Publications
CUERE Technical Reports
Bhaskar, A. 2010. Getting Started with ParFlow: Dead Run, Baltimore, Maryland Example. UMBC/CUERE Technical Report 2010/002. University of Maryland Baltimore County, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, Baltimore, MD. [Report (1.7 MB)]
Lapa-Lilly, P. 2009. Quantification of Streambed Hydraulic
Conductivity in the Gwynns Falls and Surrounding Area. UMBC/CUERE Technical Report 2009/002. University of Maryland Baltimore County, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, Baltimore, MD. [Report (3 MB)][Appendix A (10.7 MB)] [Appendix B (20.1 MB)] [Appendix C (33 MB)] [Appendix D (15.7 MB)]
Miller, J., C. Welty, M. McGuire, J. Cole, and R. Sanderson. Rain Gage
Installation, Telemetry, Maintenance, and Data QA/QC in the Baltimore
Ecosystem Study LTER. UMBC/CUERE Technical Report 2012/001. University of Maryland Baltimore County, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, Baltimore, MD.[Report Link].
Poole,
S. 2009. Determining Values of Soil Hydraulic Conductivity
in and Around the Gwynns Falls Watershed Using an Automated Mini-Disk
Tension Infiltrometer. UMBC/CUERE Technical Report 2009/001. University of Maryland Baltimore County, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, Baltimore, MD. [Report (2 MB)] [Appendices A,B,C] [Appendix D1 (20.1 MB)] [Appendix D2 (22 MB)][Appendix D3 (23.8 MB)]
Runyan,
C. and C. Welty. 2010. Use of the White Method to Estimate
Evapotranspiration along an Urban Riparian Corridor. UMBC/CUERE Technical Report 2010/001. University of Maryland Baltimore County, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, Baltimore, MD. [Report (15.5 MB)]
VerHoef,
J., C. Welty, J. Miller, M. Grese, M. P. McGuire, R. Sanderson, S.
Kaushal, and A.J. Miller. 2011. Preliminary Assessment of
Real-Time Sensor Deployment in Baltimore Urban Watersheds. CUERE
Technical Report 2011/001. UMBC, Center for Urban Environmental
Research and Education, Baltimore, MD. [Report (8.3 MB)]
CUERE Technical Memos
Larson,
P. C. and C. Runyan. 2009. Evaluation of a Capacitance Water
Level Recorder and Calibration Methods in an Urban Environment. UMBC/CUERE Technical Memo 2009/003. University of Maryland Baltimore County, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, Baltimore, MD. [Memo (1.3 MB)]
Runyan,
C. and P. C. Larson. 2009. Methodology for Installation of
Soil Heat Flux Plates, Soil Thermocouples, Water Content
Reflectometers, Soil Moisture Probes, and Soil Matric Potential
Probes. UMBC/CUERE Technical Memo 2009/001. University of Maryland Baltimore County, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, Baltimore, MD. [Memo (4.9 MB)]
Runyan,
C. 2009. Methodology for Installation of Eddy Covariance Meteorological Sensors and Data Processing. UMBC/CUERE Technical Memo 2009/002. University of Maryland Baltimore County, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, Baltimore, MD. [Memo (21.4 MB)]
Journal Articles
Bhasker,
A. S. and C. Welty. 2012. Water Balances along an Urban-to-Rural
Gradient of Metropolitan Baltimore, 2001-2009. Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, 18(1), doi:10.2113/gseegeosci.18.1.xx
Lindner,
G.A., and A. J. Miller. 2012. Hydraulic Modeling of
Stage-Discharge Relationships in Urban Streams, Submitted to Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, in press.
Ryan,
R.J., P.L. Larson, and C. Welty. 2010. The Logistics and Mechanics of
Conducting Tracer Injection Experiments in Urban Streams. Urban Ecosystems, DOI 10.1007/s11252-010-0144-5.
