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  1. Smoke‐Affected Rain Fertilizes Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems

    Article • Global Change Biology, August 2026, Wiley

    Dr Janice Brahney

  2. Downwind deposition of pyrogenic particles from wildfire plumes

    Article • Communications Earth & Environment, June 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Janice Brahney

  3. Microplastic Entrainment in Hail: Uncovering New Pathways for Atmospheric Pollution

    Article • May 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Janice Brahney

  4. A Collaborative Network to Understand How Wildland Fire Emissions Influence Lake Ecosystems

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin, May 2026, Wiley

    Dr Janice Brahney

  5. Shrinking glaciers drive the reorganisation of river food webs

    Article • February 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Janice Brahney, Gisli Mar Gislason

  6. Metal mobility and bioaccessibility in Great Salt Lake dust and exposure risks for humans and food crops

    Article • Atmospheric Environment, February 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Janice Brahney

  7. Season, wind speed, and seasonal rain are major drivers of a regional aeolian sediment transport model

    Article • PLOS One, September 2025, PLOS

    andrew kulmatiski, Dr Janice Brahney

  8. Diverse dust sources and warming trigger cyanobacteria abundance in freshwater ecosystems in the western United States

    Article • Environmental Research, August 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Janice Brahney

  9. Experimental evidence of dust‐driven shifts in production, chlorophyll a, and community composition in mountain lakes

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, May 2025, Wiley

    Dr Janice Brahney

  10. Quantifying Dust Nutrient Mobility Through an Alpine Watershed

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

    Dr Janice Brahney

  11. Wavelength Sensitive Plastic Photodissolution: Elucidating Quantum Yield Trends for Solar Activation Spectra

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, December 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Janice Brahney

  12. Characterizing variability in geochemistry and mineralogy of western US dust sources

    Article • Aeolian Research, December 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Janice Brahney

  13. Dust in the Critical Zone: North American case studies

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, November 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Janice Brahney

  14. The concentration of organic nitrogen in mountain lakes is increasing as a result of reduced acid deposition and climate change

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

    Dr Janice Brahney

  15. Wildfire smoke impacts lake ecosystems

    Article • Global Change Biology, June 2024, Wiley

    Dr Janice Brahney

  16. Satellite-based aerosol optical depth estimates over the continental U.S. during the 2020 wildfire season: Roles of smoke and land cover

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

    Dr Janice Brahney

  17. 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

  18. Anthropogenic forcing leads to an abrupt shift to phytoplankton dominance in a shallow eutrophic lake

    Article • Freshwater Biology, January 2024, Wiley

    Dr Janice Brahney

  19. The Concentration of Organic Nitrogen in Mountain Lakes is Increasing as a Result of Reduced Acid Deposition and Climate Change

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Janice Brahney

  20. Dust storms increase the tolerance of phytoplankton to thermal and pH changes

    Article • Global Change Biology, November 2023, Wiley

    Dr Janice Brahney

  21. Long-distance atmospheric transport of microplastic fibres influenced by their shapes

    Article • Nature Geoscience, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Janice Brahney

  22. Detection of fish sedimentary DNA in aquatic systems: A review of methodological challenges and future opportunities

    Article • Environmental DNA, August 2023, Wiley

    Dr Janice Brahney

  23. Growth of grasses and forbs, nutrient concentration, and microbial activity in soil treated with microbeads

    Article • Environmental Pollution, May 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Janice Brahney

  24. Beaver Pond Geomorphology Influences Pond Nitrogen Retention and Denitrification

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, April 2023, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Janice Brahney

  25. Primary production modeling identifies restoration targets for shifting shallow, eutrophic lakes to clear-water regimes

    Article • Freshwater Science, March 2023, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Janice Brahney

  26. Long-distance atmospheric transport of microplastic fibers depends on their shapes

    Article • January 2023, Research Square

    Dr Janice Brahney

  27. Soil Temperature and Moisture as Key Controls of Phosphorus Export in Mountain Watersheds

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Janice Brahney

  28. Sediment source fingerprinting as an aid to large-scale landscape conservation and restoration: A review for the Mississippi River Basin

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, December 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Janice Brahney

  29. Evaluation of Hydrograph Separation Techniques with Uncertain End‐member Composition

    Article • Hydrological Processes, September 2022, Wiley

    Dr Janice Brahney

  30. Heavy metal levels and sources in suspended particulate matters of the glacier watersheds in Northeast Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Frontiers in Environmental Science, August 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Janice Brahney

  31. The scaling of leaf nitrogen and phosphorus along a phosphorus availability gradient in a subtropical forest

    Article • Plant Ecology, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Janice Brahney

  32. Evidence for multiple potential drivers of increased phosphorus in high-elevation lakes

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, June 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Janice Brahney

  33. Sources and fate of atmospheric microplastics revealed from inverse and dispersion modelling: From global emissions to deposition

    Article • Journal of Hazardous Materials, June 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Janice Brahney

  34. Microplastics and nanoplastics in the marine-atmosphere environment

    Article • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Janice Brahney, steve allen

  35. Metal concentrations in wetland plant tissues influences transfer to terrestrial food webs

    Article • Ecotoxicology, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Janice Brahney

  36. Uranium Isotopic Composition and Constraints on the Provenance of the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau's Surface Dust

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface, March 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Janice Brahney

  37. Uranium isotopes of aeolian dust deposited in northern Tibetan Plateau glaciers: Implications for tracing aeolian dust provenance

    Article • Fundamental Research, February 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Janice Brahney

  38. Corrigendum to Identifying factors that affect mountain lake sensitivity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition across multiple scales

