Biological and Environmental Engineering
Selected Publications

Watershed Models                                   (* indicate undergraduate co-authors)

Easton, Z.M., D.R. Fuka, M.T. Walter, D.M. Cowan, E.M. Schneiderman, T.S. Steenhuis. 2008. Re-conceptualizing the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model to predict saturation excess runoff from variable source areas. Journal of Hydrology 348(3-4): 279-291. pdf

Easton, Z.M., M.T. Walter T.S. Steenhuis. 2008. Combined monitoring and modeling indicate the most effective agricultural best management practices. Journal of Environmental Quality 37: 1798-1809 [doi:10.2134/jeq2007.0522]. pdf

Easton, Z.M., P. Gérard-Marchant, M.T. Walter, A.M. Petrovic, T.S. Steenhuis. 2007. Identifying dissolved phosphorus source areas and predicting transport from an urban watershed using distributed hydrologic modeling. Water Resources Research 43: Art. No. W11414. pdf

Easton, Z.M., P. Gérard-Marchant, M.T. Walter, A.M. Petrovic, T.S. Steenhuis. 2007. Hydrologic assessment of an urban variable source watershed in the Northeast United States. Water Resources Research 43(3): Art. No. W03413. pdf

Frankenberger, J.R., E.S. Brooks, M.T. Walter, M.F. Walter, T.S. Steenhuis. 1999. A GIS-based variable source area model. Hydrological. Processes 13(6): 804-822. pdf

Kendy, E., P. Gérard-Marchant, M.T. Walter, Y. Zhang, C. Liu, T.S. Steenhuis. 2003. A soil-water-balance approach to quantifying groundwater recharge from irrigated cropland in the North China Plain. Hydrological Processes 17(10): 2011-2031. pdf

Lyon, S.W., P. Gérard-Marcant, M.T. Walter, T.S. Steenhuis. 2004. Using a topographic index to distribute variable source area runoff predicted with the SCS-Curve Number equation. Hydrological Processes 18(15): 2757-2771. pdf

Mehta, V.K., M.T. Walter, E.S. Brooks, T.S. Steenhuis, M.F. Walter, M. Johnson, J. Boll, D. Thongs. 2004. Evaluation and application of SMR for watershed modeling in the Catskill Mountains of New York State. Environmental Modeling & Assessment 9(2): 77-89. pdf

Schneiderman, E.M., T.S. Steenhuis, D.J. Thongs, Z.M. Easton, M.S. Zion, A.L. Neal*, G.F. Mendoza, M.T. Walter. 2007. Incorporating variable source area hydrology into Curve Number based watershed loading functions. Hydrological Processes 21(25): 3420-3430. pdf

Easton, Z.M., M.T. Walter, E.M. Schneiderman, T.S. Steenhuis. Including source specific phosphorus mobility in a non-point source pollution model for agricultural watersheds. ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineering (in press).

Shaw, S.B. and M.T. Walter. 2008. Estimating storm runoff risk using bivariate frequency analyses of rainfall and antecedent watershed wetness. Water Resources Research. (accepted).

Walter, M.T., T.S. Steenhuis, V.K. Mehta, D. Thongs, M. Zion, E. Schneiderman. 2002. Refined conceptualization of TOPMODEL for shallow subsurface flows. Hydrological Processes 16(10): 2041-2046. pdf