Publications
An up-to-date list of Ryan’s journal articles and scholarly publications (including full text links) can be found below or on Ryan’s Scholars@Duke profile. You may contact Ryan to request a free PDF copy of any paywalled article.
Journal Articles
(* Indicates first author was a member of Ryan’s group for some or all of the work reported.)
*Neville, J. A., Emanuel, R. E., Ardón, M., & Pavelsky, T. (2023). Location and Design of Flow Control Structures Differentially Influence Salinity Patterns in Small Artificial Drainage Systems. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 149(6). https://doi.org/10.1061/JWRMD5.WRENG-5840
Caretta, M. A., & Emanuel, R. E. (2023). Does shale gas development impact property values in Central Appalachia? A mixed methods critical exploration. Extractive Industries and Society, 14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2023.101251
Gay, E. T., Martin, K. L., Caldwell, P. V., Emanuel, R. E., Sanchez, G. M., & Suttles, K. M. (2023). Riparian buffers increase future baseflow and reduce peakflows in a developing watershed. The Science of the Total Environment, 862, 160834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160834
Swails, E. E., Ardón, M., Krauss, K. W., Peralta, A. L., Emanuel, R. E., Helton, A. M., … Ward, S. (2022). Response of soil respiration to changes in soil temperature and water table level in drained and restored peatlands of the southeastern United States. Carbon Balance and Management, 17(1), 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13021-022-00219-5
Emanuel, R. E., & Bird, K. D. (2022). Stories We Tell: Unpacking Extractive Research and Its Legacy of Harm to Lumbee People. Southern Cultures, 28(3), 48–69. https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2022.0025
*Neville, J. A., Emanuel, R. E., Nichols, E. G., & Vose, J. (2021). Extreme Flooding and Nitrogen Dynamics of a Blackwater River. Water Resources Research, 57(12). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR029106
Jenkins, W., Rosa, L., Schmidt, J., Band, L., Beltran-Peña, A., Clarens, A., … D’Odorico, P. (2021). Values-Based Scenarios of Water Security: Rights to Water, Rights of Waters, and Commercial Water Rights. Bioscience, 71(11), 1157–1170. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab088
Harris, A. R., Fidan, E. N., Nelson, N. G., Emanuel, R. E., Jass, T., Kathariou, S., … Stewart, J. R. (2021). Microbial Contamination in Environmental Waters of Rural and Agriculturally-Dominated Landscapes Following Hurricane Florence. Acs Es and T Water, 1(9), 2012–2019. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.1c00103
*Singh, N. K., Emanuel, R. E., McGlynn, B. L., & Miniat, C. F. (2021). Soil Moisture Responses to Rainfall: Implications for Runoff Generation. Water Resources Research, 57(9). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028827
Emanuel, R. E., Caretta, M. A., Rivers, L., & Vasudevan, P. (2021). Natural Gas Gathering and Transmission Pipelines and Social Vulnerability in the United States. Geohealth, 5(6), e2021GH000442. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021gh000442
Niedermeyer, J. A., Miller, W. G., Yee, E., Harris, A., Emanuel, R. E., Jass, T., … Kathariou, S. (2020). Search for Campylobacter spp. Reveals High Prevalence and Pronounced Genetic Diversity of Arcobacter butzleri in Floodwater Samples Associated with Hurricane Florence in North Carolina, USA. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 86(20), e01118–e01120. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.01118-20
Emanuel, R. E., & Wilkins, D. E. (2020). Breaching barriers: The fight for indigenous participation in water governance. Water (Switzerland), 12(8). https://doi.org/10.3390/W12082113
Scaife, C. I., Singh, N. K., Emanuel, R. E., Miniat, C. F., & Band, L. E. (2020). Non-linear quickflow response as indicators of runoff generation mechanisms. Hydrological Processes, 34(13), 2949–2964. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13780
