selected publications

• chapter

  • The Importance of Federal and Regional Partnerships in Coastal Observing.  26-39. 2015

• conference proceeding

  • Nano-microscale models of periosteocytic flow show differences in stresses imparted to cell body and processes.  Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 52-62. 2003

• journal article

  • Integrating Ice Analyses and Varying Floe Size Parameterization Into Great Lakes Ice Prediction.  Water Resources Research. 2026
  • Rivers of Tears - Convergent, Multi-Scale Approaches to Monitor and Optimize the Health of Our World's Inhabitants.  Global Challenges. 2026
  • Evaluating Winter Turbulent Heat Fluxes in a Hydrodynamic-Ice Model of the Great Lakes.  Water Resources Research. 2025
  • Trends and Climate Sensitivity of Precipitation Correlation Distances Across the Contiguous US.  Geophysical Research Letters. 2025
  • Does Ice Cover Cap Evaporation in Large Lakes?.  Geophysical Research Letters. 2025
  • Quantifying the Impact of Groundwater on Ice Formation in the Great Lakes.  Water Resources Research. 2025
  • A Novel Algorithm for Ice-Water Discrimination in Large Lakes Using ICESat-2 Altimetry and Data Driven Machine Learning.  Earth and Space Science. 2025
  • Winter thermal structure across the Laurentian Great Lakes.  Journal of Great Lakes Research. 2025
  • One-Hundred Fundamental, Open Questions to Integrate Methodological Approaches in Lake Ice Research.  Water Resources Research. 2025
  • Ten-Year Hindcast Assessment of an Improved Probabilistic Forecast System for Cyanotoxin (Microcystins) Risk Level in Lake Erie.  Water Resources Research. 2025
  • Depth Matters: Lake Bathymetry Selection in Numerical Weather Prediction Systems.  Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Atmospheres. 2025
  • Indications of a changing winter through the lens of lake mixing in Earth's largest freshwater system.  Environmental Research Letters. 2024
  • Assessing the Potential for Medium-Range Ice Forecasts in the Laurentian Great Lakes.  Water Resources Research. 2024
  • Inland lake temperature initialization via coupled cycling with atmospheric data assimilation.  Geoscientific Model Development. 6659-6676. 2022
  • Predicting larval alewife transport in Lake Michigan using hydrodynamic and Lagrangian particle dispersion models.  Limnology and Oceanography. 2042-2058. 2022
  • The Hydrologic Response to a Meteotsunami in an Isolated Wetland: Beaver Island in Lake Michigan, USA.  Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans. 2022
  • Cover Image, Volume 9, Issue 4.  Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water. 2022
  • Forecasting lake-/sea-effect snowstorms, advancement, and challenges.  Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water. 2022
  • Simulating Landfast Ice in Lake Superior.  Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 2022
  • Evaluation of gridded precipitation datasets over international basins and large lakes.  Journal of Hydrology. 2022
  • Evaluating essential processes and forecast requirements for meteotsunami-induced coastal flooding.  Natural Hazards. 1693-1718. 2022
  • Chlorophyll a as an indicator of microcystin: Short-term forecasting and risk assessment in Lake Erie.  Ecological Indicators. 2021
  • Development of a Physically Based Sediment Transport Model for Green Bay, Lake Michigan.  Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans. 2021
  • Rapidly expanding lake heatwaves under climate change.  Environmental Research Letters. 2021
  • Seasonal overturn and stratification changes drive deep-water warming in one of Earth's largest lakes.  Nature Communications. 2021
  • A high-amplitude atmospheric inertia-gravity wave-induced meteotsunami in Lake Michigan.  Natural Hazards. 1489-1501. 2021
  • Addressing the meteotsunami risk in the united states.  Natural Hazards. 1467-1487. 2021
  • Improvements to Lake-Effect Snow Forecasts Using a One-Way Air-Lake Model Coupling Approach.  Journal of Hydrometeorology. 2813-2828. 2020
  • Timescales of transport through Lower Green Bay.  Journal of Great Lakes Research. 1292-1306. 2020
  • Towards an Operational Flow Forecasting System for the Upper Niagara River.  Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. 2020
  • Modeling the ice-attenuated waves in the Great Lakes.  Ocean Dynamics. 991-1003. 2020
  • Probabilistic forecast of microcystin toxin using satellite remote sensing, in situ observations and numerical modeling.  Environmental Modelling & Software. 2020
  • Lake Huron's Phosphorus Contributions to the St. Clair-Detroit River Great Lakes Connecting Channel.  Environmental Science and Technology. 5550-5559. 2020
  • Simulating Impacts of Precipitation on Ice Cover and Surface Water Temperature Across Large Lakes.  Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans. 2020
  • Improved thermal structure simulation and optimized sampling strategy for Lake Erie using a data assimilative model.  Journal of Great Lakes Research. 144-158. 2020
  • Nutrient loading and nonstationarity: The importance of differentiating the independent effects of tributary flow and nutrient concentration.  Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water. 2020
  • Coastal Upwelling Influences Hypoxia Spatial Patterns and Nearshore Dynamics in Lake Erie.  Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans. 6154-6175. 2019
  • Evaluating Operational Hydrodynamic Models for Real-time Simulation of Evaporation From Large Lakes.  Geophysical Research Letters. 3263-3269. 2019
  • Impact of Water Mixing and Ice Formation on the Warming of Lake Superior: A Model-guided Mechanism Study.  Limnology and Oceanography. 558-574. 2019
  • Unexpected rip currents induced by a meteotsunami.  Scientific Reports. 2019
  • Ice Forecasting in the Next-Generation Great Lakes Operational Forecast System (GLOFS).  Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 2018
