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Barret L. Kurylyk

Barret L. Kurylyk

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Rising Stars
2025

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Rising Stars

D-Index
34
Citations
4804
World Ranking
873
National Ranking
21

Earth Science

D-Index
37
Citations
5668
World Ranking
6797
National Ranking
346

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Barret L. Kurylyk is affiliated with Dalhousie University in Canada and has made significant contributions to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, Environmental Engineering, Oceanography, and Ecology.

The scientist's work broadly covers topics such as Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Climate Change and Permafrost, Groundwater Flow and Contamination Studies, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics.

Kurylyk has published several recent papers including:

  • Vertical Saltwater Intrusion in Coastal Aquifers Driven by Episodic Flooding: A Review (2022, Water Resources Research)
  • Global Groundwater Warming Due to Climate Change (2024, Nature Geoscience)
  • Guidelines for Cold-Regions Groundwater Numerical Modeling (2020, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water)
  • An Ecohydrological Typology for Thermal Refuges in Streams and Rivers (2021, Ecohydrology)
  • A Primer on Stream Temperature Processes (2023, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water)

The scientist often collaborates with other researchers, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Rob Jamieson
  • Julia Guimond
  • Aaron A. Mohammed
  • Nicole K. LeRoux
  • Julia A. Cantelon

Main publication venues for Kurylyk's work include:

  • Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America
  • Hydrological Processes
  • Water Resources Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Hydrology

Best Publications

  • Hydrologic impacts of thawing permafrost—A review

    Michelle Ann Walvoord;Barret L. Kurylyk

  • The mathematical representation of freezing and thawing processes in variably-saturated, non-deformable soils

    Barret L. Kurylyk;Kunio Watanabe

  • Climate change impacts on groundwater and soil temperatures in cold and temperate regions: Implications, mathematical theory, and emerging simulation tools

    Barret L. Kurylyk;Kerry T.B. MacQuarrie;Jeffrey M. McKenzie

  • Climate change impacts on the temperature and magnitude of groundwater discharge from shallow, unconfined aquifers

    Barret L. Kurylyk;Kerry T. B. MacQuarrie;Clifford I. Voss

  • Preserving, augmenting, and creating cold-water thermal refugia in rivers: concepts derived from research on the Miramichi River, New Brunswick (Canada)

    Barret L. Kurylyk;Kerry T. B. MacQuarrie;Tommi Linnansaari;Richard A. Cunjak

  • Changing groundwater discharge dynamics in permafrost regions

    Pierrick Lamontagne-Hallé;Jeffrey M McKenzie;Barret L Kurylyk;Samuel C Zipper;Samuel C Zipper

  • Observed groundwater temperature response to recent climate change

    Kathrin Menberg;Kathrin Menberg;Phillip Blum;Barret L. Kurylyk;Peter Bayer

  • Influence of vertical and lateral heat transfer on permafrost thaw, peatland landscape transition, and groundwater flow

    Barret L. Kurylyk;Masaki Hayashi;William L. Quinton;Jeffrey M. McKenzie

  • Groundwater flow and heat transport for systems undergoing freeze-thaw : Intercomparison of numerical simulators for 2D test cases

    Christophe Grenier;Hauke Anbergen;Victor Bense;Quentin Chanzy

  • Vertical Saltwater Intrusion in Coastal Aquifers Driven by Episodic Flooding: A Review

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  • Shallow groundwater thermal sensitivity to climate change and land cover disturbances: derivation of analytical expressions and implications for stream temperature modeling

    Barret L. Kurylyk;Barret L. Kurylyk;Kerry T. B. MacQuarrie;Daniel Caissie;Jeffrey M. McKenzie

  • The uncertainty associated with estimating future groundwater recharge: A summary of recent research and an example from a small unconfined aquifer in a northern humid-continental climate

    Barret L. Kurylyk;Kerry T.B. MacQuarrie

  • Potential surface temperature and shallow groundwater temperature response to climate change: an example from a small forested catchment in east-central New Brunswick (Canada)

    Barret L. Kurylyk;C. P. A. Bourque;Kerry T. B. MacQuarrie

  • Snowmelt Infiltration and Macropore Flow in Frozen Soils: Overview, Knowledge Gaps, and a Conceptual Framework

    Aaron A. Mohammed;Barret L. Kurylyk;Edwin E. Cey;Masaki Hayashi

  • Inferring watershed hydraulics and cold-water habitat persistence using multi-year air and stream temperature signals.

    Martin A. Briggs;Zachary C. Johnson;Craig D. Snyder;Nathaniel P. Hitt

  • Global groundwater warming due to climate change

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  • Theory, tools, and multidisciplinary applications for tracing groundwater fluxes from temperature profiles

    Barret L. Kurylyk;Dylan J. Irvine;Victor F. Bense

  • Analytical solutions for benchmarking cold regions subsurface water flow and energy transport models: one-dimensional soil thaw with conduction and advection

    Barret L. Kurylyk;Jeffrey M. McKenzie;Kerry T.B. MacQuarrie;Clifford I. Voss

  • Streambed temperature dynamics and corresponding heat fluxes in small streams experiencing seasonal ice cover

    Daniel Caissie;Barret L. Kurylyk;André St-Hilaire;Nassir El-Jabi

  • Heat as a groundwater tracer in shallow and deep heterogeneous media: Analytical solution, spreadsheet tool, and field applications

    Barret L. Kurylyk;Dylan J. Irvine;Sean K. Carey;Martin A. Briggs

  • Guidelines for cold‐regions groundwater numerical modeling

    Pierrick Lamontagne-Hallé;Jeffrey M. McKenzie;Barret L. Kurylyk;John Molson

  • Benchmarking numerical freeze/thaw models

    Wolfram Rühaak;Hauke Anbergen;Christophe Grenier;Jeffrey McKenzie

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey M. McKenzie
Jeffrey M. McKenzie McGill University
Victor F. Bense
Victor F. Bense Wageningen University & Research
Kerry T.B. MacQuarrie
Kerry T.B. MacQuarrie University of New Brunswick
Martin A. Briggs
Martin A. Briggs United States Geological Survey
Masaki Hayashi
Masaki Hayashi University of Calgary
Clifford I. Voss
Clifford I. Voss United States Geological Survey
Michelle Ann Walvoord
Michelle Ann Walvoord United States Geological Survey
Rob Jamieson
Rob Jamieson Dalhousie University
Sean K. Carey
Sean K. Carey McMaster University
Philipp Blum
Philipp Blum Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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