Research Competitive Grant Publications
The peer-reviewed publications below were partly supported by the Virginia Water Resources Research Center Competitive Grants Program and the Water Resources Research Act section 104b program.
- Howard, D. W., et al. (2026). "Near‐Term Forecasts of Dissolved Organic Matter Exhibit Consistent Patterns of Accuracy Across Multiple Freshwater Reservoirs." Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 131(2).
- Bukaveckas, P. A., et al. (2026). "Contributions of suspended particulate matter and dissolved color to light attenuation and trends in water clarity among mid-latitude reservoirs." Lake and Reservoir Management: 1–17.
- Gao, B., Braun, R., Wu, D., & Ford, R. M. (2026). Pseudomonas putida Chemotactic Efficiency toward Naphthalene at a NAPL–Water Interface Decreased under Increasing Shear Flow. Environmental Science & Technology, 60 (5), 4253-4260.
- Darling, A., Davis, B., Byrne, T., Deck, M., Rivera, G. M., Price, S., Amaral-Torres, Markham, C., Gonzalez, R., Vikesland, P., Krometis, L.A., Pruden, A., & Cohen, A. (2025). Subsewershed analyses of the impacts of inflow and infiltration on viral pathogens and antibiotic resistance markers across a rural sewer system. Water Research, 276, 123230.
- Price, S., Krometis, L. A., Magee, J., Darling, A., & Pruden, A. (2025). Extending wastewater-based surveillance to serve rural communities: Comparison of antimicrobial resistance indicator genes in septage and wastewater influent. Science of The Total Environment, 1000, 180456.
- DeVilbiss, S. E., Badgley, B. D., Hotchkiss, E. R., & Steele, M. K. (2024). Subsidy-stress responses of ecosystem functions along experimental freshwater salinity gradients. Biogeochemistry, 167, 743–757.
- Howard, D. W., Brentrup, J. A., Richardson, D. C., Lewis, A. S. L., Olsson, F. E., & Carey, C. C. (2024). Variability in ice cover does not affect annual metabolism estimates in a small eutrophic reservoir. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 129, e2024JG008057.
- Mazzola, F. A., Lopez, K. G., & Edwards, M. (2024). Free Chlorine Can Inhibit Lead Solder Corrosion via Electrochemical Reversal. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(43), 19454–19461, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.4c07375.
- Ming, C. L., Breef-Pilz, A., Howard, D. W., & Schreiber, M. E. (2024). Geochemical drivers of manganese removal in drinking water reservoirs under hypolimnetic oxygenation. Applied Geochemistry, 172, 106120.
- Wardinski, K., Wall, H., & Scott, D. (2024). Soil-derived dissolved organic matter and nutrient sources from urban stormwater control measures. Science of The Total Environment, 957, 177288, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177288.
- Bretz, K. A., Murphy, N. N., & Hotchkiss, E. R. (2023). Carbon biogeochemistry and export governed by flow in a non-perennial stream. Water Resources Research, 59, e2022WR034004.
- Herbst, R. S., Culver, T. B., Band, L. E., Wilson, B., & Quinn, J. D. (2023). Integrating social equity into multiobjective optimization of urban stormwater low-impact development. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 149(8), 04023038.
- Lopez, K. G., Xiao, J., Crockett, C., Lytle, C., Grubbs, H., & Edwards, M. (2023). Seasonal Fluctuations in Nitrate Levels Can Trigger Lead Solder Corrosion Problems in Drinking Water. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 10(1), 21-26, 10.1021/acs.estlett.2c00581.
- Behrouz, M.S., Yazdi, M. N., Sample, D. J., Scott, D., & Owen Jr, J. S. (2022). What are the relevant sources and factors affecting event mean concentrations (EMCs) of nutrients and sediment in stormwater? Science of The Total Environment, 828, 154368.
