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Mills River in the Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina
The Mills River in the Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina. Researchers applied a machine-learning model to explore where and to what extent human activities have contributed to the hydrogeochemical changes, such as increases in salinity and alkalinity, in U.S. rivers.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant OAC 2209864.]
Learn more in the Syracuse University news story A Machine Learning Approach to Freshwater Analysis. (Date of image: June 2023; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: June 23, 2023)
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