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Cizdziel, J. V., E. M. Heithmar, T. A. Hinners, C. L. Cross, and J. E. Pollard. In Review. Distribution of mercury in the tissues of five species of freshwater fish from Lake Mead, USA.

Cross, C. L. In Review. Behavioral ecology of the eastern cottonmouth (Agkistrodon p. piscivorus) in southeastern Virginia. Southeastern Naturalist.

Cross, C. L. In Preparation. Movement patterns, activity ranges, and ecology of Agkistrodon piscivorus at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Virginia. Journal of Herpetology.

Cross, C. L., A. W. Salas, N. Orlov, and N. Ananjeva. In Review. Analysis of reptilian biodiversity data. In C. Guyer, R. McDiarmid, N. Chernoff, and M. Foster, Reptile Biodiversity: Standard Methods for Inventory and Monitoring. Smithsonian Institution Press.

Gerstenberger, S. L., W. E. Kelly, and C. L. Cross. In Review. Environmental concern: The influence of an introductory science class on environmental perceptions. The Journal of Environmental Education.

Jaeger, J. R., B. R. Riddle, and D. F. Bradford. Cryptic Neogene vicariance and Quaternary dispersal of the red-spotted toad (Bufo punctatus): insights on the evolution of North American warm desert biotas. In Review. Molecular Ecology.

Lopez, R .D., D. T. Heggem, C. M. Edmonds, K. B. Jones, L. A. Bice, M. Hamilton, E. Evanston, C. L. Cross, and D. W. Ebert. In Review. Landscape Metrics of Habitat Vulnerability in Arkansas’ White River Basin. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. (August, 2002).

Lopez, R. D., D. T. Heggem, C. M. Edmonds, K. B. Jones, L. A. Bice, M. Hamilton, E. Evanston, C. L. Cross, D. W. Ebert, B. Keeler, G. Carney, N. E. Dyer, S. Osowski, and K. Teague. In Review. An Ecological and Habitat Vulnerability Assessment of Arkansas' White River Basin and the Lower Mississippi River Valley. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Washington, D.C., USA.

Wickham, J. D., S. V. Stehman, J. H. Smith, and L. Yang. submitted. Thematic accuracy of MRLC-NLCD land cover for the Great Lakes, Midwest, and Pacific Northwest. Remote Sensing of Environment.

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In Press

Bradford, D. F., J. R. Jaeger, and S. A. Shanahan. Distributional Changes and Population Status of Amphibians in the Eastern Mojave Desert. Western North American Naturalist. In press.

Bradford, D. F. Epilogue: Factors implicated in amphibian population declines in the United States. Pp. 000-000 in M. J. Lannoo (ed.), Declining Amphibians: A United States' Response to the Global Problem, University of California Press, Berkeley. In Press.

Bradford, D. F., R. D. Jennings, and J. R. Jaeger. Rana onca Cope 1875, relict leopard frog. Pp. 000-000 in M.J. Lannoo (ed.), Declining Amphibians: A United States' Response to the Global Problem, University of California Press, Berkeley. In Press.

Brooks, P. D., C. M. O’Reilly, S. A. Diamond, D. H. Campbell, R. Knapp, D. Bradford, P. S. Corn, B. Hossack, and K. Tonnessen. Spatial and temporal variability in the amount and source of dissolved organic carbon: implications for UV exposure in amphibian habitats. Ecosystems. In press.

Crowley, J.K., D. J. Williams, J. M. Hammarstrom, N. Piatak, I. Chou, and J. C. Mars. Spectral reflectance properties (0.4-2.5 um) of secondary Fe-oxide, Fe-hydroxide, and Fe-sulfate-hydrate minerals associated with sulfide-bearing mine wastes. Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis. In press.

Diamond, D. D., C. D. True, S. P. Sowa, W. E. Foster, K. B. Jones. 2005. Influence of
Targets and Area of Assessment on Perceived Conservation Priorities. Environmental Management. In press.

Diamond, S. A., P. C. Trenham, M. J. Adams, B. R. Hossack, R. A. Knapp, S. L. Stark, D. F. Bradford, P. S. Corn, K. Czarnowski, P. D. Brooks, D. Fagre, B. Breen, N. E. Detenbeck, K. Tonnessen. Estimated ultraviolet radiation doses in wetlands in six national parks. Ecosystems. In press.

Edmonds, C. M., A. C. Neale, D. T. Heggem, J. D. Wickham, and K. B. Jones, "A Comparison of Landscape Change Detection Methods," International Ecosystem Health Conference Proceedings. In press.

Garofalo, D., 2002. Aerial photointerpretation of hazardous waste sites, Chapter 18, in GIS for Water Resources and Watershed Management, 219-240. In press.

Heggem, D. T., C. M. Edmonds, A. C. Neale, L. Bice, and K. Bruce Jones, "Using GIS and Remote Sensing Data to Identify Potential Forested Wetland Restoration Sites," Geo Info Systems. In press.

Jones, K. B., A. C. Neal, T. M. Wade, C. L. Cross, J. D. Wickham, M. S. Nash, C. M. Edmonds, K. H. Riitters, E. R. Smith, and R. D. Van Remortel. 2005. Multiple scale relationships of landscape characteristics and nitrogen concentrations in streams across a large geographic area. Chapter 11, in Wu, J., Jones, K.B., Li, H., and Loucks, O. (eds.), Scaling and uncertainty analysis in ecology: methods and applications. Columbia University Press. In Press.

Lawler, J. J., R. J. O’Connor, C. T. Hunsaker, K. B. Jones, T. R. Loveland, and D. White. 2005.
The effects of habitat resolution on models of avian diversity and distributions: a comparison of two land-cover classifications. Landscape Ecology. In press.

