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2009
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment The occurrence of glyphosate, atrazine, and other pesticides in vernal pools and adjacent streams in Washington, DC, Maryland, Iowa, and Wyoming, 2005–2006 By William A. Battaglin, Karen C. Rice, Michael J. Focazio, Sue Salmons, and Robert X. Barry PDF (1.0 MB) | Online Journal Article
Journal of American Water Resources Association Contaminants of Emerging Concern: Introduction to a Featured Collection By William A. Battaglin and Dana W. Kolpin PDF (61 KB) | Online Journal Article
Journal of American Water Resources Association Lagrangian Sampling for Emerging Contaminants Through an Urban Stream Corridor in Colorado By Juliane B. Brown, William A. Battaglin, and Robert E. Zuellig PDF (750 KB) | Online Journal Article
Water Resources Research Effects of simplifying fracture network representation on inert chemical migration in fracture-controlled aquifers By Tristan P. Wellman Allen M. Shapiro and Mary C. Hill PDF (1.1 MB) | Online Journal Article
2008
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Potential for 4-n-nonylphenol biodegradation in stream sediments By Paul M. Bradley, Larry B. Barber, Dana W. Kolpin, Peter B. McMahon, and Francis H. Chapelle PDF (85 KB) | Online Journal Article
Global Change Biology Changes in dissolved organic material determine exposure of stream benthic communities to UV-B radiation and heavy metals: Implications for climate change By William H. Clements, Marjorie L. Brooks, Donna R. Kashian, and Robert E. Zuellig PDF (250 KB) | Online Journal Article
Water Resources Research Tracer gage: an automated dye-dilution gaging system for ice-affected streams By David W. Clow and Andrea C. Fleming PDF (1.4 MB) | Online Journal Article
Atmospheric Environment Trends in snowpack chemistry and comparison to National Atmospheric Deposition Program results for the Rocky Mountains, US, 1993-2004 By George P. Ingersoll, M. Alisa Mast, Donald H. Campbell, David W. Clow, Leora Nanus, John T. Turk PDF (1.1 MB) | Online Journal Article
Ground Water Redox processes and water quality of selected principal aquifer systems By P.B. McMahon and F.H. Chapelle PDF (990 KB) | Online Journal Article
Water Resources Research Source and transport controls on the movement of nitrate to public supply wells in selected principal aquifers of the United States By P.B. McMahon, J.K. Böhlke, L.J. Kauffman, K.L. Kipp, M.K. Landon, C.A. Crandall, K.R. Burow, and C.J. Brown PDF (1.1 MB) | Online Journal Article
Environmental Science and Technology Evaluating Regional Patterns in Nitrate Sources to Watersheds in National Parks of the Rocky Mountains using Nitrate Isotopes By Leora Nanus, Mark W. Williams, Donald H. Campbell, Emily M. Elliott, and Carol Kendall PDF (400 KB) | Online Journal Article
Journal of Environmental Quality Decadal-Scale Changes of Nitrate in Ground Water of the United States, 1988—2004 By Michael G. Rupert PDF (770 KB)
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Comparison of pesticide concentrations in streams at low flow in six metropolitan areas of the United States By Lori A. Sprague and Lisa H. Nowell PDF (990 KB) | Online Journal Article
Journal of the North American Benthological Society The influence of metal exposure history and ultraviolet-B radiation on benthic communities in Colorado Rocky Mountain streams By Robert E. Zuellig, Donna R. Kashian, Marjorie L. Brooks, Peter M. Kiffney, and William H. Clements PDF (180 KB) | Online Journal Article
2007
Water Resources IMPACT Striving for collaborative science and communication through the Consortium for Research and Education on Emerging Contaminants (CREEC) By Juliane B. Brown and William A. Battaglin PDF (120 KB)
Mine Water and the Environment Quantification of Changes in Metal Loading from Storm Runoff, Merse River (Tuscany, Italy) By Briant A. Kimball, Francesco Bianchi, Katherine Walton-Day, Robert L. Runkel, Marco Nannucci, and Andrea Salvadori PDF (420 KB)
Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Current-Use Pesticides and Organochlorine Compounds in Precipitation and Lake Sediment from Two High-Elevation National Parks in the Western United States By M.A. Mast, W.T. Foreman, and S.V. Skaates PDF (320 KB)
Applied Geochemistry A simulation-based approach for estimating premining water quality: Red Mountain Creek, Colorado By Robert L. Runkel, Briant A. Kimball, Katherine Walton-Day, and Philip L. Verplanck PDF (1.8 MB)
Limnology and Oceanography: Methods Toward a transport-based analysis of nutrient spiraling and uptake in streams By Robert L. Runkel PDF (410 KB)
Applied Geochemistry Formation of mixed Al-Fe colloidal sorbent and dissolved-colloidal partitioning of Cu and Zn in the Cement Creek - Animas River Confluence, Silverton, Colorado By Laurence E. Schemel, Briant A. Kimball, Robert L. Runkel, and Marisa H. Cox PDF (310 KB)
Vadose Zone Journal Nitrous Oxide Fluxes from Cultivated Areas and Rangeland: U.S. High Plains By Edwin P. Weeks and Peter B. McMahon PDF (1.9 MB)
2006
Environmental Science and Technology Hyporheic Exchange and Fulvic Acid Redox Reactions in an Alpine Stream/Wetland Ecosystem, Colorado Front Range By Matthew P. Miller, Diane M. McKnight, Rose M. Cory, Mark W. Williams, and Robert L. Runkel PDF (250 KB)
1997
Intergovermental Task Force on Monitoring Water Quality Conceptual Frameworks for Ground-Water-Quality Monitoring By Franke, O.L., and the Ground-Water Focus Group of the Intergovernmental Task Force on Monitoring Water Quality PDF (995 KB)
1974
Colorado Water Resources Circular 25 Effects of Metal-mine drainage on Water Quality in selected areas of Colorado, 1972-73 By Robert E. Moran and Dennis A. Wentz
Colorado Water Resources Circular 21 Effect of Mine drainage on the quality of streams in Colorado, 1971-72 By Dennis A. Wentz

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