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Ph.D. 2007, Resource Ecology & Management - Aquatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
B.A. Biology & Chemistry, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, Illinois
My research interests are centered around catchments - anthropogenic influences on the catchments and the resulting impacts that the catchments have on downstream receiving waters. In particular, my research involves the origin, transport, and fate of nitrogen and phosphorus through catchments and into receiving bodies of water.
My research involves the origin, transport, and fate of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) through catchments and into receiving bodies of water. To study these aspects of catchment-scale nutrient dynamics, I use several tools and approaches. Watershed nutrient budgets or mass balance estimates allow quantification of inputs and outputs of N and P, telling us about important nutrient sources in the watershed and where the nutrients are going. Through field sampling programs, we can measure transport and removal of N and P in various parts of the river network and better understand the stream's role in delivery of material from the terrestrial environment to larger receiving bodies of water. Modeling allows prediction of impacts that different anthropogenic activities (such as agricultural best management practices) might have in the future or where hotspots for nutrient removal in the river system may be located. The modeling software I have extensive experience with is the Soil and Water Assessment Tool which is ideal for the purposes I have outlined.
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Bosch, N.S., Allan, J.D., Johengen, T.H., and H.J. Han. 2007. The Influence of Natural Lakes and Artificial Impoundments on the Transport and Fate of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in two Southeastern Michigan River Catchments. North American Benthological Society 55th Annual Meeting. Columbia, South Carolina.
Bosch, N.S. 2006. Tributary Loading Estimation Protocols. Alliance for Coastal Technologies workshop - Evaluating Approaches and Technologies for Monitoring Organic Contaminants in the Aquatic Environment. Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Bosch, N.S., Han, H.J., Allan, J.D., and T.H. Johengen. 2006. The Influence of Natural Lakes and Artificial Impoundments on the Transport and Fate of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in two Southeastern Michigan River Catchments. 49th Annual Conference of the International Association for Great Lakes Research. Windsor, Ontario.
Judd, K.E., H.E. Adams, N.S. Bosch, J.M. Kostrzewski, C.E. Scott, B.M. Schultz, D.H. Wang and G.W. Kling. 2005. A case history: Effects of mixing regime on nutrient dynamics and community structure in Third Sister Lake, Michigan during late winter and early spring 2003. Lake and Reservoir Management 21(3):316-329.
Han, H. and N.S. Bosch. 2005. Spatial and Temporal Trends in River Nutrient Export to Lake Michigan. 2005 Gordon Research Conference on Catchment Science: Interactions of Hydrology, Biology and Geochemistry. Waterville, Maine.
Bosch, N.S. and H. Han. 2005. Nutrient Budgets for Two Lake Erie Watersheds. 48th Annual Conference of the International Association for Great Lakes Research. Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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