Lopez, R. D., C. M. Edmonds, A. C. Neale, T. Slonecker, K. B. Jones, D. T. Heggem, J. G. Lyon, E. Jaworski, D. Garofalo, D. Williams. In Press. An ecological assessment of opportunistic plant species in Great Lakes coastal wetlands using airborne hyperspectral data in R.S. Lunetta and J.G. Lyon (eds.), Proceedings of the Remote Sensing and GIS Accuracy Assessment Symposium (December 11-13, 2001), Las Vegas, NV.

Miller, S. N., W. G. Kepner, M. H. Mehaffey, M. Hernandez, R. C. Miller, D. C. Goodrich, F. K. Devonald, D. T. Heggem, and P. Miller. Integrated Decision-Making for Watershed Management Symposium: Processes and Tools. VWRRC Special Report SR-20-2001. In Press.

Mehaffey, M. H., M. S. Nash, T. G. Wade, D. W. Ebert, K. B. Jones, and A. Rager, 2005. Linking Land Cover and Water Quality in New York City’s Water Supply Watersheds. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. In Press.

"" Nash, Maliha S., Timothy G. Wade, Daniel T. Heggem, and James D. Wickham. 2003. Does Anthropogenic Activities or Nature Dominate the Shaping of the Landscape in the Oregon Pilot Study Area for 1990-1999? NATO - CCMS and Science Committee Workshop on Desertification in the Mediterranean Region. A Security Issue. Valencia (Spain), December 2-5. Special Kluwer issue. [PDF, 16 pp., 985 KB, about PDF]

Slonecker. E. T., and J.S. Tilley. 2004. An Assessment of Impervious Surfaces Measurement Methods. U.S. Geological Survey Topical Report, Status and Trends, 2003. In Press.

Slonecker, E. T. , L. Tarnay, K. Collell, A. Hansen, S. T. Jarnagin, T. Johnson, K. B. Jones,
and E. Vance. 2004. Chapter 6: The Consequences of Land Use and Land Cover Change. IN: Science Implementation Plan, Land Use and Land Cover Change. U.S. Climate Change Science Program Office, Washington, D.C. In Press.

Tilley, J. S., R. E. Paul, E. T. Slonecker, and E. Walkowiak, 2004. Developing a Spatial, Analytical, Methodology to Inventory Potential Brownfields Sites. U.S. Geological Survey Topical Report, Status and Trends, 2003. In Press.

Wickham, J.D., Jones, K.B., Wade, T.G, and Riitters, K.H. accepted. Scaling nutrient export coefficients. In: Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology: Methods and Applications. Wu, J., Jones, K.B., Li, H., and Loucks, O.L. Editors. Columbia University Press, New York.

Wickham, J. D., K. H. Riitters, T. G. Wade, and K. B. Jones, 2005. Evaluating the relative roles
of ecological regions and land-cover. Landscape Ecology. In press.

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2008

Jarnagin, S. Published Proceeding: Historical Analysis Of The Relationship Of Streamflow Flashiness With Popultion Density, Impervioursness, And Percent Urban Land Cover In The Mid-Atlantic Region. (TIP # 08-017, Non-EPA Published Proceedings) World Environmental & Water Resources Congress 2008, Honolulu, HI, May 12 - 16, 2008. Journal Of The Hydraulics Division, ASCE. American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Reston, VA, 1-10, (2008). Published 5/16/2008.

Buono, J., P. Heilman, E. Carrillo, D. Robinett, and M. S. NASH. Localizing the Rangeland Health Method for Southeastern Arizona. EPA/600/R-08/044 (TIP # 08-059, Published Report) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, 2008. Published 5/15/2008.

Lopez, R. D., M. S. Nash, D. T. Heggem, and D. W. Ebert. Resource Managers Benefit From EPA'S View Of The Ozarks Landscape. (TIP # 08-039, Journal) em: Air and Waste Management Associations Magazine for Environmental Managers. Air & Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, PA, 58(5):20-21, (2008). Published 5/1/2008.

Riitters, K., J. D. Wickham, and T. G. Wade. An Indicator Of Forest Dynamics Using A Shifting Landscape Mosaic. (TIP # 08-075, Journal Arctile) F. Muller (ed.), Ecological Indicators. Elsevier Science Ltd, New York, NY, 8(6):1-11, (2008). Published 02/03/2008.

Kepner, W. G., M. Hernandez, D. J. Semmens, and D. Goodrich. The Use of Scenario Analysis to Assess Future Landscape Change on Watershed Condition in the Pacific Northwest (TIP # 06-199, Book Chapter) (USA). Chapter 5, I. Petrosillo, F. Müller, W. Kepner, G. Zurlini, B. Jones, B. Li, K. Krauze, and S. Victorov (ed.), Use of Landscape Sciences for the Assessment of Environmental Security. Springer Netherlands, Netherlands, 237-261, (2008). Published 01/16/2008.

2007

Nilolova, M., S. Nedkov, D. J. Semmens, and S. Iankov. Environmental quality and lanscape-risk assessment in the Yantra River Basin. Chapter 12, W. Kepner, F. Muller, I. Petrosillio, B. Jones, K. Krauze, S. Victorov and G. Zurlini (ed.), Environmental Quality and Landscape-Risk Assessment in the Yantra River Basin. Springer Netherlands, Netherlands, 209-224, (2007). (TIP # 07-001, Book Chapter). Published 12/18/2007.

Kepner, W. G. and F. Mueller. The use of landscape science for the assessment of enviromental security. Chapter 12, Petrosillo, I, Muller, F, Jones, K., Zurlini, G., Krauze, K., Victorov, S. (ed.), The Use of Lanscape Science for the Assessment of Environmental Security. Springer Netherlands, Netherlands, 237-261, (2007). (TIP # 07-057, Book Chapter). Published 12/18/2007.

