Publications
An up-to-date list of Ryan’s journal articles and scholarly publications (including full text links) can be found below or on Ryan’s Scholars@Duke profile. You may contact Ryan to request a free PDF copy of any paywalled article.
Journal Articles
(* Indicates first author was a member of Ryan’s group for some or all of the work reported.)
Caretta, M. A., M. Haeffner, R. Emanuel, R. Hood, and J. Seydel. “Beyond environmental harm: Industry claims, lived experiences, and the impacts of gas extraction (Accepted).” Energy Research and Social Science, September 1, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103606.
*O’Donnell, K. L., E. S. Bernhardt, X. Yang, R. E. Emanuel, M. Ardón, M. T. Lerdau, A. K. Manda, et al. “Saltwater intrusion and sea level rise threatens U.S. rural coastal landscapes and communities.” Anthropocene 45 (March 1, 2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2024.100427.
*Neville, J. A., R. E. Emanuel, N. G. Nelson, E. S. Bernhardt, and M. Ardón. “Standard metrics for characterizing episodic salinization in freshwater systems.” Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, January 1, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10629.
*Neville, J. A., R. E. Emanuel, M. Ardón, and T. Pavelsky. “Location and Design of Flow Control Structures Differentially Influence Salinity Patterns in Small Artificial Drainage Systems.” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 149, no. 6 (June 1, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1061/JWRMD5.WRENG-5840.
Caretta, M. A., and R. E. Emanuel. “Does shale gas development impact property values in Central Appalachia? A mixed methods critical exploration.” Extractive Industries and Society 14 (June 1, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2023.101251.
Gay, Elly T., Katherine L. Martin, Peter V. Caldwell, Ryan E. Emanuel, Georgina M. Sanchez, and Kelly M. Suttles. “Riparian buffers increase future baseflow and reduce peakflows in a developing watershed.” The Science of the Total Environment 862 (March 2023): 160834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160834.
Emanuel, Ryan. “Bifurcation: An Indigenous Perspective on Water Science and Water Justice.” In Voices of Indigenuity, edited by Michelle Montgomery, 127–37. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2023.
*Painter, Jocelyn, Beth Roach, and Ryan Emanuel. “Coastal Plain, North Carolina.” SOUTHERN CULTURES 29, no. 3 (2023): 26–27.
Swails, E. E., M. Ardón, K. W. Krauss, A. L. Peralta, R. E. Emanuel, A. M. Helton, J. L. Morse, et al. “Response of soil respiration to changes in soil temperature and water table level in drained and restored peatlands of the southeastern United States.” Carbon Balance and Management 17, no. 1 (November 2022): 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13021-022-00219-5.
Emanuel, R. E., and K. D. Bird. “Stories We Tell Unpacking Extractive Research and Its of Harm Legacy to Lumbee People.” Southern Cultures 28, no. 3 (September 1, 2022): 48–69. https://doi.org/10.1353/SCU.2022.0025.
*Neville, J. A., R. E. Emanuel, E. G. Nichols, and J. Vose. “Extreme Flooding and Nitrogen Dynamics of a Blackwater River.” Water Resources Research 57, no. 12 (December 1, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR029106.
Jenkins, W., L. Rosa, J. Schmidt, L. Band, A. Beltran-Peña, A. Clarens, S. Doney, et al. “Values-Based Scenarios of Water Security: Rights to Water, Rights of Waters, and Commercial Water Rights.” BioScience 71, no. 11 (November 1, 2021): 1157–70. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab088.
Harris, A. R., E. N. Fidan, N. G. Nelson, R. E. Emanuel, T. Jass, S. Kathariou, J. Niedermeyer, et al. “Microbial Contamination in Environmental Waters of Rural and Agriculturally-Dominated Landscapes Following Hurricane Florence.” ACS ES and T Water 1, no. 9 (September 10, 2021): 2012–19. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.1c00103.
*Singh, N. K., R. E. Emanuel, B. L. McGlynn, and C. F. Miniat. “Soil Moisture Responses to Rainfall: Implications for Runoff Generation.” Water Resources Research 57, no. 9 (September 1, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028827.
Emanuel, Ryan E., Martina A. Caretta, Louie Rivers, and Pavithra Vasudevan. “Natural Gas Gathering and Transmission Pipelines and Social Vulnerability in the United States.” GeoHealth 5, no. 6 (June 2021): e2021GH000442. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021gh000442.
