Publications in VIVO

Co-author Network

Erin S Brooks Associate Professor

Positions

Core Faculty, Environmental Science , College of Natural Resources
Associate Professor, Soil and Water Systems , College of Agricultural & Life Sciences 2017 -

Research Areas

Geographic Focus

Costa Rica Country
United States of America Country

People

member of

Gamma Sigma Delta, The Honors Society of Agriculture Member 2001 -
American Geophysical Union Member
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Member
Soil Science Society of America Member

Publications

selected publications

academic article
- WEPPcloud hydrologic and erosion simulation datasets from 28 watersheds in US Pacific Northwest and calibrating model parameters for undisturbed and disturbed forest management conditions. Data in Brief. 42. 2022
- Water quality and forest restoration in the Lake Tahoe basin: impacts of future management options. Ecology and Society. 27. 2022
- P-FLUX: A phosphorus budget dataset spanning diverse agricultural production systems in the United States and Canada. Journal of Environmental Quality. 51:451-461. 2022
- WEPPcloud: An online watershed-scale hydrologic modeling tool. Part I. Model description. Journal of Hydrology. 608. 2022
- Pi-VAT: A web-based visualization tool for decision support using spatially complex water quality model outputs. Journal of Hydrology. 607. 2022
- WEPPcloud: An online watershed-scale hydrologic modeling tool. Part II. Model performance assessment and applications to forest management and wildfires. Journal of Hydrology. 610. 2022
- Tracing delta O-18 and delta H-2 in Source Waters and Recharge Pathways of a Fractured-Basalt and Interbedded-Sediment Aquifer, Columbia River Flood Basalt Province. Geosciences. 11. 2021
- Long-term Response in Nutrient Load from Commercial Forest Management Operations in a Mountainous Watershed. Forest Ecology and Management. 494:119312. 2021
- Soil Phosphorus Speciation and Availability in Meadows and Forests in Alpine Lake Watersheds With Different Parent Materials. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 3:604200. 2021
- Evaluating the Effects of Timber Harvest on Hydrologically Sensitive Areas and hydrologic Response. Journal of Hydrology. 593:125805. 2021
- Comparative Analysis of Water Budgets Across the US Long-term Agroecosystem Research Network. Hydrology. 588:125021. 2020
- Sources and Subsurface Transport of Dissolved Reactive Phosphorus in a Semiarid, No-till Catchment with Complex Topography. Journal of Environmental Quality. 49:1286-1297. 2020
- Interaction of wind and cold-season hydrologic processes on erosion from complex topography following wildfire in sagebrush steppe. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 45:841-861. 2020
- Modeling forest management effects on water and sediment yield from nested, paired watersheds in the interior Pacific Northwest, USA using WEPP. Science of the Total Environment. 701:174877. 2020
- Evaluating Post-wildfire Logging-slash Cover Treatment to Reduce Hillslope Erosion After Salvage Logging Using Ground Measurements and Remote Sensing. Hydrological Processes. 2020
- Mining the Drilosphere: Bacterial Communities and Denitrifier Abundance in a No-Till Wheat Cropping System. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10:1339. 2019
- Development and Application of the Soil Moisture Routing (SMR) Model to Identify Subfield-Scale Hydrologic Classes in Dryland Cropping Systems using the Budyko Framework. Journal of Hydrology. 573:153-167. 2019
- Isotopic Discrimination of Aquifer Recharge Sources, Subsystem Connectivity and Flow Patterns in the South Fork Palouse River Basin, Idaho and Washington, USA. Hydrology. 6:15. 2019
- Effects of land use on soil properties and hydrological process at the point, plot, and catchment scale in volcanic soils near Turrialba, Costa Rica. Geoderma. 315:138-148. 2018
- A Simulation Study To Estimate Effects of Wildfire and Forest Management On Hydrology and Sediment in a Forested Watershed, Northwestern USA. Transactions of the ASABE. 61:1579-1601. 2018
- Evaluating opportunities for an increased role of winter crops as adaptation to climate change in dryland cropping systems of the U.S. Inland Pacific Northwest. Climatic Change. 146:247-261. 2018
- Filter Membrane Effects on Water-Extractable Phosphorus Concentrations from Soil. Journal of Environmental Quality. 47:378. 2018
- Simulating field-scale variability and precision management with a 3D hydrologic cropping systems model. Precision Agriculture. 19:293-313. 2018
- A Field-Scale Sensor Network Data Set for Monitoring and Modeling the Spatial and Temporal Variation of Soil Water Content in a Dryland Agricultural Field. Water Resources Research. 53:10878-10887. 2017
- Integrating Historic Agronomic and Policy Lessons with New Technologies to Drive Farmer Decisions for Farm and Climate: The Case of Inland Pacific Northwestern U.S.. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 5. 2017
- On the Role of Spatial, Temporal, and Climatic Forces on Stream Sediment Loading from Rural and Urban Ecosystems. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 53:1195-1211. 2017
- Impact of climate change adaptation strategies on winter wheat and cropping system performance across precipitation gradients in the inland Pacific Northwest, USA . Frontiers in Environmental Science. 5. 2017
- Carbon and water budgets in wheat-based cropping systems in the inland Pacific Northwest U.S: Comparison of CropSyst Simulations with Eddy Covariance Measurements. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 5. 2017
