Publications

Recent Selected Publications

Achugbu, I. C.*, L. Chen, Q. Hu, and R. Mahmood, 2026: Irrigation Effects on Downwind Precipitation in Different Synoptic Conditions: A Study in the U.S. Central Great Plains. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, On-line
Dafoe, L. T., MacNaughton, R. B., Aubry, M.-P., Brett, C. E., Lehane, J. R., Núñez‑Useche, F., Orndorff, R. C., Brunton, F., Edwards, L. E., Fluegeman, R. H., Harper, H., Joeckel, R. M., Lasca, N. P., & Tew, B. H. (2026). Report 17—Revisions to the Articles of Organization and Procedure of the Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature of the Americas. Stratigraphy, 23(1), 45–49. https://doi.org/10.29041/strat.23.1.04On-line
Haacker, R., M. A. Burt, D. Kopacz, P. McNeal, K. Quardokus Fisher, and E. V. Fischer, 2026: Improving educational experiences in atmospheric science field campaigns through partnerships between observational scientists and education researchers. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 107(1), E103–E109On-line
Houston, A.L., C.C. Weiss, E.N. Rasmussen, M.C. Coniglio, C.L. Ziegler, B.M. Argrow, and E.W. Frew, 2026: Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells: TORUS. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 107. E249–E276. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0265.1.On-line
Loope HM, Antinao JL, Hanson PR, Jacobs PM, Grimley DA. Last glacial maximum and late glacial aeolian sand activity, south-central Indiana, USA. Quaternary Research. Published online 2026:1-18. doi:10.1017/qua.2025.10063On-line
Maher, H., Dere, A., Deuerling, K., Becker, D., & Luethje, M. (2026). Guidebook to Omaha’s Urban Geology and the Anthropocene: Updated and Expanded (R. F. Diffendal, Jr., Ed.). Conservation and Survey Division, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Murdzek, S.S., T.L. Ladwig, A.L. Houston, and E.P. James, 2026: The Impacts of Assimilating Various Densities of Uncrewed Aircraft System Observations on Regional NWP Forecasts in an OSSE. Monthly Weather Review. 154. 955-976. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-25-0175.1On-line
Shield, S.A. and A.L. Houston, 2026: Machine Learning Predictions of Deep Convection Initiation: The Importance of Spatial Information, the Sensitivity to Training Region, and Dominant Environmental Parameters. Artif. Intell. Earth Syst. 5. E240106. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/AIES-D-24-0106.1
Young, A.R., Burbach, M.E., Lackey, S.O., Joeckel R.M., Westrop, J.P., 2026, Nebraska Statewide Groundwater-Level Monitoring Report 2025. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Conservation and Survey Division, Nebraska Water Survey Paper 94, 24 pp.On-line
*Dozler, K. Y. Xiong, T. Mulliniks, A. R. Little, and M. Stephenson. 2025. Influence of virtual fence on heart rate response in beef cattle. Rangelands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rala.2024.04.003
Moody, E.K., K. Anania, K. Boersma, T. Butts, J.R. Corman, S. Cruz, W.R. Farrell, K. Fonseca, A. Krist, E. Larson, A. Lewanski, C. Liriano, A. Pignatelli, A. Poetzl, A. Rugenski, C. Stiglitz, and A. Villanueva. 2025. Linking functional responses and effects with stoichiometric traits. Ecology 106(4): e70080, doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70080.
*Campbell, O.G., Haigh, T. (2025) Critical Precipitation Months Across the Western United States. Rangeland Ecology & Management.
*Edge, A., C. J. Yates, J. P. Rosenberger, A. R. Little, C. H. Killmaster, K. L. Johannsen, D. A. Osborn, K. V. Miller, and G. J. D’Angelo. Accepted. Diel activity patterns of sympatric white-tailed deer, black bears, and wild pigs in the Southern Appalachian Mountains of Georgia. Southeastern Naturalist. https://doi.org/10.1656/058.024.0106.
*Meier, A. N., A. R. Little, S. L. Webb, K. L. Gee, S. Demarais, and D. H. Ranglack. 2025. Hunter movement and habitat use affect observation rate of white-tailed deer. Wildlife Research. https://doi.org/10.1071/WR24114.
*Schuster, G., L. Walston, and A. R. Little. 2025. Applications of passive monitoring to compare avian populations in perennial grasslands and croplands in Nebraska. Ecological Solutions and Evidence. https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.70128.
