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M. Bayani Cardenas is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to several subfields such as environmental chemistry, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, geochemistry and petrology, and ecology.

Their work extensively covers topics related to groundwater and isotope geochemistry, climate change and permafrost, groundwater flow and contamination studies, methane hydrates and related phenomena, soil and water nutrient dynamics, hydrology and watershed management studies, and hydrology and sediment transport processes.

Recent publications by M. Bayani Cardenas include the following:

  • Groundwater as a major source of dissolved organic matter to Arctic coastal waters (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • Active layer freeze-thaw and water storage dynamics in permafrost environments inferred from InSAR (2020), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • The Complexity of Nonlinear Flow and non-Fickian Transport in Fractures Driven by Three-Dimensional Recirculation Zones (2020), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Empirical Models for Predicting Water and Heat Flow Properties of Permafrost Soils (2020), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • Flexible and Modular Simultaneous Modeling of Flow and Reactive Transport in Rivers and Hyporheic Zones (2020), published in Water Resources Research

M. Bayani Cardenas has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Peter S.K. Knappett
  • Saugata Datta
  • Kazi Matin Ahmed
  • Harshad Kulkarni
  • Isaac R. Santos

Their research is published frequently in venues such as:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Hydrology

Best Publications

  • The global volume and distribution of modern groundwater

    Tom Gleeson;Tom Gleeson;Kevin M. Befus;Scott Jasechko;Elco Luijendijk;Elco Luijendijk

  • Impact of Heterogeneity, Bed Forms, and Stream Curvature on Subchannel Hyporheic Exchange

    M. Bayani Cardenas;J. L. Wilson;Vitaly A. Zlotnik

  • Denitrification in the Mississippi River network controlled by flow through river bedforms

    Jesus D. Gomez-Velez;Jesus D. Gomez-Velez;Judson W. Harvey;M. Bayani Cardenas;Brian Kiel

  • Global aquifers dominated by fossil groundwaters but wells vulnerable to modern contamination

    Scott Jasechko;Debra Perrone;Kevin M. Befus;M. Bayani Bayani Cardenas

  • Dunes, turbulent eddies, and interfacial exchange with permeable sediments

    M. Bayani Cardenas;M. Bayani Cardenas;John L. Wilson

  • Nutrient cycling in bedform induced hyporheic zones

    Laura Bardini;Fulvio Boano;M. B. Cardenas;Roberto Revelli

  • Impact of dam operations on hyporheic exchange in the riparian zone of a regulated river

    Audrey Hucks Sawyer;M. Bayani Cardenas;Ashleigh Bomar;Meredith Mackey

  • Stream-aquifer interactions and hyporheic exchange in gaining and losing sinuous streams

    M. Bayani Cardenas

  • Surface water‐groundwater interface geomorphology leads to scaling of residence times

    M. Bayani Cardenas

  • Hyporheic flow and residence time distributions in heterogeneous cross-bedded sediment

    Audrey Hucks Sawyer;M. Bayani Cardenas

  • Hydrodynamics of coupled flow above and below a sediment-water interface with triangular bedforms

    M. Bayani Cardenas;M. Bayani Cardenas;J.L. Wilson

  • Modification of the Local Cubic Law of fracture flow for weak inertia, tortuosity, and roughness

    Linchun Wang;M. Bayani Cardenas;Donald T. Slottke;Richard A. Ketcham

  • Hyporheic zone hydrologic science: A historical account of its emergence and a prospectus

    M. Bayani Cardenas

  • Pore‐scale trapping of supercritical CO2 and the role of grain wettability and shape

    Kuldeep Chaudhary;M. Bayani Cardenas;William W. Wolfe;Jessica A. Maisano

  • Exchange across a sediment–water interface with ambient groundwater discharge

    M. Bayani Cardenas;John L. Wilson

  • The influence of ambient groundwater discharge on exchange zones induced by current-bedform interactions

    M. Bayani Cardenas;J.L. Wilson

  • Three-dimensional model of modern channel bend deposits

    M. Bayani Cardenas;M. Bayani Cardenas;Vitaly A. Zlotnik

  • Groundwater as a major source of dissolved organic matter to Arctic coastal waters

    Craig T. Connolly;M. Bayani Cardenas;Greta A. Burkart;Robert G. M. Spencer

  • Hyporheic exchange due to channel-spanning logs

    Audrey H. Sawyer;M. Bayani Cardenas;Jim Buttles

  • Lateral hyporheic exchange throughout the Mississippi River network

    Brian A. Kiel;M. Bayani Cardenas

  • Residence time of bedform-driven hyporheic exchange

    M. Bayani Cardenas;John L. Wilson;Roy Haggerty

Frequent Co-Authors

John L. Wilson
John L. Wilson New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Philip C. Bennett
Philip C. Bennett The University of Texas at Austin
Perran L. M. Cook
Perran L. M. Cook Monash University
Tom Gleeson
Tom Gleeson University of Victoria
Vitaly A. Zlotnik
Vitaly A. Zlotnik University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Scott Jasechko
Scott Jasechko University of California, Santa Barbara
George W. Kling
George W. Kling University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard A. Ketcham
Richard A. Ketcham The University of Texas at Austin
Ronnie N. Glud
Ronnie N. Glud University of Southern Denmark
Meghan F. Cronin
Meghan F. Cronin Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

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