Tashie, A., Pavelsky, T., & Emanuel, R. E. (2020). Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Baseflow Recession in the Continental United States. Water Resources Research, 56(3). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR026425
*Saia, S. M., Suttles, K. M., Cutts, B. B., Emanuel, R. E., Martin, K. L., Wear, D. N., … Vose, J. M. (2020). Applying Climate Change Risk Management Tools to Integrate Streamflow Projections and Social Vulnerability. Ecosystems., 23(1), 67–83. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-019-00387-5
Taillie, P. J., Moorman, C. E., Poulter, B., Ardón, M., & Emanuel, R. E. (2019). Decadal-Scale Vegetation Change Driven by Salinity at Leading Edge of Rising Sea Level. Ecosystems., 22(8), 1918–1930. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-019-00382-w
*Rice, J. S., & Emanuel, R. E. (2019). Ecohydrology of Interannual Changes in Watershed Storage. Water Resources Research, 55(10), 8238–8251. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025164
*Bhattachan, A., Jurjonas, M. D., Morris, P. R., Taillie, P. J., Smart, L. S., Emanuel, R. E., & Seekamp, E. L. (2019). Linking residential saltwater intrusion risk perceptions to physical exposure of climate change impacts in rural coastal communities of North Carolina. Natural Hazards, 97(3), 1277–1295. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-019-03706-0
Chief, K., Emanuel, R., & Conroy-Ben, O. (2019). Indigenous Symposium on Water Research, Education, and Engagement. Eos, 100. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019eo114313
Emanuel, R. E. (2019). Water in the Lumbee world: A river and its people in a time of change. Environmental History, 24(1), 25–51. https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emy129
Singh, N. K., Emanuel, R. E., Nippgen, F., McGlynn, B. L., & Miniat, C. F. (2018). The Relative Influence of Storm and Landscape Characteristics on Shallow Groundwater Responses in Forested Headwater Catchments. Water Resources Research, 54(12), 9883–9900. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR022681
*Bhattachan, A., Jurjonas, M. D., Moody, A. C., Morris, P. R., Sanchez, G. M., Smart, L. S., … Seekamp, E. L. (2018). Sea level rise impacts on rural coastal social-ecological systems and the implications for decision making. Environmental Science and Policy, 90, 122–134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2018.10.006
Suttles, K. M., Singh, N. K., Vose, J. M., Martin, K. L., Emanuel, R. E., Coulston, J. W., … Crump, M. T. (2018). Assessment of hydrologic vulnerability to urbanization and climate change in a rapidly changing watershed in the Southeast U.S. The Science of the Total Environment, 645, 806–816. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.287
Martin, K. L., Emanuel, R. E., & Vose, J. M. (2018). Terra incognita: The unknown risks to environmental quality posed by the spatial distribution and abundance of concentrated animal feeding operations. The Science of the Total Environment, 642, 887–893. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.072
zhang, Y., Li, W., sun, G., Miao, G., Noormets, A., Emanuel, R., & King, J. (2018). Understanding coastal wetland hydrology with a new regional scale process-based hydrologic mode. Hydrological Processes. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13247
Emanuel, R. E. (2018). Climate Change in the Lumbee River Watershed and Potential Impacts on the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. Journal of Contemporary Water Research &Amp; Education, 163(1), 79–93. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1936-704x.2018.03271.x
Jackson, C. R., Webster, J. R., Knoepp, J. D., Elliott, K. J., Emanuel, R. E., Caldwell, P. V., & Miniat, C. F. (2018). Unexpected ecological advances made possible by long-term data: A Coweeta example. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.1002/WAT2.1273
*Bhattachan, A., Emanuel, R. E., Ardón, M., Bernhardt, E. S., Anderson, S. M., Stillwagon, M. G., … Wright, J. P. (2018). Evaluating the effects of land-use change and future climate change on vulnerability of coastal landscapes to saltwater intrusion. Elementa, 6. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.316
