François Birgand

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Area(s) of Expertise

Biogeochemical processes for ecologically engineered and natural systems; Impacts of land use changes on
hydrology and water quality at the watershed scale; Wetland and stream monitoring, restoration and modeling;
Continuous sensor development and metrology; UV-vis spectrometry for continuous water quality measurements;
Image-based sensors; Evaluation of nutrient load uncertainties at the watershed scale.

Publications

• A Review of Data Quality and Cost Considerations for Water Quality Monitoring at the Field Scale and in Small Watersheds , WATER (2023)
• Aspect ratio and baffles impact hydraulic performance of full-size denitrifying bioreactors , ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING (2023)
• High-frequency sensor data capture short-term variability in Fe and Mn concentrations due to hypolimnetic oxygenation and seasonal dynamics in a drinking water reservoir , WATER RESEARCH (2023)
• Quantification of Ammonium Release from an Aging Free Water Surface Constructed Wetland To Improve Treatment Performance , Journal of Ecological Engineering Design (2023)
• Seasonal and tidal variations in hydrologic inputs drive salt marsh porewater nitrate dynamics , HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES (2023)
• Field performance of the GaugeCam image-based water level measurement system , PLOS Water (2022)
• High-frequency sensor data capture short-term variability in Fe and Mn cycling due to hypolimnetic oxygenation and seasonal dynamics in a drinking water reservoir , (2022)
• Patterns of long-term variations of nitrate concentration - Stream discharge relationships for a drained agricultural watershed in Mid-western USA , JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY (2022)
• Technical Note: Open-Source Software for Water-Level Measurement in Images With a Calibration Target , WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH (2022)
• Carbon storage potential in a recently created brackish marsh in eastern North Carolina, USA (vol 127, pg 579, 2019) , ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING (2021)

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