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Albemarle-Pamlico Study (ALBE), National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA)

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Beckert, K.A., 2004, The effects of seasonal change and urbanization on macroinvertebrate communities in streams [abs]: John K. Koeppe Undergraduate Research Symposium in Biology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November 2.

Caire, M.T., 2003, Examining the recovery of Bolin Creek following the drought of 2002—Effects of urbanization on resilience [abs]: John K. Koeppe Undergraduate Research Symposium in Biology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November 14.

Cross, V.A., Bratton, J.F., Bergeron, Emile, Meunier, J.K., Crusius, John, and Koopmans, Dirk, 2006, Continuous Resistivity Profiling data from the Upper Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina, 2004-2005: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1306, CD-ROM.

Cuffney, T.F., 2003, User's Manual for the National Water-Quality Assessment Program Invertebrate Data Analysis System (IDAS) Software—Version 3: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-172, 103 p.

Cuffney, T.F., Gurtz, M.E., and Meador, M.R., 1993, Guidelines for the processing and quality assurance of benthic invertebrate samples collected as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-407, 80 p.

Cuffney, T.F., Gurtz, M.E., and Meador, M.R., 1993, Methods for collecting benthic invertebrate samples as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-406, 66 p.

Cuffney, T.F., Meador, M.R., Porter, S.D., and Gurtz, M.E., 2000, Responses of physical, chemical, and biological indicators of water quality to a gradient of agricultural land use in the Yakima River Basin, Washington: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment v. 64, p. 259-270.

Cuffney, T.F., Meador, M.R., Porter, S.D., and Gurtz, M.E., 1997, Distribution of fish, benthic invertebrate, and algal communities in relation to physical and chemical conditions, Yakima River Basin, Washington, 1990: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4280, 94 p.

Cuffney, T.F., Wallace, J.B., and Lugthart, G.J., 1990, Experimental evidence quantifyig the role of benthic invertebrates in organic matter dynamics of headwater streams: Freshwater Biology, v. 23, p. 281-299.

Eimers, J.L., and Spruill, T.B., 1997, Relating minimum soil infiltration rate to nitrate-nitrogen concentrations in shallow ground water in the Coastal Plain of the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina and Virginia: Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine Study Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan Implementation Forum, June 5-6.

Harned, D.A, 2003, Water-quality trends in the Neuse River basin, North Carolina, 1974-2003: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 2003, Eos, Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract H41F-1048, vol. 84, no. 46, p. F703.

Harned, D.A., 1994, Pesticides in surface and ground water at four sites of intensive tobacco cultivation in the Piedmont of North Carolina: Proceedings of the American Water Resources Association, National Symposium on Water Quality, AWRA TPS-94-4, Chicago, Illinois, November, p. 275-283.

Harned, D.A., 1994, A spatial characterization of nutrient concentrations for the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Area, North Carolina and Virginia, Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union 1994 Fall Meeting, Eos, November 1, 1994, p. 247.

Harned, D.A., 1980, Long term water-quality trends in North Carolina Rivers: [abs] Sixteenth American Water Resources Association Conf., Minneapolis Minnesota, October 12-16.

Harned, D.A., 1982, Water quality of the Neuse River, North Carolina—Variability, pollution loads, and long-term trends, in Water quality of North Carolina streams: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 2185–D, p. D1–D44.

Harned, D.A., Newcomb, D.J., Hudson, E.T., and Levine, J.F.,1996, Salinity variation in an estuary used for oyster cultivation in Southeastern North Carolina during the passover of the eye of Hurricane Bertha: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 1996 Fall Meeting, December 1996, Eos, v. 77, no. 46.

Harned, D.A., and Davenport, M.S., 1990, Water-quality trends and basin activities and characteristics for the Albemarle-Pamlico estuarine system, North Carolina and Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-398, 164 p.

Harned, D.A., and McMahon, Gerard, 1997, Trends in surface-water quality for the Contentnea Creek Basin, 1980–96 [abs]: Proceedings of the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine Study Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan Implementation Forum, New Bern N.C., June 5–6, 1997.

Harned, D.A., and McMahon, Gerard, 1995, Correlation of annual variations in water quality and agricultural practices for subbasins of the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina and Virginia: American Geophysical Union 1995 Fall Meeting, Eos, November 7, 1995, p. F278.

Harned, D.A., McMahon, Gerard, Spruill, T.B., and Woodside, M.D., 1995, Water-quality assessment of the Albemarle-Pamlico drainage basin, North Carolina and Virginia--Characterization of suspended sediment, nutrients, and pesticides: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-191, 131 p.

Harned, D.A., Woodside, M.D., Skrobialowski, S.C., Ruhl, P.M., and Terziotti, S.A., Metals in bed sediments of rivers of the Albemarle-Pamlico drainage in North Carolina and Virginia: A comparison of NAWQA and NURE data: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs,1995 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 6–9, no. 41616, p. A-106.

