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1. Agnew, L.J., S. Lyon, P. Gerard-Marchant, V.B. Collins, A.J. Lembo, T.S. Steenhuis, and M.T. Walter. 2006. Identifying hydrologically sensitive areas: bridging the gap between science and application. J. Environ. Manag. 78:63-76. full article



2. Bryant, R.B., T.L. Veith, P.J Kleinman, and W.J. Gburek. 2008. Cannonsville Reservoir and Townbrook watersheds: Documenting conservation efforts to predict New York City's drinking water. J. Soil Water Conserv. 63(6):339-344. Doi:10.2489/jswc.63.6.339 full article



3. Collick, A.S., Z.M. Easton, F.A. Montalto, B. Gao, Y.J. Kim, L. Day, and T.S. Steenhuis. 2006. Hydrological evaluation of septic disposal field performance in sloping terrains. J. Environ. Eng. ASCE. 132(10) 1289-1297. full article



4. Collick, A.S., S. Inglis, P. Wright, and T.S. Steenhuis. 2007. Inactivation of Ascaris suum in a biodrying compost system. J. Environ. Qual. 36:1528-1533. full article



5. Collick, A.S., E.A. Fogarty, P.E. Ziegler, Walter, M.T., D.D. Bowman, and T.S. Steenhuis. 2006. Survival of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in calf housing facilities in the New York City watersheds. J. Environ. Qual.35:680-687. full article



6. Cowan, D.M., and C.A. Shoemaker. 2007. Assessing Phosphorus BMP Effectiveness in the Cannonsville Watershed Using SWAT2000. In Proceedings of ASCE- Environment and Water Resources Institute Conference 2007. full article



7. Cowan, D.M. 2008. Paired watershed analysis with a simulated control site. MS Thesis. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. full thesis



8. Dahlke, H.E., Z.M. Easton, D.R. Fuka, N.S. Rao, T.S. Steenhuis. 2009. Modeling Variable Source Area dynamics in a CEAP watershed. Ecohydrology. (Submitted).



9. de Alwis, D.A., Z.M. Easton, H.E. Dahlke, W.D. Philpot, and T.S. Steenhuis. 2007. Unsupervised classification of saturated areas using a time series of remotely sensed images. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 11:1609-1620. full article



10. Easton, Z.M., M.T. Walter, M. Zion, E.M. Schneiderman, and T.S. Steenhuis. 2009. Including source-specific phosphorus mobility in a nonpoint source pollution model for agricultural watersheds. J. Environ. Eng. ASCE., 135(1): 25-35, DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9372(2009)135:1(25). full article



11. Easton, Z.M., P. Gerard-Marchant, M.T. Walter, A.M. Petrovic, and T.S. Steenhuis. 2007. Hydrologic assessment of an urban variable source watershed in the Northeast US. Water Resources Research 43, W03413, doi:10.1029/2006WR005076, 2007. full article



12. Easton, Z.M., P. Gerard-Marchant, M.T. Walter, A.M. Petrovic, and T.S. Steenhuis. 2007. Identifying dissolved phosphorus source areas and predicting transport from an urban watershed using distributed hydrologic modeling. Water Resources Research 43, W11414, doi:10.1029/2006WR005697, 2007. full article



13. Easton, Z.M., and A.M. Petrovic. 2008. Determining nitrogen loading rates based on land use in an urban watershed, p. 19-42, In M. Nett, et al., eds. The fate of nutrients and plant protection chemicals in the urban environment, Vol. 997. American Chemical Society, Washington DC.



14. Easton, Z.M., and A.M. Petrovic. 2008. Determining phosphorus loading rates based on land use in an urban watershed, p. 43-62, In M. Nett, et al., eds. The fate of nutrients and pesticides in the urban environment, Vol. 997. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC.



15. Easton, Z.M., D.R. Fuka, M.T. Walter, D.M. Cowan, E.M. Schneiderman, and T.S. Steenhuis. 2008. Re-conceptualizing the soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) model to predict runoff from variable source areas. J. Hydrol. 348:279- 291. full article



16. Easton, Z.M., M.T. Walter, and T.S. Steenhuis. 2008. Combined monitoring and modeling indicate the most effective agricultural best management practices. J. Eviron. Qual. 37:1798-1809. full article



17. Flores-López, F., Z.M. Easton, and T.S. Steenhuis. 2009. Assessing phosphorus and nitrate transport on a valley farm in the New York City source watersheds, USA. Vadose Zone J. (Submitted).



18. Flores-López, F., Z.M. Easton, and T.S. Steenhuis. 2009. Effect of near stream best management practices on soluble reactive phosphorus and nitrate concentrations on a dairy farm stream in a Catskill Mountain valley. J. Environ. Qual. (Submitted).



19. Gérard-Marchant, P., W. D. Hively, T. S. Steenhuis, 2006. Distributed hydrological modeling of total dissolved phosphorus transport in an agricultural landscape, part I: distributed runoff generation. Hydrol. Earth Sys. Sci.10:245-261. full article



20. Hively, W. D., P. Gérard-Marchant, T. S. Steenhuis. 2006. Distributed hydrological modeling of total dissolved phosphorus transport in an agricultural landscape, part II: dissolved phosphorus transport. Hydrol. Earth Sys. Sci.10:263-276. full article



21. Lyon, S. W., A. J. Lembo, M. T. Walter, and T. S. Steenhuis. 2006. Defining probability of saturation with indicator kriging on hard and soft data. Advan. Water Resour. 29:181-93. full article



22. Lyon, S.W., J. Seibert, A.J. Lembo, M.T. Walter, T.S. Steenhuis. 2006. Geostatistical investigation into the temporal evolution of spatial structure in a shallow water table. Hydrol. Earth Sys. Sci. 10:113-125. full article



23. Lyon, S.W., M. McHale, M.T. Walter, T.S. Steenhuis. 2006. The impact of runoff generation mechanism on the location of critical source areas. J. Am. Water. Resour. Assoc. 42:793-804. full article



24. Lyon S.W., J. Seibert, A.J. Lembo, M.T. Walter, and T.S. Steenhuis. 2008. Incorporating landscape characteristics in a distance metric for interpolating between observations of stream water chemistry. Hydrol. Earth Sys. Sci. 12: 1229-1239. full article



25. Schneiderman, E.M., T.S. Steenhuis, D.J. Thongs, Z.M. Easton, M.S. Zion, G.F. Mendoza, M.T. Walter, and A.L. Neal. 2007. Incorporating variable source area hydrology into the curve number based Generalized Watershed Loading Function model. Hydrol. Proc. 21:3420-3430 DOI: 10.1002/hyp6556. full article



26. Rao, N.S., Z.M. Easton, E.M. Schneiderman, M.S. Zion, D.R. Lee, and T.S. Steenhuis. 2009. Distributed modeling of agricultural best management practices to reduce phosphorus loading. J. Environ. Mang. 90: 1385-1395. full article



27. Walter, M.T, J.A. Archibald, B. Buchanan, H. Dahlke, Z.M. Easton, R.D. Marjerison, A.N. Sharma, and S.B. Shaw. 2009. A new paradigm for sizing riparian buffers to reduce risks of polluted storm water: A practical synthesis. J. Environ. Eng. ASCE. (In Press).



28. Woodbury, J., C.A. Shoemaker, D.M. Cowan, Z.M. Easton, 2009. A comparison of a SWAT model for the Cannonsville Watershed with and without Variable Source Area Hydrology. In Proceedings of ASCE- Environment and Water Resources Institute Conference 2009. full article