  • Evaluating and improving modeled turbulent heat fluxes across the North American Great Lakes.  Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS). 5559-5578. 2018
  • Modeling reveals the role of coastal upwelling and hydrologic inputs on biologically distinct water exchanges in a Great Lakes estuary.  Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 41-55. 2018
  • Role of Meteorologically Induced Water Level Oscillations on Bottom Shear Stress in Freshwater Estuaries in the Great Lakes.  Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans. 4970-4987. 2018
  • Water velocity modeling can delineate nearshore and main channel plankton environments in a large river.  Hydrobiologia. 125-140. 2018
  • Chronicles of hypoxia: Time-series buoy observations reveal annually recurring seasonal basin-wide hypoxia in Muskegon Lake - A Great Lakes estuary.  Journal of Great Lakes Research. 219-229. 2018
  • Turbulent Heat Fluxes during an Extreme Lake-Effect Snow Event.  Journal of Hydrometeorology. 3145-3163. 2017
  • Influence of invasive quagga mussels, phosphorus loads, and climate on spatial and temporal patterns of productivity in Lake Michigan: A biophysical modeling study.  Limnology and Oceanography. 2629-2649. 2017
  • Meteorological influence on summertime baroclinic exchange in the Straits of Mackinac.  Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans. 2171-2182. 2017
  • Meteotsunamis in the Laurentian Great Lakes.  Scientific Reports. 2016
  • Vertical distribution of buoyant Microcystis blooms in a Lagrangian particle tracking model for short-term forecasts in Lake Erie.  Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans. 5296-5314. 2016
  • Larval dispersal underlies demographically important intersystem connectivity in a Great Lakes yellow perch (Perca flavescens) population.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 416-426. 2016
  • Reconstruction of a meteotsunami in Lake Erie on 27 May 2012: Roles of atmospheric conditions on hydrodynamic response in enclosed basins.  Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans. 8020-8038. 2015
  • Stock-specific advection of larval walleye (Sander vitreus) in western Lake Erie: Implications for larval growth, mixing, and stock discrimination.  Journal of Great Lakes Research. 830-845. 2015
  • Impacts of extreme 2013-2014 winter conditions on Lake Michigan's fall heat content, surface temperature, and evaporation.  Geophysical Research Letters. 3364-3370. 2015
  • Particle Backtracking Improves Breeding Subpopulation Discrimination and Natal-Source Identification in Mixed Populations.  PLoS ONE. 2015
  • Investigation of interbasin exchange and interannual variability in Lake Erie using an unstructured-grid hydrodynamic model.  Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans. 2212-2232. 2015
  • Modeling the effect of invasive quagga mussels on the spring phytoplankton bloom in Lake Michigan.  Journal of Great Lakes Research. 49-65. 2015
  • Summer circulation and exchange in the Saginaw Bay-Lake Huron system.  Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans. 2713-2734. 2014
  • Predicting the oscillating bi-directional exchange flow in the Straits of Mackinac.  Journal of Great Lakes Research. 663-671. 2013
  • Physical dispersion and dilution of ballast water discharge in the St. Clair River: Implications for biological invasions.  Water Resources Research. 2395-2407. 2013
  • Record-setting algal bloom in Lake Erie caused by agricultural and meteorological trends consistent with expected future conditions.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 6448-6452. 2013
  • Contaminant Transport and Spill Reference Tables for the St. Clair River.  Marine Technology Society Journal. 34-47. 2012
  • Surface storage dynamics in large rivers: Comparing three-dimensional particle transport, one-dimensional fractional derivative, and multirate transient storage models.  Water Resources Research. 2011
  • Factors influencing contaminant distribution in the Huron-Erie Corridor sediments.  Journal of Great Lakes Research. 132-139. 2011
  • Relationships between wind-driven and hydraulic flow in Lake St. Clair and the St. Clair River Delta.  Journal of Great Lakes Research. 147-158. 2011
  • Working in Freshwater: The Great Lakes Observing System Contributions to Regional and National Observations, Data Infrastructure, and Decision Support.  Marine Technology Society Journal. 84-98. 2010
  • Real-Time Hydraulic and Hydrodynamic Model of the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair, Detroit River System.  Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. 507-518. 2010
  • Estimating longitudinal dispersion in rivers using Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers.  Advances in Water Resources. 615-623. 2010
  • Bone as an inspiration for a novel class of mechanoactive materials.  Biomaterials. 133-140. 2009
  • Pairing computational and scaled physical models to determine permeability as a measure of cellular communication in micro- and nano-scale pericellular spaces.  Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. 193-204. 2008
  • Idealization of pericellular fluid space geometry and dimension results in a profound underprediction of nano-microscale stresses imparted by fluid drag on osteocytes.  Journal of Biomechanics. 1736-1746. 2008
  • Open access to novel dual flow chamber technology for in vitro cell mechanotransduction, toxicity and pharamacokinetic studies.  BioMedical Engineering OnLine. 2007
  • Design of tissue engineering scaffolds as delivery devices for mechanical and mechanically modulated signals.  Tissue Engineering. 2525-2538. 2007
  • The imperative for controlled mechanical stresses in unraveling cellular mechanisms of mechanotransduction.  BioMedical Engineering OnLine. 2006