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Education · Research · Publications
Doctor of Philosophy, Aquatic Ecology/Entomology (1984) University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
Master of Science, Biology (1980) Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho.
Bachelor of Science, Zoology (1974) State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
Effects of urban and agricultural land uses on physical, chemical, and biological indicators of water quality
Macroinvertebrates as indicators of environmental health using multimetric and multivariate statistical techiques
Community responses to environmental stressors at multiple spatial scales
Multivariate statistical methods and their application to the design and interpretation of integrated water-quality studies
Coles, J.F., Cuffney, T.F., McMahon, Gerard, and Beaulieau, Karen, (in press), The effects of urbanization on the biological, physical, and chemical characteristics of Coastal New England Streams: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 04-1695.
Cuffney, T.F., 2003, User manual for the National Water-Quality Assessment Program Invertebrate Data Analysis System (IDAS) software—Version 3.0: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-172, 103 p.
Cuffney, T.F., Meador, M.R., Porter, S.D., and Gurtz, M.E., 2000, Responses of physical, chemical, and biological indicators of water quality to a gradient of agricultural land use in the Yakima River Basin, Washington: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, v. 64, p. 259-270.
Cuffney, T.F., Zappia, Humbert, Giddings, E.M., and Coles, J.F., in press, A comparison of the effects of urbanization on benthic macroinvertebrate communities in contrasting environmental settings—Massachusetts, Alabama, and Utah, in Brown, L.R., Gray, R.H., Hughes, H., and Meador, M.R., eds., Effects of urbanization on aquatic ecosystems: American Fisheries Society.
McMahon, Gerard, and Cuffney, T.F., 2000, Quantifying urban intensity in drainage basins for assessing stream ecological conditions: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, v. 36, no. 6, p. 1247-1261.
Tate, C.M., Cuffney, T.F., McMahon, Gerard, Coles, J.F., Giddings, E.M., and Zappia, Humbert, in press, Use of urban intensity index and gradient design to assess effects of urbanization on streams in three contrasting environmental settings, in Brown, L.R., Gray, R.H., Hughes, H., and Meador, M.R. eds., Effects of urbanization on aquatic ecosystems: American Fisheries Society.
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