Rivers

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Bayesian network model for integrative river rehabilitation planning and management. 
  • A Multiscale Approach to Timescale Analysis: Isolating Diel Signals from Solute Concentration Time Series. 
  • A predictive approach to nutrient criteria. 
  • Abundance of water bodies is critical to guide mosquito larval control interventions and predict risk of mosquito-borne diseases. 
  • Algal blooms and the nitrogen-enrichment hypothesis in Florida springs: evidence, alternatives, and adaptive management. 
  • Alkaline mine drainage drives stream sediment microbial community structure and function. 
  • An assessment of fecal indicator bacteria-based water quality standards. 
  • Antimicrobial effects of commercial silver nanoparticles are attenuated in natural streamwater and sediment. 
  • Antioxidant defenses in killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) exposed to contaminated sediments and model prooxidants: short-term and heritable responses. 
  • Artificial lake expansion amplifies mercury pollution from gold mining. 
  • Assessment of emerging polar organic pollutants linked to contaminant pathways within an urban estuary using non-targeted analysis. 
  • Bacterial community responses to a gradient of alkaline mountaintop mine drainage in Central Appalachian streams. 
  • Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora. 
  • Biochemical and toxicopathic biomarkers assessed in smallmouth bass recovered from a polychlorinated biphenyl-contaminated river. 
  • Biological assessments of a mixture of endocrine disruptors at environmentally relevant concentrations in water following UV/H2O2 oxidation. 
  • Biomonitoring recycled water in the Santa Ana River Basin in southern California. 
  • Boron and strontium isotopic characterization of coal combustion residuals: validation of new environmental tracers. 
  • Can algal uptake stop NO3(-) pollution? 
  • Causes and consequences of habitat fragmentation in river networks. 
  • Characterization of the recalcitrant CYP1 phenotype found in Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) inhabiting a Superfund site on the Elizabeth River, VA. 
  • Comparative phylogeography of unglaciated eastern North America. 
  • Consistent declines in aquatic biodiversity across diverse domains of life in rivers impacted by surface coal mining. 
  • Contaminant Subsidies to Riparian Food Webs in Appalachian Streams Impacted by Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining. 
  • Cost of Tolerance: Physiological Consequences of Evolved Resistance to Inhabit a Polluted Environment in Teleost Fish Fundulus heteroclitus. 
  • Cumulative impacts of mountaintop mining on an Appalachian watershed. 
  • Dam controversy: Remaking the Mekong. 
  • Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin. 
  • Deep Impact: Effects of Mountaintop Mining on Surface Topography, Bedrock Structure, and Downstream Waters. 
  • Density declines, richness increases, and composition shifts in stream macroinvertebrates. 
  • Differentiating the Effects of Climate Change-Induced Temperature and Streamflow Changes on the Vulnerability of Once-Through Thermoelectric Power Plants. 
  • Dissolved Reactive Phosphorus Loads to Western Lake Erie: The Hidden Influence of Nanoparticles. 
  • Early hematopoietic effects of chronic radiation exposure in humans. 
  • Ecology. Synthesizing U.S. river restoration efforts. 
  • Ecosystem modification and network position impact insect-mediated contaminant fluxes from a mountaintop mining-impacted river network. 
  • Effect-directed analysis of Elizabeth River porewater: developmental toxicity in zebrafish (Danio rerio). 
  • Effects of Natural Organic Matter Properties on the Dissolution Kinetics of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles. 
  • Effects of future infrastructure development on threat status and occurrence of Amazonian birds. 
  • Effects of urbanization and urban stream restoration on the physical and biological structure of stream ecosystems. 
  • Embryonic Fundulus heteroclitus responses to sediment extracts from differentially contaminated sites in the Elizabeth River, VA. 
  • Enhanced formation of disinfection byproducts in shale gas wastewater-impacted drinking water supplies. 
  • Environmental controls on the landscape-scale biogeography of stream bacterial communities. 
