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Overview

James W. McClelland is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences with significant contributions in Environmental Science.

The scientist's work spans several notable subfields including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Ecology, and Geochemistry and Petrology. Their research addresses a range of main topics such as Climate change and permafrost, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Cryospheric studies and observations, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

James W. McClelland has published extensively in prominent venues. Frequent publication outlets for their work include:

  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Robert G. M. Spencer
  • Suzanne E. Tank
  • Craig T. Connolly
  • R. M. Holmes
  • Anya Suslova

Among recent publications authored or co-authored by James W. McClelland are:

  • Groundwater as a major source of dissolved organic matter to Arctic coastal waters, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Landscape matters: Predicting the biogeochemical effects of permafrost thaw on aquatic networks with a state factor approach, 2020, Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
  • Pan-Arctic Riverine Dissolved Organic Matter: Synchronous Molecular Stability, Shifting Sources and Subsidies, 2021, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Mercury Export from Arctic Great Rivers, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Recent trends in the chemistry of major northern rivers signal widespread Arctic change, 2023, Nature Geoscience

Best Publications

  • Increasing river discharge to the Arctic Ocean

    Bruce J Peterson;Robert M Holmes;James W McClelland;Charles J Vörösmarty

  • Macroalgal blooms in shallow estuaries: Controls and ecophysiological and ecosystem consequences

    Ivan Valiela;James McClelland;Jennifer Hauxwell;Peter J. Behr

  • Impacts of permafrost degradation on arctic river biogeochemistry.

    Karen E. Frey;James W. McClelland

  • Nitrogen-stable isotope signatures in estuarine food webs : A record of increasing urbanization in coastal watersheds

    James W. McClelland;Ivan Valiela;Robert H. Michener

  • Seasonal and Annual Fluxes of Nutrients and Organic Matter from Large Rivers to the Arctic Ocean and Surrounding Seas

    Robert Max Holmes;James W. McClelland;Bruce J. Peterson;Suzanne E. Tank

  • TROPHIC RELATIONSHIPS AND THE NITROGEN ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF AMINO ACIDS IN PLANKTON

    James W. McClelland;Joseph P. Montoya

  • Linking nitrogen in estuarine producers to land-derived sources

    James W. McClelland;Ivan Valiela

  • Flux and age of dissolved organic carbon exported to the Arctic Ocean: A carbon isotopic study of the five largest arctic rivers

    Peter A. Raymond;James W McClelland;R. M. Holmes;A. V. Zhulidov

  • Measuring 15N-NH4/+ in marine, estuarine and fresh waters: An adaptation of the ammonia diffusion method for samples with low ammonium concentrations

    R. M. Holmes;James W McClelland;D. M. Sigman;B. Fry

  • A pan‐arctic evaluation of changes in river discharge during the latter half of the 20th century

    James W. McClelland;Stephen J. Déry;Bruce J. Peterson;Robert M. Holmes

  • Trajectory shifts in the Arctic and subarctic freshwater cycle.

    Bruce J. Peterson;James W. McClelland;Ruth G. Curry;Robert M. Holmes

  • Lability of DOC transported by Alaskan rivers to the Arctic Ocean

    Robert M. Holmes;James W. McClelland;Peter A. Raymond;Breton B. Frazer

  • Increasing river discharge in the Eurasian Arctic: Consideration of dams, permafrost thaw, and fires as potential agents of change

    James W. McClelland;Robert M. Holmes;Bruce J. Peterson;Marc Stieglitz

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Changes in food web structure under the influence of increased anthropogenic nitrogen inputs to estuaries

    James W. McClelland;I. Valiela

  • The Arctic freshwater system: Changes and impacts

    Daniel White;Larry Hinzman;Lilian Alessa;John Cassano

  • Dissolved organic matter sources in large Arctic rivers

    R. M. W. Amon;A. J. Rinehart;S. Duan;P. Louchouarn

  • 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

  • The Arctic Ocean Estuary

    James W McClelland;R. M. Holmes;Kenneth H Dunton;R. W. Macdonald

  • Flow-weighted values of runoff tracers (δ18O, DOC, Ba, alkalinity) from the six largest Arctic rivers

    Lee W. Cooper;James W. McClelland;Robert M. Holmes;Peter A. Raymond

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce J. Peterson
Bruce J. Peterson Marine Biological Laboratory
Robert M. Holmes
Robert M. Holmes Woods Hole Research Center
Suzanne E. Tank
Suzanne E. Tank University of Alberta
Peter A. Raymond
Peter A. Raymond Yale University
Robert G. M. Spencer
Robert G. M. Spencer Florida State University
Ivan Valiela
Ivan Valiela Marine Biological Laboratory
Andrew D. Jacobson
Andrew D. Jacobson Northwestern University
Thomas A. Douglas
Thomas A. Douglas Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
Alexander I. Shiklomanov
Alexander I. Shiklomanov University of New Hampshire
Robert G. Striegl
Robert G. Striegl United States Geological Survey

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