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  1. Landscape and Storm Characteristics Influence DOC and Nitrate Mobility and Riverine Export Magnitude in Two Arctic Catchments

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, August 2026, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  2. A comprehensive database of thawing permafrost locations across Alaska: version 2.0.0

    Article • Earth System Science Data, May 2026, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  3. Tracing Seasonal Ground Thaw with Stream Chemistry in Alaskan Arctic Permafrost Catchments

    Article • Hydrological Processes, April 2026, Wiley

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  4. Chemoautotrophic carbon fixation in thermokarst lakes on the Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  5. Landscape and storm characteristics influence DOC and Nitrate mobility and riverine export magnitude in two Arctic catchments.

    Article • December 2025, Wiley

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  6. A Comprehensive Database of Thawing Permafrost Locations Across Alaska

    Article • November 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  7. Supplementary material to "A Comprehensive Database of Thawing Permafrost Locations Across Alaska"

    Article • November 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  8. Anthropogenic Changes to Factors Controlling Cyanobacterial Blooms Along a Chain of Fresh to Hypersaline Water Bodies

    Article • Freshwater Biology, November 2025, Wiley

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  9. Regeneration and Herbivory Across Multiple Forest Types Within a Megafire Burn Scar

    Article • Fire, August 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  10. A Review of Abrupt Permafrost Thaw: Definitions, Usage, and a Proposed Conceptual Framework

    Article • Current Climate Change Reports, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  11. Analyzing the Relationship Between Tree Canopy Coverage and Snowpack in the Great Salt Lake Watershed

    Article • Sustainability, June 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  12. Does stream chemistry reflect thaw depth on a seasonal scale across Alaskan Arctic permafrost catchments?

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  13. Reservoir computing for modeling and predicting stream chemistry

    Article • Journal of Hydroinformatics, March 2025, IWA Publishing

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  14. Impact of Peat Extraction on Downstream Concentrations and Attenuation of Dissolved Organic Carbon and Nutrients

    Article • Water Resources Research, August 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  15. Enhanced response of soil respiration to experimental warming upon thermokarst formation

    Article • Nature Geoscience, April 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  16. Shifting nitrate seasonality along decades of anthropogenic impact in western European catchments

    Article • March 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  17. Hydrology Controls Dissolved Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Export and Post‐Storm Recovery in Two Arctic Headwaters

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, February 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  18. Soil temperature and moisture as key controls of phosphorus export in mountain watersheds

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, February 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott, Dr Janice Brahney

  19. Water cycle processes [poster]

    Article • January 2024, US Geological Survey

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  20. Where is the water? Agriculture [poster]

    Article • January 2024, US Geological Survey

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  21. Where is the water? Coast [poster]

    Article • January 2024, US Geological Survey

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  22. Where is the water? Desert [poster]

    Article • January 2024, US Geological Survey

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  23. Where is the water? Forest [poster]

    Article • January 2024, US Geological Survey

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  24. Where is the water? Suburban [poster]

    Article • January 2024, US Geological Survey

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  25. Where is the water? Urban [poster]

    Article • January 2024, US Geological Survey

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  26. Accelerating the Renewable Energy Revolution to Get Back to the Holocene

    Article • Earth s Future, September 2023, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  27. Characteristics of methane emissions from alpine thermokarst lakes on the Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Nature Communications, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  28. Assessing changes in global fire regimes

    Article • February 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott, Brisset Elodie

  29. Resistance, recovery, and resilience: rethinking the three Rs of survival in the Anthropocene

    Article • January 2023, Authorea, Inc.

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  30. A globally relevant stock of soil nitrogen in the Yedoma permafrost domain

    Article • Nature Communications, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  31. Microbiome assembly in thawing permafrost and its feedbacks to climate

    Article • Global Change Biology, June 2022, Wiley

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  32. Improving sustainable agriculture promotion: an explorative analysis of NRCS assistance programs and farmer perspectives

    Article • International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  33. Alpine permafrost could account for a quarter of thawed carbon based on Plio-Pleistocene paleoclimate analogue

    Article • Nature Communications, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  34. Illuminating the ‘invisible water crisis’ to address global water pollution challenges

    Article • Hydrological Processes, February 2022, Wiley

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott, Prof. Iseult Lynch

  35. Organizational principles of hyporheic exchange flow and biogeochemical cycling in river networks across scales

    Article • Water Resources Research, February 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  36. Multi-year, spatially extensive, watershed-scale synoptic stream chemistry and water quality conditions for six permafrost-underlain Arctic watersheds

    Article • Earth System Science Data, January 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  37. Permafrost Climate Feedbacks

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  38. Limited progress in nutrient pollution in the U.S. caused by spatially persistent nutrient sources

    Article • PLOS One, November 2021, PLOS

    Dr Janice Brahney, Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  39. Diné citizen science: Phytoremediation of uranium and arsenic in the Navajo Nation

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, November 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  40. Megafire affects stream sediment flux and dissolved organic matter reactivity, but land use dominates nutrient dynamics in semiarid watersheds

    Article • PLOS One, September 2021, PLOS

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  41. Recarbonizing global soils – A technical manual of recommended management practices

    Article • September 2021, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  42. Long‐Term Nitrate Trajectories Vary by Season in Western European Catchments

    Article • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, September 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  43. What do we need to predict groundwater nitrate recovery trajectories?

