Publications and Other Products

Badola, A., Panda, S.K., Roberts, D.A., Waigl, C.F., Bhatt, U.S., Smith, C.W., Jandt, R.R. (2021). Hyperspectral data simulation (Sentinel-2 to AVIRIS-NG) for improved wildfire fuel mapping, Boreal Alaska. Remote Sens., 13, 1693. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13091693

Badola, A., Panda, S., Roberts, D.A., Waigl, C.F., Jandt, R.R. and Uma S. Bhatt. (2022). A novel method to simulate AVIRIS-NG hyperspectral image from Sentinel-2 image for improved vegetation/wildfire fuel mapping, boreal Alaska. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2022.102891

Badola, A., Panda, S. K., Thompson, D. R., Roberts, D. A., Waigl, C. F., & Bhatt, U. S. (2023). Estimation and Validation of Sub-Pixel Needleleaf Cover Fraction in the Boreal Forest of Alaska to Aid Fire Management. Remote Sensing, 15(10), 2484. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15102484

Ballinger, T. J., Bhatt, U. S., Bieniek, P. A., Brettschneider, B., Lader, R. T., Littell, J. S., Thoman, R. L., Waigl, C. F., Walsh, J. E., & Webster, M. A. (2023). Alaska Terrestrial and Marine Climate Trends, 1957–2021, Journal of Climate, 36(13), 4375-4391. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0434.1 

Bar, S., Parida, B.R., Pandey, A.C., Shankar, B.U., Kumar, P., Panda, S.K., and Behera, M.D. (2022) Modeling and prediction of fire occurrences along an elevational gradient in Western Himalayas. Applied Geography, V. 151 (102867). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2022.102867

Bar, S., Parida B. R., Panda, S.K. (2022) Changing forest fire regime with relation to climate conditions over western and eastern Himalaya, India in Handbook of Himalayan Ecosystems and Sustainability, Vol. 1: Spatio-Temporal Monitoring of Forests and Climate, Edited by B.R. Parida, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 9781032203140. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/9781003268383-19/changing-forest-fire-regime-relation-climatic-conditions-western-eastern-himalaya-india-somnath-bar-bikash-ranjan-parida-arvind-chandra-pandey-santosh-kumar-panda

Bhatt, U.S., Lader, R.T., Walsh, J.E., Bieniek, P.A., Thoman, R., Berman, M., Borries-Strigle, C., Bulock, K., Chriest, J., Hahn, M., Hendricks, A.S., Jandt, R., Little, J., McEvoy, D., Moore, C., Rupp, T.S., Schmidt, J., Stevens, E., Strader, H., Waigl, C., White, J., York, A., and R. Ziel. (2021). Emerging anthropogenic influences on the Southcentral Alaska temperature and precipitation extremes and related fires in 2019. Land, 10(1), 82. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10010082

Bhatt, U.S.; Carreras, B.A.; Newman, D.E.; Barredo, J.M.R.; Collet, P.; Gomila, D. 2022: The Potential Impact of Climate Change on the Efficiency and Reliability of Solar, Hydro, and Wind Energy Sources. Land, 11, 1275. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081275

Bieniek, P.A., Bhatt, U.S., York, A., Walsh, J.E., Lader, R., Strader, H., Ziel, R., Jandt, R.R. and Thoman, R. (2020). “Lightning variability in dynamically downscaled simulations of Alaska’s present and future summer climate.” J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 59, 1139–1152. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-19-0209.1.

Carreras, B.A., Reynolds-Barredo, J.M., Newman, D. E., Bhatt, U., Colet, P., Gomila, D., (2022). A first analysis of the potential impact of climate change on the efficiency and reliability of solar and hydro energy sources. HICSS, Proceedings of the 55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'22). DOI:10.24251/HICSS.2022.415

Carreras, B.A., Newman, D.E., Bhatt, U.S., Reynolds Barredo, J.M., Colet, P., and Gomila G. (2023) An Initial Analysis of the Impact of Future Climate Change on the Efficiency and Reliability of Solar, Wind and Hydro Energy Sources. HICSS, Proceedings of the 56th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'23)

Hahn, M.B., Kuiper, G., O’Dell, K., Fischer, E.V., & S. Magzamen. (2021). Wildfire smoke is associated with an increased risk of cardiorespiratory emergency department visits in Alaska. GeoHealth, 5, e2020GH000349. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GH000349

Jandt, R. and A. York. 2021. Alaska Burning: Wildfire is transforming the landscape of the high north and amplifying climate change. Scientifc American, October: 42-49.

Miller, E.A., Jones, B.M., Baughman, C.A., Jandt, R.R., Jenkins, J.L., and D.A. Yokel. 2023. Unrecorded Tundra Fires of the Arctic Slope, Alaska USA. Fire 2023, 6, 101. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6030101

Sampath, A., Bhatt, U.S., Bieniek P.A., Ziel, R., York, A., Strader, H., Alden, S., Thoman, R., Brettschneider, B., Petrescu, E., Peng. P. and Sarah Mitchell. (2021). Evaluation of seasonal forecasts for the fire season in Interior Alaska. Weather and Forecasting, 36(2), 601-613. https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-19-0225.1

Schmidt, J. and See, J. (2023). Advancing Wildfire Preparedness and Planning in Anchorage
Wildfire Exposure and Egress Study. UAA ISER Website. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23826762/anchorage-wildfire-egress-report.pdf 

Scholten, R.C., Jandt, R., Miller, E.A. et al. Overwintering fires in boreal forests. Nature, 593, 399–404 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03437-y

Smith, C. W. , Panda, S.K., Bhatt, U.S., Meyer, F.J., Haan, R. W. (2020) Improved vegetation and wildfire fuel type mapping using NASA AVIRIS-NG hyperspectral data, interior Alaska. In conference proceedings of 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium scheduled to be help during July 19-24, 2020 at Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA.

Smith, C.W., Panda, S.K., Bhatt, U.S., Meyer, F.J. (2021). Improved boreal forest wildfire fuel type mapping in Interior Alaska Using AVIRIS-NG hyperspectral data. Remote Sens., 13(5), 897. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13050897

Smith, C.W.; Panda, S.K.; Bhatt, U.S.; Meyer, F.J.; Badola, A. and J.L. Hrobak. (2021). Assessing wildfire burn severity and its relationship with environmental factors: A case study in Interior Alaska boreal forest. Remote Sens., 13(10), 1966. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13101966

York, A., Bhatt, U.S., Gargulinski, E., Grabinski, Z., Jain, P., Soja, A., Thoman, R.L. and R. Ziel. (2020). Wildland fire in high northern latitudes. In: NOAA Arctic Report Card 2020, R.L. Thoman, J. Richter-Menge, and M.L. Druckenmiller, Eds. https://doi.org/10.25923/2gef-3964

York, A., Bhatt, U.S., Gargulinski, E., Grabinski, Z., Jain, P., Soja, A., Thoman, R.L. and R. Ziel (2021). Arctic Report Card 2020: Wildland Fire in High Northern Latitudes. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(8). https://doi.org/10.25923/2gef-3964

Ziel, R.H., Bieniek, P.A., Bhatt, U.S., Strader, H., Rupp, T.S. and A. York. (2020). “A comparison of fire weather indices with MODIS fire days for the natural regions of Alaska forests.” Forests, 11(5): 516. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11050516

Bacus SC, Kelley AL (2023) Effects of ocean acidification and ocean warming on the behavior and physiology of a subarctic, intertidal grazer. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 711:31-45. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14308

Beaudreau A.H., Bergstrom C.A., Whitney E.J., Duncan D.H. and N.C. Lundstrom (2022). Seasonal and interannual variation in high‑latitude estuarine fish community structure along a glacial to non‑glacial watershed gradient in Southeast Alaska. Environmental Biology of Fishes. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-022-01241-9

Bellmore, R. J, J.B. Fellman, E. Hood, M.R. Dunkle, and R.T. Edwards (2022) A melting cryosphere constrains fish growth by synchronizing the seasonal phenology of river food webs. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16273

Bidlack, A.L., Bisbing, S.M., Buma, B.J., Diefenderfer, H.L., Fellman, J.B., Floyd, W.C., Giesbrecht, I., Lally, A., Lertzman, K.P., Perakis, S.S., Butman, D.E, D'Amore, D.V., Fleming, S.W., Hood, E.W., Hunt, B.P.V., Kiffney, P.M., McNicol, G., Menounos, B. and S.E. Tank. (2021). Climate-mediated changes to linked terrestrial and marine ecosystems across the Northeast Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest margin. BioScience, biaa171. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa171

Duncan, D.H. and A.H. Beaudreau. (2019). Spatiotemporal variation and size‐selective predation on hatchery‐ and wild‐born juvenile chum salmon at marine entry by nearshore fishes in Southeast Alaska. Marine and Coastal Fisheries, 11(5): 372-390. https://doi.org/10.1002/mcf2.10091

Edwards, R.T., D'Amore, D.V., Biles, F.E., Fellman, J.B., Hood, E.W., Trubilowicz, J.W., & W.C. Floyd. (2021). Riverine dissolved organic carbon and freshwater export in the eastern Gulf of Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 126, e2020JG005725. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005725

Fellman, J.B., Hood, E., Behnke, M.I., Welker, J.M., & R.G.M. Spencer. (2020). Stormflows drive stream carbon concentration, speciation, and dissolved organic matter composition in coastal temperate rainforest watersheds. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125, e2020JG005804. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005804

Fellman, J.B., Hood, E., D’Amore, D.V. et al. (2021). Streamflow variability controls N and P export and speciation from Alaskan coastal temperate rainforest watersheds. Biogeochemistry, 152, 253–270. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-020-00752-w

Fellman, J.B., Bellmore, R.J., Johnson, C., Dunkle, M.R. and E. Hood, E. (2022) Glacier runoff influences biogeochemistry and resource availability in coastal temperate rainforest streams: Implications for juvenile salmon growth. Limnology and Oceanography, https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12251

Giesbrecht, I. J. W., S.E. Tank, G.W. Frazer, E. Hood, S.G. Gonzalez Arriola, D.E. Butman, et al. (2022). Watershed classification predicts streamflow regime and organic carbon dynamics in the Northeast Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36: e2021GB007047. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GB007047

Hauri, C., Pagès, R., McDonnell, A.M.P. et al. (2021).  Modulation of ocean acidification by decadal climate variability in the Gulf of Alaska. Commun Earth Environ 2, 191. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00254-z

Hauri, C., Schultz, C., Hedstrom, K., Danielson, S., Irving. B., Doney, S.C., Dussin, R., Curchitser, E.N., Hill, D.F. and Charles A. Stock. (2020). A regional hindcast model simulating ecosystem dynamics, inorganic carbon chemistry and ocean acidification in the Gulf of Alaska. Biogeosciences, 17, 3837-3857. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-3837-2020

Holt, A. D., Kellerman, A. M., Li, W., Stubbins, A., Wagner, S., McKenna, A., Fellman, J., Hood, E., and Spencer, R. G. M.  (2021). Assessing the role of photochemistry in driving the composition of dissolved organic matter in glacier runoff. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 126, e2021JG006516. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JG006516

Holt, A.D., Fellman, J., Hood, E. et al. (2021). The evolution of stream dissolved organic matter composition following glacier retreat in coastal watersheds of southeast Alaska. Biogeochemistry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-021-00815-6

Hood, E., Fellman, J. B., & R.G.M. Spencer. (2020). Glacier loss impacts riverine organic carbon transport to the ocean. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL089804. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089804

Hood, E., Fellman, J., Edwards, R.T., D’Amore, D.V., Scott, D. (2019). Salmon-derived nutrient and organic matter fluxes from a coastal catchment in southeast Alaska. Freshwater Biology, 64: 1157-1168. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13292

Jenckes, J., Ibarra, D. E., & Munk, L. A. (2022). Concentration-discharge patterns across the Gulf of Alaska reveal geomorphological and glacierization controls on stream water solute generation and export. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2021GL095152. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095152

Jenckes, J., Munk, L. A., Ibarra, D. E., Boutt, D. F., Fellman, J., & Hood, E. (2023). Hydroclimate drives seasonal riverine export across a gradient of glacierized high-latitude coastal catchments. Water Resources Research, 59, e2022WR033305. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR033305

Jenson, A., Amundson, J. M., Kingslake, J., and Hood, E. (2022). Long-period variability in ice-dammed glacier outburst floods due to evolving catchment geometry. The Cryosphere, 16(1), 333–347. https://doi:10.5194/tc-16-333-2022

Johnson, M. (2021). Subtidal surface circulation in lower Cook Inlet and Kachemak Bay, Alaska. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 41, 101609. https://doi.org/0.1016/j.rsma.2021.101609

Kienholz, C., Pierce, J., Hood, E., Amundson, J.M., Wolken, G.J., Jacobs, A., Hart, S., Wikstrom-Jones, K., Abdel-Fattah, D., Johnson, C, and J.S. Conaway. (2020) Deglacierization of a marginal basin and implications for outburst floods, Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska. Frontiers in Earth Science, (8), 137. https://www.doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00137

Konar, B., Mitchell, T.J., Iken, K., Coletti, H., Dean, T., Esler, D., Lindeberg, M., Pister, B. and B Weitzman. (2019). Wasting disease and static environmental variables drive sea star assemblages in the Northern Gulf of Alaska. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 520: 151209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2019.151209

LaBarre, A., B. Konar, and K. Iken. 2023. Influence of environmental conditions on Mytilus trossulus size frequency distributions in two glacially influenced estuaries. Estuaries and Coasts. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-023-01175-0

Lundstrom, N.C., Beaudreau, A.H., Mueter, F.J. and B. Konar (2022). Environmental drivers of nearshore fish community composition and size structure in glacially influenced Gulf of Alaska estuaries. Estuaries and Coasts. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-022-01057-x

McCabe, M.K. and Brenda Konar (2021). Influence of environmental attributes on intertidal community structure in glacial estuaries. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2021.104986

McNicol, G., Hood, E., Butman, D. E., Tank, S. E., Giesbrecht, I. J. W., Floyd, W., et al. (2023). Small, coastal temperate rainforest watersheds dominate dissolved organic carbon transport to the northeast Pacific Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL103024. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103024 

Miller, C.A. & A.L. Kelley (2021). Alkalinity cycling and carbonate chemistry decoupling in seagrass mystify processes of acidification mitigation. Sci Rep 11, 13500. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92771-2

Myers, H.J., D.W. Olsen, C.O. Matkin, L.A. Horstmann, and B. Konar (2021). Passive acoustic monitoring of killer whales (Orcinus orca) reveals year-round distribution and residency patterns in the Gulf of Alaska. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99668-0

Pitman, K.J, Moore, J.W., Sloat, M.R., Beaudreau, A.H., Bidlack, A.L., Brenner, R.E., Hood, E.W., Pess, G.R., Mantua, N.J., Milner, A.M., Radic, V., Reeves, G.H., Schindler, D.E. and D.C. Whited. (2020). Glacial retreat and Pacific salmon. BioScience, 7(3): 220–236. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa015

Pitman, K.J., J.W. Moore, M. Huss, M.R. Sloat, D. Whited, T. Beechie, E. Hood, D.E. Schindler, A.M. Milner, R. Brenner, G.R. Pess, G.H. Reeves, and V. Radic (2021) Glacier retreat creating new Pacific Salmon habitat in western North America, Nature Communications, 12:6816. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26897-2 

Russo, A. A., Boutt, D. F., Munk, L. A., & Jenckes, J. (2023). Contribution of Fresh Submarine Groundwater Discharge to the Gulf of Alaska. Water Resources Research, 59, e2023WR034912. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR034912  

Ulaski, B.P., D.S. Sikes, and B. Konar. 2023. Beach-cast and drifting seaweed wrack is an important resource for marine and terrestrial macroinvertebrates in high latitudes. Marine Environmental Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2023.105970

Ulaski, B.P., Konar, B. and E.O. Otis. (2020). Seaweed reproduction and harvest rebound in Southcentral Alaska: Implications for wild stock management. Estuaries and Coasts. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-020-00740-1

Ulaski, Brian P., Edward O. Otis, and Brenda Konar (2023) How landscape variables influence the relative abundance, composition, and reproductive viability of macroalgal wrack in a high latitude glacial estuary. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 280 : 108169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2022.108169

Umanzor, S., Sandoval-Gil, J.M. & Conitz, J. Ecophysiological Responses of the Intertidal Seaweed Fucus Distichus to Temperature Changes and Reduced Light Driven by Tides and Glacial Input. Estuaries and Coasts 46, 1269–1279 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-023-01207-9

Weitzman, B. and B. Konar. (2021). Biological correlates of sea urchin recruitment in kelp forest and urchin barren habitats. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 663, 115–125. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13621

Williamson, E.R. & C.J. Sergeant (2021). Independent validation of downscaled climate estimates from a coastal Alaska watershed using local historical weather journals. PeerJ. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12055

Young, J., E. Petit, A. Arendt, E. Hood, G. Liston, and J. Beamer (2021) A changing hydrological regime: Trends in magnitude and timing of glacier ice melt and glacier runoff in a high latitude coastal watershed, Water Resources Research, 57: e2020WR027404. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR027404