    Article • Water Research, February 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Janice Brahney

  39. Identifying factors that affect mountain lake sensitivity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition across multiple scales

    Article • Water Research, February 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Janice Brahney

  40. 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

  41. The physical and chemical limnology of Yukon’s largest lake, Lhù’ààn Mân’ (Kluane Lake), prior to the 2016 ‘A’ą̈y Chù’ diversion

    Article • Arctic Science, September 2021, Canadian Science Publishing

    Dr Janice Brahney

  42. Hf–Nd–Sr Isotopic Composition of the Tibetan Plateau Dust as a Fingerprint for Regional to Hemispherical Transport

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

    Dr Janice Brahney

  43. Source or sink? Quantifying beaver pond influence on non-point source pollutant transport in the Intermountain West

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Janice Brahney

  44. Constraining the atmospheric limb of the plastic cycle

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Janice Brahney

  45. Glacier recession alters stream water quality characteristics facilitating bloom formation in the benthic diatom Didymosphenia geminata

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

    Dr Janice Brahney

  46. Effects of a diatom ecosystem engineer (Didymosphenia geminata) on stream food webs: implications for native fishes

    Article • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, February 2021, Canadian Science Publishing

    Dr Janice Brahney

  47. Aeolian dust transport, cycle and influences in high-elevation cryosphere of the Tibetan Plateau region: New evidences from alpine snow and ice

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, December 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Janice Brahney

  48. Key rules of life and the fading cryosphere: Impacts in alpine lakes and streams

    Article • Global Change Biology, October 2020, Wiley

    Dr Janice Brahney

  49. A new sampler for the collection and retrieval of dry dust deposition

    Article • Aeolian Research, August 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Janice Brahney

  50. Protecting endangered species in the USA requires both public and private land conservation

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Janice Brahney

  51. Plastic rain in protected areas of the United States

    Article • Science, June 2020, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Janice Brahney

  52. Evidence for Large Holocene Earthquakes along the Denali Fault in Southwest Yukon, Canada

    Article • Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, May 2020, Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists

    Dr Janice Brahney

  53. Evidence for accelerated weathering and sulfate export in high alpine environments

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

    Dr Janice Brahney

  54. Climate change accelerates recovery of the Tatra Mountain lakes from acidification and increases their nutrient and chlorophyll a concentrations

    Article • Aquatic Sciences, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Janice Brahney

  55. Mountain lakes: Eyes on global environmental change

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, July 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Janice Brahney

  56. Guidelines for reporting and archiving 210Pb sediment chronologies to improve fidelity and extend data lifecycle

    Article • Quaternary Geochronology, June 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Janice Brahney

  57. Increased Dust Deposition in New Zealand Related to Twentieth Century Australian Land Use

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

    Dr Janice Brahney

  58. Relationships between borders, management agencies, and the likelihood of watershed impairment

    Article • PLOS One, September 2018, PLOS

    Dr Janice Brahney

  59. Determining annual cryosphere storage contributions to streamflow using historical hydrometric records

    Article • Hydrological Processes, February 2017, Wiley

    Dr Janice Brahney

  60. Evidence for a climate-driven hydrologic regime shift in the Canadian Columbia Basin

    Article • Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques, February 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Janice Brahney

  61. Aerosol Deposition Impacts on Land and Ocean Carbon Cycles

    Article • Current Climate Change Reports, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Janice Brahney

  62. Continental-Scale Increase in Lake and Stream Phosphorus: Are Oligotrophic Systems Disappearing in the United States?

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, April 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Janice Brahney

  63. Is atmospheric phosphorus pollution altering global alpine Lake stoichiometry?

    Article • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, September 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Janice Brahney

  64. Ecological changes in two contrasting lakes associated with human activity and dust transport in western Wyoming

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, February 2015, Wiley

    Dr Janice Brahney

  65. Separating the influences of diagenesis, productivity and anthropogenic nitrogen deposition on sedimentary δ15N variations

    Article • Organic Geochemistry, October 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Janice Brahney

  66. Dust mediated transfer of phosphorus to alpine lake ecosystems of the Wind River Range, Wyoming, USA

    Article • Biodegradation, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Janice Brahney

  67. Increasing Ca2+ deposition in the western US: The role of mineral aerosols

    Article • Aeolian Research, September 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Janice Brahney

  68. Biogeochemical response of alpine lakes to a recent increase in dust deposition in the Southwestern, US

    Article • Biogeosciences, September 2011, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Janice Brahney

  69. Biogeochemical response of alpine lakes to recent changes in dust deposition

    Article • Biogeosciences Discussions, December 2010, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Janice Brahney

  70. Late Holocene paleohydrology of Kluane Lake, Yukon Territory, Canada

    Article • Journal of Paleolimnology, August 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Janice Brahney

  71. Changes to the Productivity and Trophic Structure of a Sockeye Salmon Rearing Lake in British Columbia

    Article • North American Journal of Fisheries Management, April 2010, Wiley

    Dr Janice Brahney

  72. Timing and cause of water level fluctuations in Kluane Lake, Yukon Territory, over the past 5000 years

    Article • Quaternary Research, September 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Janice Brahney

  73. Geochemical reconstruction of late Holocene drainage and mixing in Kluane Lake, Yukon Territory

    Article • Journal of Paleolimnology, December 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Janice Brahney

  74. The influence of nitrogen limitation on d15N and carbon : nitrogen ratios in sediments from sockeye salmon nursery lakes in British Columbia, Canada

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, September 2006, Wiley

    Dr Janice Brahney