Publications
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*Lane graduate student **Lane postdoctoral scholar
Lane B, Stamp M, Null SE, Thompson P, Ostermiller J, Nusrat F, Patterson N**, Witte M+, Neilson B, Baker M (2026). “A functional flows framework for the Great Salt Lake basin: Can we have our lake and drink it too?” River Research and Applications 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.70179
Lee A**, Pasternack G & Lane B (2026). “RIVERSTICH: Sewing together 3D rivers from only a few loose threads of transect data,” Environmental Software and Management
Ridgway P*, Bläsi LT, Halso MC, Vetsch DF, & Lane B (2026). “Beyond the initial impact: Channel evolution following wildfire and debris flows in a mountain stream of the Upper Colorado River Basin,” Geomorphology, 110485.
Canham H* & Lane B (2026). “Paired storms approach reveals post-fire flood characteristics and drivers,” Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025WR040693
**article featured as a Research Spotlight
Aveek Mº, Bastidas C, Rosenberg D, Horsburgh J, Kopp K, Lane B (2026). “Evaluating the impact of residential landscape audits using 5-second water use data,” Journal of American Water Resources Association. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.70102
DiNicola M*, Riggins C, Garouette C, Crookston B & Lane B (2026). “Using 3D printed replicates to assess subadult freshwater mussel mobilization thresholds in a flume,” Journal of Ecohydraulics. 1- 15. https://doi.org/10.1080/24705357.2026.2629865
DiNicola M*, Riggins C, Schultz S, Phillips C & Lane B (2025). Assessing suitable habitat for freshwater mussel reintroductions using 3D-printed subadult replicates. Nature Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-18244-y
Patterson N*, Dong X, Lane B, Csank A, Rood S & Sandoval-Solis S (2025). “Dendrochronology reveals the response of a riparian forest to water management in an arid river basin.” Ecological Applications.
Lee A**, Lane B & Pasternack G (2025). “Spectral slope and coherence quantitatively summarize nested topographic variability patterns in rivers,” River Research and Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.4437
Canham H*, Lane B, Phillips C & Murphy B (2025). Leveraging a time-series event separation method to disentangle time-varying hydrologic controls on streamflow - application to wildfire-affected catchments. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.
Guillon H**, Pasternack GB, Lane B, Byrne C** & Sandoval-Solis (2024). Mind the information gap: How sampling and clustering impact the predictability of reach-scale channel types in California (USA). Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
Ridgway P*, Lane B, Canham H*, Murphy BP, Belmont P, & Rengers FK (2024). Wildfire, extreme precipitation and debris flows, oh my! Channel response to compounding disturbances in a mountain stream in the Upper Colorado Basin, USA. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5942
Rengers F, Bower S, Knapp A, Kean JW, vonLembke DW, Thomas MA, Kostelnik J, Barnhart KR, Bethel M, Gartner JE, Hille M, Staley DM, Anderson JK, Roberts EK, DeLong SB, Lane B, Ridgway P* and Murphy BP (2024). “Evaluating post-wildfire debris-flow rainfall thresholds and volume models at the 2020 Grizzly Creek Fire in Glenwood Canyon, Colorado, USA,” Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 2093–2114, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-2093-2024
Thurber D*, Lane B, Xu T & Neilson B (2024). “Dissolving the mystery of subsurface controls on snowmelt–discharge dynamics in karst mountain watersheds using hydrologic timeseries,” Hydrological Processes, 38(5), e15170. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15170
Nogueira X*, Pasternack GB, Lane B & Sandoval-Solis S (2024). “Width undulation drives flow convergence routing in 5 flashy ephemeral river types across a dry summer subtropical region,” Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5805
Margetts K*, Lane B & Crookston BM. 2023. Driftwood Accumulation and Passage at V- and I-Rock Weirs in Mountain Streams. Journal of Coastal and Hydraulic Structures, 3. https://doi.org/10.48438/jchs.2023.0025
Lee A**, Lane B & Pasternack GB. 2023. “Identifying key channel variability functions controlling ecohydraulic conditions using synthetic channel archetypes,” Ecohydrology. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2533
Patterson NP*, Lane B, Persad G, Ortiz-Partida J & Sandoval-Solis S. 2022. “Projected effects of temperature and precipitation variability change on streamflow patterns using a functional flows approach,” Earth's Future.
