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Alba, A., J. Wheeler, B. E. Reed. 2009.  Removal of Cs+ and Co²+ from Domestic Wastewater by Adsorbent Addition. Practice Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management, 12(1), 2-13, doi 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-025X(2009)13:1(2).


Beckingham, 
Barbara and U. Ghosh. 2010. Comparison of field vs. laboratory exposures of L. variegatus to PCB impacted river sediments. In press, Environ. Toxicol. Chem.

Biehler, D. 2010.  Flies, manure, and window screens: medical entomology and environmental reform in early-twentieth-century US cities. Journal of Historical Geography 36: 68-78.

Biehler, D. 2009.  Permeable homes: A historical political ecology of insects and pesticides in US public housing. Geoforum 40: 1014-1023.

Bradley, A.A. and S.S. Schwartz. 2011.  Summary Verification Measures and Their interpretation for Ensemble Forecasts.  Monthly Weather Review 139(9):3075-3089.

A. B. Brand, J. W. Snodgrass, M. T. Gallagher, R. E. Casey, and R. Van Meter, 2010.  Lethal and Sublethal Effects of Embryonic and Larval Exposure of Hyla versicolor to Stormwater Pond Sediments, Arch Environ Contam Toxicol.,  58:325–331, DOI 10.1007/s00244-009-9373-0.

Brown, B.L. & C.M. Swan. 2010. Dendritic network structure constrains metacommunity properties in riverine ecosystems. Journal of Animal Ecology 79:571-580.


Chen, F., J. Tang. 2009. Using spectral shape parameters to improve linear spectral mixture analysis. International Journal of Remote Sensing 30(22): 6061-6067.

Dandois, J. P.
and E. C. Ellis. 2010. Remote sensing of vegetation structure using computer vision. Remote Sensing 2(4):1157-1176. 

DiBlasi, C., H. Li, A.P. Davis, U. Ghosh. 2009.  Removal and Fate of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Pollutants in an Urban Stormwater Bioretention Facility, Environmental Science and Technology. 43, 494-502, 2009.

Ellis, E. C., K. Klein Goldewijk, S. Siebert, D. Lightman, and N. Ramankutty. 2010. Anthropogenic transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000. Global Ecology and Biogeography 19(5):589-606.

Ellis, E. C., N. Neerchal, K. Peng, H. S. Xiao, H. Wang, Z. Yan, S. C. Li, J. X. Wu, J. G. Jiao, H. Ouyang, X. Cheng, and L. Z. Yang. 2009. Estimating long-term changes in China's village landscapes. Ecosystems 12 (2):279-297.

Fagervold, Sonja K., Y. Chai, J. W. Davis, M. Wilken, and Upal Ghosh. Bioaccumulation of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/dibenzofurans in E. foetida from floodplain soils and the effect of activated carbon amendment. In press, Environ. Sci. Technol. 2010.

Fraley, L., AJ Miller and C. Welty. 2009. Contribution of In-Channel Processes to Sediment Yield of an Urbanizing Watershed. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 45(3):748-766. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2009.00320.x


Hanlon, B. 2009. A typology of inner-ring suburbs: Class, race and ethnicity in U.S. suburbia. City and Community, 8 (3): 221-246.


Harrison, Melanie, P. M. Groffman, P. M. Mayer, S. Kaushal, T. Newcomer, "Denitrification in Alluvial Wetlands in an Urban Landscape", Accepted, 11/26/10,  Journal of Environmental Quality


Harrison, M.D., P.M. Groffman, P.M. Mayer, and S.S. Kaushal. 2012. Microbial biomass and activity in geomorphic features in forested, urban restored and degraded streams. Ecological Engineering 38(1):1-10. doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2011.09.001

Harrison, M.D., E. Stanwyck, B. Beckingham, O. Starry, B. Hanlon, and J. Newcomer.  Smart growth and the septic tank: Wastewater treatment and growth management in the Baltimore region. Journal of Land use Policy (in press).


