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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Clifford I. Voss is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with specific contributions across several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Geochemistry and Petrology, as well as Water Science and Technology.

The main topics of their work cover a range of areas related to cryosphere and climate studies, including:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Frequent publication venues for Clifford I. Voss include:

  • Hydrogeology Journal
  • Water Resources Research
  • Nature Climate Change
  • The Cryosphere
  • Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Notable recent publications include:

  • "Increasing threat of coastal groundwater hazards from sea-level rise in California," 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "The firn meltwater Retention Model Intercomparison Project (RetMIP): evaluation of nine firn models at four weather station sites on the Greenland ice sheet," 2020, The Cryosphere
  • "Surface energy balance of sub-Arctic roads with varying snow regimes and properties in permafrost regions," 2021, Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
  • "Hydrology of a Perennial Firn Aquifer in Southeast Greenland: An Overview Driven by Field Data," 2020, Water Resources Research
  • "Simulating water and heat transport with freezing and cryosuction in unsaturated soil: Comparing an empirical, semi-empirical and physically-based approach," 2021, Advances in Water Resources

Voss has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Olivia Miller
  • Jeffrey M. McKenzie
  • Stefan Ligtenberg
  • Lin Chen
  • Daniel Fortier

Over the course of their career, Clifford I. Voss has been recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Variable density flow and solute transport simulation of regional aquifers containing a narrow freshwater‐saltwater transition zone

    Clifford I. Voss;William R. Souza

  • Most atolls will be uninhabitable by the mid-21st century because of sea-level rise exacerbating wave-driven flooding.

    Curt D. Storlazzi;Stephen B. Gingerich;Ap van Dongeren;Olivia M. Cheriton

  • Groundwater flow with energy transport and water-ice phase change: Numerical simulations, benchmarks, and application to freezing in peat bogs

    Jeffrey M. McKenzie;Clifford I. Voss;Donald I. Siegel

  • Aquifer Reclamation Design: The Use of Contaminant Transport Simulation Combined With Nonlinear Programing

    Steven M. Gorelick;Clifford I. Voss;Philip E. Gill;Walter Murray

  • Influence of permafrost distribution on groundwater flow in the context of climate‐driven permafrost thaw: Example from Yukon Flats Basin, Alaska, United States

    Michelle Ann Walvoord;Clifford I. Voss;Tristan P. Wellman

  • Vulnerability of deep groundwater in the Bengal Aquifer System to contamination by arsenic

    W. G. Burgess;M. A. Hoque;H. A. Michael;C. I. Voss

  • Exchange of groundwater and surface-water mediated by permafrost response to seasonal and long term air temperature variation

    Shemin Ge;Jeffrey McKenzie;Clifford Voss;Qingbai Wu

  • Groundwater lens dynamics of Atoll Islands

    Mark R. Underwood;Frank L. Peterson;Clifford I. Voss

  • Evaluation of the sustainability of deep groundwater as an arsenic-safe resource in the Bengal Basin

    Holly A. Michael;Clifford I. Voss

  • Controls on groundwater flow in the Bengal Basin of India and Bangladesh: regional modeling analysis

    Holly A. Michael;Clifford I. Voss

  • 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

  • Airborne electromagnetic imaging of discontinuous permafrost

    Burke J. Minsley;Jared D. Abraham;Bruce D. Smith;James C. Cannia

  • Permafrost thaw in a nested groundwater-flow system

    Jeffrey M. McKenzie;Clifford I. Voss

  • Increasing threat of coastal groundwater hazards from sea-level rise in California

    K. M. Befus;K. M. Befus;P. L. Barnard;D. J. Hoover;J. A. Finzi Hart

  • Behavior of sensitivities in the one-dimensional advection-dispersion equation: Implications for parameter estimation and sampling design

    Debra S. Knopman;Clifford I. Voss

  • 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

  • Estimation of regional-scale groundwater flow properties in the Bengal Basin of India and Bangladesh

    Holly A. Michael;Holly A. Michael;Clifford I. Voss

  • Analysis of an anisotropic coastal aquifer system using variable-density flow and solute transport simulation

    William R. Souza;Clifford I. Voss

  • Editor’s message: Groundwater modeling fantasies —part 1, adrift in the details

    Clifford I. Voss

  • Variable-Density Ground-Water Flow with Solute or Energy Transport

    Clifford I. Voss;Alden M. Provost

Frequent Co-Authors

Michelle Ann Walvoord
Michelle Ann Walvoord United States Geological Survey
Jeffrey M. McKenzie
Jeffrey M. McKenzie McGill University
Holly A. Michael
Holly A. Michael University of Delaware
Barret L. Kurylyk
Barret L. Kurylyk Dalhousie University
Brian A. Ebel
Brian A. Ebel United States Geological Survey
Shemin Ge
Shemin Ge University of Colorado Boulder
Craig T. Simmons
Craig T. Simmons University of Newcastle Australia
Masaki Hayashi
Masaki Hayashi University of Calgary
Vincent E. A. Post
Vincent E. A. Post Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources

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