Abid MSR, Naldrett, MJ, Alvarez S, Eichorn CD, Andrews MT, and Checco JW. (2025) Rapid Microwave Fixation of the Brain Reveals Seasonal Changes in the Phosphoproteome of Hibernating Thirteen-Lined Ground Squirrels. ACS Chem Neurosci. 16, 428-438.
Achugbu, I.C., L. Chen, and Q. Hu, 2025: Different effects of irrigation in dry and wet years in the U.S. Great Plains. J. Climate, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-25-0120.1
Achugbu, I.C., L. Chen, Q. Hu, and F. Muñoz-Arriola, 2025: Evaluating the historical performance and future change of extreme precipitation indices over the Missouri River 1 Basin based on NA-CORDEX multimodel ensemble. Atmosphere, 16, 579, https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos16050579
Achugbu, L.C., L. Chen, Q. Hu, and F. Muñoz-Arriola (2025). Evaluating the Historical Performance and Future Change of Extreme Precipitation Indices over the Missouri River Basin Based on NA-CORDEX Multimodel Ensemble. Atmosphere. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos16050579
Al-Mashharawi SK, Steele-Dunne SC, El Hajj MM, Schrön M, Doussan C, Courault D, Franz TE, McCabe MF (2025) Accounting for biomass water equivalent variations in soil moisture retrievals from cosmic ray neutron sensor. Agricultural Water Management, 313:109493.
Althoff, A.L., J.L. *Kinschuh, D.K. *Owens, J.J. Spurgeon, J.N. Stevens, and S.E. Lochmann. 2025. Movements and habitat use of Silver Carp in the Arkansas and White River. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. https://doi.org/10.3996/JFWM-23-066On-line
Anderson, Brett M. 2025. Assessment of Sampling Gears for Bigheaded Carp in Mid-Order Prairie Rivers in Nebraska. (M.S. Thesis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln). pp. 121On-line
Anuo, C.O., Li, L., Moreland, K.C., McFarlane, K.J., Malakar, A., Cooper, J.A., Maharjan, B., and Kaiser, M. (2025) Storage and persistence of organic carbon in the upper three meters of soil under arable and native prairie land use. Plant Soil 509, 157-179. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-024-06850-0
Baldissara, M., A. Barg, A. Little, Z. Tang, B. Wardlow, and D.R. Uden. 2025. Remote Sensing and Landcover in Ring-Necked Pheasant Research: A Review of Data Sources and Scales. Ecology and Evolution. 15(6), e71576. On-line
Baldissara, Megan A. 2025. Detecting Prescribed Fire, Haying and Grazing Events via Remote Sensing to Create Grassland Disturbance Landcovers for the Ring-necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus). (PhD diss., University of Nebraska-Lincoln). pp. 251On-line
Barg, A., M. Baldissara, D.R. Uden, J. P. Carroll, and A. Little. 2025. Pheasants 365: A Review of Seasonal Ring-Necked Pheasant Habitat in Central North America. Ecology and Evolution. 15(8), e71867. On-line
Bathke, D., Hunt, E.; Hayes, M; Okojokwu-Idu, J., Johnson, L.E. and Shifrin, C. (2025). Chapter 2: Climate change contexts: Global, national, and state. In Nebraska State Climate Report: 2024 Assessment (pp. 20-43). University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Nebraska State Climate Office. On-line
Bathke, D.J., Hunt, E., Akin, H., Basche, A., Bell, J.E., DiLeo, D., Dixon, R.D., Durr, M., Haigh, T., Hay, J., Kintziger, K.W., McMillan, N., Miller, H., Okojokwu-Idu, J., Powers, C., Roy, T., Tang, Z., Wishart, R., and Young, A. (2025). Understanding and Assessing Climate Change: Preparing for Nebraska’s Future, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.On-line
Baylis, K., Lentz, E., Caylor, K., Gu, M., Gunderson, C., Haigh, T., Hayes, M., Lahr, H., Maxwell, D., and Funk C. (2025). “Six lessons for closing the last mile: How to make climate decision support actionable.” Earth Futures. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF005799
Becker, S. M., Franz, T. E., Ge, Y., Luck, J. D., & Heeren, D. M. (2025). Geophysical tools for agricultural management: Trends, challenges, and opportunities. Vadose Zone Journal, 24, e70029. https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.70029On-line
Benes, J.V., Hanson, P.R., Fritz, S.C., 2025. Fires and drought during the Euro- American settlement period (1850-1950) in the Nebraska Sand Hills. The Holocene 35, 835-843, https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836251340843.
