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8247
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5045
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Sally E. Thompson is affiliated with the University of Western Australia. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science with an emphasis on several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Ecology, Soil Science, and Atmospheric Science.

Themes frequently covered in their work include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Recent publications offer insight into their research trajectory and collaborations. Notable papers include:

  • "Fire and climate change: conserving seasonally dry forests is still possible" (2020) published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • "Fire, water, and biodiversity in the Sierra Nevada: a possible triple win" (2021) published in Environmental Research Communications
  • "Bridge to the future: Important lessons from 20 years of ecosystem observations made by the OzFlux network" (2022) published in Global Change Biology
  • "Interannual variability of ecosystem iso/anisohydry is regulated by environmental dryness" (2020) published in New Phytologist
  • "Weather underground: Subsurface hydrologic processes mediate tree vulnerability to extreme climatic drought" (2020) published in Global Change Biology

Frequent co-authors of Sally E. Thompson include:

  • Octavia Crompton
  • Richard Silberstein
  • Nik Callow
  • Xue Feng
  • Simone Gelsinari

Their work has appeared repeatedly in certain publication venues, indicative of their academic network and focus areas. These include:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Water Resources Research
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Hydrological Processes

In their career, they have received recognition such as the Hellman Fellow award in 2014.

Best Publications

  • “Panta Rhei—Everything Flows”: Change in hydrology and society—The IAHS Scientific Decade 2013–2022

    A. Montanari;G. Young;H.H.G. Savenije;D.A. Hughes

  • Nutrient loads exported from managed catchments reveal emergent biogeochemical stationarity

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

  • Hydrologic refugia, plants, and climate change.

    Blair C. McLaughlin;David D. Ackerly;P. Zion Klos;Jennifer Natali

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

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

  • Vegetation-infiltration relationships across climatic and soil type gradients

    S. E. Thompson;C. J. Harman;P. Heine;G. G. Katul

  • Mechanistic models of seed dispersal by wind

    Ran Nathan;Gabriel G. Katul;Gabriel G. Katul;Gil Bohrer;Anna Kuparinen

  • 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

  • Spatial scale dependence of ecohydrologically mediated water balance partitioning: A synthesis framework for catchment ecohydrology

    Sally E. Thompson;Sally E. Thompson;Ciaran J. Harman;Peter A. Troch;Paul D. Brooks

  • Comparative hydrology across AmeriFlux sites: The variable roles of climate, vegetation, and groundwater

    S. E. Thompson;C. J. Harman;A. G. Konings;Murugesu Sivapalan;Murugesu Sivapalan

  • Role of microtopography in rainfall-runoff partitioning: An analysis using idealized geometry

    Sally E. Thompson;Gabriel G. Katul;Amilcare Porporato

  • Fire and climate change: conserving seasonally dry forests is still possible

    Scott L. Stephens;A. Le Roy Westerling;Matthew D. Hurteau;M. Zachariah Peery

  • Developing predictive insight into changing water systems: use-inspired hydrologic science for the Anthropocene

    S.E. Thompson;M. Sivapalan;C.J. Harman;V. Srinivasan

  • Low Vulnerability to Xylem Embolism in Leaves and Stems of North American Oaks.

    Robert Paul Skelton;Todd E Dawson;Sally E Thompson;Yuzheng Shen

  • Managed Wildfire Effects on Forest Resilience and Water in the Sierra Nevada

    Gabrielle Boisramé;Sally Thompson;Brandon Collins;Brandon Collins;Scott Stephens

  • Climatic, ecophysiological, and phenological controls on plant ecohydrological strategies in seasonally dry ecosystems

    Giulia Vico;Sally E. Thompson;Stefano Manzoni;Stefano Manzoni;Annalisa Molini

  • 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

  • Moving sociohydrology forward: a synthesis across studies

    T. J. Troy;M. Konar;V. Srinivasan;S. Thompson

  • Analytical model for flow duration curves in seasonally dry climates

    Marc F. Müller;David N. Dralle;Sally E. Thompson

  • Land Use Change Increases Streamflow Across the Arc of Deforestation in Brazil

    M. C. Levy;M. C. Levy;A. V. Lopes;A. Cohn;L. G. Larsen

  • Low Subsurface Water Storage Capacity Relative to Annual Rainfall Decouples Mediterranean Plant Productivity and Water Use From Rainfall Variability

    W. J. Hahm;D. N. Dralle;D. M. Rempe;A. B. Bryk

  • Bias adjustment of satellite rainfall data through stochastic modeling: Methods development and application to Nepal

    Marc F. Müller;Sally E. Thompson

  • High Time for Conservation: Adding the Environment to the Debate on Marijuana Liberalization

    Jennifer K. Carah;Jeanette K. Howard;Sally E. Thompson;Anne G. Short Gianotti

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriel G. Katul
Gabriel G. Katul Duke University
Murugesu Sivapalan
Murugesu Sivapalan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Xue Feng
Xue Feng Tsinghua University
Scott L. Stephens
Scott L. Stephens University of California, Berkeley
Todd E. Dawson
Todd E. Dawson University of California, Berkeley
Nandita B. Basu
Nandita B. Basu University of Waterloo
Giulia Vico
Giulia Vico Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Stefano Manzoni
Stefano Manzoni Stockholm University
David D. Ackerly
David D. Ackerly University of California, Berkeley
Ciaran J. Harman
Ciaran J. Harman Johns Hopkins University

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