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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

John S. Selker is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science, with a focus on Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science. Their research covers a range of topics primarily centered on hydrology and watershed management.

The main topics in their work include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Recent publications by John S. Selker include:

  • "Homogenization of the terrestrial water cycle," 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • "Advancing ecohydrology in the 21st century: A convergence of opportunities," 2020, Ecohydrology
  • "Recession analysis revisited: impacts of climate on parameter estimation," 2020, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "The motion of trees in the wind: a data synthesis," 2021, Biogeosciences
  • "Revisiting wind speed measurements using actively heated fiber optics: a wind tunnel study," 2020, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

John S. Selker frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Chet Udell
  • Nick van de Giesen
  • Marja Haagsma
  • David E. Rupp
  • Clément Roques

Publication venues in which John S. Selker has commonly contributed include:

  • HardwareX
  • River Research and Applications
  • Hydrological Processes
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

In addition to research articles, John S. Selker has authored books such as "Distributed Fiber-optic Hydrogeophysics," published in 2022 under The Groundwater Project eBooks series.

The scientist received recognition as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Soil Moisture Measurement for Ecological and Hydrological Watershed-Scale Observatories: A Review

    D. A. Robinson;C. S. Campbell;J. W. Hopmans;B. K. Hornbuckle

  • Moving beyond heterogeneity and process complexity: A new vision for watershed hydrology

    J J McDonnell;J J McDonnell;M Sivapalan;K Vache;S Dunn

  • Distributed fiber-optic temperature sensing for hydrologic systems

    John S. Selker;John S. Selker;Luc Thévenaz;Hendrik Huwald;Alfred Mallet

  • Environmental temperature sensing using Raman spectra DTS fiber-optic methods

    Scott W. Tyler;John S. Selker;Mark B. Hausner;Christine E. Hatch

  • Remarkable agrivoltaic influence on soil moisture, micrometeorology and water-use efficiency.

    Elnaz Hassanpour Adeh;John S. Selker;Chad W. Higgins

  • Fiber optics opens window on stream dynamics

    John Selker;Nick C. van de Giesen;Martijn Westhoff;Wim Luxemburg

  • Characterization of Miller‐Similar Silica Sands for Laboratory Hydrologic Studies

    M. H. Schroth;J. D. Istok;S. J. Ahearn;J. S. Selker

  • Homogenization of the terrestrial water cycle

    Delphis F. Levia;Irena F. Creed;David M. Hannah;Kazuki Nanko

  • Calibrating single-ended fiber-optic Raman spectra distributed temperature sensing data.

    Mark B. Hausner;Francisco Suárez;Kenneth E. Glander;Nick van de Giesen

  • Feasibility of soil moisture monitoring with heated fiber optics

    Chadi Sayde;Christopher Gregory;Maria Gil-Rodriguez;Nick Tufillaro

  • A distributed stream temperature model using high resolution temperature observations

    M. C. Westhoff;H. H. G. Savenije;W. M. J . Luxemburg;G. S. Stelling

  • Fingered flow in two dimensions: 2. Predicting finger moisture profile

    J. Selker;J.-Y. Parlange;T. Steenhuis

  • Measurements and Observations in the XXI century (MOXXI): innovation and multi-disciplinarity to sense the hydrological cycle

    Flavia Tauro;John Selker;Nick van de Giesen;Tommaso Abrate

  • Feasibility of soil moisture estimation using passive distributed temperature sensing

    S. C. Steele-Dunne;M. M. Rutten;D. M. Krzeminska;M. Hausner

  • On the use of the Boussinesq equation for interpreting recession hydrographs from sloping aquifers

    David E. Rupp;David E. Rupp;John S. Selker

  • Fiberglass wicks for sampling of water and solutes in the vadose zone

    J. Boll;T. S. Steenhuis;J. S. Selker

  • Nitrate Leaching under a Cereal Rye Cover Crop

    Florian M. Brandi-Dohrn;Mario Hess;John S. Selker;Richard P. Dick

  • Vadose Zone Processes

    John S. Selker;C. Kent. Keller;James T. McCord

  • A new method for quantification of liquid saturation in 2D translucent porous media systems using light transmission

    Michael R. Niemet;John S. Selker

  • A Simple Equation for Predicting Preferential Flow Solute Concentrations

    Tammo S. Steenhuis;Jan Boll;Gil Shalit;John S. Selker

  • Soil Physics with HYDRUS: Modeling and Applications

    John Selker;Ryan Stewart

Frequent Co-Authors

David E. Rupp
David E. Rupp Oregon State University
Nick van de Giesen
Nick van de Giesen Delft University of Technology
Tammo S. Steenhuis
Tammo S. Steenhuis Cornell University
Scott W. Tyler
Scott W. Tyler University of Nevada Reno
Noam Weisbrod
Noam Weisbrod Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Marc B. Parlange
Marc B. Parlange University of Rhode Island
Olivier Bour
Olivier Bour University of Rennes
Richard P. Dick
Richard P. Dick The Ohio State University
Victor F. Bense
Victor F. Bense Wageningen University & Research
Elie Bou-Zeid
Elie Bou-Zeid Princeton University

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