Current Projects ( pdf format)

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• Developing a method to rapidly estimate fecal-indicator bacteria concentrations in the Cuyahoga River, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio (*pdf 24 kb)

• Estimating Escherichia coli loads that result from improvements to the sewage-collection system in the Mill Creek Watershed, Cleveland, Ohio (*pdf 42 kb)

• Evaluation of the Diversilab System for typing Escherichia coli by rep-PCR (*pdf 32 kb)

• Factors that affect the performance of and modifications to Method 1623 in detecting Cryptosporidium oocysts and Giardia cysts in stream water (*pdf 35 kb)

• Identification of proximate sources of fecal contamination to Maumee Bay by determining concentrations of Escherichia coli in sediments (*pdf 25 kb)

• Implementing a system for "nowcasting" bacteria levels and beach advisories (*pdf 27 kb)

• Microbial source tracking in the Plum Creek Watershed, Nebraska (*pdf 26 kb)

• Microbiological water quality in relation to water-contact recreation, Cuyahoga River, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio (*pdf 21 kb)

• Modeling and source-tracking tools for understanding fecal contamination and predicting recreational water quality at Ohio beaches (*pdf 27 kb)

• Occurrence and factors related to the presence of human pathogenic viruses in aquifers serving small public water supplies (*pdf 24 kb)

• Relation of septic-system construction and site characteristics to shallow ground-water quality in Ohio (*pdf 31 kb)