PUBLICATIONS
[29] Quesnel Seipp, K., Maurer, T., Elias, M., Saksa, P., Keske, C., Oleson, K., Egoh, B., Cleveland, R., Nyelele, C., Goncalves, N., Hemes, K., Wyrsch, P., Lewis, D., Chung, M.G., Guo, H., Conklin, M., Bales, R., A multi-benefit framework for funding forest management in fire-driven ecosystems across the Western U.S. Journal of Environmental Management (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118270
[28] Hemes, K.S. Norlan, Carl A., Wang, Jonathan A., Field, Christopher B. The magnitude and pace of photosynthetic recovery after wildfire in California ecosystems. PNAS (2023). https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2201954120
[27] Hill, A.P., Nolan, C.J, Hemes, K.S, Cambron, T. W, Field, C.B. Low-elevation conifers in California’s Sierra Nevada are out of equilibrium with climate. PNAS Nexus. (2023) https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad004
Stanford News Service. Stanford-led study reveals a fifth of California’s Sierra Nevada conifer forests are stranded in habitats that have grown too warm for them.
New York Times. Mapping California’a Zombie Forests.
NPR. Climate is changing too quickly for the Sierra Nevada's 'zombie forests'
[26] Bluhm, R.*, Polonik, P., Hemes, K. S., Sanford, L. C., Benz, S. A., Levy, M. C., ... & Burney, J. A. Disparate air pollution reductions during California’s COVID-19 economic shutdown. Nature Sustainability. (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00856-1
Nature News & Views. Systemic environmental racism exposed.
[25] Novick, K.A., Metzger, S., Anderegg, W.R., Barnes, M., Cala, D.S., Guan, K., Hemes, K.S., Hollinger, D.Y., Kumar, J., Litvak, M. and Lombardozzi, D., 2022. Informing Nature-based Climate Solutions for the United States with the best available science. Global Change Biology. (2022) https://doi.org//10.1111/gcb.16156
[24] Eichelmann, E., Mantoani, M.C., Chamberlain, S.D., Hemes, K.S., Oikawa, P.Y., Szutu, D., Valach, A., Verfaillie, J., Baldocchi, D.D., A novel approach to partitioning evapotranspiration into evaporation and transpiration in flooded ecosystems. Global Change Biology. (2022). https://doi.org/10.1111/GCB.15974
[23] Pellegrini, A.F.A., Harden, J., Georgiou, K., Hemes, K.S., Malhotra, A., Nolan, C.J., Jackson, R.B., 2021. Fire effects on the persistence of soil organic matter and long-term carbon storage. Nature Geoscience (2021) https://doi.org/10.1038/S41561-021-00867-1
[22] Wong, A.J., Jin, Y., Medellín-Azuara, J., Paw U, K.T., Kent, E.R., Clay, J.M., Gao, F., Fisher, J.B., Rivera, G., Lee, C.M., Hemes, K.S., Eichelmann, E., Baldocchi, D.D., Hook, S.J., Multiscale Assessment of Agricultural Consumptive Water Use in California’s Central Valley. Water Resour. Res. 57, 1–28. (2021). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028876
[21] Kasak, K., Espenberg, M., Anthony, T.L., Tringe, S.G., Valach, A.C., Hemes, K.S., Silver, W.L., Mander, Ü., Kill, K., McNicol, G., Szutu, D., Verfaillie, J., Baldocchi, D.D. Restoring wetlands on intensive agricultural lands modifies nitrogen cycling microbial communities and reduces N2O production potential. J. Environ. Manage. 299, 113562. (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113562
[20] Coffield, S.R., Hemes, K.S., Koven, C., Goulden, M., Randerson, J.T. Climate-driven limits to future carbon storage in California’s wildland ecosystems. American Geophysical Union Advances. (2021) http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2021AV000384
AGU Advances viewpoint. Gambling With the Climate: How Risky of a Bet Are Natural Climate Solutions?