*Reyes, W. M., Epstein, H. E., Li, X., McGlynn, B. L., Riveros-Iregui, D. A., & Emanuel, R. E. (2017). Complex terrain influences ecosystem carbon responses to temperature and precipitation. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 31(8), 1306–1317. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GB005658
Emanuel, R. E. (2017). Flawed environmental justice analyses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 357(6348), 260. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao2684
*Rice, J. S., & Emanuel, R. E. (2017). How are streamflow responses to the El Nino Southern Oscillation affected by watershed characteristics? Water Resources Research, 53(5), 4393–4406. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016WR020097
*Rice, J. S., Emanuel, R. E., & Vose, J. M. (2016). The influence of watershed characteristics on spatial patterns of trends in annual scale streamflow variability in the continental U.S. Journal of Hydrology, 540, 850–860. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.07.006
*Singh, N. K., Reyes, W. M., Bernhardt, E. S., Bhattacharya, R., Meyer, J. L., Knoepp, J. D., & Emanuel, R. E. (2016). Hydro-Climatological Influences on Long-Term Dissolved Organic Carbon in a Mountain Stream of the Southeastern United States. Journal of Environmental Quality, 45(4), 1286–1295. https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2015.10.0537
Birch, A. L., Emanuel, R. E., James, A. L., & Nichols, E. G. (2016). Hydrologic Impacts of Municipal Wastewater Irrigation to a Temperate Forest Watershed. Journal of Environmental Quality, 45(4), 1303–1312. https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2015.11.0577
*Singh, N. K., Emanuel, R. E., & McGlynn, B. L. (2016). Variability in isotopic composition of base flow in two headwater streams of the southern Appalachians. Water Resources Research, 52(6), 4264–4279. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR018463
Arndt, J. L., Emanuel, R. E., & Richardson, J. L. (2016). Hydrology of wetland and related soils. In Wetland Soils: Genesis, Hydrology, Landscapes, and Classification: Second Edition (pp. 39–104).
*Nippgen, F., McGlynn, B. L., Emanuel, R. E., & Vose, J. M. (2016). Watershed memory at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory: The effect of past precipitation and storage on hydrologic response. Water Resources Research, 52(3), 1673–1695. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR018196
Emanuel, R. E., Buckley, J. J., Caldwell, P. V., McNulty, S. G., & Sun, G. (2015). Influence of basin characteristics on the effectiveness and downstream reach of interbasin water transfers: Displacing a problem. Environmental Research Letters, 10(12). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/124005
Du, Z., Riveros-Iregui, D. A., Jones, R. T., McDermott, T. R., Dore, J. E., McGlynn, B. L., … Li, X. (2015). Landscape position influences microbial composition and function via redistribution of soil water across a watershed. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 81(24), 8457–8468. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.02643-15
*Rice, J. S., Emanuel, R. E., Vose, J. M., & Nelson, S. A. C. (2015). Continental U.S. streamflow trends from 1940 to 2009 and their relationships with watershed spatial characteristics. Water Resources Research, 51(8), 6262–6275. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014WR016367
*Mitchell, S. R., Emanuel, R. E., & McGlynn, B. L. (2015). Land–atmosphere carbon and water flux relationships to vapor pressure deficit, soil moisture, and stream flow. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology., 208, 108–117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.04.003
*Nippgen, F., McGlynn, B. L., & Emanuel, R. E. (2015). The spatial and temporal evolution of contributing areas. Water Resources Research, 51(6), 4550–4573. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014WR016719
