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References on slides used in CA GRA short-course (March 28, 2007)

 

Anderson, M.G., & Burt, T.P. (1990) Process studies in hillslope hydrology. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester.

Anderson, C. & Cabana, G. (2005) delta N-15 in riverine food webs: effects of N inputs from agricultural watersheds. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 62, 333-340.

Aravena, R., Evans, M.L. & Cherry, J.A. (1993) Stable isotopes of oxygen and nitrogen in sources identification of nitrate from septic systems. Ground Water, 31, 180– 186.

Baedecker, M.J., and Back, 1979. Hydrogeochemical processes at a landfill. Ground Water, 17: 429-437. *

Barth, S.R., 2000. Utilization of boron as a critical parameter in water quality evaluation: implications for thermal and mineral water resources in SW Germany and N Switzerland. Environmental Geology 40: 73-89

Bates, A.L., Orem, W.H., Harvey, J.W. & Spiker, E.C. (2002) Tracing sources of sulfur in the Florida Everglades, Journal of Environmental Quality, 31, 287-299. *

Battaglin, W.A., Kendall, C., Chang, C.C.Y., Silva, S.R. et al. (2001a) Chemical and isotopic composition of organic and inorganic samples from the Mississippi River and its tributaries, 1997-98, USGS Water Resources Investigation Report, 01- 4095, pp. 57.

Battaglin, W.A., Kendall, C., Chang, C.C.Y., Silva, S.R. et al. (2001b) Chemical and isotopic evidence of nitrogen transformation in the Mississippi River, 1997-98. Hydrological Processes, 15, 1285-1300.

Birks, S.J., Gibson, J.J., Gourcy, L., Aggarwal, P.K., & Edwards, T.W.D. (2002) Maps and animations offer new opportunities for studying the global water cycle. EOS Transactions 83 (37), 10 September 2002 (Available at http://www.agu.org/eos_elec/020082e.html).*

Böhlke, J.K., and Denver, J.M., 1995. Combined use of ground-water dating, chemical, and isotopic analyses to resolve the history and fate of nitrate contamination in two agricultural watersheds, atlantic coastal plain, Maryland. Water Resour. Res., 31: 2319-2339.

Böhlke, J.K., Eriksen, G.E. & Revesz, K. (1997) Stable isotope evidence for an atmospheric origin of desert nitrate deposits in northern Chile and southern California, U.S.A. Isot. Geos., 136, 135-152.

Bowen, G.J., & Wilkinson, B. (2001) Spatial distribution of δ18O in meteoric precipitation. Geology 30 (4), 315-318.*

Bowen, G.J., & Revenaugh, J. (2003) Interpolating the isotopic composition of modern meteoric precipitation. Water Resources Research 39 (10), doi:10.1029/2003WR002086.*

Burns, D.A., Plummer, L.N., McDonnell, J.J., Busenberg, E., Casile, G.C., Kendall, C., Hooper, R.P., Freer, J.E., Peters, N.E., Beven, K.J., & Schlosser, P. (2003) The geochemical evolution of riparian ground water in a forested piedmont catchment. Ground Water 41 (7), 913-925.

Cabana, G. & Rasmussen, J.B. (1996) Comparison of aquatic food chains using nitrogen isotopes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 93, 10844-10847.

Campbell, D.H., Kendall, C., Chang, C.C.Y., Silva, S.R., Tonnessen, K.A., 2002, Pathways for nitrate release from an alpine watershed: determination using d15N and δ18O, Water Res. Res. 38: 9-1 to 9-11.

Casciotti, K.L., Sigman, D.M., Hastings, M.G., Bohlke, J.K. et al. (2002) Measurement of the oxygen isotopic composition of nitrate in seawater and freshwater using the denitrifier method, Anal. Chem., 74, 4905-12.

Böhlke, J.K. 2002. Groundwater recharge and agricultural contamination, Hydrogeology Journal, 10:153–179.

Coplen, T. (1993) Uses of environmental isotopes. In: Alley, W.M. (ed) Regional Ground-Water Quality. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, pp. 227-254.

Davisson, M. L., Hudson, G.B.,  Moran, J.E., Niemeyer, S., and Herndon, R.,  1998. Isotope Tracer Approaches for Characterizing Artificial Recharge and Demonstrating Regulatory Compliance, UCRL-JC-129656, LLNL report.

