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National Ranking
1711

Overview

John C. Schmidt is affiliated with Utah State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a strong emphasis on the subfields of ecology, water science and technology, global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, and soil science.

Their work encompasses a range of topics within hydrology and sediment transport processes, hydrology and watershed management studies, fish ecology and management studies, soil erosion and sediment transport, flood risk assessment and management, hydrology and drought analysis, and aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Charles B. Yackulic, Kevin Wheeler, Homa Salehabadi, Lindsey A. Bruckerhoff, and Jian Wang. Their research outputs have been published notably in HydroShare Resources, the Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface, the JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, and Science.

Recent publications featuring their contributions include:

  • "What will it take to stabilize the Colorado River?" (2022) in Science
  • "Water storage decisions will determine the distribution and persistence of imperiled river fishes" (2020) in Ecological Applications
  • "The Colorado River water crisis: Its origin and the future" (2023) in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
  • "Water Storage Decisions and Consumptive Use May Constrain Ecosystem Management under Severe Sustained Drought" (2022) in JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association
  • "New water accounting reveals why the Colorado River no longer reaches the sea" (2024) in Communications Earth & Environment

Best Publications

  • Dams and rivers: A primer on the downstream effects of dams

    Michael Collier;Robert H. Webb;John C. Schmidt

  • Metrics for Assessing the Downstream Effects of Dams

    J. C. Schmidt;Peter Richards Wilcock

  • Quantifying Macroinvertebrate Responses to In‐Stream Habitat Restoration: Applications of Meta‐Analysis to River Restoration

    Scott W. Miller;Phaedra Budy;John C. Schmidt

  • Functional Flows in Modified Riverscapes: Hydrographs, Habitats and Opportunities

    Sarah M. Yarnell;Geoffrey E. Petts;John C. Schmidt;Alison A. Whipple

  • Aggradation and degradation of alluvial sand deposits, 1965 to 1986, Colorado River, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

    John C. Schmidt;Julia B. Graf

  • Science and Values in River Restoration in the Grand Canyon There is no restoration or rehabilitation strategy that will improve the status of every riverine resource

    John C. Schmidt;Robert H. Webb;Richard A. Valdez;G. Richard Marzolf

  • How dams can go with the flow

    N. LeRoy Poff;N. LeRoy Poff;John C. Schmidt

  • Effective discharge analysis of ecological processes in streams

    Martin W. Doyle;Emily H. Stanley;David L. Strayer;Robert B. Jacobson

  • A Geological Framework for Interpreting Downstream Effects of Dams on Rivers

    Gordon E. Grant;John C. Schmidt;Sarah L. Lewis

  • Are large‐scale flow experiments informing the science and management of freshwater ecosystems?

    Julian D. Olden;Christopher P. Konrad;Theodore S. Melis;Mark James Kennard

  • Recirculating Flow and Sedimentation in the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, Arizona

    John C. Schmidt

  • Large-scale Flow Experiments for Managing River Systems

    Christopher P. Konrad;Julian D. Olden;David A. Lytle;Theodore S. Melis

  • Flow regulation, geomorphology, and Colorado River marsh development in the Grand Canyon, Arizona

    Lawrence E. Stevens;John C. Schmidt;Tina J. Ayers;Bryan T. Brown

  • Streamflow regulation and multi-level flood plain formation: channel narrowing on the aggrading Green River in the eastern Uinta Mountains, Colorado and Utah

    Paul E Grams;John C Schmidt

  • Channel narrowing by vertical accretion along the Green River near Green River, Utah

    Tyler M. Allred;John C. Schmidt

  • The role of feedback mechanisms in historic channel changes of the lower Rio Grande in the Big Bend region

    David J. Dean;John C. Schmidt

  • Equilibrium or indeterminate? Where sediment budgets fail: Sediment mass balance and adjustment of channel form, Green River downstream from Flaming Gorge Dam, Utah and Colorado

    Paul E. Grams;John C. Schmidt

  • Computation and analysis of the instantaneous-discharge record for the Colorado River at Lees Ferry, Arizona : May 8, 1921, through September 30, 2000

    David J. Topping;John C. Schmidt;L.E. Vierra

  • Regulated Streamflow, Fine‐Grained Deposits, and Effective Discharge in Canyons with Abundant Debris Fans

    John C. Schmidt;David M. Rubin

  • Origin, Structure, and Evolution of a Reattachment Bar, Colorado River, Grand Canyon, Arizona

    David M. Rubin;John C. Schmidt;Johnnie N. Moore

  • The Controlled Flood in Grand Canyon

    Robert H. Webb;John C. Schmidt;G. Richard Marzolf;Richard A. Valdez

  • Complex channel responses to changes in stream flow and sediment supply on the lower Duchesne River, Utah

    D. A. Gaeuman;J. C. Schmidt;Peter Richard Wilcock

  • The rate and pattern of bed incision and bank adjustment on the Colorado River in Glen Canyon downstream from Glen Canyon Dam, 1956–2000

    Paul E. Grams;John C. Schmidt;David J. Topping

  • Application of wavelet analysis for monitoring the hydrologic effects of dam operation: Glen Canyon Dam and the Colorado River at Lees Ferry, Arizona

    Michael A. White;John C. Schmidt;David J. Topping

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Rubin
David M. Rubin University of California, Santa Cruz
Peter Richard Wilcock
Peter Richard Wilcock Utah State University
Charles B. Yackulic
Charles B. Yackulic United States Geological Survey
Charles P. Hawkins
Charles P. Hawkins Utah State University
Christopher T. Robinson
Christopher T. Robinson Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Joseph M. Wheaton
Joseph M. Wheaton Utah State University
David G. Tarboton
David G. Tarboton Utah State University
Gordon E. Grant
Gordon E. Grant US Forest Service
Johnnie N. Moore
Johnnie N. Moore University of Montana
Christopher M. U. Neale
Christopher M. U. Neale University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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