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Around the Water Cooler: Riparian Buffers
Vegetation benefits more than just creating fun ways to catch fish! By Lahne Mattas-Curry I can remember my little brother hanging on tree branches over the top of the stream that ran through our...
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Around the Water Cooler: Seagrasses are the nurseries of our coastal waters
By Lahne Mattas-Curry Do you like seafood? I love it. I live in Maryland, home of the best crabcakes in America. You know what helps make those crabcakes delicious? Seagrass. Well, maybe not directly,...
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Discovering Silica Cycling
By Joanna Carey Rivers draining more forested watersheds contain significantly less silica than those draining more developed watersheds. I am standing, engrossed in quiet, on a wooden bridge in...
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Diving into Nutrients: How much is too much?
By Sean Sheldrake An EPA diver kept isolated from contaminants. There’s a nutrient “problem”? Did you know nutrient pollution, primarily in the form of too much nitrogen and phosphorus, is one of the...
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Join us for a nutrient Twitter chat today at 2:00 pm (ET)!
Reminder: Join us for a Twitter chat today at 2:00 pm (ET)! Got questions about how nutrient pollution affects our water? Join EPA scientist Anne Rea and other Agency experts today at 2:00 pm (ET). Use...
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SPARROWs, Lakes, and Nutrients?
By Jeff Hollister Based on the title above, you probably think I don’t know what I am talking about. I mean really, what do sparrows, lakes, and nutrients have in common? In this case, a lot. So much...
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Take Cover! (With Vegetation)
By Marguerite Huber Take cover! It’s a phrase you yell to protect against something headed your way. But did you ever think that phrase could be applied to pollutants? Well, it can – vegetative cover...
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A New Beginning: Headwater Research
By Marguerite Huber I like beginnings. They are a fresh start and influence our lives further down the road. Just like how we have new beginnings, all rivers have influential beginnings too. In a...
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Nutrient Management: Always on My Mind
By James R. Mihelcic, PhD, BCEEM EPA-grantee and guest blogger James R. Mihelcic I am inspired to solve the complex problem of nutrient (nitrogen and phosphorus) management every day. I think about...
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I’ll Trade You: Water Quality Science Edition
By Marguerite Huber Chesapeake Bay watershed includes six states and the District of Columbia. Image: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio The outcome of a trade can...
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