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63
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1980
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722

Overview

Jacques C. Finlay is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. They have focused extensive research on subfields such as Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their research addresses key topics including Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Urban Stormwater Management Solutions, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, and Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics.

Recent publications by Finlay include:

  • Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture (2024), published in Science
  • Imbalance of global nutrient cycles exacerbated by the greater retention of phosphorus over nitrogen in lakes (2022), published in Nature Geoscience
  • It Is Not Easy Being Green: Recognizing Unintended Consequences of Green Stormwater Infrastructure (2020), published in Water
  • Classifying Mixing Regimes in Ponds and Shallow Lakes (2022), published in Water Resources Research
  • Prediction of Photochemically Produced Reactive Intermediates in Surface Waters via Satellite Remote Sensing (2020), published in Environmental Science & Technology

Their frequent co-authors include Christine L. Dolph, Raymond M. Hozalski, Lawrence A. Baker, Vinicius J. Taguchi, and John S. Gulliver.

Finlay contributes regularly to prominent journals, with multiple publications in venues such as The Science of The Total Environment, Limnology and Oceanography, Water Resources Research, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Ecosphere.

Best Publications

  • Linking water quality and well-being for improved assessment and valuation of ecosystem services

    Bonnie L. Keeler;Stephen Polasky;Kate A. Brauman;Kris A. Johnson

  • STABLE-CARBON-ISOTOPE RATIOS OF RIVER BIOTA:IMPLICATIONS FOR ENERGY FLOW IN LOTIC FOOD WEBS

    Jacques C. Finlay

  • Dams and downstream aquatic biodiversity: Potential food web consequences of hydrologic and geomorphic change

    Mary E. Power;William E. Dietrich;Jacques C. Finlay

  • Social-ecological and technological factors moderate the value of urban nature

    Bonnie L. Keeler;Perrine Hamel;Timon McPhearson;Timon McPhearson;Timon McPhearson;Maike H. Hamann

  • Contrasting nitrogen and phosphorus budgets in urban watersheds and implications for managing urban water pollution.

    Sarah E. Hobbie;Jacques C. Finlay;Benjamin D. Janke;Daniel A. Nidzgorski

  • Stable Isotope Tracing of Temporal and Spatial Variability in Organic Matter Sources to Freshwater Ecosystems

    Jacques C. Finlay;Carol Kendall

  • Human Influences on Nitrogen Removal in Lakes

    Jacques C. Finlay;Gaston E. Small;Robert W. Sterner

  • Effects of water velocity on algal carbon isotope ratios: Implications for river food web studies

    Jacques C. Finlay;Mary E. Power;Gilbert Cabana

  • A shift of thermokarst lakes from carbon sources to sinks during the Holocene epoch

    K. M. Walter Anthony;S. A. Zimov;Guido Grosse;Guido Grosse;Miriam C. Jones;Miriam C. Jones

  • Seasonal changes in the age and structure of dissolved organic carbon in Siberian rivers and streams

    J. C. Neff;J. C. Finlay;S. A. Zimov;S. P. Davydov

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

  • Controls of streamwater dissolved inorganic carbon dynamics in a forested watershed

    Jacques C. Finlay;Jacques C. Finlay

  • Spatial scales of carbon flow in a river food web

    Jacques C. Finlay;Sapna Khandwala;Mary E. Power

  • Factors affecting the measurement of CDOM by remote sensing of optically complex inland waters

    Patrick L. Brezonik;Leif G. Olmanson;Jacques C. Finlay;Marvin E. Bauer

  • The role of discharge variation in scaling of drainage area and food chain length in rivers.

    John L. Sabo;Jacques C. Finlay;Theodore A. Kennedy;David M. Post

  • Contribution of wetlands to nitrate removal at the watershed scale

    Amy T. Hansen;Amy T. Hansen;Christine L. Dolph;Efi Foufoula-Georgiou;Efi Foufoula-Georgiou;Jacques C. Finlay;Jacques C. Finlay

  • Patterns and controls of lotic algal stable carbon isotope ratios

    Jacques C. Finlay

  • The interactive effects of excess reactive nitrogen and climate change on aquatic ecosystems and water resources of the United States

    Jill S. Baron;E.K. Hall;B.T. Nolan;J.C. Finlay

  • Influence of stream size on ammonium and suspended particulate nitrogen processing

    Wilfred M. Wollheim;Bruce J. Peterson;Linda A. Deegan;John E. Hobbie

  • Comparison of Landsat 8 and Landsat 7 for regional measurements of CDOM and water clarity in lakes

    Leif G. Olmanson;Patrick L. Brezonik;Jacques C. Finlay;Marvin E. Bauer

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

  • IMPLICATIONS FOR ENERGY FLOW IN LOTIC FOOD WEBS

    Jacques C. Finlay

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary E. Power
Mary E. Power University of California, Berkeley
Sarah E. Hobbie
Sarah E. Hobbie University of Minnesota
Robert W. Sterner
Robert W. Sterner University of Minnesota, Duluth
Patrick L. Brezonik
Patrick L. Brezonik University of Minnesota
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou University of California, Irvine
William B. Bowden
William B. Bowden University of Vermont
Raymond M. Hozalski
Raymond M. Hozalski University of Minnesota
Lawrence A. Baker
Lawrence A. Baker University of Minnesota
Peter Richard Wilcock
Peter Richard Wilcock Utah State University
Jason C. Neff
Jason C. Neff University of Colorado Boulder

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