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James J. Butler is affiliated with the University of Kansas in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and engineering, with significant contributions in water science and technology, environmental engineering, and ocean engineering. Additional subfields of study include geochemistry and petrology as well as global and planetary change.

The scientist's work covers key topics such as hydrology and watershed management studies, water resources management and optimization, and groundwater flow and contamination studies. Further research areas include groundwater and isotope geochemistry, calibration and measurement techniques, atmospheric ozone and climate, and groundwater and watershed analysis.

James J. Butler has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets include Water Resources Research, Ground Water, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Agricultural Water Management, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Frequent co-authors in Butler's research efforts are B. B. Wilson, Donald O. Whittemore, Geoffrey C. Bohling, Ryan Smith, and Samuel C. Zipper.

Recent publications demonstrate the range of Butler's scientific inquiries:

  • "Human Intervention Will Stabilize Groundwater Storage Across the North China Plain," 2022, Water Resources Research
  • "Groundwater Withdrawal Prediction Using Integrated Multitemporal Remote Sensing Data Sets and Machine Learning," 2020, Water Resources Research
  • "MODIS and VIIRS Calibration History and Future Outlook," 2020, Remote Sensing
  • "Combining Remote Sensing and Crop Models to Assess the Sustainability of Stakeholder-Driven Groundwater Management in the US High Plains Aquifer," 2021, Water Resources Research
  • "Charting Pathways Toward Sustainability for Aquifers Supporting Irrigated Agriculture," 2020, Water Resources Research

Best Publications

  • Estimation of groundwater consumption by phreatophytes using diurnal water table fluctuations : A saturated-unsaturated flow assessment

    Steven P. Loheide;James J. Butler;Steven M. Gorelick

  • Slug tests in partially penetrating wells

    Zafar Hyder;James J. Butler;Carl D. McElwee;Wenzhi Liu

  • Relationship Between Pumping-Test and Slug-Test Parameters: Scale Effect or Artifact?

    James J. Butler;John M. Healey

  • The Global Space-Based Inter-Calibration System

    M. Goldberg;G. Ohring;J. Butler;C. Cao

  • A field investigation of phreatophyte-induced fluctuations in the water table

    James J. Butler;Gerard J. Kluitenberg;Donald O. Whittemore;Steven P. Loheide;Steven P. Loheide

  • Drawdown and stream depletion produced by pumping in the vicinity of a partially penetrating stream.

    James J. Butler;Vitaly A. Zlotnik;Ming-Shu Tsou

  • Hydrogeological Methods for Estimation of Spatial Variations in Hydraulic Conductivity

    James J. Butler

  • Steady shape analysis of tomographic pumping tests for characterization of aquifer heterogeneities

    Geoffrey C. Bohling;Xiaoyong Zhan;James J. Butler;Li Zheng

  • Direct-Push Electrical Conductivity Logging for High-Resolution Hydrostratigraphic Characterization

    M.K. Schulmeister;J.J. Butler;J.M. Healey;L. Zheng

  • A Small-Diameter NMR Logging Tool for Groundwater Investigations

    David Walsh;Peter Turner;Elliot Grunewald;Hong Zhang

  • Pumping tests in nonuniform aquifers — The radially symmetric case

    James J. Butler

  • Improving the quality of parameter estimates obtained from slug tests

    James J. Butler;Carl D. McElwee;Wenzhi Liu

  • A field assessment of the value of steady shape hydraulic tomography for characterization of aquifer heterogeneities

    Geoffrey C. Bohling;Jr . James J. Butler;Xiaoyong Zhan;Michael D. Knoll

  • Hydraulic tests with direct-push equipment.

    James J. Butler;John M. Healey;G. Wesley McCall;Elizabeth J. Garnett

  • A rapid method for hydraulic profiling in unconsolidated formations.

    Peter Dietrich;James J. Jr.. Butler;Klaus Faiß

  • Pumping tests in nonuniform aquifers: The radially asymmetric case

    James J. Butler;Wenzhi Liu

  • Pumping tests in networks of multilevel sampling wells: Motivation and methodology

    James J. Butler;Carl D. McElwee;Geoffrey C. Bohling

  • Characterizing hydraulic conductivity with the direct-push permeameter.

    James J. Butler;Peter Dietrich;Volker Wittig;Tom Christy

  • Slug Tests in Unconfined Formations: An Assessment of the Bouwer and Rice Technique

    Z. Hyder;J. J. Butler

  • Analysis of Slug Tests in Formations of High Hydraulic Conductivity

    James J. Butler;Elizabeth J. Garnett;John M. Healey

  • The Role of Pumping Tests in Site Characterization: Some Theoretical Considerations

    James J. Butler

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. Hyndman
David W. Hyndman The University of Texas at Dallas
Peter Dietrich
Peter Dietrich University of Tübingen
Rosemary Knight
Rosemary Knight Stanford University
Steven P. Loheide
Steven P. Loheide University of Wisconsin–Madison
Mark M. Meerschaert
Mark M. Meerschaert Michigan State University
Vitaly A. Zlotnik
Vitaly A. Zlotnik University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Rudolf Liedl
Rudolf Liedl TU Dresden
Steven M. Gorelick
Steven M. Gorelick Stanford University
Randall J. Hunt
Randall J. Hunt United States Geological Survey
Warren Barrash
Warren Barrash Boise State University

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