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2018
The Utah Snow Load Study, Brennan Bean, Marc Maguire, and Yan Sun; Structural Engineers Association of Utah
Implications of Data Sampling Resolution on Water Use Simulation, End-Use Disaggregation, And Demand Management, A. Cominola, M. Giuliani, A. Castelletti, David E. Rosenberg, and A. M. Abdallah; Environmental Modelling and Software
Estimating Discharge in Low-Order Rivers With High-Resolution Aerial Imagery, Tyler V. King, Bethany T. Neilson, and Mitchell T. Rasmussen; Water Resources Research
Review of the Utah Snow Load Study, Marc Maguire, Brennan Bean, and Yan Sun; Structural Engineers Association of Utah
Combinations of Plant Water-Stress and Neonicotinoids Can Lead to Secondary Outbreaks of Banks Grass Mite (Oligonychus Pratensis Banks), Alice Ruckert, L. Niel Allen, and Ricardo A. Ramirez; PLoS ONE
Monthly Paleostreamflow Reconstruction from Annual Tree-Ring Chronologies, James H. Stagge, David E. Rosenberg, R. J. DeRose, and Tammy M. Rittenour; Journal of Hydrology
2017
Investigating Composite Action at Ultimate for Commercial Sandwich Panel Composite Connectors, Salam Al-Rubaye, Taylor J. Sorensen, and Marc Maguire
Fatigue Crack Detection Using Unmanned Aerial Systems in Under-Bridge Inspection, Sattar Dorafshan, Marc Maguire, Nathan V. Hoffer, and Calvin Coopmans
Walking Behavior of Individuals With and Without Disabilities at Right-Angle Turning Facility, Nirdosh Gaire, Mohammad Sadra Sharifi, Keith M. Christensen, Anthony Chen, and Ziqi Song; Journal of Accessibility and Design for All
Spatial Scale Gap Filling Using an Unmanned Aerial System: A Statistical Downscaling Method for Applications in Precision Agriculture, Leila Hassan-Esfahani, Ardeshir M. Ebtehaj, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, and Mac McKee; Sensors
Wildfire in Utah: The Physical and Economic Consequences of Wildfire, Paul M. Jakus, Man-Keun Kim, Randy C. Martin, Ian Hammond, Edd Hammill, Nancy Mesner, and Jacob Stout
Designing and Implementing a Network for Sensing Water Quality and Hydrology across Mountain to Urban Transitions, Amber S. Jones, Zachary T. Aanderud, Jeffery S. Horsburgh, David P. Eiriksson, Dylan Dastrup, Christopher Cox, Scott B. Jones, David R. Bowling, Jonathan Carlisle, Gregory T. Carling, and Michelle A. Baker; Journal of the American Water Resources Association
Mapping Annual Riparian Water Use Based on the Single-Satellite-Scene Approach, Kul Khand, Saleh Taghvaeian, and Leila Hassan-Esfahani; Remote Sensing
Potential Crop Evapotranspiration and Surface Evaporation Estimates via a Gridded Weather Forcing Dataset, Clayton S. Lewis and L. Niel Allen; Journal of Hydrology
Nutrient Processes at the Stream-Lake Interface for a Channelized Versus Unmodified Stream Mouth, Richard G. Niswonger, Ramon C. Naranjo, David R. Smith, Jim E. Constantz, Kip K. Allander, Donald O. Rosenberry, Bethany T. Neilson, Michael R. Rosen, and David A. Stonestrom; Water Resources Research
Developing a General Methodology for Evaluating Composite Action in Insulated Wall Panels, Jaiden Olsen, Salam Al-Rubaye, Taylor J. Sorensen, and Marc Maguire
Enhancing Ductility of WWR Slabs, Mohamed Shwani, Taylor J. Sorensen, Ethan Pickett, Parker Syndergaard, and Marc Maguire; 2017 PCI/NBC
Observed drought indices show increasing divergence across Europe, James H. Stagge, Daniel G. Kingston, Lena M. Tallaksen, and David M. Hannah; Scientific Reports
Reference evapotranspiration from coarse-scale and dynamically downscaled data in complex terrain: Sensitivity to interpolation and resolution, Courtenay Strong, Krishna B. Khatri, Adam K. Kochanski, Clayton S. Lewis, and L. Niel Allen; Journal of Hydrology
