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WRC Research Listed by Principal Investigator

Below is a list of WRC research by the primary PI's last name.

Anderson, James

Agricultural impacts on water quality (CAIWQ)

PIs: James Anderson, Patrick Brezonik, William Koskinen, Gary Malzer, John Nieber, and Roger Becker
Project Duration: Ongoing

Alternative onsite demonstration project (external site)

Assessing the impact of arsenic on Upper-Midwestern dairy operations

PI: James Anderson
Project Duration: 09/01/2004-08/31/2005

Citizens Minotoring Bacteria

PI: James Anderson
Project Duration: 10/1/2003-09/30/2006

Conservation tillage demonstrations

PI: James Anderson
Project Duration: 10/1/2003-09/30/2006

Developing a social component for nonpoint source pollution in Minnesota

PI: James Anderson
Project Duration: 09/30/06 - 09/30/09

Stormwater Best Management Practices Assessment Project

PIs: James Anderson and John Gulliver

Midwest Technology Assistance Center for small public water systems (external site)

Onsite sewage treatment alternatives

PIs: James Anderson, Dave Gustafson, Sara Heger-Christopherson, Rich Axler, and Barb McCarthy
Project Duration: 07/01/99-06/30/06

Promoting the adoption of best management practices in the Minnesota River Basin through comprehensive farm planning

PIs: James Anderson, Lowell Busman, Gary Sands, and Les Everett
Project Duration: 10/00- 6/30/03

Regional water quality leadership for the north central states in US

PI: James Anderson
Project Duration: 09/01/00-09/30/08

Arnold, William

Phyto-enhanced remediation: A wetland treatment system for surface water protection

PIs: William Arnold and Timothy LaPara
Project Duration: 3/1/04-2/28/06

Investigation of the abiotic reduction of the herbicides Trifluralin and Pendimethalin

PI: William Arnold
Project Duration: 3/1/00-2/28/01

Photochemical fate of pharmaceutical compounds discharged and detected in natural waters

PIs: William Arnold and Kristopher McNeill
Project Duration: 9/1/01-8/31/03

Baker, Larry

Coupled biogeochemical cycles in human ecosystems

PI: Larry Baker
Project Duration: 09/03-08/06

Hotspots of landscape change: Identifying key linkages between water quality and land development patterns in riparian areas of the North Central Region

PI: Larry Baker and Mary Renwick
Project Duration: 07/02-12/04

Barnes, Randal

Arsenic in Minnesota groundwater and its impact on drinking water supply

PI: Randal Barnes
Project Duration: 3/1/02-2/289/04

Becker, Dennis

The role of local stakeholders in water resource management: Characterization and diffusion of Minnesota LakeImprovement Districts

PI: Dennis Becker
Project Duration: 3/1/07 - 2/29/08

Bloom, Paul

Photochemical reactions and organic matter binding of mercuric ion and methylmercury in surface water

PIs: Paul Bloom and Patrick Brezonik
Project Duration: 1998- 2001

Brezonik, Patrick

Assessment of Minnesota lakes and wetlands using satellite imagery

PIs: Patrick Brezonik and Marvin Bauer
Project Duration: 6/14/01-6/30/03

Biocomplexity: Coupled nutrient, water, and salt cycles in urban and agricultural ecosystems

PIs: Patrick Brezonik, Robert Sterner, David Mulla, and Heinz Stefan
Project Duration: September 2001- August 2003

Cumulative impacts of development on Minnesota lakes

PIs: Patrick Brezonik, Marvin Bauer and James Perry
Project Duration: 3/1/99- 6/30/99

Development of satellite and GIS-based tools to assess and model lake quality

PIs: Patrick Brezonik, Marvin Bauer, and Leif Olmanson
Project Duration: 12/1/97- 12/31/99

Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico and managing nutrient loadings from the Mississippi River

PIs: Patrick Brezonik, Victor J. Bierman, Jr., Richard Alexander, James Anderson, John Barko, Mark Dortch, Lorin Hatch, Gary L. Hitchcock, Dennis Keeney, David Mulla, Val Smith, Clive Walker, Terry Whitledge, and William J. Wiseman, Jr.
Project Duration: 2/13/98- 10/31/99

