Coweeta Hazard Site Project

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Coweeta Hazard Site Project Researchers Pringle
, Leigh, Helfman, Gragson, Wear, Bolstad,
Gardiner, Price, Vogt
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Objectives-To document the response trajectory
of streams to changing land use patterns over the
next 30 years-To monitor and re-survey biotic
and physical conditions of streams in (1)
reference, (2) forested, and (3) agricultural
basins every five years.
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• Progress for 2002-2003
• 1. Dr. Ned Gardiner provided 2000-2001 data and
  metadata
• NSF Supplement was received to facilitate
  benchmarking of the sites and re-survey of
  physical conditions according to standard USGS
  and U.S. EPA protocols
• Dr. Ned Gardiner is currently writing and
  multi-authored paper summarizing the Hazard Sites
  that he intends to submit to Ecological
  Applications by Fall 2003. He also is presenting
  a paper at the ESA meetings in August that
  discusses the Hazard sites.
• Dr. Pringle has algae and insect samples from
  2000 and she is awaiting instructions about how
  to deposit them in the UGA Museum of Natural
  History

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Physical stream survey parameters measured at the
Hazard sites, allowing comparison with other USGS
and USEPA data in the Appalachian Highlands.
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• Future
• 2005 sampling needs to be planned according to
  standard protocols
• -Project coordination and logistics remain to be
  worked out.
• -Differences in past, present, and future
  sampling protocols need to be reconciled and
  worked-out.
• -We need to recruit a graduate student to
  oversee the 2005 sampling.