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Overview

Christina L. Tague is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to subfields including global and planetary change, water science and technology, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, and ecology.

Their work extensively covers topics related to hydrology and watershed management studies, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, the effects of fire on ecosystems, cryospheric studies and observations, soil erosion and sediment transport, landslides and related hazards, as well as urban heat island mitigation.

Tague has published in a range of academic venues, frequently contributing to Hydrological Processes, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Water Resources Research, Earth's Future, and the Journal of Hydrology. These publications reflect the breadth of their expertise and ongoing engagement with both hydrological and ecological dimensions of environmental science.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Tague are:

  • A low-to-no snow future and its impacts on water resources in the western United States, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • How climate change and fire exclusion drive wildfire regimes at actionable scales, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • The Counteracting Effects of Snowmelt Rate and Timing on Runoff, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Drought response of urban trees and turfgrass using airborne imaging spectroscopy, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Carbon sequestration and water yield tradeoffs following restoration of abandoned agricultural lands in Mediterranean mountains, 2021, Environmental Research

Frequent collaborators with whom Tague has co-authored multiple works include Erin J. Hanan, Jianning Ren, A. A. Harpold, Maureen C. Kennedy, and J. P. McFadden. These professional partnerships indicate a sustained engagement with researchers working across complementary aspects of environmental and hydrological sciences.

Best Publications

  • Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate

    William R.L. Anderegg;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Rosie A. Fisher;Craig D. Allen

  • Coupled Atmosphere–Biophysics–Hydrology Models for Environmental Modeling

    Robert L. Walko;Larry E. Band;Jill Baron;Timothy G. F. Kittel

  • Challenges to incorporating spatially and temporally explicit phenomena (hotspots and hot moments) in denitrification models

    Peter M. Groffman;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl;Robinson W. Fulweiler;Arthur J. Gold

  • RHESSys: Regional Hydro-Ecologic Simulation System—An Object- Oriented Approach to Spatially Distributed Modeling of Carbon, Water, and Nutrient Cycling

    C. L. Tague

  • Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling

    Ying Fan;M. Clark;D. M. Lawrence;S. Swenson

  • A low-to-no snow future and its impacts on water resources in the western United States

    Erica R. Siirila-Woodburn;Alan M. Rhoades;Benjamin J. Hatchett;Laurie S. Huning;Laurie S. Huning

  • Key ecological responses to nitrogen are altered by climate change

    T.L. Greaver;C.M. Clark;J.E. Compton;D. Vallano

  • A geological framework for interpreting the low‐flow regimes of Cascade streams, Willamette River Basin, Oregon

    Christina Tague;Gordon E. Grant

  • Hydrological Partitioning in the Critical Zone: Recent Advances and Opportunities for Developing Transferable Understanding of Water Cycle Dynamics

    Paul D. Brooks;Jon Chorover;Ying Fan;Sarah E. Godsey

  • Groundwater dynamics mediate low-flow response to global warming in snow-dominated alpine regions.

    Christina Tague;Gordon E. Grant

  • Deep groundwater mediates streamflow response to climate warming in the Oregon Cascades

    Christina Tague;Gordon Grant;Mike Farrell;Janet Choate

  • Effects of changes in winter snowpacks on summer low flows: case studies in the Sierra Nevada, California, USA

    S. E. Godsey;J. W. Kirchner;C. L. Tague

  • Impact of climate and land use change on water availability and reservoir management: scenarios in the Upper Aragón River, Spanish Pyrenees.

    J.I. López-Moreno;J. Zabalza;S.M. Vicente-Serrano;J. Revuelto

  • Forest ecosystem processes at the watershed scale: hydrological and ecological controls of nitrogen export

    L. E. Band;C. L. Tague;P. Groffman;K. Belt

  • How to Avoid Train Wrecks When Using Science in Environmental Problem Solving

    Lee E. Benda;Leroy N. Poff;Christina Tague;Margaret A. Palmer

  • Citizen Science as an Approach for Overcoming Insufficient Monitoring and Inadequate Stakeholder Buy-in in Adaptive Management: Criteria and Evidence

    Eréndira Aceves-Bueno;Adeyemi S. Adeleye;Darcy Bradley;W. Tyler Brandt

  • Hydrogeologic controls on summer stream temperatures in the McKenzie River basin, Oregon

    Christina L. Tague;Michael Farrell;Gordon Grant;Sarah Lewis

  • Watering the forest for the trees: an emerging priority for managing water in forest landscapes

    Gordon E Grant;Christina L Tague;Craig D Allen

  • Subsurface plant-accessible water in mountain ecosystems with a Mediterranean climate

    P. Zion Klos;Michael L. Goulden;Clifford S. Riebe;Christina L. Tague

  • Simulations of snow distribution and hydrology in a mountain basin

    Melannie D. Hartman;Jill S. Baron;Jill S. Baron;Richard B. Lammers;Donald W. Cline

  • Simulating the impact of road construction and forest harvesting on hydrologic response

    Christina Tague;Larry Band

  • Ecosystem processes at the watershed scale: Hydrologic vegetation gradient as an indicator for lateral hydrologic connectivity of headwater catchments

    Taehee Hwang;Lawrence E. Band;James M. Vose;Christina Tague

  • Parameterizing sub-surface drainage with geology to improve modeling streamflow responses to climate in data limited environments

    C. L. Tague;J. S. Choate;G. Grant

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence E. Band
Lawrence E. Band University of Virginia
Peter M. Groffman
Peter M. Groffman City University of New York
Gordon E. Grant
Gordon E. Grant US Forest Service
Roger C. Bales
Roger C. Bales University of California, Merced
Dar A. Roberts
Dar A. Roberts University of California, Santa Barbara
Enrique Morán-Tejeda
Enrique Morán-Tejeda University of the Balearic Islands
Jill S. Baron
Jill S. Baron United States Geological Survey
Crystal A. Kolden
Crystal A. Kolden University of California, Merced
Mingliang Liu
Mingliang Liu Washington State University
Juan I. López-Moreno
Juan I. López-Moreno Spanish National Research Council

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