Publications

Peck, E.K., Inamdar, S., Kan, J., Peipoch, M., Gold, A.J., Merritts, D.J., Walter, R.C., ... & Rahman, M. (2023). Back from the past? Assessment of nitrogen removal ability of buried historic wetland soils before and after a 1-year incubation on a restored floodplain. Restoration Ecololgy e14070.

Fleming, P.M. & Savchenko, O.M. (2022). Intention versus Action: Household Adoption of Best Management Practices for Water Quality. Water Resources Research.

Fleming, P.M., Stephenson, K., Collick, A.S., & Easton, Z.M. (2022). Targeting for nonpoint source pollution reduction: A synthesis of lessons learned, remaining challenges, and emerging opportunities. Journal of Environmental Management, 308, 114649.

Inamdar, S. P., Peck, E. K., Peipoch, M., Gold, A. J., Sherman, M., Hripto, J., ... & Kan, J. (2022). Saturated, suffocated, and salty: human legacies produce hot spots of nitrogen in riparian zones. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127(12), e2022JG007138. 

Merritts, D. J., & Rahnis, M. A. (2022). Pleistocene Periglacial Processes and Landforms, Mid-Atlantic Region, Eastern United States. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 50, 541-592. 

Inamdar, S., Peipoch, M., Gold, A. J., Lewis, E., Hripto, J., Sherman, M., ... & Trammell, T. L. (2021). Ghosts of landuse past: legacy effects of milldams for riparian nitrogen (N) processing and water quality functions. Environmental Research Letters, 16(3), 035016. 

Wohl, E., Castro, J., Cluer, B., Merritts, D., Powers, P., Staab, B., & Thorne, C. (2021). Rediscovering, reevaluating, and restoring lost river-wetland corridors. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 653623. 

Fleming, P.M., Palm-Forster, L.H., & Kelley, L.E. (2021). The effect of legacy pollution information on landowner investments in water quality: Lessons from economic experiments in the field and lab. Environmental Research Letters, 16(4), 045006.

Lewis, E., Inamdar, S., Gold, A. J., Addy, K., Trammell, T. L., Merritts, D., ... & Peck, E. (2021). Draining the landscape: how do nitrogen concentrations in riparian groundwater and stream water change following milldam removal?. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 126(8), e2021JG006444. 

Dow, S., Snyder, N.P., Ouimet, W.B., Martini, A.M., Yellen, B., Woodruff, J.D., Newton, R.M., Merritts, D.J., & Walter, R.C. (2020). Estimating the timescale of fluvial response to anthropogenic disturbance using two generations of dams on the South River, Massachusetts, USA. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 45(10), 2380-2393.

Fleming, P.M., Lichtenberg, E., & Newburn, D.A. (2020). Water quality trading in the presence of conservation subsidies. Land Economics, 96(4), 552-572.

Johnson, K. M., Snyder, N. P., Castle, S., Hopkins, A. J., Waltner, M., Merritts, D. J., & Walter, R. C. (2019). Legacy sediment storage in New England river valleys: Anthropogenic processes in a postglacial landscape. Geomorphology, 327, 417-437. 

Fleming, P. M., Merritts, D. J., & Walter, R. C. (2019). Legacy sediment erosion hot spots: A cost-effective approach for targeting water quality improvements. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 74(4), 67A-73A. 

Inamdar, S., Johnson, E., Rowland, R., Warner, D., Walter, R., & Merritts, D. (2018). Freeze–thaw processes and intense rainfall: the one-two punch for high sediment and nutrient loads from mid-Atlantic watersheds. Biogeochemistry, 141, 333-349. 

Fleming, P., Lichtenberg, E., & Newburn, D. (2018). Evaluating impacts of agricultural cost sharing on water quality: Additionality, crowding in, and slippage. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 92, 1-19.

Fleming, P. (2017). Agricultural cost sharing and water quality in the Chesapeake Bay: Estimating indirect effects of environmental payments.  American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 99(5), 1208-1227.

