PUBLICATIONS FOR THE ABEMARLE-PAMLICO DRAINAGE NATIONAL WATER-QUALITY ASSESSMENT STUDY 1992-1997

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Eimers, Jo .L., and Spruill, T.B., 1997, Relating Minimum Soil Infiltration Rate to Nitrate-Nitrogen Concentrations in Shallow Ground Water in the Coastal Plain of the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina and Virginia: Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine Study Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan Implementation Forum, June 5-6.

Harned, Douglas A. ,1994, Pesticides in surface and ground water at four sites of intensive tobacco cultivation in the Piedmont of North Carolina: National Symposium on Water Quality American Water Resource Association Proceedings, Gary Pederson ed., AWRA Technical Publications Series 94-4, p. 275-283.

Harned, Douglas A., 1994, A spatial characterization of nutrient concentrations for the Albemarle-Pamlico drainage area, North Carolina and Virginia, [abs.]: American Geophysical Union 1994 Fall Meeting, December 5-9, 1994, San Francisco, California, p. 247-248.

Harned, Douglas A., Newcomb, Douglas J., Hudson, Edward T., and Levine, Jay F., 1996, Salinity variation in an estuary used for oyster cultivation in Southeastern North Carolina during the passover of the eye of Hurricane Bertha: [abs.]: American Geophysical Union 1996 Fall Meeting, December 1996, San Francisco, California.

Harned, D.A. and Davenport, M.S., 1990, Water-quality trends and basin activities and characteristics for the Albemarle-Pamlico estuarine system, North Carolina and Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-398, 164 p.

Harned, D.A. and McMahon, G. 1997, Trends in surface water quality for the Contentnea Creek Basin, 1980-1996: Proceedings of the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine Study Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan Implementation Forum, June 5-6.

Harned, D.A. and McMahon, G. 1995,Correlation of annual variation in water quality to annual variation in agricultural practices for subbasins of the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina and Virginia: [abs.]: American Geophysical Union 1995 Fall Meeting, December 1995, San Francisco, California. 1995 Fall AGU, San Francisco, CA

Harned, Douglas A., McMahon, Gerard, Spruill, Timothy B., and Woodside, Michael D., 1995, Water-quality assessment of the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina and Virginia--Characterization of suspended sediment, nutrients, and pesticides: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-191,131 p.

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Lloyd, O.B., Barnes, C.R., and Woodside, M.D., 1991, National Water-Quality Assessment Program--The Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-156, 2 p.

Manning, T.K., Smith, K.E., Wood, C.D., and Williams, J.B., 1994, Pesticide-sampling equipment, sample-collection and processing procedures, and water-quality data at Chicod Creek, North Carolina, 1992: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-50, 35 p.

McMahon, Gerard ,1995, The role of information in developing rational watershed management plans: [abs] Geological Society of America, 1995 Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

McMahon, G., Harned, D.A., 1997, The influence of soil drainage characteristics on triazine concentrations in the Contentnea Creek drainage basin of North Carolina , 1993-95: Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine Study Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan Implementation Forum, June 5-6.

McMahon, G., Harned, D.A., 1994, Effect of environmental setting on sediment, nitrogen, and phosphorus concentrations in watersheds of the Abemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina and Virginia :[abs.] American Geophysical Union 1994 Fall Meeting, December 5-9, 1994, San Francisco, California.

McMahon, G., Harned D.A., 1997 , Effect of environmental setting on sediment, nitrogen, and phosphorus concentrations in the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina and Virginia: Environmental Management (in preparation).

McMahon, Gerard and Lloyd, Orville B. Jr., 1995, Water-quality assessment of the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina and Virginia--Environmental setting and water-quality issues: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-136, 72 p.

McMahon, G., and Woodside, M.D., 1997, Estimating a nutrient mass balance for major drainage areas of the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina and Virginia: Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine Study Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan Implementation Forum, June 5-6.

McMahon, G., and Woodside, M.D., 1997, Nutrient mass balance for the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina and Virginia, 1990: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Vol.33, No.3, June 1997, p. 573-589.

