Staff Publications: 2025 – present

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2025


2025


Birdsey, R.A., D.A. DellaSala, W. Walker, & S. Gorelik. (2025) How much more carbon could be protected in mature and old-growth forests of the United States? Biological Conservation 306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111114

Delcourt, C.J.F., B.M. Rogers, L. Akhmetzyanov, B. Izbicki, R.C. Scholten, T.A. Shestakova, D. van Wees, M.C. Mack, U. Sass-Klaassen, & S. Veraverbeke. (2025) Carbon emissions from forest in eastern Siberian larch forests. Global Change Biology 31(5). https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70247

Frost, G.V., U.S. Bhatt, M.J. Macander, … B.M. Rogers, G. Schaepman-Strub, H. Tømmervik, M. Verdonen, A. Veremeeva, A.-M. Virkkala, & C.F. Waigl. (2025) The changing face of the Arctic: four decades of greening and implications for tundra ecosystems. Frontiers in Environmental Science 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2025.1525574

Gay, B.A., N.J. Pastick, J.D. Watts, A.H. Armstrong, K.R. Miner, C.E. Miller. (2025) Decoding the spatiotemporal complexities of the permafrost carbon feedback with multimodal ensemble learning. Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JH000402

Haig, J., S. Das, J. Sanderman, & M.I. Bird. (2025) Rainfall and seasonality drive pyrogenic carbon stocks in coarse-textured mineral soils. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 39(2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008240

Hamovit, N., T. RoyChowdhury, D.M. Akob, X. Zhang, G. McCarty, & S. Yarwood. (2025) Comparative assessment of a restored and natural wetland using 13C-DNA SIP reveals a higher potential for methane production in the restored wetland. Applied Environmental Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.02161-24

Kalopesa, E., N. Tziolas, N.L. Tsakiridis, J.L. Safanelli, T. Hengl, & J. Sanderman. (2025) Large-scale soil organic carbon estimation via a multisource data fusion approach. Remote Sensing 17(5). https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17050771

Klionsky, S.M., C. Neill, A.M. Pulak, & B. Lawrence. (2025) Hydrologic restoration of retired cranberry farms leads to species rich wetlands. Applied Vegetation Science 28(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.70024

Law, B.E., J.T. Abatzoglou, C.R. Schwalm, D. Byrne, N. Fann, & N.J. Nassikas. (2025) Anthropogenic climate change contributes to wildfire particulate matter and related mortality in the United States. Communications Earth & Environment 6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02314-0

Lavoie, A., B. Woods, M.C. Martin, & J.A. Boyer. (2025) Reckoning with coloniality: Trawl fisheries governance and the fight for equity and environmental justice in Alaska. Fisheries. https://academic.oup.com/fisheries/advance-article/doi/10.1093/fshmag/vuaf022/8096397

Levenson, E.S., S. Cooley, A. Mullen, E.E. Webb, & J. Watts. (2025) Glacial history modifies permafrost controls on the distribution of lakes and ponds. Geophysical Research Letters 52(4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL112771

Li, W., C.-Y. Hsu, S. Wang, Z. Gu, Y. Yang, B.M. Rogers, & A.K. Liljedahl. (2025) A multiscale vision transformer-based multimodal GeoAI model for mapping Arctic permafrost thaw. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2025.3564310

Mackey, B., S. Hugh, T. Shestakova, B.M. Rogers, & L. Rattis. (2025) Insights into mapping tropical primary wet forests in the Amazon Basin from satellite-based time series metrics of canopy stability. Discover Conservation 2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44353-025-00023-5

Madelon, R., J.S. Kimball, K.A. Endsley, G.J.M. De Lannoy, O. Sonnentag, H. Alcock, M. Detto, A.M. Virkkala, B.M. Rogers, J.D. Watts, et al. (2025) Assessing the SMAP Level-4 Carbon Product Over the Arctic and Subarctic Zones. Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 18. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2025.3555850

Manos, E., C. Witharana, & A.K. Liljedahl. (2025) Permafrost thaw-related infrastructure damage costs in Alaska are projected to double under medium and high emission scenarios. Communications Earth & Environment 6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02191-7

Matthes, H., A. Damseaux, S. Westermann, C. Beer, A. Boone, E. Burke, B. Decharme, H. Genet, E. Jafarov, M. Langer, F.-J. Parmentier, P. Porada, A. Gagne-Landmann, D. Huntzinger, B.M. Rogers, C. Schädel, T. Stacke, J. Wells, & W.R. Wieder. (2025) Advances in permafrost representation: Biophysical processes in Earth system models and the role of offline models. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2269

McClelland, S.C., D. Bossio, D.R. Gordon, J. Lehmann, M.N. Hayek, S.M. Ogle, J. Sanderman, S.A. Wood, Y. Yang, & D. Woolf. (2025) Managing for climate and production goals in crop-lands. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02337-7

Menor, I.O., N. Prat-Guitart, G.L. Spadoni, … M.S. Machado, et al. (2025) Integrated fire management as an adaptation and mitigation strategy to altered fire regimes. Communications Earth & Environment 6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02165-9

Mullen, A.L, E.E. Jafarov, J.K.Y. Hung, K. Gurbanov, V. Stepanenko, B.M. Rogers, J.D. Watts, S.M. Natali, & B.A. Poulin. (2025) Modeling thermal and biogeochemical dynamics in two ponds within Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta: Impacts of climatic variability on greenhouse gas fluxes. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 17(4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2024MS004441