Walter, R., Merritts, D. Patapova, M., Hilgartner, W., Bowne, D., Johnson, R., & Moore, J. (2017). Wetland Program Development in Support of Pennsylvania’s Aquatic Resource Protection and Management Action Plan. Program Focus Area 3: Headwater Aquatic Resource Restoration Monitoring: Report to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

Elliott, S. J., Grettenberger, C. L., Donovan, M. P., Wilf, P., Walter, R. C., & Merritts, D. J. (2016). Riparian and valley-margin hardwood species of pre-colonial Piedmont forests: A preliminary study of subfossil leaves from White Clay Creek, southeastern Pennsylvania, USA. Palaeontologia Electronica, 19(1), 1-26. 

Walter, RC, Merritts, D., Rahnis, M., Langland, M., Galeone, D., Gellis, A., ... & Forshay, K. (2014). Big Spring Run floodplain-wetland aquatic resources restoration project:  Report to Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

Merritts, D., Walter, R., Rahnis, M., Cox, S., Hartranft, J., Scheid, C., ... & Datin, K. (2013). The rise and fall of Mid-Atlantic streams: Millpond sedimentation, milldam breaching, channel incision, and stream bank erosion. In De Graff, J. V. & Evans, J. E. (Eds.) The Challenges of Dam Removal and River Restoration. Geological Society of America.

Elliott, S. J., Wilf, P., Walter, R. C., & Merritts, D. J. (2013). Subfossil leaves reveal a new upland hardwood component of the pre-European Piedmont landscape, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. PLoS One, 8(11), e79317. 

LePage, B. A., Jacobs, B. F., & Williams, C. J. (2012). Insights from paleohistory illuminate future climate change effects on wetlands. In Global change and the function and distribution of wetlands (pp. 3-59). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. 

Merritts, D., Walter, R., Rahnis, M., Hartranft, J., Cox, S., Gellis, A., ... & Becker, S. (2011). Anthropocene streams and base-level controls from historic dams in the unglaciated mid-Atlantic region, USA. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 369(1938), 976-1009. 

Brantley, S., Menonigal, P., Scatena, F., Balogh-Brunstad, Z., Barnes, R., Bruns, M., ... Walter, R., & Yoo, K., (2011). Twelve testable hypothesis on the geobiology of weathering. Geobiology. 

Hartranft, J , Merritts, D., Walter, R., & Rahnis, M. (2011). The Big Spring Run Restoration Experiment: Geomorphology, Aquatic Ecosystems, and Policy in the Big Spring Run Watershed, Lancaster County, PA. Sustain 24, 24-31. 

Williams, C. J. (2011). A paleoecological perspective on wetland restoration. Wetlands: Integrating Multidisciplinary Concepts, 67-91.

deWet, A., Williams, C.J., Tomlinson, J., & Loy, E.C. (2011). Stream and Sediment Dynamics in Response to Holocene Landscape Changes in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Wetlands. 

Merritts, D., Walter, R., & Rahnis, M. A. (2010). Sediment and nutrient loads from stream corridor erosion along breached millponds. Franklin and Marshall University. 

Voli, M., Merritts, D., Walter, R., Ohlson, E., Datin, K., Rahnis, M., ... & Hartranft, J. (2009). Preliminary reconstruction of a pre-European settlement valley bottom wetland, southeastern Pennsylvania. Water Resources Impact, 11(5), 11-13. 

Walter, R. C., & Merritts, D. J. (2008). Natural streams and the legacy of water-powered mills. Science, 319(5861), 299-304.

Walter, R.C., & Merritts, D.J. (2008). What to do About these Dammed Streams. Science, 321, 911-912. 

Walter, R., Merritts, D., & Rahnis, M. (2007). Estimating volume, nutrient content, and rates of stream bank erosion of legacy sediment in the Piedmont and Valley and Ridge physiographic provinces, southeastern and central PA. Report to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  

Merritts, D., & Walter, M. R. (2003). Colonial millponds of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania as a major source of sediment pollution to the Susquehanna River and Chesapeake Bay. Channeling Through Time: Landscape evolution, land use change, and stream restoration in the lower Susquehanna Basin, SEFOP 2003 Guidebook, 56-65.