Appalachian Region

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Accuracy of methods for reporting inorganic element concentrations and radioactivity in oil and gas wastewaters from the Appalachian Basin, U.S. based on an inter-laboratory comparison. 
  • Bacterial community responses to a gradient of alkaline mountaintop mine drainage in Central Appalachian streams. 
  • Biogeographic analysis of the woody plants of the Southern Appalachians: Implications for the origins of a regional flora. 
  • Boron and strontium isotopic characterization of coal combustion residuals: validation of new environmental tracers. 
  • Breast cancer screening, area deprivation, and later-stage breast cancer in Appalachia: does geography matter? 
  • Contaminant Subsidies to Riparian Food Webs in Appalachian Streams Impacted by Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining. 
  • Creating a More Perennial Problem? Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Enhances and Sustains Saline Baseflows of Appalachian Watersheds. 
  • Examining the coupling of carbon and nitrogen cycles in Appalachian streams: the role of dissolved organic nitrogen. 
  • How many mountains can we mine? Assessing the regional degradation of Central Appalachian rivers by surface coal mining. 
  • Hygiene self-care of older adults in West Virginia: effects of gender. 
  • Investigating confounders of the association between survival and adjuvant radiation therapy after breast conserving surgery in a sample of elderly breast Cancer patients in Appalachia. 
  • Mapping the yearly extent of surface coal mining in Central Appalachia using Landsat and Google Earth Engine. 
  • Medicaid Expansion and Breast Cancer Screening in Appalachia and Non-Appalachia, United States, BRFSS 2003 to 2015. 
  • Moving from ethnography to epidemiology: lessons learned in Appalachia. 
  • Normative Irritability in Youth: Developmental Findings From the Great Smoky Mountains Study. 
  • Pollution and regional variations of lung cancer mortality in the United States. 
  • Psychiatric disorders among American Indian and white youth in Appalachia: the Great Smoky Mountains Study. 
  • Reconstructing Holocene fire history in a southern Appalachian forest using soil charcoal. 
  • Seed predation and climate impacts on reproductive variation in temperate forests of the southeastern USA. 
  • Seeps regulate stream nitrate concentration in a forested Appalachian catchment. 
  • Social isolation and cognitive function in Appalachian older adults. 
  • Sources of Radium Accumulation in Stream Sediments near Disposal Sites in Pennsylvania: Implications for Disposal of Conventional Oil and Gas Wastewater. 
  • The Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth. Goals, design, methods, and the prevalence of DSM-III-R disorders. 
  • The Great Smoky Mountains Study: developmental epidemiology in the southeastern United States. 
  • The environmental costs of mountaintop mining valley fill operations for aquatic ecosystems of the Central Appalachians. 
  • The impact of a palliative care program in a rural Appalachian community hospital: a quality improvement process. 
  • Tooth loss in Appalachia and the Mississippi delta relative to other regions in the United States, 1999-2010. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Whisnant, Anne Mitchell, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Social Science Research Institute, Graduate School