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Jeff McDonnell

 

Jeffrey J. McDonnell

Professor, Department of Forest Engineering
Richardson Chair in Watershed Science

Professional Hydrologist BS, 1983 University of Toronto, Canada
MS, 1985 Trent University, Canada
PhD, 1989 University of Canterbury, New Zealand
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Brief Bio Curriculum Vitae
 

Research Interests

  • Conceptualization of streamflow generation processes in steep terrain
  • How water flowpaths on steep slopes affect slope stability
  • Use of isotope tracers for determining water source, age and flowpath
    study of forest road and logging effects on stream hydrology and water quality

Research Publications 2006

Bonell, M., J.J. McDonnell, F. Scatena, J. Seibert, S. Uhlenbrook and H. van Lanen, 2006. HELPing FRIENDs in PUBs: Charting a course for synergies within international water research programs in gauged and ungauged basins. Hydrological Processes, 20(8): 1867-1874.

Cloke, H., J.P Renaud, A. Claxton, J.J. McDonnell, M. Anderson, J. Blake and P. bates, 2006. The effect of model configuration on modeled hillslope-riparian interactions. Journal of Hydrology, in press.

Cloke, H.L., Renaud,J.-P., McDonnell,J.J. ,Anderson, M.G. (2006). Response to comment by Jozsef Szilagyi on ‘‘Using numerical modelling to evaluate the capillary fringe roundwater ridging hypothesis of streamflow generation’, Journal of Hydrology 316, 141–162

Cloke, H., M. Anderson, J.J. McDonnell and J. Renaud. 2006. Using numerical modelling to evaluate the capillary fringe groundwater ridging hypothesis of streamflow generation. Journal of Hydrology, 316: 141-162.

Hjerdt, K., J. J. McDonnell, J. Seibert and A. Rodhe. 2006. The role of initial water table depth on catchment runoff response: Time-lag analysis of a distributed well network. Advances in Water Resources. (In Review).

Keim, R. H. J. Tromp-van Meerveld and J. J. McDonnell. 2006. A virtual experiment on the effects of evaporation and intensity smoothing by canopy interception on subsurface stormflow generation. Journal of Hydrology, in press.

Poor, C.J. and J.J. McDonnell 2006. The Effects of Land Use on Stream Nitrate Dynamics, Journal of Hydrology, in review.

McDonnell, J.J. 2006. Foreword to Streamflow Generation Processes, In K. Beven (ed). Streamflow Generation Processes. IAHS Press, in press.

McDonnell, J.J., J. Freer and K. Vache 2006. A reference dataset for event-based watershed model development and testing: The Maimai hydrometric-chemical-isotopic database. Water Resources Research, in review.

McGuire, K. and J.J. McDonnell, 2006. Stable isotope tracers in watershed hydrology. In. Laijte K. and W. Michener (eds). Stable Isotopes in Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 2nd Edition. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, in press.

McGuire, K. J., and J. J. McDonnell, 2006. A review and evaluation of catchment residence time modeling. Journal of Hydrology, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.04.020

McGuire, K.J., J.J. McDonnell, C. Kendall. 2006. The role of hillslopes on catchment response: connectivity, flow path, and residence time. Hydrological Processes, in review.

McGuire, K.K., J.J. McDonnell and M. Weiler, 2006. Integrating tracer experiments with modeling to infer water residence times. Advances in Water Resources, in review.

Seibert, J. and J.J, McDonnell, 2006. Change detection modeling to assess the effect of forest harvesting and road construction on peak flow. Water Resources Research, in review.

Tromp van Meerveld, I., N.E. Peters and J.J. McDonnell 2006. Effect of bedrock permeability on subsurface stormflow and the water balance of a trenched hillslope at the Panola Mountain Research Watershed, Georgia. Hydrological Processes, in press.

Tromp van Meerveld, H.J. and J.J. McDonnell. 2006. On the use of multi-frequency electromagnetic induction for the determination of temporal and spatial patterns of hillslope soil moisture. Journal of Hydrology, in review.

Tromp Van Meerveld, I. and J.J. McDonnell. 2006. Threshold relations in subsurface stormflow 1: A 147 storm analysis of the Panola hillslope trench. Water Resources Research. doi:10.1029/2004WR003778.

Tromp-van Meerveld, H.J. and J.J. McDonnell. 2006. Threshold relations in subsurface stormflow 2: The fill and spill hypothesis: an explanation for observed threshold behavior in subsurface stormflow. Water Resources Research, doi:10.1029/2004WR003800.

Tromp-van Meerveld, H.J. and J.J. McDonnell, 2006. On the interactions between the spatial patterns of topography, soil moisture, transpiration and species distribution at the hillslope scale, Advances in Water Resources 29: 293-310.

Uchida T., J.J. McDonnell and Y. Asano. 2006. Functional intercomparison of hillslopes and small catchments constrained by water source, flowpath and mean residence time. Water Resources Research, 40 W12401, doi:10.1029/2003WR00

Uhlenbrook, S., Jens Didszun, Nils Tilch, Jeff McDonnell, Kevin McGuire,2006 Breaking up is always difficult – delineating similar landscape units as a tool to inject a process component into PUB . In P. Hubert, D. Schertzer, K. Takeuchi and S. Koide (eds). Prediction in ungauged basins. IAHS Press,

Vaché K., McDonnell J.J. and K. McGuire. 2006. Representing flowpath heterogeneity in distributed models at the mesoscale: A case study from the HJ Andrews Watershed. Hydrology and Earth System Science, in review.

Vaché, Kellie B., McDonnell, Jeffrey J. 2006 A process-based rejectionist framework for evaluating catchment runoff model structure, Water Resources Research, Vol42 No. 2, W0240910.1029/2005WR004247

Weiler, M. and J.J. McDonnell. 2006. Testing nutrient flushing hypotheses at the hillslope scale: A virtual experiment approach. Journal of Hydrology, in press.

Weiler, M. and J.J. McDonnell. 2006. On the assumption of end member stability in isotope hydrograph separation: A virtual experiment approach. Journal of Hydrology, in review.

Weiler, M. and J.J. McDonnell. 2006. Parameterizing the effects of lateral preferential flow and flow networks on gauged and ungauged hillslopes. Water Resources Research, In Review.

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