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  1. Testing forecast visualization designs for improving agricultural decision support products

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, April 2026, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  2. Comparing Flood Inundation Map Features and Diagnosing Decision Support Design Challenges

    Article • Hydrological Processes, January 2026, Wiley

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  3. Using visualization science to inform the design of environmental decision-support tools—A case study of the U.S. Geological Survey Waterwatch

    Article • January 2025, US Geological Survey

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  4. Near-term ecological forecasting for climate change action

    Article • Nature Climate Change, November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  5. Observed and Potential Conflicts in Management of Interdependent Infrastructure Systems

    Article • Journal of Management in Engineering, July 2024, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  6. Decision Analysis to Advance Environmental Sustainability

    Article • Decision Analysis, December 2023, INFORMS

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  7. The usability gap in water resources open data and actionable science initiatives

    Article • JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, August 2023, Wiley

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  8. Assessing stakeholder climate data needs for farm-level decision-making in the U.S. Corn Belt

    Article • Geoscience Communication, March 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  9. Chapter 31 : Adaptation. Fifth National Climate Assessment

    Article • January 2023, U.S. Global Change Research Program

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  10. Assessing stakeholder climate data needs for farm-level decision-making in the U.S. Corn Belt

    Article • May 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  11. Supplementary material to "Assessing stakeholder climate data needs for farm-level decision-making in the U.S. Corn Belt"

    Article • May 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  12. Improving the usability of climate indicator visualizations through diagnostic design principles

    Article • Climatic Change, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  13. Observations of greenhouse gases as climate indicators

    Article • Climatic Change, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  14. Synthesis of Indicators, Datasets, and Frameworks Available to Establish Resilience and Adaptation Indicators: Case Study of Chesapeake Bay Region, USA

    Article • Current Climate Change Reports, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  15. National indicators of climate changes, impacts, and vulnerability

    Article • Climatic Change, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  16. Seasonality of biological and physical systems as indicators of climatic variation and change

    Article • Climatic Change, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  17. Increasing the Impact of Public Engagement Within and Beyond the Ecological Society of America

    Article • The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, August 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  18. Stakeholder-defined scientific needs for coastal resilience decisions in the Northeast U.S.

    Article • Marine Policy, August 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  19. Article • Business Strategy and the Environment, March 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  20. A decision‐analytic approach to screening in chemical alternatives assessment

    Article • Business Strategy and the Environment, January 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  21. Using Visualization Science to Improve Expert and Public Understanding of Probabilistic Temperature and Precipitation Outlooks

    Article • Weather Climate and Society, January 2020, American Meteorological Society

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  22. A framework for national climate indicators

    Article • Climatic Change, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  23. Call for new AAAS harassment policy

    Article • Science, September 2018, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  24. Pathways to Coastal Resiliency: The Adaptive Gradients Framework

    Article • Sustainability, July 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  25. Efforts large and small speed science reform

    Article • Science, April 2018, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  26. Iterative near-term ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Rodrigo Vargas, Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  27. Exploring visual representations to support data re‐use for interdisciplinary science

    Article • Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, January 2018, Wiley

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  28. Article • Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, January 2018, Wiley

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  29. Engagement 2.0: increasing our collective impact

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, October 2016, Wiley

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  30. Methods for translating narrative scenarios into quantitative assessments of land use change

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, August 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  31. Partition Dependence and Carryover Biases in Subjective Probability Assessment Surveys for Continuous Variables: Model-Based Estimation and Correction

    Article • Decision Analysis, March 2016, INFORMS

    Dr Melissa A Kenney, Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  32. Building an integrated U.S. National Climate Indicators System

    Article • Climatic Change, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  33. Building an integrated U.S. National Climate Indicators System

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  34. Developing better indicators to track climate impacts

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, October 2015, Wiley

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  35. Reconceptualizing the Role of Infrastructure in Resilience

    Article • Eos, August 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  36. Article • Eos, August 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  37. From global change science to action with social sciences

    Article • Nature Climate Change, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  38. Combining expert elicitation and stated preference methods to value ecosystem services from improved lake water quality

    Article • Ecological Economics, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  39. Ch. 26: Decision Support: Connecting Science, Risk Perception, and Decisions. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment

    Article • January 2014, U.S. Global Change Research Program

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  40. Cost analysis of water and sediment diversions to optimize land building in the Mississippi River delta

    Article • Water Resources Research, June 2013, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  41. Is Urban Stream Restoration Worth It?1

    Article • JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, February 2012, Wiley

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  42. Our current understanding of lake ecosystem response to climate change: What have we really learned from the north temperate deep lakes?

    Article • Journal of Great Lakes Research, March 2011, Elsevier

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  43. Robust Multivariate Outlier Detection Methods for Environmental Data

    Article • Journal of Environmental Engineering, November 2010, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  44. Examining the relationship between ecosystem structure and function using structural equation modelling: A case study examining denitrification potential in restored wetland soils

    Article • Ecological Modelling, March 2010, Elsevier

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  45. Using structural equation modeling and expert elicitation to select nutrient criteria variables for south-central Florida lakes

    Article • Lake and Reservoir Management, June 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  46. Making the most of your teaching assistantship experience

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, October 2007, Wiley

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  47. Exploring ecological patterns with structural equation modeling and Bayesian analysis

    Article • Ecological Modelling, February 2006, Elsevier

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  48. Recruiters & Academia

    Article • Nature, August 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  49. A Predictive Approach to Nutrient Criteria

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, May 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney

  50. A Cost-Benefit Model for Evaluating Remediation Alternatives at Superfund Sites Incorporating the Value of Ecosystem Services

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Melissa A. Kenney