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Recent publications from the UCSC Hydrogeology research group - please download a preprint or see all available papers on the Publications page:

current students

 

Russo, T. A., Fisher, A. T., Roche, J. W, Improving riparian wetland conditions based on infiltration and drainage behavior during and after controlled flooding, J. Hydrology, in review, 2012.

Racz, A. J., Fisher, A. T., Schmidt, C. M., Lockwood, B. S., Los Huertos, M., Spatial and temporal infiltration dynamics during managed aquifer recharge, Ground Water, doi: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2011.00875.x, 2011.

former student

Schmidt, C. M., A. T. Fisher, A. Racz, C. G. Wheat, M. Los Huertos, B. Lockwood, Rapid nutrient load reduction during infiltration of managed aquifer recharge in an agricultural groundwater basin, Hydrol. Processes., in press, 2011.

Schmidt, C. M., A. T. Fisher, A. J. Racz, B. Lockwood and M. Los Huertos, Linking denitrification and infiltration rates during managed groundwater recharge, Env. Science & Tech., dx.doi.org/10.1021/es2023626, 2011.

former student

Hatch, C. E., A. T. Fisher, C. Ruehl, G. Stemler, Temporal changes in streambed hydraulic conductivity quantified with time-series thermal methods, J. Hydrol., 389, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.05.046, 276-288, 2010.

Hatch, C. E., A. T. Fisher, J. S. Revenaugh, J. Constantz, and C. Ruehl, Quantifying surface water - ground water interactions using time series analysis of streambed thermal records: method development. Water Resources Research, 42(10): 10.1029/2005WR004787, 2006.

former student

Hutnak, M., A. T. Fisher, R. Harris, C. Stein, K. Wang, G. Spinelli, M. Schindler, H. Villinger, and E. Silver (2008), Large heat and fluid fluxes driven through mid-plate outcrops on ocean crust, Nature Geoscience, doi: 10.1038/ngeo264, 2008.

Hutnak, M. and Fisher, A. T., The influence of sedimentation, local and regional hydrothermal circulation, and thermal rebound on measurements of heat flux from young seafloor, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B12101, doi:10.1029/2007JB005022, 2007.

Hutnak, M., A. T. Fisher, L. Zuhlsdorff, V. Spiess, P. Stauffer, and C. W. Gable, Hydrothermal recharge and discharge guided by basement outcrops on 0.2-3.6 Ma seafloor east of the Juan de Fuca Ridge: observations and numerical models. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 7, Q07O02, doi:10.1029/2006GC001242, 2006.

former student

Ruehl, C., Fisher, A. T., Los Huertos, M., Wankel, S., Kendall, C., Hatch, C., and Shennan, C., Nitrate dynamics within the Pajaro River, a nutrient-rich, losing stream, J. N. Am. Benthological Soc., 26(2): 191-206, 2007.

Ruehl, C., Fisher, A. T., Hatch, C., Los Huertos, M., Stemler, G., and Shennan, C., Differential gauging and tracer tests resolve seepage fluxes in a strongly-losing stream, J. Hydrology, 300: 235-248, 2006.

etc., etc.

Fisher, A. T., C. G. Wheat, K. Becker, J. Cowen, B. Orcutt, S. Hulme, K. Inderbitzen, A. Turner*, T. Pettigrew, E. E. Davis, H. Jannasch, K. Grigar, R. Adudell, R. Meldrum, R. Macdonald, and K. Edwards, Design, deployment, and status of borehole observatory systems used for single-hole and cross-hole experiments, IODP Expedition 327, eastern flank of the Juan de Fuca Ridge, In A.T. Fisher, T. Tsuji, and K. Petronotis, Proc. IODP, Expedition 327, College Station, TX (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program), doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.327.107.2011.

Fisher, A. T., J. Cowen, C. G. Wheat, J. Clark, Preparation and injection of fluid tracers during IODP Expedition 327, eastern flank of Juan de Fuca Ridge, In A.T. Fisher, T. Tsuji, and K. Petronotis, Proc. IODP, Expedition 327, College Station, TX (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program), doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.327.108.2011.

Fisher, A. T., Harris, R. N., Using heat as a tracer of subseafloor fluid flow, Geofluids, doi: 10.1111/j.1468-8123.2009.00274.x, 2010.

Fisher, A. T., Wheat, C. G., Seamounts as conduits for massive fluxes of fluid, heat, and solutes, Oceanography, 23 (1): 74-87, 2010 .

Wheat, C. G., H. Jannasch, A. T. Fisher, K. Becker, J. Sharkey, S. M. Hulme*, Subseafloor seawaer-basalt-microbial reactions: continuous sampling of subseafloor borehole fluids from a young ridge flank, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, doi:10.1029/2010GC00305, 2010.

Fisher, A. T.,Davis, E. E., Becker, K., Borehole-to-borehole hydrologic response across 2.4 km in the upper oceanic crust: implications for crustal scale properties, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2007JB005447, 2008.

Becker, K., Fisher A. T., Borehole packer tests at multiple depths resolve distinct hydrologic intervals in 3.5 Ma upper oceanic crust, eastern flank of Juan de Fuca Ridge, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2007JB005446, 2008.

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