- A pragmatic, automated approach for retroactive calibration of soil moisture sensors using a two-step, soil-specific correction. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 137.0:29.0-40.0. 2017
- Modeling Streamflow in a Snow-Dominated Forest Watershed Using the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) Model. Transactions of the ASABE. 60.0:1171.0-1187.0. 2017
- Water and nitrogen movement through a semiarid dryland agricultural catchment: Seasonal and decadal trends. Hydrological Processes. 31.0:1889.0-1899.0. 2017
- Effects of Climatic Conditions and Management Practices on Agricultural Carbon and Water Budgets in the Inland Pacific Northwest USA: Agricultural Carbon and Water Budgets. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 122:3142-3160. 2017
- Identifying groundwater recharge connections in the Moscow (USA) sub-basin using isotopic tracers and a soil moisture routing model. Hydrogeology Journal. 24:1739-1751. 2016
- Assessing carbon and water dynamics of no-till and conventional tillage cropping systems in the inland Pacific Northwest US using the eddy covariance method. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 218:37-49. 2016
- Assessing carbon dynamics at high and low rainfall agricultural sites in the inland Pacific Northwest US using the eddy covariance method. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 218:25-36. 2016
- Forest Hydrology of Mountainous and Snow - Dominated Watersheds 2016
- Key drivers controlling stable isotope variations in daily precipitation of Costa Rica: Caribbean Sea versus Eastern Pacific Ocean moisture sources. Quaternary Science Reviews. 131:250-261. 2016
- Watershed-scale evaluation of the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) model in the Lake Tahoe basin. Journal of Hydrology. 533:389-402. 2016
- Hydrologic control of dissolved organic matter concentration and quality in a semiarid artificially drained agricultural catchment. Water Resources Research. 51:8146-8164. 2015
- Variable Source Area Hydrology Modeling With The Water Erosion Prediction Project Model. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 51:330-342. 2015
- Baseflow recession analysis in the inland Pacific Northwest of the United States. Hydrogeology Journal. 23:287-303. 2015
- Assessing BMP Effectiveness And Guiding BMP Planning Using Process-Based Modeling. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 51:343-358. 2015
- Featured Collection Introduction: Synthesis And Analysis Of Conservation Effects Assessment Projects For Improved Water Quality. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 51:302-304. 2015
- Isotope hydrology and baseflow geochemistry in natural and human-altered watersheds in the Inland Pacific Northwest, USA. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies. 51:231-254. 2015
- Ecohydrological Analysis of Steelhead (Oncorhynchus Mykiss) Habitat in an Effluent Dependent Stream in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Ecohydrology Journal. 7:557-568. 2014
- Spatial and Temporal Variation of Stable Isotopes in Precipitation across Costa Rica: An analysis of historic GNIP records. Open Journal of Modern Hydrology. 3. 2013
- Incorporating Pesticide Transport into the WEPP Model for Mulch Tillage and No Tillage Plot with an Underlying Claypan Soil. Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 29:373-382. 2013
- Modifying WEPP to Improve Streamflow Simulation in a Pacific Northwest Watershed. Transactions of the ASABE. 56:603-611. 2013
- Seasonal Change of WEPP Erodibility Parameters on a Fallow Plot. Transactions of the ASABE. 56:711-718. 2013
- A Simple Process-Based Snowmelt Routine to Model Spatially Distributed Snow Depth and Snowmelt in the SWAT Model. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 48:1151-1161. 2012
- Model for Prioritizing Best Managment Practice Implementation: Sediment Load Reduction. Environmental Management. 51:209-224. 2012
- Groundwater recharge in Pleistocene sediments overlying basalt aquifers in the Palouse Basin, USA: modeling of distributed recharge potential and identification of water pathways. Hydrogeology Journal. 19:489-500. 2011
- Snow cover analysis in Emilia-Romagna. Italian Journal of Remote Sensing - Rivista Italiana Di Telerilevamento. 43:59-73. 2011
- Long-term sediment loading trends in the Paradise Creek watershed. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 65:331-341. 2010
- Determinants of the adoption of conservation practices by farmers in the Northwest Wheat and Range Region. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 65:404-412. 2010
- Development and testing of a physically based, three-dimensional model of surface and subsurface hydrology. Advances in Water Resources. 33:106-122. 2010
- WEPP simulations of dryland cropping systems in small drainages of northeastern Oregon. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 65:22-33. 2010
- Dynamic riparian buffer widths from potential non-point source pollution areas in forested watersheds. Forest Ecology and Management. 256:664-673. 2008
- Linking Fragipans, Perched Water Tables, and Catchment-Scale Hydrological Processes. Catena. 73:166-173. 2008
- Distributed and integrated response of a geographic information system-based hydrologic model in the eastern Palouse region, Idaho. Hydrological Processes. 21:110-122. 2007
