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63
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14265
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2474
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993

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Aaron I. Packman is a researcher affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States, focusing primarily on Environmental Science. Their work extensively explores different subfields including Water Science and Technology, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, and Infectious Diseases.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Among recent publications, several notable papers exemplify the scope of their research. These include:

  • "Rethinking wastewater risks and monitoring in light of the COVID-19 pandemic," (2020) published in Nature Sustainability
  • "Microplastic accumulation in riverbed sediment via hyporheic exchange from headwaters to mainstems," (2022) published in Science Advances
  • "Knowledge, attitudes, intentions, and behavior related to green infrastructure for flood management: A systematic literature review," (2020) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Gathering at the top? Environmental controls of microplastic uptake and biomagnification in freshwater food webs," (2020) published in Environmental Pollution
  • "Significance of Hyporheic Exchange for Predicting Microplastic Fate in Rivers," (2020) published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Their frequent coauthors include Shai Arnon, C. B. Phillips, Yoni Teitelbaum, William M. Miller, and Jennifer Drummond, indicating collaborations that span environmental chemistry and water science domains.

Aaron Packman has published extensively in selected academic venues, with several papers appearing in:

  • Water Resources Research
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Water Research

In recognition of their scientific contributions, they were named Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Biophysical controls on organic carbon fluxes in fluvial networks

    Tom J. Battin;Louis A. Kaplan;Stuart Findlay;Charles S. Hopkinson

  • Hyporheic flow and transport processes: Mechanisms, models, and biogeochemical implications

    Fulvio Boano;J. W. Harvey;A. Marion;A. I. Packman

  • The extracellular matrix protects Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms by limiting the penetration of tobramycin.

    Boo Shan Tseng;Wei Zhang;Joe J. Harrison;Tam P. Quach

  • Hyporheic Exchange with Gravel Beds: Basic Hydrodynamic Interactions and Bedform-Induced Advective Flows

    Aaron I. Packman;Mashfiqus Salehin;Mattia Zaramella

  • Effect of flow‐induced exchange in hyporheic zones on longitudinal transport of solutes in streams and rivers

    Anders Worman;Aaron I. Packman;Haûkan Johansson;Karin Jonsson

  • Hyporheic exchange with heterogeneous streambeds: Laboratory experiments and modeling

    Mashfiqus Salehin;Mashfiqus Salehin;Aaron I. Packman;Matthew Paradis

  • Rethinking wastewater risks and monitoring in light of the COVID-19 pandemic

    Anne Bogler;Aaron Packman;Alex Furman;Amit Gross

  • Transport and Fate of Microbial Pathogens in Agricultural Settings

    Scott A. Bradford;Verónica L. Morales;Wei Zhang;Ronald W. Harvey

  • Interplay of stream-subsurface exchange, clay particle deposition, and streambed evolution

    Aaron I. Packman;Jeffrey S. MacKay

  • A multiscale model for integrating hyporheic exchange from ripples to meanders

    Susa H. Stonedahl;Judson W. Harvey;Anders Wörman;Mashfiqus Salehin

  • Microplastic accumulation in riverbed sediment via hyporheic exchange from headwaters to mainstems

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  • A physicochemical model for colloid exchange between a stream and a sand streambed with bed forms

    Aaron I. Packman;Aaron I. Packman;Norman H. Brooks;James J. Morgan

  • A systematic review of the human health and social well-being outcomes of green infrastructure for stormwater and flood management.

    Vidya Venkataramanan;Aaron I. Packman;Daniel R. Peters;Denise Lopez

  • Ecological and Genomic Attributes of Novel Bacterial Taxa That Thrive in Subsurface Soil Horizons.

    Tess E. Brewer;Emma L. Aronson;Keshav Arogyaswamy;Sharon A. Billings

  • Effects of suspended sediment characteristics and bed sediment transport on streambed clogging

    Kristin J. Rehg;Aaron I. Packman;Jianhong Ren

  • Fractal topography and subsurface water flows from fluvial bedforms to the continental shield

    Anders Wörman;Aaron I. Packman;Lars Marklund;Judson W. Harvey

  • Hyporheic exchange of solutes and colloids with moving bed forms

    Aaron I. Packman;Norman H. Brooks

  • Cooling water use in thermoelectric power generation and its associated challenges for addressing water-energy nexus

    Shu-Yuan Pan;Seth W. Snyder;Aaron I. Packman;Yupo J. Lin

  • Kaolinite exchange between a stream and streambed: Laboratory experiments and validation of a colloid transport model

    Aaron I. Packman;Aaron I. Packman;Norman H. Brooks;James J. Morgan

  • Effect of bed form geometry on the penetration of nonreactive solutes into a streambed

    Andrea Marion;Matteo Bellinello;Ian Guymer;Aaron Packman

  • Relative roles of stream flow and sedimentary conditions in controlling hyporheic exchange

    Aaron I. Packman;Mashfiqus Salehin

  • Knowledge, attitudes, intentions, and behavior related to green infrastructure for flood management: A systematic literature review.

    Vidya Venkataramanan;Denise Lopez;David J. McCuskey;Daniel Kiefus

Frequent Co-Authors

Diogo Bolster
Diogo Bolster University of Notre Dame
Judson W. Harvey
Judson W. Harvey United States Geological Survey
Stefan Krause
Stefan Krause University of Birmingham
Jean-François Gaillard
Jean-François Gaillard Northwestern University
Adam S. Ward
Adam S. Ward Oregon State University
Anders Wörman
Anders Wörman Royal Institute of Technology
Ciaran J. Harman
Ciaran J. Harman Johns Hopkins University
Tom J. Battin
Tom J. Battin École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
David M. Hannah
David M. Hannah University of Birmingham
Steven M. Wondzell
Steven M. Wondzell US Forest Service

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