Incorporating Sustainability in NPDES Stormwater Permitting
Perform a sustainability evaluation of 3 to 5 recent NPDES stormwater permits in the State of California Develop metrics and a simple method to rank permits from a sutainability…
Investigating Water Quality BMPs by Native Plant Species Buffer Around Chesapeake Bay
Construction, operation, and maintenance of infrastructure changes land surface permeability and runoff rates. Roadside ditches carry invisible chemicals such as zinc and cadmium, nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons, herbicides, and road salt.…
Research Toxicological Effects of Chloride Based Deicers in the Natural Environment
Recent toxicity data obtained through studies conducted by the State of Iowa and EPA Region 5 in 2009 showed that chloride was less toxic to aquatic organisms when accounting for…
A Comprehensive investigation of Total Maximum Daily Load Reports
The requirements outlined in TMDL reports and drafts are applied broadly to a number of land uses and are often based on assumptions. Quite often, the impacts related to transportation…
Application and Calibration of Confocal Microscopy with Fluorescent Tags to Monitor the Growth and Development of Freshwater Mussels and Fish Exposed to Metals Pesticides and Polyacrylamide (PAM) Flocculants in Highway Runoff
We propose to test existing live cell and whole organisms using physiological techniques, in particular fluorescent tags combined with confocal microscopy to image changes in physiology, growth and development caused…
Stream Ecosystem Responses to Stream Simulation Design of Road-Stream Crossings
Scope: Research Objectives: The Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, and National Forest Management Act require that stream-road crossings are designed such that viable populations of native aquatic species are…
Distribution and Status of the Snowshoe Hare in West Virginia
The United States Forest Service (USFS) has recognized the snowshoe hare is an indicator species for habitat management. Occupying the southern tip of its range, the snowshoe hare is located in…
Advanced Planning and Design Mitigation Safety Models for Wildlife Highway Impacts
Scope: (1) Objectives. The objective of our proposed scope of research is to research and develop professional activities aimed at incorporating wildlife mitigation into standardized federal and state highway planning and…
Establishing Safety, Economy, Ecology, Aesthetics and Sustainability Goals for Highway Corridors
Oregon Department of Transportation has been developing (in cooperation with other state and local agencies) a comprehensive GIS data management system. This system includes environmental, safety and asset resource information, but…
The Effects of Culverts and Stream Barriers to Movement and Gene Flow in Stream Fishes: A Landscape Perspective
The southeastern United States is the center of biodiversity for freshwater fishes and mussels in North America. Many of these species are imperiled and one of the leading causes of imperilment…