Hill, C.L., and Harned, D.A., 1990, The effects of agricultural land-management practices on surface and ground water in the Piedmont of North Carolina, in United States Geological Survey Yearbook, fiscal year 1989, p. 36-38.

Lloyd, O.B., Jr., Barnes, C.R., and Woodside, M.D., 1991, National Water-Quality Assessment Program--The Albemarle-Pamlico drainage: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-156, 2 p.

Manning, T.K., Smith, K.E., Wood, C.D., and Williams, J.B., 1994, Pesticide-sampling equipment, sample-collection and processing procedures, and water-quality data at Chicod Creek, North Carolina, 1992: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-50, 35 p.

McMahon, Gerard, 1995, The role of information in developing rational watershed management plans: Geological Society of America, 1995 Fall Meeting, New Orleans, La.

McMahon, Gerard, Alexander, R.B., and Qian, Song, 2003, Support of TMDL programs using spatially referenced regression models, American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, v. 129, no. 4, p. 315-329.

McMahon, Gerard, Bales, J.D., Coles, J.F., Giddings, E.M.P., and Zappia, Humbert, 2003, Use of stage data to characterize hydrologic conditions in an urbanizing environment: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, v. 39, no. 6, p. 1529-1546.

McMahon, Gerard, and Cuffney, T.F., 2000, Quantifying urban intensity in drainage basins for assessing stream ecological conditions: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, v. 36, no.6, p. 1247-1261.

McMahon, Gerard, and Cuffney, T.F., 1999, A process for characterizing urban land-use intensity in drainage basins [abs.], in Sakrison, Rodney, and Sturtevant, Peter, eds., Proceedings of AWRA's 1999 Annual Water Resources Conference, Watershed Management to Protect Declining Species, December 5-9, 1999, Seattle, Wash.: Washington State Section of the American Water Resources Association, p. 257-260.

McMahon, Gerard, Gregonis, S.M., Waltman, S.W., Omernik, J.M., Thorson, T.D., Freeouf, J.A., Rorick, A.H., and Keys, J.E., 2001, Developing a spatial framework of common ecological regions for the conterminous United States: Environmental Management, v. 28, no. 3, p. 293-316.

McMahon, Gerard, and Harned, D.A., 1997, The influence of soil drainage characteristics on triazine concentrations in the Contentnea Creek drainage basin of North Carolina, 1993–95 [abs]: Managing Albemarle-Pamlico Sounds: CCMP Implementation Forum, New Bern, N.C., June 5–6.

McMahon, Gerard, and Harned, D.A., 1995, Effects of environmental setting on sediment, nitrogen, and phosphorus concentrations in watersheds of the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina and Virginia [abs.], American Geophysical Union 1995 Fall Meeting, December 11-15, 1995, San Francisco, Calif., in Supplement to Eos, Transactions: Washington, D.C., American Geophysical Union, v. 76, no. 46, p. F260.

McMahon, Gerard, and Harned, D.A., 1998, Effect of environmental setting on sediment, nitrogen, and phosphorus concentrations in Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina and Virginia, USA: Environmental Management v. 22, no. 6, p. 887–903.

McMahon, Gerard, and Lloyd, O.B., Jr., 1995, Water-quality assessment of the Albemarle-Pamlico drainage basin, North Carolina and Virginia--Environmental setting and water-quality issues: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-136, 72 p.

McMahon, Gerard, Qian, Song, and Roessler, Chris, 2002, A regression-based approach to assessing stream nitrogen impairment probabilities [abs.], in Spring Meeting Supplement, 2002 AGU Spring Meeting, Washington, DC, May 28-31, 2002: American Geophysical Union, v. 83, no. 19, Abstract H52B-04.

McMahon, Gerard, and Roessler, Chris, 2002, A regression-based approach to understand baseline total nitrogen loading for TMDL planning: National TMDL Science and Policy 2002 Speciality Conf., Water Environment Federation, 27 p.

McMahon, Gerard and Woodside, M.D., 1997, Estimating a nutrient mass balance for major drainage areas of the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina and Virginia: Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine Study Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan Implementation Forum, June 5-6.

McMahon, Gerard and Woodside, M.D., 1997, Nutrient mass balance for the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina and Virginia, 1990: Journal of the American Water Resources Association. v. 33, no. 3, June 1997, p. 573-589.

McMahon, Gerard and Woodside, M.D., 1994, Nitrogen mass balance for major drainage areas of the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina and Virginia [abs.]: American Geophysical Union 1994 Fall Meeting, December 5-9, 1994, San Francisco, California, p. 229.

Meador, M.R., Cuffney, T.F., and Gurtz, M.E., 1993, Methods for sampling fish communities as part of the National Water Quality Assessment Program: U.S Geological Survey Open File Report 93-104, 40 p.

Meador, M.R., Hupp, C.R., Cuffney, T.F., and Gurtz, M.E., 1993, Methods of characterizing stream habitat as part of the National Water Quality Assessment Program: U.S Geological Survey Open File Report 93-408, 48 p.