Dawson, T.E., 1993. Water sources of plants as determned from xylem-water isotopic composition: perspectives on plant competition, distrbution, and water relations. In: J.R. Ehleringer, A.E. Hall and G.D. Farquhar (Es), Stable Isotopes and Plant Carbon-Water Relations, Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, pp. 465-496.

Dawson, T.E. and Ehleringer, J.R., 1991. Streamside trees that do not use stream water. Nature, 350: 335- 337.

Dawson, T.E. and Ehleringer, J.R., 1998. Plants, Isotopes and Water Use: A Catchment-Scale Perspective, Chapter 6, In: C. Kendall and J.J. McDonnell (Eds.), Isotope Tracers in Catchment Hydrology, Elsevier, Amsterdam, p. 165-202.

DeWalle, D. , Swistock, B.R. and Share, W.E., 1988. Three component tracer model for stormflow on a small Appalachian forested catchment. Jour. of Hydro!., 104: 301-310.

Elliott, E.M., Kendall, C., Wankel, S.D., Burns, D.A. et al. (In review).  An isotopic tracer of station

Faure, G., 1986. Principles of Isotope Geology, 2nd Ed., John Wiley and Sons, New York, 589 p.

Feigin, A., Shearer, G., Kohl, D.H. & Commoner, B. (1974) The amount and nitrogen-15 content of nitrate in soil profiles from two central Illinois fields in a corn-soybean rotation. Soil Sci. Soc. Amer. Proc., 38, 465-471.

Ferronsky, V.I. and Polyakov, V.A., 1982. Environmental isotopes in the hydrosphere. Translated by S. Ferronsky, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 466 p.

Finlay, J.C., and Kendall, C., 2007. Stable isotope tracing of temporal and spatial variability in organic matter sources to freshwater ecosystems, Chapter 10, In: R.H. Michener and K. Lajtha (Eds.), Stable Isotopes in Ecology and Environmental Science,  2nd edition, Blackwell Scientific Press (in press).

Fogel, M.L. & Cifuentes, L.A. (1993) Isotope fractionation during primary production. In: Engel, M.H. and Macko, S.A. (Eds). Organic Geochemistry, Plenum Press, New York, pp. 73-98.

Fogg, G.E., Rolston, D.E., Decker, D.L., Louie, D.T., and Grismer, M.E., 1998. Spatial variation in nitrogen isotope values beneath nitrate contamination sources. Ground Water, 36: 418-426.

Fritz, P., and Fontes, J.Ch. (Editors), 1980. Handbook of Environmental Isotope Geochemistry, Vol. 1. Elsevier, New York, 545 pp.

Fritz, PJ. , Cherry, A , Weyer, K.U. and Sklash, M. , 1976. Storm runoff analyses using environmental isotopes and major ions. In: Interpretation of Environmental Isotope and Hydrochemical Data in Groundwater Hydrology, IAEA, Vienna, Austria, pp. 111- 130.

Friedman, I, Smith, G.I., Gleason, J.D., Warden, A. and Harris, J.M , 1992. Stable Isotope compositions of waters in southeastern California: Par I, Modem precipitation. Jour. of Geophys. Research. 97(D5): 5795-5812.

Gat, J.R. and Gonfiantini, R., (Eds) 1981. Stable Isotope Hydrology: Deuterium and Oxygen-18 in the Water Cycle. IAEA Technical Report Series #210, Vienna, 337 p.      

Gat, J.R., Bowser, C.J., and Kendall, C., 1994, The contribution of evaporation from the North American Great Lakes to the continental atmospheric water balance--detection by means of the stable isotope signature of evaporated waters: Geophysical Research Letters, 21: 557-560.

Gibson, J.J., P. Aggarwal, J. Hogan, C. Kendall, L.A. Martinelli, W. Stichler, D. Rank, I. Goni, M. Choudhry, J. Gat, S. Bhattacharya, A. Sugimoto, B. Fekete, A. Pietroniro, T. Maurer, H. Panarello, D. Stone, P. Seyler, L. Maurice-Bourgoin and A. Herczeg. 2002. Isotope studies in large river basins: a new global research focus. EOS 83 (52) 24: 613, 616-617.

Granger J., Sigman D. M., Needoba J. A., & Harrison P. J. (2004) Coupled nitrogen and oxygen isotope fractionation of nitrate during assimilation by cultures of marine phytoplankton. Limnology and Oceanography 49(5), 1763-1773.