McMahon, G., and Woodside, M.D., 1994, Nitrogen mass balance for major drainage areas of the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina and Virginia; [abs.]: American Geophysical Union 1994 Fall Meeting, December 5-9, 1994, San Francisco, California, p. 229.

Newcomb, Douglas J., 1996, A comparison of GIRAS agricultural land-use data, with 1994 large-scale agricultural data, U.S. Geological Survey National Computer Technology Meeting, May 20.

Ruhl, Peter M., 1994, Intra-site Variability of fish community samples collected in the Coastal Plain--Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage: Association of Southeastern Biologists Bulletin V. 41, No. 2 April.

Ruhl, Peter M., Angermeier, Paul L., and Smogor, Roy, 1996, Relations between fish assemblages and environmental conditions in small Coastal Plain streams in the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina: [abs.] Annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society, August 1997, Monterey, California.

Ruhl, Peter M., and Kelly E. Smith, 1996, Water-quality assessment of the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina and Virginia - Trace elements in Asiatic clam (Corbicula fluminea) soft tissue and redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus) livers 1992-93: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-334, 6 p.

Skrobialowski, Stanley C., Water-quality assessment of the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin , North Carolina and Virginia-- A summary of selected trace element, nutrient, and pesticide data for bed sediments 1969-90s: U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 96-4104, 33 p.

Smith, Kelly E., and Peter M. Ruhl, 1996, Water-quality assessment of the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina and Virginia - Organochlorine compounds in Asiatic clam (Corbicula fluminea) soft tissue and whole red breast sunfish (Lepomis auritus), 1992-93): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-201, 6 p.

Spruill, T.B., 1997, Geologic Sources of Phosphorus in the Neuse River and Implications for Management: Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine Study Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan Implementation Forum, June 5-6.

Spruill, T.B, Harned, D.A, Ruhl, P.M., Eimers,  J.L., McMahon, G., Galeone, D.R., and Woodside, M.D., 1998,  Water Quality in the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina and Virginia, 1992-95: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1157, 36 p.

Spruill, T.B., Eimers, J.L., and Morey, A.E , 1996, Nitrate-nitrogen concentrations in shallow ground water of the Coastal Plain of the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Study Unit, North Carolina and Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-241-96, 4 p.

Spruill, T.B., 1994, Preliminary Results from ground-water studies in an agricultural watershed of the Coastal Plain of North Carolina : National Symposium on Water Quality, Gary Pederson ed., Americam Water Resource Association Technical Publications Series 94-4, p. 201.

Spruill, Timothy B., Harned, Douglas A., and McMahon, Gerard, 1995,The Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage National Water-Quality Assessment Study: Background and design: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-164, 4 p.

Spruill T.B., Woodside M.D., Harned D.A., McMahon G., Eimers J. L., 1996, Results of the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage NAWQA: Nutrients and Pesticides in surface water and ground water: Proceedings; Solutions-- A technical conference on water quality NC State University, Raleigh, NC, March 19-21.

Spruill, Timothy B., Williams, Janie B., Galeon, David R., and Harned, Douglas A., 1997, Radon in ground-water in Guilford County : U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-147-97, 4 p..

Woodside, Michael D. and Simerl, Benjamin R., 1995, Land use and nutrient concentrations and yields in selected streams in the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina and Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-457, 4 p.

Woodside, Michael D. and Simerl, Benjamin R., 1996, Water-quality assessment of the Albemarle-Pamlico Basin, North Carolina and Virginia--Chemical analysis of organic compounds and inorganic constituents in streambed sediment 1992-93: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 96-103, 25 p.

Woodside, Michael D., and McMahon, Gerard, 1994, Assessment of triazine herbicides in North Carolina and Virginia streams by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay: [abs.], in Sorenson, Stephen K., ed., 1994, Proceedings abstracts American Water Resources Association's symposium on the National Water-Quality Assessment Program--November 7-9, 1994, Chicago, Illinois: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-397, p. 9.

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