Introducing our next partner takeover: The City of Austin Watershed Protection Department!
Austin, Texas’ Watershed Protection Department (WPD) has submitted the several exciting manuscripts for publication, focusing on nature-based solutions for healthy watersheds. Here’s a sneak peak at what their team has been working on:
Lindsay Olinde (WPD), along with Drs. Robert Hawley and Nora Korth, developed a nature-based strategy to protect channels from erosion. Their article, “Designing stormwater controls to protect streams from erosion—A simple (and implementable) channel-protection strategy,” will be published in Freshwater Science: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/735100
Nathan Bendik (WPD) is the lead author of a paper on restoration efforts to improve salamander survival and abundance. Co-authors include Dee Ann Chamberlain, Sarah Donalson, Matt Westbrook, and Radmon Rice. Titled “Restoration of Spring‐Run Habitat Improves Abundance and Juvenile Survival for Endangered, Highly Endemic Salamanders,” this article is approved for publication in Animal Conservation.
Julia Sigmund (WPD) led a study on a novel method to calculate region-specific, pollution-tolerant indices for benthic macroinvertebrates and diatoms. Co-authors include Andrew Clamann, Brent Bellinger, Bianca Perez, Abel Porras, and Mateo Scoggins. Their paper, “Development of locally-derived biological pollution tolerance and multi-metric indices responsive to urbanization and aquatic physicochemical stressors in Central Texas” has been approved for publication in Freshwater Science.
Abel Porras (WPD) is the lead author of a paper detailing the modeling that relates hydrology to stream biology. Co-authors include Young-Hoon Jin, Ed Peacock, Yazmin Avila, Andrew Chu, Harshita Mahaseth, Angel Santiago, and Julia Siegmund. The article, “Development and evaluation of Watershed Models using Functional Data Analysis and a Deep Learning Algorithm to expand an ecological monitoring system in Austin’s urban streams,” is in its second round of comments and was submitted to Freshwater Science.
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