Vicarious Calibration of sUAS Microbolometer Temperature Imagery for Estimation of Radiometric Land Surface Temperature., Alfonso F. Torres-Rua; Sensors
2016
Ag nanoparticles generated using bio-reduction and –coating cause microbial killing without cell lysis, Gade A. Adams, Joan E. McLean, J. Adams, D. W. Britt, Fenann Shen, A. Jacobson, and Y. C. Kim; BioMetals
Differences in Nutrient and Metal Uptake Among Plant Species in Stormwater Bioretention Systems., M. R. Borecki, R. Ryan Dupont, and Joan E. McLean
Road scholars for the western states: Protecting natural areas by improving road management research, B. Cooke, C. Luce, T. Black, and David G. Tarboton; Science You Can Use Bulletin
Potential Effects of Climate Change on Ecologically Relevant Streamflow Regimes, S. Dhungel, David G. Tarboton, J. Jin, and C. P. Hawkins; River Research and Applications
Automatic Surface Crack Detection in Concrete Structures Using OTSU Thresholding and Morphological Operations, Sattar Dorafshan, Marc Maguire, and Xiaojun Qi; UTC Report 01-2016
Leveraging Sparsity in Land Surface-Atmosphere Inverse Problems, Ardeshir M. Ebtehaj and Efi Foufoula-Georgiou; Tellus
Improving plant bioaccumulation science through consistent reporting of experimental data, P. Fantke, William J. Doucette, and J. Arnot; Journal of Environmental Management
An overview of current applications, challenges, and future trends in distributed process-based models in hydrology, S. Fatichi, E. R. Vivoni, F. L. Ogden, V. Y. Ivanov, B. Mirus, D. Gochis, C. W. Downer, M. Camporese, J. H. Davison, B. Ebel, N. Jones, J. Kim, G. Mascaro, R. Niswonger, P. Restrepo, R. Rigon, C. Shen, M. Sulis, and David G. Tarboton; Journal of Hydrology
Review of Existing Terrestrial Bioaccumulation Models and Terrestrial Bioaccumulation Modeling Needs for Organic Chemicals, Frank APC Gobas, Lawrence P. Burkhard, William J. Doucette, Keith G. Sappington, Eric MJ Verbruggen, Bruce K. Hope, Mark A. Bonnell, Jon A. Arnot, and Jose V. Tarazona; Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management
Spanning high and low resolution remote sensing products in precision agriculture, Leila Hassan-Esfahani, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, M. A. Ebtehaj, Austin Jensen, and Mac McKee; 2016 World Environmental & Water Resources Congress
Improving Flow Conditions in Irrigation Splitter Boxes, Joshua R. Hogge, Michael C. Johnson, Bryce K. Wilcox, and Jonathan Frazier; Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Great Salt Lake Summer Ozone Study, J. Horel, E. Crossman, S. Arens, Randy S. Martin, and J. Sohl; Utah Division of Air Quality
Summer Ozone Concentrations in the Vicinity of the Great Salt Lake, John Horel, Erik Crosman, Brian Blaylock, Seth Arens, Ansley Long, John Sohl, and Randal Martin; Atmospheric Science Letters
Observations Data Model 2: A community information model for spatially discrete Earth observations, Jeffery S. Horsburgh, Anthony K. Aufdenkampe, Emilio Mayorga, Kerstin A. Lehnert, Leslie Hsu, Lulin Song, Amber Spackman Jones, Sara G. Damiano, David G. Tarboton, David Valentine, Ilya Zaslavsky, and Tom Whitenack; Science Direct
Observations Data Model 2: A community information model for spatially discrete Earth observations, Jeffery S. Horsburgh, Anthony K. Aufdenkampe, Emilio Mayorga, Kerstin A. Lehnert, Leslie Hsu, Lulin Song, Amber Spackman Jones, Sara G. Damiano, David G. Tarboton, David Valentine, Ilya Zaslavsky, and Tom Whitenack; Environmental Modeling & Software
Time Series Analyst: Interactive online visualization of environmental time series data, Jeffery S. Horsburgh, Amber Spackman Jones, M. Ramirez, and J. Caraballo
Observations Data Model 2: A community information model for spatially discrete Earth observations, J. S. Horsburgh, A. K. Aufdenkampe, E. Mayorga, K. A. Lehnert, L. Hsu, L. Song, A. S. Jones, S. G. Damiano, David G. Tarboton, D. Valentine, I. Zaslavsky, and T. Whitenack; Environmental Modelling & Software
