Relevant Recently Completed or Active Projects 
Co-Principal Investigator – Monitoring, assessment and prioritization of ocean outfalls in Dare County. Collaborative project between UNC CSI, UNC CH, NCSU, and Moffitt and Nichol Engineering. May 2006 to April 2012. Funded by the NC Legislature through NC DENR, $553,439.
Principal Investigator - Monitoring and TMDL modeling techniques to assess bacterial loading in estuarine environments and to improve shellfish management programs, 2001-2008. Phase 1 Funded by USDA-CSREES Integrated Water Quality Research and Education Program, $306,000, Phase 2, $550,000.
Relevant Journal Articles and Reports
White NM and DE Line D.E. 2010. Watershed monitoring and TMDL modeling to assess bacterial loading in estuarine environments to improve management, Selected to be published in the Proceedings of the TCS22 Annual Conference
Patchanee, Prapas, Bayleyegn Molla Zewde, Nancy White, Daniel E Line, Wondwossen Gebreyes. 2010. Tracking Salmonella contamination in various watersheds with phenotypic and genotypic diversity. To be published in Food borne Pathogens and Disease, MS # FPD-2010-05728.~1
Line D.E, NM White, W.W. Kirby Smith and JD Potts. 2008. Fecal coliform export from four coastal North Carolina areas. JAWRA, 44 (3): 606-617..
Line, D.E. and N.M. White. 2006. Effects of Development on Runoff and Pollutant Export. /Water Environment Research/ 79(2):185-190.
Kirby-Smith William and NM White. 2005. Bacterial Contamination Associated with Estuarine Shoreline Development. Journal of Applied Microbiology. JAM-2005-0127.R1
Berke, Philip R., Joe McDonald, Nancy M. White, Dan Line, Michael Holmes, Kat Oury, Rhonda Ryznar. 2003.
"Greening Development to Protect Watersheds: Is New Urbanism the Answer?" Journal of American Planning Association, V69, #4, pps 397-413.
Line, D. E., NM White, DL Osmond, Gregory Jennings and Carolyn Mojonnier. 2002. Pollutant Export from Various Land Uses in the Upper Neuse River Basin, Water Environment Research, V74, #1.
White, Nancy. 2002. Protecting estuarine water quality through design. Pub #: UNC–SG–01-13
Hunt, William F. and Nancy White. 2001. Designing rain gardens (bio-retention areas). Series Title: Urban waterways; AG (Series); 588-3.
Cherry, Diane; Leon Danielson, Steve Smutko, Tom Vukina, and Nancy White. 1998. Framework and methodologies for estimating the benefits from erosion and sedimentation pollution control. Report to NC Sedimentation and Pollution Control Commission. June, 1998.