Science Theme: Climate

Jager, H.I., N.A. Griffiths, C.H. Hansen, A.W. King, P.G. Matson, D. Singh, and R.M. Pilla. 2022. Getting lost tracking the carbon footprint of hydropower. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 162:112408. DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2022.112408

Pilla, R.M., N.A. Griffiths, L. Gu, S.-C. Kao, R. McManamay, D.M. Ricciuto, and X. Shi. 2022. Anthropogenically driven climate and landscape change effects on inland water carbon dynamics: What have we learned and where are we going? Global Change Biology 28:5601-5629. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16324

Hansen, C.H., R.M. Pilla, P.G. Matson, B. Skinner, N.A. Griffiths, and H.I. Jager. 2022. Variability in modelled reservoir greenhouse gas emissions: comparison of select US hydropower reservoirs against global estimates. Environmental Research Communications 4:121008. DOI: 10.1088/2515-7620/acae24

Hansen, C.H., P.G. Matson, and N.A. Griffiths. 2023. Diversity in reservoir surface morphology and climate limits ability to compare and upscale estimates of greenhouse gas emissions. Science of the Total Environment 893:164851. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164851

Jager, H.I., P.M. Pilla, C.H. Hansen, P.G. Matson, B. Iftikhar, and N.A. Griffiths. 2023. Understanding how reservoir operations influence methane emissions: A conceptual model. Water 15:4112. DOI: 10.3390/w15234112

Pilla, R.M., C.S. Faehndrich, A.M. Fortner, R.T. Jett, M.W. Jones, N.J. Jones, J.R. Phillips, C.H. Hansen, B. Iftikhar, H.I. Jager, P.G. Matson, and N.A. Griffiths. 2024. Shifts in carbon emissions versus sequestration from hydropower reservoirs in the southeastern United States. JGR-Biogeosciences 129:e2023JG007580. DOI: 10.1029/2023JG007580

Hansen, C.H., B. Iftikhar, R.M. Pilla, N.A. Griffiths, P.G. Matson, and H.I. Jager. 2025. Temporal variability in reservoir surface area is an important source of uncertainty in GHG emission estimates. Water Resources Research 61:e2024WR037726. DOI: 10.1029/2024WR037726

Pilla, R.M., N.A. Griffiths, C.H. Hansen, D. Turner, A.M. Fortner, R.T. Jett, M.W. Jones, N.J. Jones, and J.R. Phillips. 2025. Comparison of greenhouse gas emission estimates from six hydropower reservoirs using modeling versus field surveys. Biogeochemistry 168:28. DOI: 10.1007/s10533-025-01211-0

Hester, E.T., N. Voisin, N.A. Griffiths, and S.-C. Kao. 2025. Intersection of hydrologic change and hydropower in the United States: Needs for future research and practice. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 61:e70020. DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.70020