Semmens, D. J., D. C. Goodrich, C. L. Unkrdich, R. E. Smith, D. A. Woolhiser, and S. N. Miller. KINEROS2 and the AGWA modeling framework. Chapter 5, Howard Wheater (ed.), Hydrological Modelling in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 49-68, (2007). (TIP # 06-013, Book Chapter). Published 11/30/2007.

Heggem, D. T., A. C. Neale, E. Evanson, R. Van Remortel, M. Jackson, D. W. Ebert. National Landscape Metrics Browser (V1.0). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/C-07/014. (TIP # 07-100, Data), Published 9/11/2007

Semmens, D. Dotagwa: "A Case Study in Web-Based Architectures for Connecting Surface Water Models to Spatially Enabled Web Applications," (TIP # 07-073, Paper in Non-EPA Proceedings) In Proceedings, 2007 Summer Computer Simulation Conference, San Diego, CA, July 15 - 18, 2007. Society for Modeling and Simulation International, San Diego, CA, 885-892, Published 7/15/2007

LOWRY, J., K. THOMAS, D. SCHRUPP, T. SAJWAJ, W. G. KEPNER, K. BOYKIN, L. O'BRIEN, D. F. BRADFORD, B. THOMPSON, AND J. PRIOR-MAGEE. "Mapping Moderate-Scale Land Cover Over Very Large Geopgrahic Areas Within a Collaborative Framework: A Case Study of the Southwest Regional Gap Analysis Project (Swregap)," (TIP #06-179, Journal Article) REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT. Elsevier Science Ltd, New York, NY, 108(1):59-73, (2007). Published 5/15/2007

FELLERS, G. M., D. F. BRADFORD, D. PRATT, AND L. WOOD. "Demise of Translocated Populations of Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs (Rana Muscosa)IN the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Herpetological Conservation and Biology," (TIP #05-077, Journal Article). Herpetological Conservation and Biology, Texarkana, TX, 2(1):5-21, (2007). Published 5/8/2007

"Remote Sensing Program for EPA, FY 2006 Program Summary," EPA/600/X-06/035. Environmental Photographic Interpretation Center, Landscape Ecology Branch, February 2007.

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2006

Levick, L., Semmens, D., Goodrich, D., Kepner, B., Brush, J., Leidy, R., Godmann, E. SIMULATED CHANGES IN RUNOFF AND SEDIMENT IN DEVELOPING AREAS NEAR BENSON, ARIZONA, EPA/600/R-06/158. (TIP # 06-197, Extramural Document.) B. Kepner, PO. Published 11/30/2006

Maliha S. Nash, Timothy Wade, Daniel T. Heggem and Wickham James. 2006. Does Anthropogenic Activities or Nature Dominate the Shaping of the Landscape in the Oregon Pilot Study Area for 1990-1999? p. 305-323 in William G. Kepner, Jose L. Rubio, David A. Mouat and Fausto Pedrazzini (eds.), Desertification in the Mediterranean Region: A security Issue. Series C: Environmental Security Vol 3. Springer. Netherland.

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2005

"" Kepner, William G. 2005. in Kepner, W. G. (ed.), Introduction: Desertification and Security. Perspectives for the Mediterranean Region. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 605 pp. [PDF, 5 pp., 218 KB, About PDF]

Nash, Maliha S., Deborah J. Chaloud, and Susan E. Franson. 2005. Association of Landscape Metrics to Surface Water Biology in the Savannah River Basin Journal of Mathematics and Statistics 1(1): 29-34.

Tran, L., J. Wickham, S. T. Jarnagin, and C. Gregory Knight. 2005. Mapping Spatial Thematic Accuracy with Fuzzy Sets, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Vol. 71, No. 1, January, 2005, pp. 29-36.

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2004

Bradford, D. F., J. R. Jaeger, and R. D. Jennings. 2004. Population status and distribution of a decimated amphibian, the relict leopard frog (Rana onca). Southwestern Naturalist 49: 218-228.

Bradford, D. F. 2004. Amphibian declines and environmental change in the eastern Mojave Desert. In: Sada, D. W., and S. E. Sharpe (eds.). Conference Proceedings, Spring-fed Wetlands: Important Scientific and Cultural Resources of the Intermountain Region, May 7-9, 2003, Las Vegas, NV. DHS publication no. 41210. Desert Research Institute. http://www.wetlands.dri.edu EPA Exit Disclaimer

Burns, I. S., S. Scott, L. Levick, M. Hernandez, D. C. Goodrich, D. J. Semmens, W. G. Kepner, and S. N. Miller. 2004. Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment (AGWA) - A GIS-Based Hydrologic Modeling Tool: Documentation and User Manual Version 1.4 (EPA/600/R-02/046; ARS/137460). [PDF, 66 pp., 2.7 MB]

Gillette, D.A., and A. M. Pitchford. 2004. Sand flux in the northern Chihuahuan desert, New Mexico, USA, and the influence of mesquite-dominated landscapes, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 109, No. F4, F04003, 10.1029/2003JF000031.

Nash, Maliha S., Erik Jackson, and Walter G. Whitford. 2004. Effects of Intense, Short-Duration Grazing on Microtopography in a Chihuahuan Desert Grassland. Journal of Arid Environment 56: 383-393.

Nash, Maliha S., and Walter G. Whitford. 2004. Understanding an Ecological System: An Example of Temporal and Spatial Variability of Dorymyrmex (Conomyrma) insana in a Stressed System Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances 3(9): 630-636.

Nash, Maliha S., David F. Bradford, Susan E. Franson, Anne C. Neale, Walter G. Whitford, and Daniel T. Heggem. 2004. Livestock Grazing Effects on Ant Communities in the Eastern Mojave Desert, USA. Ecological Indicator. 4: 199- 213.

