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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Roy C. Sidle is affiliated with the University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, and Soil Science.

Their work covers various topics, such as:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Among recent publications authored or co-authored by Roy C. Sidle are the following:

  • Strategies for smarter catchment hydrology models: incorporating scaling and better process representation, 2021, Geoscience Letters
  • Improving the Accuracy of Hydrodynamic Model Predictions Using Lagrangian Calibration, 2020, Water
  • Effect of reduced grazing pressure on sediment and nutrient yields in savanna rangeland streams draining to the Great Barrier Reef, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • Water Management and Hydrological Characteristics of Paddy-Rice Fields under Alternate Wetting and Drying Irrigation Practice as Climate Smart Practice: A Review, 2024, Agronomy
  • Impact of Climate Change and Air Pollution Forecasting Using Machine Learning Techniques in Bishkek, 2022, Aerosol and Air Quality Research

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Roy C. Sidle include:

  • Arnaud Caiserman
  • Erkin Isaev
  • Hirotaka Saito
  • Neda Mardani
  • Kabir Suara

Their contributions have appeared primarily in the following publication venues:

  • Water
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Agronomy
  • Geosciences
  • Sustainability

Roy C. Sidle was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Understanding Processes and Downstream Linkages of Headwater Systems

    Takashi Gomi;Roy C. Sidle;John S. Richardson

  • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

    Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

  • A distributed slope stability model for steep forested basins

    Weimin Wu;Roy C. Sidle

  • Desirable plant root traits for protecting natural and engineered slopes against landslides

    Alexia Stokes;Claire Atger;Anthony Glyn Bengough;Thierry Fourcaud

  • Erosion processes in steep terrain—Truths, myths, and uncertainties related to forest management in Southeast Asia

    Roy C. Sidle;Alan D. Ziegler;Junjiro N. Negishi;Abdul Rahim Nik

  • Stormflow generation in steep forested headwaters: a linked hydrogeomorphic paradigm

    Roy C. Sidle;Yoshio Tsuboyama;Shoji Noguchi;Ikuhiro Hosoda

  • The influence of plant root systems on subsurface flow: Implications for slope stability

    Murielle Ghestem;Roy C. Sidle;Alexia Stokes

  • Landslides: Processes, Prediction, and Land Use

    Roy C. Sidle;Hirotaka Ochiai

  • Hillslope stability and land use

    Roy C. Sidle;Andrew J. Pearce;Colin L. O'Loughlin

  • Recognition of debris flow, debris flood and flood hazard through watershed morphometrics

    D J Wilford;M E Sakals;J L Innes;Roy C Sidle

  • A conceptual model of preferential flow systems in forested hillslopes: evidence of self‐organization

    Roy C. Sidle;Shoji Noguchi;Yoshio Tsuboyama;Karin Laursen

  • Dynamic earth system and ecological controls of rainfall-initiated landslides

    Roy C. Sidle;Thom A. Bogaard

  • Flow and solute transport through the soil matrix and macropores of a hillslope segment

    Yoshio Tsuboyama;Roy C. Sidle;Shoji Noguchi;Ikuhiro Hosoda

  • A theoretical model of the effects of timber harvesting on slope stability

    Roy C. Sidle

  • Morphological Characteristics of Macropores and the Distribution of Preferential Flow Pathways in a Forested Slope Segment

    Shoji Noguchi;Yoshio Tsuboyama;Roy C. Sidle;Ikuhiro Hosoda

  • Changes in productivity and distribution of nutrients in a chronosequence at Glacier Bay National-Park, Alaska

    B. T. Bormann;R. C. Sidle

  • Sediment pathways in a tropical forest: effects of logging roads and skid trails

    Roy C. Sidle;Shozo Sasaki;Mieko Otsuki;Shoji Noguchi

  • Effects of forest harvesting on the occurrence of landslides and debris flows in steep terrain of central Japan

    Fumitoshi Imaizumi;Roy C. Sidle;Rieko Kamei

  • Dynamic runoff connectivity of overland flow on steep forested hillslopes: Scale effects and runoff transfer

    Takashi Gomi;Roy C. Sidle;Shusuke Miyata;Shusuke Miyata;Ken'ichirou Kosugi

  • Analysis of a small debris slide in coastal Alaska

    R. C. Sidle;D. N. Swanston

  • Spatially varying hydraulic and solute transport characteristics of a fractured till determined by field tracer tests, Funen, Denmark

    Roy C. Sidle;Bertel Nilsson;Martin Hansen;Johnny Fredericia

Frequent Co-Authors

Takashi Gomi
Takashi Gomi Nagoya University
Alan D. Ziegler
Alan D. Ziegler National University of Singapore
Yuichi Onda
Yuichi Onda University of Tsukuba
Ken'ichirou Kosugi
Ken'ichirou Kosugi Kyoto University
Alexia Stokes
Alexia Stokes INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jeffrey J. McDonnell
Jeffrey J. McDonnell University of Saskatchewan
Thom Bogaard
Thom Bogaard Delft University of Technology
Ashish Sharma
Ashish Sharma University of New South Wales
Dirk Mallants
Dirk Mallants Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
John L. Innes
John L. Innes University of British Columbia

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