Climate change adaptation strategies for the Nam Ngum River Basin, Laos. 8th International Perspective on Water Resources and the Environment, Environmental and Water Resources Institute, D. Jayasekera, J. J. Kaluarachchi, and H. C. Thai
Water Availability and Allocation Challenges Under Climate Change: A Case Study from the Nam Ngum River Basin, Laos. 8th International Perspective on Water Resources and the Environment, Environmental and Water Resources Institute, D. Jayasekera, J. J. Kaluarachchi, and H. C. Thai
Water Availability and Allocation Challenges Under Climate Change: A Case Study from the Nam Ngum River Basin, Laos. 8th International Perspective on Water Resources and the Environment, Environmental and Water Resources Institute, D. Jayasekera, J. J. Kaluarachchi, and H. C. Thai
Water Availability and Allocation Challenges Under Climate Change: A Case Study from the Nam Ngum River Basin, Laos. 8th International Perspective on Water Resources and the Environment, Environmental and Water Resources Institute, D. Jayasekera, J. J. Kaluarachchi, and H. C. Thai
Streaming Sensor Data: Tools for acquisition, management, and visualization, Amber Jones, Jeffery S. Horsburgh, Stephanie L. Reeder, J. Caraballo, D. Smith, Z. Yoshikawa, and M. Matos
Water quality surrogates: Development of surrogate relationships, Amber Spackman Jones and Jeffery S. Horsburgh
Life on the edge: reproductive mode and rate of invasive Phragmites australis patch expansion, K. M. Kettenring, K. E. Mock, B. Zaman, and Mac McKee; Biological Invasions
Large eddy simulation of turbulence and solute transport in a forested headwater stream, A. Khosronejad, A. T. Hansen, J. L. Kozarek, K. Guentzel, M. Hondzo, M. Guala, P. Wilcock, J. C. Finlay, and F. Sotiropoulos; Journal of Geophysical Research F: Earth Surface
A risk based agro-economic analysis to maximize income of salinity-affected agricultural lands with limited water, D. Kim and J. J. Kaluarachchi; Environmental and Water Resources Institute
Scale-emergence of snowmelt runoff recession based on heterogeneous snow accumulation and melt, C. Luce, David G. Tarboton, and M. Clark
The 2015 Great Salt Lake Summer Ozone Study, Randy S. Martin; the 96th meeting of the American Meteorological Society
Measurement of Ambient Hydrochloric Acid near Utah's Great Salt Lake, Randy S. Martin and S. Arens; 2016 International Annual Conference and Exhibition of the Air and Waste Management Association
A comparison of AmoN measurements with localized arrayed passive NH3 samplers in Northern Utah, Randy S. Martin and M. Baasandorj; National Atmospheric Depostion Program 2016 Fall Meeting
The Cache Valley Ammonia Super Volcano, Randy S. Martin and M. Bassandorj; Atmospheric Optics: Aerosols, Visibility and the Radiative Balance, AWMA Specialty Conference
An Overview of the 2015 Great Salt Lake Summer Ozone Study, Randy S. Martin, J. D. Horel, E. Crosman, A. Jacques, B. Blaylock, A. Long, S. Arens, and J. E. Sohl; 2016 International Annual Conference and Exhibition of the Air and Waste Management Association
Wintertime Indoor and Outdoor PM2.5 in Northern Utah's Cache Valley, Randy S. Martin and K. D. Moore; 2016 International Annual Conference and Exhibition of the Air and Waste Management Association
Update on cold start, hot start, and idling emissions in northern Utah, Randy S. Martin, C. Woods, and J. Thomas; 2016 International Annual Conference and Exhibition of the Air and Waste Management Association
Drones and Irrigation Water Management: the AggieAir Experience, Mac McKee; The Four States Irrigation Council and DARCA Joint Annual Meeting, Ft. Collins, CO.
