Water Quality

USGS Science

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Project Name	Primary Investigator	Science Center
Assessing the Influence of the Davis Pond Freshwater Diversion on Water-Quality in Waterways and Marshes of Barataria Preserve		Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center
Climate-Driven Connectivity Between Prairie-Pothole and Riparian Wetlands in the Upper Mississippi River Watershed: Implications for Wildlife Habitat and Water Quality	Jason Rohweder; Nathan De Jager, PhD	Climate Adaptation Science Centers
Mississippi River Special Topic	JC Nelson	Midcontinent Region
Mississippi/Atchafalaya River Basins - SPARROW	Richard Rebich	Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center
Nutrient and Sediment Monitoring in Inflows to Texas Bays and Estuaries	Zulimar Lucena; Cassi Crow	Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center
Nutrient Delivery to the Mississippi River from Kentucky	Angela Crain; Molly Lott	Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Water Science Center
Nutrient retention on the Upper Mississippi River Floodplain	Rebecca Kreiling, Ph.D.	Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
SPARROW modeling: Estimating nutrient, sediment, and dissolved solids transport	David Saad	Water Resources Mission Area
SPARROW modeling: Great Lakes, Mississippi River, Ohio River, and Red River Basins	Dale Robertson; David Saad	Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
SPARROW nutrient modeling: Mississippi/Atchafalaya River Basin (MARB)	Dale Robertson; David Saad	Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Understanding Avian Habitat Availability and Use After Barrier Island Restoration in Coastal Louisiana	T.J. Zenzal, Ph.D.; Nicholas Enwright, Ph.D.; Hardin Waddle, Ph.D.	Wetland and Aquatic Research Center
Understanding constraints on submersed vegetation distribution in a large, floodplain river: the role of water level fluctuations, water clarity and river geomorphology	Jeff Houser, Ph.D.; Jason Rohweder	Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program Long Term Resource Monitoring	Kathi Jo Jankowski	Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Urban Waters Federal Partnership - Suspended Sediment and Nutrient Delivery to the Gulf of America	Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center
Water Quality Across Regional Stream Networks: The Influence of Land Cover and Land Use, Climate, and Biogeochemical Processing on Spatiotemporal Variance	Kimberly Wickland; Edward Stets	Climate Research and Development Program
Water Quality in Lake Pontchartrain and western Mississippi Sound during openings of Bonnet Carré Spillway	Scott Mize	Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center
Water Quality Monitoring at Offshore Artificial Reefs	Michael Lee	Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center