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James W. Kirchner

University of California, Berkeley · US
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Area of research
Water Science and Technology · Ecology
Research interest
Research focused on Environmental science and Groundwater, with related work in Aquifer, Hydrology (agriculture), Context (archaeology). Notable publications include 'Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective', 'Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling', and 'Rapid groundwater decline and some cases of recovery in aquifers globally'.
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Recent publications

More than mitigation: The role of forests in climate adaptation
Science 2026cited by 1position: middledoi
Bedrock geology controls on new water fractions and catchment functioning in contrasted nested catchments
2025cited by 1position: middledoi
Rapid groundwater decline and some cases of recovery in aquifers globally
Nature 2024cited by 528position: lastdoi
Transit Time Estimation in Catchments: Recent Developments and Future Directions
Water Resources Research 2022cited by 148position: middledoi
Seasonal partitioning of precipitation between streamflow and evapotranspiration, inferred from end-member splitting analysis
Hydrology and earth system sciences 2020cited by 67position: firstdoi
Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective
Hydrological Sciences Journal 2019cited by 1,116position: middledoi
Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling
Water Resources Research 2019cited by 650position: middledoi
The Demographics of Water: A Review of Water Ages in the Critical Zone
Reviews of Geophysics 2019cited by 367position: middledoi
Climate models can correctly simulate the continuum of global-average temperature variability
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2019cited by 65position: lastdoi
Ideas and perspectives: Tracing terrestrial ecosystem water fluxes using hydrogen and oxygen stable isotopes – challenges and opportunities from an interdisciplinary perspective
Biogeosciences 2018cited by 213position: lastdoi
Effects of climatic seasonality on the isotopic composition of evaporating soil waters
Hydrology and earth system sciences 2018cited by 208position: lastdoi
Branching geometry of valley networks on Mars and Earth and its implications for early Martian climate
Science Advances 2018cited by 60position: lastdoi
Effects of climatic seasonality on the isotopic composition of evaporating soil waters
2018cited by 38position: lastdoi
Global aquifers dominated by fossil groundwaters but wells vulnerable to modern contamination
Nature Geoscience 2017cited by 360position: lastdoi
Climate's watermark in the geometry of stream networks
Geophysical Research Letters 2017cited by 111position: lastdoi
Substantial proportion of global streamflow less than three months old
Nature Geoscience 2016cited by 436position: middledoi
Modeling chloride transport using travel time distributions at Plynlimon, Wales
Water Resources Research 2015cited by 157position: middledoi
Short Communication: Earth is (mostly) flat, but mountains dominate global denudation: apportionment of the continental mass flux over millennial time scales, revisited
2014cited by 11position: lastdoi
Patch dynamics and stability in steep, rough streams
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres 2012cited by 36position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

Paolo Benettin · University of Padua6 papers (2015–2022)Daniele Penna · University of Padua4 papers (2018–2019) · 3 papers (2018–2018)Till H. M. Volkmann · University of Arizona3 papers (2018–2018)Scott T. Allen · University of Nevada, Reno3 papers (2018–2020)Jay Frentress · Oregon State University3 papers (2018–2018)Scott Jasechko · University of California, Santa Barbara3 papers (2016–2024)Todd E. Dawson · University of California, Berkeley3 papers (2018–2018) · 2 papers (2019–2022)Julian Klaus · Technical University of Munich2 papers (2018–2022)Richard G. Taylor · University College London2 papers (2017–2024)Marius G. Floriancic · University of Nevada, Reno2 papers (2025–2026)Debra Perrone · University of California, Santa Barbara2 papers (2017–2024)Hansjörg Seybold · Massachusetts Institute of Technology2 papers (2017–2024)Gianluca Botter · University of Padua2 papers (2015–2022)Matthias Sprenger · North Carolina State University2 papers (2019–2022)Christoph J. Gey · Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz1 papers (2025–2025) · 1 papers (2026–2026)Luisa Hopp · Oregon State University1 papers (2018–2018) · 1 papers (2026–2026)
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