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Donald C. Pierson

Donald C. Pierson

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
47
Citations
9143
World Ranking
5743
National Ranking
104

Overview

Donald C. Pierson is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions spanning 82 publications in environmental science and 31 in earth and planetary sciences.

The scientist's work covers several subfields, including environmental chemistry, oceanography, water science and technology, global and planetary change, and ecology. Their research topics include aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, marine and coastal ecosystems, hydrology and watershed management studies, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, soil and water nutrient dynamics, fish ecology and management studies, and climate variability and models.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Donald C. Pierson include:

  • Widespread deoxygenation of temperate lakes, 2021, Nature
  • Lake heatwaves under climate change, 2021, Nature
  • Phenological shifts in lake stratification under climate change, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat, 2021, Nature Climate Change

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Donald C. Pierson include:

  • Wim Thiery
  • Jorrit P. Mesman
  • Ana I. Ayala
  • Elvira de Eyto
  • R. Iestyn Woolway

Their publications often appear in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), HydroShare Resources, Geoscientific Model Development, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, and Nature.

Best Publications

  • Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming - simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b)

    Katja Frieler;Stefan Lange;Franziska Piontek;Christopher P. O. Reyer

  • Widespread deoxygenation of temperate lakes

    Stephen F. Jane;Stephen F. Jane;Gretchen J.A. Hansen;Benjamin M. Kraemer;Peter R. Leavitt;Peter R. Leavitt

  • Ecology under lake ice

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

  • Phenological shifts in lake stratification under climate change.

    R. Iestyn Woolway;R. Iestyn Woolway;Sapna Sharma;Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer;Andrey Debolskiy;Andrey Debolskiy

  • Lake heatwaves under climate change.

    R. Iestyn Woolway;R. Iestyn Woolway;Eleanor Jennings;Tom Shatwell;Malgorzata Golub

  • Examination of change factor methodologies for climate change impact assessment

    Aavudai Anandhi;Allan Frei;Donald C. Pierson;Elliot M. Schneiderman

  • Mapping lake CDOM by satellite remote sensing

    Tiit Kutser;Donald C. Pierson;Kari Y. Kallio;Anu Reinart

  • Lake‐size dependency of wind shear and convection as controls on gas exchange

    Jordan S. Read;David P. Hamilton;Ankur R. Desai;Kevin C. Rose;Kevin C. Rose

  • Temperature Effects Explain Continental Scale Distribution of Cyanobacterial Toxins

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

  • Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing

    Luke Grant;Inne Vanderkelen;Lukas Gudmundsson;Zeli Tan

  • 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

  • Automatic High Frequency Monitoring for Improved Lake and Reservoir Management

    Rafael Marcé;Glen George;Glen George;Paola Buscarinu;Melania Deidda

  • Using Satellite Remote Sensing to Estimate the Colored Dissolved Organic Matter Absorption Coefficient in Lakes

    Tiit Kutser;Donald C. Pierson;L.J. Tranvik;Anu Reinart

  • Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat

    Benjamin M. Kraemer;Rachel M. Pilla;R. Iestyn Woolway;R. Iestyn Woolway;Orlane Anneville

  • Mapping of the water quality of Lake Erken, Sweden, from Imaging Spectrometry and Landsat Thematic Mapper

    Catherine Östlund;Peter Flink;Niklas Strömbeck;Don Pierson

  • Manual for Monitoring European Lakes using Remote Sensing Techniques

    Tommy Lindell;Don Pierson;G Premazzi

  • MODELING THE HYDROCHEMISTRY OF THE CANNONSVILLE WATERSHED WITH GENERALIZED WATERSHED LOADING FUNCTIONS (GWLF)

    Elliot M. Schneiderman;Donald C. Pierson;David G. Lounsbury;Mark S. Zion

  • LAGOS-NE: A multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database of lake ecological context and water quality for thousands of US lakes

    Patricia A. Soranno;Linda C. Bacon;Michael Beauchene;Karen E. Bednar

  • Ecosystem Effects of a Tropical Cyclone on a Network of Lakes in Northeastern North America

    Jennifer L. Klug;David C. Richardson;Holly A. Ewing;Bruce R. Hargreaves

  • The effects of variability in the inherent optical properties on estimations of chlorophyll a by remote sensing in Swedish freshwaters.

    Niklas Strömbeck;Donald C Pierson

Frequent Co-Authors

James A. Rusak
James A. Rusak Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Wim Thiery
Wim Thiery Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Hans-Peter Grossart
Hans-Peter Grossart University of Potsdam
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer Uppsala University
Rafael Marcé
Rafael Marcé Catalan Institute for Water Research
R. Iestyn Woolway
R. Iestyn Woolway Bangor University
Rita Adrian
Rita Adrian Freie Universität Berlin
Lauri Arvola
Lauri Arvola University of Helsinki
Steven W. Effler
Steven W. Effler Syracuse University
Cayelan C. Carey
Cayelan C. Carey Virginia Tech

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