| Long-term trends of nutrients and sediment from the nontidal Chesapeake Watershed: An assessment of progress by river and season Q Zhang, DC Brady, WR Boynton, WP Ball Journal of the American Water Resources Association 51 (6), 1534-1555, 2015 | 91 | 2015 |
| Sediment dynamics and implications for management: State of the science from long‐term research in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA GB Noe, MJ Cashman, K Skalak, A Gellis, KG Hopkins, D Moyer, ... Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water 7 (4), e1454, 2020 | 87 | 2020 |
| Chesapeake Bay's water quality condition has been recovering: Insights from a multimetric indicator assessment of thirty years of tidal monitoring data Q Zhang, RR Murphy, R Tian, MK Forsyth, EM Trentacoste, J Keisman, ... Science of the Total Environment 637, 1617-1625, 2018 | 86 | 2018 |
| Long-term seasonal trends of nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended sediment load from the non-tidal Susquehanna River Basin to Chesapeake Bay Q Zhang, DC Brady, WP Ball Science of The Total Environment, 208-221, 2013 | 84 | 2013 |
| Long-term changes in sediment and nutrient delivery from Conowingo Dam to Chesapeake Bay: Effects of reservoir sedimentation Q Zhang, RM Hirsch, WP Ball Environmental Science & Technology 50 (4), 1877-1886, 2016 | 65 | 2016 |
| An improved method for interpretation of riverine concentration‐discharge relationships indicates long‐term shifts in reservoir sediment trapping Q Zhang, CJ Harman, WP Ball Geophysical Research Letters 43 (19), 10215-10224, 2016 | 58 | 2016 |
| Patterns and trends in Secchi disk depth over three decades in the Chesapeake Bay estuarine complex JM Testa, V Lyubchich, Q Zhang Estuaries and Coasts 42 (4), 927-943, 2019 | 56 | 2019 |
| Nutrient limitation of phytoplankton in Chesapeake Bay: Development of an empirical approach for water-quality management Q Zhang, TR Fisher, EM Trentacoste, C Buchanan, AB Gustafson, R Karrh, ... Water Research 188, 116407, 2021 | 51 | 2021 |
| River water‐quality concentration and flux estimation can be improved by accounting for serial correlation through an autoregressive model Q Zhang, RM Hirsch Water Resources Research 55 (11), 9705-9723, 2019 | 50 | 2019 |
| Watershed export of fine sediment, organic carbon, and chlorophyll-a to Chesapeake Bay: Spatial and temporal patterns in 1984–2016 Q Zhang, JD Blomquist Science of The Total Environment 619, 1066-1078, 2018 | 49 | 2018 |
| Synthesis of nutrient and sediment export patterns in the Chesapeake Bay watershed: Complex and non-stationary concentration-discharge relationships Q Zhang Science of The Total Environment 618, 1268-1283, 2018 | 46 | 2018 |
| Chesapeake legacies: The importance of legacy nitrogen to improving Chesapeake Bay water quality SY Chang, Q Zhang, DK Byrnes, NB Basu, KJ Van Meter Environmental Research Letters 16 (8), 085002, 2021 | 45 | 2021 |
| Decadal-scale export of nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment from the Susquehanna River basin, USA: Analysis and synthesis of temporal and spatial patterns Q Zhang, WP Ball, DL Moyer Science of The Total Environment 563, 1016-1029, 2016 | 44 | 2016 |
| Chesapeake Bay dissolved oxygen criterion attainment deficit: Three decades of temporal and spatial patterns Q Zhang, PJ Tango, RR Murphy, MK Forsyth, R Tian, J Keisman, ... Frontiers in Marine Science, 422, 2018 | 28 | 2018 |
| Improving riverine constituent concentration and flux estimation by accounting for antecedent discharge conditions Q Zhang, WP Ball Journal of Hydrology 547, 387-402, 2017 | 27 | 2017 |
| Nutrient improvements in Chesapeake Bay: Direct effect of load reductions and implications for coastal management RR Murphy, J Keisman, J Harcum, RR Karrh, M Lane, ES Perry, Q Zhang Environmental Science & Technology 56 (1), 260-270, 2022 | 25 | 2022 |
| Major point and nonpoint sources of nutrient pollution to surface water have declined throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed RD Sabo, B Sullivan, C Wu, E Trentacoste, Q Zhang, G Shenk, G Bhatt, ... Environmental Research Communications 4, 045012, 2022 | 19 | 2022 |
| Estimation bias in water-quality constituent concentrations and fluxes: A synthesis for Chesapeake Bay rivers and streams Q Zhang, JD Blomquist, DL Moyer, JG Chanat Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7, 109, 2019 | 18 | 2019 |
| Regional patterns and drivers of total nitrogen trends in the Chesapeake Bay watershed: Insights from machine learning approaches and management implications Q Zhang, JT Bostic, RD Sabo Water Research 218, 118443, 2022 | 16 | 2022 |
| An approach for decomposing river water-quality trends into different flow classes Q Zhang, JS Webber, DL Moyer, JG Chanat Science of The Total Environment 755, 143562, 2021 | 15 | 2021 |
William P. BallProfessor of Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins UniversityVerified email at chesapeake.org
