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3070

Overview

Robert L. Runkel is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to subfields such as environmental chemistry, environmental engineering, geochemistry and petrology, pollution, and geophysics.

Runkel's work covers a range of topics within environmental science, including:

  • Mine drainage and remediation techniques
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Groundwater and isotope geochemistry
  • Soil and water nutrient dynamics
  • Black holes and theoretical physics
  • Cosmology and gravitation theories
  • Heavy metals in the environment

Recent notable publications include:

  • "Integrands of loop amplitudes within loop-tree duality," 2020, Physical Review D
  • "Prevailing impacts of river management on microplastic transport in contrasting US streams: Rethinking global microplastic flux estimations," 2023, Water Research
  • "Transport and speciation of uranium in groundwater-surface water systems impacted by legacy milling operations," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Critical Shifts in Trace Metal Transport and Remediation Performance under Future Low River Flows," 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Natural attenuation can lead to environmental resilience in mine environment," 2020, Applied Geochemistry

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Applied Geochemistry
  • Water Resources Research
  • Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • River Research and Applications

Collaborative efforts are evident in their coauthorships with multiple researchers, including:

  • Katherine Walton-Day
  • Andrew H. Manning
  • Patrick Byrne
  • Richard B. Wanty
  • Jean M. Morrison

Best Publications

  • Load Estimator (LOADEST): A FORTRAN Program for Estimating Constituent Loads in Streams and Rivers

    Robert L. Runkel;Charles G. Crawford;Timothy A. Cohn

  • One-Dimensional Transport with Inflow and Storage (OTIS): A Solute Transport Model for Streams and Rivers

    Robert L. Runkel

  • A new metric for determining the importance of transient storage

    Robert L. Runkel

  • Assessment of metal loads in watersheds affected by acid mine drainage by using tracer injection and synoptic sampling: Cement Creek, colorado, USA

    Briant A Kimball;Robert L Runkel;Katherine Walton-Day;Kenneth E Bencala

  • Copper isotope fractionation in acid mine drainage

    Bryn E Kimball;Ryan Mathur;Alice Dohnalkova;A J Wall

  • Inorganic N and P dynamics of Antarctic glacial meltwater streams as controlled by hyporheic exchange and benthic autotrophic communities

    Diane M. McKnight;Robert L. Runkel;Cathy M. Tate;John H. Duff

  • Analysis of transient storage subject to unsteady flow: Diel flow variation in an Antarctic stream

    Robert L. Runkel;Diane M. McKnight;Edmund D. Andrews

  • An efficient numerical solution of the transient storage equations for solute transport in small streams

    Robert L. Runkel;Steven C. Chapra

  • Toward a transport-based analysis of nutrient spiraling and uptake in streams

    Robert L. Runkel

  • Denitrification and hydrologic transient storage in a glacial meltwater stream, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

    Michael N. Gooseff;Diane M. McKnight;Robert L. Runkel;John H. Duff

  • Conservative and reactive solute transport in constructed wetlands

    Steffanie H. Keefe;Larry B. Barber;Robert L. Runkel;Joseph N. Ryan

  • Determining long time-scale hyporheic zone flow paths in Antarctic streams

    Michael N. Gooseff;Michael N. Gooseff;Diane M. McKnight;Robert L. Runkel;Bruce H. Vaughn

  • Hyporheic exchange and fulvic acid redox reactions in an Alpine stream/wetland ecosystem, Colorado Front Range.

    Matthew P. Miller;Diane M. McKnight;Rose M. Cory;Mark W. Williams

  • Modeling hyporheic zone processes

    Robert L Runkel;Diane M McKnight;Harihar Rajaram

  • Reactive Solute Transport in an Acidic Stream: Experimental pH Increase and Simulation of Controls on pH, Aluminum, and Iron

    Robert E. Broshears;Robert L. Runkel;Briant A. Kimball;Diane M. McKnight

  • Transport and cycling of iron and hydrogen peroxide in a freshwater stream: Influence of organic acids

    Durelle T. Scott;Durelle T. Scott;Robert L. Runkel;Diane M. McKnight;Bettina M. Voelker

  • Reactive Solute Transport in Streams: 1. Development of an Equilibrium‐Based Model

    Robert L. Runkel;Kenneth E. Bencala;Robert E. Broshears;Steven C. Chapra

  • Hydrologic controls on the transport and cycling of carbon and nitrogen in a boreal catchment underlain by continuous permafrost

    Joshua C. Koch;Robert L. Runkel;Robert G. Striegl;Diane M. McKnight

  • Reactive solute transport in streams: A surface complexation approach for trace metal sorption

    Robert L. Runkel;Briant A. Kimball;Diane M. McKnight;Kenneth E. Bencala

  • Evaluating remedial alternatives for an acid mine drainage stream: application of a reactive transport model.

    Robert L. Runkel;Briant A. Kimball

Frequent Co-Authors

Diane M. McKnight
Diane M. McKnight University of Colorado Boulder
Kenneth E. Bencala
Kenneth E. Bencala United States Geological Survey
Michael N. Gooseff
Michael N. Gooseff University of Colorado Boulder
Steven C. Chapra
Steven C. Chapra Tufts University
Durelle T. Scott
Durelle T. Scott Virginia Tech
Larry B. Barber
Larry B. Barber United States Geological Survey
Kamini Singha
Kamini Singha Colorado School of Mines
D. Kirk Nordstrom
D. Kirk Nordstrom United States Geological Survey
Joseph N. Ryan
Joseph N. Ryan University of Colorado Boulder

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