Boise State Watershed Hydrology and Geomorphology

James P. McNamara
Professor - Watershed Hydrology
Department of Geosciences, Boise State University                                                                 
Email: jmcnamar@boisestate.edu
Phone: (208) 426-1354 / Fax: (208) 426-4061
Office: MG 217B

Graduate Hydrologic Sciences Program

Dry Creek Experimental Watershed

2008 Publications (Full Publication List)

• Seyfried, M.S., Grant, L.E., Marks, D., Winstral, A., and McNamara, J., in review. Simulation of soil water storage effects on streamflow generation in a mountainous snowmelt environment. Submitted to Hydrological Processes.

• McNamara, J.P., and Kane, D.L., in review. Geomorphologic work in arctic fluvial systems. Submitted to Hydrological Processes.

• Gribb, M., Forkutsa, I., Hansen, A., Chandler, D., and McNamara, J., in review. The effect of various soil hydraulic property estimates on soil moisture simulations. Submitted to Vadose Zone Journal.

• Brosten, T.R., Bradford, J.H., McNamara, J.P., Gooseff, M.N., Zarnetske, J.P., Bowden, B.W., and Johnston, M.E.,  in review. Multi-offfset GPR methods for hyporheic zone investigations. Submitted to Near Surface Geophysics.

• Williams, C.J., McNamara, J.P., and Chandler, D.G., in review. Controls on the spatial and temporal variation of soil moisture in complex terrain: The signature of snow. Submitted to Hydrology and Earth System Science.

• McNamara, J.P., Oatley, J.A., Kane, D.L., and Hinzman, L.D., accepted. Case study of a large summer flood on the North Slope of Alaska: Bedload transport. Submitted to Nordic Hydrology.

• Kane, D.L., Hinzman, L.D., Gieck, R.E., McNamara, J.P., and Youcha, E., accepted. Contrasting extreme runoff events in areas of continuous permafrost, arctic Alaska. Submitted to Nordic Hydrology.

• Tyler, S.W., Burak, S.A., McNamara, J.P., Lamontagne, A., Dozier, J., and Selker, J.,  accepted. Spatially distributed temperatures at the base of two mountain snowpacks measured with fiber optic sensors. Journal of Glaciology.

• Nayak, A., Chandler, D.G.,  McNamara, J.P., Seyfried, M., and Marks, D., accepted. Objective sub-daily data correction for weighing bucket type precipitation gauge measurements. Submitted to Water Resources Research

• McNamara, J.P., Kane, D.L., Hobbie, J., and Kling, G.W. In press. Hydrologic and biogeochemical controls on the spatial and temporal patterns of nitrogen and phosphorus in an Arctic river. Hydrological Processes.

• Gooseff, M.N., Payn, R.A., Zarnetske, J.P., Bowden, W.B., McNamara, J.P., and Bradford, J.H., 2008. Comparison of in-channel mobile-immobile zone exchange during instantaneous and constant rate stream tracer additions: Implications for design and interpretation of non-conservative tracer experiments. Journal of Hydrology, 357: 112-124.

• Greenwald, M.J., Bowden, W.B., Gooseff, M.N., Zarnetske, J.P., McNamara, J.P., Bradford, J.H., and Brosten, T.R., 2008. Hyporheic exchange and water chemistry of two arctic tundra streams of contrasting geomorphology. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 113, G02029, doi:10.1029/2007JG000549.

• Payn, R.A., Gooseff, M.N., Benson, D.A., Cirpka, O.A., Zarnetske, J.P., Bowden, W.B., McNamara, J.P., and Bradford, J.H., 2008. Comparison of instantaneous and constant-rate stream tracer experiments through non-parametric analysis of residence time distributions.  Water Resources Research, 44, W06404, doi:10.1029/2007WR006274.

• Miller, C., Routh, P., Brosten, T. and McNamara, J.P, 2008.  Application of time-lapse ERT  to Watershed Characterization. Geophysics, 73, G&; DOI:10.1190/1.2907156.

• Zarnetske, J.P., Gooseff, M.N., Bowden, W.B., Greenwald, M.J., Brosten, T.R., Bradford, J.H., McNamara, J. P., 2008. Influence of morphology and permafrost dynamics on hyporheic exchange in Arctic headwater streams under warming climate conditions. Geophysical Research Letters, 35,  L02501,  doi:10.1029/2007GL032049.

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