Bolas, E.C.,Benson, J.F., Blakey R.V. 2025. Human recreation influences activity of a large carnivore in an urban landscape. Biological Conservation 301 On-line
Borah, P., Borah, G., and Malakar, A. (2025) Mitigating nitrate contamination in groundwater: A comprehensive review of in-situ approaches. Groundwater for Sustainable Development 28, 101406 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsd.2025.101406
Brooks,J.M., Baxter,C.V., Warren,D.R. and MacNeill, K.L. 2025. Enter the Mosaic: Aquatic-Terrestrial Reciprocal Fluxes and Food Webs Are Dynamically Interdependent Across Space and Through Time. Freshwater Biology. DOI:10.1111/fwb.70094
Burbach, M.E., Kennedy, S., Eaton, W.M., Brasier, K.J., Rudnick, R.R., and Whitmer, W. (2025). Examination of cooperative extension as a bridging organization to enhance cross boundary collaborative water management. Journal of Extension, 63(2)On-line
Burbach, M.E., Kennedy, S., Rudnick, R.R., Stockton, M., Burr, C.A., & Rhoades, K. (2025). Producers’ views and decision-making related to new management practices and technologies after participating in an experiential farm management competition: A mixed-methods study. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 80(3), 261–278. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224561.2025.2484975
Carr, E. M., Martin, R. P., Thurman, M. A., Cohen, K. E., Huie, J. M., Gruber, D. F., & Sparks, J. S. (2025). Repeated and widespread evolution of biofluorescence in marine fishes. Nature Communications, 16(1), 1-10.
Carr, E. M., Thurman, M. A., Martin, R. P., Sparks, T. S., & Sparks, J. S. (2025). Marine fishes exhibit exceptional variation in biofluorescent emission spectra. PloS one, 20(6), e0316789.
Castelli, G., Howard, B. C., Adyel, T. M., AghaKouchak, A., Agramont, A., Aksoy, H., … Ceperley, N. (2025). Co-creating water knowledge: a community perspective. Hydrological Sciences Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2025.2571065
Chen, L., Achugbu, I. C., Mahmood, R., Kintziger, K., Bell, J. Meredith, G. 2025. Heat stress induced by irrigation over the US Great Plains and related uncertainties. Environmental Research Letters 20 054072. On-line
Comfort, S., AA da Silva, J Powell, R Cain, A McGreer, RF Dantas. 2025. Remediating Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)-Contaminated Water by Foam Fractionation and Electrochemical Oxidation. Environments 12 (6), 185
Corman, J.R. 2025. Calcium carbonate and phosphorus interactions in inland waters. Limnology & Oceanography: Letters 10(2): 158-178, doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10452.
Dangal, S. R. S., Birru, G., Khorchani, M., Shiferaw, A., Schmer, M., Suyker, A., Jin, V., & Awada, T. (2025). Soil organic carbon trends in US Midwest continuous maize and maizesoybean systems over 20 years. Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment, 8, e70222. https://doi.org/10.1002/agg2.70222
Dauer, Jenny.M., Bravo Gaona, V., Meulenbroeks, R. (2025). Vision II scientific literacy assessment instruments for secondary education: a scoping review. International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 13(2):498-516. https://doi.org/10.46328/ijemst.4747
Dauer, Jenny.M., Kirby, C., Sorensen, A., (2025). Defining students’ socioscientific issues classroom decision-making components and practice proficiencies. Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research. 7(12). https://doi.org/10.1186/s43031-025-00132-0 3
David, Kianie B. 2025. Catching a Fever: A Comparison of Vachellia xanthophloea Populations in the Limpopo and Luvuvhu River Floodplains of the Makuleke Contractual Park. (M.S. Thesis, University of Nebraska- Lincoln). pp. 155On-line
Dodds, W.K., L.A. Barmuta, S. Bernal, J. Corman, T.K. Harms, S.L. Johnson, L. Li, D.G. Fernandes Cunha, J.D. Olden, T. Riis, L.C.R. Silva, J.C. Stella, P. Sullivan, and E. Wohl. 2025. Defining stream riparian zones across multidimensional environmental gradients. Journal of Environmental Quality 54:1674-1697, doi.org/10.1002/2Fjeq2.70080
