Using a combination of quantitative culture, molecular, and infrastructure data to rank potential sources of fecal contamination in Town Creek Estuary, North Carolina

• Jenna M. Hynes,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead City, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9008-048X

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• Rachelle E. Beattie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead City, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9648-4948

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• A. Denene Blackwood,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead City, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Thomas Clerkin,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead City, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Javier Gallard-Góngora,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead City, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7490-3603

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• Rachel T. Noble

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rtnoble@email.unc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead City, North Carolina, United States of America

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