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  1. Assessing Environmental Drivers of Denitrification in Restored Riverine Floodplains

    Article • Journal of Ecological Engineering Design, March 2026, University of Vermont Press

    Sara McMillan

  2. Wetland Dissolved Organic Matter Fluorescence, Morphology, and Surrounding Land Use Linked to CH 4 and N 2 O Concentrations in Agricultural Landscapes

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

    Sara McMillan

  3. Modeling nonlinear edge-of-field buffers to enhance sediment trapping efficiency: Application of AgBufferBuilder in the Saginaw Bay basin

    Article • Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Sara McMillan

  4. Vegetation reduces cooling demand in low-income neighborhoods on hot days in Chicago

    Article • Environmental Research Communications, July 2024, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Sara McMillan

  5. Drainage Water Management: A Review of Nutrient Load Reductions and Cost Effectiveness

    Article • Journal of the ASABE, January 2024, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)

    Sara McMillan

  6. Water Quality Sampling Provides Insight into Nutrient Sources and Pathways in an Agricultural Watershed in the Midwestern USA

    Article • Journal of Natural Resources and Agricultural Ecosystems, January 2024, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)

    Sara McMillan

  7. Incorporating Network Scale River Bathymetry to Improve Characterization of Fluvial Processes in Flood Modeling

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

    Sara McMillan

  8. Composition and potential functional roles of soil fungal communities on arid farms in Arequipa (Southern Peru) characterized using SMRT sequencing

    Article • Applied Soil Ecology, January 2022, Elsevier

    Sara McMillan

  9. Hydrologic connectivity and land cover affect floodplain lake water quality, fish abundance, and fish diversity in floodplain lakes of the Wabash‐White River basin

    Article • River Research and Applications, November 2021, Wiley

    Sara McMillan

  10. Riparian seasonal water quality and greenhouse gas dynamics following stream restoration

    Article • Biogeochemistry, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sara McMillan

  11. Stormwater on the margins: Influence of race, gender, and education on willingness to participate in stormwater management

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, July 2021, Elsevier

    Sara McMillan

  12. Evaluation of Sampling Methods for Robotic Sediment Sampling Systems

    Article • IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, April 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Sara McMillan, Wonse Jo

  13. Seasonal evaluation of biotic and abiotic factors suggests phosphorus retention in constructed floodplains in three agricultural streams

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, August 2020, Elsevier

    Sara McMillan

  14. Developing an improved user interface for a physically-based stream solute transport model

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, July 2020, Elsevier

    Sara McMillan

  15. An improved process-based representation of stream solute transport in the soil and water assessment tools

    Article • Hydrological Processes, April 2020, Wiley

    Sara McMillan

  16. Stream and floodplain restoration impacts riparian zone hydrology of agricultural streams

    Article • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sara McMillan

  17. Impact of Riparian and Stream Restoration on Denitrification in Geomorphic Features of Agricultural Streams

    Article • Transactions of the ASABE, January 2020, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)

    Sara McMillan

  18. Modeling Runoff and Nitrogen Loads From a Watershed at Different Levels of Impervious Surface Coverage and Connectivity to Storm Water Control Measures

    Article • Water Resources Research, April 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Sara McMillan

  19. Simple regression models can act as calibration-substitute to approximate transient storage parameters in streams

    Article • Advances in Water Resources, January 2019, Elsevier

    Sara McMillan

  20. Changes in riparian hydrology and biogeochemistry following storm events at a restored agricultural stream

    Article • Environmental Science Processes & Impacts, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Sara McMillan

  21. Effects of Urban Stormwater Control Measures on Denitrification in Receiving Streams

    Article • Water, November 2018, MDPI AG

    Sara McMillan

  22. Influence of stormwater control measures on water quality at nested sites in a small suburban watershed

    Article • Urban Water Journal, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Sara McMillan

  23. Before the storm: antecedent conditions as regulators of hydrologic and biogeochemical response to extreme climate events

    Article • Biogeochemistry, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sara McMillan

  24. Modeling framework for representing long-term effectiveness of best management practices in addressing hydrology and water quality problems: Framework development and demonstration using a Bayesian method

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, May 2018, Elsevier

    Sara McMillan

  25. Restored floodplains enhance denitrification compared to naturalized floodplains in agricultural streams

    Article • Biogeochemistry, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sara McMillan

  26. A review on effectiveness of best management practices in improving hydrology and water quality: Needs and opportunities

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, December 2017, Elsevier

    Sara McMillan

  27. Increasing floodplain connectivity through urban stream restoration increases nutrient and sediment retention

    Article • Ecological Engineering, November 2017, Elsevier

    Sara McMillan

  28. Stormwater management network effectiveness and implications for urban watershed function: A critical review

    Article • Hydrological Processes, October 2017, Wiley

    Sara McMillan

  29. A model of hydrology and water quality for stormwater control measures

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, September 2017, Elsevier

    Sara McMillan

  30. Denitrification along the Stream-Riparian Continuum in Restored and Unrestored Agricultural Streams

    Article • Journal of Environmental Quality, September 2017, Wiley

    Sara McMillan

  31. Characterizing the Effects of Stormwater Mitigation on Nutrient Export and Stream Concentrations

    Article • Environmental Management, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sara McMillan

  32. Hydrologic response to stormwater control measures in urban watersheds

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, October 2016, Elsevier

    Sara McMillan

  33. Impact of Precipitation Intensity and Riparian Geomorphic Characteristics on Greenhouse Gas Emissions at the Soil-Atmosphere Interface in a Water-Limited Riparian Zone

    Article • Water Air & Soil Pollution, December 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sara McMillan

  34. Application of isotope hydrograph separation to understand contributions of stormwater control measures to urban headwater streams

    Article • Hydrological Processes, September 2015, Wiley

    Sara McMillan

  35. Short-term spatial and temporal variability in greenhouse gas fluxes in riparian zones

    Article • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sara McMillan

  36. Channel complexity and nitrate concentrations drive denitrification rates in urban restored and unrestored streams

    Article • Ecological Engineering, December 2014, Elsevier

    Sara McMillan

  37. Influence of Restoration Age and Riparian Vegetation on Reach‐Scale Nutrient Retention in Restored Urban Streams

    Article • JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, June 2014, Wiley

    Sara McMillan

  38. Taking the pulse of stream restoration practices: moving towards healthier streams

    Article • Hydrological Processes, November 2013, Wiley

    Sara McMillan

  39. Urbanization Effects on Watershed Hydrology and In-Stream Processes in the Southern United States

    Article • Water, September 2010, MDPI AG

    Sara McMillan

  40. Denitrification of Nitrogen Released from Senescing Algal Biomass in Coastal Agricultural Headwater Streams

    Article • Journal of Environmental Quality, January 2010, American Society of Agronomy

    Sara McMillan

  41. Nitrogen and Phosphorus Attenuation within the Stream Network of a Coastal, Agricultural Watershed

    Article • Journal of Environmental Quality, January 2006, American Society of Agronomy

    Sara McMillan

  42. Phytoremediation of MethylTertiary-Butyl Ether

    Article • July 2005, Wiley

    Sara McMillan

  43. Phytoremediation of MTBE from a Groundwater Plume

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, March 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Sara McMillan