Dougherty, K.D., Dellinger, J.A., Cristescu, B., Gammons, D.J., Garcelon, D.K., Higley, J.M., Martins, Q.E., Riley, S.P.D., Sikich, J.A., Stephenson, T.R.,Vickers, T.W., Wengert, G.M., Wilmers, C.C., Wittmer, H.U., Benson, J.F. 2025. A functional response in resource selection links multi-scale responses of a large carnivore to human mortality risk. Ecology LettersOn-line
Dougherty, Kyle D, Justin A Dellinger, Bogdan Cristescu, Daniel J Gammons, David K Garcelon, J Mark Higley, Phillip Johnston, Quinton E Martins, John F Randolph, Seth PD Riley, Jeff A Sikich, Trish Smith, Thomas R Stephenson, T Winston Vickers, Greta M Wengert, Christopher C Wilmers, Heiko U Wittmer, John F Benson 2025. Movement decisions of dispersing mountain lions in California: implications for statewide connectivity. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.70020
Elowsky, C.; Higley, L. 2025. Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy as a Method for Identifying Variation in Puparial Morphology and Establishing Characters for Taxonomic Determination. Insects 2025, 16, 88. https://doi.org/10.3390/ insects16010088On-line
Engel, A.D., H.H. Hansen, M.A. Pegg, and T.J. Barada. 2025. Changing of the guard: a Nebraska perspective on institutional knowledge and inland fisheries management. Fisheries. https://doi.org/10.1093/fshmag/vuaf091
Fogarty, D.T., M. Beadle, C.R. Allen, C. Bielski and D. Twidwell. 2025. Woody plant reinvasion shortens the lifespan of grassland restoration treatments. Journal of Environmental Management 374: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.124020.On-line
Franz, T., D. Desilets, M. Schrön, F. Baird, and D. McJannet (2025), Two neutron-monitoring networks are better than one, Eos, 106, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EO250212On-line
Gaspar L, Franz TE, Navas A (2025) Cosmic-Ray Neutron Sensor Backpack for Assessing Spatial and Temporal Variations in Soil Water Content in an Agroforestry System in Northern Spain. Land, 14(4):744. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040744
Gaspar, L., Franz, T. E., & Navas, A. (2025). Integrating Proximal Gamma Ray and Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensors to Assess Soil Moisture Dynamics in an Agricultural Field in Spain. Agriculture, 15(10), 1074. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture15101074
Gbenonsi, A. F, Higley, L. 2025. Maggot mass effect on the development and survival of forensically important blow flies. Insects. 16(7): 660; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects16070660
Gbenonsi, A. F, Higley, L. 2025. Thermal ecology and forensic implications of blow fly (Family: Calliphoridae) maggot mass dynamics: a review. Insects. 16: 1018. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects16101018
Gruntorad, M P; Vrtiska, M P; Chizinski, C J. Mentorship of waterfowl hunters in the Central Flyway. Tech. rep. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management,2025.
Gruntorad, M. P., Lusk, J. J., and Chizinski, C. J. (2025). Annual variation in attribute importance to upland game hunter satisfaction in Nebraska. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 89.1On-line
Gschwentner, D.G., Blehm, L.*, Brahney, J., Wedin, D., and J.R. Corman. 2025. Nitrogen-limitation overrides impacts of wildfire ash on primary production in eutrophic, grassland lakes. Ecosystems 28(63), doi.org/10.1007/s10021-025-01009-z
Guastello P, Smith KH, Knutson C, Svoboda M. Drought Hotspots around the World 2023-2025. United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. On-line
Gupta, C.**, Mahmood, R., Flanagan, P., Roy, T., Hayes, M., and Chen, L. 2025. An assessment of extreme precipitation trends in the Missouri River Basin: Insights from the three gridded precipitation data sets and climate indices analysis. International Journal of Climatology https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.70163.