McDonald, M., R. Blair, D. Bolgrien, B. Brown, J. Dlugosz, S. Hale, S. Hedtke, D. Heggem, L. Jackson, B. Jones, B. Levinson, R. Linthurst, J. Messer, A. Olsen, J. Paul, S. Paulsen, J. Stoddard, K. Summers, and G. Veith. 2004. The Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program. Pp. 649-669, in G.B. Wiersma (ed.), Environmental Monitoring, CRC Press LLC, NY.

Slonecker. E. T., and J. S. Tilley. 2004. An Evaluation of the Individual Components and Accuracies Associated with the Determination of Impervious Area. GIScience and Remote Sensing, 41(2):165-184.

Wickham, J. D., S. V. Stehman, J. H. Smith, and L. Yang. 2004. Thematic accuracy of the 1992 National Land-Cover Data for the western United States. Remote Sensing of Environment 91:452-468.

Wickham J. D., S. V. Stehman, J. H. Smith, T. G. Wade, and L. Yang. 2004. A priori evaluation of two-stage cluster sampling for accuracy of large-scale land-cover maps. International Journal of Remote Sensing 25:1235-1252.

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2003

Ator, S. W., A. R. Olsen, A. M. Pitchford, and J. M. Denver. Application of a Multipurpose Unequal Probability Stream Survey in the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain, J. of American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), 39(4), 872-885.

Bradford, David, Anne C. Neale, Maliha S. Nash, Donald W. Sada and Jef R. Jaeger. 2003 Habitat Patch Occupancy by the Red-Spotted Toad (Bufo Punctatus) in a Naturally Fragmented, Desert Landscape. Ecology, 84(4): 1012-1023.

Carey, C., D. F. Bradford, J. L. Brunner, J. P. Collins, E. W. Davidson, J. E. Longcore, M. Ouellet, A. P. Pessier, and D. M. Schock. 2003. Biotic factors in amphibian population declines. Pp. 153-208 in G. Linder, D.W. Sparling, and S.K. Krest (editors) Amphibian decline: an integrated analysis of multiple stressor effects. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

Edmonds, C. M., A. C. Neale, D. T. Heggem, J. D. Wickham, and K. B. Jones. 2003. A
comparison of landscape change detection methods. Pp. 403-412, in Rapport, D.J., W.L
Lasley, D.E. Rolston, N.O. Nielsen, C.O. Qualset, and A.B. Damania, eds., Managing for healthy ecosystems. Lewis Press, New York.

Garofalo, D. 2003. Remote sensing program for EPA, FY 2002 Program Summary. EPA internal report, in preparation.

Guindon, B., and C. M. Edmonds. 2001. "Exploiting Inter-Scene Overlap to Improve Large Area Land Cover Mapping From Landsat Imagery," ASPRS St. Louis, April 23-27.

Jones, K. B., A. C. Neale, M. S. Nash, K. H. Riitters, J. D. Wickham, R. V. O’Neill, and R. D. Van Remortel. 1999. Landscape correlates of breeding bird richness across the United States Mid-Atlantic Region. J. Environ. Monitor. and Assess.

Kutz, F. W., T. G. Wade, and B. B. Pagac. 2003. A geospatial study of the potential of two exotic species of mosquitoes to impact the epidemiology of West Nile virus in Maryland. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 19(3): 190-199.

Nash, Maliha S., Erik Jackson, and Walter G. Whitford. 2003. Soil Microtopography on Grazing Gradients in Chihuahuan Desert Grasslands. Arid Environment Journal. 55: 181-192.

Mehaffey, M. H., T. G. Wade, M. S. Nash, and C. M. Edmonds. 2003. Analysis of Land Cover and Water Quality in the New York Catskill-Delaware Basins, p. 1327-1339 in D. J. Rapport, W. L. Lasley, D. E. Rolston, N. O. Nielsen, C. O. Qualset, and A. B. Damania (eds.), Managing for Healthy Ecosystems, Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, Florida USA.

Neale, A. C., K. B. Jones, M. S. Nash, R. D. Van Remortel, J. D. Wickham, K. H. Riitters, and
R.V. O’Neill. 2003. Pp. 577-588, in Rapport, D. J., W. L. Lasley, D. E. Rolston, N. O. Nielsen, C. O. Qualset, and A. B. Damania, eds., Managing for healthy ecosystems. Lewis Press, New York.

Riitters, K.H., and J. D. Wickham. 2003. How far to the nearest road? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 1(3):125-129.

Smith, J. H., S. V. Stehman, J. D. Wickham, and L. Yang. 2003. Effects of landscape characteristics on land-cover class accuracy. Remote Sensing of Environment 84(3):342-349.

Tallent-Halsell, N., M. E. Hamilton, L. A. Bice, and R. D. Lopez. (2003) Assessing arid riparian landscapes using remote sensing: The first step. Pages 407-417. In: Faber, P. M. (ed.) 2003 California Riparian Systems: Processes and Floodplain Management, Ecology, and Restoration. 2001 Riparian Habitat and Floodplains Conference Proceedings, Riparian Joint Venture, Sacramento, California.

Wade, T. G., K. H. Riitters, J. D. Wickham, and K. B. Jones. 2003. Distribution and causes of global forest fragmentation. Conservation Ecology 7(2): 7. Exit EPA Disclaimer (http://www.consecol.org/vol7/iss2/art7)

Wade, T.G., J. D. Wickham, M. S. Nash, A. C. Neale, K. H. Riitters, and K. B. Jones. 2003. A
comparison of vector and raster GIS methods for calculating landscape metrics used in environmental assessments. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 69:1399-1405.

Wickham, J. D., T. G. Wade, K. H. Riitters, R. V. O'Neill, J. H. Smith, E. R. Smith, K. B. Jones, and A. C. Neale. 2003. Upstream-to-downstream changes in nutrient export risk. Landscape Ecology, 18:193-206.

