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Kathleen A. Lohse is affiliated with Idaho State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with an emphasis on several subfields including ecology, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, water science and technology, and soil science.

Their work spans multiple main topics within these fields, incorporating areas such as hydrology and watershed management studies, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, cryospheric studies and observations, soil and water nutrient dynamics, microbial community ecology and physiology, flood risk assessment and management, and hydrology and sediment transport processes.

Recent publications by Kathleen A. Lohse include:

  • Continental-scale patterns of extracellular enzyme activity in the subsoil: an overlooked reservoir of microbial activity (2020), Environmental Research Letters
  • Signatures of Hydrologic Function Across the Critical Zone Observatory Network (2020), Water Resources Research
  • Influence of groundwater and topography on stream drying in semi-arid headwater streams (2021), Hydrological Processes
  • Microbial Responses to Biochar Soil Amendment and Influential Factors: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis (2023), Environmental Science & Technology
  • Biological Soil Crust Bacterial Communities Vary Along Climatic and Shrub Cover Gradients Within a Sagebrush Steppe Ecosystem (2021), Frontiers in Microbiology

Frequent coauthors associated with Lohse's research include M. S. Seyfried, Sarah E. Godsey, G. N. Flerchinger, Ken Aho, and Sara R. Warix.

The scientist has contributed frequently to specific publication venues including:

  • Frontiers in Water
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Hydrological Processes
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • The globalization of nitrogen deposition: consequences for terrestrial ecosystems.

    Pamela Matson;Kathleen A. Lohse;Sharon J. Hall

  • Ecological and Genomic Attributes of Novel Bacterial Taxa That Thrive in Subsurface Soil Horizons.

    Tess E. Brewer;Emma L. Aronson;Keshav Arogyaswamy;Sharon A. Billings

  • Interactions Between Biogeochemistry and Hydrologic Systems

    Kathleen A. Lohse;Paul D. Brooks;Jennifer C. McIntosh;Thomas Meixner

  • Linking soils and streams: Sources and chemistry of dissolved organic matter in a small coastal watershed

    Jonathan Sanderman;Jonathan Sanderman;Kathleen A. Lohse;Jeffrey A. Baldock;Ronald Amundson

  • Designing a network of critical zone observatories to explore the living skin of the terrestrial Earth

    Susan L. Brantley;William H. McDowell;William E. Dietrich;Timothy S. White

  • Contrasting effects of soil development on hydrological properties and flow paths

    Kathleen A. Lohse;Kathleen A. Lohse;William E. Dietrich

  • Access and Resilience: Analyzing the Construction of Social Resilience to the Threat of Water Scarcity

    Ruth Langridge;Juliet Christian-Smith;Kathleen A. Lohse

  • How Water, Carbon, and Energy Drive Critical Zone Evolution: The Jemez–Santa Catalina Critical Zone Observatory

    Jon Chorover;Peter A. Troch;Craig Rasmussen;Paul D. Brooks

  • Influence of groundwater flowpaths, residence times and nutrients on the extent of microbial methanogenesis in coal beds: Powder River Basin, USA

    Brittney L. Bates;Jennifer C. McIntosh;Kathleen A. Lohse;Paul D. Brooks

  • Atmospheric deposition of carbon and nutrients across an arid metropolitan area.

    Kathleen A. Lohse;Diane Hope;Ryan Sponseller;Ryan Sponseller;Jonathan O. Allen

  • Predicting soil thickness on soil mantled hillslopes

    Nicholas R. Patton;Kathleen A. Lohse;Sarah E. Godsey;Benjamin T. Crosby

  • Impacts of urbanization on groundwater quality and recharge in a semi-arid alluvial basin

    Mark A. Carlson;Kathleen A. Lohse;Jennifer C. McIntosh;Jean E.T. McLain

  • The Role of Critical Zone Observatories in Critical Zone Science

    Timothy White;Susan Brantley;Steve Banwart;Jon Chorover

  • Coevolution of nonlinear trends in vegetation, soils, and topography with elevation and slope aspect: A case study in the sky islands of southern Arizona

    Jon D. Pelletier;Greg A. Barron-Gafford;David D. Breshears;Paul D. Brooks

  • CONSEQUENCES OF NITROGEN ADDITIONS FOR SOIL LOSSES FROM WET TROPICAL FORESTS

    Kathleen A. Lohse;Pamela Matson

  • The Globalization of Nitrogen Deposition: Consequences for Terrestrial Ecosystems

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  • Physical and biological controls on trace gas fluxes in semi-arid urban ephemeral waterways

    Erika L. Gallo;Erika L. Gallo;Kathleen A. Lohse;Kathleen A. Lohse;Christopher M. Ferlin;Thomas Meixner

  • Bacterial composition of soils in ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests exposed to different wildfire burn severity

    Carolyn F. Weber;J. Scott Lockhart;Emily Charaska;Ken Aho

  • Influence of land use on fine sediment in salmonid spawning gravels within the Russian River Basin, California

    Jeff J. Opperman;Kathleen A. Lohse;Colin Brooks;N. Maggi Kelly

  • Sources and Transport of Nitrogen in Arid Urban Watersheds

    Rebecca L. Hale;Laura Turnbull;Stevan Earl;Nancy B. Grimm

  • Forecasting relative impacts of land use on anadromous fish habitat to guide conservation planning.

    Kathleen A. Lohse;David A. Newburn;Jeff J. Opperman;Adina M. Merenlender

  • Regional sensitivities of seasonal snowpack to elevation, aspect, and vegetation cover in western North America

    Christopher J. Tennant;Adrian A. Harpold;Kathleen Ann Lohse;Sarah E. Godsey

  • Topographic controls of soil organic carbon on soil-mantled landscapes.

    Nicholas R. Patton;Kathleen A. Lohse;Mark S. Seyfried;Sarah E. Godsey

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Meixner
Thomas Meixner University of Arizona
Paul D. Brooks
Paul D. Brooks University of Utah
Mark S. Seyfried
Mark S. Seyfried Agricultural Research Service
Jennifer C. McIntosh
Jennifer C. McIntosh University of Arizona
Gerald N. Flerchinger
Gerald N. Flerchinger Agricultural Research Service
Jon Chorover
Jon Chorover University of Arizona
Frederick B. Pierson
Frederick B. Pierson Agricultural Research Service
Jonathan Sanderman
Jonathan Sanderman Woods Hole Research Center
Danny Marks
Danny Marks Agricultural Research Service
Bruce P. Finney
Bruce P. Finney Idaho State University

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