  • Environmental impacts of the Tennessee Valley Authority Kingston coal ash spill. 1. Source apportionment using mercury stable isotopes. 
  • Environmental impacts of the Tennessee Valley Authority Kingston coal ash spill. 2. Effect of coal ash on methylmercury in historically contaminated river sediments. 
  • Environmental implications of United States coal exports: a comparative life cycle assessment of future power system scenarios. 
  • Examining the coupling of carbon and nitrogen cycles in Appalachian streams: the role of dissolved organic nitrogen. 
  • Expression and inducibility of aryl hydrocarbon receptor pathway genes in wild-caught killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) with different contaminant-exposure histories. 
  • Fish Consumption Patterns and Mercury Advisory Knowledge Among Fishers in the Haw River Basin. 
  • From icy roads to salty streams. 
  • Genome-wide scan reveals signatures of selection related to pollution adaptation in non-model estuarine Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus). 
  • Genomic dissection of conserved transcriptional regulation in intestinal epithelial cells. 
  • Genotoxicity in Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) from a PAH-contaminated Superfund site on the Elizabeth River, Virginia. 
  • Give and Take: A Watershed Acid Rain Mitigation Experiment Increases Baseflow Nitrogen Retention but Increases Stormflow Nitrogen Export. 
  • Heart development in two populations of Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) following exposure to a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon mixture. 
  • Hepatic Responses of Juvenile Fundulus heteroclitus from Pollution-adapted and Nonadapted Populations Exposed to Elizabeth River Sediment Extract. 
  • How many mountains can we mine? Assessing the regional degradation of Central Appalachian rivers by surface coal mining. 
  • How wide is a stream? Spatial extent of the potential "stream signature" in terrestrial food webs using meta-analysis. 
  • Hydro-Climatological Influences on Long-Term Dissolved Organic Carbon in a Mountain Stream of the Southeastern United States. 
  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian tree flora. 
  • Identifying bioaugmentation candidates for bioremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in contaminated estuarine sediment of the Elizabeth River, VA, USA. 
  • Identifying linkages between land use, geomorphology, and aquatic habitat in a mixed-use watershed. 
  • Impact to Underground Sources of Drinking Water and Domestic Wells from Production Well Stimulation and Completion Practices in the Pavillion, Wyoming, Field. 
  • Impacts of shale gas wastewater disposal on water quality in western Pennsylvania. 
  • Importance of a nanoscience approach in the understanding of major aqueous contamination scenarios: case study from a recent coal ash spill. 
  • In search of microbial indicator taxa: shifts in stream bacterial communities along an urbanization gradient. 
  • Indicator species characterization and removal in a detention pond in the Plaster Creek watershed. 
  • Isotopic imprints of mountaintop mining contaminants. 
  • Landscape characteristics of a stream and wetland mitigation banking program. 
  • Later life swimming performance and persistent heart damage following subteratogenic PAH mixture exposure in the Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus). 
  • Legacy source of mercury in an urban stream-wetland ecosystem in central North Carolina, USA. 
  • Leveraging Big Data Towards Functionally-Based, Catchment Scale Restoration Prioritization. 
  • Light and flow regimes regulate the metabolism of rivers. 
  • Long-term cellular effects in humans chronically exposed to ionizing radiation. 
  • Long-term trends in liver neoplasms in brown bullhead in the Buffalo River, New York, USA. 
  • Microplastics in Small Waterbodies and Tadpoles from Yangtze River Delta, China. 
  • Microplastics in oysters Saccostrea cucullata along the Pearl River Estuary, China. 
  • Morphological characteristics of urban water bodies: mechanisms of change and implications for ecosystem function. 
  • Nitrate sink function of riparian zones induced by river stage fluctuations. 
  • Nontarget Screening with High Resolution Mass Spectrometry in the Environment: Ready to Go? 
  • Nutrient limitation and physiology mediate the fine-scale (de)coupling of biogeochemical cycles. 
  • Oil and gas projects in the Western Amazon: threats to wilderness, biodiversity, and indigenous peoples. 
