collage of research journals

Publications

  1. Petzold J, Hawxwell T, Jantke K, Gonçalves Gresse E, Singh C, Mach KJ, Ulibarri N, Ajibade I, Reckien D, Kirchhoff CJ, Reese P, Xu J, Joe ET, Nunbogu AM, Fischer AP, Schröder LS, Cremin E, Segnon AC, Shah MA, Hegde G, Färber L, Jeong J, Tello C, Sultana F, Campbell D. Who is adapting and how? Identifying actors and roles in climate change adaptation. Nature Climate Change
  2. Jagannathan K, Emmanuel G, Arnott J, Mach KJ, Bamzai-Dodson A, Goodrich K, Meyer R, Neff M, Sjostrom K Dana, Tim, KMF, Turnhout E, Wong-Parodi G, Bednarek AT, Meadow A, Dewulf A, Kirchhoff CJ, Moss R, Nichols L, Oldach E, Lemos MC, Klenk N. Accepted. A research agenda for the science of actionable knowledge: Drawing from a review of the most misguided to the most enlightened claims in the science-policy interface literature. Environmental Science & Policy 144: 174-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envs...
  3. Hughes S, Kirchhoff CJ, Conedera K, Friedman M. 2023. The Municipal Drinking Water Database. PLOS Water 2(4): e0000081. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pwat.0000081.
  4. McOmber C*, Kirchhoff CJ, Zhuang Y, Raudales R. 2023. Understanding greenhouse growers’ willingness to use municipal recycled water on food crops: the need for tailored outreach coupled with deep engagement to increase adoption. Hort Technology 33(2):161-167. https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTT...
  5. Bizer Matthew, Kirchhoff CJ. 2022. Regression Modeling of Combined Sewer Overflows to Assess System Performance. Water Science and Technology, 86(11): 2848-2860. doi: 10.2166/wst.2022.362
  6. Eaton W, Burnham M, Robertson T, Arbuckle JG, Brasier KJ, Burbach ME, Church SP, Hart-Fredeluces G, Jackson-Smith D, Wildermuth G, Canfield KN, Cordova, SC, Chatelain CD, Fowler LB, Hendawy MM, Kirchhoff CJ, Manheim MK, Martinez RO, Mook A, Mullin CA, Murrah-Hanson AL, Onabola CO, Parker LE, Redd EA, Schelly C, Schoon ML, Sigler WA, Smit E, van Huysen T, Worosz MR, Eberly C, Rogers A. 2022. Advancing the scholarship and practice of stakeholder engagement in working landscapes: A co-produced research agenda. Socio-Ecological Practice Research, 4: 283-304. 10.1007/s42532-022-001
  7. Mach Katharine J, Reyes Rai Salas, Pentz Brian, Taylor Jennifer, Costa Clarissa A, Cruz Sandip G, Thomas Kerronia E, Arnott James C, Donald Rosalind, Janannathan Kripa, Kirchhoff CJ, Rosella Laura, Klenk Nicole. News media coverage of COVID-19 public health and policy information. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, https://www.nature.com/article....
  8. Araos M, Jagannathan K, Shukla R, Ajibade I, Coughlan de Perez E, Davis K, Ford JD, Galappaththi EK, Grady C, Judson AJ, Joe ET, Kirchhoff CJ, Lesnikowski A, Alverio GN, Nielsen M, Orlove B, Pentz B, Reckien D, Siders AR, Ulibarri N, van Aalst M, Abu TZ, Agrawal T, Berrang-Ford L, Kerr, RB, Coggins S, French E, Garschagen M, Harden A, Mach KJ, Nunbogu AM, Spandan P, Templeman S, Turek-Hankins LL. Equity in human adaptation-related responses: A systematic global review. One Earth, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.onee...
  9. Berrang-Ford L, Siders AR, Lesnikowski A, Fisher P, Callaghan M, et al. A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change [NCLIM-20102513D]. Nature Climate Change (accepted)
  10. Eaton W, Burnham M, Kirchhoff CJ, Hinrichs CC. Expert habits of mind: Implications for knowledge co-production in energy transitions. Energy Research & Social Science (accepted).
  11. Treuer G, Kirchhoff CJ, Mcgrath F, Lemos MC. 2021. Challenges of managing harmful algal blooms in U.S. drinking water systems. Nature Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742170521000090.