In-situ measurement of denitrification in agricultural streams

PIs: Patrick Brezonik and Lorin Hatch
Project Duration: 9/1/00-8/31/02

Integrating modeling and management of agriculturally-impacted watersheds: Issues of spatial and temporal scale

PIs: Patrick Brezonik, K. William Easter, Luther Gerlach, Lorin Hatch, David Mulla, James Perry
Project Duration: 10/1/96- 9/30/00

Cotner, Jim

Ecological stoichiometry and microbial biodiversity effects on water quality in Minnesota lakes

PIs: James Cotner and Timothy LaPara
Project Duration: 3/1/06 - 2/29/08

Ferrington Jr., Leonard

Integrating biological data into TMDL assessments: Refining a model to determine biologically meaningful target levels for dissolved oxygen

PI: Leonard Ferrington Jr.
Project Duration: 3/1/08 - 2/28/09

A rapid bioassessment approach for integrating biological data into TMDL development for organic enrichment of streams in urbanizing watersheds

PI: Leonard Ferrington Jr.
Project Duration: 3/1/05-2/28/06

Development of a rapid bioassessment technique for integrating biological data into TMDL assessments in urban streams

PI: Leonard Ferrington Jr.
Project Duration: 3/1/04-2/29/05

Galatowitsch, Susan

Factors affecting revegetation success in lakeshore restorations

PI: Susan Galatowitsch
Project Duration: 3/1/06 - 12/1/07

Gupta, Satish

Antibiotic losses in runoff and drainage from manure-applied fields

PI: Satish Gupta
Project Duration: 9/1/01-8/31/03

Evaluation of bank erosion inputs to the Blue Earth River with airborne laser scanner

PIs: Satish Gupta, Marvin Bauer and David Thoma
Project Duration: 3/1/00-2/28/01

Hansen, Neil

Runoff water quality and crop responses to variable manure application rate

PIs: Neil Hansen and Sagar Goyal
Project Duration: 3/1/01-2/28/01

Hondzo, Miki

Wireless technologies applied to environmental variables and nutrient loadings

PIs: Miki Hondzo and William Arnold
Project Duration: 3/01/05-02/28/06

Hozalski, Raymond

The cultivation, characterization, and detection of bacteria that biodegrade haloacetic acids in drinking water distribution systems

PIs: Raymond Hozalski and Timothy LaPara
Project Duration: 3/1/08 - 2/28/09

An investigation of the factors affecting removal of Cryptosporidium and Giardia from drinking water supplies by granular media filtration

PI: Raymond Hozalski
Project Duration: 3/1/99-2/29/01

Ito, Emi

Eutrophication and remediation in context: High-resolution study of the past 200 years in the sedimentary record of Lake McCarrons (Roseville, Minnesota)

PI: Emi Ito
Project Duration: 3/1/01-2/28/02

King, Jennifer

The influence of drainage on biogeochemical cycling of carbon in agricultural ecosystems

PIs: Jennifer King, Jacques Finlay, David Mulla, and Brent Dalzell
Project Duration: 3/1/07 - 2/29/08

Kumar, Kuldip

Estrogens and estrogenic activity in swine manure

PI: Kuldip Kumar, Satish Gupta, and Ashok K. Singh
Project Duration: 3/01/05-02/28/06

LaPara, Timothy

Characterization of nitrifying bacterial populations in wastewater treatment plants

PI: Timothy LaPara
Project Duration: 3/1/02-2/29-04

Lightbody, Anne

Determination of appropriate metric's) for sediment-related total maximum daily loads (TMDLs)

PIs: Anne Lightbody, Patrick Belmont, Cailin Orr, and Chris Paola
Project Duration: 3/1/08 - 2/28/09

McNeill, Kristopher

Triclosan and triclosan-derived dioxins in the Mississippi River sediment record

PIs: Kristopher McNeill and William Arnold
Project Duration: 3/1/07 - 2/29/08

Photochemistry of antibiotics and estrogens in surface water: Persistence and potency

PIs: Kristopher McNeill, William Arnold, and Deb Swackhamer
Project Duration: 9/1/03-2/28/06

Mooers, Howard

Paleohydrologic response of the Mississippi Headwaters Watershed to Holocene climate change