Peck, E.K., J.E. Walker, K.V. Ackerman, J. Carr, M.D. Correll, Z. Defne, L.A. Deegan, et al. (2025) Distribution and disturbances of ditches across salt marshes of the Northeast U.S. with implications for management and restoration. Journal of Environmental Management 376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.124444

Poe, J., D. Huntsinger, N. Collier, C. Schwalm, J. Wells, C. Schädel, W.J. Riley, & S. Sitch. (2025) Impacts of benchmarking choices on inferred model skill of the Arctic–Boreal terrestrial carbon cycle. Environmental Research Ecology 4. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-664X/adacee

Popin, G.V., M.E.B. de Resende, J.L. Locatelli, R.S. Santos, M. Siqueira-Neto, P.M. Brando, C. Neill, & C.E.P. Cerri. (2025) Land-use change and deep-soil carbon distribution on the Brazilian Amazon-Cerrado agricultural frontier. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2024.109451

Puig-Gironès, R., M. Palermo-Iniesta, P.M. Fernandes, … M. Machado, et al. (2025) The use of fire to preserve biodiversity under novel fire regimes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0449

Safanelli, J.L., T. Hengl, L.L. Parente, R. Minarik, D.E. Bloom, K. Todd-Brown, A. Gholizadeh, W. de Sousa Mendes, & J. Sanderman. (2024) Open Soil Spectral Library (OSSL): Building reproducible soil calibration models through open development and community engagement. PLoS ONE 20(1). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296545

Sanderman, J., C. Partida, J.L. Safanelli, K. Shepherd, Y. Ge, S.M. Mitu, & R. Ferguson. (2025) Application of a handheld near infrared spectrophotometer to farm-scale soil carbon monitoring. European Journal of Soil Science 76(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70053

Sanders-DeMott, R., L.R. Hutyra, M.D. Hurteau, … & W.S. Walker. (2025) Ground-truth: Can forest carbon protocols ensure high-quality credits? Earth’s Future. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF005414

Schmidinger, J., S. Vogel, V. Barkov, … J.L. Safanelli, et al. (2025) LimeSoDa: A dataset collection for benchmarking of machine learning regressors in digital soil mapping. Geoderma 459. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117337

Shen, Z., K. Giljohann, Z. Liu, J. Pausas, & B. Rogers. (2025) Novel wildfire regimes under climate change and human activity: patterns, driving mechanisms and ecological impacts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0446.

Spadoni, G.L., J.V. Moris, C. Segura-Garcia, A.C. Pessoa, M.W. Jones, M.S. Machado, et al. (2025) Devegetation is a widespread driver of fire in the Brazilian Cerrado. Journal of Environmental Management 385. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.125637

Sullivan, H.L., J. Holtzen, L.A. Deegan, & J.L. Bowen. (2025) The effect of runnels on salt march sediment dynamics, vegetation, and nitrogen cycling. Estuaries and Coasts 48. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-025-01511-6

Tian, Y. W. Li, L. Hu, X. Chen, M. Brook, M. Brubaker, F. Zhang, & A.K. Liljedahl. (2024) Advancing large language models for spatiotemporal and semantic association mining of similar environmental events. Transactions in GIS 29(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.13282

Virkkala, A.-M., B.M. Rogers, J.D. Watts, K.A. Arndt, S. Potter, I. Wargowsky, E.A.G. Schuur, C.R. See, M. Mauritz, J. Boike, M.S. Bret-Harte, A.J. Burke, A. Burrell… & S.M. Natali. (2025) Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02234-5

Vonk, J.E., M. Fritz, N.J. Speetjens, … A. Suslova, S.E. Tank, J. Terhaar, & S. Zolkos. (2025) The land–ocean Arctic carbon cycle. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00627-w

Watts, J.D., S. Potter, B.M. Rogers, A.-M. Virkkala, G. Fiske, K.A. Arndt, A. Burrell, K. Butler, B. Gerlt, J. Grayson, T.A. Shestakova, J. Du, Y. Kim, F.W. Parmentier, & S.M. Natali. (2025) Regional hotspots of change in Northern high latitudes informed by observations from space. Geophysical Research Letters 52(2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL108081

Wu, H., C. Fu, K. Yu, P. Ciais, A. Ballantyne, Z. Liu, B.M. Rogers, S. Piao, Y. Chen, L. Zhang, H. Wu, X. Fan, J. Chen, & G. Yang. (2025) Drought-induced weakening of temperature control on ecosystem carbon uptake across Northern lands. Global Change Biology 31(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70032

Xia, Y., J. Sanderman, J.D. Watts, M.B. Machmuller, A.L. Mullen, C. Rivard, et al. (2025) Coupling remote sensing with a process model for the simulation of rangeland carbon dynamics. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 17(3). https://doi.org/10.1029/2024MS004342

Zhu, K., W. Zhang, E. Jafarov, S. Karra, K. Solander, M.U. Demirtas, L. Raskin, & S. Skerlos. (2024) Open-source anaerobic digestion modeling platform, Anaerobic Digestion model No. 1 Fast (ADM1F). Biotechnology and Bioengineering. https://doi.org/10.1002/bit.28906