Newcomb, D.J., 1996, A comparison of GIRAS agricultural land-use data, with 1994 large-scale agricultural data: U.S. Geological Survey National Computer Technology Meeting, May 20.

Porter, S.D., Cuffney, T.F., Gurtz, M.E., and Meador, M.R., 1993, Methods for collecting algal samples as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-409, 39 p.

Ruhl, P.M., 1994, Intra-site variability of fish community samples collected in the Coastal Plain--Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage: Association of Southeastern Biologists Bulletin v. 41, no. 2.

Ruhl, P.M., Angermeier, P.L., and Smogor, Roy, 1996, Relations between fish assemblages and environmental conditions in small Coastal Plain streams in the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina: [abs.] Annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society, August 1997, Monterey, California.

Ruhl, P.M., and Smith, K.E., 1996, Water-quality assessment of the Albemarle-Pamlico drainage basin, North Carolina and Virginia.Trace elements in Asiatic clam (Corbicula fluminea) soft tissues and redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus) livers, 1992-93: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-334, 6 p.

Skrobialowski, S.C., 1996, Water-quality assessment of the Albemarle-Pamlico drainage basin, North Carolina and Virginia.A summary of selected trace element, nutrient, and pesticide data for bed sediments, 1969-90: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4104, 33 p.

Smith, K.E., and Ruhl, P.M., 1996, Water-quality assessment of the Albemarle-Pamlico drainage basin, North Carolina and Virginia.Organochlorine compounds in Asiatic clam (Corbicula fluminea) soft tissues and whole redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus), 1992-93: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-201, 6 p.

Spruill, T.B., 2004, Effectiveness of riparian buffers in controlling ground-water discharge of nitrate to streams in selected hydrogeologic settings of the North Carolina Coastal Plain: Water Science and Technology, v. 49, no. 3, p. 63-70.

Spruill, T.B., 2000, Statistical evaluation of effects of riparian buffers on nitrate and ground-water quality: Journal of Environmental Quality, v. 29, no. 5, p. 1523-1538.

Spruill, T.B., 1997, Geologic sources of phosphorus in the Neuse River and implications for management: Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine Study Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan Implementation Forum, June 5-6.

Spruill, T.B., 1994, Preliminary results from ground-water studies in an agricultural watershed of the Coastal Plain of North Carolina in Pederson, G.L., ed., National Symposium on Water Quality: American Water Resource Association Technical Publications Series 94-4, p. 201.

Spruill, T.B., Eimers, J.L., and Morey, A.E , 1996, Nitrate-nitrogen concentrations in shallow ground water of the Coastal Plain of the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Study Unit, North Carolina and Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-241-96, 4 p.

Spruill, T.B., and Galeone, D.R., 2000, Effectiveness of riparian buffers in reducing nitrate-nitrogen concentrations in ground water: American Water Resource Association Proceedings, International Conference on Riparain Ecology and Management in Multi-land Use Watersheds, p. 119-124.

Spruill, T.B., Harned, D.A., Ruhl, P.M., Eimers, J.L., McMahon, Gerard, Smith, K.E., Galeone, D.R., and Woodside, M.D., 1998, Water quality in the Albemarle-Pamlico drainage basin, North Carolina and Virginia, 1992-95: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1157, 36 p.

Spruill, T.B., Harned, D.A., and McMahon, Gerard, 1995, The Albemarle-Pamlico drainage National Water-Quality Assessment Study: Background and design: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File report 95-164, 4 p.

Spruill, T.B., Woodside, M.D., Harned, D.A., McMahon, Gerard, and Eimers, J.L., 1996, Results of the Albemarle-Pamlico drainage NAWQA—Nutrients and pesticides in surface water and ground water in Proceedings, Solutions—A technical conference on water quality: Raleigh, North Carolina State University, March 19–21, p. 24–30.

Spruill, T.B., Williams, J.B., Galeone, D.R., and Harned, D.A., 1997, Radon in ground water in Guilford County, North Carolina: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-147-97, 4 p.

Woodside, M.D., 1994, Land use in and water quality of the Pea Hill arm of Lake Gaston, Virginia and North Carolina, 1988-90: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigation Report 94-4140, 54 p.

Woodside, M.D., and Simerl, B.R., 1995, Land use and nutrient concentrations and yields in selected streams in the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina and Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-457, 4 p.

Woodside, M.D., and Simerl, B.R., 1996, Water-quality assessment of the Albemarle-Pamlico Basin, North Carolina and Virginia.Chemical analyses of organic compounds and inorganic constituents in streambed sediment, 1992-93: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-103, 25 p.

Woodside, M.D., and McMahon, Gerard, 1994, Assessment of triazine herbicides in North Carolina and Virginia streams by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay [abs.]: in Sorenson, S.K., ed., 1994, Proceedings abstracts American Water Resources Association's symposium on the National Water-Quality Assessment Program, November 7-9, 1994, Chicago, Illinois: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-397, p. 9.


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