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Recent News 

Former Ph.D. student and Maggie Zimmer starts faculty position at the University of California Santa Cruz in January, 2018 !

Former Ph.D. student and Erin Seybold starts her post-doc at the University of Vermont !

Former Ph.D. student and Kendra Kaiser starts her post-doc at the Boise State University !

HUGE congratulations to Maggie Zimmer, Erin Seybold, and Kendra Kaiser for successfully defending their Ph.D. dissertations!!

Ph.D. student Maggie Zimmer earns a 2016 AGU student paper award for her presentation focussed on shallow and deep groundwater contributions to ephemeral streamflow generation!

Former Ph.D. student and post-doc Fabian Nippgen starts faculty position at the University of Wyoming !

"The Violent Remaking of Appalachia" This recent Atlantic Monthly article references our work (Ross et al., 2016)

New York Times Editorial focuses on our (Ross et al.) recent ES&T paper on mountain top removal mining

​Kimika Sano joins the lab on an exchange from Tokyo University

Matt Ross and Maggie Zimmer selected by their peers to present their student seminar talks at the full Gordon Catchment Sciences Meeting

Post-doc Christa Kelleher accepts a tenure track faculty position at Syracuse University 

German DAAD PhD Fellow Lisa Angermann joins the lab 

Swiss Science Foundation Fellow 
Michael Rinderer joins the lab as a post-doc

Post-doc Christa Kelleher wins a research computing award from Duke University that includes a node the the Duke cluster!

Erin Seybold received an AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award for her presentation on stream carbon metabolism, uptake kinetics, and export!

Brian McGlynn  Curriculum Vitae 
CURRENTLY ON SABBATICAL LEAVE
Adjunct Professor of Hydrology & Biogeosciences
Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences  

Our Foci:  Linking watershed form to hydrological, ecological, and biogeochemical function.  We study watershed hydrology (streamwater sources, flowpaths, and age), land-atmosphere CO2, H2O, and energy fluxes, watershed biogeochemistry, and hydrological / biogeochemical / ecological implications of landscape change.  We employ methods that include source water tracing, physical hydrology, eddy-covariance, and landscape analysis techniques. Our field-based research is focused on the spatial and temporal scaling of hydrological, biogeochemical, and ecological processes across natural and disturbed watersheds and stream networks. 

Recent Papers (2017-) Current / former lab *post-doc, *grad  ** undergrad author

*Ross, M., F. Nippgen*, B.L. McGlynn, C.J. Thomas, A.C. Brooks*, R.K. Shriver*, E.M. Moore*, E.S. Bernhardt. 2021.  Mountaintop mining legacies constrain ecological, hydrological and biogeochemical recovery trajectories . Environmental Research Letters.  doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac09ac

McDonnell, J.J., C. Gabrielli, A. Ameli, J. Ekanayake, F. Fenicia, J. Freer, C. Graham, B.L. McGlynn, U. Morgenstern, A. Pietroniro, T. Sayama, J. Seibert, M. Stewart, K. Vache, M. Weiler, R. Woods. 2021. The Maimai M8 experimental catchment database: Forty years of process‐based research on steep, wet hillslopes.  Hydrological Processes  doi: 10.1002/hyp. 14112

*Brooks, A.C., M.R.V. Ross, F. Nippgen, B.L. McGlynn, E.S. Bernhardt. 2019. Excess nitrate export in mountaintop removal coal mining watersheds. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 124 (12), 3867-3880  doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005174

*Barefoot, E. T.M. Pavelsky, G.H. Allen, M.A. Zimmer, B.L. McGlynn. 2019. Temporally variable stream width and surface area distributions in a headwater catchment. Water Resources Research 55 (8), 7166-7181
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*Rinderer, M.,  H.J. van Meerveld, B.L. McGlynn. 2019. From points to patterns: using groundwater time series clustering to investigate subsurface hydrological connectivity and runoff source area dynamics. Water Resources Research 55 (7), 5784-5806

