| Research trends in the use of remote sensing for inland water quality science: Moving towards multidisciplinary applications SN Topp, TM Pavelsky, D Jensen, M Simard, MRV Ross Water 12 (1), 169, 2020 | 379 | 2020 |
| AquaSat: a dataset to enable remote sensing of water quality for inland waters MRV Ross, SN Topp, AP Appling, X Yang, C Kuhn, D Butman, M Simard, ... Water Resources Research, 2019 | 178 | 2019 |
| Mapping the yearly extent of surface coal mining in Central Appalachia using Landsat and Google Earth Engine AA Pericak, CJ Thomas, DA Kroodsma, MF Wasson, MRV Ross, ... PloS one 13 (7), e0197758, 2018 | 158 | 2018 |
| Deep impact: Effects of mountaintop mining on surface topography, bedrock structure, and downstream waters MRV Ross, BL McGlynn, ES Bernhardt Environmental science & technology 50 (4), 2064-2074, 2016 | 144 | 2016 |
| The color of rivers JR Gardner, X Yang, SN Topp, MRV Ross, EH Altenau, TM Pavelsky Geophysical Research Letters 48 (1), e2020GL088946, 2021 | 112 | 2021 |
| Designer ecosystems: incorporating design approaches into applied ecology MRV Ross, ES Bernhardt, MW Doyle, JB Heffernan Annual review of environment and resources 40, 419-443, 2015 | 77 | 2015 |
| Pyrite Oxidation Drives Exceptionally High Weathering Rates and Geologic CO2 Release in Mountaintop‐Mined Landscapes MRV Ross, F Nippgen, BA Hassett, BL McGlynn, ES Bernhardt Global Biogeochemical Cycles 32 (8), 1182-1194, 2018 | 67 | 2018 |
| Multi-decadal improvement in US Lake water clarity SN Topp, TM Pavelsky, EH Stanley, X Yang, CG Griffin, MRV Ross Environmental Research Letters 16 (5), 055025, 2021 | 64 | 2021 |
| Creating a more perennial problem? Mountaintop removal coal mining enhances and sustains saline baseflows of Appalachian watersheds F Nippgen, MRV Ross, ES Bernhardt, BL McGlynn Environmental science & technology 51 (15), 8324-8334, 2017 | 61 | 2017 |
| Effects of fuels reductions on plant communities and soils in a piñon-juniper woodland MR Ross, SC Castle, NN Barger Journal of arid environments 79, 84-92, 2012 | 55 | 2012 |
| Shifting patterns of summer lake color phenology in over 26,000 US lakes SN Topp, TM Pavelsky, HA Dugan, X Yang, J Gardner, MRV Ross Water Resources Research 57 (5), e2020WR029123, 2021 | 48 | 2021 |
| Mapping flow‐obstructing structures on global rivers X Yang, TM Pavelsky, MRV Ross, SR Januchowski‐Hartley, W Dolan, ... Water Resources Research 58 (1), e2021WR030386, 2022 | 43 | 2022 |
| Human activities change suspended sediment concentration along rivers J Gardner, T Pavelsky, S Topp, X Yang, MRV Ross, S Cohen Environmental Research Letters 18 (6), 064032, 2023 | 42 | 2023 |
| A functional microbiome catalogue crowdsourced from North American rivers MA Borton, BB McGivern, KR Willi, BJ Woodcroft, AC Mosier, ... Nature 637 (8044), 103-112, 2025 | 40 | 2025 |
| Consistent declines in aquatic biodiversity across diverse domains of life in rivers impacted by surface coal mining M Simonin, JD Rocca, JR Gerson, E Moore, AC Brooks, L Czaplicki, ... Ecological Applications 31 (6), e02389, 2021 | 40 | 2021 |
| Timing of Landsat overpasses effectively captures flow conditions of large rivers GH Allen, X Yang, J Gardner, J Holliman, CH David, M Ross Remote Sensing 12 (9), 1510, 2020 | 39 | 2020 |
| National-scale remotely sensed lake trophic state from 1984 through 2020 MF Meyer, SN Topp, TV King, R Ladwig, RM Pilla, HA Dugan, ... Scientific data 11 (1), 77, 2024 | 36 | 2024 |
| A participatory science approach to expanding instream infrastructure inventories A Whittemore, MRV Ross, W Dolan, T Langhorst, X Yang, S Pawar, ... Earth's Future 8 (11), e2020EF001558, 2020 | 31 | 2020 |
| Excess nitrate export in mountaintop removal coal mining watersheds AC Brooks, MRV Ross, F Nippgen, BL McGlynn, ES Bernhardt Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 124 (12), 3867-3880, 2019 | 26 | 2019 |
| Mines to forests? Analyzing long‐term recovery trends for surface coal mines in Central Appalachia CJ Thomas, RK Shriver, F Nippgen, M Hepler, MRV Ross Restoration Ecology, e13827, 2022 | 22 | 2022 |
Emily S. BernhardtJames B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry, Duke UniversityVerified email at duke.edu
