Sam Zipper
HEAL PI; Assistant Scientist/Professor
Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas
Department of Geology, University of Kansas
Favorite body of water: Lake Wenatchee
Education
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PhD in Freshwater and Marine Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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B.A. in Geology
Pomona College
Latest
- Using national hydrologic models to obtain regional climate change impacts on streamflow basins with unrepresented processes
- Unlocking aquifer sustainability through irrigator-driven groundwater conservation
- Biogeochemical and community ecology responses to the wetting of non-perennial streams
- Estimating irrigation water use from remotely sensed evapotranspiration data: Accuracy and uncertainties at field, water right, and regional scales
- PyCHAMP: A crop-hydrological-agent modeling platform for groundwater management
- Streamflow Depletion Caused by Groundwater Pumping: Fundamental Research Priorities for Management-Relevant Science
- Nonlinear trends in signatures characterizing non-perennial US streams
- Water management challenges and potential solutions related to the U.S. federal crop insurance program
- Exploring drivers of groundwater recharge at Konza Prairie (Flint Hills region, Kansas, USA) using transfer function noise models
- Changes in Water Age During Dry-Down of a Non-Perennial Stream
- Predicting Streamflow Duration From Crowd-Sourced Flow Observations
- Forming the Future of Agrohydrology
- How low can you go? Widespread challenges in measuring low stream discharge and a path forward
- GroMoPo: A Groundwater Model Portal for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) modeling
- Non-perennial stream networks as directed acyclic graphs: The R-package streamDAG
- Groundwater effects on net primary productivity and soil organic carbon: a global analysis
- Identifying Hydrologic Signatures Associated with Streamflow Depletion Caused by Groundwater Pumping
- Overlooked risks and opportunities in groundwatersheds of the world’s protected areas
- Causes, Responses, and Implications of Anthropogenic versus Natural Flow Intermittence in River Networks
- The importance of fit in groundwater self-governance
- Quantifying Earth system interactions for sustainable food production via expert elicitation
- Quantifying the impact of lagged hydrological responses on the effectiveness of groundwater conservation
- Alternative stable states and hydrological regime shifts in a large intermittent river
- Assessing placement bias of the global river gauge network
- The Role of Climate in Monthly Baseflow Changes across the Continental United States
- Identifying Regime Shifts in the Arkansas River Near Larned, Kansas
- Reconceptualizing the hyporheic zone for non-perennial rivers and streams
- How High to Fly? Mapping Evapotranspiration from Remotely Piloted Aircrafts at Different Elevations
- Quantifying Streamflow Depletion from Groundwater Pumping: A Practical Review of Past and Emerging Approaches for Water Management
- Advancing environmental flows approaches to streamflow depletion management
- Hotspots for social and ecological impacts from freshwater stress and storage loss
- GMD perspective: The quest to improve the evaluation of groundwater representation in continental- to global-scale models
- Pervasive changes in stream intermittency across the United States
- Cannabis farms in California rely on wells outside of regulated groundwater basins
- The Drying Regimes of Non-Perennial Rivers and Streams
- Too Many Streams and Not Enough Time or Money? Analytical Depletion Functions for Streamflow Depletion Estimates
- Characterizing Streamflow Intermittency and Subsurface Heterogeneity in the Middle Arkansas River Basin
- Toward a Generalizable Framework of Disturbance Ecology Through Crowdsourced Science
- Comparing streamflow depletion estimation approaches in a heavily-stressed, conjunctively-managed aquifer
- Zero or not? Causes and consequences of zero-flow stream gage readings
- Significant Baseflow Reduction in the Sao Francisco River Basin
- Streamflow depletion from groundwater pumping in contrasting hydrogeological landscapes: Evaluation and sensitivity of a new management tool
- Developing a sustainability science approach for water systems
- A Serious Board Game to Analyze Socio-Ecological Dynamics towards Collaboration in Agriculture
- Book Review: Water Resources: Science and Society
- Zero or not? Causes and consequences of zero-flow stream gage readings
- The Water Planetary Boundary: Interrogation and Revision
- Transitions from irrigated to dryland agriculture in the Ogallala Aquifer: Land use suitability and regional economic impacts
- Adding our leaves: A community-wide perspective on research directions in ecohydrology
- Integrating the water planetary boundary with water management from local to global scales
- Illuminating water cycle modifications and Earth System resilience in the Anthropocene
- The evolution of virtual water flows in China's electricity transmission network and its driving forces
- Cannabis and residential groundwater pumping impacts on streamflow and ecosystems in Northern California
- Comparing the effects of climate and land use on surface water quality using future watershed scenarios
- Combining Evapotranspiration and Soil Apparent Electrical Conductivity Mapping to Identify Potential Precision Irrigation Benefits
- Management of minimum lake levels and impacts on flood mitigation: A case study of the Yahara Watershed, Wisconsin, USA
- Rapid and accurate estimates of streamflow depletion caused by groundwater pumping using analytical depletion functions
- Balancing Open Science and Data Privacy in the Water Sciences
- Integrating team science into interdisciplinary graduate education: an exploration of the SESYNC Graduate Pursuit
- Nonlinear groundwater influence on biophysical indicators of ecosystem services
- Land use change impacts on European heat and drought: Remote land-atmosphere feedbacks mitigated locally by shallow groundwater
- Continuous separation of land use and climate effects on the past and future water balance
- Groundwater controls on post-fire permafrost thaw: Water and energy balance effects
- Groundwater pumping impacts on real stream networks: Testing the performance of simple management tools
- Agricultural Research Using Social Media Data
- Changing groundwater discharge dynamics in permafrost regions
- Does hillslope trenching enhance groundwater recharge and baseflow in the Peruvian Andes?
- Scenarios reveal pathways to sustain future ecosystem services in an agricultural landscape
- Sociohydrological Impacts of Water Conservation Under Anthropogenic Drought in Austin, TX (USA)
- Understanding relationships among ecosystem services across spatial scales and over time
- Socio-environmental drought response in a mixed urban-agricultural setting: synthesizing biophysical and governance responses in the Platte River Watershed, Nebraska, USA
- The Influence of Legacy P on Lake Water Quality in a Midwestern Agricultural Watershed
- Quantifying indirect groundwater-mediated effects of urbanization on agroecosystem productivity using MODFLOW-AgroIBIS (MAGI), a complete critical zone model
- Urban heat island-induced increases in evapotranspirative demand
- Is groundwater recharge always serving us well? Water supply provisioning, crop production, and flood attenuation in conflict in Wisconsin, USA
- How universal is the relationship between remotely sensed vegetation indices and crop leaf area index? A global assessment
- Arctic deltaic lake sediments as recorders of fluvial organic matter deposition
- Drought effects on US maize and soybean production: spatiotemporal patterns and historical changes
- Urban heat island impacts on plant phenology: intra-urban variability and response to land cover
- Untangling the effects of shallow groundwater and soil texture as drivers of subfield-scale yield variability
- Using evapotranspiration to assess drought sensitivity on a subfield scale with HRMET, a high resolution surface energy balance model