Scientific Publications
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2023 |
Han, M., Shen, H., Tolson, B.A., Craig, J.R., Mai, J., Lin, S.G.M., Basu, N.B., Awol, F.S. (2023). BasinMaker 3.0: A GIS toolbox for distributed watershed delineation of complex lake-river routing networks. Environmental Modelling & Software. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2023.105688
Shen, W., Li, S., Basu, N.B., Ury, E.A., Jing, Q., Zhang, L. (2023). Size and temperature drive nutrient retention potential across water bodies in China. Water Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2023.120054 Basu, N.B., Dony, J., Van Meter, K.J., Johnston, S.J., Layton, A.T. (2023). A random forest in the Great Lakes: Stream nutrient concentrations across the transboundary Great Lakes Basin. Earth's Future. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002571 Van Meter, K.J., Byrnes, D., Basu, N.B. (2023). Memory and management: Competing controls on long-term nitrate trajectories in U.S. rivers. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GB007651 Cheng, F.Y., Park, J., Kumar, M., Basu, N.B. (2023). Disconnectivity matters: the outsized role of small ephemeral wetlands in landscape-scale nutrient retention. Environmental Research Letters. DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/acab17 |
2022 |
Hampton, T.B., Lin, S., Basu, N.B. (2022). Forest fire effects on stream water quality at continental scales: a meta-analysis. Environmental Research Letters. DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ac6a6c
Hampton, T.B., Basu, N.B. (2022). A novel Budyko-based approach to quantify post-forest-fire streamflow response and recovery timescales. Journal of Hydrology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127685 Singh, N.K., Basu, N.B. (2022). The human factor in seasonal streamflows across natural and managed watersheds of North America. Nature Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00848-1 Bhattacharya, R., Lin, S.G.M., Basu, N.B. (2022). Windows into the past: lake sediment phosphorus trajectories act as integrated archives of watershed disturbance legacies over centennial scales. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac4cf3 Van Staden, T.L., Van Meter, K.J., Basu, N.B., Parsons, C.T., Akbarzadeh, Z., Van Cappellen, P. (2022). Agricultural phosphorus surplus trajectories for Ontario, Canada (1961–2016), and erosional export risk. Science of the Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151717 Basu, N.B., Van Meter, K.J., Byrnes, D.K., Van Cappellen, P., Brouwer, R., Jacobsen, B.H., Jarsjö, J., Rudolph, D.L., Cunha, M.C., Nelson, N., Bhattacharya, R., Destouni, G., Olsen, S.B. (2022). Managing nitrogen legacies to accelerate water quality improvement. Nature Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00889-9 |
2021 |
Van Meter, K. J., McLeod, M. M., Liu, J., Tenkouano, G. T., Hall, R. I., Van Cappellen, P., & Basu, N. B. (2021). Beyond the Mass Balance: Watershed phosphorus legacies and the evolution of the current water quality policy challenge. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020wr029316
Mai, J., Tolson, B. A., Shen, H., Gaborit, É., Fortin, V., Gasset, N., Basu, N.B. et al. (2021). Great Lakes Runoff Intercomparison Project Phase 3: Lake Erie (GRIP-E). Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 26(9). https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)he.1943-5584.0002097 Ascott, M.J., Gooddy, D.C., Fenton, O., Vero, S., Ward, R.S., Basu, N.B., Worrall, F., Van Meter, K.J., Surridge, B.W.J. (2021). The need to integrate legacy nitrogen storage dynamics and time lags into policy and practice. Science of The Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146698 Chang, S.Y., Zhang, Q., Byrnes. D,K., Basu, N.B., Van Meter, K.J. (2021). Chesapeake legacies: the importance of legacy nitrogen to improving Chesapeake Bay water quality. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac0d7b Cheng, F.Y., Preisendanz, H.G., Mashtare, M.L., Lee, L.S., Basu, N.B. (2021). Nevertheless, they persisted: Can hyporheic zones increase the persistence of estrogens in streams? Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028518 Ilampooranan, I., Schnoor, J.L., Basu, N.B. (2021). Crops as sensors: Using crop yield data to increase the robustness of hydrologic and biogeochemical models. Journal of Hydrology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125599 |