Arsenic solubility and redistribution under anoxic conditions in three aquifer sediments from a basin-fill aquifer in Northern Utah: the role of natural organic carbon and carbonate minerals, X. Meng, Joan E. McLean, A. Jacobson, D. L. Sorensen, and R. R. Dupont; Applied Geochemistry
Dehalococcoides abundance and alternate electron acceptor effects on large, flow-through trichloroethene dechlorinating columns, B. S. Mirza, Joan E. McLean, D. L. Sorensen, and R. R. Dupont; Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Shear Testing of Precast Concrete Sandwich Wall Panel Composite Shear Connectors, Jaiden Olsen and Marc Maguire; 2016 PCI Convention & National Bridge Conference
Comparison of Selected Differential Producing, Ultrasonic and Magnetic Flow Meters, Johnny B. Prettyman, Michael C. Johnson, and Steve L. Barfuss; Journal of American Water Works Association
Water Resources Systems Analysis: A Bright Past and a Challenging but Promising Future, David E. Rosenberg and Kaveh Madani
Bioaccumulation of copper, lead, and zinc in six macrophyte species grown in simulated stormwater bioretention systems, M. Rycewicz-Borecki, Joan E. McLean, and R. R. Dupont; Journal of Environmental Management
Assessing the applicability of a proposed protocol for determining a plant uptake factor (PUF): preliminary results, Y. Sandstrom and William J. Doucette; 26th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and chemistry
Effects of Abrupt Pipe Diameter Changes on Venturi Flow Meters, Zac B. Sharp, Michael C. Johnson, and Steve Barfuss; Journal of American Water Works Association
Development of a water quality mobile monitoring platform and techniques for managing resulting data, P. Suiter, Amber Spackman Jones, J. S. Horsburgh, and B Mihalevich
Comparing Low Flow Accuracy of Mechanical and Electronic Meters, McKenna L. Sumrak, Michael C. Johnson, and Steve Barfuss; Journal of American Water Works Association
Analysis of Meter Registry Uncertainty, McKenna L. Sumrak, Michael C. Johnson, and Steven L. Barfuss; Journal - American Water Works Association
Validating and applying the single-satellite-scene approach to mapping riparian water use, S. Taghvaeian and Leila Hassan-Esfahani; World Environmental & Water Resources Congress
High Resolution Hydrography and Hydrologic Modeling, David G. Tarboton; Presentation to USGS Hydrography Seminar Series
Estimation of Surface Soil Moisture by Assimilation of Landsat Vegetation Indices, Surface Energy Balance Products and Relevance Vector Machines, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Andres M. Ticlavilca, Roula Bachour, and Mac McKee; Water (Switzerland)
A suggested minimum data list for documenting experimental plant uptake studies, S. Trapp, William J. Doucette, P. Fantke, and T. Eggen; 26th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and chemistry
Climate Change Impacts on Rural River Basins: A Case Study from the Walawe River Basin, Sri Lanka. 8th International Perspective on Water Resources and the Environment, Environmental and Water Resources Institute, N. Weragala and J. J. Kaluarachchi
2015
Web-Based Data Visualization and Analysis using HydroShare and the Open Source Tethys Platform, D. Ames, Z. Li, X. Qiao, David G. Tarboton, R. Idaszak, J. Horsburgh, V. Merwade, B. Miles, N. Swain, R. Lineberger, and E. Rice
Enabling the free flow of water data, D. P. Ames and David G. Tarboton; Water Resources Impact
Wavelet-Multivariate Relevance Vector Machine Hybrid Model for Forecasting Daily Evapotranspiration, R. Bachour, I. Maslova, A. M. Ticlavilca, W. R. Walker, and Mac McKee; Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
Computational fluid dynamics and physical models save big dollars for LCRA's new water supply, Steve Barfuss, Ken Hall, Ted Davis, Ken Hansen, and Ethan Ford; Texas Water 2015
Composite Modeling of Hydraulic Structures, Steve Barfuss and Bryan J. Heiner; International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research
Can Suspended Fine Sediment Transport in Shallow Lakes Be Predicted Using MVRVM With Limited Observations?, H. A. Batt Ph.D. and David King Stevens Ph.D.; Journal of Environmental Engineering
Little Bear and Blacksmith Fork Rivers Environmental Flows: Background Report, BIO-WEST, Inc.
