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Uwe Morgenstern

Uwe Morgenstern

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Earth Science

D-Index
35
Citations
3633
World Ranking
7771
National Ranking
85

Overview

Uwe Morgenstern is affiliated with GNS Science in New Zealand and works extensively in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research focuses on several subfields including Water Science and Technology, Geochemistry and Petrology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, and Environmental Chemistry.

The main topics of their research include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Groundwater flow and contamination studies, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Groundwater and Watershed Analysis, and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes.

Morgenstern has published in a range of academic journals, with frequent publications in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Hydrological Processes, Journal of Hydrology, The Science of The Total Environment, and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Morgenstern include:

  • The variation and controls of mean transit times in Australian headwater catchments, 2020, Hydrological Processes
  • Comparisons and uncertainties of recharge estimates in a temperate alpine catchment, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • Sources and mean transit times of intermittent streamflow in semi-arid headwater catchments, 2021, Journal of Hydrology
  • The legacy and drivers of groundwater nutrients and pesticides in an agriculturally impacted Quaternary aquifer system, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Twentieth Century Black Carbon and Dust Deposition on South Cascade Glacier, Washington State, USA, as Reconstructed From a 158-m-Long Ice Core, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Morgenstern include:

  • Ian Cartwright
  • M. K. Stewart
  • Zibo Zhou
  • Harald Hofmann
  • Jeffrey J. McDonnell

Best Publications

  • Truncation of stream residence time: how the use of stable isotopes has skewed our concept of streamwater age and origin

    Michael K. Stewart;Uwe Morgenstern;Jeffrey J. McDonnell

  • Ultra low-level tritium measurement using electrolytic enrichment and LSC†

    Uwe Morgenstern;Claude B Taylor

  • Dating of streamwater using tritium in a post nuclear bomb pulse world: continuous variation of mean transit time with streamflow

    U. Morgenstern;M. K. Stewart;R. Stenger

  • Groundwater age for identification of baseline groundwater quality and impacts of land-use intensification – The National Groundwater Monitoring Programme of New Zealand

    Uwe Morgenstern;Christopher J. Daughney

  • Using groundwater age and hydrochemistry to understand sources and dynamics of nutrient contamination through the catchment into Lake Rotorua, New Zealand

    U. Morgenstern;C. J. Daughney;G. Leonard;D. Gordon

  • Regional-scale identification of groundwater-surface water interaction using hydrochemistry and multivariate statistical methods, Wairarapa Valley, New Zealand

    M. R. Guggenmos;C. J. Daughney;B. M. Jackson;U. Morgenstern

  • Dramatic loss of glacier accumulation area on the Tibetan Plateau revealed by ice core tritium and mercury records

    S. Kang;F. Wang;U. Morgenstern;Y. Zhang

  • Use of hierarchical cluster analysis to assess the representativeness of a baseline groundwater quality monitoring network: comparison of New Zealand’s national and regional groundwater monitoring programs

    Christopher J. Daughney;Matthias Raiber;Magali Moreau-Fournier;Uwe Morgenstern

  • Little Ice Age climate and oceanic conditions of the Ross Sea, Antarctica from a coastal ice core record

    Rachael Rhodes;Rachael Rhodes;Rachael Rhodes;N. A. N. Bertler;N. A. N. Bertler;J. A. Baker;H. C. Steen-Larsen

  • Constraining groundwater recharge and the rate of geochemical processes using tritium and major ion geochemistry: Ovens catchment, southeast Australia

    Ian Cartwright;Ian Cartwright;Uwe Morgenstern

  • The ‘hidden streamflow’ challenge in catchment hydrology: a call to action for stream water transit time analysis

    M. K. Stewart;U. Morgenstern;J. J. McDonnell;L. Pfister

  • Age and source of groundwater from isotope tracers.

    M K Stewart;U Morgenstern

  • Calibration of a transient transport model to tritium data in streams and simulation of groundwater ages in the western Lake Taupo catchment, New Zealand

    M. A. Gusyev;M. Toews;U. Morgenstern;M. Stewart

  • The Influence of Groundwater Inputs and Age on Nutrient Dynamics in a Coral Reef Lagoon

    Douglas R. Tait;Dirk V. Erler;Isaac R. Santos;Tyler J. Cyronak

  • Groundwater Subsidy From Headwaters to Their Parent Water Watershed: A Combined Field-Modeling Approach

    A. A. Ameli;C. Gabrielli;U. Morgenstern;J. J. McDonnell;J. J. McDonnell;J. J. McDonnell

  • Aggregation effects on tritium-based mean transit times and young water fractions in spatially heterogeneous catchments and groundwater systems

    Michael K. Stewart;Uwe Morgenstern;Maksym A. Gusyev;Piotr Małoszewski

  • Transit times from rainfall to baseflow in headwater catchments estimated using tritium: the Ovens River, Australia

    I. Cartwright;I. Cartwright;U. Morgenstern

  • Importance of tritium‐based transit times in hydrological systems

    Michael K. Stewart;Uwe Morgenstern

  • Contrasting Groundwater and Streamflow Ages at the Maimai Watershed

    C. P. Gabrielli;U. Morgenstern;M. K. Stewart;J. J. McDonnell

  • Using tritium and other geochemical tracers to address the "old water paradox" in headwater catchments.

    Ian Cartwright;Uwe Morgenstern

  • Twentieth century dust lows and the weakening of the westerly winds over the Tibetan Plateau

    Bjorn Grigholm;P. A. Mayewski;S. Kang;Y. Zhang

  • Tritium, radiocarbon, 90Sr and 129I in the Pacific and Indian Oceans

    P.P. Povinec;S.-H. Lee;L. Liong Wee Kwong;B. Oregioni

  • Tracing of water masses using a multi isotope approach in the southern Indian Ocean

    P. P. Povinec;R. Breier;Laurent Coppola;M. Groening

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian Cartwright
Ian Cartwright Monash University
Jeffrey J. McDonnell
Jeffrey J. McDonnell University of Saskatchewan
Margit Schwikowski
Margit Schwikowski Paul Scherrer Institute
Paul Andrew Mayewski
Paul Andrew Mayewski University of Maine
Pavel P. Povinec
Pavel P. Povinec Comenius University
Nancy A. N. Bertler
Nancy A. N. Bertler Victoria University of Wellington
Laurent Pfister
Laurent Pfister Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Shichang Kang
Shichang Kang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jérôme Latron
Jérôme Latron Spanish National Research Council
Joerg M. Schaefer
Joerg M. Schaefer Columbia University

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