U. Ghosh
and Steve Hawthorne, 2010.
Particle-Scale measurement of PAH aqueous equilibrium partitioning in Impacted Sediments. Environ. Sci. Technol. 44, 1204-1210.

Kwon, S.
, J. Thomas, Brian E. Reed, L. Levine, V. S. Magar, and U. Ghosh. 2010.  Evaluation of sorbent amendments for in situ remediation of metal contaminated sediments.  In press, Environ. Toxicol. Chem.

Kopits, E. V. McConnell, and D. Miles.  April 2009. Lot Size, Zoning, and Household Preferences: Impediments to Smart Growth? Resources for the Future, Discussion Paper 09-15.

Lewis, L. R. & K.J. Chambers. 2010. Geographic Contributions to Agrobiodiversity Conservation. The Professional Geographer. 62 (3): 303-304.

McGuire, M., A. Gangopadhyay, A. Komlodi and C. Swan. 2008. A user-centered design for a spatial data warehouse for data exploration in environmental research. Ecological Informatics 3:273-285.

National Research Council, Committee on Reducing Stormwater Contributions to Water Pollution. 2008. Urban Stormwater Management in the United States. National Academy Press, Washington, DC (C. Welty, Committee Chair and Contributor). 

Ntelekos, A.A., M. Oppenheimer, J.A. Smith and A.J. Miller, 2010, Urbanization, climate change and flood policy in the United States. Climatic Change. 99, DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9789-6.

Pouyat, R.V.; Szlavecz, K.; Yesilonis, I. D.,  Groffman, P. M., Schwarz, Kirsten. 2010.  Chemical, physical and biological characteristics of urban soils. Chapter 7 In: Aitkenhead-Peterson, Jacqueline; Volder, Astrid, eds. Urban Ecosystem Ecology. Agronomy Monograph 55. Madison, WI: American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America: 119-152.

Pouyat, R.V.; Yesilonis, I.D.; Golubiewski, N.E. 2009. A comparison of soil organic carbon stocks between residential turf grass and native soil. Urban Ecosystems. 12: 45-62.


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.

Sivirichi, Gwen (Stanko), S. S. Kaushal, P. M. Mayer, C. Welty, K. T. Belt, T. A. Newcomer, K. D. Newcomb and M. M. Grese. 2010. "Longitudinal variability in streamwater chemistry and carbon and nitrogen fluxes in restored and degraded urban stream networks", Journal of Environmental Monitoring, DOI: 10.1039/c0em00055h.

Schwartz, S. S. 2010.Effective Curve Number and Hydrologic Design of Pervious Concrete Storm-Water Systems. ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 15(6), 465-474.

Schwartz, S. S. 2010. Optimization and Decision Heuristics for Chesapeake Bay Nutrient Reduction Strategies.  Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 15(5), 45-359, DOI: 10.1007/s10666-009-9211-9.

Swan, C.M., S.T.A. Pickett, K. Szlavecz, P. Warren & K.T. Willey. 2011. Biodiversity and community composition in urban ecosystems: coupled human, spatial and metacommunity processes. Handbook of Urban Ecology, Oxford University Press, in press.

Tang, J. 2009. Spatial analysis and temporal simulation of landscape patterns in two petroleum-oriented cities. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 2(2): 54-60.

Books

Hanlon, B. 2010. Once the American Dream: Inner-ring suburbs of the metropolitan U.S. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 

Hanlon, B., Short, J.R. and Vicino, T.J. 2010. Cities and suburbs: New Metropolitan Realities in the US. 

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.

Runyan, C. and C. Welty.  2010.  Use of the White Method to Estimate Evapotranspiration along an Urban Riparian Corridor.  UMBC/CUERE Technical Report 2010/001University of Maryland Baltimore County, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education,  Baltimore, MD.

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.

 

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