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Kevin J. McGuire

Kevin J. McGuire

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Earth Science

D-Index
48
Citations
9511
World Ranking
3775
National Ranking
1490

Overview

Kevin J. McGuire is affiliated with Virginia Tech in the United States and has extensively contributed to the field of environmental science. Their research primarily focuses on hydrology and watershed management studies, encompassing a broad spectrum of subfields and topics related to water science, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, and ecology.

Their scholarly output reflects a strong emphasis on hydrology, soil-water interactions, and watershed dynamics. Major topics covered in their work include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Cryospheric Studies and Observations
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Groundwater Flow and Contamination Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Frequent publication venues for their research are:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Hydrological Processes
  • Geoderma
  • Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America
  • Scientific Reports

Notable recent publications include:

  • Transit Time Estimation in Catchments: Recent Developments and Future Directions, 2022, Water Resources Research
  • Hierarchical Climate-Driven Dynamics of the Active Channel Length in Temporary Streams, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Probabilistic Description of Streamflow and Active Length Regimes in Rivers, 2022, Water Resources Research
  • Watershed Studies at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest: Building on a Long Legacy of Research with New Approaches and Sources of Data, 2020, Hydrological Processes
  • A Catchment Water Balance Assessment of an Abrupt Shift in Evapotranspiration at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire, USA, 2021, Hydrological Processes

Kevin J. McGuire regularly collaborates with several co-authors, frequently partnering in research efforts with:

  • Scott W. Bailey
  • Markus Hrachowitz
  • Madeline E. Schreiber
  • C. J. Harman
  • Emily S. Bernhardt

The main fields of study encompassing their research comprise environmental science with a significant focus on water science and technology, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, ecology, and civil and structural engineering.

Best Publications

  • A review and evaluation of catchment transit time modeling

    Kevin J. McGuire;Jeffrey J. McDonnell

  • The role of topography on catchment-scale water residence time

    K.J. McGuire;K.J. McGuire;Jeffery J. McDonnell;M. Weiler;C. Kendall

  • How old is streamwater? Open questions in catchment transit time conceptualization, modelling and analysis

    J. J. McDonnell;J. J. McDonnell;K. McGuire;P. Aggarwal;K. J. Beven

  • Hydrological connectivity of hillslopes and streams: Characteristic time scales and nonlinearities

    Kevin J. McGuire;Jeffrey J. McDonnell;Jeffrey J. McDonnell

  • The river as a chemostat: fresh perspectives on dissolved organic matter flowing down the river continuum

    Irena F. Creed;Diane M. McKnight;Brian A. Pellerin;Mark B. Green

  • How does landscape structure influence catchment transit time across different geomorphic provinces

    D. Tetzlaff;J. Seibert;K.J. McGuire;H. Laudon

  • How does rainfall become runoff? A combined tracer and runoff transfer function approach

    Markus Weiler;Markus Weiler;Brian L. McGlynn;Kevin J. McGuire;Jeffrey J. McDonnell

  • Evaluation of mean residence time in subsurface waters using oxygen-18 fluctuations during drought conditions in the mid-Appalachians

    K.J McGuire;D.R DeWalle;W.J Gburek

  • Storage selection functions : A coherent framework for quantifying how catchments store and release water and solutes

    Andrea Rinaldo;Paolo Benettin;Ciaran J. Harman;Markus Hrachowitz

  • Topographic controls on shallow groundwater dynamics: implications of hydrologic connectivity between hillslopes and riparian zones in a till mantled catchment

    J. M. Detty;K. J. McGuire

  • Climate and hydrological changes in the northeastern United States : recent trends and implications for forested and aquatic ecosystems

    Thomas G. HuntingtonT.G. Huntington;Andrew D. RichardsonA.D. Richardson;Kevin J. McGuireK.J. McGuire;Katharine HayhoeK. Hayhoe

  • Integrating tracer experiments with modeling to assess runoff processes and water transit times

    K.J. McGuire;M. Weiler;J.J. McDonnell

  • Investigating controls on the thermal sensitivity of Pennsylvania streams

    C. Kelleher;T. Wagener;M. Gooseff;B. McGlynn

  • Tracer-based assessment of flow paths, storage and runoff generation in northern catchments: a review

    Doerthe Tetzlaff;Jim Buttle;Sean K. Carey;Kevin McGuire

  • Threshold changes in storm runoff generation at a till‐mantled headwater catchment

    J. M. Detty;Kevin J. McGuire

  • Cross‐regional prediction of long‐term trajectory of stream water DOC response to climate change

    Hjalmar Laudon;Jim Buttle;Sean K. Carey;Jeff McDonnell;Jeff McDonnell

  • Transit Time Estimation in Catchments: Recent Developments and Future Directions

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  • Network analysis reveals multiscale controls on streamwater chemistry

    Kevin J. McGuire;Christian E. Torgersen;Gene E. Likens;Gene E. Likens;Donald C. Buso

  • Inter-comparison of hydro-climatic regimes across northern catchments: synchronicity, resistance and resilience

    Sean K. Carey;Doerthe Tetzlaff;Jan Seibert;Jan Seibert;Christopher Soulsby

  • Seasonal 18O variations and groundwater recharge for three landscape types in central Pennsylvania, USA

    M.A. O'Driscoll;D.R. DeWalle;K.J. McGuire;W.J. Gburek

  • Conceptualizing catchment processes: simply too complex?

    D. Tetzlaff;J. J. McDonnell;S. Uhlenbrook;K. J. McGuire

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey J. McDonnell
Jeffrey J. McDonnell University of Saskatchewan
Scott W. Bailey
Scott W. Bailey US Forest Service
Hjalmar Laudon
Hjalmar Laudon Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Jan Seibert
Jan Seibert University of Zurich
Doerthe Tetzlaff
Doerthe Tetzlaff Leibniz Association
Chris Soulsby
Chris Soulsby University of Aberdeen
Sean K. Carey
Sean K. Carey McMaster University
Jim Buttle
Jim Buttle Trent University
Brian L. McGlynn
Brian L. McGlynn Duke University
Thorsten Wagener
Thorsten Wagener University of Potsdam

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