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  1. EPIC-SPS: Robust Spatial Parameterization Scheme to Improve Regional Scale Modeling of Carbon Fluxes using Satellite Remote Sensing

    Article • November 2025, Wiley

    Benjamin Runkle

  2. Improved soil property prediction models for rice paddies using measured nutrients

    Article • Soil Science Society of America Journal, October 2025, Wiley

    Benjamin Runkle

  3. Detecting the onset of rice field inundation in the Lower Mississippi River Basin via Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) satellite time series

    Article • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, October 2025, Elsevier

    Benjamin Runkle

  4. Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) Knees Are Methane Sources Controlled by Geomorphology, Climate, and Hydrologic Extremes

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, September 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Benjamin Runkle

  5. Concentrations and Health Implications of As, Hg, and Cd and Micronutrients in Rice and Emissions of CH4 From Variably Flooded Paddies

    Article • GeoHealth, August 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Mr Matt A Limmer, Benjamin Runkle

  6. Reflecting on the Tenure Track From Mid‐Career

    Article • Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, July 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Benjamin Runkle

  7. Conservation management effects on soil and agronomic properties in a furrow‐irrigated corn system in east‐central Arkansas

    Article • Agronomy Journal, July 2025, Wiley

    Benjamin Runkle

  8. Magnitude, drivers, and patterns of gross primary productivity of rice in Arkansas using a calibrated vegetation photosynthesis model

    Article • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, June 2025, Elsevier

    Benjamin Runkle

  9. Modeling rice leaf area index and canopy height in the US Mid‐South region

    Article • Agrosystems Geosciences & Environment, May 2025, Wiley

    Benjamin Runkle

  10. Agronomic solutions to decrease arsenic concentrations in rice

    Article • Minerals and the Environment, May 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Benjamin Runkle

  11. Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) Knees Are Methane Sources Controlled by Geomorphology, Climate, and Hydrologic Extremes

    Article • April 2025, Wiley

    Benjamin Runkle

  12. Global Rice Paddy Inventory (GRPI): A High‐Resolution Inventory of Methane Emissions From Rice Agriculture Based on Landsat Satellite Inundation Data

    Article • Earth s Future, April 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Benjamin Runkle

  13. A model-data fusion approach for quantifying the carbon budget in cotton agroecosystems across the United States

    Article • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, March 2025, Elsevier

    Benjamin Runkle

  14. Near-surface remote sensing applications for a robust, climate-smart measurement, monitoring, and information system (MMIS)

    Article • Carbon Management, February 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Benjamin Runkle

  15. Advancements and opportunities to improve bottom–up estimates of global wetland methane emissions

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, February 2025, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Benjamin Runkle

  16. Proximal remote sensing: an essential tool for bridging the gap between high‐resolution ecosystem monitoring and global ecology

    Article • New Phytologist, January 2025, Wiley

    Benjamin Runkle

  17. Review and Synthesis: Peatland and Wetland Models Simulating CH4 Production, CH4 Oxidation and CH4 Transport Pathways

    Article • December 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Benjamin Runkle

  18. Supplementary material to "Review and Synthesis: Peatland and Wetland Models Simulating CH4 Production, CH4 Oxidation and CH4 Transport Pathways"

    Article • December 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Benjamin Runkle

  19. Belowground plant allocation regulates rice methane emissions from degraded peat soils

    Article • Scientific Reports, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Benjamin Runkle

  20. Mitigating Toxic Metal Exposure Through Leafy Greens: A Comprehensive Review Contrasting Cadmium and Lead in Spinach

    Article • GeoHealth, June 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Mr Matt A Limmer, Benjamin Runkle

  21. The effects of alternate wetting and drying irrigation on water use efficiency in Mid-South rice

    Article • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, June 2024, Elsevier

    Benjamin Runkle

  22. We need a solid scientific basis for nature-based climate solutions in the United States

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Benjamin Runkle

  23. Assessing the methane mitigation potential of innovative management in US rice production

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, November 2023, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Benjamin Runkle

  24. The effect of water management and ratoon rice cropping on methane emissions and yield in Arkansas

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, October 2023, Elsevier

    Benjamin Runkle

  25. Deep learning solutions for mapping contour levee rice production systems from very high resolution imagery

    Article • Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, August 2023, Elsevier

    Benjamin Runkle

  26. Multiyear methane and nitrous oxide emissions in different irrigation management under long‐term continuous rice rotation in Arkansas