Hauck, R.D., Bartholomew, W.V., Bremner, J.M., Broadbent, F.E. et al. (1972) Use of variations in natural nitrogen isotope abundance for environmental studies: a questionable approach. Science, 177, 453-454.

Heaton, T H.E. (1990) 15N/14N ratios of NOx from vehicle engines and coal-fired power stations. Tellus, 42B, 304-307.

Holmes, R., McCleland M.J., Sigman, W., Fry, D.M. et al. (1998) Measuring 15N-NH4+ in marine, estuarine and fresh waters: An adaptation of the ammonia diffusion method for samples with low ammonium concentrations. Marine Chemistry, 60, 235-243.

Horita, J., 1989. Analytical aspects of stable isotopes in brines. Chem. Geol., 79: 107-112.

Ingraham, N.L. (1998). Isotopic Variations in Precipitation, Chapter 3, In: C. Kendall and J.J. McDonnell (Eds.), Isotope Tracers in Catchment Hydrology, Elsevier, Amsterdam, p. 87-118.

Ingraham, N.L. and Criss, R.E., 1993. Effects of Surface Area and Volume on the Rate ofIsotopic Exchange Between Water and Water Vapor. Jour. of Geophys. Research, 98(Dll): 20,547-20,553.

Ingraham, N.L. and Taylor, B.E., 1991. Light Stable Isotope Systematics of Large-Scale Hydrologic Regimes in California and Nevada. Water Resour. Res., 27: 77-90.

Kendall, C., 1993, Impact of Isotopic Heterogeneity in Shallow Systems on Stormflow Generation, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 310 p.

Kendall, C., 1998. Tracing nitrogen sources and cycling in catchments, Chapter 16, In: C. Kendall and J.J. McDonnell (Eds.), Isotope Tracers in Catchment Hydrology, Elsevier, Amsterdam, p. 519-576.

Kendall, C. and Caldwell, E.A., 1998. Fundamentals of isotope geochemistry, Chapter 2, In: C. Kendall and J.J. McDonnell (Eds.), Isotope Tracers in Catchment Hydrology, Elsevier, Amsterdam, p. 51-86.

Kendall, C., and Doctor, D.H., 2005. Stable isotope applications in Hydrologic Studies, in Drever, J.I., ed., Surface and ground water, weathering, and soils:  Treatise on Geochemistry, v. 5, chapter 11, p. 319-364.

Kendall, C., and Coplen, T.B., 2001. Distribution of oxygen-18 and deuterium in river waters across the United States, NASQAN Special Issue, Hydrological Processes. 15:1363-1393.

Kendall, C., Sklash, M.G., and Bullen, T.D., 1995a. Isotope tracers of water and solute sources in catchments, In: S. Trudgill (Editor), Solute Modelling in Catchment Systems, Wiley and Sons, New York, p. 261-303.

Kendall, C., Silva, S.R., and Kelly, V.J., 2001. Carbon and nitrogen isotopic compositions of particulate organic matter in four large river systems across the United States, Hydrological Processes. 15:1301-1346.

Kendall, C., Elliott, E.M., and Wankel, S.D., 2007. Tracing anthropogenic inputs of nitrogen to ecosystems, Chapter 12, In: R.H. Michener and K. Lajtha (Eds.), Stable Isotopes in Ecology and Environmental Science,  2nd edition, Blackwell Scientific Press (in press).

Kennedy, V.C., Kendall, C., Zellweger, G.W., Wyerman, T.A., and Avanzino, R.J., 1986, Determination of the components of stormflow using water chemistry and environmental isotopes, Mattole River Basin, California:  Journal of Hydrology, 84: 107-140.

Kohl, D.H., Shearer, G.B., and Commoner, B., 1971. Fertilizer nitrogen: contribution to nitrate in surface water in a corn belt watershed. Science, 174: 1331-1334.

Kohl, D.H., Commoner, B. & Shearer, G.B. (1972) Use of variations in natural nitrogen isotope abundance for environmental studies - a questionable approach. Science, 177, 455-xxx.*

Krabbenhoft, D.P., Bowser, C.J., Kendall, C., and Gat, J.R., 1994, Use of oxygen-18 and deuterium to assess the hydrology of ground-water/lake systems, in: Baker, L.A. (ed.) Environmental Chemistry of Lakes and Reservoirs, American Chemical Society, Monograph #237, p. 67-90.