2020 |
Cheng, F.Y., Van Meter, K.J., Byrnes, D.K., Basu, N.B. (2020). Maximizing US nitrate removal through wetland protection and restoration. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03042-5
Byrnes, D.K., Van Meter, K.J., Basu, N.B. (2020). Long-term shifts in U.S. nitrogen sources and sinks revealed by the new TREND-nitrogen dataset (1930-2017). Global Biogeochemical Cycles. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GB006626 Finley, S. and Basu, N.B. (2020). Curbing the summer surge: Permanent outdoor water use restrictions in humid and semi-arid cities. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR026466 Marinos, R.E., Van Meter, K.J., Basu, N.B. (2020). Is the river a chemostat?: Scale versus land use controls on nitrate concentration-discharge dynamics in the Upper Mississippi River Basin. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087051 Liu, Y., Zarfl, C., Basu, N.B., Cirpka, O.A. (2020). Modelling the fate of pharmaceuticals in a fourth-order river under competing assumptions of transient storage. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR026100 |
2019 |
Van Meter, K.J., Chowdhury, S., Byrnes, D.K., Basu, N.B. (2019). Biogeochemical asynchrony: Ecosystem drivers of seasonal concentration regimes across the Great Lakes Basin. Limnology and Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11353
Hora, T., Srinivasan, V., Basu, N.B. (2019). The groundwater recovery paradox in South India. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083525 Liu, Y. Zarfl, C., Basu, N.B., Cirpka, O.A. (2019). Turnover and legacy of sediment-associated PAH in a baseflow-dominated river. Science of The Total Environment, 671, 754-764. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.236 Shafii, M., Craig, J.R., Macrae, M.L., English, M.C., Schiff, S.L., Van Vappellen, P., Basu, N.B. (2019). Can improved flow partitioning in hydrologic models increase biogeochemical predictability? Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR024487 Ilampooranan, I., Van Meter, K., Basu, N.B. (2019). A race against time: Modelling time lags in watershed response. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR023815 |
2018 |
Spence, C., Wolfe, J.D., Whitfield, C.J., Baulch, H.M., Basu, N.B., Bedard-Haughn, A.K., Belcher, K.W., Clark, R.G., Ferguson, G.A., Hayashi, M., Liber, K., McDonnell, J.J., Morrissey, C.A., Pomeroy, J.W., Reed, M.G., & Strickert, G. (2018). Prairie water: a global water futures project to enhance the resilience of prairie communities through sustainable water management. Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques. https://doi.org/10.1080/07011784.2018.1527256
Liu, Y., Zarfl, C., Basu, N.B., Schwientek, M., & Cirpk, O.A. (2018). Contributions of catchment and in-stream processes to suspended sediment transport in a dominantly groundwater-fed catchment. Hydrology and Earth Sciences, 22, 3903-3921. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-3903-2018 Van Meter, K. J., Van Cappellen, P., & Basu, N. B. (2018). Legacy nitrogen may prevent achievement of water quality goals in the Gulf of Mexico. Science. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aar4462 Vero, S.E., Basu, N.B., Van Meter, K., Richards, K.G., Mellander, P.E., Healy, M.G., Fenton, O. (2018). Review: the environmental status and implications of the nitrate time lags in Europe and North America. Hydrogeology Journal, 26(7). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-017-1650-9 |
2017
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Creed, I. F. Lane, C. L., Serran, J.N., Alexander, L. C., Basu, N. B., … Smith, L. (2017). Enhancing protection for vulnerable waters. Nature Geoscience, 10(11), 809. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo3041