*Kaiser, K. and B.L McGlynn. 2018. Nested scales of spatial and temporal variability of soil water content across a semiarid montane catchment.  Water Resources Research.  DOI: 10.1029/2018WR022591

*Singh, N., R. Emanuel, F. Nippgen, B.L. McGlynn, and C. Ford Miniat.  2018.  The relative influence of storm and landscape characteristics on shallow groundwater responses in forested headwater catchments.  Water Resources Research.  DOI: 10.1029/2018WR022681

*Ross, R.V., F. Nippgen*, B.A. Hassett, B.L. McGlynn, and E.S Bernhardt. 2018. Pyrite Oxidation Drives Exceptionally High Weathering Rates and Geologic CO2 Release in Mountaintop-Mined Landscapes. Global Biogeochemical Cycles  DOI: 10.1029/2017GB005798

*Kaiser, K, J. Dore, and B.L. McGlynn. 2018. Landscape analysis of soil methane flux across complex terrain. Biogeosciences 15(10):3143-3167 DOI: 10.5194/bg-15-3143-2018

*Seybold, E. and B.L. McGlynn. 2018. Hydrologic and biogeochemical drivers of dissolved organic carbon and nitrate uptake in a headwater stream network. Biogeochemistry. 138(2) DOI: 10.1007/s10533-018-0426-1

*Zimmer, M.A., and B.L. McGlynn. 2018. Lateral, vertical, and longitudinal source area connectivity drive runoff and carbon export across watershed scales. 2018. Water Resources Research. 54(4) DOI: 10.1002/2017WR021718

*Smith, T., L. Marshall, and B.L. McGlynn. 2018. Typecasting catchments: Classification, directionality, and the pursuit of universality. Advances in Water Resources . DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.12.020

*Zimmer, M.A. and B.L. McGlynn.  2017.  Bidirectional stream-groundwater flow in response to non-perennial streamflow and groundwater seasonality.  Hydrological Processes. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.11301​
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Reyes,  W.M., H.E. Epstein, X. Li, B.L. McGlynn, D.A. Riveros-Iregui, and R.E. Emanuel  2017. Complex terrain influences ecosystem responses to temperature and precipitation.  Global Biogeochemical Cycles. DOI: 10.1002/2017GB005658

*Kelleher, C., B.L. McGlynn, and T. Wagener, 2017. Characterizing and reducing equifinality by constraining a distributed catchment model with regional signatures, local observations, and process understanding. Hydrology and Earth Systems Science. MS No.: hess-2016-642

*Nippgen, F., M.R.V. *Ross, E.S. Bernhardt, and B.L. McGlynn. 2017. Creating a more perennial problem? Mountaintop removal coal mining enhances and sustains saline baseflows of Appalachian watersheds. Environ. Sci. Technol.   DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b02288

​*Zimmer, M.A., and B.L. McGlynn. 2017.   Ephemeral and intermittent streamflow generation processes in a low relief, highly weathered catchment. Water Resources Research.  DOI: 10.1002/2016WR019742

*Rinderer, M., B.L. McGlynn, And I. Van Meerveld. 2017.  Groundwater similarity across a watershed derived from time-warped and flow-corrected time series. Water Resources Research. 

*Piper, L.R., W.F. Cross, and B.L. McGlynn.  2017. Colimitation and the coupling of N and P uptake kinetics in oligotrophic mountain streams. Biogeochemistry.   BIOG-D-16-00185R1

*Zimmer M.A. and B.L. McGlynn. 2017. Time-lapse animation of hillslope groundwater dynamics details event-based and seasonal bi-directional stream-groundwater gradients. Hydrological
Processes: HPEye.

Ward, A.S, C.A. *Kelleher, S.K. *Mason, T. Wagener, N. McIntyre, B.L. McGlynn, R.L. Runkel, and R.A. Payn. 2017. A software tool to assess uncertainty in transient-storage model parameters using Monte Carlo simulations. Freshwater Science.  

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McGlynn Lab Group, summer 2014

McGlynn Lab Group, summer 2014

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