K J Van Meter

Biographic Data

ID7992646
NAMEK J Van Meter
GIVEN NAMESK J
FAMILY NAMEVan Meter
SIGNATUREVAN METER K J
AFFILIATIONSPennsylvania State University
ORCID0000-0002-3698-7850
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Connecting the past with restoration futures: Integrating legacy thinking into environmental decision making

    Open AccessNandita B Basu, K J Van Meter et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Connecting the past with restoration futures: integrating legacy thinking into environmental decision making, Basu, Nandita B, Meter, K J Van, Bennett, Elena, Bernhardt, Emily, Inamdar, Shreeram, McCrackin, Michelle

  • A century of nitrogen dynamics in agricultural watersheds of Denmark

    Open AccessBenoît Dessirier, Gitte Blicher-Mathiesen et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Intensive agriculture has been linked to increased nitrogen loads and adverse effects on downstream aquatic ecosystems. Sustained large net nitrogen surpluses have been shown in several contexts to form legacies in soil or waters, which delay the effects of reduction measures. In this study, detailed land use and agricultural statistics were used to reconstruct the annual nitrogen surpluses in three agriculture-dominated watersheds of Denmark (60…

  • Data-driven approaches demonstrate legacy N accumulation in Upper Mississippi River Basin groundwater

    Open AccessK J Van Meter, Victor O Schultz et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Increases in nitrogen (N) fertilizer application, livestock densities, and human population over the last century have led to substantial increases in nitrate contamination. While increases in riverine N loads are well-documented, the total magnitude of N accumulation in groundwater remains unknown. Here we provide a first data-driven estimate of N mass accumulation in groundwater within the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB), an area of intens…

  • Intensive agriculture, nitrogen legacies, and water quality: Intersections and implications

    Open AccessIdhayachandhiran Ilampooranan, K J Van Meter et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    More than a century of land-use changes and intensive agriculture across the Mississippi River Basin (MRB) has led to a degradation of soil and water resources. Nitrogen (N) leaching from the excess application of fertilizers has been implicated in algal blooms and the development of large, coastal ‘dead zones’. It is, however, increasingly recognized that water quality today is a function not only of the current-year inputs but also of legacy N …

  • Checkered landscapes: Hydrologic and biogeochemical nitrogen legacies along the river continuum

    Open AccessJ Liu, K J Van Meter et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Decades of agricultural intensification have led to elevated stream nitrogen (N) concentrations and eutrophication of inland and coastal waters. Despite widespread implementation of a range of strategies to reduce N export, expected improvements in water quality have not been observed. This lack of success has often been attributed to the existence of legacy N stores within the landscape. Here, we use the ELEMeNT-N model to quantify legacy accumu…

  • Chesapeake legacies: The importance of legacy nitrogen to improving Chesapeake Bay water quality

    Open AccessSandy Y Chang, Qian Zhang et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    In the Chesapeake Bay, excess nitrogen (N) from both landscape and atmospheric sources has for decades fueled algal growth, disrupted aquatic ecosystems, and negatively impacted coastal economies. Since the 1980s, Chesapeake Bay Program partners have worked to implement a wide range of measures across the region—from the upgrading of wastewater treatment plants to implementation of farm-level best management practices—to reduce N fluxes to the Ba…

  • Time lags in watershed-scale nutrient transport: An exploration of dominant controls

    Open AccessK J Van Meter, N B BasuARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    Unprecedented decreases in atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition together with increases in agricultural N-use efficiency have led to decreases in net anthropogenic N inputs in many eastern US and Canadian watersheds as well as in Europe. Despite such decreases, N concentrations in streams and rivers continue to increase, and problems of coastal eutrophication remain acute. Such a mismatch between N inputs and outputs can arise due to legacy N accu…

  • The nitrogen legacy: Emerging evidence of nitrogen accumulation in anthropogenic landscapes

    Open AccessK J Van Meter, N B Basu et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    Watershed and global-scale nitrogen (N) budgets indicate that the majority of the N surplus in anthropogenic landscapes does not reach the coastal oceans. While there is general consensus that this 'missing' N either exits the landscape via denitrification or is retained within watersheds as nitrate or organic N, the relative magnitudes of these pools and fluxes are subject to considerable uncertainty. Our study, for the first time, provides dire…