Haake CJE, Waltzek TB, Eckstrand CD, Hickey N, Reno JL, Wolking RM, Sriwanayos P, Lovy J, Renner E, Taylor KR, Oliveira R. 2025. Pathology, tissue distribution, and phylogenetic characterization of Largemouth Bass Virus isolated from a wild Smallmouth Bass (Micropterus dolomieu). Viruses. 2025 Jul 23;17(8):1031. https://doi.org/10.3390/v17081031On-line
Haigh, T., Goebel, M., C. Knutson. (2025) Conceptualizing ranch drought plans and planning: A typology. Rangelands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rala.2025.02.001
Hajek, Olivia L.; Kaplan, Nicole; Azad, Shefali; Fay, Philip A.; Khorchani, Makki; Nelson, Amanda; et al. (2025). Dataset from: Variation in patterns of production and water-use efficiency among agroecosystems across the LTAR Network. Ag Data Commons. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.15482/USDA.ADC/26863258.v1On-line
Halli, H. M., Shivakumar, B. G., Wasnik, V. K., Govindasamy, P., Yadav, V. K., Swami, S., ... & Harisha, C. B. (2025). Co-implementation of deficit irrigation and nutrient management strategies to strengthen soil-plant-seed nexus, water use efficiency, and yield sustainability in fodder corn. European Journal of Agronomy, 168, 127609.On-line
Hanson PR, Joeckel RM. Stratigraphy and OSL chronology of lunette deposits indicates that Nebraska’s rainwater basins formed by aeolian deflation between 39 and 25 ka. Quaternary Research. Published online 2025:1-15. doi:10.1017/qua.2025.10040On-line
Hanson, P.R., Nouth-Chea, N., Sanchez, D., Tran, J.T., Joeckel, R.M., 2025. Surficial Geology of the Brule 7.5' Quadrangle, Conservation and Survey Division, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Geologic Map 326.On-line
Harvey, J. A., Q. Martins, K. D. Dougherty, A. M. Hettena, D. K. Garcelon, and J. F. Benson. 2025. Functional habitat characteristics influencing spatial variation in mountain lion predation in a human-dominated landscape. Biological Conservation 302:110975.
Harvey, J., Martins, Q., Dougherty, K.D., Hettena, A., Garcelon, D.K., Benson, J.F. 2025. Functional habitat characteristics influencing spatial variation in mountain lion predation in a human-dominated landscape. Biological Conservation 302On-line
Harvey, Jacob A. 2025. Spatial Ecology and Predator-Prey Interactions of Mountain Lions in California's San Francisco North Bay. (M.S. Thesis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln). pp. 209On-line
Higley, L., Carter, D. O., Elowsky, C., Haskell, C., Haskell, N., Obafunwa, J., Reinhard, K., Roe, A., Schoenly, K., Simmons, T., Wells, J. 2025. Make forensic reports required legal and scientific documents. Proc. National Acad. Sci. 122 (26) e2406456122, DOI 10.1073/pnas.2406456122
Ivon Acosta Ramirez, Nicole M. Iverson, S. Das Choudhury, Programming-Assisted Imaging of Cellular Nitric Oxide Efflux Gradients and Directionality via Carbon Nanotube Sensors, Small Science, February 2025, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/smsc.202400493On-line
Jain1, J., F. Munoz-Arriola, and D. Khare (2025). Evidencing Sources of Flood Disaster Policy Improvement Leveraging Flood Risk Attributes in India. Natural Hazards Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-025-07108-3
Joeckel R.M. and Waszgis, M.M., 2025, Conservation and Survey Division Annual Report 2023. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Conservation and Survey Division, Open File Report 255, 16 pp.On-line
Johnson A.E., Pruett-Jones S. 2025. Demographic and experimental evidence suggest that ecological constraints alone cannot explain delayed dispersal in Splendid Fairywrens. Behavioral Ecology, 36, araf128. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araf128
K. M. Reed*, J. VanDeHey, H. A. Morey, R. P. Hanten, E. A. Renner, and M. J. Fincel. 2025. Seasonal movements of Gizzard Shad Dorosoma cepedianum in a Missouri River reservoir. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 40(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/02705060.2025.2517774 On-line
K._Chattopadhyay, D. Bhattacharjee, S. Das Choudhury, An Ensemble Model to Estimate SPAD Values from Rice Leaf Images, 6th International Conference on Frontiers in Computing and Systems, September 2025.
Kalmakhanova, M. S., Kurtebayeva, A. A., Tleuova, Z. T., Satybaldiev, B., Orynbayev, S. A., Malakar, A., Gomes, H. T., and Snow, D. D. Environmental Impact of Wastewater on Surface and Groundwater in Central Asia. Sustainability 17(12), 5370. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17125370
Khalil, M.A., Hallum, D.R., Joeckel, R.M., Krondak, M., 2025. Integrated 2D time–lapse resistivity tomography and spontaneous potential surveys demonstrate seasonal, use–related patterns of seepage from a water–supply canal system. Journal of Applied Geophysics 238, 105708. 3 Hanson, P.R., Joeckel, R.M., Howard, L.M., 2024. Assessing Oregon Trail ruts with aerial stereophotographs, satellite imagery and LiDAR. Great Plains Research 34 (2), 67-83.
