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Donald O Rosenberry

Donald Rosenberry is a Research Hydrologist for the USGS Water Resources Mission Area.

Don is a research hydrologist with the Earth Surface Processes Division specializing in wetland hydrology, water budgets of lakes and wetlands, and hyporheic processes. Research is focused at the sediment-water interface with an emphasis on understanding processes that control exchanges between groundwater and surface water. Don also is the coordinator of the Shingobee Headwaters Aquatic Ecosystem Project where scientists from USGS and academia work together to study physical, chemical, and biological processes of lakes, wetlands, and streams at a small-watershed scale. Don's interests in groundwater, surface water, and the dynamic sediment-water interface stem from his formative years at Bemidji State University (next to Lake Bemidji), the University of Minnesota (on the banks of the Mississippi River), and the University of Colorado (through which Boulder Creek flows).

Education

  • University of Colorado, Boulder. Geography/Geomorphology, Ph.D. 2007
  • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Hydrogeology, M.S. 1985
  • Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN. Geology/Geography, B.S. 1981

Employment

  • 2007-present: USGS, Lead Scientist, Hydrogeology of lakes, wetlands, and streams
  • 1985-2007: USGS, Staff research hydrologist, Hydrology of lakes and wetlands
  • 1982-1985: USGS, Hydrologic technician
  • 1981-1982: Continental Laboratories, Hydrocarbon well analyst, Billings, MT

Current Research Topics

  • Ground-water surface-water exchange in hyporheic settings (CA, CO, MA, MN, PA)
  • Significance of ground-water discharge to nutrient loading (MN, WA)
  • Significance of ground water to water supply (CA, MN, NM)
  • Relating geophysics and seepage along shoreline margins (NH, WA)
  • Decadal-scale hydrology of lakes and wetlands (MT, ND, MN, NH)

Professional and Society Activity

  • American Geophysical Union
  • Geological Society of America
  • Society of Wetland Scientists
  • Minnesota Ground Water Association

Current Editorships

Editorial Board, Hydrological Processes (2014-present)

Awards, Recognitions

  • Keynote Address, Minnesota Ground Water Association annual conference (2003, 2009)
  • Keynote Address, Canadian Geophysical Union annual conference (2005)
  • Elected Fellow of Geological Society of America (2008)
  • Keynote Address, Idaho Department of Environmental Quality 21st Annual Water Quality Workshop, February 2011
  • Keynote Address, Alabama Department of Environmental Management 12th Annual Groundwater Conference, June 2012
  • Moos Family lecturer, Freshwater Society, June 2013
  • Meinzer Award, Geological Society of America Hydrogeology Division (2017)

  

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Water source to four U.S. wetlands: Implications for wetland management

Results of long-term field studies of wetlands in four different hydrogeologic and climatic settings in the United States indicate that each has considerably different sources of water, which affects their response to climate variability and land-use practices. A fen wetland in New Hampshire is supplied almost entirely by ground water that originates as seepage from Mirror Lake...
Authors
T. C. Winter, Donald Rosenberry, D.C. Buso, D.A. Merk

The use of principal component analysis for interpreting ground water hydrographs

Principal component analysis was used to define patterns in water table hydrographs at four small, lake-watershed research sites in the United States. The analysis provided insights into (1) characteristics of ground water recharge in different parts of the watersheds; (2) the effect of seepage from lakes on water table fluctuations; and (3) the effect of differences in geologic...
Authors
T. C. Winter, S.E. Mallory, T.R. Allen, Donald Rosenberry

Unsaturated‐zone wedge beneath a large, natural lake

Lake Belle Taine (480 ha) in north central Minnesota receives on average 76,000 m3 d−1 of water from Little Sand Creek but has no outlet. Water seeps out of the lake, flows through glacial outwash, and discharges into three nearby lakes with stages 13–14 m lower than Belle Taine. Seepage‐meter data indicate water is seeping out of Belle Taine at velocities up to 263 cm d−1 . Hydraulic...
Authors
Donald Rosenberry

Plants as indicators of focused ground water discharge to a northern Minnesota lake

Determining the discharge of ground water to Shingobee Lake (66 ha), north-central Minnesota, is complicated by the presence of numerous springs situated adjacent to the lake and in the shallow portion of the lakebed. Springs first had to be located before these areas of more rapid discharge could be quantified. Two methods that rely on the distribution of aquatic plants are useful for...
Authors
Donald Rosenberry, Robert G. Striegl, D.C. Hudson

Movement of road salt to a small New Hampshire lake

Runoff of road salt from an interstate highway in New Hampshire has led to contamination of a lake and a stream that flows into the lake, in spite of the construction of a diversion berm to divert road salt runoff out of the lake drainage basin. Chloride concentration in the stream has increased by over an order of magnitude during the 23 yr since the highway was opened, and chloride...
Authors
Donald Rosenberry, Paul A. Bukaveckas, D.C. Buso, G.E. Likens, Allen M. Shapiro, T. C. Winter
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Toxic Substances Hydrology, Environmental Health Program

Hydrographs of lake stage, stream discharge, and hydraulic head in ground water for the Mirror Lake area, New Hampshire, 1979-1995

No abstract available.
Authors
T. C. Winter, D.C. Buso, R.S. Parkhurst, Donald Rosenberry, M.L. Martinez

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