Over the years John and Lynn Lyon have worked on water issues with great interest and heart.

A hallmark of their scholarship has been helping others with scientific authorship. Books are a great way to capture thoughts and methods making them accessible to others worldwide. In that vein here they have advanced a whole cadre of thought leaders with a broad focus on water.

Whether local, regional, continental, or global scale water issues unite passions.

Part of the challenge is the breadth and complexity of water. If many people take a piece the whole society can fashion sustainable outcomes. The Handbook is focused on presenting a number of ways to facilitate these thoughtful contributions.

John earned his Doctorate at the University of Michigan and Lynn earned her Master's Degree at Ohio State University.

1. Introduction to Volume II and Neuse River Watershed and Water Quality Case Study, 2. Neuse Case Study and Water Quality-Related Methods, 3. Virtual Field Reference Database for Assessment of Land Cover Data and Variability, 4. Vegetation Dynamics and Identification of Land Cover Change in a Complex Land Use Community, 5. Land-Cover Change Detection Using Multi-Temporal MODIS NDVI Data, 6. Spectral and GIS Rule-Based Land-Cover Classification in the Neuse River, 7. Modeling the Distribution of Diffuse Nitrogen Sources and Sinks in the Neuse River Basin, 8. Monitoring of Water Colorants Using AVIRIS Hyperspectral Sensing, 9. DEM Resolution and Roughness Effect in Relation to Model Performance, 10. Application of Densely Stacked Satellite Image Classification and Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis in Predicting Urban Sprawl, 11. A Feasibility Study of Seabed Cover Classification Standards