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Nandita B. Basu

Nandita B. Basu

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Earth Science

D-Index
44
Citations
8413
World Ranking
4661
National Ranking
219

Overview

Nandita B. Basu is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada and specializes in environmental science. Their research spans several interconnected fields with a focus on understanding and managing environmental processes related to soil and water nutrient dynamics, hydrology, and ecosystem responses.

The main fields of study Basu has contributed to include:

  • Environmental Science

The subfields of study where their work is concentrated are:

  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Ecology
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Global and Planetary Change

Basu's research covers a range of main topics, including:

  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation

Their recent publications reflect these thematic interests and include:

  • Chesapeake legacies: the importance of legacy nitrogen to improving Chesapeake Bay water quality, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • The need to integrate legacy nitrogen storage dynamics and time lags into policy and practice, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Forest fire effects on stream water quality at continental scales: a meta-analysis, 2022, Environmental Research Letters
  • Great Lakes Runoff Intercomparison Project Phase 3: Lake Erie (GRIP-E), 2021, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
  • Long-term annual soil nitrogen surplus across Europe (1850-2019), 2022, Scientific Data

Basu frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Prominent coauthors include:

  • K. J. Van Meter
  • Simon Lin
  • Owen Fenton
  • Juliane Mai
  • Bryan A. Tolson

Their work is regularly published in specific venues that align with their research focus. Common publication venues include:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Soft Matter
  • HydroShare Resources

Best Publications

  • The future of hydrology: an evolving science for a changing world.

    Thorsten Wagener;Murugesu Sivapalan;Murugesu Sivapalan;Peter A. Troch;Brian L. McGlynn

  • Nutrient loads exported from managed catchments reveal emergent biogeochemical stationarity

    Nandita B. Basu;Georgia Destouni;James W. Jawitz;Sally E. Thompson

  • Do geographically isolated wetlands influence landscape functions

    Matthew J. Cohen;Irena F. Creed;Laurie C. Alexander;Nandita Basu

  • Legacy nitrogen may prevent achievement of water quality goals in the Gulf of Mexico

    K. J. Van Meter;P. Van Cappellen;N. B. Basu

  • The nitrogen legacy: emerging evidence of nitrogen accumulation in anthropogenic landscapes

    K J Van Meter;N B Basu;J J Veenstra;C L Burras

  • Wetlands as large-scale nature-based solutions : Status and challenges for research, engineering and management

    Josefin Thorslund;Jerker Jarsjo;Fernando Jaramillo;James W. Jawitz

  • Relative dominance of hydrologic versus biogeochemical factors on solute export across impact gradients

    S. E. Thompson;N. B. Basu;J. Lascurain;A. Aubeneau

  • Two Centuries of Nitrogen Dynamics: Legacy Sources and Sinks in the Mississippi and Susquehanna River Basins

    K. J. Van Meter;N. B. Basu;P. Van Cappellen

  • Biogeochemical hotspots: Role of small water bodies in landscape nutrient processing

    Frederick Y. Cheng;Nandita B. Basu

  • Geographically Isolated Wetlands are Important Biogeochemical Reactors on the Landscape

    John M. Marton;Irena F. Creed;David B. Lewis;Charles R. Lane

  • Maximizing US nitrate removal through wetland protection and restoration.

    F. Y. Cheng;K. J. Van Meter;D. K. Byrnes;N. B. Basu

  • Assessing the impacts of partial mass depletion in DNAPL source zones: I. Analytical modeling of source strength functions and plume response

    Ronald W. Falta;P. Suresh Rao;Nandita Basu

  • Hydrologic and biogeochemical functioning of intensively managed catchments: A synthesis of top‐down analyses

    Nandita B. Basu;Sally E. Thompson;Sally E. Thompson;P. Suresh C. Rao

  • Enhancing protection for vulnerable waters

    Irena F. Creed;Irena F. Creed;Charles R. Lane;Jacqueline N. Serran;Laurie C. Alexander

  • Signatures of human impact: size distributions and spatial organization of wetlands in the Prairie Pothole landscape

    Kimberly J. Van Meter;Nandita B. Basu

  • Time lags in watershed-scale nutrient transport: an exploration of dominant controls

    K J Van Meter;N B Basu

  • Catchment legacies and time lags: a parsimonious watershed model to predict the effects of legacy storage on nitrogen export.

    Kimberly J. Van Meter;Nandita B. Basu

  • Assessing impacts of partial mass depletion in DNAPL source zones: II. Coupling source strength functions to plume evolution.

    Ronald W. Falta;Nandita Basu;P. Suresh Rao

  • Integrating geographically isolated wetlands into land management decisions.

    Heather E Golden;Irena F Creed;Genevieve Ali;Nandita B Basu

  • Spatiotemporal scaling of hydrological and agrochemical export dynamics in a tile-drained Midwestern watershed

    K. Guan;Sally E. Thompson;Sally E. Thompson;C. J. Harman;N. B. Basu

  • Signatures of Human Impact: Size Distributions and Spatial Organization of Wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Landscape

    N. B. Basu;K. J. Van Meter

Frequent Co-Authors

Murugesu Sivapalan
Murugesu Sivapalan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
James W. Jawitz
James W. Jawitz University of Florida
Sally E. Thompson
Sally E. Thompson University of Western Australia
P. Suresh C. Rao
P. Suresh C. Rao Purdue University West Lafayette
Ciaran J. Harman
Ciaran J. Harman Johns Hopkins University
Andrea Rinaldo
Andrea Rinaldo École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Olaf A. Cirpka
Olaf A. Cirpka University of Tübingen
Christiane Zarfl
Christiane Zarfl University of Tübingen
Irena F. Creed
Irena F. Creed University of Toronto
Ronald W. Falta
Ronald W. Falta Clemson University

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