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Overview

Steve W. Lyon is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States, specializing in environmental and agricultural sciences with a focus on hydrology and watershed management. Their research contributions span diverse topics within environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, emphasizing the interplay between water systems and land use.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, their subfields of study feature:

  • Water Science and Technology
  • Soil Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Atmospheric Science

The core topics addressed in their research involve:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Steve W. Lyon has published extensively in several academic venues. Their frequent publication venues are:

  • Sustainability
  • Hydrological Processes
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by them include:

  • "Impacts of multi-purpose reservoir construction, land-use change and climate change on runoff characteristics in the Poyang Lake basin, China" (2020) - Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
  • "Tile drainage causes flashy streamflow response in Ohio watersheds" (2021) - Hydrological Processes
  • "Increasing non-linearity of the storage-discharge relationship in sub-Arctic catchments" (2020) - Hydrological Processes
  • "Retrieval of Simultaneous Water-Level Changes in Small Lakes With InSAR" (2022) - Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Stable isotopes of water and specific conductance reveal complimentary information on streamflow generation in snowmelt-dominated, seasonally arid watersheds" (2021) - Journal of Hydrology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several colleagues in their research projects. Prominent co-authors include:

  • Samuel A. Miller
  • Stefano Manzoni
  • Benjamin Fischer
  • Johanna Rojas Conejo
  • Mark S. Johnson

Best Publications

  • How old is streamwater? Open questions in catchment transit time conceptualization, modelling and analysis

    J. J. McDonnell;J. J. McDonnell;K. McGuire;P. Aggarwal;K. J. Beven

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

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

  • Using a topographic index to distribute variable source area runoff predicted with the SCS curve-number equation

    Steve W. Lyon;M. Todd Walter;Pierre Gérard-Marchant;Tammo S. Steenhuis

  • Identifying hydrologically sensitive areas: Bridging the gap between science and application

    Laura J. Agnew;Steve Lyon;Pierre Gérard-Marchant;Virginia B. Collins

  • The master transit time distribution of variable flow systems

    Ingo Heidbüchel;Peter A. Troch;Steve W. Lyon;Markus Weiler

  • Thermokarst lake, hydrological flow and water balance indicators of permafrost change in Western Siberia

    Johanna MÃ¥rd Karlsson;Steve W. Lyon;Georgia Destouni

  • Reviews and syntheses: Carbon use efficiency from organisms to ecosystems – definitions, theories, and empirical evidence

    Stefano Manzoni;Petr Čapek;Philipp Porada;Martin Thurner

  • The importance of hydraulic groundwater theory in catchment hydrology: The legacy of Wilfried Brutsaert and Jean‐Yves Parlange

    Peter A. Troch;Alexis Berne;Patrick Bogaart;Ciaran Harman

  • Riparian zone hydrology and soil water total organic carbon (TOC): implications for spatial variability and upscaling of lateral riparian TOC exports

    Thomas Grabs;Thomas Grabs;Kevin Bishop;Kevin Bishop;H. Laudon;S. W. Lyon

  • Improving agricultural water use efficiency with biochar - A synthesis of biochar effects on water storage and fluxes across scales.

    Benjamin M.C. Fischer;Stefano Manzoni;Laura Morillas;Monica Garcia

  • On the role of aspect to quantify water transit times in small mountainous catchments

    Patrick D. Broxton;Peter A. Troch;Steve W. Lyon

  • Estimation of permafrost thawing rates in a sub-arctic catchment using recession flow analysis

    S. W. Lyon;G. Destouni;R. Giesler;C. Humborg

  • Consequences of mixing assumptions for time‐variable travel time distributions

    Ype van der Velde;Ingo Heidbüchel;Steve W. Lyon;Lars Nyberg

  • Non-isothermal, three-phase simulations of near-surface flows in a model permafrost system under seasonal variability and climate change

    Andrew Frampton;Scott Painter;Steve W. Lyon;Georgia Destouni

  • Changes in Catchment-Scale Recession Flow Properties in Response to Permafrost Thawing in the Yukon River Basin

    Steve W. Lyon;Georgia Destouni

  • Comparing global precipitation data sets in eastern Africa: a case study of Kilombero Valley, Tanzania

    Alexander J. Koutsouris;Deliang Chen;Steve W. Lyon

  • Thermal effects of groundwater flow through subarctic fens: A case study based on field observations and numerical modeling

    Ylva Sjöberg;Ethan Coon;A. Britta K. Sannel;Romain Pannetier

  • Separating physical and meteorological controls of variable transit times in zero-order catchments

    Ingo Heidbüchel;Peter A. Troch;Steve W. Lyon

  • A Method for Mapping Flood Hazard Along Roads

    Zahra Kalantari;Alireza Nickman;Steve W. Lyon;Bo Olofsson

  • Exploring hydroclimatic change disparity via the Budyko framework

    Ype van der Velde;Ype van der Velde;Nikki Vercauteren;Fernando Jaramillo;Stefan C. Dekker

  • Quantifying the hydrological impact of simulated changes in land use on peak discharge in a small catchment

    Zahra Kalantari;Steve W. Lyon;Lennart Folkeson;Helen K. French

  • Riparian zone hydrology and soil water total organic carbon (TOC)

    Thomas Grabs;Kevin Bishop;H. Laudon;Steve W. Lyon

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Seibert
Jan Seibert University of Zurich
Georgia Destouni
Georgia Destouni Stockholm University
Peter Troch
Peter Troch University of Arizona
Hjalmar Laudon
Hjalmar Laudon Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Stefano Manzoni
Stefano Manzoni Stockholm University
Tammo S. Steenhuis
Tammo S. Steenhuis Cornell University
Kevin Bishop
Kevin Bishop Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
M. Todd Walter
M. Todd Walter Cornell University
Reiner Giesler
Reiner Giesler Umeå University
Christoph Humborg
Christoph Humborg Stockholm University

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