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Thomas Harter is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on environmental science, with a particular emphasis on groundwater and water resources. The scientist has contributed extensively to subfields such as environmental engineering, water science and technology, geochemistry and petrology, ocean engineering, and civil and structural engineering.

The main topics of Harter's work include:

  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Hydrology and watershed management studies
  • Groundwater and isotope geochemistry
  • Soil and unsaturated flow
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Soil and water nutrient dynamics
  • Urban stormwater management solutions

Recent publications by Thomas Harter cover a range of groundwater and hydrological issues. Selected papers include:

  • "Effect of Groundwater Age and Recharge Source on Nitrate Concentrations in Domestic Wells in the San Joaquin Valley" (2021), published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Anthropogenic basin closure and groundwater salinization (ABCSAL)" (2020), published in Journal of Hydrology
  • "Potential effects on groundwater quality associated with infiltrating stormwater through dry wells for aquifer recharge" (2022), published in Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
  • "Planning for groundwater sustainability accounting for uncertainty and costs: An application to California's Central Valley" (2020), published in Journal of Environmental Management
  • "Quantifying the uncertainty in nitrogen application and groundwater nitrate leaching in manure based cropping systems" (2020), published in Agricultural Systems

Frequent publication venues for Harter's research include:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Water Resources Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Vadose Zone Journal
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Leland Scantlebury
  • Graham E. Fogg
  • Isaya Kisekka
  • Christopher V. Henri
  • Ulrich Hirn

Best Publications

  • Dairy Wastewater, Aquaculture, and Spawning Fish as Sources of Steroid Hormones in the Aquatic Environment

    Edward P. Kolodziej;Thomas Harter;David L. Sedlak

  • Assessment of sources and fate of nitrate in shallow groundwater of an agricultural area by using a multi-tracer approach

    Ernesto Pastén-Zapata;Rogelio Ledesma-Ruiz;Thomas Harter;Aldo I. Ramírez

  • Upscaling Hydraulic Properties and Soil Water Flow Processes in Heterogeneous Soils: A Review

    H Vereecken;R Kasteel;Jan Vanderborght;T Harter

  • Colloid Transport and Filtration of Cryptosporidium parvum in Sandy Soils and Aquifer Sediments

    Thomas Harter;Sonja Wagner;Edward R. Atwill

  • Use and environmental occurrence of antibiotics in freestall dairy farms with manured forage fields.

    Naoko Watanabe;Brian A. Bergamaschi;Keith A. Loftin;Michael T. Meyer

  • Explaining soil moisture variability as a function of mean soil moisture: A stochastic unsaturated flow perspective

    H Vereecken;T Kamai;T Harter;R Kasteel

  • Shallow groundwater quality on dairy farms with irrigated forage crops.

    Thomas Harter;Harley Davis;Marsha C Mathews;Roland D Meyer

  • Identifying sources of groundwater nitrate contamination in a large alluvial groundwater basin with highly diversified intensive agricultural production.

    K. M. Lockhart;A. M. King;Thomas Harter

  • Neural Networks Prediction of Soil Hydraulic Functions for Alluvial Soils Using Multistep Outflow Data

    B. Minasny;J. W. Hopmans;T. Harter;S. O. Eching

  • Investigation of the geochemical evolution of groundwater under agricultural land: A case study in northeastern Mexico

    Rogelio Ledesma-Ruiz;Ernesto Pastén-Zapata;Roberto Parra;Thomas Harter

  • A hybrid machine learning model to predict and visualize nitrate concentration throughout the Central Valley aquifer, California, USA

    Katherine M. Ransom;Bernard T. Nolan;Jonathan A. Traum;Claudia C. Faunt

  • Saturated Zone Denitrification: Potential for Natural Attenuation of Nitrate Contamination in Shallow Groundwater Under Dairy Operations

    M J Singleton;B K Esser;J E Moran;G B Hudson

  • A Numerical Model for Water Flow and Chemical Transport in Variably Saturated Porous Media

    T.-C. Jim Yeh;Rajesh Srivastava;Amado Guzman;Thomas Harter

  • The role of perched aquifers in hydrological connectivity and biogeochemical processes in vernal pool landscapes, Central Valley, California

    Mark Cable Rains;Graham E. Fogg;Thomas Harter;Randy A. Dahlgren

  • Transport of Cryptosporidium parvum Oocysts through Vegetated Buffer Strips and Estimated Filtration Efficiency

    Edward R. Atwill;Lingling Hou;Betsy M. Karle;Thomas Harter

  • Environmental occurrence and shallow ground water detection of the antibiotic monensin from dairy farms.

    Naoko Watanabe;Thomas H. Harter;Brian A. Bergamaschi

  • Association of Cryptosporidium parvum with Suspended Particles: Impact on Oocyst Sedimentation

    Kristin E. Searcy;Aaron I. Packman;Edward R. Atwill;Thomas Harter

  • Effect of sulfonamide antibiotics on microbial diversity and activity in a Californian Mollic Haploxeralf

    Iris R. Gutiérrez;Naoko Watanabe;Thomas Harter;Bruno Glaser

  • Soil suitability index identifies potential areas for groundwater banking on agriculturallands

    A.T. O'Geen;Matthew B.B. Saal;Helen E Dahlke;David A Doll

  • Estimation of groundwater pumping as closure to the water balance of a semi-arid, irrigated agricultural basin

    Nels Ruud;Thomas Harter;Alec Naugle

  • Conditional stochastic analysis of solute transport in heterogeneous, variably saturated soils

    Thomas Harter;Thomas Harter;T.-C. Jim Yeh

  • Inverse modeling of large-scale spatially distributed vadose zone properties using global optimization

    Jasper A. Vrugt;Gerrit Schoups;Jan W. Hopmans;Chuck Young

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward R. Atwill
Edward R. Atwill University of California, Davis
Jan W. Hopmans
Jan W. Hopmans University of California, Davis
Graham E. Fogg
Graham E. Fogg University of California, Davis
Aaron I. Packman
Aaron I. Packman Northwestern University
Jay R. Lund
Jay R. Lund University of California, Davis
Brian A. Bergamaschi
Brian A. Bergamaschi United States Geological Survey
Wesley W. Wallender
Wesley W. Wallender University of California, Davis
Bellie Sivakumar
Bellie Sivakumar Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
William R. Horwath
William R. Horwath University of California, Davis
Richard E. Howitt
Richard E. Howitt University of California, Davis

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