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, September 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  44. Phosphorus rather than nitrogen regulates ecosystem carbon dynamics after permafrost thaw

    Article • Global Change Biology, August 2021, Wiley

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  45. Citizen science reveals unexpected solute patterns in semiarid river networks

    Article • PLOS One, August 2021, PLOS

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  46. Spatial Persistence of Water Chemistry Patterns Across Flow Conditions in a Mesoscale Agricultural Catchment

    Article • Water Resources Research, July 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  47. Multi-year, spatially extensive, watershed scale synoptic stream chemistry and water quality conditions for six permafrost-underlain Arctic watersheds

    Article • June 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  48. Accelerating permafrost collapse on the eastern Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, April 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  49. Tundra wildfire triggers sustained lateral nutrient loss in Alaskan Arctic

    Article • Global Change Biology, January 2021, Wiley

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  50. Stream Dissolved Organic Matter in Permafrost Regions Shows Surprising Compositional Similarities but Negative Priming and Nutrient Effects

    Article • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, January 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  51. Arctic concentration–discharge relationships for dissolved organic carbon and nitrate vary with landscape and season

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, December 2020, Wiley

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  52. The status and stability of permafrost carbon on the Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, December 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  53. Subsea permafrost carbon stocks and climate change sensitivity estimated by expert assessment

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, December 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  54. Human Health and Economic Costs of Air Pollution in Utah: An Expert Assessment

    Article • Atmosphere, November 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  55. Shallow soils are warmer under trees and tall shrubs across Arctic and Boreal ecosystems

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, November 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott, Toke Høye

  56. Assessing the Potential for Mobilization of Old Soil Carbon after Permafrost Thaw: A Synthesis of 14 C Measurements from the Northern Permafrost Region

    Article • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, September 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  57. We cannot shrug off the shoulder seasons: Addressing knowledge and data gaps in an Arctic Headwater

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, June 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  58. Landscape matters: Predicting the biogeochemical effects of permafrost thaw on aquatic networks with a state factor approach

    Article • Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, May 2020, Wiley

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  59. Artificial Intelligence Accidentally Learned Ecology through Video Games

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, May 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  60. Warming alters surface soil organic matter composition despite unchanged carbon stocks in a Tibetan permafrost ecosystem

    Article • Functional Ecology, April 2020, Wiley

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  61. Temperature controls production but hydrology regulates export of dissolved organic carbon at the catchment scale

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, February 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  62. Carbon release through abrupt permafrost thaw

    Article • Nature Geoscience, February 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  63. Predicting Nutrient Incontinence in the Anthropocene at Watershed Scales

    Article • Frontiers in Environmental Science, January 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  64. Iron-oxidizer hotspots formed by intermittent oxic–anoxic fluid mixing in fractured rocks

    Article • Nature Geoscience, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  65. Author Correction: Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region

    Article • Nature Climate Change, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  66. Permafrost degradation enhances the risk of mercury release on Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, November 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  67. Disentangling the effects of climate, vegetation, soil and related substrate properties on the biodegradability of permafrost‐derived dissolved organic carbon

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, October 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  68. Does Our Vision of Diversity Include Social Conservatives?

    Article • Eos, October 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  69. Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region

    Article • Nature Climate Change, October 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  70. Revealing biogeochemical signatures of Arctic landscapes with river chemistry

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  71. Plant uptake offsets silica release from a large Arctic tundra wildfire

    Article • Earth s Future, July 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  72. Temperature controls production but hydrology controls export of dissolved organic carbon at the catchment scale

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, July 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  73. Temperature controls production but hydrology controls export of dissolved organic carbon at the catchment scale

    Article • July 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  74. Organic carbon pools in the subsea permafrost domain since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, July 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  75. A water cycle for the Anthropocene

    Article • Hydrological Processes, June 2019, Wiley

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  76. Human domination of the global water cycle absent from depictions and perceptions

    Article • Nature Geoscience, June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  77. Stability of spatial patterns in water chemistry across temperate ecoregions

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, May 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  78. Opposing Effects of Plant-Community Assembly Maintain Constant Litter Decomposition over Grasslands Aged from 1 to 25 Years

    Article • Ecosystems, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  79. Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release

    Article • Nature, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  80. Stratification of reactivity determines nitrate removal in groundwater

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  81. Long-term ecological observatories needed to understand ecohydrological systems in the Anthropocene: a catchment-scale case study in Brittany, France