Wickham, J. D., K. B. Jones, K. H. Riitters, R. V. O’Neill, R. D. Tankersley, A. C. Neale, E. R. Smith, and D. J. Chaloud. 1997. Characterizing cumulative environmental impacts on Mid-Atlantic watersheds. Environ. Man.

Williams, D. J., L. Yuan, C. Wu, V. Ramprakash, S. Norton, R. Ramirez. 2003. Quantifying the relationships between landscape impervious surfaces and aquatic biological community response. Proceedings of the Association of American Geographers 2003 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 4-8, 2003.

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2002

Bridges, T., C. M. Brilis, D. Burden, C. L. Cross, I. DeLoatch, T. Drexler, M. Glogower, et al. 2002. Global Positioning Systems-Technical Implementation Guidance. EPA/600/R-02/03.

Cizdziel, J. V., T. A. Hinners, J. E. Pollard, E. M. Heithmar, and C. L. Cross. 2002. Mercury concentration in fish from Lake Mead, USA, related to fish size, condition, trophic level, location, and consumption risk. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 309-317.

Cross, C. L. 2002. Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus (Eastern Cottonmouth). Diet. Herpetological Review 33(1):55-56.

Cross, C. L., and S. L. Gerstenberger. 2002. Rana catesbeiana (American Bullfrog). Diet. Herpetological Review, 33(2):128-129.

Garofalo, D., et al. 2002. Remote sensing program for EPA, FY 2001 Program Summary. EPA internal report, EPA 600/R-01/108. 71pp.

Hernandez, M., S. N. Miller, D. J. Semmens, D. C. Goodrich, and W. G. Kepner. 2002. Quality Assurance and Quality Control in the Development and Application of the Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment (AGWA) Tool [PDF, 42 pp., 803 KB] (EPA/600/R-02/046; ARS/137460).

Jennings, D. B., and S. T. Jarnagin. 2002. Impervious surfaces and streamflow discharge: A Historical Perspective in a Mid-Atlantic Subwatershed. Landscape Ecology. Vol. 17, pp. 471-489.

Kepner, W.G., C. M. Edmonds, and C. J. Watts. 2002. Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems for Decision Analysis in Public Resource Administration: A Case Study of 25 Years of Landscape Change in a Southwestern Watershed. (EPA/600/R-02/039) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; 23pp.

Lopez, R. D., C. B. Davis, and M. S. Fennessy. 2002. Ecological Relationships Between Landscape Change and Plant Guilds in Depressional Wetlands. Landscape Ecology. 17(1): 43-56.

Lopez, R. D., and M. S. Fennessy. 2002. Using the floristic quality assessment index (FQAI) in wetlands as a biological indicator of landscape condition along a gradient of human influence. Ecological Applications. 12(2): 487-497.

Lopez, R. D., and D. T. Heggem. 2002. GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques for Identifying Restoration Targets in Watershed Studies. Midwestern Natural Resources Group (November 12-14). Madison, WI.

Lopez, R. D., D. T. Heggem, C. M. Edmonds, K. B. Jones, L. A. Bice, M. Hamilton, E. Evanston, C. L. Cross, and D. W. Ebert. 2002. Determining the Ecological Vulnerability of Macrophyte Species in Wetlands of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley using National Wetland Inventory and Spectral Remote Sensing Data. Spectral Remote Sensing of Vegetation Conference (December 3-5). Las Vegas, NV.

Lopez, R. D., D. T. Heggem, C. M. Edmonds, K. B. Jones, L. A. Bice, M. Hamilton, E. Evanston, C. L. Cross, D. W. Ebert, B. Keeler, G. Carney, N. E. Dyer, S. Osowski, and K. Teague. 2002. Arkansas White River Basin Habitat Vulnerability Models: Mallard Duck Winter (Foraging) Habitat. Interim Report.

Lunetta, R. S., R. Alvarez, C. M. Edmonds, J. G. Lyon, C. D. Elvidge, R. Bonifaz, and C. García. 2002. NALC/Mexico land-cover mapping results: implications for assessing landscape condition. Int. J. Remote Sens. Vol. 23, No. 10, pp. 3129-3148.

Maingi, J. K., S. E. Marsh, W. G. Kepner, and C. M. Edmonds. 2002. An Accuracy Assessment of 1992 Landsat-MSS Derived Land Cover for the Upper San Pedro Watershed (U.S./Mexico). (EPA/600/R-02/040) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; 21pp.

McDonald, M., R. Blair, D. Bolgrien, B. Brown, J. Dlugosz, S. Hale, S. Hedtke, D. Heggem,
L. Jackson, B. Jones, B. Levinson, R. Linthurst, J. Messer, A. Olsen, J. Paul, S. Paulsen, J. Stoddard, K. Summers, and G. Veith. 2002. EPA’s Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) in the 21st Century. Hydrological Science and Technology 18:133-143.

Miller, S.N., W. G. Kepner, M. H. Mehaffey, M. Hernandez, R. C. Miller, D. C. Goodrich, F. K. Devonald, D. T. Heggem, and W. P. Miller. 2002. Integrating Landscape Assessment and Hydrologic Modeling for Land Cover Change Analysis. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. Vol. 38, No. 4 pp. 915-929.

Miller, S.N., D. J. Semmens, R. C. Miller, M. Hernandez, D. C. Goodrich, W. P. Miller, W. G. Kepner, and D. W. Ebert. 2002. GIS-based Hydrologic Modeling: The Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment Tool. Proceedings of the Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference (July 28-August 1, 2002), U.S. Geological Survey; 12 pp.

S. N. Miller, D. J. Semmens, R. C. Miller, M. Hernandez, P. Miller, D. C. Goodrich, W. G. Kepner, D. W. Ebert. 2002. Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment (AGWA) - A GIS-based Hydrologic Modeling Tool: Documentation and User Manual; Quality Assurance and Control Report (EPA/600/R-02/046), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; 69pp. and 40pp., respectively.