- Behrouz, M. S., Yazdi, M. N., & Sample, D. J. (2022). Using Random Forest, a machine learning approach to predict nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment event mean concentrations in urban runoff. Journal of Environmental Management, 317, 115412.
- DeVilbiss, S. E., Steele, M. K., Brown, B. L., & Badgley, B. D. (2022). Stream bacterial diversity peaks at intermediate freshwater salinity and varies by salt type. Science of the Total Environment, 840, 156690.
- Lofton, M. E., Howard, D. W., McClure, R. P., Wander, H. L., Woelmer, W. M., Hounshell, A. G., Lewis, A. S. L., & Carey, C. C. (2022). Experimental thermocline deepening alters vertical distribution and community structure of phytoplankton in a 4-year whole-reservoir manipulation. Freshwater Biology, 67, 1903–1924.
- Morina, J.C., Franklin, R.B. (2022). Intensity and duration of exposure determine prokaryotic community response to salinization in freshwater wetland soils, Geoderma, 428(15), 116138.
- DeVilbiss, S. E., Steele, M. K., Krometis, L. A. H., & Badgley, B. D. (2021). Freshwater salinization increases survival of Escherichia coli and risk of bacterial impairment. Water Research, 191, 116812.
- Laverty, A.L., Primpke, S., Lorenz, C., Gerdts, G., Dobbs, F.C. (2020). Bacterial biofilms colonizing plastics in estuarine waters, with an emphasis on Vibrio spp. and their antibacterial resistance. PLoS ONE 15(8): e0237704.
- Lee, R. M., McGuire, K. J., Strahm, B. D., Knoepp, J. D., Jackson, C. R., & Stewart, R. D. (2020). Revisiting the Hewlett and Hibbert (1963) hillslope drainage experiment and modeling effects of decadal pedogenic processes and leaky soil boundary conditions. Water Resources Research, 56, e2019WR025090.
- Lofton, M. E., Leach, T. H., Beisner, B. E., & Carey, C. C. (2020). Relative importance of top‐down vs. bottom‐up control of lake phytoplankton vertical distributions varies among fluorescence‐based spectral groups. Limnology and Oceanography, doi: 10.1002/lno.11465.
- Krueger, K. M., Vavrus, C. E., Lofton, M. E., McClure, R. P., Gantzer, P., Carey, C. C., & Schreiber, M. E. (2020). Iron and manganese fluxes across the sediment-water interface in a drinking water reservoir. Water Research, 116003.
- Doubek, J. P., Campbell, K. L., Lofton, M. E., McClure, R. P., & Carey, C. C. (2019). Hypolimnetic Hypoxia Increases the Biomass Variability and Compositional Variability of Crustacean Zooplankton Communities. Water, 11(10), 2179.
- Jensen, C. K., McGuire, K. J., McLaughlin, D. L., & Scott, D. T. (2019). Quantifying spatiotemporal variation in headwater stream length using flow intermittency sensors. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 191(4), 226.
- Lofton, M. E., McClure, R. P., Chen, S., Little, J. C., & Carey, C. C. (2019). Whole-Ecosystem Experiments Reveal Varying Responses of Phytoplankton Functional Groups to Epilimnetic Mixing in a Eutrophic Reservoir. Water, 11(2), 222.
- Adadevoh, J.S.T., Ramsburg, C.A., Ford, R.M., (2018). Chemotaxis Increases the retention of bacteria in porous media with residual NAPL entrapment, Environmental Science & Technology, doi:10.1021/acs.est.8b01172.
- Lunstrum, A., McGlathery, K., & Smyth, A. (2018). Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) aquaculture shifts sediment nitrogen processes toward mineralization over denitrification. Estuaries and Coasts, 41(4), 1130-1146.
- Garner, E., Benitez, R., von Wagoner, E., Sawyer, R., Schaberg, E., Hession, W. C., Krometis, L., Badgley, B., & Pruden, A. (2017). Stormwater loadings of antibiotic resistance genes in an urban stream. Water Research, 123, 144-152.
