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Susan S. Hubbard is affiliated with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields related to environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, emphasizing hydrology, watershed management, and cryospheric studies.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, their subfields of focus encompass:

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

The key research topics covered by their work are:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Susan S. Hubbard has contributed to multiple publications over the years. Selected recent papers include:

  • Geophysical Monitoring Shows that Spatial Heterogeneity in Thermohydrological Dynamics Reshapes a Transitional Permafrost System, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • The Snowmelt Niche Differentiates Three Microbial Life Strategies That Influence Soil Nitrogen Availability During and After Winter, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Imaging of plant current pathways for non-invasive root Phenotyping using a newly developed electrical current source density approach, 2020, Plant and Soil
  • Emerging technologies and radical collaboration to advance predictive understanding of watershed hydrobiogeochemistry, 2020, Hydrological Processes
  • Watershed zonation through hillslope clustering for tractably quantifying above- and below-ground watershed heterogeneity and functions, 2022, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hubbard include:

  • Baptiste Dafflon
  • Kenneth H. Williams
  • Haruko Wainwright
  • Michelle Newcomer
  • Dipankar Dwivedi

Their work has been published repeatedly in the following venues:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Hydrological Processes
  • Frontiers in Water

Best Publications

  • Thousands of microbial genomes shed light on interconnected biogeochemical processes in an aquifer system

    Karthik Anantharaman;Christopher T. Brown;Laura A. Hug;Itai Sharon

  • Measuring Soil Water Content with Ground Penetrating Radar: A Review

    J. A. Huisman;S. S. Hubbard;J. D. Redman;A. P. Annan

  • Measuring Soil Water Content with Ground Penetrating Radar

    J. A. Huisman;S. S. Hubbard;J. D. Redman;A. P. Annan

  • The emergence of hydrogeophysics for improved understanding of subsurface processes over multiple scales.

    Andrew Binley;Susan S. Hubbard;Johan A. Huisman;André Revil

  • Soil moisture content estimation using ground-penetrating radar reflection data

    I.A. Lunt;S.S. Hubbard;Y. Rubin

  • Estimation of permeable pathways and water content using tomographic radar data

    S. S. Hubbard;J. E. Peterson;E. L. Majer;P. T. Zawislanski

  • Field‐scale estimation of volumetric water content using ground‐penetrating radar ground wave techniques

    Katherine R. Grote;Susan Sharpless Hubbard;Yoram N. Rubin

  • Estimation of field-scale soil hydraulic and dielectric parameters through joint inversion of GPR and hydrological data

    M B. Kowalsky;Stefan A. Finsterle;John Peterson;Susan Hubbard

  • Effect of Dissolved CO2 on a Shallow Groundwater System: A Controlled Release Field Experiment

    Robert C. Trautz;John D. Pugh;Charuleka Varadharajan;Liange Zheng

  • Hydrogeological characterization of the South Oyster bacterial transport site using geophysical data

    Susan S. Hubbard;Jinsong Chen;John Peterson;Ernest L. Majer

  • Estimating the hydraulic conductivity at the South Oyster Site from geophysical tomographic data using Bayesian techniques based on the normal linear regression model

    Jinsong Chen;Susan Hubbard;Yoram Rubin

  • The East River, Colorado, watershed: A mountainous community testbed for improving predictive understanding of multiscale hydrological–biogeochemical dynamics

    Susan S. Hubbard;Kenneth Hurst Williams;Deb Agarwal;Jillian Banfield

  • Hydrogeological parameter estimation using geophysical data: a review of selected techniques

    Susan S. Hubbard;Yoram Rubin

  • Geophysical imaging of stimulated microbial biomineralization.

    Kenneth H. Williams;Dimitrios Ntarlagiannis;Lee D. Slater;Alice Dohnalkova

  • Effects of physical and geochemical heterogeneities on mineral transformation and biomass accumulation during biostimulation experiments at Rifle, Colorado.

    Li Li;Carl I. Steefel;Michael B. Kowalsky;Andreas Englert

  • Quantifying and relating land-surface and subsurface variability in permafrost environments using LiDAR and surface geophysical datasets

    S. S. Hubbard;C. Gangodagamage;B. Dafflon;H. Wainwright

  • Geophysical monitoring of coupled microbial and geochemical processes during stimulated subsurface bioremediation.

    Kenneth H. Williams;Andreas Kemna;Michael J. Wilkins;Jennifer L. Druhan

  • Ground‐penetrating‐radar‐assisted saturation and permeability estimation in bimodal systems

    Susan S. Hubbard;Yoram Rubin;Ernie Majer

  • Understanding biogeobatteries: Where geophysics meets microbiology

    A. Revil;A. Revil;C. A. Mendonça;E. A. Atekwana;B. Kulessa

  • Using complex resistivity imaging to infer biogeochemical processes associated with bioremediation of an uranium‐contaminated aquifer

    Adrián Flores Orozco;Kenneth H. Williams;Philip E. Long;Susan S. Hubbard

  • Low-frequency electrical response to microbial induced sulfide precipitation

    Dimitrios Ntarlagiannis;Kenneth Hurst Williams;Kenneth Hurst Williams;Lee Slater;Susan Hubbard

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth H. Williams
Kenneth H. Williams Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Yoram Rubin
Yoram Rubin University of California, Berkeley
Tetsu K. Tokunaga
Tetsu K. Tokunaga Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Carl I. Steefel
Carl I. Steefel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Eoin L. Brodie
Eoin L. Brodie Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jillian F. Banfield
Jillian F. Banfield University of California, Berkeley
Philip E. Long
Philip E. Long Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
David B. Watson
David B. Watson Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jiamin Wan
Jiamin Wan Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Mark E. Conrad
Mark E. Conrad Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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