Mehaffey, M. H., M. S. Nash, T. G. Wade, C. M. Edmonds, D. W. Ebert, K. B. Jones, and A. Rager. 2001. A Landscape Assessment of the Catskill/Delaware Watershed 1975-1998: New York City’s Water Supply Watersheds. United States Environmental Protection Agency Report, EPA/600/R-01/075.

Nash, Maliha S., and Deborah Chaloud. 2002. Multivariate Analyses (Canonical Correlation Analysis and Partial Least Square, PLS) to Model and Assess the Association of Landscape Metrics to Surface Water Chemical and Biological Properties using Savannah River Basin Data. EPA/600/R-02/091.

Riitters, K. H., J. D. Wickham, R. V. O'Neill, K. B. Jones, E. R. Smith, J. W. Coulston, T. G. Wade, and J. H. Smith. 2002. Fragmentation of continental United States forests. Ecosystems, 5:815-822.

Slonecker, E. T., and M. J. Benger. 2002. Remote Sensing and Mountaintop Mining, Remote Sensing Reviews. 20 (4): 293-322.

Smith, J. H., J. D. Wickham, S. V. Stehman, and L. Yang. 2002. Impacts of Patch Size and Land Cover Heterogeneity on Thematic Image Classification Accuracy. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 68:65-70.

Tallent-Halsell, N. G., and L. R. Walker. 2002. Responses of Salix gooddingii and Tamarix ramosissima to flooding. Wetlands 22(4):776-785.

Wickham, J. D., R. V. O'Neill, K. H. Riitters, E. R. Smith, T. G. Wade, and K. B. Jones. 2002. Geographic targeting of increases in nutrient export due to future urbanization. Ecological Applications, 12(1):93-106.

Wickham, J. D., and T. G. Wade. 2002. Watershed level risk assessment of nitrogen and phosphorous export. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 37:15-24. (TIP# 00-189)

Wickham, J. D., T. G. Wade, K. H. Riitters, R. V. O’Neill, J. H. Smith, E. R. Smith, K. B. Jones, and A. C. Neale. 2002. Upstream-to-downstream changes in nutrient export risk. Landscape Ecology 18:193-206.

Williams, D. J., T. M. O'Brien, N. B. Rybicki, A. V. Lombana, and R. B. Gomez. 2002. Submersed aquatic vegetation mapping using hyperspectral remote sensing. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Special Issue.

Williams, D.J. 2002. From regulation to protection: the application of National Reconnaissance Systems in the science mission of the Environmental Protection Agency. Proceedings of the Federal Reconnaissance Users Conference, National Reconnaissance Office, Chantilly, Virginia, February 4-7, 2002.

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2001

Bradford, D. F., E. M. Heithmar, C. L. Cross, B. Gentry, G. M. Momplaisir, M. S. Nash, N. G. Tallent-Halsell, L. Riddick, C. Rosal, and K. E. Varner. 2001. Distributions of airborne agricultural ontaminants relative to amphibian populations in the southern Sierra Nevada, California. EPA/ORD/NERL Research Plan. NERL-LV 01-065.

Cross, C. L., and C. E. Petersen. 2001. Modeling snake microhabitat from Radiotelemetry studies using polytomous logistic regression. Journal of Herpetology 35(4):590-597.

Cross, C. L., J. B. Gallageos, and F. G. James. 2001. Loggerhead sea turtle late nesting success at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Banisteria 17:52-55.

Garofalo, D., et al. 2001. Remote sensing program for EPA, FY 2000 Program Summary. EPA internal report, EPA 600/R-00/103. 39pp.

Garofalo, D., and D. B. Jennings. 2001. High spatial resolution satellite remote sensing for planning and locating animal feeding operations. Poster abstract presented at Above and Beyond 2001, A Remote Sensing Conference, March 20-21, Las Vegas, NV.

Garofalo, D. 2001. EPIC's new remote sensing data and information tools available for EPA customers. Abstract of presentation given at Above and Beyond 2001, A Remote Sensing Conference, March 20-21, Las Vegas, NV.

Jaeger, J. R., B. R. Riddle, R. D. Jennings, and D. F. Bradford. 2001. Rediscovering Rana onca: Evidence for phylogenetically distinct leopard frogs from the border region of Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. Copeia 2001: 339-354.

Jones, K. B., A. C. Neale, M. S. Nash, R. D. Van Remortel, J. D. Wickham, K. H. Riitters, and R. V. O'Neill. 2001. Predicting nutrient and sediment loadings to streams from landscape metrics: a multiple watershed study from the United States Mid-Atlantic Region. Landscape Ecology, 16:301-312.

Jones, K. B., A. C. Neale, T. G. Wade, J. D. Wickham, C. L. Cross, C. M. Edmonds, T. R. Loveland, M. S. Nash, K. H. Riitters, and E. R. Smith. 2001. The consequences of landscape change on ecological resources: an assessment of the United States Mid-Atlantic Region, 1973-1993. Ecosystem Health 7:229-242.

Lopez, R. D., C. M. Edmonds, A. C. Neale, T. Slonecker, K. B. Jones, D. T. Heggem, J. G. Lyon, E. Jaworski, D. Garofalo, D. Williams. 2001. An Ecological Assessment of Opportunistic Plant Species in Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Using Airborne Hyperspectral Data. ASPRS/USEPA Remote Sensing and GIS Accuracy Assessment Symposium (December 11-13). Las Vegas, Nevada.

Lopez, R. D., and D. T. Heggem. 2001. An Ecological and Habitat Vulnerability of the White River Basin (Peer-Reviewed Research Plan). (EPA/600/R-01/040) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Washington, D.C., USA. 24pp.

