Some of us met for a two hour workshop at the LTER All Science Meeting last September. The first part of the workshop was used to present the latest advances in the project (i.e., the paper submitted to BioSicence entitled “Trends in Stream Nitrogen Concentrations for Forested Reference Catchments across the USA”, progress on the second of the papers planned -“Characterizing Variability of Stream Chemistry at Forested Catchments-Applicability to Development of Numeric Nutrient Criteria”-, and new features in the StreamChem database).  During the second part of the workshop we discussed the next steps of the project and the objectives for the next planned papers: "Biogeochemical Responses to Disturbances in Long-Term Watersheds” and “Best Approaches for Calculating Stream Solute Fluxes across a Suite of Hydrological Regimes”. You can find the final report of the working group below.

On May 2 and 3, Alba Argerich and Effie Greathouse (both from Oregon State University) presented two talks about the Stream Chemistry Synthesis Project at the National Water Quality Monitoring Conference (NWQMC) held in Portland, OR. The NWQMC is a biennial national conference that gathers governmental organizations, tribes, volunteers, academia, watershed and environmental groups, and the private sector to discuss new findings on the quality of the Nation's waters.

The Stream Chemistry Synthesis project will be at the next American Geophysical Union Fall meeting (San Francisco, 5-9 December). We will be presenting two posters entitled "Temporal Trends in Stream N Concentrations and Responses to Disturbances in US Forested Basins" and "Variability in stream nitrogen at US Forest Service Experimental Forests and relevance to proposed stream nutrient criteria".

Last July, Dr. Stephen Sebestyen was first author for a poster presented at the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics General Assembly in Melbourne, Australia. IUGG is the international organization dedicated to advancing, promoting, and communicating knowledge of the Earth system, its space environment, and the dynamical processes causing change. Dr. Sebestyen presented an overview of the Stream Chemistry Synthesis Project in the session, "Revisiting experimental catchment studies in forest hydrology".