Research

Strengthen programs of research by seeking opportunities to collaborate with University faculty, staff, and students to conduct and publish funded water resources science and policy research.  Research, the search, and the quest for new knowledge are central to the mission of the University of Delaware.

• America’s Formative Watersheds: Chesapeake, Delaware, and Hudson
• Analysis of the Watershed Resources Registry using GIS to Evaluate Stormwater Restoration Practices in the Christina River Watershed (2019)
• Anatomy of a Drought
• Aquatic Life Uses and Values for the Delaware Estuary
• Benefit-cost analysis of water quality policy and criteria in the Delaware River
• Benefits of Improved Water Quality in the Delaware River Basin
• Brandywine-Christina Healthy Water Fund
• Brandywine Piedmont Watershed Plan – First State National Park
• British Invasion of Delaware Aug. – Sept. 1777
• Delaware: A Historically Great American University
• Economic Benefits and Jobs Provided by Delaware Watersheds
• Economic Value of New Jersey Tributaries to the Delaware River (Jan 2024)
• Economic Value of Marcellus Shale Gas in the Delaware Basin
• Economic Value of the Nanticoke Watershed (March 2020)
• Economic Value of Nature and Ecosystems in the Delaware River Basin
• Economic Value of the Delaware Inland Bays Watershed, Draft Oct. 2020
• Economic Value of the Maryland Coastal Bays Watershed
• Evaluation of the Technical, Economic, and Social Impacts Associated with Updating Major Wastewater Treatment Infrastructure of the Delaware Estuary
• Flint Creek Greenway Plan
• Frequency and Intensity of Extreme Drought in the Delaware Basin, 1600 – 2002
• Governance of Federally Protected Rivers An Institutional Analysis of the Partnership Approach to Wild and Scenic River Management of the White Clay Creek, Presentation (2016)
• Governance, Policy, and Economics of Clean Water in the Delaware River Basin
• Governance, Policy, and Economics of Intergovernmental River Basin Management
• Great American Megabasin: Chesapeake and Delaware, 2018
• Historic Significance of Hoopes Reservoir in Wilmington, Delaware
• Indigenous, European, and American Place Names of Streams and Waterways in Delaware
• Instream Flow Needs Studies
• Impact of Global Warming on Delaware’s Water Resources
• Imperviousness: A Performance Measure of a Delaware Water Resource Protection Area Ordinance
• Link between Impervious Cover and Base Flow in the White Clay Creek Wild and Scenic Watershed in Delaware
• Mt. Cuba Center and UD researchers partner to study stream health (9/21/16)
• NPDES and Education on Stormwater Pollution
• Perspectives on Ethics and Water Policy in Delaware
• Policy and Governance of Water Resources in the National Park System: A Case Study of First State National Historical Park Along the Brandywine River
• Reconnaissance Study of Potentially Eligible National Wild & Scenic Rivers in Delaware
• Renewable Energy to Power Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment Facilities
• Restoration of American Shad to the Brandywine River
• Seasonal Variations on the Brandywine River, Total Organic Carbon Removal and Disinfection Byproduct Presence in the City of Wilmington’s Drinking Water
• Shad Restoration in the White Clay Creek Watershed
• Socioeconomic Value of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed in Delaware (2011)
• Socioeconomic Value of Delaware Wetlands, Draft Report 2018
• State of the Delaware River Basin and Estuary
• The Cost of Clean Water in the Delaware River Basin (2018)
• The Delaware River Revival
• The Impacts of Redefining Navigable Waters Under the Clean Water Act (2011)
• The Role of Impervious Cover as a Watershed-based Zoning Tool
• The University of Delaware Rain Garden: Environmental Mitigation of a Building Footprint
• UD Experimental Watershed
• Water Quality Monitoring in the White Clay Creek National Wild Scenic River Watershed, May 2017
• UD WATER Project (Watershed Action Team for Ecological Restoration)
• Water Quality Trends in the Delaware River Basin (USA) from 1980 to 2005
• Water Quality Trends in Delaware Streams, 1970-2005
• Water Resources and Environmental Depth Reference Manual (2011)
• Watershed Economics
• What if… the United States of America Were Based on Watersheds?
• Worst Case Effects of Hurricanes, Flooding, High Tides and Sea Level Rise on DelDOT Assets, Draft 2017