Here is a list of our publications since the Lab started at USF in 2016. Copies of published papers are available upon request.
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2024
Brooks, J.; Boyer, J.; Haberstroh, C.J.; Arias, M. E. Settling Velocities of Environmentally Weathered Plastic Fibers from the Mekong River in Southeast Asia ACS ES&T Water https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.3c00649
Tarabih, O.M., Arias, M.E., Santos, A.L., Hua, J., Cooper, R.Z., Khanal, A., Dang, T.D., Khare, Y.P., Charkhgard, H., Rains, M.C., Zhang, Q., 2024. Effects of the spatial distribution of best management practices for watershed wide nutrient load reduction. Ecological Engineering 201, 107211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2024.107211
Montefiore, L. R., Kaplan, D., Phlips, E. J., Milbrandt, E. C., Arias, M. E., Morrison, E., & Nelson, N. G. (2024). Downstream Nutrient Concentrations Depend on Watershed Inputs More Than Reservoir Releases in a Highly Engineered Watershed. Water Resources Research, 60(3), e2023WR035590. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR035590
Khanal, A., Mahmoodian, V., Tarabih, O. M., Hua, J., Arias, M. E., Zhang, Q., & Charkhgard, H. (2024). AquaNutriOpt: Optimizing nutrients for controlling harmful algal blooms in Python—A case study of Lake Okeechobee. Environmental Modelling & Software, 176, 106025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2024.106025
2023
Dang, T.D.*, Arias, M.E., Tarabih, O.M., Ergas, S.J. Phlips, E., Rains, M.C., Zhang, Q. Modeling temporal and spatial variation of biogeochemical processes in a large subtropical lake: Assessing alternative solutions to algal blooms Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 47, 101441, DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2023.101441
Ye, C, Dang, TD, Xu, X., Stewart, CJ., Arias, ME, Zhang, Y, Zhang, Q. Coupled Effects of Future Rainfall and Land Use on Urban Stormwater Drainage System in Tampa, Florida (USA) Ecological Indicators 153, 110402, DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110402
Kramer, M., Arias, M.E., “Modeling the Impact of Hydraulic Reconnection on Estuary Hydrodynamics.” Journal of Ecological Engineering Design. Journal of Ecological Engineering Design https://doi.org/10.21428/f69f093e.4f085bec
van Emmerik, T. H., Schreyers, L. J., Mellink, Y. A., Sok, T., & Arias, M. E. (2023). Large variation in Mekong river plastic transport between wet and dry season. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 11, 539.
Yang, X., Arias, M. E., & Ergas, S. J. (2023). Hybrid constructed wetlands amended with zeolite/biochar for enhanced landfill leachate treatment. Ecological Engineering, 192, 106990. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2023.106990
Brooks, J., Stewart, C.J., Haberstroh, C.J., Arias, M.E. Characteristics and Fate of Plastic Pollution in Urban Stormwater Ponds Environmental Pollution https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121052
Tarabih, O., Dang, T.D., Paudel, R., Arias, M.E., Lake Operation Optimization of Nutrient Exports: Application of Phosphorus Control: Application of Phosphorus Control in the Largest Subtropical Lake in the US. Environmental Modelling and Software 160, 105603. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105603
Lam, T., Yang, X., Ergas, S.J., Arias, M.E., 2023. Feasibility of landfill leachate reuse through adsorbent-enhanced constructed wetlands and ultrafiltration-reverse osmosis. Desalination 545, 116163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2022.116163
2022
Galelli, S., Dang, T.D., Ng, J.Y., Chowdhury, A.F.M.K., Arias, M.E., 2022. Opportunities to curb hydrological alterations via dam re-operation in the Mekong. Nat Sustain 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00971-z
Hinds, K-A., Platz, M.C., Zarger, R., Arias, M.E., Engaging in Interdisciplinary Coastal Research During A Pandemic. Human Organization (2022) 81 (3): 271–279. https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-81.3.271
Samar Al Mashrafi, Nancy Diaz-Elsayed, Joshua Benjamin, Mauricio E. Arias, Qiong Zhang. An Environmental and Economic Sustainability Assessment of a Pressure Retarded Osmosis System. Desalination 537 115869
Kondolf, G. M., Schmitt, R. J. P., Carling, P., Goichot, M., Keskinen, M., Arias, M. E., Bizzi, S., Castelletti, A., Cochrane, T., Darby, S. E., Goichot, M., Kummu, M., Minderhoud, P.S.J., Nguyen, D., Nguyen, N.T., Oeurng, C.,1, Opperman, J., Rubin, Z., San, D.C., Schmeier, S., Wild, T. Save the Mekong Delta from Drowning. Science 376 (6593) 583-585. DOI: 10.1126/science.abm5176
Arias, M.E., Farinosi, F., Hughes, D.A., Future Hydropower Operations in the Zambezi River Basin: Climate Impacts and Adaptation Capacity. River Research and Applications (Accepted, Feb. 16). DOI: 10.1002/rra.3958
Holtgrieve, G.W. and Arias, M.E. Optimizing Amazonian Dams for Nature. Science 375 (6582), 714-715. 10.1126/science.abn8311
Miller, B.L., Holtgrieve, G.W., Arias, M.E., Uy, S., Chheng, P. CH4 production and oxidation contribute to CO2 supersaturation in a tropical flood-pulse lake (Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (8) e2107667119. DOI: 0.1073/pnas.2107667119
Benjamin, J., AL Mashrafi, S. Tejada-Martinez, A., Diaz-Elsayed, N., Arias, M.E., Zhang, Q. Optimizing pressure retarded osmosis spacer geometries: An experimental and CFD modeling study. J. of Membrane Science 647, 5 April 2022, 120284. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2022.120284.