Ryan,
R.J., C. Welty, and P.L. Larson. 2010. Variation in Surface Water-Groundwater Exchange in an Urban Stream. Journal of Hydrology, 392 (2010) 1–11. doi 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.06.004.
Smith,
J.A., ML Baeck , G. Villarini , C. Welty , A.J. Miller , W.
Krajewski, Analyses of a Long-Term High-Resolution Radar Rainfall Data
Set for the Baltimore Metropolitan Region. Submitted to Water Resources
Research, March 7, 2011.
Theses
Verhoef, Jason Ryan. 2012. Spectral Analysis of Weekly and
High-Frequency Stream Chemistry Data in Urban Watersheds. M.S.
Thesis, Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental
Engineering, UMBC, Baltimore, MD.
Meeting Presentations and Abstracts
Bhaskar, A., C. Welty, and R. Maxwell "Challenges in Urban Hydrologic Modeling: A Baltimore Case Study" Presented at the 2009 AGU Joint Assembly, May 23 -27, Toronto. Eos Trans. AGU, 90(22), Jt. Assem. Suppl., Abstract H33-B01.
Bhaskar, A., C. Welty, and R. Maxwell "Challenges in Urban Watershed Modeling" Presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, October 21-22, 2009.
Bhaskar, A., C. Welty, and R. Maxwell "Urban Watershed Modeling Across Landscape Scales" Presented at the 2009 Fall Meeting of AGU, December 14 - 17, 2009. San Francisco. Eos Trans. AGU, 90(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H43A-0996.
Bhaskar,
A., C. Welty, and R.M. Maxwell. “Urban Hydrologic Modeling
in the Baltimore Metropolitan Region”, Chesapeake Modeling Symposium
2010, Annapolis, MD, May 10-11, 2010.
Bhaskar,
A., and C. Welty. Water balances in urbanized metropolitan Baltimore.
Presented at the Second Biennial Science Meeting of the Consortium of
Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc., Boulder,
CO, July 19-21, 2010.
http://www.cuahsi.org/biennial2010/docs/CUAHSI-Biennial2010-MeetingProgram.pdf
Bhaskar,
A., C. Welty, and R. M. Maxwell. Watershed Modeling in Urbanized
Metropolitan Baltimore. Paper 254-4, Presented at the 2010
Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Oct. 31 - Nov. 2,
Denver, CO
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2010AM/finalprogram/abstract_178774.htm
Bhaskar,
A., C. Welty, and R. M. Maxwell. Coupled Surface-Groundwater
Modeling of Metropolitan Baltimore. Presented at the 2011
NGWA Groundwater Summit, May 1-5, Baltimore, MD. http://ngwa.confex.com/ngwa/2011gws/webprogram/Paper7851.html
Bhaskar,
A. Water Balances along an Urban-to-Rural Gradient of Metropolitan
Baltimore, 2001-2009. Presented at the BES Graduate Student
Symposium, June 22, 2011, Baltimore, MD.
Bhaskar,
A., C. Welty, A. Seck, R. Maxwell, C. Jantz, S. Drzyzga, R. Sanderson,
A. Miller, G. Lindner, and J. Cole. Watershed flow dynamics of the
Baltimore Region. Presented at the Baltimore Ecosystem Study 2011
Annual Meeting, October 19-20, 2011, Baltimore, MD. http://beslter.org/meeting-abstracts/2011/frame7-page_17_29.html
Bhaskar, A.S., C. Welty, and R. M. Maxwell. Spatiotemporal Variability
of the Urban Water Budget and Implications for Distributed
Modeling. Abstract H51P-01. Presented at the 2011 Fall Meeting of
the American Geophysical Union, December 5-9, 2011, San Francisco, CA
(Invited).
Crook, N., C. Welty, R. Knight, M. McGuire. "An
Assessment of the use of the Temporal Microgravity Technique to
Estimate the Change in Aquifer Storage Across the Gwynns Falls
Watershed" Presented at the 2008 Fall Meeting of AGU, December 15- 19,
2008, San Francisco. Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H51G-0944.
