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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Overview

Mark A. Nearing is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States and has a research focus primarily in environmental and agricultural sciences. Their work encompasses main fields such as Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with particular attention to subfields like Soil Science, Water Science and Technology, and Ecology.

Their research interests span a range of topics including:

  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models

Notable recent publications by Nearing include:

  • Soil erosion modelling: A global review and statistical analysis (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Soil erosion modelling: A bibliometric analysis (2021, Environmental Research)
  • Evolution of rock cover, surface roughness, and its effect on soil erosion under simulated rainfall (2020, Geoderma)
  • Expected climate change impacts on rainfall erosivity over Iran based on CMIP5 climate models (2020, Journal of Hydrology)
  • The effects of DEM interpolation on quantifying soil surface roughness using terrestrial LiDAR (2020, Soil and Tillage Research)

Their publication record also shows frequent appearances in specific venues, including:

  • International Soil and Water Conservation Research (4 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (3 publications)
  • Geoderma (2 publications)
  • Journal of Hydrology (2 publications)
  • Soil and Tillage Research (2 publications)

Near frequent collaboration with several co-authors, among whom the most frequent ones are:

  • Ryan P. McGehee (7 joint publications)
  • Mary Nichols (6 joint publications)
  • Li Li (5 joint publications)
  • Viktor Polyakov (5 joint publications)
  • Dennis C. Flanagan (5 joint publications)

In recognition of contributions to the field, Nearing was awarded the title of Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • A Process-Based Soil Erosion Model for USDA-Water Erosion Prediction Project Technology

    M. A. Nearing;G. R. Foster;L. J. Lane;S. C. Finkner

  • Modeling Response of Soil Erosion and Runoff to Changes in Precipitation and Cover

    M.A. Nearing;V.G. Jetten;C. Baffaut;O. Cerdan

  • Expected climate change impacts on soil erosion rates: A review

    MA Nearing;F.F. Pruski;M.R. O'Neal

  • Global rainfall erosivity assessment based on high-temporal resolution rainfall records

    Panos Panagos;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger;Bofu Yu

  • Soil erosion modelling: A global review and statistical analysis.

    Pasquale Borrelli;Pasquale Borrelli;Pasquale Borrelli;Christine Alewell;Pablo Alvarez;Jamil Alexandre Ayach Anache

  • Hydraulics and erosion in eroding rills

    M. A. Nearing;L. D. Norton;D. A. Bulgakov;G. A. Larionov

  • Slope Length Effects on Soil Loss for Steep Slopes

    B. Y. Liu;M. A. Nearing;P. J. Shi;Z. W. Jia

  • Error Assessment in the Universal Soil Loss Equation

    L. M. Risse;M. A. Nearing;J. M. Laflen;A. D. Nicks

  • Soil Detachment by Shallow Flow at Low Slopes

    M. A. Nearing;J. M. Bradford;S. C. Parker

  • Soil erosion by surface water flow on a stony, semiarid hillslope

    M. A. Nearing;J. R. Simanton;L. D. Norton;S. J. Bulygin

  • SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF THE WEPP HILLSLOPE PROFILE EROSION MODEL

    M. A. Nearing;L. Deer-Ascough;J. M. Laflen

  • A Single, Continuous Function for Slope Steepness Influence on Soil Loss

    M. A. Nearing

  • EVALUATION OF WEPP AND ITS COMPARISON WITH USLE AND RUSLE

    A. K. Tiwari;L. M. Risse;M. A. Nearing

  • Conservation practices to mitigate and adapt to climate change

    Jorge A. Delgado;Peter M. Groffman;Mark A. Nearing;Tom Goddard

  • WEPP-Predicting water erosion using a process-based model

    J. M. Laflen;W. J. Elliot;D. C. Flanagan;C. R. Meyer

  • Variability in Soil Erosion Data from Replicated Plots

    Mark A. Nearing;Gerard Govers;L. Darrell Norton

  • Scale effect in USLE and WEPP application for soil erosion computation from three Sicilian basins

    Elena Amore;Carlo Modica;Mark A Nearing;Vincenza C Santoro

  • Natural and anthropogenic rates of soil erosion

    Mark A. Nearing;Yun Xie;Baoyuan Liu;Baoyuan Liu;Yu Ye

  • Rainfall erosivity: An historical review

    Mark A. Nearing;Shui-qing Yin;Pasquale Borrelli;Viktor O. Polyakov

  • Climate change impacts on soil erosion in Midwest United States with changes in crop management

    Monte R. O'Neal;M.A. Nearing;Roel C. Vining;Jane Southworth

  • Soil Erosion and Conservation

    Mark A. Nearing

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederick B. Pierson
Frederick B. Pierson Agricultural Research Service
Mark A. Weltz
Mark A. Weltz US Department of Agriculture
Xunchang Zhang
Xunchang Zhang Agricultural Research Service
David C. Goodrich
David C. Goodrich US Department of Agriculture
Jan Boll
Jan Boll Washington State University
Baoyuan Liu
Baoyuan Liu Beijing Normal University
Claire Baffaut
Claire Baffaut United States Department of Agriculture
Russell L. Scott
Russell L. Scott Agricultural Research Service
Dennis C. Flanagan
Dennis C. Flanagan Agricultural Research Service

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