Research Publications

Climate change is fueling more frequent and severe droughts, with growing consequences for water security, food production, biodiversity, and ecological wellbeing. Yet responses remain too often react...

Urban agriculture (UA) is frequently promoted as a pathway to improve urban sustainability, food security, and resilience, yet cross-city evidence on its scalable, system-wide impacts remains limited ...

Intermittent water supply (IWS), where piped water is not continuously available, can compromise water security and quality. Extreme rainfall may exacerbate these risks by enabling microbial contamina...

Growing evidence suggests that extreme precipitation increases over most regions globally as the climate warms. However, it remains poorly understood how the fraction of annual precipitation from extr...

Freshwater systems are undergoing unprecedented pressures from climate-induced changes in seasonal patterns and intensification of hydrological extremes. The Laurentian Great Lakes Basin (GLB), which ...

Water and power systems are deeply interdependent, yet they are typically analyzed and optimized separately. Coupling these systems leverages their mutual dependency to enhance overall efficiency and ...

About half of the earth’s land surface is composed of international transboundary basins, half of which are managed by formal agreements. However, climate change, population growth, and other changing...

Lakes are experiencing ice declines and fundamental changes in winter conditions. For Earth's largest lakes that experience seasonal ice cover, the relationship between ice conditions and evaporation ...

Winter ice conditions in the Great Lakes play a crucial role in shaping ecological processes, shoreline dynamics, and regional weather patterns. Although atmospheric factors are widely acknowledged as...

Extreme water temperatures impact the ecological and economic value of freshwater systems. They disrupt fisheries habitat, trigger harmful algal blooms, and stress coastal infrastructure. This study e...

Lake surface temperature extremes have shifted over recent decades, leading to significant ecological and economic impacts. Here, we employed a hydrodynamic-ice model, driven by climate data, to recon...

Water distribution systems (WDS) and power distribution systems (PDS) are strongly connected and mutually affect each other. Recently, several studies suggested accounting for this dependency to enhan...

The formation of winter stratification and thermal structure in general across the Great Lakes varies in character not just between lakes, but interannually within individual lakes. Three large datase...

The Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society (MIDAS) and the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) hosted a summit in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from 22 to 23 July 2024. The event brou...

Lake surface conditions are critical for representing lake-atmosphere interactions in numerical weather prediction. The Community Land Model's 1-D lake component (CLM-lake) is part of NOAA's High-Reso...

AbstractTo differentiate and understand drivers behind coastal ice cover trends and variability, we advance development of a model combining satellite, in situ, and teleconnection data along the shore...

This study develops a 73-year dataset of water balance components from 1950 to 2022 for the Laurentian Great Lakes Basins. This is carried out using the Large Lakes Statistical Water Balance Model (L2...

The growing number of threats facing continental-scale transboundary water treaties warrants contemporary evaluation of not only the political and climatological conditions under which they were const...

Comprehensive assessments of hydrological components are crucial for enhancing operational water supply simulations. However, hydrological models are often evaluated based on their surface flow simula...

The Great Lakes contain 20 percent of the world’s fresh surface water, a drinking source for 30- million people. The system is vital to manufacturing, largely due to efficient transportation of commod...

Water temperature dynamics in large inland lakes are interrelated with internal lake physics, ecosystem function, and adjacent land surface meteorology and climatology. Models for simulating and forec...

Municipal water use has been decreasing in the Great Lakes region since the 1970s, though the driving forces behind this decline are not clear. We analyzed this trend by calculating and comparing resi...