Cui, Z., C. Welty, and R. M. Maxwell. Modeling nitrogen transport and transformation in aquifers using a particle tracking approach.
Presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study,
October 27-28, 2010.
http://beslter.org/meeting-abstracts/2010/frame7-page_16_40.html
Cui, Z., C. Welty, and R. M. Maxwell. Integrating Particle-Tracking with Multispecies Biogeochemical Reactions for Nitrogen Transport Modeling In Aquifers. Presented at the 2011 NGWA Groundwater Summit, May 1-5, Baltimore, MD.
http://ngwa.confex.com/ngwa/2011gws/webprogram/Paper7828.html
Cui, Z., C. Welty and R.
M. Maxwell. Integrating Geochemical Reactions with a Particle-Tracking
Approach to Simulate Nitrogen Transport and Transformation in Aquifers.
Abstract
H41C-1042. Presented at the 2011 Fall Meeting of the
American Geophysical Union, December 5-9, 2011, San Francisco, CA.
Drzyzga,
S.A., C. Jantz, C. Welty. Analyzing and Visualizing the Evolution of
Journey-to-Work Flows in the Baltimoire Region, AAG Annual Meeting,
April 14-18, 2010, Washington, DC
http://communicate.aag.org/eseries/callforpapers/program/AbstractDetail.cfm?AbstractID=31460
Grese,
M., S. Kaushal, and C. Welty. Preliminary Evaluation of SUNA Nitrate Sensors in the Laboratory.
Presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study,
October 27-28, 2010. http://beslter.org/meeting-abstracts/2010/frame7-page_16_42.html
Jantz,
C., S. Drzyzga, C. Welty. Urban Growth and Water Supply in the
Baltimore, MD Metropolitan Region, Coupling Humans and Complex
Ecological Landscapes, 2009 US-IALE Symposium Snowbird, Utah | April
12-16, 2009, http://www.usiale.org/snowbird2009/presentation.php
Lapa-Lilly, P., S. Poole, and C. Welty, Quantification of Hydraulic
Conductivity of Streambeds throughout the Gwynns Falls Watershed and
Surrounding Area. Presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Baltimore
Ecosystem Study, October 15-16, 2008.
Lindner G. and A.J. Miller. "Interactions Between Flow Patterns and Infrastructure in an Urban Stream." Presented at the 2010 AGU Joint Assembly, May 23 -27, Toronto. EOS Trans. AGU, 90(22), Jt. Assem. Suppl., Abstract H33-B02 .
Lindner G. and A.J. Miller. "Urban infrastructure and longitudinal stream profiles." Presented at the 2009 Fall Meeting of AGU, December 14 - 17, 2009. San Francisco. Eos Trans. AGU, 90(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H53H-04.
Lindner,
G. and A. J. Miller, Hydraulic Modeling of Discharge Rating Curves
in Urban Streams, Presented at the Second Biennial Science Meeting of
the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic
Science, Inc., Boulder, CO, July 19-21, 2010.
http://www.cuahsi.org/biennial2010/docs/CUAHSI-Biennial2010-MeetingProgram.pdf
McGuire, MP, C. Welty, and
M. Sibug. Using the CUAHSI HIS System for Data Management: Examples
& Lessons Learned from an Urban Hydrologic Observatory. Presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Maryland Water Monitoring
Council, December 4, 2008, Maritime Institute of Technology and
Conference Center, Linthicum, Maryland.
Miller,
A.J., G. Lindner, P. Larson, and C. Welty, 2009. Model-based rating curves
for the expanded Gwynns Falls streamflow monitoring network. Presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the
Baltimore Ecosystem Study, October 21-22, 2009.
Miller, A.J., and G. Lindner. 2009. Hysteretic behavior of stage-discharge relationships in urban streams. Presented at the 2009 Fall Meeting of AGU, December 14 - 17, 2009. San Francisco. Eos Trans. AGU, 90(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H43A-0998.