Lopez, R. D., and C. M. Edmonds. 2001. An Ecological Assessment of Invasive and Aggressive Plant Species in Coastal Wetlands of the Laurentian Great Lakes: A Combined Field Based and Remote Sensing Approach (Peer-Reviewed Research Plan). EPA/600/R-01/018. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Washington, D.C., USA. 22pp.

"" Nash, Maliha S., and David Bradford. 2001. Parametric and NonParametric (MARS; Multivariate Additive Regression Splines) Logistic Regressions for prediction of presence of Amphibians. EPA/600/R-01/081. [PDF, 48 pp., 825 KB, about PDF]

"" Nash, M. S., G. T. Flatman, D. W. Ebert, and C. Cross. 2001. Guidance for Statistical Determination of Appropriate Percent Minority and Percent Poverty Distributional Cutoff Values Using Census Data for an EPA Region II Environmental Justice Project. EPA/600/R-01/078. [PDF, 29 pp., 1115 KB, about PDF]

Nash, Maliha S., and Walter G. Whitford. 2001. Ants as Biological Indicators for Monitoring Changes in Arid Environments: Lessons for Monitoring Protected Areas. Research and Management Options for Protected Areas: Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium and Workshop on Arid Zone Environments, Environmental Research and Wildlife Development Agency, Abu Dhabi, 23rd - 25th Jan. 2000, Abu Dhabi, UAE. 105-121.

Nash, M. S., W. G. Whitford, D. F. Bradford, S. E. Franson, A. C. Neale, and D. T. Heggem. 2001. Ant communities and livestock grazing in the Great Basin, USA. Journal of Arid Environments. 49(4): 695-710.

Slonecker, E. T., D. B. Jennings, D. Garofalo. 2001. Remote Sensing of Impervious Surfaces: A Review. Remote Sensing Reviews, 20(3): 227-255.

Slonecker, E. T. and M. J. Benger. 2001. Remote Sensing and Mountaintop Mining. Remote Sensing Reviews 20(4): 293-317.

Smith, J. H., J. D. Wickham, D. J. Norton, T. G. Wade, and K. B. Jones. 2001. Utilization of landscape indicators to model pathogen impaired waters. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 37(4):805-814.

Wickham, J. D., K. H. Riitters, R. V. O'Neill, K. H. Reckhow, T. G. Wade, and K. B. Jones. 2001. Land cover as a framework for assessing risk of water pollution. Water Resources Journal, ST/ESCAP/SER.C/210, September, 2001:39-46, United Nations' Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). (TIP# 99-119)

Williams, D. J., J. M. Bigham, C. A. Cravotta III, S. J. Traina, J. E. Anderson, and J. G. Lyon. 2001. Assessing mine drainage water quality from the color and spectral reflectance of chemical precipitates. Applied Geochemistry. Vol. 17, No. 10, pp. 1273-1286.

Williams, D. J., and W. G. Kepner. 2001. Imaging spectroscopy for determining rangeland stressors to western watersheds. A Research Plan. EPA/600/R-01/004, 40 pp.

Yang, L., S. V. Stehman, J. H. Smith, and J. D. Wickham. 2001. Short Communication: Thematic accuracy of MRLC land-cover for the eastern United States. Remote Sensing of Environment, 76(3):418-422.

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2000

Canterbury, G. E., T. E. Martin, D. R. Petit, L. J. Petit, and D. F. Bradford. 2000. Bird communities and habitat as ecological indicators of forest condition in regional monitoring. Conservation Biology 14: 544-558.

Cross, C. L., and P. M. Waser. 2000. Estimating population sizes of banner-tailed kangaroo rats. Southwestern Naturalist 45 (2):176-183.

Cross, C. L. 2000. A new design for a lightweight squeeze box for snake field studies. Herpetological Review 31(1):34.

de Soyza, A. G., J. W. Van Zee, W. G. Whitford, A. Neale, N. Tallent-Halsell, J. E. Herrick and K. M. Havastad. (2000) Indicators of Great Basin rangeland health. Journal of Arid Environments. 45:289-304.

Heggem, D. T., C. M. Edmonds, A. C. Neale, L. Bice, and K. Bruce Jones. 2000. "A Landscape Ecology Assessment of the Tensas River Basin," Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 64: pp 41-54.

Hernandez, M., S. N. Miller, D. C. Goodrich, B. F. Goff, W. G. Kepner, C. M. Edmonds, and K. B.
Jones. 2000. Modeling runoff response to land cover and rainfall spatial variability in semi-arid watersheds. Environ. Monitor. and Assess. 64:285-298.

Jarnagin, S. T., and E. T. Slonecker. 2000. A Research Plan for the Use of Thermal AVHRR Imagery to Study Annual and Seasonal Mean Surface Temperatures for Large Lakes in North America. Washington DC: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Research Laboratory. EPA/600/R-00/012. 40 p.

Jarnagin, S. T., B. K. Swan, and W. C. Kerfoot. 2000. Fish as vectors in the dispersal of Bythotrephes cederstroemi: diapausing eggs survive passage through the gut. Freshwater Biology 43(4):579-590.

Jennings, D. B., and S. T. Jarnagin. 2000. Impervious Surfaces and Streamflow Discharge: A Historical Remote Sensing Perspective in a Northern Virginia Subwatershed. 221 pdf, ASPRS 2000 Proceedings, ASPRS, Bethesda MD.

Jones, K. B., A. C. Neale, M. S. Nash, K. H. Riitters, J. D. Wickham, R. V. O’Neill, and R. D. Van
Remortel. 2000. Landscape correlates of breeding bird richness across the United States Mid-Atlantic Region. Environ. Monitor. and Assess. 63:159-174.

