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Cayelan C. Carey

Cayelan C. Carey

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
48
Citations
9031
World Ranking
5524
National Ranking
2020

Overview

Cayelan C. Carey is affiliated with Virginia Tech in the United States. Their research focuses predominantly within the field of Environmental Science, with significant contributions across various subfields including Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Water Science and Technology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their work addresses topics such as Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Hydrological Forecasting Using AI, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Research Data Management Practices.

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

  • Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Cyanobacterial blooms in oligotrophic lakes: Shifting the high-nutrient paradigm, 2021, Freshwater Biology
  • A system of metrics for the assessment and improvement of aquatic ecosystem models, 2020, Environmental Modelling & Software
  • Predicting lake surface water phosphorus dynamics using process-guided machine learning, 2020, Ecological Modelling
  • Lake thermal structure drives interannual variability in summer anoxia dynamics in a eutrophic lake over 37 years, 2021, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Carey frequently collaborates with a recurring group of coauthors, including R. Quinn Thomas, Mary E. Lofton, Whitney M. Woelmer, Kathleen C. Weathers, and Tadhg N. Moore. These collaborations contribute to a substantial body of work across multiple publications.

Their research output is often published in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, Ecological Applications, Global Change Biology, and Ecological Modelling.

Best Publications

  • Eco-physiological adaptations that favour freshwater cyanobacteria in a changing climate

    Cayelan C. Carey;Bastiaan Willem Ibelings;Emily P. Hoffmann;David P. Hamilton

  • The interaction between climate warming and eutrophication to promote cyanobacteria is dependent on trophic state and varies among taxa

    Anna Rigosi;Cayelan C Carey;Bastiaan Willem Ibelings;Justin D Brookes

  • Ecology under lake ice

    Stephanie E. Hampton;Aaron W.E. Galloway;Stephen M. Powers;Ted Ozersky

  • Resilience to Blooms

    Justin D. Brookes;Cayelan C. Carey

  • Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes

    Jason D. Stockwell;Jonathan P. Doubek;Rita Adrian;Rita Adrian;Orlane Anneville

  • Cyanobacteria as biological drivers of lake nitrogen and phosphorus cycling

    Kathryn L. Cottingham;Holly A. Ewing;Meredith L. Greer;Cayelan C. Carey

  • Perspective: Advancing the research agenda for improving understanding of cyanobacteria in a future of global change

    M.A Burford;C.C Carey;D.P. Hamilton;J. Huisman

  • A General Lake Model (GLM 3.0) for linking with high-frequency sensor data from the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON)

    Matthew R. Hipsey;Louise C. Bruce;Casper Boon;Brendan Busch

  • Temperature Effects Explain Continental Scale Distribution of Cyanobacterial Toxins

    Evanthia Mantzouki;Miquel Lürling;Jutta Fastner;Lisette de Senerpont Domis

  • The under-ice microbiome of seasonally frozen lakes

    Stefan Bertilsson;Amy Burgin;Cayelan C. Carey;Samuel B. Fey

  • Stratification strength and light climate explain variation in chlorophyll a at the continental scale in a European multilake survey in a heatwave summer

    Daphne Donis;Evanthia Mantzouki;Daniel F. McGinnis;Dominic Vachon;Dominic Vachon

  • Patterns and drivers of deep chlorophyll maxima structure in 100 lakes: the relative importance of light and thermal stratification.

    Taylor H. Leach;Beatrix E. Beisner;Cayelan C. Carey;Patricia Pernica

  • Cyanobacterial blooms in oligotrophic lakes: Shifting the high-nutrient paradigm

    Kaitlin L. Reinl;Justin D. Brookes;Cayelan C. Carey;Ted D. Harris

  • Lake trophic status can be determined by the depth distribution of sediment phosphorus

    Cayelan C. Carey;Emil Rydin

  • A system of metrics for the assessment and improvement of aquatic ecosystem models

    Matthew R. Hipsey;Gideon Gal;George B. Arhonditsis;Cayelan C. Carey

  • First report of the successful operation of a side stream supersaturation hypolimnetic oxygenation system in a eutrophic, shallow reservoir.

    Alexandra B. Gerling;Richard G. Browne;Paul A. Gantzer;Mark H. Mobley

  • A Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) for synthesising high–frequency sensor data for validation of deterministic ecological models

    David P. Hamilton;Cayelan C. Carey;Lauri Arvola;Peter Arzberger

  • Predicting the resilience and recovery of aquatic systems: A framework for model evolution within environmental observatories

    Matthew R. Hipsey;David P. Hamilton;Paul C. Hanson;Cayelan C. Carey

  • Predicting lake surface water phosphorus dynamics using process-guided machine learning

    Paul C. Hanson;Aviah B. Stillman;Xiaowei Jia;Anuj Karpatne

  • THE GLOBAL LAKE ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY NETWORK (GLEON): THE EVOLUTION OF GRASSROOTS NETWORK SCIENCE

    Kathleen C. Weathers;Paul C. Hanson;Peter Arzberger;Jennifer Brentrup

  • Lake thermal structure drives interannual variability in summer anoxia dynamics in a eutrophic lake over 37 years

    Robert Ladwig;Paul C. Hanson;Hilary A. Dugan;Cayelan C. Carey

  • Advancing the research agenda for improving understanding of cyanobacteria in a future of global change.

    M. A. Burford;C. C. Carey;D. P. Hamilton;J. Huisman

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul C. Hanson
Paul C. Hanson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kathleen C. Weathers
Kathleen C. Weathers Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Kathryn L. Cottingham
Kathryn L. Cottingham Dartmouth College
Hans-Peter Grossart
Hans-Peter Grossart University of Potsdam
John C. Little
John C. Little Virginia Tech
Jordan S. Read
Jordan S. Read United States Geological Survey
David P. Hamilton
David P. Hamilton Griffith University
Justin D. Brookes
Justin D. Brookes University of Adelaide
James A. Rusak
James A. Rusak Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Donald C. Pierson
Donald C. Pierson Uppsala University

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