  12. Calder R, Grady C, Jeuland M, Kirchhoff CJ, Hale R, Muenich RL. COVID-19 reveals vulnerabilities of the food-energy-water nexus to viral pandemics. Environmental Science & Technology Letters (accepted).
  13. McOmber C, Zhuang Y, Raudales R, Vadas T, Kirchhoff CJ. What is recycled water, anyway? Investigating greenhouse grower definitions, perceptions, and willingness to use recycled water. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 1-10. DOI: 10.1017/S1742170521000090.
  14. Lemos MC, Klenk NL, Kirchhoff CJ, Morrison T, Bremer SR, Fischer AP, Soares MB, Torres R, Olwoch JM. Grand challenges for Climate Risk Management. Frontiers in Climate, 2:605206. doi: 10.3389/fclim.2020.605206.
  15. Scavia D, Wang YC, Obenour DR, Apostel A, Basile SJ, Kalcic MM, Kirchhoff CJ, Miralha L, Muenich RL, Steiner AL. Quantifying uncertainty cascading from climate, watershed, and lake models in harmful algal bloom predictions. Science of the Total Environment, Mar 10;759:143487. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143487.
  16. Miralha L, Muenich R, Scavia D, Wells K, Steiner AL, Kalcic M, Apostel A, Basile S, Kirchhoff CJ. Bias correction of climate model outputs influences watershed model nutrient load predictions. Science of the Total Environment. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143039
  17. Mullin CA, Kirchhoff CJ, Wang G, Vlahos P. 2020. Future projections of water temperature and thermal stability in Connecticut reservoirs and possible implications for cyanobacteria. Water Resources Research 56(11): e2020WR027185
  18. Wang G, Kirchhoff CJ, Seth A, Abatzoglou JT, Livneh B, Pierce DW, Fomenko L, Ding T. 2020. Projected Changes of Precipitation Characteristics Depend on Downscaling Method and Training Data: MACA vs. LOCA using the U.S. Northeast as an Example. Journal of Hydrometeorology 10.1175/JHM-D-19-0275.1
  19. Arnott JC, Kirchhoff CJ, Meyer RM, Meadow AM, Bednarek AT. 2020. Sponsoring actionable science: what public science funders can do to advance sustainability and the social contract for science. ​Current Opinion of Environment in Environmental Sustainability, 42, 38-44. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343520300063
  20. Kirchhoff CJ, Barlow M, Barsugli J, Galford GL, Karmalkar A, Seth A, Stephenson S, Wang G, Frank A**. 2019. Climate assessments for local action. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0138.1
  21. Kalcic M, Muenich R, Basile S, Steiner A, Kirchhoff CJ, Scavia D. 2019. Climate change and nutrient loading: warming can counteract a wetter future. Environmental Science & Technology. doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b01274
  22. Lemos MC, Wolske K, Vang Rasmussen L, Arnott J, Kalcic M, Kirchhoff CJ. 2019. The closer, the better? Untangling Scientist–Practitioner Engagement, Interaction, and Knowledge Use. Weather, Climate, and Society 11: 535-548.doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-18-0075.1
  23. Bair L, Colombi B, Yackulic C, Kirchhoff CJ, Perry D, Schmidt J, Chief K. 2019. Incorporating social-ecological considerations into basin-wide responses to climate change in the Colorado River Basin. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 37, 14-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.04.002
  24. Kirchhoff CJ, Watson P. 2019. Are wastewater systems adapting to climate change? Journal of the American Water Resources Association. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1...
  25. Kirchhoff CJ, Flagg J, Zhuang Y, Utemuratov B. 2019. Understanding and Improving Enforcement and Compliance with Drinking Water Standards. Water Resources Management, 33(5): 1647-1663.
  26. Mullin C, Kirchhoff CJ. 2018. Marshalling Adaptive Capacities within an Adaptive Management Framework to Enhance the Resiliency of Wastewater Systems. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1...
  27. Flagg JA, Kirchhoff CJ. 2018. Context matters: Context-related drivers of and barriers to climate information use. Climate Risk Management, 20, 1–10. https://doi.org/https://doi.or...
  28. Vang Rasmussen L, Kirchhoff CJ, Lemos MC. 2017. Adaptation by Stealth: understanding climate information use across scales and decision spaces in water management in the United States, Climatic Change, 140(3):451-465. doi:10.1007/s10584-016-1857-0.
