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45
Citations
8874
World Ranking
6347
National Ranking
2290

Overview

Thomas Meixner is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States and focuses on research within environmental science, with particular expertise in environmental engineering, water science and technology, global and planetary change, ecology, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

Their work covers a range of topics primarily related to urban and watershed environments. Key subjects include urban stormwater management solutions, hydrology and watershed management studies, urban heat island mitigation, flood risk assessment and management, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, and urban green space and health.

Thomas Meixner's recent research publications include:

  • Greater aridity increases the magnitude of urban nighttime vegetation-derived air cooling (2021, Environmental Research Letters)
  • Net Zero Urban Water from Concept to Applications: Integrating Natural, Built, and Social Systems for Responsive and Adaptive Solutions (2020, ACS ES&T Water)
  • Stakeholder participation, indicators, assessment, and decision-making: applying adaptive management at the watershed scale (2022, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment)
  • Characterization of roof runoff microbial quality in four U.S. cities with varying climate and land use characteristics (2022, Water Research)
  • Physical and biogeochemical drivers of solute mobilization and flux through the critical zone after wildfire (2023, Frontiers in Water)

Frequent coauthors of Thomas Meixner include:

  • Christopher J. Eastoe
  • Neha Gupta
  • Jennifer C. McIntosh
  • Adriana A. Zúñiga-Terán
  • Jon Chorover

Thomas Meixner has published extensively in several venues with multiple articles, notably:

  • Frontiers in Water
  • International Journal of Organizational Leadership
  • ACS ES&T Water
  • Water
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • A global sensitivity analysis tool for the parameters of multi-variable catchment models

    A. van Griensven;T. Meixner;S. Grunwald;T. Bishop

  • Ecological Effects of Nitrogen Deposition in the Western United States

    Mark E. Fenn;Jill S. Baron;Edith B. Allen;Heather M. Rueth

  • Implications of projected climate change for groundwater recharge in the western United States

    Thomas Meixner;Andrew H. Manning;David A. Stonestrom;Diana M. Allen

  • Episodic rewetting enhances carbon and nitrogen release from chaparral soils

    Amy E. Miller;Joshua P. Schimel;Thomas Meixner;James O. Sickman

  • Nitrogen critical loads and management alternatives for N-impacted ecosystems in California

    M.E. Fenn;E.B. Allen;S.B. Weiss;S. Jovan

  • Methods to quantify and identify the sources of uncertainty for river basin water quality models

    A. van Griensven;T. Meixner

  • Tracing Atmospheric Nitrate Deposition in a Complex Semiarid Ecosystem Using Δ17O

    Greg Michalski;Thomas Meixner;Mark E. Fenn;Larry Hernandez

  • Interactions Between Biogeochemistry and Hydrologic Systems

    Kathleen A. Lohse;Paul D. Brooks;Jennifer C. McIntosh;Thomas Meixner

  • Empirical and simulated critical loads for nitrogen deposition in California mixed conifer forests

    M.E. Fenn;S. Jovan;F. Yuan;L. Geiser

  • A global and efficient multi-objective auto-calibration and uncertainty estimation method for water quality catchment models

    A. van Griensven;T. Meixner

  • Determining the importance of model calibration for forecasting absolute/relative changes in streamflow from LULC and climate changes

    Rewati Niraula;Thomas Meixner;Laura M. Norman

  • Quantifying mountain block recharge by means of catchment-scale storage-discharge relationships

    Hoori Ajami;Peter A. Troch;Thomas Maddock;Thomas Meixner

  • How Water, Carbon, and Energy Drive Critical Zone Evolution: The Jemez–Santa Catalina Critical Zone Observatory

    Jon Chorover;Peter A. Troch;Craig Rasmussen;Paul D. Brooks

  • Towards a unified threshold-based hydrological theory: necessary components and recurring challenges

    Genevieve Ali;Claire J. Oswald;Christopher Spence;Erik L. H. Cammeraat

  • Prescribed fire, soils, and stream water chemistry in a watershed in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California

    Scott L. Stephens;Thomas Meixner;Mark Poth;Bruce McGurk

  • Critical Zone Services: Expanding Context, Constraints, and Currency beyond Ecosystem Services

    Jason P. Field;David D. Breshears;Darin J. Law;Juan C. Villegas;Juan C. Villegas

  • Coevolution of nonlinear trends in vegetation, soils, and topography with elevation and slope aspect: A case study in the sky islands of southern Arizona

    Jon D. Pelletier;Greg A. Barron-Gafford;David D. Breshears;Paul D. Brooks

  • Biogeochemical Budgets in a Mediterranean Catchment with High Rates of Atmospheric N Deposition – Importance of Scale and Temporal Asynchrony

    Thomas Meixner;Mark Fenn

  • Physical and biological controls on trace gas fluxes in semi-arid urban ephemeral waterways

    Erika L. Gallo;Erika L. Gallo;Kathleen A. Lohse;Kathleen A. Lohse;Christopher M. Ferlin;Thomas Meixner

  • Spatial Patterns in Catchment Hydrology

    Thomas Meixner

  • The Handbook of Groundwater Engineering

    Thomas Meixner

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul D. Brooks
Paul D. Brooks University of Utah
Jennifer C. McIntosh
Jennifer C. McIntosh University of Arizona
Jon Chorover
Jon Chorover University of Arizona
Kathleen A. Lohse
Kathleen A. Lohse Idaho State University
Mark E. Fenn
Mark E. Fenn US Forest Service
Edith B. Allen
Edith B. Allen University of California, Riverside
Craig Rasmussen
Craig Rasmussen University of Arizona
Greg A. Barron-Gafford
Greg A. Barron-Gafford University of Arizona
James O. Sickman
James O. Sickman University of California, Riverside
Adrian A. Harpold
Adrian A. Harpold University of Nevada Reno

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