Niedermeyer, Jeffrey A., William G. Miller, Emma Yee, Angela Harris, Ryan E. Emanuel, Theo Jass, Natalie Nelson, and Sophia Kathariou. “Search for Campylobacter spp. Reveals High Prevalence and Pronounced Genetic Diversity of Arcobacter butzleri in Floodwater Samples Associated with Hurricane Florence in North Carolina, USA.” Applied and Environmental Microbiology 86, no. 20 (October 2020): e01118–20. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.01118-20.
Emanuel, R. E., and D. E. Wilkins. “Breaching barriers: The fight for indigenous participation in water governance.” Water (Switzerland) 12, no. 8 (August 1, 2020). https://doi.org/10.3390/W12082113.
Scaife, C. I., N. K. Singh, R. E. Emanuel, C. F. Miniat, and L. E. Band. “Non-linear quickflow response as indicators of runoff generation mechanisms.” Hydrological Processes 34, no. 13 (June 30, 2020): 2949–64. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13780.
Tashie, A., T. Pavelsky, and R. E. Emanuel. “Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Baseflow Recession in the Continental United States.” Water Resources Research 56, no. 3 (March 1, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR026425.
*Saia, Sheila M., Kelly M. Suttles, Bethany B. Cutts, Ryan E. Emanuel, Katherine L. Martin, David N. Wear, John W. Coulston, and James M. Vose. “Applying Climate Change Risk Management Tools to Integrate Streamflow Projections and Social Vulnerability.” Ecosystems 23, no. 1 (January 2020): 67–83. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-019-00387-5.
Taillie, Paul J., Christopher E. Moorman, Benjamin Poulter, Marcelo Ardón, and Ryan E. Emanuel. “Decadal-Scale Vegetation Change Driven by Salinity at Leading Edge of Rising Sea Level.” Ecosystems 22, no. 8 (December 2019): 1918–30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-019-00382-w.
*Rice, J. S., and R. E. Emanuel. “Ecohydrology of Interannual Changes in Watershed Storage.” Water Resources Research 55, no. 10 (October 1, 2019): 8238–51. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025164.
*Bhattachan, A., M. D. Jurjonas, P. R. Morris, P. J. Taillie, L. S. Smart, R. E. Emanuel, and E. L. Seekamp. “Linking residential saltwater intrusion risk perceptions to physical exposure of climate change impacts in rural coastal communities of North Carolina.” Natural Hazards 97, no. 3 (July 15, 2019): 1277–95. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-019-03706-0.
Chief, Karletta, Ryan Emanuel, and Otakuye Conroy-Ben. “Indigenous Symposium on Water Research, Education, and Engagement.” Eos 100 (January 24, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019eo114313.
Emanuel, R. E. “Water in the Lumbee world: A river and its people in a time of change.” Environmental History 24, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 25–51. https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emy129.
Suttles, Kelly M., Nitin K. Singh, James M. Vose, Katherine L. Martin, Ryan E. Emanuel, John W. Coulston, Sheila M. Saia, and Michael T. Crump. “Assessment of hydrologic vulnerability to urbanization and climate change in a rapidly changing watershed in the Southeast U.S.” The Science of the Total Environment 645 (December 2018): 806–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.287.
*Singh, N. K., R. E. Emanuel, F. Nippgen, B. L. McGlynn, and C. F. Miniat. “The Relative Influence of Storm and Landscape Characteristics on Shallow Groundwater Responses in Forested Headwater Catchments.” Water Resources Research 54, no. 12 (December 1, 2018): 9883–9900. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR022681.
*Bhattachan, A., M. D. Jurjonas, A. C. Moody, P. R. Morris, G. M. Sanchez, L. S. Smart, P. J. Taillie, R. E. Emanuel, and E. L. Seekamp. “Sea level rise impacts on rural coastal social-ecological systems and the implications for decision making.” Environmental Science and Policy 90 (December 1, 2018): 122–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2018.10.006.
*Martin, Katherine L., Ryan E. Emanuel, and James M. Vose. “Terra incognita: The unknown risks to environmental quality posed by the spatial distribution and abundance of concentrated animal feeding operations.” The Science of the Total Environment 642 (November 2018): 887–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.072.
Zhang, Yu, W. Li, Ge Sun, Guofang Miao, Asko Noormets, Ryan Emanuel, and John King. “Understanding coastal wetland hydrology with a new regional scale process-based hydrologic mode.” Hydrological Processes, July 27, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13247.
Emanuel, Ryan E. “Climate Change in the Lumbee River Watershed and Potential Impacts on the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.” Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education 163, no. 1 (April 2018): 79–93. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1936-704x.2018.03271.x.