  29. Kalcic MM, Kirchhoff CJ, Bosch N, Muenich RL, Murray M, Gardner JG, Scavia D. 2016. Engaging Stakeholders to Define Feasible and Desirable Agricultural Conservation in Western Lake Erie Watersheds. Environmental Science & Technology 50(15), 8135-8145.
  30. Kirchhoff CJ, Lara-Valencia F, Brugger J, Mussetta P, Pineda-Pablos N. 2016. Towards joint consideration of adaptive capacity and water security: Lessons from the arid Americas, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 21: 22-28..
  31. Kirchhoff CJ, Dilling L. 2016. The role of US states in facilitating effective water governance under stress and change. Water Resources Research 52(4), 2951-2964. doi:10.1002/2015WR018431. Highlighted in EOS Research Spotlight, https://eos.org/research-spotl...
  32. Vang Rasmussen L, Kirchhoff CJ, Lemos MC. 2016. Adaptation by Stealth: understanding climate information use across scales and decision spaces in water management in the United States, Climatic Change, in press, doi:10.1007/s10584-016-1857-0.
  33. Lemos MC, Kirchhoff CJ. 2015. “Climate information and water management: building adaptive capacity or business as usual?” in Ken Conca and Erika Weinthal (Eds) The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy, Oxford University Press.
  34. Kirchhoff CJ, Lemos MC, Kalafatis S. 2015. Creating synergy with boundary chains: Can they improve usability of climate information?, Climate Risk Management 9, 77-85. doi:10.1016/j.crm.2015.05.002.
  35. Kirchhoff CJ, Lemos MC, Kalafatis S. 2015. Narrowing the gap between climate science and adaptation action: the role of Boundary Chains, Climate Risk Management 9, 1-5. doi:10.1016/j.crm.2015.06.002.
  36. Kirchhoff CJ, Esselman E, Brown D. 2015. Boundary Organizations to Boundary Chains: Prospects for Advancing Climate Science Application, Climate Risk Management 9, 20-29. doi:10.1016/j.crm.2015.04.001.
  37. Lemos MC, Kirchhoff CJ. 2015. “Boundary Organizations.” In Jean-Frédéric Morin and Amandine Orsini (Eds) Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance, Routledge.
  38. Lemos MC, Lo YJ, Kirchhoff CJ, Haigh T. 2014. The role of crop advisors as climate information brokers among farmers in the US. Climate Risk Management 4-5, 32-42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cr....
  39. Lemos MC, Kirchhoff CJ, Kalafatis SE, Scavia D, Rood RB. 2014. Moving climate information off the shelf: Boundary Chains and the role of RISAs as adaptive organizations. Weather Climate and Society 6: 273-285.
  40. Kirchhoff, C.J., M.C. Lemos, and S. Dessai. 2013. Actionable knowledge for environmental decision making: Broadening the usability of climate science. Annual Review of Environment and Natural Resources 38: 3.1-3.22. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-environ-022112-112828.
  41. Kirchhoff, C.J. 2013. Understanding and enhancing climate information use in water management. Climatic Change, 119(2): 495-509.
  42. Kirchhoff, C.J., M.C. Lemos, and N. Engle. 2012. What influences climate information use in water management? The role of boundary organizations and governance regimes in Brazil and the U.S., Environmental Science and Policy 26:6-18.
  43. Lemos, M.C., C.J. Kirchhoff, and V. Ramprasad. 2012. Narrowing the usability gap. Nature Climate Change 2: 789-794.
  44. McNeeley, S.M., S.A. Tessendorf, H. Lazurus, T. Heikkila, I.M. Ferguson, J.S. Arrigo, S.Z. Attari, C. M. Cianfrani, L. Dilling, J.J. Gurdak, S.K. Kampf, D. Kauneckis, C.J. Kirchhoff, J. Lee, B.R. Lintner, K.M. Mahoney, S. Opitz-Stapleton, P. Ray, A.B. South, A.P. Stubblefield, and J. Brugger. 2012. Catalyzing Frontiers in Water-Climate-Society Research: A View from Early Career Scientists and Junior Faculty. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, April. http://journals.ametsoc.org/do....
  45. Kirchhoff CJ, Bulkley JW. 2008. Zambezi River Basin: Challenges and Opportunities, Journal of the International Institute, 15(2). http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo...
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