Evaluating the simulation times and mass balance errors of component-based models: An application of OpenMI 2.0 to an urban stormwater system, Caleb A. Buahin and Jeffery S. Horsburgh; Environmental Modeling & Software
Addressing the Challenges of Big and Complex Data to Advance Hydrologic Understanding II Posters, Anthony M. Castronova; AGU Fall Meeting
Data and model integration for hydrologic applications, Anthony M. Castronova; AGU Fall Meeting
The structure for unifying multiple modeling alternatives (SUMMA), Version 1.0: Technical Description, M. Clark, B. Nijssen, J. D. Lundquist, D. Kavetski, D. E. Rupp, R. A. Woods, J. E. Freer, E. D. Gutmann, A. W. Wood, L. D. Brekke, J. R. Arnold, D. J. Gochis, R. M. Rasmussen, David G. Tarboton, V. Mahat, G. N. Flerchinger, and D. G. Marks
A unified approach for process-based hydrologic modeling: 2. Model implementation and case studies, M. P. Clark, B. Nijssen, J. D. Lundquist, D. Kavetski, D. E. Rupp, R. A. Woods, J. E. Freer, E. D. Gutmann, A. W. Wood, D. J. Gochis, R. M. Rasmussen, David G. Tarboton, V. Mahat, G. N. Flerchinger, and D. G. Marks; Water Resources Research
A social model of hydrologic data protection and sharing, A. Couch, David G. Tarboton, R. Idaszak, J. S. Horsburgh, H. Yi, and M. Stealey
A Flexible File Sharing Mechanism for iRODS, A. Couch, David G. Tarboton, R. Idaszak, J. Horsburgh, H. Yi, and M. Stealey
Computational Fluid Dynamics Investigation of Butterfly Valve Performance Factors, Adam Del Toro, Michael C. Johnson, and Rober E. Spall; Journal - American Water Works Association (AWWA)
Modifying the ADM1 Model to Predict the Operation of an Anaerobic Digester Co-digesting Municipal Sludge with Bakery Waste, Morris E. Demitry, Jianming Zhong, Conly Hansen, and Michael McFarland; Environment and Pollution
Nano-CuO and interaction with nano-ZnO or soil bacterium provide evidence for the interference of nanoparticles in metal nutrition of plants, C. O. Dimkpa, Joan E. McLean, T. Hansen, and J. Stewart; Ecotoxicology
The potential impact of deposition from static rocket motor testing on crops, William J. Doucette, E. Curry, and L. S. McNeill; 36th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Pressure chamber technique for evaluating the root to shoot transfer of organic compounds, William J. Doucette and N. Garvin; 25th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC EUROPE)
Chlorinated Volatile Organics in Indoor Air from Consumer Products, William J. Doucette and T. A. Wetzel; 36th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Plant leaves and indoor air passive samplers for volatile organic compounds, William J. Doucette and T. A. Wetzel; 2nd International Conference on Environmental Pollution and Health
Replacing the Weibull Distribution Failure Rate Model, R. Ryan Dupont, F. Ricci, and L. Theodore
Rainfall Microwave Atoms: A New Variational Approach for Combined Passive Retrievals, Ardeshir M. Ebtehaj; NASA Precipitation Measurement Mission
Rainfall Microwave Spectral Atoms: A New Class of Bayesian Algorithms for Passive Retrieval, Ardeshir M. Ebtehaj; American Geophysical Union
Evaluation of ShARP passive rainfall retrievals over snow-covered land surfaces and coastal zones, Ardeshir M. Ebtehaj, R. L. Bras, and Efi Foufoula-Georgiou; Journal of Hydrometeorology
Shrunken Locally Linear Embedding for Passive Microwave Retrieval of Precipitation, Ardeshir M. Ebtehaj, R. L. Bras, and Efi Foufoula-Georgiou; IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Compressive Earth Observatory: An Insight from AIRS/AMSU Retrievals, Ardeshir M. Ebtehaj, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, G. Lerman, and R. L. Bras; Geophysical Research Letters
Estimating chlorophyll with thermal and broadband multispectral high resolution imagery from an unmanned aerial system using relevance vector machines for precision agriculture, M. Elarab, A. M. Ticlavilca, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, I. Maslova, and Mac McKee; International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation
Assessment of optimal irrigation water allocation for pressurized irrigation system using water balance approach, learning machines, and remotely sensed data, Leila Esfahani, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, and Mac McKee; Agricultural Water Management
