Spatial analysis of land use and shallow groundwater vulnerability in the watershed adjacent to Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland and Virginia, USA

Environmental Geology

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1413-1421

  LaMotte, A E ^a   Greene, E A ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Groundwater; Logistic regression; Probability kriging; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GEOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; NITRATES; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS; WATER QUALITY;

LOGISTIC REGRESSION; LOGIT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY KRIGING ANALYSIS; SPATIAL STATISTICS;

LAND USE;

GEOSTATISTICS; GROUNDWATER; KRIGING; LAND USE PLANNING; LOGISTICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

ASSATEAGUE ISLAND; ASSATEAGUE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE; MARYLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34250666699     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-006-0583-8     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Ator SW, Ferrari MJ (1997) Nitrate and selected pesticides in ground water of the Mid-Atlantic Region. US Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4139, 8 p
2. Barringer T, Dunn D, Battaglin W, Vowinkel E (1990) Problems and methods involved in relating land use to groundwater quality. Water Resour Bull 26:1-9
3. Cain D, Helsel DR, Ragone SE (1989) Preliminary evaluations of regional groundwater quality in relation to land use. Ground Water 27:230-244
4. Dagan G (1989) Flow and transport in porous formation. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, 465 p
5. de Marsily G (1986) Quantitative hydrogeology: groundwater hydrology for engineers. Academic, London, 440 p
6. Deutsch CV, Journal AG (1998) GSLIB: Geostatistical software library and user's guide. Oxford University Press, New York, 369 p
7. Dillow JA, Greene EA (1999) Ground-water discharge and nitrate loadings to the coastal bays of Maryland. US Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4167, 8 p
8. Dillow JA, Banks WSL, Smigaj MJ (2002) Ground-water quality and discharge to Chincoteague and Sinepuxent Bays adjacent to Assateague Island National Seashore. US Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4029, 42 p
9. Goovaerts P (1997) Geostatistics for natural resource evaluation. Oxford University Press, New York, 483 p
10. Greene EA, LaMotte AE, Cullinan KA (2005) Ground-water vulnerability to nitrate contamination at multiple thresholds in the Mid-Atlantic Region using spatial probability models. US Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5118, 24 p
11. Hay LE, Battaglin WA (1990) Effects of land-use buffer size on Spearman's rank partial correlations of land use and shallow groundwater quality. US Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 89-4163, 28 p
12. Hosmer DW, Lemeshow S (1989) Applied logistic regression. Wiley, New York, 307 p
13. Maryland Department of the Environment (1993) Maryland's coastal bays: an assessment of aquatic ecosystems, pollutant loadings, and management options. Chesapeake Bay and Special Projects Branch, Maryland Department of the Environment. Baltimore
14. Muller DK, Helsel DR (1996) Nutrients in the nation's waters - too much of a good thing? US Geological Survey Circular 1136, 24 p
15. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (1990) A special NOAA 20th anniversary report - Estuaries of the United States: vital statistics of a national resource base. Strategic Assessment Branch, Ocean Assessments Division, Office of Oceanography and Marine Assessment, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Rockville
16. Nolan BT (2001) Relating nitrogen sources and aquifer susceptibility to nitrate in shallow ground waters of the United States. Ground Water 39:290-299
17. Olea R (1991) Geostatistical glossary and multilingual dictionary. Oxford University Press, New York
18. Spalding RF, Exner ME (1993) Occurrence of nitrate in groundwater-a review. J Environ Qual 22:392-402
19. Tesoriero AJ, Voss FD (1997) Predicting the probability of elevated nitrate concentrations in the Puget Sound Basin: implications for aquifer susceptibility and vulnerability. Ground Water 39:1029-1039
20. US Environmental Protection Agency (1996a) Environmental indicators of water quality in the United States. US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, EPA 841-R-96-002, 25 p
21. US Environmental Protection Agency (1996b) Drinking water regulations and health advisories. US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, EPA 822-B-96-002, 11 p