Platz, M. C., Arias, M.E., Byrne, R. H.. Metabolism Monitoring Methods and Potential Applications for Coral Reef Restoration. Environmental Management (Accepted, January 11). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-022-01597-9
Pryor, J., Zhang, Q., Arias, M.E., Integrating Climate Change, Hydrology, and Water Footprint to Measure Water Scarcity in Lesotho, Africa. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 148 (1) 05021025. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001502.
2021
Gao, B., Yang, X., Dasi, E., Lam, T., Arias, M. E., Ergas, S. Enhanced Landfill Leachate Treatment in Sequencing Batch Biofilm Reactors (SBBRs) Amended with Zeolite and Biochar. Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology (Accepted, Oct 2021). https://doi.org/10.1002/jctb.6964.
Haberstroh, C.J., Arias, M.E., Zhewen, Y., Wang, M.C. Plastic transport in a complex confluence of the Mekong river in Cambodia. Environmental Research Letters 16 095009 (Open access link).
Haberstroh, C.J., Arias, M.E., Zhewen, Y., Wang, M.C. Effects of Urban Hydrology on Plastic Transport in a Subtropical River. Environmental Science & Technology Water 1 (8), 1714-1727. DOI: 10.1021/acsestwater.1c00072
Miller, A. J., Arias, M.E., Alvarez, S. Building and Agricultural Value at Risk in Florida (USA) from Flooding during Hurricane Irma. Natural Hazards (Accepted, June 16 2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-021-04880-w
Shrestha, B., Cochrane, T.A., Caruso, B., Arias, M.E., Wild, T. Sediment management for reservoir sustainability and cost implications under land use/land cover change uncertainty. Water Resources Research 57 (4) e2020WR028351. 10.1029/2020WR028351.
Tarabih, O. and Arias, M.E., 2020. Hydrological and Water Quality Trends through the Lenses of Historical Operation Schedules in Lake Okeechobee. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 147 (7) 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001395.
Nabong, E., Whiteford, L., Arias, M.E., Mihelcic, J. C Climate Change Adaptation Priority Strategies in the Philippines - Differences between Local Government Decision Makers and Marginalized Coastal Communities. Environmental Engineering Science (Accepted, December 2020).
Haberstroh, C.J., Arias, M.E., Yin, Z. and Wang, M.C., Effects of hydrodynamics on the cross‐sectional distribution and transport of plastic in an urban coastal river. Water Environ Res. 93 (2) doi:10.1002/wer.1386
2020
Platz, M., Takeshita, Y., Bartels, E., Arias, M.E., Evaluating the potential for autonomous measurements of net community production and calcification as a tool for monitoring coral restoration Ecological Engineering 158, 106042 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2020.106042.
Arias, M.E., Farinosi, F., Lee, E., Livino, A., Briscoe, J., Moorcroft, P.R., Impacts of climate change and deforestation on hydropower planning in the Brazilian Amazon Nature Sustainability (2020) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-0492-y.
Souter, N.J., Shaad, K., Vollmer, D., Regan, H.M., Farrell, T., Meynell, P., Cochrane, T.A., Arias, M.E., Piman, T., Andelman, S.J. Using the Freshwater Health Index to asses hydropower development scenarios in the Sesan, Srepok and Sekong River basin Water 12 (3) 788.
Benjamin, J., Arias, M.E., Zhang, Q. A Techno-Economic Process Model for Pressure Retarded Osmosis based Energy Recovery in Desalination Plants. Desalination, Volume 476, 114218, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2019.114218 .
2019
Kaura, M., Arias, M.E., Benjamin, J., Oeurng, C., Cochrane, T.A., Benefits of Forest Conservation on Riverine Sediment and Hydropower in the Tonle Sap Basin, Cambodia. Ecosystem Services 39 (2019): 101003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2019.101003
Pool, T., Elliott, V., Holtgrieve, G., Arias, M.E., Altman, I., Kaufman, L., McCann, K., Fraser, E.D.G., Tudesque, L., Chevalier, M., Grenouillet, G., Chea, R., Lek, S., McMeans, B., Cooperman, M., Phen, C., Hannah, L., Miller, B., Guo, C., Nam, S., 2019. Fish assemblage composition within the floodplain habitat mosaic of a tropical lake (Tonle Sap, Cambodia). Freshwater Biology 0. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13391
Farinosi, F., Arias, M.E., Pereira, F.F., Lee, E., Moorcroft, P.R., Briscoe, J., 2019. Future climate and land use change impacts on river flows in the Tapajós Basin in the Brazilian Amazon. Earth’s Future, Accepted. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EF001198
Sabo, J.L., Holtgrieve, G.W., Ruhi, A., Arias, M.E., Ngor, P.B., Elliott, V., Räsänen, T., Nam, S., 2019. Response to Comment on “Designing river flows to improve food security futures in the Lower Mekong Basin.” Science 364, eaav9887. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav9887
Oeurng, C., Cochrane, T.A., Chung, S., Kondolf, M., Piman, T., Arias, M.E., Assessing Climate Change Impacts on River Flows in the Tonle Sap Lake Basin, Cambodia. Water 11, 618.