Jackson, C. R., J. R. Webster, J. D. Knoepp, K. J. Elliott, R. E. Emanuel, P. V. Caldwell, and C. F. Miniat. “Unexpected ecological advances made possible by long-term data: A Coweeta example.” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water 5, no. 2 (March 1, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1002/WAT2.1273.
*Bhattachan, A., R. E. Emanuel, M. Ardón, E. S. Bernhardt, S. M. Anderson, M. G. Stillwagon, E. A. Ury, T. K. BenDor, and J. P. Wright. “Evaluating the effects of land-use change and future climate change on vulnerability of coastal landscapes to saltwater intrusion.” Elementa 6 (January 1, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.316.
*Reyes, W. M., H. E. Epstein, X. Li, B. L. McGlynn, D. A. Riveros-Iregui, and R. E. Emanuel. “Complex terrain influences ecosystem carbon responses to temperature and precipitation.” Global Biogeochemical Cycles 31, no. 8 (August 1, 2017): 1306–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GB005658.
Emanuel, Ryan E. “Flawed environmental justice analyses.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 357, no. 6348 (July 2017): 260. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao2684.
*Rice, J. S., and R. E. Emanuel. “How are streamflow responses to the El Nino Southern Oscillation affected by watershed characteristics?” Water Resources Research 53, no. 5 (May 1, 2017): 4393–4406. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016WR020097.
*Rice, J. S., R. E. Emanuel, and J. M. Vose. “The influence of watershed characteristics on spatial patterns of trends in annual scale streamflow variability in the continental U.S.” Journal of Hydrology 540 (September 1, 2016): 850–60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.07.006.
*Singh, Nitin K., Wilmer M. Reyes, Emily S. Bernhardt, Ruchi Bhattacharya, Judy L. Meyer, Jennifer D. Knoepp, and Ryan E. Emanuel. “Hydro-Climatological Influences on Long-Term Dissolved Organic Carbon in a Mountain Stream of the Southeastern United States.” Journal of Environmental Quality 45, no. 4 (July 2016): 1286–95. https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2015.10.0537.
Birch, Andrew L., Ryan E. Emanuel, April L. James, and Elizabeth Guthrie Nichols. “Hydrologic Impacts of Municipal Wastewater Irrigation to a Temperate Forest Watershed.” Journal of Environmental Quality 45, no. 4 (July 2016): 1303–12. https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2015.11.0577.
*Singh, N. K., R. E. Emanuel, and B. L. McGlynn. “Variability in isotopic composition of base flow in two headwater streams of the southern Appalachians.” Water Resources Research 52, no. 6 (June 1, 2016): 4264–79. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR018463.
Arndt, J. L., R. E. Emanuel, and J. L. Richardson. “Hydrology of wetland and related soils.” In Wetland Soils: Genesis, Hydrology, Landscapes, and Classification: Second Edition, 39–104, 2016.
*Nippgen, F., B. L. McGlynn, R. E. Emanuel, and J. M. Vose. “Watershed memory at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory: The effect of past precipitation and storage on hydrologic response.” Water Resources Research 52, no. 3 (March 1, 2016): 1673–95. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR018196.
Emanuel, R. E., J. J. Buckley, P. V. Caldwell, S. G. McNulty, and G. Sun. “Influence of basin characteristics on the effectiveness and downstream reach of interbasin water transfers: Displacing a problem.” Environmental Research Letters 10, no. 12 (December 8, 2015). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/124005.
Du, Zhe, Diego A. Riveros-Iregui, Ryan T. Jones, Timothy R. McDermott, John E. Dore, Brian L. McGlynn, Ryan E. Emanuel, and Xu Li. “Landscape position influences microbial composition and function via redistribution of soil water across a watershed.” Applied and Environmental Microbiology 81, no. 24 (December 2015): 8457–68. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.02643-15.
*Mitchell, Stephen R., Ryan E. Emanuel, and Brian L. McGlynn. “Land–atmosphere carbon and water flux relationships to vapor pressure deficit, soil moisture, and stream flow.” Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 208 (August 2015): 108–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.04.003.
*Rice, J. S., R. E. Emanuel, J. M. Vose, and S. A. C. Nelson. “Continental U.S. streamflow trends from 1940 to 2009 and their relationships with watershed spatial characteristics.” Water Resources Research 51, no. 8 (August 1, 2015): 6262–75. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014WR016367.
*Nippgen, F., B. L. McGlynn, and R. E. Emanuel. “The spatial and temporal evolution of contributing areas.” Water Resources Research 51, no. 6 (June 1, 2015): 4550–73. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014WR016719.
*Rice, J. S., and R. E. Emanuel. “Landscape position and spatial patterns in the distribution of land use within the southern Appalachian Mountains.” Physical Geography 35, no. 5 (September 3, 2014): 443–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723646.2014.909218.