Sloan, B. P., Mantilla, R., Fonley, M., & Basu, N. B. (2017). Hydrologic impacts of subsurface drainage from the field to watershed scale. Hydrological Processes, 31(17), 3017–3028. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.11218 Van Meter, K. J., & Basu, N. B. (2017). Time lags in watershed-scale nutrient transport: an exploration of dominant controls. Environmental Research Letters, 12(8), 084017. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7bf4 Vero, S. E., Basu, N. B., Meter, K. V., Richards, K. G., Mellander, P.-E., Healy, M. G., & Fenton, O. (2017). Review: The environmental status and implications of the nitrate time lag in Europe and North America. Hydrogeology Journal, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-017-1650-9 Golden, H. E., Creed, I. F., Ali, G., Basu, N. B., Neff, B. P., Rains, M. C., … Lang, M. (2017). Integrating geographically isolated wetlands into land management decisions. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 15(6), 319–327. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.1504 Thorslund, J., Jarsjö, J., Jaramillo, F., Jawitz, J. W., Manzoni, S., Basu, N. B., … Destouni, G. (2017). Wetlands as large-scale nature-based solutions: Status and challenges for research, engineering and management. Ecological Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2017.07.012 Cheng, F. Y., & Basu, N. B. (2017). Biogeochemical hotspots: Role of small water bodies in landscape nutrient processing. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016WR020102 Ali, G., Haque, A., Basu, N. B., Badiou, P., & Wilson, H. (2017). Groundwater-Driven Wetland-Stream Connectivity in the Prairie Pothole Region: Inferences Based on Electrical Conductivity Data. Wetlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-017-0913-5 Shafii, M., Basu, N., Craig, J. R., Schiff, S. L., & Van Cappellen, P. (2017). A diagnostic approach to constraining flow partitioning in hydrologic models using a multiobjective optimization framework. Water Resources Research, 53(4), 3279–3301. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016WR019736 Van Meter, K. J., Basu, N. B., & Van Cappellen, P. (2017). Two Centuries of Nitrogen Dynamics: Legacy Sources and Sinks in the Mississippi and Susquehanna River Basins. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GB005498 |
2016
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Juran, L., MacDonald, M. C., Basu, N. B., Hubbard, S., Rajagopal, R., Rajagopalan, P., & Philip, L. (2016). Development and application of a multi-scalar, participant-driven water poverty index in post-tsunami India. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2016.1253543
Bitterman, P., Tate, E., Van Meter, K. J., & Basu, N. B. (2016). Water security and rainwater harvesting: A conceptual framework and candidate indicators. Applied Geography, 76, 75–84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2016.09.013 Van Meter, K. J., Steiff, M., McLaughlin, D. L., & Basu, N. B. (2016). The socio-ecohydrology of rainwater harvesting in India: understanding water storage and release dynamics at tank and catchment scales. http://doi.org/doi:10.5194/hess-20-2629-2016 Van Meter, K. J., Basu, N. B., Veenstra, J. J., & Burras, C. L. (2016). The nitrogen legacy: emerging evidence of nitrogen accumulation in anthropogenic landscapes. Environmental Research Letters, 11(3), 035014. http://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/035014 Gall, H. E., Basu, N. B., Mashtare, M. L., C. Rao, P. S., & Lee, L. S. (2016). Assessing the impacts of anthropogenic and hydro-climatic drivers on estrogen legacies and trajectories. Advances in Water Resources, 87, 19–28. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2015.10.012 Sloan, B. P., Basu, N. B., & Mantilla, R. (2016). Hydrologic impacts of subsurface drainage at the field scale: Climate, landscape and anthropogenic controls. Agricultural Water Management, 165, 1–10. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2015.10.008 Cohen, M. J., Creed, I. F., Alexander, L., Basu, N. B., Calhoun, A. J. K., Craft, C., … Walls, S. C. (2016). Do geographically isolated wetlands influence landscape functions? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(8), 1978–1986. http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1512650113 |
2015
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Van Meter, K. J., & Basu, N. B. (2015). Catchment legacies and time lags: A parsimonious watershed model to predict the effects of legacy storage on nitrogen export. PLOS ONE, 10(5), e0125971. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125971