Miller, A.J., G. A. Lindner; J. A. Smith, M. L. Baeck, C.
Welty, J. Miller, and K. L. Meierdiercks. 2011. Characterization
of nested watershed hydrologic response from high-resolution rainfall
and runoff data in the Baltimore Ecosystem Study LTER. Abstract
H53J-1549. Presented at the 2011 Fall Meeting of the American
Geophysical Union, December 5-9, 2011, San Francisco, CA.
Miller,
Julia, M. McGuire, R. Sanderson and C. Welty. And
end-to-end system for precipitation data collection in the Baltimore
Ecosystem Study LTER.
Presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study,
October 27-28, 2010.
http://beslter.org/meeting-abstracts/2010/frame7-page_16_33.html
Miller, J., J. VerHoef, C. Welty, M. McGuire, R. Sanderson, A.J.
Miller, S. Kaushal, J. Duncan, P. Groffman, L. Band, K. Belt, and R.M.
Maxwell. 2011. Reflections on a year of deployment of high-frequency
sensors in BES streams. Presented at the Baltimore Ecosystem Study 2011
Annual Meeting, October 19-20, 2011, Baltimore, MD.
http://beslter.org/meeting-abstracts/2011/frame7-page_17_39.html
Myers, T. and B. Hanlon. 2011. Single-Family Residential Water
Consumption in Baltimore City: A Case for More Trees. Presented at the
Baltimore Ecosystem Study 2011 Annual Meeting, October 19-20, 2011,
Baltimore, MD.
http://beslter.org/meeting-abstracts/2011/frame7-page_17_40.html
Poole, S., P. Lapa-Lilly, C.
Welty, Determining values of soil hydraulic conductivity in and around
the Gwynns Falls watershed using automated mini-disk tension
infiltrometers. Presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Baltimore
Ecosystem Study, October 15-16, 2008.
Runyan, C., P. Larson, C. Welty,
J. Dillow, E. Doheny, J. Kvech, A. Miller, Lessons Learned from the
Baltimore WATERS Test Bed. Presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the
Baltimore Ecosystem Study, October 15-16, 2008.
Runyan,
C., C Welty, P Larson, 2009. Characterization of Vegetation-Shallow
Groundwater Interactions Along an Urban Riparian Corridor. Presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the
Baltimore Ecosystem Study, October 21-22, 2009.
Ryan, R.J., C. Welty, P. Larson, C. Runyan. S. Poole, P. Lapa-Lilly, A. Miller. "Surface-Subsurface
Exchange and Transient Storage in Relation to Riparian Corridor Land
Cover in an Urban Watershed" Presented at the 2008 Fall Meeting of AGU,
December 15- 19, 2008, San Francisco. Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall
Meet. Suppl., Abstract H11B-0735.
Ryan,
R.J., C. Welty, and P. Larson. Inflow and Transient Storage in
Urban Streams: One More Reason to Protect Riparian Forests. Presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the
Baltimore Ecosystem Study, October 21-22, 2009.
Sanderson, R. and M. McGuire. Using open source tools for access and publication of precipitation data.
Presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study,
October 27-28, 2010. http://beslter.org/meeting-abstracts/2010/frame7-page_16_47.html
Seck, A., C. Welty, and R. M. Maxwell. Implementation of a Fully Coupled Distributed Model of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed using PARFLOW. Presented
at the Second Biennial Science Meeting of the Consortium of
Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc., Boulder,
CO, July 19-21, 2010.
http://www.cuahsi.org/biennial2010/docs/CUAHSI-Biennial2010-MeetingProgram.pdf
Seck, A., C. Welty, and R. M. Maxwell.
A parallel integrated hydrologic model of the Chesapeake Bay watershed:
Model run times and sensitivity to grid resolution.
Presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study,
October 27-28, 2010. http://beslter.org/meeting-abstracts/2010/frame7-page_16_32.html
Seck, A., C. Welty, and R. M. Maxwell. Considerations in Regional Integrated Hydrologic Modeling: Grid Resolution, Topography, and Overland Flow Processes. Presented at the Fall 2010 Meeting of AGU, December 13-17, 2010, San Francisco, CA. Abstract H41F-1138.
Seck,
A., C. Welty, J. Cole, and T, Myers. 2011. Hydrogeological
data assimilation for a 3D integrated surface-subsurface model of the
Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Paper No. 262-34, Presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, October, 9-12, 2011, Minneapolis, MN.
Seck, A., C. Welty, J. Cole, and R. Maxwell. 2011. Integrated
hydrologic modeling: discretization, initialization and hydrogeologic
data input. Presented at the Baltimore Ecosystem Study 2011 Annual
Meeting, October 19-20, 2011, Baltimore, MD. http://beslter.org/meeting-abstracts/2011/frame7-page_17_14.html
Seck, A., C. Welty; R. M. Maxwell. 2011. Integrated hydrologic
modeling: Effects of spatial scale, discretization and initialization.
Abstract H31I-02.
Presented at the 2011 Fall Meeting of the American
Geophysical Union, December 5-9, 2011, San Francisco, CA.
VerHoef,
J., C. Welty, M. Grese, W. Davies, J. Miller, P. Larson, S. Kaushal, L.
Band, J. Duncan, P. Groffman, AJ Miller. Deployment of Real-Time
Nitrate and Conductivity Sensors in Dead Run: Logistical Challenges and
Practical Solutions. Presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the
Baltimore Ecosystem Study, October 27-28, 2010.
http://beslter.org/meeting-abstracts/2010/frame7-page_16_37.html
VerHoef,
J., C. Welty, J. Miller, M. Grese, S. Kaushal, A.J. Miller, M.
McGuire, J. M. Duncan, L. E. Band, P. M. Groffman, K. Belt, and R.M.
Maxwell. Deployment of Real-Time Nitrate and Conductivity Sensors for
Evaluation of Groundwater Contributions to Surface Water In Urban
Watersheds. Presented at the 2011 NGWA Groundwater Summit, May 1-5, Baltimore, MD. http://ngwa.confex.com/ngwa/2011gws/webprogram/Paper7823.html
VerHoef,
J., C. Welty, J. Miller, M.
McGuire, M. Grese, S. Kaushal, A.J. Miller. Deployment
of Nitrate Optical Sensors in a Nested Watershed Design in the
Baltimore Ecosystem Study LTER. Presented at the Joint USGS-CUAHSI
Workshop on In-Situ Optical Water Quality Sensor Networks, June 8-10,
2011, Shepherdstown, WV.
VerHoef, J., C. Welty, J. Miller, M. McGuire, R. Sanderson, S. Kaushal,
M. Grese, and A.J. Miller. 2011. Pilot Testing of Real-Time
Nitrate and Conductivity Sensors in an Urban Watershed. Presented
at the Third Maryland Streams Symposium, August 10-13, 2011,
Westminster, MD (Invited).
VerHoef, J., C. Welty, S. Kaushal, and A.J. Miller. 2011. Spectral
analysis of long-term and high frequency chloride and nitrate stream
chemistry data in the Baltimore Ecosystem Study LTER watersheds.
Presented at the Baltimore Ecosystem Study 2011 Annual Meeting, October
19-20, 2011, Baltimore, MD. http://beslter.org/meeting-abstracts/2011/frame7-page_17_23.html
VerHoef,
J.R., C. Welty; J. Miller; M. McGuire; M. Grese; S. Kaushal; A. J.
Miller; J. M. Duncan; P. M. Groffman; L. E. Band; and R. M. Maxwell,
2011. Analysis of High Frequency Water Quality Data in the
Baltimore Ecosystem Study LTER. Abstract H53J-1546. Presented at
the 2011 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, December 5-9,
2011, San Francisco, CA.
