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Douglas A. Harned

Supervisory Hydrologist
U.S. Geological Survey
Water Resources Discipline

North Carolina Water Science Center
3916 Sunset Ridge Rd
Raleigh, NC 26707

(919) 571-4024 Voice
(919) 571-4041 Fax
daharned@usgs.gov

Education · Experience · Research · Publications

Educational Background

Master of Science, Environmental Science (1977) Rice University

Bachelor of Science, Geology (1975) Beloit College

USGS Work Experience

2002-Present - Study Unit Chief--Albemarle-Pamlico Basin (ALBE) National Water-Quality Assessment

2001 Hydrologic Investigations Section Chief, (120-day appointment)

1998-2002 Surface-Water Specialist--Mobile River Basin Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia (MOBL) National Water-Quality Assessment

1998-Present N.C. District Reports Specialist

1992-98 Water-Quality Specialist--Albemarle-Pamlico Basin (ALBE) National Water-Quality Assessment

1982-91 Project Chief(RGE): 1989-91-- Agricultural Land Management and Water Quality, an evaluation of the effects of agricultural practices on water quality; 1988-90 -- Water-Quality Trends in the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine Area, an assessment of long-term changes in water quality for the area; 1986-89 -- Camp Lejeune Ground-Water Study, an assessment of ground-water resources for the Marine Corps Base area; 1984-87-- Piedmont Ground-Water Quality, a study of the effects of land use, soils, and geology on ground-water quality; 1983-85 -- Interstate-85 Project, an assessment of the effects of a section of Interstate highway in rural North Carolina on water quality.

1981-82 Staff (RGE)-- N.C. Coastal Plain Regional Aquifer Systems Analysis (RASA), development of a geohydrologic framework and model for the North Carolina Coastal Plain.

1978-81 Project Chief-- Large Rivers Project, an evaluation of water-quality variation, trends, and pollution in the Neuse River, Cape Fear River, and the Yadkin-Pee Dee River system.

Research Interests

Effects of anthropogenic activities on water quality, water-quality trends, causal variables and trends, effectiveness of sediment best-management practices, extreme-event water quality, ground-water recharge, ground-water/surface-water quality interaction, source analysis.

Selected Publications

Harned, D.A., 1988, Effects of highway runoff on streamflow and water quality in the Sevenmile Creek Basin, a rural area in the Piedmont Province of North Carolina, July 1981 to July 1982: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 2329, 33 p.

Harned, D.A., 1995, Effects of agricultural land-management practices on water quality in northeastern Guilford County, North Carolina, 1985-90: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 2435, 64 p.

Harned, D.A., Atkins, J.B., and Harvill, J.S., 2004, Nutrient mass balance and trends, Mobile River Basin, Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, v. 40, no. 3, p. 765-793.

Harned, D.A., and Davenport, M.S., 1990, Water-quality trends and basin activities and characteristics for the Albemarle-Pamlico estuarine system, North Carolina and Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-398, 164 p.

Harned, D.A., McMahon, Gerard, Spruill, T.B., and Woodside, M.D., 1995, Water-quality assessment of the Albemarle-Pamlico Drainage Basin, North Carolina and Virginia--Characterization of suspended sediment, nutrients, and pesticides: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-191, 131 p.
Abstract of the above report with figures.

Complete Bibliography