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Water Resource Research Programs Water Quality Research and Development Partnership between the IUPUI Center for Earth and Environmental Science and USFilter Indianapolis Water LLC. Water Quality Research and Development Partnership Major Watersheds of Indianapolis Water Reservoirs Includes: • Creating a Node of Drinking Water Research Excellence in Central Indiana • Developing and Utilizing Cutting Edge Research to Address Water Quality Issues in Indianapolis and Globally • Training Graduate Students for Work in the High-Technology Sector • Expanding and Enhancing Environmental Research and Education Programs at IUPUI Program Will Focus on the Following Topics: • Evaluating the major sources of nutrients in the reservoirs, including nutrient availability from sediments and watershed approaches to minimize inputs • Determining specific conditions that trigger algal blooms in the reservoirs • Performing detailed research focused at Eagle Creek Reservoir to understand biogeochemical cycling and complete system dynamics Current Research Programs Include: • Water Quality and Nutrient Cycling in Three Central Indiana Watersheds and Their Reservoirs: Eagle Creek/Eagle Creek Reservoir, Fall Creek/Geist Reservoir and Cicero Creek/Morse Reservoir • Sedimentologic and Biogeochemical Characterization of the Eagle Creek Watershed: Implications for Nutrient Cycling and Water Quality “Ideally water quality monitoring programs produce long-term data sets compiled over multiple years to capture the natural, seasonal and year-to-year variations in biological communities and water body constituent concentrations” – US EPA (2002)
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