*Rice, J. S., & Emanuel, R. E. (2014). Landscape position and spatial patterns in the distribution of land use within the southern Appalachian Mountains. Physical Geography, 35(5), 443–457. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723646.2014.909218
Liang, L. L., Riveros-Iregui, D. A., Emanuel, R. E., & McGlynn, B. L. (2014). A simple framework to estimate distributed soil temperature from discrete air temperature measurements in data-scarce regions. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 119(2), 407–417. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JD020597
Emanuel, R. E., Hazen, A. G., Mcglynn, B. L., & Jencso, K. G. (2014). Vegetation and topographic influences on the connectivity of shallow groundwater between hillslopes and streams. Ecohydrology, 7(2), 887–895. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1409
Band, L. E., McDonnell, J. J., Duncan, J. M., Barros, A., Bejan, A., Burt, T., … Troch, P. A. (2014). Ecohydrological flow networks in the subsurface. Ecohydrology, 7(4), 1073–1078. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1525
*Kaiser, K. E., Mcglynn, B. L., & Emanuel, R. E. (2013). Ecohydrology of an outbreak: Mountain pine beetle impacts trees in drier landscape positions first. Ecohydrology, 6(3), 444–454. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1286
Riveros-Iregui, D. A., Mcglynn, B. L., Emanuel, R. E., & Epstein, H. E. (2012). Complex terrain leads to bidirectional responses of soil respiration to inter-annual water availability. Global Change Biology, 18(2), 749–756. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02556.x
*Nippgen, F., McGlynn, B. L., Marshall, L. A., & Emanuel, R. E. (2011). Landscape structure and climate influences on hydrologic response. Water Resources Research, 47(12). https://doi.org/10.1029/2011WR011161
Emanuel, R. E., Riveros-Iregui, D. A., McGlynn, B. L., & Epstein, H. E. (2011). On the spatial heterogeneity of net ecosystem productivity in complex landscapes. Ecosphere, 2(7). https://doi.org/10.1890/ES11-00074.1
Riveros-Iregui, D. A., McGlynn, B. L., Marshall, L. A., Welsch, D. L., Emanuel, R. E., & Epstein, H. E. (2011). A watershed-scale assessment of a process soil CO2 production and efflux model. Water Resources Research, 47(5). https://doi.org/10.1029/2010WR009941
LeDee, O. E., Barnes, R. T., Emanuel, R., Fisher, P. B., Henkel, S. K., & Marlon, J. R. (2011). Training a new scientist to meet the challenges of a changing environment. Eos, 92(16), 135. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011EO160002
Emanuel, R. E., Epstein, H. E., McGlynn, B. L., Welsch, D. L., Muth, D. J., & D’Odorico, P. (2010). Spatial and temporal controls on watershed ecohydrology in the northern Rocky Mountains. Water Resources Research, 46(11). https://doi.org/10.1029/2009WR008890
Anderson, W. P., & Emanuel, R. E. (2010). Effect of interannual climate oscillations on rates of submarine groundwater discharge. Water Resources Research, 46(5). https://doi.org/10.1029/2009WR008212
Anderson, W. P., & Emanuel, R. E. (2008). Effect of interannual and interdecadal climate oscillations on groundwater in North Carolina. Geophysical Research Letters, 35(23). https://doi.org/10.1029/2008GL036054
Riveros-Iregui, D. A., Emanuel, R. E., Muth, D. J., McGlynn, B. L., Epstein, H. E., Welsch, D. L., … Wraith, J. M. (2007). Diurnal hysteresis between soil CO2 and soil temperature is controlled by soil water content. Geophysical Research Letters, 34(17). https://doi.org/10.1029/2007GL030938
Emanuel, R. E., D’Odorico, P., & Epstein, H. E. (2007). Evidence of optimal water use by vegetation across a range of North American ecosystems. Geophysical Research Letters, 34(7). https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL028909
Emanuel, R. E., D’Odorico, P., & Epstein, H. E. (2007). A dynamic soil water threshold for vegetation water stress derived from stomatal conductance models. Water Resources Research, 43(3). https://doi.org/10.1029/2005WR004831
Emanuel, R. E., Albertson, J. D., Epstein, H. E., & Williams, C. A. (2006). Carbon dioxide exchange and early old-field succession. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 111(1). https://doi.org/10.1029/2005JG000069