Watershed resilience is the ability of a watershed to maintain its characteristic system state
while concurrently resisting, adapting to, and reorganizing after hydrological (for example …

Headwater streams and inland wetlands provide essential functions that support healthy
watersheds and downstream waters. However, scientists and aquatic resource managers …

Ecological integrity has been criticized as a “bad fit as a value” for conservation biology and
restoration ecology. But work over the past four decades centered on ecological integrity …

We assess which waters the Clean Water Act protects and how Supreme Court and White
House rules change this regulation. We train a deep learning model using aerial imagery …

Rivers provide the basis for sustainable socio-economic development, but increasingly
intense human activities poses a threat to river health. To comprehensively investigate the …

Urban floods research has been attracting extensive attention with the increasing threat of
flood risk and environmental hazards due to global climate change and urbanization …

Stream networks expand and contract through time, impacting chemical export, aquatic
habitat, and water quality. Although recent advances improve prediction of the extent of the …

Ephemeral streams flow only in direct response to precipitation and are ubiquitous
landscape features. However, little is known about their influence on downstream rivers …

Recent revisions to the definition of the 'waters of the United States'(WOTUS) have
considerably altered how wetlands are federally regulated under the Clean Water Act. The …

The presence of year-round surface water in streams (ie, streamflow permanence) is an
important factor for identifying aquatic habitat availability, determining the regulatory status …