PI: Howard Mooers
Project Duration: 3/1/01-6/30/03

Mulla, David

Water quality monitoring strategy based on agroecoregion boundaries in the Minnesota River Basin

PI: David Mulla
Project Duration: 3/01/05-02/28/06

Bioavailable P credits in payment for pounds program

PIs: David Mulla and Patrick Brezonik
Project Duration: 7/1/98-6/30/99

Modeling TMDLs in the Minnesota River Basin

PIs: David Mulla, Mary Renwick, James Anderson, and Prasanna Gowda
Project Duration: 3/01 to 6/01

Paired watershed studies for nutrient reductions in the Minnesota River Basin

PIs: David Mulla, Mary Renwick, and James Anderson
Project Duration: 10/01/01-09/30/04

Newman, Raymond

Effect of riparian forest harvest on in-stream habitat and fish and invertebrate communities

PIs: Raymond Newman, Bruce Vondracek, and James Perry
Project Duration: 3/1/02-2/29/05

Effects of alum treatments on native and exotic macrophyte density and potential for biological control of Eurasian watermilfoil

PIs: Raymond Newman and Patrick Brezonik
Project Duration: 07/99 to 03/04

Novak, Paige

Enhanced degradation of stormwater petrochemicals within the rhizosphere of raingarden bioretention cells

PI: Paige Novak
Project Duration: 3/1/08 - 2/28/09

Enhanced contaminant remediation: Fermentation as a method to enhance dissolution of hydrophobic compounds

PI: Paige Novak
Project Duration: 3/1/07 - 2/29/08

A novel in situ technology for the treatment of groundwater contaminated with agriculturally-derived nitrate

PI: Paige Novak and Michael Semmens
Project Duration: 3/1/00-2/28/03

Investigation of a novel biomolecule active in the degradation of common groundwater contaminants

PI: Paige Novak
Project Duration: 3/1/99- 6/13/00

Renwick, Mary

Environmental contaminants and Native American traditional foods

PIs: Mary Renwick, Nancy Costa, Patricia McCann
Project Duration: 02/01/01- 01/31/03

Impact assessment of the irrigation development in the Uda Walawe River Basin, Sri Lanka

PI: Mary Renwick
Project Duration: 06/01-12/02

Rosen, Carl

Characterizing the fate of nitrogen fertilizer to improve nitrogen use efficiency in irrigated potato production

PIs: Carl Rosen, Michael Russelle, and Satish Gupta
Project Duration: 3/01/99- 2/28/00

Sadowsky, Michael

Use of Arthrobacter aurescens for remediation of groundwater contaminated with triazine herbicides

PI: Michael Sadowsky, Lawrence Wackett, and Marc G. von Keitz
Project Duration: 3/01/05-02/28/06

Development of a DNA marker gene system to determine sources of fecal E. coli in watersheds

PI: Michael Sadowsky
Project Duration: 3/1/06 - 2/28/08

Sands, Gary

Feasibility of controlled drainage for mitigating nutrient loss from tile drainage systems in south central Minnesota

PIs: Gary Sands, David Mulla, Lowell Busman, and Steve Taff
Project Duration: 2/1/99-2/28/01

Schoenfuss, Heiko

Assessing the ecotoxicology of 4-nonylphenol, a ubiquitous environmental estrogen, in two organismal bioassays

PIs: Heiko Schoenfuss and Larry Barber
Project Duration: 3/1/04-2/29/05

Simcik, Matt

Fluorochemicals in Minnesota waters: An emerging environmental issue

PI: Matt Simcik
Project Duration: 3/1/01-2/28/03

Sorensen, Peter

Assessing the effects of endocrine disrupters from a St. Paul sewage treatment plant on sperm viability and testicular development in fish

PIs: Peter Sorensen, Heiko Schoenfuss, and Ira Adelman
Project Duration: 3/1/99-2/29/01

Sterner, Robert

Biodiversity in urban ponds and lakes: Human effects on plankton populations

PI: Robert Sterner
Project Duration: 3/1/02-2/29/04

Controls on biomass: Nutrient ratios in streams and rivers (pdf)

PI: Robert Sterner
Project Duration: 1999-2001

Wammer, Kristine

The effects of long-term low-level antibiotic exposure on the development of antibiotic resistance

PI: Kristine Wammer
Project Duration: 3/1/04-2/29/05

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