James W. Kirchner

Research interests

Publications

• Rapid groundwater decline and some cases of recovery in aquifers globally

  Nature · 2024 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06879-8

• Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective

  Hydrological Sciences Journal · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2019.1620507

• The Demographics of Water: A Review of Water Ages in the Critical Zone

  Reviews of Geophysics · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2018rg000633

• The Relative Importance of Different Flood‐Generating Mechanisms Across Europe

  Water Resources Research · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2019wr024841

• Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling

  Water Resources Research · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2018wr023903

• Aggregation in environmental systems – Part 1: Seasonal tracer cycles quantify young water fractions, but not mean transit times, in spatially heterogeneous catchments

  Hydrology and earth system sciences · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-279-2016

• Sensors in the Stream: The High-Frequency Wave of the Present

  Environmental Science & Technology · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b02155

• Substantial proportion of global streamflow less than three months old

  Nature Geoscience · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2636

• How old is streamwater? Open questions in catchment transit time conceptualization, modelling and analysis

  Hydrological Processes · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.7796

• Catchments as simple dynamical systems: Catchment characterization, rainfall‐runoff modeling, and doing hydrology backward

  Water Resources Research · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2008wr006912

• Concentration–discharge relationships reflect chemostatic characteristics of US catchments

  Hydrological Processes · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.7315

• Moving beyond heterogeneity and process complexity: A new vision for watershed hydrology

  Water Resources Research · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2006wr005467

• Getting the right answers for the right reasons: Linking measurements, analyses, and models to advance the science of hydrology

  Water Resources Research · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2005wr004362

• The fine structure of water‐quality dynamics: the (high‐frequency) wave of the future

  Hydrological Processes · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.5537

• Erosional and climatic effects on long-term chemical weathering rates in granitic landscapes spanning diverse climate regimes

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2004.05.019

• A double paradox in catchment hydrology and geochemistry

  Hydrological Processes · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.5108

• Catchment-scale advection and dispersion as a mechanism for fractal scaling in stream tracer concentrations

  Journal of Hydrology · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-1694(01)00487-5

• Mountain erosion over 10 yr, 10 k.y., and 10 m.y. time scales

  Geology · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0591:meoyky>2.0.co;2

• Gene expression analysis by massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS) on microbead arrays

  Nature Biotechnology · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1038/76469

• EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF PATHOGEN RESISTANCE AND TOLERANCE

  Evolution · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0014-3820.2000.tb00007.x

• Fractal stream chemistry and its implications for contaminant transport in catchments

  Nature · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1038/35000537

• Evidence for nonlinear, diffusive sediment transport on hillslopes and implications for landscape morphology

  Water Resources Research · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1029/1998wr900090

• Spatially Averaged Long-Term Erosion Rates Measured from in Situ-Produced Cosmogenic Nuclides in Alluvial Sediment

  The Journal of Geology · 1996 · https://doi.org/10.1086/629823

• The variability of critical shear stress, friction angle, and grain protrusion in water‐worked sediments

  Sedimentology · 1990 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3091.1990.tb00627.x

• Sediment supply and the development of the coarse surface layer in gravel-bedded rivers

  Nature · 1989 · https://doi.org/10.1038/340215a0

Current projects

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