Jones, K. B., L. W. Williams, A. M. Pitchford, E. T. Slonecker, J. D. Wickham, R. V. O'Neill, D. Garofalo, and W. G. Kepner. 2000. A National Assessment of Landscape Change and Impacts to Aquatic Resources: a Ten-Year Research Strategy for the Landscape Sciences Program. US EPA/600/R-00/001, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC.

Jones, K. B., T. G. Wade, J. D. Wickham, K. H. Riitters, and C. M. Edmonds. 2000. "Characterizing Forest Fragmentation and Vulnerability Based on Patch Characteristics," USDA Forest Service Proceedings RMRS-P-12.

Jones, K. B., D. T. Heggem, T. G. Wade, A. C. Neale, D. W. Ebert, M. S. Nash, M. H. Mehaffey,
K. A. Hermann, A. R. Selle, S. Augustine, I. A. Goodman, J. Pedersen, D. Bolgrien, J. M. Viger, D. Chiang, C. J. Lin, Y. Zhong, J. Baker, and R. D. Van Remortel. 2000. Assessing landscape conditions relative to water resources in the western United States: a strategic approach. Environ. Monitor. and Assess. 64:227-245.

Kepner, W. G., C. J. Watts, C. M. Edmonds, J. K. Maingi, S. E. Marsh, G. Luna. 2000. "A Landscape Approach for Detecting and Evaluationg Change in a Semi-Arid Environment," Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 64: pp 179-195.

Lacerte, M. J., and E. T. Slonecker. 2000. Remote Sensing and Mountaintop Mining: Draft Research Plan. U.S. E.P.A., Environmental Sciences Division, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Lopez, R. D., C. B. Davis, and D. Bhardwaj. 2000. Post-construction seedbank change (1985 - 1997) in a restored coastal freshwater marsh (Lake Erie, USA). Society of Ecological Restoration International Conference (September 4-7). Liverpool, UK.

Nash, Maliha S., Walter G. Whitford, Justin Vanzee, and Kris Havstad. 2000. Ant (homoptera, Formicidae) Response to Environmental stressors in the Northern Chihuahaun desert. Env. Ent. 29 (2):200-206.

Pitchford, A. M., J. M. Denver, A. R. Olsen, S. W. Ator, S. Cormier, M. S. Nash, M. H. Mehaffey. 2000. Testing Landscape Indicators for Stream Condition Related to Pesticides and Nutrients: Landscape Indicators for Pesticides Study for Mid-Atlantic Coastal Streams (LIPS-MACS). United States Environmental Protection Agency Report. EPA/600/R-00/087.

Riitters, K. H., J. D. Wickham, R. V. O'Neill, K. B. Jones, and E. R. Smith. 2000. Global scale patterns of forest fragmentation. Ecological Conservation, 4(2):3 Exit EPA Disclaimer [online: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol4/iss2/].

Riitters, K. H., J. D. Wickham, J. E. Vogelmann, and K. B. Jones. 2000. National land-cover pattern data. Ecology, 81(2): 604 and Ecological Archives Exit EPA Disclaimer [www.esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E081/004].

Robbins, E.I., G. L. Nord, Jr., C. A. Cravotta, J. E. Anderson, and E. T. Slonecker. 2000. Assessing pH variations in drainage water from coal mines using field and airborne spectral reflectance methods [abs.]: 31st International Geological Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Abstracts Volume CD-ROM.

Robbins, E. I., J. E. Anderson, C. A. Cravotta, III, G. L. Nord, Jr., and E. T. Slonecker. 2000. Remotely-sensed multispectral reflectance variations in acidic versus near-neutral contaminated coal mine drainage in Pennsylvania [abs.]: ICARD 2000, Abstracts with Program, 5th International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage 2000, p. 28.

Robbins, E. I., J. E. Anderson, C. A. Cravotta, III, G. L. Nord, Jr., and E. T. Slonecker. 2000. Multispectral reflection variations in acidic versus near-neutral iron-bearing drainage in Pennsylvania: ICARD 2000, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage, v. 2, p. 1551-1559.

Robbins, E. I., C. Kourtidou-Papadeli, H. H. Hanert, M. Sato, A. S. Iberall, and E. T. Slonecker. 2000, Volcanic Hot Springs As Clues to the Precipitation of Precambrian Iron Formation, Origin of Life, and Terraforming Mars [extended abs.]: 13th International Academy of Astronautics A Humans in Space Symposium, Santorini, Greece, Abstract Volume p. 19- 20.

Slonecker, E. T. and D. Williams. 2000. Remote Sensing of Fugitive Contaminants. Draft Research Plan. U.S.E.P.A., Environmental Sciences Division, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Vogelmann, J. E., and J. D. Wickham. 2000. Implementation Strategy for Production of National Land-cover Data (NLCD) from the Landsat 7 Thematic Mapper Satellite. US EPA/600/R-00/051, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC.

Wickham, J. D., R. V. O'Neill, and K. B. Jones. 2000. A geography of ecosystem vulnerability. Landscape Ecology, 15(6):495-504.

Wickham, J. D., R. V. O'Neill, and K. B. Jones. 2000. Forest fragmentation as an economic indicator. Landscape Ecology, 15(2):171-179.

Wickham, J. D., K. H. Riitters, R. V. O'Neill, K. H. Reckhow, T. G. Wade, and K. B. Jones. 2000. Land cover as a framework for assessing risk of water pollution. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 36(6):1-6. (TIP# 99-119)

Wickham, J. D., and T. G. Wade. 2000. Spatial pattern of water pollution risk in Maryland, USA. Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress on Geospatial Information in Forestry and Agriculture, pp. I-61 - I-68, Lake Buena Vista, FL, January, 2000.

Williams, D. J., and S. Norton. 2000. Determining impervious surfaces in satellite imagery using digital orthophotography. Proc. of the Am. Soc. for Photogrammetry and Remote Sens. Annual Conference, Washington DC. May 24th, 2000.

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