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Selected Works of Nancy Mesner

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Present	Emeritus Professor, Utah State University ‐ Watershed Sciences
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Articles (64)

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Utah Water Watch Volunteer Monitoring Manual

All Current Publications (2019)

Nancy Mesner, Brian Green, Eli Robinson, Ellen Bailey, et al.

This manual is part of the training for Utah Water Watch volunteers.

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Pave It or Plant It, 7th - 12th Grade Curriculum

All Current Publications (2018)

Nancy Mesner, John Sanders, Tim Beach, Summer Hansen, et al.

Students will use simple watershed models to measure runoff from natural and urbanized areas. They will graph the data to ...

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Wildfire in Utah: The Physical and Economic Consequences of Wildfire

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications (2017)

Paul Mark Jakus, Man-Keun Kim, Randy S. Martin, Ian Hammond, et al.

PRELUDE On June 26, 2012 a lightning strike ignited a wildfire in the Manti-La Sal National Forest of central Utah’s ...

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Exploring Utah's Water

All Current Publications (2016)

Tim Beach, Nancy Mesner and Sarah Null

This factsheet is intended to help Utah citizens better understand where our water comes from, the different ways we use ...

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Changes in Knowledge and Attitude From a Short-Term Aquatic Education ...

Natural Sciences Education (2015)

Tiffany Kinder, Nancy O. Mesner, Mark Larese-Casanova, Kimberly H. Lott, et al.

Short-term field days are a common outreach tool for watershed programs, yet little is known about their effectiveness. To address ...

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How To Manage a Livestock Yard and Protect Your Water ...

All Current Publications (2015)

Nancy Mesner

Proper management of livestock yards helps reduce potential contamination of surface and ground water. Utah now requires that all animal ...

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Rain Barrels in Utah

All Current Publications (2015)

Brian Greene, Nancy Mesner and Roslynn Brain

Rain barrels are an easy way to conserve rain water and help protect our environment. This fact sheet tells how ...

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Mobile Photo Monitoring: Crowdsourcing for Riparian Restoration

Restoring the West Conference (2014)

Nancy Mesner

Riparian ecosystems are a vital part of watershed health, but monitoring of restoration projects in riparian corridors is often lacking ...

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Spatially Understanding Utah’s Water Resources as a Foundation for ...

Restoring the West Conference (2014)

Tim Beach, Dr. Sarah Null and Nancy Mesner

Successful restoration of the arid West requires a basic knowledge of available water resources, withdrawals, and management. Utah, being the ...

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Stream Side Science Lesson Plan: Appendices

All Current Publications (2014)

Nancy Mesner

Appendices

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Stream Side Science Lesson Plan: Aquatic Invasion!

All Current Publications (2014)

Nancy Mesner

In the exercise, students will investigate aquatic invasive species. They will choose one aquatic invasive species, investigate its distribution, life ...

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Stream Side Science Lesson Plan: Biodiversity Debate

All Current Publications (2014)

Nancy Mesner

In this exercise, students will hold a debate about the construction of a dam in terms of the biological, aesthetic, ...

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Stream Side Science Lesson Plan: Missing Macroinvertebrates

All Current Publications (2014)

Nancy Mesner

In this exercise, students will collect macroinvertebrates from a stream site, sort and identify them, and use their fi ndings ...

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Stream Side Science Lesson Plan: Nitrogen Cycle

All Current Publications (2014)

Nancy Mesner

Students will learn about the nitrogen cycle through discussion and the construction of a diagram. They will also measure the ...

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Stream Side Science Lesson Plan: Riparian Review

All Current Publications (2014)

Nancy Mesner

In this exercise, students will identify and observe biotic factors in a riparian ecosystem, which is the green strip of ...

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Stream Side Science Lesson Plan: That’s Predictable

All Current Publications (2014)

Nancy Mesner

In this exercise, students will be asked to research and report on ecosystem changes that occur as a result of ...

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Stream Side Science Lesson Plan: Utah Core Curriculum Alignment

All Current Publications (2014)

Nancy Mesner

Utah Core Curriculum Alignment

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Stream Side Science Lesson Plan: Water Management

All Current Publications (2014)

Nancy Mesner

In this exercise, students will be assigned roles as community members, develop questions and positions, and participate in a mock ...

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Stream Side Science Lesson Plan: Wetlands Versus Stream Macroinvertebrates

All Current Publications (2014)

Nancy Mesner

In this exercise, students will use their data from the activity Who Lives in the Water? or Missing Macroinvertebrates and ...

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Stream Side Science Lesson Plan: What’s in the Water?

All Current Publications (2014)

Nancy Mesner

In this exercise, students will observe and list abiotic factors in an aquatic system and measure four of them (pH, ...

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Stream Side Science Lesson Plan: When Things Heat Up

All Current Publications (2014)

Nancy Mesner

In this exercise, students will measure the temperature and dissolved oxygen of a stream (or use their fi ndings from ...

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Stream Side Science Lesson Plan: Where’s the Water?

All Current Publications (2014)

Nancy Mesner

Students will use 10 liters (approximately 2.5 gallons) of water to represent all the water on the earth. They will ...

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Stream Side Science Lesson Plan: Who Lives in the Water?

All Current Publications (2014)

Nancy Mesner

In this exercise, students will collect and observe macroinvertebrates in an aquatic system. They will record and summarize their findings.

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Stream Side Science: Lesson Plans and Water Related Activities

All Current Publications (2014)

Nancy Mesner

The 12 activities in Stream Side Science bring a water focus to standards and objectives in the Utah Core Curriculum ...

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Impact of Sampling Frequency on Annual Load Estimation of Total ...

Journal of American Water Resources Association (2012)

Amber Spackman Jones, Jeffery S. Horsburgh, David King Stevens, Nancy O. Mesner, et al.

The determination of sediment and nutrient loads is typically based on the collection and analysis of grab samples. The frequency ...

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