Welty, C., P. Larson, C. Runyan, M. McGuire, R. Ryan, N. Crook, A. Bhaskar,
A. Miller, J. Dillow, E. Doheny, D. Soeder, K. Belt. "Subsurface Characterization of an
Urban Watershed at Multiple Spatial Scales", Presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Maryland Water Monitoring Council, December 4, 2008, Maritime Institute of Technology and Conference Center, Linthicum, Maryland.
Welty,
C., A J. Miller, K. Belt, L. Band, J. Smith, T. Scanlon, D. Yeskis, R.
Ryan, J. Warner, P. Groffman. “Design of an Environmental Observatory
for Quantifying Urban Groundwater in Baltimore”, AGU Fall Meeting,
December 11-15, 2006 Abstract in Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet.
Suppl., Abstract H21F-1433.
Welty,
C., A. J.Miller, M. McGuire, J. Smith, R.M. Maxwell, R.
Shedlock, E. Doheny, K. Belt, T. Kerchkof, and P. C.
Larson. “A Baltimore Pilot Study to Quantify the Urban Water Budget”,
Presented at the Maryland Water Monitoring Council 13th Annual Conference, December 6, 2007, Linthicum, MD.
Welty,
C. , Miller, A J, Ryan, R J, Crook,
N, Kerchkof, T, Larson, P, Smith, J, Baeck, M
L, Kaushal, S, Belt, K, McGuire,
M, Scanlon, T, Warner, J, Shedlock, R,
Band, L, Groffman, P, “Baltimore WATERS Test Bed -- Quantifying
Groundwater in Urban Areas”, AGU Fall Meeting, December 10-14, 2007
Abstract in Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H13A-0966.
Welty,
C. , A J Miller, J Smith, L Band, K Belt, R Ryan, R Maxwell, R
Shedlock, T Scanlon, P Groffman, M McGuire, N Crook, P Larson,
and C Runyan “ Lessons learned in establishing an environmental
observatory - the Baltimore experience”, presented at the Biennial
Science Meeting of CUAHSI, July 14-16, 2008, Boulder, CO.
Welty,
C., AJ Miller, J Smith, R Maxwell, R Shedlock, Ed Doheny, T. Kerchkof,
Christiane Runyan, Kenneth Belt, Michael
McGuire, Philip Larson, Robert Ryan, Nigel Crook,
Mary Lynn Baeck, Sujay Kaushal, Todd Scanlon, Larry Band, and Peter
Groffman“ The Baltimore WATERS Testbed”, presented at the 1st
International Conference on Hydropedology, July 28-31, 2008, Penn
State, PA.
Welty,
C., AJ Miller, M McGuire, P. Larson, C Runyan, E Doheny, J
Dillow, J Campbell, A Bhaskar, G Lindner, A Seck. 2009. Integrating Real-Time Sensor Networks, Data Assimilation, and Predictive Modeling to Quantify the Urban Water Cycle. Presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the
Baltimore Ecosystem Study, October 21-22, 2009.
Welty,
C., M.L. Baeck, A. Bhaskar, E. Doheny, S. Drzyzga, B.
Hanlon, C. Jantz, P. Larson, G. Lindner, R. Maxwell, M. McGuire, A.
Miller, J. Smith. “Modeling Coupled Feedbacks Between the Hydrologic
Cycle and Patterns of Urban Growth”, Chesapeake Modeling Symposium
2010, Annapolis, MD, 10-11, 2010.
Welty, C. An End-to-end Vision for Environmental Data Collection and Analysis in an Urban Ecosystem. Presented at the Joint USGS-CUAHSI
Workshop on In-Situ Optical Water Quality Sensor Networks, June 8-10,
2011, Shepherdstown, WV.
Welty,
C., J. Miller, and J. Duncan. 2011. Pilot testing of distributed
temperature sensing in Dead Run. Presented at the Baltimore Ecosystem
Study 2011 Annual Meeting, October 19-20, 2011, Baltimore, MD. http://beslter.org/meeting-abstracts/2011/frame7-page_17_18.html