    Article • Regional Environmental Change, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  82. Generality of Hydrologic Transport Limitation of Watershed Organic Carbon Flux Across Ecoregions of the United States

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, November 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  83. Reduced quantity and quality of SOM along a thaw sequence on the Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, September 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  84. Dating groundwater with dissolved silica and CFC concentrations in crystalline aquifers

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, September 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  85. Reviews and syntheses: Changing ecosystem influences on soil thermal regimes in northern high-latitude permafrost regions

    Article • Biogeosciences, August 2018, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  86. Hedgerows reduce nitrate flux at hillslope and catchment scales via root uptake and secondary effects

    Article • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, July 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  87. Riparian Corridors: A New Conceptual Framework for Assessing Nitrogen Buffering Across Biomes

    Article • Frontiers in Environmental Science, June 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  88. Is the Capacity for Vocal Learning in Vertebrates Rooted in Fish Schooling Behavior?

    Article • Evolutionary Biology, June 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  89. Reviews and syntheses: Changing ecosystem influences on soil thermal regimes in northern high-latitude permafrost regions

    Article • May 2018, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  90. Trends and seasonality of river nutrients in agricultural catchments: 18 years of weekly citizen science in France

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, May 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  91. Decline in Ecosystem δ13C and Mid-Successional Nitrogen Loss in a Two-Century Postglacial Chronosequence

    Article • Ecosystems, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  92. Movement Is the Song of the Body: Reflections on the Evolution of Rhythm and Music and Its Possible Significance for the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease

    Article • Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, December 2017, Academic Studies Press

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  93. Unexpected spatial stability of water chemistry in headwater stream networks

    Article • Ecology Letters, December 2017, Wiley

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  94. Thaw Depth Determines Dissolved Organic Carbon Concentration and Biodegradability on the Northern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, September 2017, Wiley

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott, cuicui mu

  95. Permafrost collapse shifts alpine tundra to a carbon source but reduces N2 O and CH4 release on the northern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, September 2017, Wiley

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott, cuicui mu

  96. Elemental properties, hydrology, and biology interact to shape concentration-discharge curves for carbon, nutrients, sediment, and major ions

    Article • Water Resources Research, February 2017, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  97. Coupling 3D groundwater modeling with CFC-based age dating to classify local groundwater circulation in an unconfined crystalline aquifer

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, December 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  98. Constitution of a catchment virtual observatory for sharing flow and transport models outputs

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, December 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  99. Using multi-tracer inference to move beyond single-catchment ecohydrology

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, September 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  100. Proximate and ultimate controls on carbon and nutrient dynamics of small agricultural catchments

    Article • Biogeosciences, March 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  101. Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, March 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Han Y.H. Chen, Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott, Ben Bond-Lamberty

  102. Groundwater Isolation Governs Chemistry and Microbial Community Structure along Hydrologic Flowpaths

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, December 2015, Frontiers

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  103. Biodegradability of dissolved organic carbon in permafrost soils and aquatic systems: a meta-analysis

    Article • Biogeosciences, December 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  104. Permafrost collapse alters soil carbon stocks, respiration, CH4, and N2O in upland tundra

    Article • Global Change Biology, November 2015, Wiley

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  105. Proximate and ultimate controls on carbon and nutrient dynamics of small agricultural catchments

    Article • Biogeosciences Discussions, September 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  106. Supplementary material to "Proximate and ultimate controls on carbon and nutrient dynamics of small agricultural catchments"

    Article • September 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  107. The role of watershed characteristics, permafrost thaw, and wildfire on dissolved organic carbon biodegradability and water chemistry in Arctic headwater streams

    Article • Biogeosciences, July 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  108. Patterns and persistence of hydrologic carbon and nutrient export from collapsing upland permafrost

    Article • Biogeosciences, June 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  109. Biodegradability of dissolved organic carbon in permafrost soils and waterways: a meta-analysis

    Article • Biogeosciences Discussions, June 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  110. Supplementary material to "Biodegradability of dissolved organic carbon in permafrost soils and waterways: a meta-analysis"

    Article • June 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  111. Supplementary material to "The role of watershed characteristics, permafrost thaw, and wildfire on dissolved organic carbon biodegradability and water chemistry in Arctic headwater streams"

    Article • March 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  112. Patterns and persistence of hydrologic carbon and nutrient export from collapsing upland permafrost

    Article • Biogeosciences Discussions, February 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  113. The role of watershed characteristics, permafrost thaw, and wildfire on dissolved organic carbon biodegradability and water chemistry in Arctic headwater streams

    Article • Biogeosciences Discussions, January 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  114. Elevated dissolved organic carbon biodegradability from thawing and collapsing permafrost

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, October 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  115. Thermo-erosion gullies increase nitrogen available for hydrologic export

    Article • Biodegradation, May 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  116. Expert assessment of vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change

    Article • Climatic Change, March 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott

  117. High risk of permafrost thaw

    Article • Nature, November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Walter Abbott