Jones A*, Horsburgh J, Bastidas C, Flint C, and Lane B. 2022. “Advancing hydroinformatics and water data science instruction: Community perspectives and online learning resources.” Frontiers in Water: Water and Hydrocomplexity.
Gallagher MA, Habib EH, Williams D, Lane B, Byrd J and Tarboton D. 2022. “Designing professional learning experiences to support hydrology and water resources faculty to create high-quality curricular materials.” Frontiers in Education: STEM Education.
Grantham T, Carlisle D, Lane B, Lusardi R, Obester A, Sandoval S, Stein E, Stanford B, Taniguchi K, Yarnell SM, & Zimmerman J. 2022. “Modeling Functional Flows in California’s Rivers,” Frontiers in Environmental Science. DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.787473
Morgan B* and Lane B. 2022 "Quantifying uncertainty in regional flow – ecology relationships,” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001533
Stein E, Zimmerman J, Yarnell SM, Stanford B, Lane B, Taniguchi K, Obester A, and Grantham T. 2021 “The California Environmental Flows Framework: Meeting the challenges of developing a large-scale environmental flows program,”
Frontiers in Environmental Science – Freshwater Science, https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.769943
Byrne C**, Pasternack GB, Guillon H**, Lane B, & Sandoval-Solis S. 2021. “Channel constriction predicts pool-riffle velocity reversals across landscapes,” Geophysical Research Letters. 10.1029/2021GL094378
Wineland S, Basagaoglu H, Fleming J, Friedman J, Garza-Diaz L, Kellog W, Koch J, Lane B, Mirchi A, Sandoval-Solis S, Paladino S, Nava L, Ortiz-Partida J, Plassin S, Gomez-Quiroga G, Saiz-Rodriguez R, Neeson T, Wagner K, Weber N, Wootten A. 2021. “The environmental flows implementation challenge: Insights and recommendations across water-limited systems,” WIRES-Water
Sandoval-Solis S, Paladino S, Garza-Diaz L, Nava L, Friedman J, Ortiz-Partida J, Plassin S, Gomez-Quiroga G, Koch J, Fleming J, Lane B, Wineland S, Mirchi A, Saiz-Rodriguez R, & Neeson T. “Environmental Flows in the Rio Grande - Rio Bravo Basin,” Ecology & Society, DOI: 10.5751/ES-12944-270120
Lane B, Guillon H**, Byrne C**, Pasternack GB, Kasprak A, & Sandoval-Solis S. 2021. “Channel reach morphology and landscape properties are linked across a large heterogeneous region,” Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, DOI: 10.1002/esp.5246
Alger SM*, Lane B, & Neilson B. 2021. “Combined influences of irrigation diversions and associated subsurface return flows on river temperature in a semi-arid region.” Hydrological Processes, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.14283
Lane B, Garousi I*, Gallagher M, Tarboton D, & Habib E. 2021. “An open web-based module developed to advance data-driven hydrologic process learning.” Hydrological Processes, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hyp.14273
Merritt A*, Lane B, Hawkins CP. 2021. "Classification and prediction of natural streamflow regimes in arid regions of the USA." Water. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13030380
Beck, M.B., O’Hara, C., Lowndes, J., Mazor, R., Theroux, S., Gillett, D., Lane, B., Gearheart, G. 2020 "The importance of open science for biological assessment." PeerJ
Lane, B., Ortiz-Partida, J.P., & Sandoval-Solis, S. 2020. "Extending water resources performance metrics to river ecosystems." Ecological Indicators, 114, 106336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106336
Byrne, C., Pasternack, G., Guillon, H., Lane, B., Sandoval, S. 2020 "Reach-scale bankfull channel types can exist independently of catchment hydrology," Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.4874