UC Irvine News. California’s carbon mitigation efforts may be thwarted by climate change itself
[19] Irvin, J., Zhou, S., McNicol, G…. Hemes, K.S. et al. Gap-filling eddy covariance methane fluxes: Comparison of machine learning model predictions and uncertainties at FLUXNET-CH4 wetlands. Agriculture and Forest Meteorology. (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108528
[18] Delwiche, K.B.… Hemes, K.S. et al et al. FLUXNET-CH4: A global, multi-ecosystem database and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands. Earth System Science Data. (2021) https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2020-307
[17] Chang, K., Riley, W.J.… Hemes, K.S. et al. Substantial hysteresis in emergent temperature sensitivity of global wetland CH4 emissions. Nature Communications (2021) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22452-1
[16] Valach, A., Kasak, K., Hemes, K.S. et al. Productive wetlands restored for carbon sequestration quickly become net CO2 sinks with site-level factors driving uptake variability. PLOSone. (2021) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248398
[15] Rey-Sanchez, C.A., Wharton, S., Vilà-Guerau de Arellano, J., Paw U, K.T., Hemes, K.S. et al. Evaluation of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Height from Wind Profiling Radar and Slab Models and its Responses to Seasonality of Land Cover, Subsidence, and Advection. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (2021) https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD033775
[14] Hemes, K.S., Runkle, B., Novick, K., Baldocchi, D.D., Field, C.B. An ecosystem-scale flux measurement strategy to assess natural climate solutions. Environmental Science & Technology. (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c06421
[13] Dronova, I., Taddeo, S., Hemes., K.S., Knox, S.H., Valach, A., Oikawa, P.Y., Kasak, K., Baldocchi, D.B. Remotely sensed phenological heterogeneity of restored wetlands: linking vegetation structure and function. Agriculture and Forest Meteorology. (2020). doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108215
[12] Liu, J., Zhou, Y., Valach, A., Shortt, R., Kasak, K., Rey-Sanchez, C., Hemes, K.S., Baldocchi, D.D., Lai, D.Y.F. Methane Emissions Reduce the Radiative Cooling Effect of a Subtropical Estuarine Mangrove Wetland by Half. Global Change Biology (2020). https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15247
[11] Baldocchi, D.D., Ryu, Y., Dechant, B., Eichelmann, E., Hemes, K.S., Ma, S., Rey-Sanchez, C., Shortt, R., Szutu, D., Valach, A., Verfaille, J., Badgley, G., Zeng, Y., Berry J.A. Outgoing Near Infrared Radiation from Vegetation Scales with Canopy Photosynthesis Across a Spectrum of Function, Structure, Physiological Capacity and Weather. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences (2020). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005534
[10] Hemes, K.S., Verfaillie, J., Baldocchi D.D. Wildfire-smoke aerosols lead to increased light use efficiency among agricultural and restored wetland land uses in California’s Central Valley. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences (2020). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005380
[9] Chamberlain, S.D., Hemes, K.S., Eichelmann, E., Szutu, D.J., Verfaillie, J.G., Baldocchi, D.D., Effect of Drought-Induced Salinization on Wetland Methane Emissions, Gross Ecosystem Productivity, and Their Interactions. Ecosystems (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-019-00430-5
[8] Hemes K.S., Chamberlain SD, Eichelmann E, et al. Assessing the carbon and climate benefit of restoring degraded agricultural peat soils to managed wetlands. Agriculture and Forest Meteorology (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.01.017
[7] Anderson, M., Diak, G., Gao, F., Knipper, K., Hain, C., Eichelmann, E., Hemes, K.S., Baldocchi, D., Kustas, W., Yang, Y. Impact of Insolation Data Source on Remote Sensing Retrievals of Evapotranspiration over the California Delta. Remote Sensing. (2019) https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11030216
[6] Hemes, K.S. et al. A Unique Combination of aerodynamic and surface properties contribute to surface cooling in restored wetlands of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences (2018). https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004494
[5] Hemes, K.S., Chamberlain, S.D., Eichelmann, E., Knox, S., Baldocchi, D.D. A biogeochemical compromise: The high methane cost of sequestering carbon in restored wetlands. Geophysical Research Letters (2018). https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL077747
Earth Magazine vol. 63 no. 10
[4] Anderson, M., Gao, F., Knipper, K., Hain, C., Dulaney, W., Baldocchi, D., Eichelmann, E., Hemes, K.S., Yang, Y., Medellin-Azuara, J. Field-scale Assessment of Land and Water Use Change over the California Delta using Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing. (2018). http://doi.org/10.3390/rs10060889
[3] Chamberlain, S.D., Anthony, T., Silver, W.L., Eichelmann, E., Hemes, K.S. et al. Soil properties and sediment accretion modulate methane fluxes from restored wetlands. Global Change Biology (2018) http://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14124
[2] Eichelmann, E., Hemes, K.S., et al. The effect of land cover type and structure on water cycling dynamics for agricultural and wetland sites in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, California. Agriculture and Forest Meteorology (2018) http://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.03.007
[1] Chamberlain, S. D., Verfaillie, J., Eichelmann, E., Hemes, K. S. & Baldocchi, D. D. Evaluation of Density Corrections to Methane Fluxes Measured by Open-Path Eddy Covariance over Contrasting Landscapes. Boundary-Layer (2017). http://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-017-0275-9
updated July 2023