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Journal Articles

A participatory approach to assessing groundwater recharge under future climate and land-cover scenarios, Tutuila, American Samoa

CP-2021-09 A participatory approach to assessing groundwater recharge under future climate and land-cover scenarios, Tutuila, American Samoa Shuler, Chris Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 34, 100785, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100785 (2021) Study region Oceania, South Pacific, Polynesia.   Study Focus Changing climates have the potential…

Metal mobilization as an effect of anthropogenic contamination in groundwater aquifers in Tutuila, American Samoa

CP-2021-01 Metal mobilization as an effect of anthropogenic contamination in groundwater aquifers in Tutuila, American Samoa Okuhata, Brytne, Henrietta Dulai, Christopher Shuler, Joseph Fackrell, Aly El-Kadi Water 12(8), 2118, https://doi.org/10.3390/w12082118 (2020) Groundwater is the primary drinking water source on most oceanic islands,…

Ridge to reef management implications for the development of an open-source dissolved inorganic nitrogen-loading model in American Samoa

CP-2020-13 Ridge to reef management implications for the development of an open-source dissolved inorganic nitrogen-loading model in American Samoa Shuler, Christopher K., and Mia Comeros-Raynal Environmental Management 18 pp., https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-020-01314-4 (2020) Excessive nutrient discharge to tropical island coastlines drives eutrophication and algal…

Understanding Surface Water – Groundwater Interaction, Submarine Groundwater Discharge, and Associated Nutrient Loading in a Small Tropical Island Watershed

CP-2020-06 Understanding Surface Water – Groundwater Interaction, Submarine Groundwater Discharge, and Associated Nutrient Loading in a Small Tropical Island Watershed Shuler, Christopher K., Henrietta Dulai, Olkeba T. Leta, Joseph Fackrell, Eric Welch, and Aly I. El-Kadi Journal of Hydrology 585:1–15, 124342, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.124342 (2020)…

Submarine groundwater discharge and stream base flow sustain pesticide and nutrient fluxes in Faga’alu Bay, American Samoa

CP-2020-04 Submarine groundwater discharge and stream base flow sustain pesticide and nutrient fluxes in Faga’alu Bay, American Samoa Welch, E., H. Dulai, A. El-Kadi, C.K. Shuler Frontiers in Environmental Sciences: Water and Wastewater Management 7:1–17, Article 162, https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00162 (2019) It is increasingly recognized…

Assessment of terrigenous nutrient loading to coastal ecosystems along a human land-use gradient, Tutuila, American Samoa

CP-2019-16 Assessment of terrigenous nutrient loading to coastal ecosystems along a human land-use gradient, Tutuila, American Samoa Shuler, Christopher K., Daniel W. Amato, Veronica Gibson, Lydia Baker, Ashley N. Olguin, Henrietta Dulai, Celia M. Smith, and Rosanna A. Alegado Hydrology 6(1),…

Source partitioning of anthropogenic groundwater nitrogen in a mixed-use landscape, Tutuila, American Samoa

CP-2017-04 Source partitioning of anthropogenic groundwater nitrogen in a mixed-use landscape, Tutuila, American Samoa Christopher K. Shuler, Aly I. El-Kadi, Henrietta Dulai, Craig R. Glenn, and Joseph Fackrell Hydrogeology Journal (2017) This study presents a modeling framework for quantifying human impacts…

Rainwater harvesting in American Samoa: Current practices and indicative health risks

CP-2017-03 Rainwater harvesting in American Samoa: Current practices and indicative health risks Marek Kirs, Philip Moravcik, Pradip Gyawali, Kerry Hamilton, Veljo Kisand, Ian Gurr, Christopher Shuler, and Warish Ahmed Environmental Science and Pollution Research –  24:12384-12392 (2017) Roof-harvested rainwater (RHRW)…