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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Karl W. Flessa is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Geochemistry and Petrology, Water Science and Technology, and aspects of Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Their research topics cover a range of environmental and hydrological studies, focusing on:

  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Water Quality and Resources Studies
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Flessa include:

  • Hydrodiplomacy and adaptive governance at the U.S.-Mexico border: 75 years of tradition and innovation in transboundary water management, 2020, published in Environmental Science & Policy
  • Improving the efficiency and accuracy of evaluating aridland riparian habitat restoration using unmanned aerial vehicles, 2021, published in Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
  • Groundwater Isotopes in the Sonoyta River Watershed, USA-Mexico: Implications for Recharge Sources and Management of the Quitobaquito Springs, 2020, published in Water
  • Groundwater Origin and Dynamics on the Eastern Flank of the Colorado River Delta, Mexico, 2021, published in Hydrology
  • Channel incision by headcut migration: Reconnection of the Colorado River to its estuary and the Gulf of California during the floods of 1979-1988, 2020, published in Hydrological Processes

Frequent co-authors of Flessa include:

  • Richard K. Bambach
  • A. J. Boucot
  • Rodney Feldman
  • Carrie E. Schweitzer
  • Elvira Gastaldo Th E Family

Flessa's research has been regularly published in established venues such as the Journal of Paleontology, with ten publications, as well as other journals and repositories including Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Environmental Science & Policy, Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, and Water.

Recognition for Flessa's contributions includes fellowships from professional organizations:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), awarded in 2018
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Best Publications

  • The Quality of the Fossil Record: Populations, Species, and Communities

    Susan M. Kidwell;Karl W. Flessa

  • Conservation paleobiology: putting the dead to work

    Gregory P. Dietl;Karl W. Flessa

  • Time and taphonomy; quantitative estimates of time-averaging and stratigraphic disorder in a shallow marine habitat

    Karl W. Flessa;Alan H. Cutler;Keith H. Meldahl

  • Cross-Calibration of Daily Growth Increments, Stable Isotope Variation, and Temperature in the Gulf of California Bivalve Mollusk Chione cortezi: Implications for Paleoenvironmental Analysis

    David H. Goodwin;Karl W. Flessa;Bernd R. Schöne;David L. Dettman

  • High-resolution estimates of temporal mixing within shell beds: the evils and virtues of time-averaging

    Michal Kowalewski;Glenn A. Goodfriend;Karl W. Flessa

  • Conservation Paleobiology: Leveraging Knowledge of the Past to Inform Conservation and Restoration

    Gregory P. Dietl;Gregory P. Dietl;Susan M. Kidwell;Mark Brenner;David A. Burney

  • Shell survival and time‐averaging in nearshore and shelf environments: estimates from the radiocarbon literature

    Karl W. Flessa;Michal Kowalewski

  • Dead delta's former productivity: Two trillion shells at the mouth of the Colorado River

    Michal Kowalewski;Guillermo E. Avila Serrano;Karl W. Flessa;Glenn A. Goodfriend

  • Time-averaging and postmortem skeletal survival in benthic fossil assemblages: quantitative comparisons among Holocene environments

    Keith H. Meldahl;Karl W. Flessa;Alan H. Cutler

  • Ecosystem services across borders: a framework for transboundary conservation policy

    Laura López-Hoffman;Laura López-Hoffman;Robert G Varady;Karl W Flessa;Patricia Balvanera

  • Ecology and conservation biology of the Colorado River Delta, Mexico

    Edward P. Glenn;Francisco Zamora-Arroyo;Pamela L. Nagler;Mark Briggs

  • The use of oxygen isotope variation in shells of estuarine mollusks as a quantitative record of seasonal and annual Colorado River discharge

    David L. Dettman;Karl W. Flessa;Peter D. Roopnarine;Bernd R. Schöne

  • Extinction is here to stay

    Karl W. Flessa;David Jablonski

  • Taphofacies analysis of recent shelly cheniers (beach ridges), northeastern baja california, Mexico

    Michal Kowalewski;Karl W. Flessa;Jill A. Aggen

  • Taphonomic pathways and comparative biofacies and taphofacies in a Recent intertidal/shallow shelf environment

    Keith H. Meldahl;Karl W. Flessa

  • Taphonomy of tidal flat molluscs in the northern Gulf of California; paleoenvironmental analysis despite the perils of preservation

    Franz T. Fursich;Karl W. Flessa

  • The importance of Colorado River flow to nursery habitats of the Gulf corvina (Cynoscion othonopterus)

    Kirsten Rowell;Kirsten Rowell;Karl W Flessa;David L Dettman;Martha Román

  • Effects of Upstream Diversion of Colorado River Water on the Estuarine Bivalve Mollusc Mulinia coloradoensis

    Carlie A. Rodriguez;Karl W. Flessa;David L. Dettman

  • Reconstructing daily temperatures from growth rates of the intertidal bivalve mollusk Chione cortezi (northern Gulf of California, Mexico)

    Bernd R. Schöne;Jocelina Lega;Karl W. Flessa;David H. Goodwin

  • Biogeography and paleobiology

    David Jablonski;Karl W. Flessa;James W. Valentine

  • THE QUALITY OF THE FOSSIL RECORD: Populations, Species,

    Susan M. Kidwell;Karl W. Flessa

Frequent Co-Authors

David L. Dettman
David L. Dettman University of Arizona
Michał Kowalewski
Michał Kowalewski Florida Museum of Natural History
Edward P. Glenn
Edward P. Glenn University of Arizona
Bernd R. Schöne
Bernd R. Schöne Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Pamela L. Nagler
Pamela L. Nagler University of Arizona
Susan M. Kidwell
Susan M. Kidwell University of Chicago
Jennifer C. McIntosh
Jennifer C. McIntosh University of Arizona
Christopher J. Eastoe
Christopher J. Eastoe University of Arizona
Glenn A. Goodfriend
Glenn A. Goodfriend George Washington University
David Jablonski
David Jablonski University of Chicago

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