Kratzer, C.R., Dileanis, P.D., Zamora, C., Silva, S.R., Kendall, C., Bergamaschi, B.A., and Dahlgren, R.A. (2004). Sources and transport of nutrients, organic carbon, and chlorophyll-a in the San Joaquin River upstream of Vernalis, California, during summer and fall, 2000 and 2001, USGS WRI 03-4127. online:  http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/wri/wri034127/  .

Mariotti, A., Landreau, A., Simon, B., 1988. 15N isotope biogeochemistry and natural denitrification process in groundwater: application to the chalk aquifer of northern France. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 52, 1869– 1878.

Mayer, B., Bollwerk, S.M., Mansfeldt, T., Hütter, B. et al. (2001) The oxygen isotopic composition of nitrate generated by nitrification in acid forest floors. Geochim. Cosmochim., Acta 65(16), 2743-2756.

Mayer, B., Boyer, E.W., Goodale, C., Jaworski, N.A. et al. (2002) Sources of nitrate in rivers draining sixteen watersheds in the northeastern US: Isotopic constraints, Biogeochemistry, 57, 171-197.

McGuire, K.J., McDonnell, J.J., Weiler, M., Kendall, C., McGlynn, B.L., Welker, J.M., and Seibert, J. 2005. The role of topography on catchment-scale water residence time, Water Resources Research: 41, W05002, doi:10.1029/2004WR003657.

McGuire, K.J., & McDonnell, J.J. (2006) A review and evaluation of catchment transit time modeling. Journal of Hydrology in press.

McHale, M.R., McDonnell, J.J., MitchellM.J., and Cirmo, C.P., 2002. A field-based study of soil water and groundwater nitrate release in an Adirondack forested watershed, WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH, VOL. 38, NO. 4, 1031, 10.1029/2000WR000102,

McIlvin, M. & Altabet, M. A. (2005) Chemical Conversion of Nitrate and Nitrite to Nitrous Oxide for Nitrogen and Oxygen Isotopic Analysis in Freshwater and Seawater, Anal. Chem. 77: 5589-5595

McLaughlin, K., C. Kendall, S. R. Silva, M. Young, and A. Paytan (2006), Phosphate oxygen isotope ratios as a tracer for sources and cycling of phosphate in North San Francisco Bay, California, J. Geophys. Res., 111, G03003, doi:10.1029/2005JG000079.

McMahon, P.B. & Böhlke, J.K. (2006) Regional patterns in the isotopic composition of natural and anthropogenic nitrate in groundwater, High Plains, USA, Environmental Science & Technology, 40 (9), 2965 -2970.

Michalski, G.,  Savarino, J., Bohlke, J.K. & Thiemans, M. (2002) Determination of the total oxygen isotopic composition of nitrate and the calibration of a Del 17O nitrate reference material. Anal. Chem., 74, 4989-93.

Nardoto, G.B., Silva, S., Kendall, C., Ehleringer, J.R., Chesson, L.A., Ferraz, E.S.B., Moreira, M.Z., Ometto, J.P.H.B., and Martinelli, L.A., 2006, Geographical patterns of human diet derived from stable-isotope analysis of fingernails, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 131: 137-146, doi:10.1002/ajpa.20409.

Needoba, J.A., Sigman, D.M., & Harrison, P.J. (2004) The mechanism of isotope fractionation during algal nitrate assimilation as illuminated by the 15N/14N of intracellular nitrate. Journal of Phycology, 40, 517-522.

O’Neil, J.R., 1986. Theoretical and experimental aspects of isotopic fractionation. In: J.W. Valley, H.P. Taylor and J.R. O’Neil (Eds), Stable Isotopes in High Temperature Geological Processes. Reviews in Mineralogy, Volume 16, pp. 1-40.

Payne, B. 1970 (some IAEA report??)

Plummer, L.N., Prestemon, E.C. and Parkhurst, D.L., 1991. An interactive code (NETPATH) for modelling net geochemical reactions along a flow path. USGS Water-Rources Inves. Report 91-4078, 227 p.    

Rademacher, L.K., Clark, J.F., and Hudson, G.B. 2002. Temporal changes in stable isotope composition of  spring waters: Implications for recent changes in climate and atmospheric circulation, Geology;  30: 139–142.

Rock, L. & Mayer, B. (2004) Isotopic Assessment of Sources of Surface Water Nitrate within the Oldman River Basin, Southern Alberta, Canada. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 4, 545-562.