    Article • Journal of Environmental Quality, March 2023, Wiley

    Benjamin Runkle

  27. Paddy rice methane emissions across Monsoon Asia

    Article • Remote Sensing of Environment, January 2023, Elsevier

    Benjamin Runkle

  28. Vegetation type is an important predictor of the arctic summer land surface energy budget

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

    Benjamin Runkle

  29. Lateral carbon export has low impact on the net ecosystem carbon balance of a polygonal tundra catchment

    Article • Biogeosciences, August 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Benjamin Runkle

  30. Modification of a Wavelet-Based Method for Detecting Ebullitive Methane Fluxes in Eddy-Covariance Observations: Application at Two Rice Fields

    Article • Boundary-Layer Meteorology, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Benjamin Runkle

  31. Informing Nature‐based Climate Solutions for the United States with the best‐available science

    Article • Global Change Biology, April 2022, Wiley

    Benjamin Runkle

  32. Review: biological engineering for nature-based climate solutions

    Article • Journal of Biological Engineering, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Benjamin Runkle

  33. Detecting Intra-Field Variation in Rice Yield With Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery and Deep Learning

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, March 2022, Frontiers

    Benjamin Runkle

  34. The first fine-resolution mapping of contour-levee irrigation using deep Bi-Stream convolutional neural networks

    Article • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, December 2021, Elsevier

    Benjamin Runkle

  35. Socio-Technical Changes for Sustainable Rice Production: Rice Husk Amendment, Conservation Irrigation, and System Changes

    Article • Frontiers in Agronomy, October 2021, Frontiers

    Benjamin Runkle

  36. Gap-filling eddy covariance methane fluxes: Comparison of machine learning model predictions and uncertainties at FLUXNET-CH4 wetlands

    Article • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, October 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Rodrigo Vargas, Benjamin Runkle

  37. Covariation of Airborne Biogenic Tracers (CO 2 , COS, and CO) Supports Stronger Than Expected Growing Season Photosynthetic Uptake in the Southeastern US

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

    Benjamin Runkle

  38. Environmental sustainability assessment of rice management practices using decision support tools

    Article • Journal of Cleaner Production, September 2021, Elsevier

    Benjamin Runkle

  39. FLUXNET-CH<sub>4</sub>: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands

    Article • Earth System Science Data, July 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Rodrigo Vargas, Benjamin Runkle

  40. Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales

    Article • Global Change Biology, May 2021, Wiley

    Professor Rodrigo Vargas, Benjamin Runkle

  41. Impacts of alternate wetting and drying and delayed flood rice irrigation on growing season evapotranspiration

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, May 2021, Elsevier

    Benjamin Runkle

  42. Substantial hysteresis in emergent temperature sensitivity of global wetland CH4 emissions

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Rodrigo Vargas, Benjamin Runkle

  43. An Ecosystem-Scale Flux Measurement Strategy to Assess Natural Climate Solutions

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, March 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Runkle

  44. Rice Inundation Assessment Using Polarimetric UAVSAR Data

    Article • Earth and Space Science, March 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Benjamin Runkle

  45. Cropland mapping with L-band UAVSAR and development of NISAR products

    Article • Remote Sensing of Environment, February 2021, Elsevier

    Benjamin Runkle

  46. Once Upon a Time, in AmeriFlux

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, January 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Benjamin Runkle

  47. The biophysical climate mitigation potential of boreal peatlands during the growing season

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

    Benjamin Runkle

  48. Simulating Soybean–Rice Rotation and Irrigation Strategies in Arkansas, USA Using APEX

    Article • Sustainability, August 2020, MDPI AG

    Benjamin Runkle

  49. A new free-convection form to estimate sensible heat and latent heat fluxes for unstable cases

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, July 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Francesc Castellvi, Benjamin Runkle

  50. Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate

    Article • Nature Climate Change, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Benjamin Runkle

  51. Friction-Velocity Estimates Using the Trace of a Scalar and the Mean Wind Speed

    Article • Boundary-Layer Meteorology, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francesc Castellvi, Benjamin Runkle

  52. Eddy covariance measurements of carbon dioxide and water fluxes in US mid-south cotton production

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, April 2020, Elsevier

    Benjamin Runkle

  53. Greenhouse gas emissions mitigation with alternate wetting and drying irrigation of rice agriculture

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Benjamin Runkle

  54. Lateral carbon export from polygonal tundra catchments on Samoylov Island, Lena River Delta

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Benjamin Runkle

  55. Surface renewal measurements of H, λE and CO2 fluxes over two different agricultural systems

    Article • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, December 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Francesc Castellvi, Benjamin Runkle