  • Out of the net: An agent-based model to study human movements influence on local-scale malaria transmission. 
  • Oxidative stress in two populations of killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) with differing contaminant exposure histories. 
  • Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in American eels (Anguilla rostrata) from the Delaware River, USA. 
  • Prevalence of Cryptosporidium and Giardia in the water resources of the Kuang River catchment, Northern Thailand. 
  • Quantifying ground water inputs along the Lower Jordan River. 
  • Riparian buffers increase future baseflow and reduce peakflows in a developing watershed. 
  • River ecosystem metabolism and carbon biogeochemistry in a changing world. 
  • River restoration: the fuzzy logic of repairing reaches to reverse catchment scale degradation. 
  • River transport of mercury from artisanal and small-scale gold mining and risks for dietary mercury exposure in Madre de Dios, Peru. 
  • Search for Campylobacter spp. Reveals High Prevalence and Pronounced Genetic Diversity of Arcobacter butzleri in Floodwater Samples Associated with Hurricane Florence in North Carolina, USA. 
  • Silver nanoparticle behavior, uptake, and toxicity in Caenorhabditis elegans: effects of natural organic matter. 
  • Soundscape of an Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis) hotspot before windfarm construction in the Pearl River Estuary, China: Do dolphin engage in noise avoidance and passive eavesdropping behavior? 
  • Sources and transformations of nitrogen compounds along the Lower Jordan River. 
  • Sources of Radium Accumulation in Stream Sediments near Disposal Sites in Pennsylvania: Implications for Disposal of Conventional Oil and Gas Wastewater. 
  • Stoichiometry and daily rhythms: experimental evidence shows nutrient limitation decouples N uptake from photosynthesis. 
  • Stream transport of iron and phosphorus by authigenic nanoparticles in the Southern Piedmont of the U.S. 
  • Survey of the potential environmental and health impacts in the immediate aftermath of the coal ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee. 
  • Terra incognita: The unknown risks to environmental quality posed by the spatial distribution and abundance of concentrated animal feeding operations. 
  • Testing the field of dreams hypothesis: functional responses to urbanization and restoration in stream ecosystems. 
  • The Elizabeth River Story: A Case Study in Evolutionary Toxicology. 
  • The Environmental Impacts of the Coal Ash Spill in Kingston, Tennessee: An Eighteen-Month Survey 
  • The constructal law of design and evolution in nature. 
  • The environmental costs of mountaintop mining valley fill operations for aquatic ecosystems of the Central Appalachians. 
  • The environmental price tag on a ton of mountaintop removal coal. 
  • The impact of coal combustion residue effluent on water resources: a North Carolina example 
  • The impacts of wind power integration on sub-daily variation in river flows downstream of hydroelectric dams. 
  • The restoration potential of the Mesopotamian marshes of Iraq. 
  • Trading water for carbon with biological carbon sequestration. 
  • Trends in the Rare Earth Element Content of U.S.-Based Coal Combustion Fly Ashes. 
  • Upstream watershed condition predicts rural children's health across 35 developing countries. 
  • Watershed urbanization alters the composition and function of stream bacterial communities. 
  • Wetlands as an alternative stable state in desert streams. 
  • What is a stream? 
  • Why the bigger live longer and travel farther: animals, vehicles, rivers and the winds. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Doyle, Martin, Professor in the Environmental Sciences and Policy Division, Nicholas Institute-Energy Initiative
  • Heffernan, James Brendan, Associate Professor of Ecosystem Ecology and Ecohydrology, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Hsu-Kim, Heileen, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • McGlynn, Brian, Adjunct Professor, Earth and Climate Sciences
  • Pan, William Kuang-Yao, Elizabeth Brooks Reid and Whitelaw Reid Associate Professor, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Vengosh, Avner, Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Environmental Quality, Nicholas Institute-Energy Initiative
  • Wolpert, Robert L., Professor Emeritus of Statistical Science, Environmental Sciences and Policy