Upper limits for road salt pollution in lakes by Christopher T. Solomon, Hilary A. Dugan, William D. Hintz, Stuart E. Jones

“…We used a simple model to explore the controls on road salt concentrations and predict equilibrium concentrations in lakes across the contiguous United States. The model suggests that equilibrium salt concentration depends on three quantities: salt application rate, road density, and runoff (precipitation minus evapotranspiration). …”
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National-scale remotely sensed lake trophic state from 1984 through 2020 by Michael F. Meyer, Simon N. Topp, Tyler V. King, Robert Ladwig, Rachel M. Pilla, Hilary A. Dugan, Jack R. Eggleston, Stephanie E. Hampton, Dina M. Leech, Isabella A. Oleksy, Jesse C. Ross, Matthew R. V. Ross, R. Iestyn Woolway, Xiao Yang, Matthew R. Brousil, Kate C. Fickas, Julie C. Padowski, Amina I. Pollard, Jianning Ren, Jacob A. Zwart

“…We used Landsat surface reflectance data to create the first compendium of annual lake trophic state for 55,662 lakes of at least 10 ha in area throughout the contiguous United States from 1984 through 2020. The dataset was constructed with FAIR data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reproducible) in mind, where data are publicly available, relational keys from parent datasets are retained, and all data wrangling and modeling routines are scripted for future reuse. …”
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