Rose, T.P., Davisson, M.L., and Criss, R.E. (1996) Isotope hydrology of voluminous cold springs in fractured rock from an active volcanic region, northeastern California. Journal of Hydrology 179: 207-236

Saurer, M , Cherubini, P, Ammann, M, De Cinti, B, Siegwolf, R., 2004. First detection of nitrogen from NOx in tree rings: a 15N/14N study near a motorway, Atmospheric Environment 38, 2779–2787.

Sebilo, M., Billen, G., Grably, M., and Mariotti, A. 2003. Isotopic composition of nitrate-nitrogen as a marker of riparian and benthic denitrification at the scale of the whole Seine River system, Biogeochemistry 63: 35–51.

Sigman, D.M., Casciotti, K.L., Andreani, M., Barford, C., et al. (2001) A bacterial method for the nitrogen isotopic analyses of nitrate in seawater and freshwater. Anal. Chem., 73, 4145-4153.

Shanley, J., Kendall, C., Smith, T., Wolock, D., and McDonnell, J.J., 2002. Controls on old and new water contributions to stream flow at some nested catchments in Vermont, Hydrological Processes 16: 589-609.

Siegenthaler, U. (1979) Stable hydrogen and oxygen isotopes in the water cycle. In: Jäger, E., and Hunziker, J.C. (eds) Lectures in isotope geology. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 264-273.

Silva, S.R., Kendall, C., Wilkison, D.H., Ziegler, A.C., Chang, C.C., and Avanzino, R.J, 2000. A new method for collection of nitrate from fresh water and the analysis of nitrogen and oxygen isotope ratios, J. of Hydrology, 228: 22-36.

Silva S.R., Ging P.B., Lee R.W., Ebbert J.C., Tesoriero A.J., and Inkpen E.L. (2002) Forensic applications of nitrogen and oxygen isotopes of nitrate in an urban environment. Environmental Forensics 3, 125-130.

Sklash, M.G., and Farvolden, R.N., 1982.  The use of environmental isotopes in the study of high-runoff episodes in streams. In: E.C Perry. Jr., and C.W. Montgomery (Editors), Isotope Studies of Hydrologic Processes, Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb, Illinois, pp. 65-73.

Spruill, T.B., et al. 2002.  Application of Classification-Tree Methods to Identify Nitrate Sources in Ground Water. Journal of Environmental Quality. Vol. 31. pp.1538-1549.

Tucker, J., Sheats, N., Giblin, A.E., Hopkinson, C.S. and Montoya, J.P. 1999. Using stable isotopes to trace sewage-derived material through Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay.*

Van Dover C.L., Grassle, J.F., Fry, B., Garritt, R.H. and Starczak, V.R. 1992. Stable isotope evidence for entry of sewage-derived organic material into a deep-sea food web. Nature 360: 153-155.*

Vogel, J.C., Talma, A.S., Heaton, T.H.E., 1981. Gaseous nitrogen as evidence for denitrification in groundwater. J. Hydrol. 50, 191–200.

Wankel, S.D., Kendall, C., Francis, C.A. &  Paytan, A. (2006)  Nitrogen sources and cycling in the San Francisco Bay Estuary:  A nitrate dual isotope approach.  Limnol. Oceanogr., 51, 1654-1664.

Wassenaar, L.I. 1995. Evaluation of the Origin and Fate of Nitrate in the Abbotsford Aquifer Using the Isotopes of 15N and 18O in NO3-. Applied Geochemistry. Vol. 10. pp.391-405.*

Wassenaar, L.I., Hendry, M.J. & Harrington, N. (2006) Decadal geochemical and isotopic trends for nitrate in a transboundary aquifer and implications for agricultural beneficial management practices. Environmental Science & Technology, 40: 4626-32*

Weiler, M., McGlynn, B.L., McGuire, K.J., & McDonnell, J.J. (2003) How does rainfall become runoff? A combined tracer and runoff transfer function approach. Water Resources Research 39 (11), 1315, doi:1310.1029/2003WR002331.

Widory, D., Kloppmann, W., Chery, L., Bonnin, J., Rochdi, H., Guinamant, JL, 2004. Nitrate in groundwater: an isotopic multi-tracer approach. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 72:165–188.

 

 

* papers not mentioned in current handouts (but should have been!)

 

 

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