M. Alisa Mast

TL;DR: In this paper, the Loch Vale Watershed (LVWS) is used to determine the source of solutes to surface waters draining the alpine-subalpine drainage located in the Front Range of Colorado, where the major minerals include quartz, microcline, plagioclase, biotite and sillimanite.

TL;DR: In this paper, several hypothesized mechanisms for this "chemostatic behavior" were evaluated, and the potential for those mechanisms to in! uence relations between climate, weathering, and CO2 consumption via mineral weathering was assessed.

TL;DR: In this article, changes in stream chemistry were studied for 4 years following large wildfires that burned in Glacier National Park during the summer of 2003, and the results showed that stream water nitrate concentrations showed the greatest response to fire, increasing up to tenfold above those in the unburned drainage just prior to the first post fire snowmelt season.

TL;DR: In this article, the average annual atmospheric deposition loadings of nitrate, sulfate, and acidity were developed for the Rocky Mountains by using spatial statistics and a parameter-elevation regressions on independent slopes model (PRISM) was incorporated to account for variations in precipitation amount over mountainous regions.

TL;DR: In this paper, an extensive sampling of a stream draining an alpine subalpine basin revealed that depressions in pH and acid neutralizing capacity (ANC) of surface water at the beginning of the spring snowmelt in 1987 and 1988 were not accompanied by increases in strong acid anions, and that surface waters did not become acidic (ANC<0).