Arias, M.E., Holtgrieve, GW, Ngor, BP, Dang, TD, Piman, T. Maintaining Perspective of Ongoing Environmental Change in the Mekong Floodplains. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 1–7.
Hecht, Jory S., Lacombe, Guillaume, Arias, M. E., Thanh Duc Dang, Thanapon Piman, Hydropower dams of the Mekong River basin: a review of their hydrological impacts. J of Hydrology, 568 285-300.
2018
Holtgrieve, G. W., M. E. Arias, A. Ruhi, V. Elliott, S. Nam, P. B. Ngor, T. A. Räsänen, and J. L. Sabo. Response to Comments on “Designing river flows to improve food security futures in the Lower Mekong Basin”. Science 361, no. 6398 (2018): eaat1477.
Arias, M.E., Lee, E., Farinosi, F., Pereira, F.F., Moorcroft, P.R.Decoupling the effects of deforestation and climate variability in the Tapajos basin in the Brazilian Amazon. Hydrological Processes 32 (11) 1648-1663. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.11517
Dang Duc, T., Cochrane, Arias, M.E., Quantifying sediment dynamics in mega deltas using remote sensing data: a case study of the Mekong floodplains. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (June 2018) 68, 105–115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2018.02.008.
Dang Duc, T., Cochrane, Arias, M.E., Van, T.P.D., Modeling the impact of future development and sea level rise on the hydrology of the Mekong River floodplains and delta. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies 15, 119-133.
Kondolf, M., Schmitt, R.J.P., Carling, P., Darby, S., Arias, M.E., Bizzi, S., Castelletti, A., Cochrane, T.A., Gibson, S., Kummu, M., Oeurng, C., Rubin, Z., Wild, T., Changing sediment budget of the Mekong: Cumulative threats and management strategies for a large river basin. Science of the Total Environment 625, 114-134.
Arias, M.E., Wittmann, P., Parolin, P., Murray-Hudson, M. A., Cochrane, T.A. Interactions between flooding and upland disturbance drives species diversity in large river floodplains. Hydrobiologia 814 (1) 5-17.
2017
Sabo, J.L., Ruhi, A., Holtgrieve, G. H., Elliott, V., M. E. Arias, Ngor, P.B., Räsänen, T., Nam, S., Designing river flows to improve food security futures in the Lower Mekong Basin. Science Dec 8 2017. doi:10.1126/science.aao1053. (Featured in front cover)
Shrestha, B., Cochrane, T.A., Caruso, B. S., Arias, M. E., Land use change Uncertainty on streamflow and sediment projections in areas undergoing rapid development: A case study of the Mekong Basin. Land Degradation and Development November 2017 doi: 10.1002/ldr.2831.
Pereira, F. F., Farinosi, F., Arias, M. E., Lee, E., Briscoe, J., and Moorcroft, P. R. Technical Note: A hydrological routing scheme for the Ecosystem Demography model (ED2+R). Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 21, 4629 doi:10.5194/hess-2016-114.
2016
Shrestha, B., Cochrane, T.A., Caruso, B. S., Arias, M. E., Piman, T., Uncertainty in flow and sediment predictions due to future climate scenarios for the 3S Rivers in the Mekong Basin. Journal of Hydrology 540, 1088–1104. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.07.019
Oeurng, C., T. A. Cochrane, M. E. Arias, B. Shrestha, and T. Piman. Assessment of Changes in Riverine Nitrate in the Sesan, Srepok and Sekong Tributaries of the Lower Mekong River Basin. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 8 (December 2016): 95–111. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2016.07.004.
Dang, D.T., Cochrane, T.A., Arias, M.E., Van, P. D. T., de Vries, T. T. Hydrological regime changes as impacted by water infrastructure development in the Mekong Floodplains. Hydrological Processes 30: 3824–3838. doi: 10.1002/hyp.10894..
Piman, T., Cochrane, T.A., Arias, M.E. Effect of Proposed Large Dams on Water Flows and Hydropower Production in the Sekong, Sesan and Srepok Rivers of the Mekong Basin. River Research and Applications 32, 2095–2108. doi:10.1002/rra.3045.
Parolin, P., Ferreira, L.V., Piedade, M.T.F., Cunha, C.N., Wittmann, F., Arias, M.E. (2016). Flood Tolerant Trees in Seasonally Inundated Lowland Tropical Floodplains, in: Goldstein, G., Santiago, S.L. (Eds.), Tropical Tree Physiology: Adaptations and Responses in a Changing Environment. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 127–147.