This study will develop an agroecosystem indicator to quantify the risks of contamination of water resources by microbes from agricultural holdings within a watershed. The indicator will integrate existing knowledge, but additional deliverables (in the form of reports on) the requirement for quantifying the survival of pathogens within manure storages; the risk of surface water contamination from intensive sheep and dairy cattle grazing and management; the effects of the medium in which pathogens are released into the environment, properties of the microbe, soil properties and state variables on the survival of pathogens in soil; the effects of these same factors on the transport of pathogens through the soil; the formulation of design criteria for vegetated filter strips to intercept and hold pathogens moving in runoff water; and a detailed report on the adhesion of microbes to sedimentary material, their survival and remobilization into the water column. The components of an integrated approach to microbial source tracking will be developed and tested in a defined watershed in Huron County. Project Objectives: Identify pathogen source production, die-off during storage and potential for transport to and in receiving waters (both surface and ground); integrate these algorithms into an overall predictive model agroecosystem Indicator for Pathogens) as part of a GIS database; establish protocols associated with source tracking of pathogens present in water resources. (microbial source tracking); (MST); (bacterial source tracking); (BST)
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- Impact of Dresissenid Mussel Population Changes on Lake Erie Nutrient Dynamics
- Reconstructing Low Lake Levels of Lake Michigan
- ECOHAB - Complex Interactions between Harmful Phytoplankton and Grazers: Variation in Zebra Mussel Effects across Nutrient Gradients
- Native Unionid Mussel and Zebra Mussel Distribution in Crane Creek Wetland at ONWR
- Waterborne pathogens and microbial GMOs in aquatic ecosystems
- Phase I Development of an Improved Sea Lamprey Barrier Design
- Microbial (Source Tracking) Indicators of Faecal Contamination in Water: A Current Perspective
- ANS Outreach: Biological Control of Purple Loosestrife by 4-H Volunteers--MN Component
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