Marton, J. M., Creed, I. F., Lewis, D. B., Lane, C. R., Basu, N. B., Cohen, M. J., & Craft, C. B. (2015). Geographically isolated wetlands are important biogeochemical reactors on the landscape. BioScience, 65(4), 408–418. http://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biv009 Törnqvist, R., Jarsjö, J., Thorslund, J., Rao, P. S. C., Basu, N. B., & Destouni, G. (2015). Mechanisms of basin-scale nitrogen load reductions under intensified irrigated agriculture. PLOS ONE, 10(3), e0120015. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120015 Van Meter, K. J., & Basu, N. B. (2015). Signatures of human impact: size distributions and spatial organization of wetlands in the Prairie Pothole landscape. Ecological Applications, 25(2), 451–465. https://doi.org/10.1890/14-0662.1 |
2014 |
Van Meter, K. J., Basu, N. B., Tate, E., & Wyckoff, J. (2014). Monsoon harvests: The living legacies of rainwater harvesting systems in south India. Environmental Science & Technology, 48(8), 4217–4225. http://doi.org/10.1021/es4040182
Boland-Brien, S. J., Basu, N. B., & Schilling, K. E. (2014). Homogenization of spatial patterns of hydrologic response in artificially drained agricultural catchments. Hydrological Processes, 28(19), 5010–5020. http://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.9967 |
2013 |
Hopkins, A. L., Jawitz, J. W., McCarty, C., Goldman, A., & Basu, N. B. (2013). Disparities in publication patterns by gender, race and ethnicity based on a survey of a random sample of authors. Scientometrics, 96(2), 515–534. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-012-0893-4
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2012 |
Basu, N. B., Jindal, P., Schilling, K. E., Wolter, C. F., & Takle, E. S. (2012). Evaluation of analytical and numerical approaches for the estimation of groundwater travel time distribution. Journal of Hydrology, 475, 65–73. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.08.052
Ye, S., Covino, T. P., Sivapalan, M., Basu, N. B., Li, H.-Y., & Wang, S.-W. (2012). Dissolved nutrient retention dynamics in river networks: A modeling investigation of transient flows and scale effects. Water Resources Research, 48. http://doi.org/10.1029/2011WR010508 Zanardo, S., Basu, N. B., Botter, G., Rinaldo, A., & Rao, P. S. C. (2012). Dominant controls on pesticide transport from tile to catchment scale: Lessons from a minimalist model. Water Resources Research, 48(4), n/a–n/a. http://doi.org/10.1029/2010WR010088 Schilling, K. E., Jindal, P., Basu, N. B., & Helmers, M. J. (2012). Impact of artificial subsurface drainage on groundwater travel times and baseflow discharge in an agricultural watershed, Iowa (USA). Hydrological Processes, 26(20), 3092–3100. http://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.8337 |
2011 |
Thompson, S.E., Harman, C. J., Schumer, R., Wilson, J.S., Basu, N.B., Brooks, P.D., Donner, S.D., Hassan, M.A., Packman, A.I., Rao, P.S.C., Troch, P.A. and Sivapalan, M. (2011). Patterns, puzzles and people: implementing hydrologic synthesis, Hydrological Processes, 25, 3256 – 3266. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.8234
Sivapalan, M., Thompson, S. E., Harman, C. J., Basu, N. B., & Kumar, P. (2011). Water cycle dynamics in a changing environment: Improving predictability through synthesis. Water Resources Research, 47(10). http://doi.org/10.1029/2011WR011377 Harman, C. J., Rao, P. S. C., Basu, N. B., McGrath, G. S., Kumar, P., & Sivapalan, M. (2011). Climate, soil, and vegetation controls on the temporal variability of vadose zone transport. Water Resources Research, 47(10). http://doi.org/10.1029/2010WR010194 Basu, N. B., Thompson, S. E., & Rao, P. S. C. (2011). Hydrologic and biogeochemical functioning of intensively managed catchments: A synthesis of top-down analyses. Water Resources Research, 47(10). http://doi.org/10.1029/2011WR010800 Thompson, S. E., Basu, N. B., Lascurain, J., Aubeneau, A., & Rao, P. S. C. (2011). Relative dominance of hydrologic versus biogeochemical factors on solute export across impact gradients. Water Resources Research, 47(10). http://doi.org/10.1029/2010WR009605 Basu, N. B., Rao, P. S. C., Thompson, S. E., Loukinova, N. V., Donner, S. D., Ye, S., & Sivapalan, M. (2011). Spatiotemporal averaging of in-stream solute removal dynamics. Water Resources Research, 47(10). http://doi.org/10.1029/2010WR010196 Guan, K., Thompson, S. E., Harman, C. J., Basu, N. B., Rao, P. S. C., Sivapalan, M., … Kalita, P. K. (2011). Spatiotemporal scaling of hydrological and agrochemical export dynamics in a tile-drained Midwestern watershed. Water Resources Research, 47(10), n/a–n/a. http://doi.org/10.1029/2010WR009997 |
