Transit time estimation in catchments: Recent developments and future directions

P Benettin, NB Rodriguez, M Sprenger… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Water transit time is now a standard measure in catchment hydrological and ecohydrological
research. The last comprehensive review of transit time modeling approaches was …

Can common pool resource theory catalyze stakeholder-driven solutions to the freshwater salinization syndrome?

SB Grant, MA Rippy, TA Birkland… - … science & technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Freshwater salinity is rising across many regions of the United States as well as globally, a
phenomenon called the freshwater salinization syndrome (FSS). The FSS mobilizes organic …

Highly variable removal of pathogens, antibiotic resistance genes, conventional fecal indicators and human-associated fecal source markers in a pilot-scale …

MB Rugh, SB Grant, WC Hung, JA Jay, EA Parker… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Green stormwater infrastructure systems, such as biofilters, provide many water quality and
other environmental benefits, but their ability to remove human pathogens and antibiotic …

[HTML][HTML] Stormwater biofilter response to high nitrogen loading under transient flow conditions: Ammonium and nitrate fates, and nitrous oxide emissions

M Feraud, SP Ahearn, EA Parker, S Avasarala… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Nitrogen (N) in urban runoff is often treated with green infrastructure including biofilters.
However, N fates across biofilters are insufficiently understood because prior studies …

Limited bacterial removal in full-scale stormwater biofilters as evidenced by community sequencing analysis

D Li, LC Van De Werfhorst, MB Rugh… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
In urban areas, untreated stormwater runoff can pollute downstream surface waters. To
intercept and treat runoff, low-impact or “green infrastructure” approaches such as using …

Can smart stormwater systems outsmart the weather? Stormwater capture with real-time control in southern California

EA Parker, SB Grant, A Sahin, JA Vrugt… - ACS ES&T …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Stormwater capture systems have the potential to address many urban stormwater
management challenges, particularly in water-scarce regions like Southern California. Here …

Longitudinal stream synoptic monitoring tracks chemicals along watershed continuums: a typology of trends

SS Kaushal, CM Maas, PM Mayer… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
There are challenges in monitoring and managing water quality due to spatial and temporal
heterogeneity in contaminant sources, transport, and transformations. We demonstrate the …

[HTML][HTML] Urban stormwater green infrastructure: Evaluating the public health service role of bioretention using microbial source tracking and bacterial community …

E Lancaster, R Winston, J Martin, J Lee - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Bioretention cells (BRCs) control stormwater flow on-site during precipitation, reducing
runoff and improving water quality through chemical, physical, and biological processes …

Adaptive strategy biases in engineered ecosystems: Implications for plant community dynamics and the provisioning of ecosystem services to people

L Krauss, MA Rippy - People and Nature, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Plant communities in green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) such as biofilters play an integral
role in ecosystem services provisioning, such that many design manuals now feature plant …

BioRTC model enables exploration of real time control strategies for stormwater biofilters

P Shen, A Deletic, K Bratieres, DT McCarthy - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Biofilters with real time control (RTC) have great potential to remove microbes from
stormwater to protect human health for uses such as swimming and harvesting. However …