Pi-VAT: A web-based visualization tool for decision support using spatially complex water quality model outputs

Pi-VAT is a post-processing, interactive visualization, and analysis tool. It is a simple implementation to facilitate ‘what-if’ analysis using WEPP and SWAT outputs. An approach to address the need for integrating extensive outputs from process-based models into decision support tools. It facilitates synthesis and visualization of multiple watersheds and scenarios.

Authors: C. Deval, E. S. Brooks, M. Dobre, R. Lew, P. R. Robichaud, A. Fowler, J. Boll, Z. M. Easton, A. S. Collick (2022).
Journal: Journal of Hydrology
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127529

Long-term response in nutrient load from commercial forest management operations in a mountainous watershed

An increased emphasis on fuel management strategies to mitigate wildfire risks is raising the awareness and need for comprehensive forest management strategies that satisfy long-term water quantity and water quality needs. We investigated the effect of contemporary forest management activities, including clear-cutting and thinning, on water yield and stream nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in a quarter-century long (1992-2016) paired and nested watershed study in the interior Pacific Northwest, US.

Authors: C. Deval, E. S. Brooks, J. A. Gravelle, T. E. Link, M. Dobre, W. J. Elliot, (2021).
Journal: Forest Ecology and Management
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119312

Soil phosphorus speciation and availability in meadows and forests in alpine lake watersheds with different parent materials

In the Lake Tahoe Basin in California and Nevada (USA), managing nutrient export from watersheds into streams and the lake is a significant challenge that needs to be addressed to improve water quality.Our findings show that ecosystem and parent material are important attributes that control P speciation and availability in the Lake Tahoe Basin, and that organic P compounds are a major component of the soil P and are available for leaching from the soils.

Authors: Thomas Heron, Daniel G. Strawn, Mariana Dobre, Barbara J. Cade-Menun, Chinmay Deval, Erin S. Brooks, Julia Piaskowski, Caley Gasch and Alex Crump, (2021).
Journal: Frontiers in Forest and Global Change
DOI: 10.3389/ffgc.2020.604200

Integration of remote sensing data on precipitaiton, evapotranspiration and leaf area index into the distributed global hydrological model PCR-GLOBWB

Using the Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Mahi, Narmada, Tapi and Godavari River basins as an example, the present study examines the extent to which the remote sensing hydrological information can help improve the hydrological modelling.
Authors: C. Deval, (2016).
Institution: Utrecht University
DOI: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/

Phytoremediation potential of aquatic macrophyte Azolla caroliniana with references to zinc plating effluent

The effect of zinc plating industrial effluent on some biochemical parameters and the phytoremedial capacity of floating aquatic macrophyte Azolla caroliniana was assessed. We found that A. caroliniana has significant capacity to accumulate the Zn⁺⁺ through liquid medium after ten days of exposure period.

Authors: C. Deval, A.V. Mane, N. P. Joshi, G. D. Sartale, (2012).
Journal: Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture [EJFA]
DOI: https://bit.ly/3pAqOZE

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