Publications

Blue carbon refers to organic carbon sequestered by oceanic and coastal ecosystems. This stock has gained global attention as a high organic carbon repository relative to other ecosystems. Within blue carbon ecosystems, tidally influenced wetlands alone store a disproportionately higher amount of organic carbon than other blue carbon systems. North America harbors 42% of tidally...

Immigration and emigration are key demographic processes of animal population dynamics. However, 3 we have limited knowledge on how fine-scale movement varies over space and time. We developed a 4 Bayesian integrated population model using individual mark-recapture and count data to characterize 5 fine-scale movement of stream fish at 20-m resolution every two months for 28 months. Our...

Small uncrewed aerial systems (sUASs) can be used to quantify emissions of greenhouse and other gases, providing flexibility in quantifying these emissions from a multitude of sources, including oil and gas infrastructure, volcano plumes, wildfire emissions, and natural sources. However, sUAS-based emission estimates are sensitive to the accuracy of wind speed and direction measurements...

Dams are essential for water resources management but impose notable effects on fluvial sediment transport and downstream river morphology by reducing or altering the timing of sediment loads. We explored the relationship between dam sediment management and downstream sediment dynamics in the context of riverine fisheries management. We quantified the effects of dam sediment management...

Atmospheric particulate matter (PM) as light-absorbing particles (LAPs) deposited to snow cover can result in early onset and rapid snow melting, challenging management of downstream water resources. We identified LAPs in 38 snow samples (water years 2013–2016) from the mountainous Upper Colorado River basin by comparing among laboratory-measured spectral reflectance, chemical, physical...

Coral reef restoration can reduce the wave-driven flooding for coastal communities. However, this protection has yet to be assessed in terms of the reduced risk of flood-driven environmental contamination. Here we provide the first high-resolution valuation of the reduction of flood-related land-based environmental pollution provided by potential coral reef restoration. Along Florida’s...