- Oyewumi, O., & Schreiber, M. E. (2017). Using column experiments to examine transport of As and other trace elements released from poultry litter: Implications for trace element mobility in agricultural watersheds. Environmental Pollution, 227, 223-233.
- Ziegler, B. A., Schreiber, M. E., Cozzarelli, I. M., & Ng, G. H. C. (2017). A mass balance approach to investigate arsenic cycling in a petroleum plume. Environmental Pollution, 231, 1351-1361.
- Bock, E.M., Coleman, B., & Easton, Z. M. (2016). Effect of biochar on nitrate removal in a pilot-scale denitrifying bioreactor, Journal of Environmental Quality, 45(3): 762-771, doi: 10.2134/jeq2015.04.0179.
- Brown, K.R., McGuire, K.J., Hession, W.C., & Aust, W.M. (2016). Can the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) model be used to evaluate BMP effectiveness from forest roads? Journal of Forestry, 114(1): 17-26, doi: 10.5849/jof.14-101.
- Garner, E., Wallace, J. S., Argoty, G. A., Wilkinson, C., Fahrenfeld, N., Heath, L. S., … & Pruden, A. (2016). Metagenomic profiling of historic Colorado Front Range flood impact on distribution of riverine antibiotic resistance genes. Scientific Reports, 6, 38432.
- Lunstrum, A., & Aoki, L. R. (2016). Oxygen interference with membrane inlet mass spectrometry may overestimate denitrification rates calculated with the isotope pairing technique. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 14(7), 425-431.
- Bock, E., Smith, N., Rogers, M., Coleman, B., Reiter, M., Benham, B., & Easton, Z. M. (2015). Enhanced Nitrate and Phosphate Removal in a Denitrifying Bioreactor with Biochar, Journal of Environmental Quality, 44(2): 605-613, doi: 10.2134/jeq2014.03.0111.
- Brown, K.R., McGuire, K.J., Aust, W.M., Hession, W.C., & Dolloff, C.A. (2015). The effect of increasing gravel cover on forest roads for reduced sediment delivery to stream crossings, Hydrological Processes, 29(6): 1129–1140, doi: 10.1002/hyp.10232.
- Pieper, K.J., Krometis, L.A., Gallagher, D., Benham, B., & Edwards, M. (2015). Profiling private water systems to identify patterns of waterborne lead exposure. Environmental Science and Technology, 49(21): 12697-12704, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.5b03174.
- Jones, C. N., Scott, D. T., Edwards, B. L., & Keim, R. F. (2014). Perirheic mixing and biogeochemical processing in flow‐through and backwater floodplain wetlands. Water Resources Research, 50(9), 7394-7405.
- Brown, K. R., Michael Aust, W., & McGuire, K. J. (2013). Sediment delivery from bare and graveled forest road stream crossing approaches in the Virginia Piedmont. Forest Ecology and Management, 310, 836-846.
- Mobley, J. T., & Culver, T. B. (2012). Design of outlet control structures for ecological detention ponds. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 140(2), 250-257.
- Oyewumi, O., & Schreiber, M. E. (2012). Release of arsenic and other trace elements from poultry litter: Insights from a field experiment on the Delmarva Peninsula, Delaware. Applied Geochemistry, 27(10), 1979-1990.
- Roningen, J. M., & Burbey, T. J. (2012). Hydrogeologic controls on lake level: a case study at Mountain Lake, Virginia, USA. Hydrogeology Journal, 20(6), 1149-1167.
- Gauthier, D. T., Reece, K. S., Xiao, J., Rhodes, M. W., Kator, H. I., Latour, R. J., … & Vogelbein, W. K. (2010). Quantitative PCR assay for Mycobacterium pseudoshottsii and Mycobacterium shottsii and application to environmental samples and fishes from the Chesapeake Bay. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 76(18), 6171-6179.