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John A. Harrison is a researcher affiliated with Washington State University in the United States. Their work spans the field of Environmental Science, with a focused contribution to several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Mechanics of Materials, and Ecology.

Their research covers a range of topics relevant to environmental gas dynamics and ecosystem interactions, such as Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Microbial Metabolism and Enzyme Function, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

Harrison has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • Year-2020 Global Distribution and Pathways of Reservoir Methane and Carbon Dioxide Emissions According to the Greenhouse Gas From Reservoirs (G-res) Model, 2021, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Global importance of methane emissions from drainage ditches and canals, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • Reservoir CO2 and CH4 emissions and their climate impact over the period 1900-2060, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Nitrate promotes the transfer of methane-derived carbon from the methanotroph Methylobacter sp. to the methylotroph Methylotenera sp. in eutrophic lake water, 2020, Limnology and Oceanography
  • A new modelling framework to assess biogenic GHG emissions from reservoirs: The G-res tool, 2021, Environmental Modelling & Software

Frequent collaborators in their work include Yves T. Prairie, Sara Mercier-Blais, Cynthia Soued, Kyle Delwiche, and Joannes D. Maasakkers.

Their research has been published repeatedly in a handful of key venues, including:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Best Publications

  • Denitrification across landscapes and waterscapes: a synthesis.

    Sybil P. Seitzinger;John A. Harrison;John K. Bohlke;A. F. Bouwman

  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Reservoir Water Surfaces: A New Global Synthesis

    Bridget R. Deemer;John A. Harrison;Siyue Li;Jake J. Beaulieu

  • Global river nutrient export: A scenario analysis of past and future trends

    S. P. Seitzinger;E. Mayorga;E. Mayorga;A. F. Bouwman;A. F. Bouwman;C. Kroeze;C. Kroeze

  • Escalating worldwide use of urea - a global change contributing to coastal eutrophication

    Patricia M. Glibert;John Harrison;Cynthia Heil;Sybil Seitzinger

  • Sources and delivery of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus to the coastal zone : An overview of global nutrient export from watersheds (NEWS) models and their application

    S. P. Seitzinger;J. A. Harrison;Egon Dumont;Arthur H. W. Beusen

  • Global Nutrient Export from WaterSheds 2 (NEWS 2): Model development and implementation

    Emilio Mayorga;Sybil P. Seitzinger;John A. Harrison;Egon Dumont

  • Global nitrogen and phosphate in urban wastewater for the period 1970 to 2050

    G. Van Drecht;A. F. Bouwman;A. F. Bouwman;J. Harrison;J. M. Knoop

  • The regional and global significance of nitrogen removal in lakes and reservoirs

    John A. Harrison;Roxane J. Maranger;Richard B. Alexander;Anne E. Giblin

  • Global patterns and sources of dissolved organic matter export to the coastal zone: Results from a spatially explicit, global model

    John A. Harrison;Nina Caraco;Sybil P. Seitzinger

  • Estimation of global river transport of sediments and associated particulate C, N, and P

    A. H. W. Beusen;A. L. M. Dekkers;A. F. Bouwman;W. Ludwig

  • Ecosystem services altered by human changes in the nitrogen cycle: a new perspective for US decision making.

    Jana E. Compton;John A. Harrison;Robin L. Dennis;Tara L. Greaver

  • Global distribution and sources of dissolved inorganic nitrogen export to the coastal zone: Results from a spatially explicit, global model

    E.L. Dumont;J.A. Harrison;C. Kroeze;E.J. Bakker

  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Freshwater Reservoirs: What Does the Atmosphere See?

    Yves T. Prairie;Jukka Alm;Jake Beaulieu;Nathan Barros

  • Excess Nitrogen in the U.S. Environment: Trends, Risks, and Solutions

    E.A. Davidson;M.B. David;J.N. Galloway;C.L. Goodale

  • 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

  • Global N removal by freshwater aquatic systems using a spatially distributed, within‐basin approach

    Wilfred M. Wollheim;Charles J. Vorosmarty;A. F. Bouwman;Pamela Green

  • Nitrogen loading alters seagrass ecosystem structure and support of higher trophic levels

    Linda A. Deegan;Amos Wright;Suzanne G. Ayvazian;John T. Finn

  • Effects of a diel oxygen cycle on nitrogen transformations and greenhouse gas emissions in a eutrophied subtropical stream

    John A. Harrison;John A. Harrison;Pamela A. Matson;Scott E. Fendorf

  • Dissolved inorganic phosphorus export to the coastal zone: Results from a spatially explicit, global model

    John A. Harrison;Sybil P. Seitzinger;A. F. Bouwman;Nina F. Caraco

  • Reservoir Water-Level Drawdowns Accelerate and Amplify Methane Emission.

    John A. Harrison;Bridget R. Deemer;Bridget R. Deemer;M. Keith Birchfield;Maria T. O’Malley;Maria T. O’Malley

  • Patterns and controls of nitrous oxide emissions from waters draining a subtropical agricultural valley

    John Harrison;Pamela Matson

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander F. Bouwman
Alexander F. Bouwman Utrecht University
Sybil P. Seitzinger
Sybil P. Seitzinger University of Victoria
Jana E. Compton
Jana E. Compton Environmental Protection Agency
Arthur H. W. Beusen
Arthur H. W. Beusen Utrecht University
Yves T. Prairie
Yves T. Prairie University of Quebec at Montreal
Carolien Kroeze
Carolien Kroeze Wageningen University & Research
Randy A. Dahlgren
Randy A. Dahlgren University of California, Davis
James N. Galloway
James N. Galloway University of Virginia
Patricia M. Glibert
Patricia M. Glibert University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Pamela A. Matson
Pamela A. Matson Stanford University

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