Khushal, Anum. 2025. Characterization of Undergraduate Biology Instructors’ Goals and Strategies for Implementing Quantitative Reasoning. (M.S. Thesis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) pp. 96On-line
Knight, E. C., J. Carlisle, A. J. Boyce, D. Bradley, P. Cimprich, S. Coates, S. J. Dinsmore, C. J. Gregory, J. G. Jorgensen, J. F. Kelly, D. Newstead, A. Olalla, L. A. Powell, A. L. Scarpignato, T. L. Tibbitts, N. Warnock, W. Wehtje, P. P. Marra, A.-L. Harrison. 2025. Delineating ecologically distinct groups for annual cycle management of a declining shorebird. Journal of Applied Ecology 00:1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14885On-line
Legatzke, H., Chaffin, B. C., Floyd, T. M., Banerjee, S., Church, S., Gulab, S., Hamlin, S., Meredith, G. R., Metcalf, A. L., Nesbitt, H. K., *Sutherland-Rowen, E., Uden, D. R. & Allen, C. R. (2025). Governance of a landscape: The role of formal and informal organizations. Journal of Environmental Management, 380, 124974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.124974
Li, J., Ge, Y., Gamon, J., Puntel, L.A. et al. Devising optimized maize nitrogen stress indices in complex field conditions from UAV hyperspectral imagery. Precision Agric 26, 3 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11119-024-10205-1On-line
Mahoney, G., Mandel, R., Hanson, P.R., Fritz, S., 2025. Early Holocene interaction of eolian, alluvial and lacustrine processes in a dune-dammed paleovalley in the central Nebraska Sand Hills. Quaternary Research 124, 121-138.
Mahoney, Gosia and Mandel, R.D. and Hanson, Paul and Fritz, Sherilyn. (2025). Early Holocene interaction of aeolian, alluvial, and lacustrine processes in a dune-dammed valley in the central Nebraska Sand Hills. Quaternary Research. 1-18. 10.1017/qua.2024.42.On-line
Maisha, R.; Steele, D.D.; Daigh, A.L.M.; Heeren, D.M.; Franz, T. (2025) Field Calibration of a Time-Domain Reflectometry Sensor for Water Content Measurement in Soils with Low Content of Coarse Fragments. Water 2025, 17, 1203. https://doi.org/10.3390/w17081203
Martin RP, Carr EM, Sparks JS. Does biofluorescence enhance visual signals in birds-of-paradise? R Soc Open Sci. 2025 Feb 12;12(2):241905. doi: 10.1098/rsos.241905. PMID: 39944292; PMCID: PMC11813591.On-line
Martin, R. P., Carr, E. M., & Sparks, J. S. (2025). Does biofluorescence enhance visual signals in birds-of-paradise?. Royal Society Open Science, 12(2), 241905.
Martz, R., A.L. Houston, M.S. Van Den Broeke, and S.A. Shield, 2025: The Impact of Urbanized Areas on the Spatial Characteristics of Deep Convection Initiation in the Central United States, J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 64, 1045-1061. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-23-0153.1On-line
Miller, B.T., B.C. Neely, C.J. Chance-Ossowski , M.J. Waters, V. Salazar, L.K. Kowalewski, N.W. Kramer, S.A. Lundgren, and J.J. Spurgeon. 2025. Population characteristics and detection of Flathead Catfish in small Kansas impoundments. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. https://doi.org/10.3996/JFWM-23-057
Mohamed A. Khalil, Douglas R. Hallum, R. M. Joeckel, Michael Krondak: Integrated 2D time-lapse resistivity tomography and spontaneous potential surveys demonstrate seasonal, use-related patterns of seepage from a water-supply canal system. Journal of Applied Geophysics, Volume 238, 2025, 105708, ISSN 0926-9851, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2025.105708On-line
Mwape, A.**, Hayes, M., Bathke, D., Smith, K., Mahmood, R., and Jones, E. 2025. Benefits of stakeholder participation in drought risk management: evidence from the Nebraska Republican River Basin drought exercise. Case Studies in the Environment 9(1): 2698472.
Mwape, A.*, Bathke, D., Hayes, M., Smith, K., Mahmood, R., and Jones, E., 2025. Benefits of Stakeholder Participation in Drought Risk Management: Evidence from the Nebraska Republican River Basin Drought Exercise. Case Studies in the Environment, 9(1), p.2698472. https://doi.org/10.1525/cse.2025.2698472
Mwape, A.*, Hayes, M., Bathke, D.J., Smith, K.H., Mahmood, R. and Jones, E., 2025. Drought Management in Zambia: Insights from the 2023/2024 Drought. Climate, 13(11), p.227. https://doi.org 10.3390/cli13110227
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