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2017

Walking and Bicycling for Health and Happiness: Exploring the Positive Utility of Travel and Mode Choice, Patrick A. Singleton; 3rd Annual Transportation and Communities Summit

Considering Health in US Metropolitan Long-Range Transportation Plans: A Review of Guidance Statements and Performance Measures, Patrick A. Singleton and Kelly J. Clifton; Transport Policy

Towards measures of the Positive Utility of Travel and Related Concepts, Patrick A. Singleton and Kelly J. Clifton; 11th International Conference on Transport Survey Methods

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Observed drought indices show increasing divergence across Europe, James H. Stagge, Daniel G. Kingston, Lena M. Tallaksen, and David M. Hannah; Scientific Reports

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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

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Vicarious Calibration of sUAS Microbolometer Temperature Imagery for Estimation of Radiometric Land Surface Temperature., Alfonso F. Torres-Rua; Sensors

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Robot-Assisted Measurement for Hydrologic Understanding in Data Sparse Regions, Sierra N. Young, Joshua M. Peschel, Gopal Penny, Sally Thompson, and Veena Srinivasan; Water

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, Ryan Dupont, and Joan E. McLean

A Review of Health Integration into US Metropolitan Long-Range Transportation Plans, Kelly J. Clifton and Patrick A. Singleton; 12th International Symposium of the International Urban Planning and Environment Association

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Development of Destination Choice Models for Pedestrian Travel, Kelly J. Clifton, Patrick A. Singleton, Christopher D. Muhs, and Robert J. Schneider; Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Representing Pedestrian Activity in Travel Demand Models: Framework and Application, Kelly J. Clifton, Patrick A. Singleton, Christopher D. Muhs, and Robert J. Schneider; Journal of Transport Geography

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Road Scholars for the Western States: Protecting Natural Areas by Improving Road Management Research, Brian Cooke, Charlie Luce, Tom Black, and David G. Tarboton; Science You Can Use Bulletin

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Potential Effects of Climate Change on Ecologically Relevant Streamflow Regimes, Sulochan Dhungel, David G. Tarboton, Jiming Jin, and Charles P. Hawkins; River Research and Applications

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Automatic Surface Crack Detection in Concrete Structures Using OTSU Thresholding and Morphological Operations, Sattar Dorafshan, Marc Maguire, and Xiaojun Qi; UTC Report 01-2016

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NCER Assistance Agreement Annual Progress Report for Grant #83582401 - Assessment of Stormwater Harvesting via Manage Aquifer Recharge (MAR) to Develop New Water Supplies in the Arid West: The Salt Lake Valley Example, Ryan Dupont, Joan E. McLean, Richard C. Peralta, Sarah E. Null, and Douglas B. Jackson-Smith

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

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An Overview of Current Applications, Challenges, and Future Trends in Distributed Process-Based Models in Hydrology, Simone Fatichi, Enrique R. Vivoni, Fred L. Ogden, Valeriy Y. Ivanov, Benjamin Mirus, David Gochis, Charles W. Downer, Matteo Camporese, Jason H. Davison, Brian Ebel, Norm Jones, Jongho Kim, Giuseppe Mascaro, Richard Niswonger, Pedro Restrepo, Riccardo Rigon, Chaopeng Shen, Mauro 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

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A Tool for Downscaling Weather Data from Large-grid Reanalysis Products to Finer Spatial Scales for Distributed Hydrological Applications, Avirup Sen Gupta and David G. Tarboton; Environmental Modelling & Software

Spanning High and Low Resolution Remote Sensing Products in Precision Agriculture, Leila Hassan-Esfahani, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Ardeshir M. Ebtehaj, Austin M. 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

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Summer Ozone Concentrations in the Vicinity of the Great Salt Lake, John Horel, Erik Crosman, Brian Blaylock, Seth Arens, Ansley Long, John Sohl, and Randy S. Martin; Atmospheric Science Letters

Observations Data Model 2: A Community Information Model for Spatially Discrete Earth Observation, 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, Maurier Ramírez, and Juan Caraballo

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HydroShare – A Case Study of the Application of Modern Software Engineering to a Large Distributed Federally-Funded Scientific Software Development Project, Ray Idaszak, David G. Tarboton, Hong Yi, Laura Christopherson, Michael J. Stealey, Brian Miles, Pabitra Dash, Alva Couch, Calvin Spealman, Jeffery S. Horsburgh, and Daniel P. Ames; Software Engineering for Science

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, Jagath 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, Jagath J. Kaluarachchi, and H. C. Thai

Water quality surrogates: Development of surrogate relationships, Amber Spackman Jones and Jeffery S. Horsburgh

Streaming Sensor Data: Tools for acquisition, management, and visualization, Amber Spackman Jones, Jeffery S. Horsburgh, Stephanie L. Reeder, Juan Caraballo, D. Smith, Z. Yoshikawa, and M. Matos

Life on the edge: reproductive mode and rate of invasive Phragmites australis patch expansion, Karin M. Kettenring, K. E. Mock, B. Zaman, and Mac McKee; Biological Invasions

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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, Peter 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, Daeha Kim and Jagath J. Kaluarachchi; Environmental and Water Resources Institute

A CyberGIS Approach to Generating High-resolution Height Above Nearest Drainage (HAND) Raster for National Flood Mapping, Yan Y. Liu, David R. Maidment, David G. Tarboton, Xing Zheng, Ahmet Yildirim, Nazmus S. Sazib, and Shaowen Wang; The Third International Conference on CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science

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 Kori 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, Darwin L. Sorensen, and Ryan Dupont; Applied Geochemistry

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Shear Testing of Precast Concrete Sandwich Wall Panel Composite Shear Connectors, Jaiden Olsen and Marc Maguire; 2016 PCI Convention & National Bridge Conference

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Comparison of Selected Differential Producing, Ultrasonic and Magnetic Flow Meters, Johnny B. Prettyman, Michael C. Johnson, and Steven L. Barfuss; Journal of American Water Works Association

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Water Resources Systems Analysis: A Bright Past and a Challenging but Promising Future, David E. Rosenberg and Kaveh Madani

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Bioaccumulation of Copper, Lead, And Zinc in Six Macrophyte Species Grown in Simulated Stormwater Bioretention Systems, Margie Rycewicz-Borecki, Joan E. McLean, and Ryan 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

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Effects of Abrupt Pipe Diameter Changes on Venturi Flow Meters, Zachary B. Sharp, Michael C. Johnson, and Steven L. Barfuss; Journal of American Water Works Association

Conceptualizing and Measuring the Positive Utility of Travel, Patrick A. Singleton; 56th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning

Conceptualizing and Measuring the Positive Utility of Travel, Patrick A. Singleton; 2nd Annual Transportation and Communities Summit

Considering Health in US Metropolitan Long-Range Transportation Plans: A Review of Guidance Statements and Performance Measures, Patrick A. Singleton and Kelly J. Clifton; International Conference on Transport & Health

Exploring the Positive Utility of Travel Through Theory and Simulation, Patrick A. Singleton and Kelly J. Clifton; 95th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board

Development of Destination Choice Models for Pedestrian Travel, Patrick A. Singleton, Kelly J. Clifton, Christopher D. Muhs, and Robert J. Schneider; 95th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board

Understanding Walking Behavior: The Choice to Walk and the Choice of Destination, Patrick A. Singleton, Kelly J. Clifton, Christopher D. Muhs, and Robert J. Schneider; Pro Walk/Pro Bike/Pro Place Conference

Cycling by Choice or Necessity? Exploring the Gender Gap in Bicycling in Oregon, Patrick A. Singleton and Tara Goddard; 4th Annual Portland State University Student Research Symposium

Cycling by Choice or Necessity? Exploring the Gender Gap in Bicycling in Oregon, Patrick A. Singleton and Tara Goddard; Portland State University Transportation Research and Education Center Transportation Seminar Series

Cycling by Choice or Necessity? Exploring the Gender Gap in Bicycling in Oregon, Patrick A. Singleton and Tara Goddard; 95th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board

