HR: 0830h
AN: H51C-1079    [PDF]
TI: Assessment of Extent to Which Intensively-Studied Lakes are Representative of the Adirondack Mountain Region, New York
AU: Sullivan, T
EM: tim.sullivan@ESEnvironmental.com
AF: E&S Environmental Chemistry, Inc., P.O. Box 609, Corvallis, OR 97339 United States
AU: Boylen, C
EM: boylec@rpi.edu
AF: Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Biology, Troy, NY 12180 United States
AU: Cosby, B J
EM: B.J.Cosby@virginia.edu
AF: University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Science, Charlottesville, VA 22904 United States
AU: Driscoll, C
EM: ctdrisco@syr.edu
AF: Syracuse University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse, NY 13244 United States
AU: Fernandez, I
EM: ivanjf@maine.edu
AF: University of Maine, Department of Soil Sciences, Orono, ME 04469 United States
AU: Herlihy, A
EM: herlihya@onid.orst.edu
AF: Oregon State University, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Corvallis, OR 97331
AU: * McDonnell, T
EM: toddm933@aol.com
AF: SUNY, College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13244 United States
AU: Miller, E
EM: eric.k.miller@dartmouth.edu
AF: Dartmouth College, Department of Biology, Hanover, NH 03755 United States
AU: Nierzwicki-Bauer, S
EM: nierzs@rpi.edu
AF: Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Biology, Troy, NY 12180 United States
AU: Nowicki, N
EM: nancynowicki5@yahoo.com
AF: E&S Environmental Chemistry, Inc., P.O. Box 609, Corvallis, OR 97339 United States
AU: Nowicki, N
EM: nancynowicki5@yahoo.com
AF: SUNY, College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13244 United States
AU: Snyder, K
EM: kai.snyder@ESEnvironmental.com
AF: E&S Environmental Chemistry, Inc., P.O. Box 609, Corvallis, OR 97339 United States
AU: Stemberger, R
EM: richard.s.stemberger@dartmouth.edu
AF: Dartmouth College, Department of Biology, Hanover, NH 03755 United States
AU: Sutherland, J
EM: jwsuther@gw.dec.state.ny.us
AF: NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation, Bureau of Watershed Management, 4th Floor 625 Broadway, Albany, NY 12233 United States
AB: This recently-initiated research represents a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional effort to extrapolate research, monitoring, and modeling results, including physical, chemical, and biological findings, from intensively-studied lakes to the regional population of acid-sensitive Adirondack lakes. Extrapolation will be based on the statistical frame of EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) and intensively-studied sites were drawn from RPI's Adirondack Effects Assessment Program (AEAP) and EPA's Adirondack Long-term Monitoring Project (ALTM). A total of 68 watersheds will be included in this effort, which has involved field sampling during summer, 2003 to develop a statistically-representative soils database and will involve model projections using the MAGIC and PnET-BGC models to classify lakes according to their sensitivity to change in S and/or N deposition. The results of this research will allow fuller utilization of data from on-going chemical and biological monitoring and process-level studies by providing a mechanism for regionalization of findings and developing/refining relationships among watershed characteristics, chemical change, and biological responses to changing levels of acid deposition. This project is important for the management of the ecosystems in New York that are most responsive to changes in acid deposition. Results of this project will determine the portions of the Adirondack region where acidified lakes will recover, and by how much, in response to varying levels of future deposition. It will also identify portions of the region and types of watersheds in which recovery is unlikely. It will provide critical information for determining which areas require the most intensive research or remediation efforts.
DE: 0400 Biogeosciences
DE: 1000 GEOCHEMISTRY (New field, replaces Rock Chemistry)
DE: 1806 Chemistry of fresh water
DE: 1871 Surface water quality
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting