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Watershed Sciences at Montana State

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     Brian L. McGlynn, Assistant Professor of Watershed Hydrology

 

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Manuscripts in review

*Gardner, K.K. and B.L. McGlynn. In review.  Spatio-Temporal Controls of Stream Water Nitrogen Export in a Rapidly Developing Watershed in the Northern Rockies.  Water Resources Research.

*Jencso, K. J., B. L. Mcglynn, M. N. Gooseff, S. M. Wondzell, and K. E. Bencala. In Review. Hydrologic Connectivity Between Landscapes and Streams: Transferring Reach and Plot Scale Understanding to the Catchment Scale, Water Resources Research.

*Pacific, V.J, B.L. McGlynn, *D.A. Riveros-Iregui, D. Welsch and H. Epstein. In review. Variability in soil CO2 production and surface CO2 efflux across riparian-hillslope transitions. Biogeochemistry.

*Riveros-Iregui, B.L. McGlynn, H. Epstein, and D.L. Welsch. In review.  Interpretation and evaluation of combined chamber and soil profile CO2 efflux measurement techniques:  New process understanding and accuracy assessment. JGR-Biogeosciences.

Wondzell, S.M., M.N. Gooseff, and B.L. McGlynn. In review. Hyporheic exchange flows and diel fluctuations in discharge during baseflow recession.  Hydrological Processes.

*Riveros-Iregui, D.A., B.L. McGlynn, H. Epstein, and D. Welsch. In review.  On the need for reconciling multi-scale approaches in C cycle scienceBiogeochemistry - new "Synthesis and Emerging Ideas" section.

*Campos, N., R.L. Lawrence, and B.L. McGlynn. In review. Object-oriented mapping of mountain resort development in Big Sky, Montana. ASPRS 2008 Conference Proceedings.

Gooseff, M.N., *M. A. Briggs, K.E. Bencala, B.L. McGlynn, and D.T. Scott. In Review. Uncertainty of Simulated Storage Zone Concentrations Using a Transient Storage Model of Stream Solute Transport. Limnology and Oceanography Methods

Gooseff, M.N. S. M. Wondzell, and B.L. McGlynn. Accepted pending revision. On the relationships among temporal patterns of evapo-transpiration, stream flow and riparian water levels in headwater catchments during baseflow. 36th IAH Congress in Toyama, Japan.

 

 Peer reviewed publications

Wagener, T., M. Sivapalan, and B.L. McGlynn. In press.  Catchment Classification and Services – Towards a new Paradigm for Catchment Hydrology Driven by Societal Needs.  In review at Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences, Wiley. (Invited).

*McIlroy, S., C. Montagne, C. Jones, and B.L. McGlynn.  In press. Identifying linkages between land use, geomorphology, and aquatic habitat in Sourdough Creek Watershed, Bozeman, MT.  Environmental Management.

Wondzell, S.M., M. Gooseff, and B.L. McGlynn. 2007.  Flow Velocity and the hydrologic behavior of streams during baseflow. Geophysical Research Letters. VOL. 34, L24404, doi:10.1029/2007GL031256, 2007

*Covino, T.P., and B.L. McGlynn.  2007. Stream gains and losses across a mountain-to-valley transition: Impacts on watershed hydrology and stream water chemistry, Water Resources Research, 43, W10431, doi:10.1029/2006WR005544.

*Riveros-Iregui, D.A., *R.E. Emanuel, *D.J. Muth, B.L. McGlynn, H.E. Epstein, D. E. Welsch, *V.J. Pacific. 2007. Diurnal hysteresis between soil temperature and soil CO2 is controlled by soil water content. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L17404, doi:10.1029/2007GL030938.

Wagener, T., M. Weiler, B.L. McGlynn, M. Gooseff, T. Meixner, L. Marshall, K. McGuire, M. McHale.  2007.  Taking the pulse of hydrology educationHydrological Processes. 21, 1789–1792.  DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6766.

Seibert J. and B.L. McGlynn. 2007. A new triangular multiple flow-direction algorithm for computing upslope areas from gridded digital elevation models. Water Resources Research. 43, W04501, doi:10.1029/2006WR005128.

Seibert, J. and B.L. McGlynn. 2005. Landscape element contributions to storm runoffEncyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences, Wiley. (Invited).

McGlynn, B.L. 2005. The role of riparian zones in steep mountain watersheds. in Global Change and Mountain Regions. “Advances in Global Change Research book series”, Martin Beniston (ed), Kluwer. (Invited).

McDonnell, J.J., McGlynn, B.L., Vache, K., and I. *Tromp van Meerveld. 2005. A perspective on hillslope hydrology in the context of Prediction in Ungauged Basins (PUB), International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS).

Gooseff, M.N. and B.L. McGlynn. 2005. A stream tracer technique employing ionic tracers and specific conductance data applied to the Maimai catchment, New Zealand. Hydrological Processes. 19, 2491–2506, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.5685.

*McGuire, K. J., J. J. McDonnell, M. Weiler, C. Kendall, B. L. McGlynn, J. M. Welker, and J. Seibert (2005), The role of topography on catchment-scale water residence time, Water Resources Research, 41, W05002, doi:10.1029/2004WR003657.

McGlynn, B.L., J.J. McDonnell, J. Seibert, and C. Kendall. 2004. Scale effects on headwater catchment runoff timing, flow sources, and groundwater-streamflow relations. Water Resources Research, 40, W07504, doi:10.1029/2003WR002494.

Weiler, M., McGlynn, B.L., *K.J. McGuire, and J.J. McDonnell. 2003. How does rainfall become runoff? A combined tracer and runoff transfer function approach. Water Resources Research39(11), 1315 doi:10.1029/2003WR002331

McGlynn, B.L., and J.J. McDonnell. 2003. Quantifying the relative contributions of riparian and hillslope zones to catchment runoff and compositionWater Resources Research. Vol. 39, No. 11, 1310 10.1029/2003WR002091.  

McGlynn, B.L., and J. Seibert, 2003.  Distributed assessment of contributing area and riparian buffering along stream networks.  Water Resources Research, 39(4), 1082, doi:10.1029/2002WR001521. b

McGlynn, B.L., and J.J. McDonnell.  2003.  The role of discrete landscape units in controlling catchment dissolved organic carbon dynamicsWater Resources Research, 39(4), 1090, doi:10.1029/2002WR001525.

McGlynn, B.L., McDonnell, J.J., Seibert, J. and M.K. Stewart. 2003. On the relationships between catchment scale and streamwater mean residence time. Hydrological Processes, 17(175-181). 

McGlynn, B.L., McDonnell, J.J., and D. Brammer,  2002. A review of the evolving perceptual model of hillslope flowpaths at the Maimai Catchments, NZ.  Journal of Hydrology, 257(1-26). 

McGlynn, B.L., McDonnell, J.J., Shanley, J.B., and Kendall, C. 1999. Riparian zone flowpath dynamics during snowmelt in a small headwater catchment. Journal of Hydrology, 222(75-92). 

McDonnell, J.J., McGlynn, B.L. Kendall, K.A., Shanley, J.B., and C. Kendall. 1998.  The role of near-stream riparian zones in the hydrology of steep upland catchmentsInternational Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) 248(173-180).

 

In internal review

*Cook, S.A. and B.L. McGlynn. In internal review.  Hand-portable X-ray florescence application to metals characterization in a riparian wetland impacted by acid mine drainage.  To be submitted to Journal of Environmental Quality.

*Shoutis, L. D.T. Patten, and B.L. McGlynn.  In internal review.  Terrain-based predictive modeling of riparian vegetation in a northern Rocky Mountain watershed.  To be submitted to...

*Payn, R.A., M.N. Gooseff, B.L. McGlynn, S.M. Wondzell, K.E. Bencala. In internal review. Longitudinal distribution of channel water balance through summer discharge recession in a Rocky Mountain headwater stream, Montana, USA.  To be submitted to Water Resources Research

* Refers to student author


Revised: August 27, 2008 .