Cycling by Choice or Necessity? Exploring the Gender Gap in Bicycling in Oregon, Patrick A. Singleton and Tara Goddard; Pro Walk/Pro Bike/Pro Place Conference

Cycling by Choice or Necessity? Exploring the Gender Gap in Bicycling in Oregon, Patrick A. Singleton and Tara Goddard; 56th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning

Cycling by Choice or Necessity?: Exploring the Gender Gap in Bicycling in Oregon, Patrick A. Singleton and Tara Goddard; Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Development of a water quality mobile monitoring platform and techniques for managing resulting data, P. Suiter, Amber Spackman Jones, Jeffery S. Horsburgh, and B Mihalevich

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Analysis of Meter Registry Uncertainty, McKenna L. Sumrak, Michael C. Johnson, and Steven L. Barfuss; Journal - American Water Works Association

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Comparing Low Flow Accuracy of Mechanical and Electronic Meters, McKenna L. Sumrak, Michael C. Johnson, and Steven L. Barfuss; Journal of American Water Works Association

A Scalable High-performance Topographic Flow Direction Algorithm for Hydrological Information Analysis, Kornelijus Survila, Ahmet Artu Yildirim, Ting Li, Yan Y. Liu, David G. Tarboton, and Shaowen Wang; XSEDE16 Conference on Diversity, Big Data, and Science at Scale

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

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Vicarious Calibration of sUAS Thermal Imagery for Scientific Remote Sensing Applications [B53H-0607], Alfonso F. Torres-Rua; American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

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Estimation of Surface Soil Moisture in Irrigated Lands 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

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 Jagath J. Kaluarachchi

2015

Web-Based Data Visualization and Analysis using HydroShare and the Open Source Tethys Platform, Daniel Ames, Z. Li, X. Qiao, David G. Tarboton, R. Idaszak, Jeffery S. Horsburgh, V. Merwade, B. Miles, N. Swain, R. Lineberger, and E. Rice

Enabling the Free Flow of Water Data, Daniel P. Ames and David G. Tarboton; Water Resources Impact

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Wavelet-Multivariate Relevance Vector Machine Hybrid Model for Forecasting Daily Evapotranspiration, Roula Bachour, I. Maslova, Andres M. Ticlavilca, Wynn 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, Steven L. Barfuss, Ken Hall, Ted Davis, Ken Hansen, and Ethan Ford; Texas Water 2015

Composite Modeling of Hydraulic Structures, Steven L. 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; Journal of Environmental Engineering

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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

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A Unified Approach for Process-Based Hydrologic Modeling: 2. Model Implementation and Case Studies, Martyn P. Clark, Bart Nijssen, Jessica D. Lundquist, Dmitri Kavetski, David E. Rupp, Ross A. Woods, Jim E. Freer, Ethan D. Gutmann, Andrew W. Wood, David J. Gochis, Roy M. Rasmussen, David G. Tarboton, Vinod Mahat, Gerald N. Flerchinger, and Danny G. Marks; Water Resources Research

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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, Vinod Mahat, G. N. Flerchinger, and D. G. Marks

Development of a Pedestrian Demand Estimation Tool (NITC-RR-677), Kelly J. Clifton, Patrick A. Singleton, Christopher D. Muhs, and Robert J. Schneider; Portland State University

Development of Destination Choice Models for Pedestrian Travel, Kelly J. Clifton, Patrick A. Singleton, Christopher D. Muhs, and Robert J. Schneider; 14th International Conference on Travel Behavior Research

A Flexible File Sharing Mechanism for iRODS, A. Couch, David G. Tarboton, R. Idaszak, Jeffery S. Horsburgh, H. Yi, and M. Stealey

A social model of hydrologic data protection and sharing, A. Couch, David G. Tarboton, R. Idaszak, Jeffery S. Horsburgh, H. Yi, and M. Stealey

Computational Fluid Dynamics Investigation of Butterfly Valve Performance Factors, Adam Del Toro, Michael C. Johnson, and Robert E. Spall; Journal - American Water Works Association (AWWA)

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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

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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 Laurie 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, 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