Paul Brooks

INSTAAR Affiliate

Professor, Hydrology and Water Resources, The University of Arizona
Institute of the Environment, The University of Arizona

Education

PhD: University of Colorado Boulder, 1995

Contact Information

brooks@hwr.arizona.edu

(Office) 520 621-8787

Specialty

Interactions between the biosphere and the cycling of water, energy, and biogeochemicals, primarily carbon and nutrients.

Bio

Where does precipitation go and how does it get there?

This fundamental question underlies both basic and applied issues of water availability, water quality, biogeochemical cycling, human health, and a broad range of ecosystem services. Although tremendous progress has been made in addressing this question, concurrent changes in climate, land cover, and population highlight the limits to our understanding, and often implicit underlying assumptions, on how precipitation is partitioned to surface, ground, and plant available water.

Research

Publications

FeaturedPublications

Harpold, A., Biederman, J., Condon, K., Merino, M., Paul Brooks 2014: Changes in snow accumulation and ablation following the Las Conchas Forest Fire, New Mexico, USA. Ecohydrology, 7(2): 440-452. DOI: 10.1002/eco.1363

Harpold, A., Paul Brooks, Rajagopal, S., Heidbüchel, I., Jardine, A., Stielstra, C. 2012: Changes in snowpack accumulation and ablation in the Intermountain West. Water Resources Research, 48: W11501. DOI: 10.1029/2012WR011949 WRR Harpold et al. 2012 (728 KB)

Maggie Burns, Holly R. Barnard, Rachel Gabor, Diane M. McKnight, Paul Brooks 2016: Dissolved organic matter transport reflects hillslope to stream connectivity during snowmelt in a montane catchment. Water Resources Research, 52: 4905-4923. DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017878

Foster, L. M., Bearup, L. A., Noah P. Molotch, Paul Brooks, Maxwell, R. M. 2016: Energy budget increases reduce mean streamflow more than snow–rain transitions: Using integrated modeling to isolate climate change impacts on Rocky Mountain hydrology. Environmental Research Letters, 11(4): article 044015. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/044015

Stielstra, C. M., Lohse, K. A., Chorover, J., McIntosh, J. C., Barron-Gafford, G. A., Perdrial, J. N., Litvak, M., Holly R. Barnard, Paul Brooks 2015: Climatic and landscape influences on soil moisture are primary determinants of soil carbon fluxes in seasonally snow-covered forest ecosystems. Biogeochemistry, 123(3): 447-465. DOI: 10.1007/s10533-015-0078-3

Berryman, E., Holly R. Barnard, Hallie Adams, Maggie Burns, Gallo, E., Paul Brooks 2015: Complex terrain alters temperature and moisture limitations of forest soil respiration across a semiarid to subalpine gradient. Journal of Geophysical Research—Biogeosciences, 120(4): 707-723. DOI: 10.1002/2014JG002802

Broxton, P. D., Harpold, A., Biederman, J. A., Troch, P. A., Noah P. Molotch, Paul Brooks 2015: Quantifying the effects of vegetation structure on snow accumulation and ablation in mixed-conifer forests. Ecohydrology, 8(6): 1073-1094. DOI: 10.1002/eco.1565

Vazquez-Ortega, A, Perdrial, J., Harpold, A., Zapata-Rios, X., Rasmussen, C., McIntosh, J., Schaap, M., Pelletier, J. D., Paul Brooks, Amistadi, M. K., Chorover, J. 2015: Rare earth elements as reactive tracers of biogeochemical weathering in forested rhyolitic terrain. Chemical Geology, 391: 19-32. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2014.10.016

Harpold, A., Noah P. Molotch, Keith Musselman, Bales, R. C., Kirchner, P. B., Litvak, M., Paul Brooks 2015: Soil moisture response to snowmelt timing in mixed-conifer subalpine forests. Hydrological Processes, 29(12): 2782-2798. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10400

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INSTAAR - Institute of Arctic And Alpine Research