Liang, L. L., D. A. Riveros-Iregui, R. E. Emanuel, and B. L. McGlynn. “A simple framework to estimate distributed soil temperature from discrete air temperature measurements in data-scarce regions.” Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres 119, no. 2 (January 27, 2014): 407–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JD020597.
Band, L. E., J. J. McDonnell, J. M. Duncan, A. Barros, A. Bejan, T. Burt, W. E. Dietrich, et al. “Ecohydrological flow networks in the subsurface.” Ecohydrology 7, no. 4 (January 1, 2014): 1073–78. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1525.
Kaiser, K. E., B. L. Mcglynn, and R. E. Emanuel. “Ecohydrology of an outbreak: Mountain pine beetle impacts trees in drier landscape positions first.” Ecohydrology 6, no. 3 (June 1, 2013): 444–54. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1286.
Emanuel, R. E., A. G. Hazen, B. L. Mcglynn, and K. G. Jencso. “Vegetation and topographic influences on the connectivity of shallow groundwater between hillslopes and streams.” Ecohydrology, 2013.
Riveros-Iregui, D. A., B. L. Mcglynn, R. E. Emanuel, and H. E. Epstein. “Complex terrain leads to bidirectional responses of soil respiration to inter-annual water availability.” Global Change Biology 18, no. 2 (February 1, 2012): 749–56. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02556.x.
Nippgen, F., B. L. McGlynn, L. A. Marshall, and R. E. Emanuel. “Landscape structure and climate influences on hydrologic response.” Water Resources Research 47, no. 12 (December 26, 2011). https://doi.org/10.1029/2011WR011161.
Emanuel, R. E., D. A. Riveros-Iregui, B. L. McGlynn, and H. E. Epstein. “On the spatial heterogeneity of net ecosystem productivity in complex landscapes.” Ecosphere 2, no. 7 (July 1, 2011). https://doi.org/10.1890/ES11-00074.1.
Riveros-Iregui, D. A., B. L. McGlynn, L. A. Marshall, D. L. Welsch, R. E. Emanuel, and H. E. Epstein. “A watershed-scale assessment of a process soil CO2 production and efflux model.” Water Resources Research 47, no. 5 (June 10, 2011). https://doi.org/10.1029/2010WR009941.
LeDee, O. E., R. T. Barnes, R. Emanuel, P. B. Fisher, S. K. Henkel, and J. R. Marlon. “Training a new scientist to meet the challenges of a changing environment.” Eos 92, no. 16 (May 30, 2011): 135. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011EO160002.
Emanuel, R. E., H. E. Epstein, B. L. McGlynn, D. L. Welsch, D. J. Muth, and P. D’Odorico. “Spatial and temporal controls on watershed ecohydrology in the northern Rocky Mountains.” Water Resources Research 46, no. 11 (December 10, 2010). https://doi.org/10.1029/2009WR008890.
Anderson, W. P., and R. E. Emanuel. “Effect of interannual climate oscillations on rates of submarine groundwater discharge.” Water Resources Research 46, no. 5 (May 1, 2010). https://doi.org/10.1029/2009WR008212.
Anderson, W. P., and R. E. Emanuel. “Effect of interannual and interdecadal climate oscillations on groundwater in North Carolina.” Geophysical Research Letters 35, no. 23 (December 16, 2008). https://doi.org/10.1029/2008GL036054.
Riveros-Iregui, D. A., R. E. Emanuel, D. J. Muth, B. L. McGlynn, H. E. Epstein, D. L. Welsch, V. J. Pacific, and J. M. Wraith. “Diurnal hysteresis between soil CO2 and soil temperature is controlled by soil water content.” Geophysical Research Letters 34, no. 17 (September 16, 2007). https://doi.org/10.1029/2007GL030938.
Emanuel, R. E., P. D’Odorico, and H. E. Epstein. “Evidence of optimal water use by vegetation across a range of North American ecosystems.” Geophysical Research Letters 34, no. 7 (April 16, 2007). https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL028909.
Emanuel, R. E., P. D’Odorico, and H. E. Epstein. “A dynamic soil water threshold for vegetation water stress derived from stomatal conductance models.” Water Resources Research 43, no. 3 (March 1, 2007). https://doi.org/10.1029/2005WR004831.
Emanuel, R. E., J. D. Albertson, H. E. Epstein, and C. A. Williams. “Carbon dioxide exchange and early old-field succession.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 111, no. 1 (March 28, 2006). https://doi.org/10.1029/2005JG000069.