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  • 2005 - Doris M. Curtis Outstanding Woman in Science Award, The Geological Society of America

Overview

Michelle Ann Walvoord is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular emphasis on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's core research topics include climate change and permafrost, cryospheric studies and observations, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, hydrology and watershed management studies, fire effects on ecosystems, landslides and related hazards, and methane hydrates and related phenomena.

Frequent coauthors with whom they have collaborated include Brian A. Ebel, Trevor F. Partridge, Barret L. Kurylyk, Sheila F. Murphy, and David M. Rey.

Publications by Michelle Ann Walvoord have appeared in a range of venues, notably:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
  • Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Landscape matters: Predicting the biogeochemical effects of permafrost thaw on aquatic networks with a state factor approach," 2020, Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
  • "Modeling Post-Wildfire Hydrologic Response: Review and Future Directions for Applications of Physically Based Distributed Simulation," 2023, Earth's Future
  • "Invited perspective: What lies beneath a changing Arctic?," 2021, The Cryosphere
  • "Sentinel responses of Arctic freshwater systems to climate: linkages, evidence, and a roadmap for future research," 2022, Arctic Science
  • "Wildfire-Initiated Talik Development Exceeds Current Thaw Projections: Observations and Models From Alaska's Continuous Permafrost Zone," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

In 2005, Michelle Ann Walvoord received the Doris M. Curtis Outstanding Woman in Science Award from The Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Hydrologic impacts of thawing permafrost—A review

    Michelle Ann Walvoord;Barret L. Kurylyk

  • Increased groundwater to stream discharge from permafrost thawing in the Yukon River basin: Potential impacts on lateral export of carbon and nitrogen

    Michelle Ann Walvoord;Robert G. Striegl

  • Implications of projected climate change for groundwater recharge in the western United States

    Thomas Meixner;Andrew H. Manning;David A. Stonestrom;Diana M. Allen

  • A Reservoir of Nitrate Beneath Desert Soils

    Michelle Ann Walvoord;Fred M. Phillips;David A. Stonestrom;R. Dave Evans

  • Influence of permafrost distribution on groundwater flow in the context of climate‐driven permafrost thaw: Example from Yukon Flats Basin, Alaska, United States

    Michelle Ann Walvoord;Clifford I. Voss;Tristan P. Wellman

  • ECOHYDROLOGICAL CONTROL OF DEEP DRAINAGE IN ARID AND SEMIARID REGIONS

    M.S. Seyfried;S. Schwinning;Michelle Ann Walvoord;W. T. Pockman

  • Widespread Natural Perchlorate in Unsaturated Zones of the Southwest United States

    Balaji Rao;Todd A. Anderson;Greta J. Orris;Ken A. Rainwater

  • Airborne electromagnetic imaging of discontinuous permafrost

    Burke J. Minsley;Jared D. Abraham;Bruce D. Smith;James C. Cannia

  • Trends in streamflow in the Yukon River Basin from 1944 to 2005 and the influence of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.

    Timothy P. Brabets;Michelle A. Walvoord

  • Deep arid system hydrodynamics 1. Equilibrium states and response times in thick desert vadose zones

    Michelle Ann Walvoord;Michelle Ann Walvoord;Mitchell A. Plummer;Fred M. Phillips;Andrew V. Wolfsberg

  • Integrating hydrology and biogeochemistry across frozen landscapes.

    Jorien Vonk;Suzanne Tank;Michelle Ann Walvoord

  • Dissolved organic matter composition of winter flow in the Yukon River basin: Implications of permafrost thaw and increased groundwater discharge

    Jonathan A. O'Donnell;Jonathan A. O'Donnell;George R. Aiken;Michelle Ann Walvoord;Kenna D. Butler

  • Impacts of climate, lake size, and supra- and sub-permafrost groundwater flow on lake-talik evolution, Yukon Flats, Alaska (USA)

    Tristan P. Wellman;Clifford I. Voss;Michelle A. Walvoord

  • Landscape matters: Predicting the biogeochemical effects of permafrost thaw on aquatic networks with a state factor approach

    Suzanne E. Tank;Jorien E. Vonk;Michelle A. Walvoord;James W. McClelland

  • Linkages between lake shrinkage/expansion and sublacustrine permafrost distribution determined from remote sensing of interior Alaska, USA

    Steven M. Jepsen;Clifford I. Voss;Michelle Ann Walvoord;Burke J. Minsley

  • Development of perennial thaw zones in boreal hillslopes enhances potential mobilization of permafrost carbon

    Michelle A Walvoord;Clifford I Voss;Brian A Ebel;Burke J Minsley

  • New permafrost is forming around shrinking Arctic lakes, but will it last?

    Martin A. Briggs;Michelle Ann Walvoord;Jeffrey M. McKenzie;Clifford I. Voss

  • Deep arid system hydrodynamics 2. Application to paleohydrologic reconstruction using vadose zone profiles from the northern Mojave Desert

    Michelle Ann Walvoord;Michelle Ann Walvoord;Fred M. Phillips;Scott W. Tyler;Peter C. Hartsough;Peter C. Hartsough

  • On the in situ aqueous alteration of soils on Mars

    Ronald Amundson;Stephanie Ewing;William Dietrich;Brad Sutter

  • A 14.6 kyr record of nitrogen flux from desert soil profiles as inferred from vadose zone pore waters

    Peter Hartsough;Peter Hartsough;S. W. Tyler;J. Sterling;M. Walvoord

Frequent Co-Authors

Clifford I. Voss
Clifford I. Voss United States Geological Survey
Brian A. Ebel
Brian A. Ebel United States Geological Survey
Fred M. Phillips
Fred M. Phillips New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Robert G. Striegl
Robert G. Striegl United States Geological Survey
Kamini Singha
Kamini Singha Colorado School of Mines
Bruce K. Wylie
Bruce K. Wylie United States Geological Survey
Bridget R. Scanlon
Bridget R. Scanlon The University of Texas at Austin
Barret L. Kurylyk
Barret L. Kurylyk Dalhousie University
André Revil
André Revil Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Kimberly P. Wickland
Kimberly P. Wickland United States Geological Survey

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