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Creator:: Blume, Theresa
Abstract:: Fine particles and colloids, attached to grain surfaces, are abundant in the earth's subsurface. Under certain conditions these particles can be released from the matrix and transported with the mobile phase. One of the mechanisms for sudden particle release is a decrease in groundwater salt concentration below the critical salt...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Shelby, Patrick M.
Abstract:: Assessment of the environmental impacts of an agricultural production system requires information on both soil water quality and solute flux. Passive Capillary Samplers (PCAPS), which sample water from the vadose zone using fiber glass wicks, have shown potential to provide both flux and solute concentration in unsaturated zone sampling but...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . To assess agriculture's contribution to NO3 pollution of groundwater, leaching losses must be

Creator:: Smesrud, Jason K.
Abstract:: The agricultural production of peppermint has been shown to contribute significant quantities of nitrate-nitrogen to groundwater recharge. In an effort to provide new tools for increasing nitrogen efficiency within peppermint production, three research questions were proposed: i) How should plant tissue samples be collected to achieve the greatest precision when...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: reduction of nitrate loading to groundwater AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jason K. Smesrud for the

Creator:: Hess, Mario
Abstract:: The contamination of ground water resources represents a serious problem and a prominent threat to the health of our society. This study focuses on the leaching of inorganic anions as a function of agricultural practices under natural field conditions. In order to enhance the understanding of such leaching processes, this...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Zhang, Wenqian
Abstract:: Contamination of ground water by non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPLs) has received increasing attention. The most common approach to numerical modeling of NAPL movement through the unsaturated zone is the use of the finite difference or finite element methods to solve a set of partial differential equations derived from Darcy's law...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Feaga, Jeff
Abstract:: The Willamette Valley of Oregon has high rates of winter precipitation that cause leaching losses of residual fertilizer nitrogen (N) as nitrate (NO₃). Cover crops may have potential to mitigate N loss. Shallow groundwater was sampled for 11 years from plots planted in summer vegetables with and without winter cover...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Metcalf, Becky Elise
Abstract:: In an effort to restore summer flows in the Walla Walla River to provide passage and habitat for ESA (endangered species act) listed bull and steelhead trout irrigation districts left 13 cubic-feet-per-second (c.f.s) (0.37 m ³/s) in the main channel during irrigation season (May-November) for the first time in over...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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