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  • 1965 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Dale M. Robertson is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science, with numerous publications in this field highlighting key areas such as environmental chemistry, water science and technology, atmospheric science, nature and landscape conservation, and ecology.

Their work covers several main topics, including soil and water nutrient dynamics, hydrology and watershed management studies, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, fish ecology and management studies, water quality and resources studies, as well as arctic and antarctic ice dynamics and cryospheric studies and observations.

Robertson has published research in various scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • Scientific Investigations Report
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Water Research
  • Scientific Data

They have collaborated frequently with several coauthors, such as:

  • David A. Saad
  • Jay F. Martin
  • Noel Aloysius
  • Sapna Sharma
  • Damien Bouffard

Among their recent publications are:

  • Loss of Ice Cover, Shifting Phenology, and More Extreme Events in Northern Hemisphere Lakes (2021), Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • A framework for ensemble modelling of climate change impacts on lakes worldwide: the ISIMIP Lake Sector (2022), Geoscientific Model Development
  • Partitioning and transformation of organic and inorganic phosphorus among dissolved, colloidal and particulate phases in a hypereutrophic freshwater estuary (2021), Water Research
  • Nitrogen and Phosphorus Sources and Delivery from the Mississippi/Atchafalaya River Basin: An Update Using 2012 SPARROW Models (2021), JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association
  • Earlier winter/spring runoff and snowmelt during warmer winters lead to lower summer chlorophyll-a in north temperate lakes (2021), Global Change Biology

Robertson's career has been recognized by their election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1965.

Best Publications

  • Historical Trends in Lake and River Ice Cover in the Northern Hemisphere

    John J. Magnuson;Dale M. Robertson;Barbara J. Benson;Randolph H. Wynne

  • Dynamics of the Lake Michigan food web, 1970-2000

    Charles P. Madenjian;Gary L. Fahnenstiel;Thomas H. Johengen;Thomas F. Nalepa

  • Linkages between nutrients and assemblages of macroinvertebrates and fish in wadeable streams: implication to nutrient criteria development.

    Lizhu Wang;Dale M. Robertson;Paul J. Garrison

  • Nutrient Inputs to the Laurentian Great Lakes by Source and Watershed Estimated Using SPARROW Watershed Models

    Dale M. Robertson;David A. Saad

  • Influence of various water quality sampling strategies on load estimates for small streams

    Dale M. Robertson;Eric D. Roerish

  • Lake ice records used to detect historical and future climatic changes

    Dale M. Robertson;Robert A. Ragotzkie;John J. Magnuson

  • Changes in winter air temperatures near Lake Michigan, 1851‐1993, as determined from regional lake‐ice records

    Raymond A. Assel;Dale M. Robertson

  • Multiple models guide strategies for agricultural nutrient reductions

    Donald Scavia;Margaret Kalcic;Margaret Kalcic;Rebecca Logsdon Muenich;Jennifer Read

  • Evidence of recent warming and El Niño-related variations in ice breakup of Wisconsin lakes

    Wendy L. Anderson;Dale M. Robertson;John J. Magnuson

  • Loss of ice cover, shifting phenology, and more extreme events in Northern Hemisphere lakes

    Sapna Sharma;David C. Richardson;R. Iestyn Woolway;M. Arshad Imrit

  • Changes in the thermal structure of moderate to large sized lakes in response to changes in air temperature

    Dale M. Robertson;Robert A. Ragotzkie

  • Effects of climate and land management change on streamflow in the driftless area of Wisconsin

    Paul F. Juckem;Randall J. Hunt;Mary P. Anderson;Dale M. Robertson

  • SPARROW Models Used to Understand Nutrient Sources in the Mississippi/Atchafalaya River Basin

    Dale M. Robertson;David A. Saad

  • Seasonality of change: Summer warming rates do not fully represent effects of climate change on lake temperatures

    Luke A. Winslow;Jordan S. Read;Gretchen J. A. Hansen;Kevin C. Rose

  • Landscape Planning for Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution Reduction III: Assessing Phosphorus and Sediment Reduction Potential

    Matthew W. Diebel;Jeffrey T. Maxted;Dale M. Robertson;Seungbong Han

  • Incorporating Uncertainty Into the Ranking of SPARROW Model Nutrient Yields From Mississippi/Atchafalaya River Basin Watersheds

    Dale M. Robertson;Gregory E. Schwarz;David A. Saad;Richard B. Alexander

  • Trends and abrupt changes in 104 years of ice cover and water temperature in a dimictic lake in response to air temperature, wind speed, and water clarity drivers

    Madeline R. Magee;Chin H. Wu;Dale M. Robertson;Richard C. Lathrop

  • Sedimentary phosphorus cycling and a phosphorus mass balance for the Green Bay (Lake Michigan) ecosystem

    J.V. Klump;D. N. Edgington;P.E. Sager;Dale M. Robertson

  • Reducing nitrogen export from the corn belt to the Gulf of Mexico: agricultural strategies for remediating hypoxia.

    Eileen McLellan;Dale M. Robertson;Keith Schilling;Mark Tomer

  • Lake Number, a Quantitative Indicator of Mixing Used to Estimate Changes in Dissolved Oxygen

    Dale M. Robertson;Jörg Imberger

Frequent Co-Authors

David Saad
David Saad Aston University
Richard C. Lathrop
Richard C. Lathrop University of Wisconsin–Madison
Donald Scavia
Donald Scavia University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jeffrey G. Arnold
Jeffrey G. Arnold Agricultural Research Service
Prasad Daggupati
Prasad Daggupati University of Guelph
Stuart A. Ludsin
Stuart A. Ludsin The Ohio State University
John J. Magnuson
John J. Magnuson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Richard B. Alexander
Richard B. Alexander United States Geological Survey
Raghavan Srinivasan
Raghavan Srinivasan Texas A&M University
David P. Hamilton
David P. Hamilton Griffith University

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