Guillon, H., Byrne, C., Lane, B., Sandoval Solis, S., & Pasternack, G. 2020. "Machine learning predicts reach‐scale channel types from coarse‐scale geospatial data in a large river basin," Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR026691
Patterson, N., Lane, B., Sandoval-Solis, S., Pasternack, G.B., Yarnell, S., & Qiu, Y. 2020. "A hydrologic feature detection algorithm to quantify seasonal components of flow regimes," Journal of Hydrology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124787
Yarnell, S., Stein, E.D., Webb, J.A., Grantham, T., Lusardi, R., Zimmerman, J., Peek, R., Lane, B., Howard, J. and Sandoval. S. 2019. "A functional flows approach to selecting ecologically relevant flow metrics for environmental flow applications," River Research and Applications. DOI: 10.1002/rra.3575
Lane, B. and Rosenberg, D.E. 2019. "Promoting instream flows in the changing western U.S.” J. Water Resources Planning and Management. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001145
Ortiz-Partida, J.P., Kahil, T., Ermolieva, T., Ermoliev, Y., Lane, B., Sandoval, S., Wada, Y. 2019. “A two-stage stochastic optimization for robust operation of multipurpose reservoirs.” Water Resources Management. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-019-02337-1
Lane, B., Sandoval-Solis, S., Stein, Eric D., Yarnell, Sarah H., Pasternack, G., and Dahlke, H. 2018. "Beyond metrics? The role of hydrologic baseline archetypes in environmental water management." Environmental Management. DOI: 10.1007/s00267-018-1077-7
Lane, B., Pasternack, G.B., and Sandoval-Solis, S. 2018. “Integrated analysis of flow, form, and function for river management and design testing." Ecohydrology. DOI:10.1002/eco.1969
Lane, B., Pasternack, G.B., Dahlke, H.E., and Sandoval-Solis, S. 2017. “The role of topographic variability in river channel classification.” Progress in Physical Geography. DOI: 10.1177/0309133317718133
Lane, B., Dahlke, H.E., Pasternack, G.B., and Sandoval-Solis, S. 2017. “Revealing the diversity of natural hydrologic regimes in California for future environmental flows applications.” J. American Water Resources Association. DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.12504
Ortiz-Partida, J.P, Lane, B. and Sandoval-Solis, S. 2016. “Economic effects of a reservoir re-operation policy in the Rio Grande/Bravo for integrated human and environmental water management.” J. Hydrology: Regional Studies.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2016.08.004
Porse, E., Sandoval-Solis, S. and Lane, B. 2015. “Integrating environmental flows into multi-objective reservoir management for a transboundary, water-scarce river basin: Rio Grande/Bravo.” Water Resources Management. 10.1007/s11269-015-0952-8.
Metzger, L., Lane, B., MacPhee, D., Kilanski, M., Kromann, J., Salvatierra, J., Setegn, S. 2015. “An International Perspective on the Basin Scale Water - Energy Nexus.” Sustainability of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM): Water Governance, Climate and Eco-hydrology, S. Setegn and M. Donoso (Ed.), 1st Edition, Springer, 320 p., ISBN 978-3-319-12193-2.
Lane, B.A., Sandoval-Solis, S. and Porse, E. 2014. “Environmental flows in a human-dominated system: evaluating integrated water management strategies in the Rio Grande/Bravo Basin.” River Research and Applications. DOI:10.1002/rra.2804
Ai, X., Sandoval-Solis, S., Dahlke, H.E., and Lane, B.A. 2014. “IWRM for Environmental Flows and Hydropower.” River Research and Applications. DOI:10.1002/rra.2728.