factors controlling the potential sources, delivery, mechanics, and storage
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John (William) Lund, Joel T. Groten, Diana L. Karwan, Chad Babcock
Sand- and gravel-trapping efficiencies derived for four types of pressure-difference bedload samplers
Bedload-trapping efficiencies (coefficients) were derived for four types of pressure-difference bedload samplers at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota during the first two phases of flume experiments in January-March, 2006, referred to as “StreamLab06.” The bedload-sampler research component was part of a series of community-led, large-scale laboratory experiments performed
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John Gray, Joel T. Groten, Jonathan A. Czuba, Gregory E. Schwarz, Kyle Strom, Panayiotis Diplas
Comparing empirical sediment transport modeling approaches in Michigan rivers
Excess or limited fluvial sediment transport can contribute to and exacerbate many environmental issues including nutrient loading, aquatic habitat degradation, flooding, channel navigation dredging, dam operation, and stream degradation or aggradation. However, fluvial sediment transport is difficult and expensive to comprehensively characterize because it can vary substantially both temporally a
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Joel T. Groten, Sara B. Levin, Erin N. Coenen, John (William) Lund, Bethany Matousek
National-scale assessment of total gaseous mercury isotopes across the United States
With the 2011 promulgation of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the successful negotiation by the United Nations Environment Program of the Minamata Convention, emissions of mercury (Hg) have declined in the United States. While the declines in atmospheric Hg concentrations in North America are encouraging, linking the declines to changing domest
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Michael T. Tate, Sarah E. Janssen, Ryan F. Lepak, Laura Elizabeth Flucke, David P. Krabbenhoft
Observed and projected functional reorganization of riverine fish assemblages from global change
Climate and land-use/land-cover change (‘global change’) are restructuring biodiversity, globally. Broadly, environmental conditions are expected to become warmer, potentially drier (particularly in arid regions), and more anthropogenically developed in the future, with spatiotemporally complex effects on ecological communities. We used functional traits to inform Chesapeake Bay Watershed fish res
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Taylor E Woods, Mary Freeman, Kevin P. Krause, Kelly O. Maloney
Energy-related wastewater contamination alters microbial communities of sediment, water, and amphibian skin
To inform responsible energy development, it is important to understand the ecological effects of contamination events. Wastewaters, a common byproduct of oil and gas extraction, often contain high concentrations of sodium chloride (NaCl) and heavy metals (e.g., strontium and vanadium). These constituents can negatively affect aquatic organisms, but there is scarce information for how wastewaters
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Brian J. Tornabene, Kelly L. Smalling, Carrie E Givens, Emily Bea Oja, Blake R. Hossack
Flood-frequency analysis in the Midwest: Addressing potential nonstationarity of annual peak-flow records
Flood-frequency analysis is essential in numerous water-resource management applications, including critical structure design and flood-plain mapping. A basic assumption within Bulletin 17C [1], the standardized guidelines for conducting flood-frequency analysis, is that basins without major hydrologic alterations, such as regulation or urbanization, exhibit stationary statistical properties of th
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Mackenzie K. Marti, Karen R. Ryberg, Sara B. Levin
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Filter Total Items: 20
Stream corridor sources of suspended sediment and sediment-bound phosphorus from an urban tributary to the Great Lakes
Potential sources of suspended sediment and sediment-bound phosphorus (sedP) were studied in the Kinnickinnic River (51 square kilometers), a heavily urbanized tributary to Lake Michigan (90% urban land use) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The river is 60% concrete lined channels, with few unlined reaches. From September 2019 through August 2020, an integrated study of sediment budget and sediment finger
Authors
James Blount, Leah Lenoch, Faith Fitzpatrick
How machine learning can improve predictions and provide insight into fluvial sediment transport in Minnesota
Understanding fluvial sediment transport is critical to addressing many environmental concerns such as exacerbated flooding, degradation of aquatic habitat, excess nutrients, and the economic challenges of restoring aquatic systems. However, fluvial sediment transport is difficult to understand because of the multitude of factors controlling the potential sources, delivery, mechanics, and storage
Authors
John (William) Lund, Joel T. Groten, Diana L. Karwan, Chad Babcock
Sand- and gravel-trapping efficiencies derived for four types of pressure-difference bedload samplers
Bedload-trapping efficiencies (coefficients) were derived for four types of pressure-difference bedload samplers at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota during the first two phases of flume experiments in January-March, 2006, referred to as “StreamLab06.” The bedload-sampler research component was part of a series of community-led, large-scale laboratory experiments performed
Authors
John Gray, Joel T. Groten, Jonathan A. Czuba, Gregory E. Schwarz, Kyle Strom, Panayiotis Diplas
Comparing empirical sediment transport modeling approaches in Michigan rivers
Excess or limited fluvial sediment transport can contribute to and exacerbate many environmental issues including nutrient loading, aquatic habitat degradation, flooding, channel navigation dredging, dam operation, and stream degradation or aggradation. However, fluvial sediment transport is difficult and expensive to comprehensively characterize because it can vary substantially both temporally a
Authors
Joel T. Groten, Sara B. Levin, Erin N. Coenen, John (William) Lund, Bethany Matousek
National-scale assessment of total gaseous mercury isotopes across the United States
With the 2011 promulgation of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the successful negotiation by the United Nations Environment Program of the Minamata Convention, emissions of mercury (Hg) have declined in the United States. While the declines in atmospheric Hg concentrations in North America are encouraging, linking the declines to changing domest
Authors
Michael T. Tate, Sarah E. Janssen, Ryan F. Lepak, Laura Elizabeth Flucke, David P. Krabbenhoft
Observed and projected functional reorganization of riverine fish assemblages from global change
Climate and land-use/land-cover change (‘global change’) are restructuring biodiversity, globally. Broadly, environmental conditions are expected to become warmer, potentially drier (particularly in arid regions), and more anthropogenically developed in the future, with spatiotemporally complex effects on ecological communities. We used functional traits to inform Chesapeake Bay Watershed fish res
Authors
Taylor E Woods, Mary Freeman, Kevin P. Krause, Kelly O. Maloney
Energy-related wastewater contamination alters microbial communities of sediment, water, and amphibian skin
To inform responsible energy development, it is important to understand the ecological effects of contamination events. Wastewaters, a common byproduct of oil and gas extraction, often contain high concentrations of sodium chloride (NaCl) and heavy metals (e.g., strontium and vanadium). These constituents can negatively affect aquatic organisms, but there is scarce information for how wastewaters
Authors
Brian J. Tornabene, Kelly L. Smalling, Carrie E Givens, Emily Bea Oja, Blake R. Hossack
Flood-frequency analysis in the Midwest: Addressing potential nonstationarity of annual peak-flow records
Flood-frequency analysis is essential in numerous water-resource management applications, including critical structure design and flood-plain mapping. A basic assumption within Bulletin 17C [1], the standardized guidelines for conducting flood-frequency analysis, is that basins without major hydrologic alterations, such as regulation or urbanization, exhibit stationary statistical properties of th
Authors
Mackenzie K. Marti, Karen R. Ryberg, Sara B. Levin
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