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Scott Ator, Hydrologist

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Contact Information

U.S. Geological Survey
5522 Research Park Drive
Baltimore, Maryland 21228

Phone: 443-498-5564
Fax: 443-498-5510
Email: swator@usgs.gov

Education

M.S.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 2003, Environmental Science and Policy
B.S.
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 1994, Geology (summa cum laude)

Associations and Memberships

Research or professional focus/current projects:

Research interests include effects of natural and anthropogenic processes on streams and groundwater chemistry at local and regional scales; groundwater/surface-water interactions; sources, fate, and transport of nutrients, pesticides, and sediment in streams and/or groundwater at multiple scales; and seasonal and temporal trends in water chemistry.

Selected Publications

Ator, S.W., Brakebill, J.W., and Schwarz, G.E., 2010, Mapping vulnerability to upland erosion in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed: Proceedings of the Joint Federal Interagency Sedimentation and Modeling Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 27 – July 1, 2010, 11 p.

Ator, S.W., 2008, Natural and human influences on water quality in a shallow regional unconsolidated aquifer, Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5190, 19 p.

Brakebill, J.W., Ator, S.W., and Schwarz, G.E., 2010, Sources of suspended-sediment flux in streams of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed – A regional application of the SPARROW model: Journal of the American Water Resources Association 46(4) 757-776.

Ator, S.W. Denver, J.M., and Brayton, M.J., 2005, Hydrologic and geochemical controls on pesticide and nutrient transport to two streams on the Delmarva Peninsula: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5051, 34 p.

Ator, S.W., Denver, J.M., Krantz, D.E., Newell, W.L., and Martucci, S.K., 2005, A surficial hydrogeologic framework for the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1680, 44 p.

Ator, S.W., Olsen, A.R., Pitchford, A.M., and Denver, J.M., 2003, Application of a multi-purpose unequal-probability stream survey in the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 873-886.

Domagalski, J.L., Ator, S.W., Coupe, R., McCarthy, K., Lampe, D., Sandstrom, M., and Baker, N., 2008, Comparative study of transport processes of nitrogen, phosphorus, and herbicides to streams in five agricultural basins, USA: Journal of Environmental Quality, vol. 37, pp. 1158-1169.

Phillips, P.J., Ator, S.W., and Nystrom, E.A., 2007, Temporal changes in surface-water insecticide concentrations after the phaseout of diazinon and chlorpyrifos: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 41, n. 12, pp. 4246-4251.

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