2010 |
Basu, N. B., Destouni, G., Jawitz, J. W., Thompson, S. E., Loukinova, N. V., Darracq, A., … Rao, P. S. C. (2010). Nutrient loads exported from managed catchments reveal emergent biogeochemical stationarity. Geophysical Research Letters, 37(23), n/a–n/a. http://doi.org/10.1029/2010GL045168
Botter, G., Basu, N. B., Zanardo, S., Rao, P. S. C., & Rinaldo, A. (2010). Stochastic modeling of nutrient losses in streams: Interactions of climatic, hydrologic, and biogeochemical controls. Water Resources Research, 46(8), n/a–n/a. http://doi.org/10.1029/2009WR008758 Wagener, T., Sivapalan, M., Troch, P. A., McGlynn, B. L., Harman, C. J., Gupta, H. V., … Wilson, J. S. (2010). The future of hydrology: An evolving science for a changing world. Water Resources Research, 46(5), n/a–n/a. http://doi.org/10.1029/2009WR008906 Basu, N. B., Rao, P. S. C., Winzeler, H. E., Kumar, S., Owens, P., & Merwade, V. (2010). Parsimonious modeling of hydrologic responses in engineered watersheds: Structural heterogeneity versus functional homogeneity. Water Resources Research, 46(4). http://doi.org/10.1029/2009WR007803 |
2009
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Basu, N. B., Suresh, P., Rao, C., Poyer, I. C., Nandy, S., Mallavarapu, M., … Hatfield, K. (2009). Integration of traditional and innovative characterization techniques for flux-based assessment of Dense Non-aqueous Phase Liquid (DNAPL) sites. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 105(3-4), 161–172. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconhyd.2008.12.005
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2008 |
Basu, N. B., Rao, P. S. C., Falta, R. W., Annable, M. D., Jawitz, J. W., & Hatfield, K. (2008). Temporal evolution of DNAPL source and contaminant flux distribution: Impacts of source mass depletion. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 95(3-4), 93–109. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconhyd.2007.08.001
Basu, N. B., Fure, A. D., & Jawitz, J. W. (2008a). Predicting dense nonaqueous phase liquid dissolution using a simplified source depletion model parameterized with partitioning tracers. Water Resources Research, 44(7), n/a–n/a. http://doi.org/10.1029/2007WR006008 Basu, N. B., Fure, A. D., & Jawitz, J. W. (2008b). Simplified contaminant source depletion models as analogs of multiphase simulators. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 97(3-4), 87–99. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconhyd.2008.01.001 Zhang, C., Yoon, H., Werth, C. J., Valocchi, A. J., Basu, N. B., & Jawitz, J. W. (2008). Evaluation of simplified mass transfer models to simulate the impacts of source zone architecture on nonaqueous phase liquid dissolution in heterogeneous porous media. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 102(1-2), 49–60. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconhyd.2008.05.007 Kaye, A. J., Cho, J., Basu, N. B., Chen, X., Annable, M. D., & Jawitz, J. W. (2008). Laboratory investigation of flux reduction from dense non-aqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) partial source zone remediation by enhanced dissolution. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 102(1-2), 17–28. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconhyd.2008.01.006 |
2006 |
Basu, N. B., Rao, P. S. C., Poyer, I. C., Annable, M. D., & Hatfield, K. (2006). Flux-based assessment at a manufacturing site contaminated with trichloroethylene. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 86(1-2), 105–127. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconhyd.2006.02.011
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2005 |
Falta, R. W., Suresh Rao, P., & Basu, N. (2005). Assessing the impacts of partial mass depletion in DNAPL source zones I. Analytical Modeling of Source Strength Functions and Plume Response. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 78(4), 259–280. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconhyd.2005.05.010
Falta, R. W., Basu, N., & Rao, P. S. (2005). Assessing impacts of partial mass depletion in DNAPL source zones: II. Coupling source strength functions to plume evolution. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 79(1-2), 45–66. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconhyd.2005.05.012 |
