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  • Bachman, L. J., Krantz, D. E., and Böhlke, J. K., 2002, Hydrogeologic framework, ground-water geochemistry, and assessment of nitrogen yield from base flow in two agricultural watersheds, Kent County, Maryland: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA/600/R-02/008, 93 p.

  • Böhlke, J. K., 2002, Groundwater recharge and agricultural contamination- Erratum: Hydrogeology Journal, v. 10, p. 438-439.

  • Böhlke, J. K., 2003, Sources, transport, and reaction of nitrate in ground water, in Lindsey, B. D., and others, eds., Residence times and nitrate transport in ground water discharging to streams in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed: U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 03-4035, p. 25-39.

  • Böhlke, J. K., Harvey, J. W., and Voytek, M. A., 2004, Reach-scale isotope tracer experiment to quantify denitrification and related processes in a nitrate-rich stream in an agricultural watershed, mid-continent USA: Limnology and Oceanography, v. 49, p. 821-838.

  • Böhlke, J.K., Wanty, R., Tuttle, M., Delin, G., and Landon, M., 2002, Denitrification in the recharge area and discharge area of a transient agricultural nitrate plume in a glacial outwash sand aquifer, Minnesota: Water Resources Research, v. 38(7), 10.1029/2001WR000663, 200238, p. 10.1-10.26.

  • Böhlke, J.K., 2002, Groundwater recharge and agricultural contamination: Hydrogeology Journal, v. 10, p. 153-179.

  • 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 ground-water nitrate contamination in two agricultural watersheds, Atlantic coastal plain, Maryland: Water Resources Research, v. 31, p. 2319-2339.

  • Böhlke, J.K., and Horan, M., 2000, Strontium isotope geochemistry of ground waters and streams affected by agriculture, Locust Grove, Maryland: Applied Geochemistry, v. 15, p. 599-609. (on-line abstract)

  • Delin, G.N., Healy, R.W., Landon, M.K., and Böhlke, J.K., 2000, Effects of topography and soil properties on recharge and movement of water through the unsaturated zone at two sites in an agricultural field: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, v. 36, part 6, p. 1401-1416. (on-line abstract)

  • Delin, G.N., Landon, M.K., Nelson, K.J., Wanty, R.B., Healy, R.W., Olsen, H.W., Böhlke, J.K., Schroyer, B.R., and Capel, P.D., 1997, Hydrogeologic and water-quality data used to evaluate the effects of focused recharge on ground-water quality near Princeton, Minnesota, 1991-1995: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-21, 47 p.

  • Groffman, P.M., Altabet, M.A., Böhlke, J.K., Butterbach-Bahl, K., David, M.B., Giblin, A.E., Kana, T.M., Nielsen, L.P., Firestone, M.K., and Voytek, M.A., in press, Methods for measuring denitrification: Diverse approaches to a difficult problem: Ecological Applications.

  • Katz, B.G. and Böhlke, J.K., 2000, Monthly variability and possible sources of nitrate in ground water beneath mixed agricultural land use, Suwannee and Lafayette Counties, Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 00-4219, 28 p. (on-line abstract and to download pdf file)

  • Katz, B.G., Hornsby, H.D., and Böhlke, J.K., 1999, Sources of nitrate in water from springs and the Upper Floridan aquifer, Suwannee River basin, Florida: Heathwaite, L., ed., Impacts of Land-Use Change on Nutrient Loads from Diffuse Sources, International Association of Hydrologic Sciences, Publication 257, p. 117-124.

  • Katz, B.G., Hornsby, H.D., Böhlke, J.K., and Mokray, M.F., 1999, Sources and chronology of nitrate contamination in spring waters, Suwanee River basin, Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 99-4252, 54 p. (on-line abstract or to obtain pdf file)

  • Katz, B.G., Böhlke, J.K., and Hornsby, H.D., 2001, Timescales for nitrate contamination of spring waters, northern Florida, USA: Chemical Geology, v. 179, p. 167-186. (on-line abstract)

  • Lindsey, B. D., Phillips, S. W., Donnelly, C. A., Speiran, G. K., Plummer, L. N., Böhlke, J. K., Focazio, M. J., Burton, W. C., and Busenberg, E., 2003, Residence times and nitrate transport in ground water discharging to streams in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 03-4035, p. 201.

  • McMahon, P.B., and Böhlke, J.K., in press, Regional patterns in the isotopic composition of natural and anthropogenic nitrate in groundwater, High Plains, USA: Environmental Science and Technology.

  • McMahon, P.B., and Böhlke, J.K., 1996, Denitrification and mixing in a stream/aquifer system: effect on nitrate loading to surface water: Journal of Hydrology, v. 186, p. 105-128. (on-line abstract)

  • McMahon, P.B., Böhlke, J.K., and Bruce, B.W., 1999, Denitrification in marine shales in northeastern Colorado, USA: Water Resources Research, v. 35, p. 1629-1642. (on-line abstract)

  • McMahon, P.B., Böhlke, J.K., and Litke, D.W., 1995, Fate of nitrate in the South Platte River alluvial aquifer system, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Yearbook, Fiscal Year 1994, p. 45-47.

  • McMahon, P.B., Dennehy, K.F., Bruce, B.W., Böhlke, J.K, Michel, R.L., Gurdak, J.J., and Hurlbut, D.B., 2006, Storage and transit time of chemicals in thick unsaturated zones under rangeland and irrigated cropland, High Plains, USA: Water Resources Research, v. 42 (W03413, doi:10.1029/2005WR004417), p. 1-18.

  • Oren, O., Yechieli, Y., Böhlke, J. K., and Dody, A., 2004, Contamination of groundwater under cultivated fields in an arid environment, central Arava Valley, Israel: Journal of Hydrology, v. 290, p. 312-328.

  • Seitzinger, S.P., Harrison, J., Böhlke, J. K., Bouwman, A.F., Lowrance, R.R., Peterson, B.J., Tobias, C.R., and van Drecht, G., in press, Denitrification across landscapes and waterscapes: a synthesis: Ecological Applications.

  • Smith, L.K., Voytek, M.A., Böhlke, J.K., and Harvey, J.W., in press, Denitrification rates in nitrate-contaminated streams: application of membrane inlet mass spectrometry and isotope tracer methods in flow-through chambers with intact cores: Ecological Applications.

  • Verstraeten, I.M., Böhlke, J.K., and Kraemer, T.F., 2000, Groundwater/ surface-water interactions and sources of nitrogen, radon, and uranium in a irrigated alluvial aquifer, Nebraska, USA: Tracers and Modeling in Hydrogeology, International Association of Hydrologic Sciences Publication 262, p. 525-531. (on-line abstract)

  • Wanty, R.B., Tuttle, M.L., Landon, M.K., Delin, G.N., and Böhlke, J.K., 1996, Geochemistry of nitrogen in a farmed watershed near Princeton, central Minnesota, in Morganwalp, D.W., and Aronson, D.A., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program - Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado, September 20-24, 1993: U.S. Geological Survey Water- Resources Investigations Report 94-4014, p. 591-596. (on-line abstract)


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