Publication Date
12-5-2003
Abstract
A suburban coastal watershed in New Hampshire, the Lamprey River, will be used to develop models that link groundwater quality to landscape characteristics (land use, population density and soil characteristics) and to document biogeochemical transformations along flow paths (i.e. denitrification, adsorption of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) and microbial uptake). Previous research in the Lamprey basin has shown that population density controls stream water nitrate export and wetlands drive DON export. These relationships will be used as the starting point for construction of groundwater models. Additionally, stream water quality will be compared to groundwater quality.