- Factors affecting the adoption of best management practices in the Inland Northwest. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 32:559-559. 2007
- Global positioning system/GIS-based approach for modeling erosion from large road networks. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. 11:418-426. 2006
- Process-based snowmelt modeling: does it require more input data than temperature-index modeling?. Journal of Hydrology. 300:65-75. 2005
- Application of SMR to Modeling Watersheds in the Catskill Mountains. Environmental Modeling & Assessment. 9:77-89. 2004
- A hillslope-scale experiment to measure lateral saturated hydraulic conductivity. Water Resources Research. 40. 2004
- Application of two hydrologic models with different runoff mechanisms to a hillslope dominated watershed in the northeastern US: a comparison of HSPF and SMR. Journal of Hydrology. 284:57-76. 2003
- Hydrologic Processes in Valley Soilscapes of the Eastern Palouse Basin in Northern Idaho. Soil Science. 168:846-855. 2003
- Residual phosphorus in runoff from successional forest on abandoned agricultural land: 1. Biogeochemical and hydrological processes. Biogeochemistry. 55:293-309. 2001
- Evaluation of soluble phosphorus loading from manure-applied fields under various spreading strategies. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 56:329-335. 2001
- Water distribution management in small West African canal systems. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 126:304-313. 2000
- Hydrologically sensitive areas: Variable source area hydrology implications for water quality risk assessment. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 55:277-284. 2000
- Seasonal risk analysis for floodplains in the Delaware River Basin. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management-ASCE. 126:320-329. 2000
- A GIS-Based Variable Source Area Hydrology Model. Hydrological Processes. 13:805-822. 1999
- Impacts of historical changes in land use and dairy herds on water quality in the Catskills Mountains. Journal of Environmental Quality. 27:1410-1417. 1998
chapter
- Hydropedology in Seasonally Dry Landscapes: The Palouse Region of the Pacific Northwest USA. Hydropedology. 329-350. 2012
- Paradise Creek Watershed, Idaho: National Institute of Food and Agriculture Conservation Effects Assessment Project. How to Build Better Agricultural Conservation Programs to Protect Water Quality: The National Institute of Food and Agriculture—Conservation Effects Assessment Project Experience. 221-233. 2012
- Hydropedology and Surface/Subsurface Runoff Processes. Encyclopedia of Hydrologic Sciences. Ed. Anderson, Mark G. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. 2008
conference paper
- Extending WEPP Technology to Predict Fine Sediment and Phosphorus Delivery from Forested Hillslopes. Joint Federal Interagency Conference on Sedimentation and Hydrologic Modeling (SEDHYD). 19-23. 2015
- Enhancements to the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) for Modeling Large Snow-Dominated Mountainous Forest Watersheds. Watershed Management Symposium. 209-228. 2015
- Building Process-Based Understanding for Improved Adaptation and Management. Proceedings International Symposium on Erosion and Landscape Evolution. 2011
- Incorporating Groundwater Flow into the WEPP Model. Proceedings of the Second Joint Federal Interagency Conference. 12. 2010
- Use of Monitoring Data to Evaluate Watershed Management Practices in a Mixed-Land Use Watershed in Northern Idaho. Proceedings of the Joint Federal Interagency Conference. 2006
- A Simple GIS-Based Snow Accumulation and Melt Model. Proceedings of the 2005 Western Snow Conference. 2005
- Evaluation of a Distributed Hydrology Model to Support Restoration Efforts in Small Watersheds with Limited Data: From Research Scale to Management Scale. Interdisciplinary Approaches in Small Catchment Hydrology: Monitoring and Research. 231-236. 2002
- An Integrated Systems approach to watershed restoration with community involvement applied to a small rural watershed. Proceedings from the NSF/EPA/USDA Water and Watersheds Progress Review Conference. 2001
- Determining Erodibility Parameters for a Palouse Silt Loan Using Runoff Plot Data. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Soil Erosion Research for the 21st Century. 591-594. 2001
- Distributed Modeling and Economic Analysis of Erosion in GIS for Watershed Restoration. Integrated Decision-Making for Watershed Management Symposium. 2001
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Research

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Teaching

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Background

education and training

Ph.D. in Hydrologic Measurement and Modeling, University of Idaho , Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering 1998 - 2003
M.S. in Hydrologic Measurement and Modeling, University of Minnesota , Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering 1994 - 1997
B.S. in Soil and Water Engineering, Washington State University , Department of Biological Systems Engineering 1989 - 1993

credentials

Professional Engineering (P.E) License in Civil Engineering in the State of Idaho

awards and honors

Outstanding Student Paper Award in Hydrology, conferred by American Geophysical Union, 2001
Outstanding Achievement Scholarship, conferred by University of Minnesota, 1995
Gallucci Scholarship, conferred by Washington State University, 1994
Gallucci Scholarship, conferred by Washington State University, 1993

Contact

full name

Erin S Brooks