  56. Evaluating closed chamber evapotranspiration estimates against eddy covariance measurements in an arctic wetland

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, November 2019, Elsevier

    Benjamin Runkle

  57. FLUXNET-CH4 Synthesis Activity: Objectives, Observations, and Future Directions

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, July 2019, American Meteorological Society

    Professor Rodrigo Vargas, Benjamin Runkle

  58. Automated mapping of rice fields using multi-year training sample normalization

    Article • International Journal of Remote Sensing, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Benjamin Runkle

  59. A long-term (2002 to 2017) record of closed-path and open-path eddy covariance CO2 net ecosystem exchange fluxes from the Siberian Arctic

    Article • Earth System Science Data, February 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Benjamin Runkle

  60. User-friendly Greehouse Gas calculators to assess water-saving practices in rice fields in Arkansas

    Article • January 2019, Wiley

    Benjamin Runkle

  61. Methane Emission Reductions from the Alternate Wetting and Drying of Rice Fields Detected Using the Eddy Covariance Method

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, December 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Runkle

  62. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Management Practices that Affect Emissions in US Rice Systems

    Article • Journal of Environmental Quality, May 2018, Wiley

    Benjamin Runkle

  63. Variability in methane emissions from West Siberia's shallow boreal lakes on a regional scale and its environmental controls

    Article • Biogeosciences, August 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Benjamin Runkle

  64. Delta‐Flux: An Eddy Covariance Network for a Climate‐Smart Lower Mississippi Basin

    Article • Agricultural & Environmental Letters, January 2017, Wiley

    Benjamin Runkle

  65. Upscaling methane emission hotspots in boreal peatlands

    Article • Geoscientific Model Development, March 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Benjamin Runkle

  66. Sustainable Internationalization? Measuring the Diversity of Internationalization at Higher Education Institutions

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Benjamin Runkle

  67. Dissolved organic matter dynamics during the spring snowmelt at a boreal river valley mire complex in Northwest Russia

    Article • Hydrological Processes, December 2015, Wiley

    Benjamin Runkle

  68. Modeling micro-topographic controls on boreal peatland hydrology and methane fluxes

    Article • Biogeosciences, October 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Benjamin Runkle

  69. Application of high-resolution spectral absorbance measurements to determine dissolved organic carbon concentration in remote areas

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, September 2014, Elsevier

    Benjamin Runkle

  70. Spatial Variations in Pore-Water Biogeochemistry Greatly Exceed Temporal Changes During Baseflow Conditions in a Boreal River Valley Mire Complex, Northwest Russia

    Article • Wetlands, August 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Benjamin Runkle

  71. Seasonal variability as a source of uncertainty in the West Siberian regional CH4flux upscaling

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, April 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Benjamin Runkle

  72. The surface energy balance and its drivers in a boreal peatland fen of northwestern Russia

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, April 2014, Elsevier

    Benjamin Runkle

  73. Bulk partitioning the growing season net ecosystem exchange of CO2 in Siberian tundra reveals the seasonality of its carbon sequestration strength

    Article • Biogeosciences, March 2013, Copernicus GmbH

    Benjamin Runkle

  74. Spatial and seasonal variability of polygonal tundra water balance: Lena River Delta, northern Siberia (Russia)

    Article • Hydrogeology Journal, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Benjamin Runkle

  75. Attenuation Correction Procedures for Water Vapour Fluxes from Closed-Path Eddy-Covariance Systems

    Article • Boundary-Layer Meteorology, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Benjamin Runkle

  76. Tracking the structural and functional development of a perennial pepperweed (Lepidium latifolium L.) infestation using a multi-year archive of webcam imagery and eddy covariance measurements

    Article • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, July 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Rodrigo Vargas, Benjamin Runkle

  77. Carbon dioxide exchange of a pepperweed (Lepidium latifoliumL.) infestation: How do flowering and mowing affect canopy photosynthesis and autotrophic respiration?

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, February 2011, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Benjamin Runkle

  78. Greenhouse gas reduction benefits and costs of a large-scale transition to hydrogen in the USA

    Article • Energy Policy, January 2009, Elsevier

    Benjamin Runkle