Samuel C Zipper

Biographic Data

ID1572470
NAMESamuel C Zipper
GIVEN NAMESSamuel C
FAMILY NAMEZipper
SIGNATUREZIPPER S C
AFFILIATIONSUnited States Geological Survey
ORCID0000-0002-8735-5757
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT18
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Unlocking aquifer sustainability through irrigator-driven groundwater conservation

    Open AccessMaria Elena Orduña Alegría, Samuel C Zipper et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2024References: 6

  • Groundwater effects on net primary productivity and soil organic carbon: A global analysis

    Open AccessBei Huang, Samuel C Zipper et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Groundwater affects ecosystem services (ES) by altering critical zone ecohydrological and biogeochemical processes. Previous research has demonstrated significant and nonlinear impacts of shallow groundwater on ES regionally, but it remains unclear how groundwater affects ES at the global scale and how such effects respond to environmental factors. Here, we investigated global patterns of groundwater relationships with two ES indicators—net prima…

  • Overlooked risks and opportunities in groundwatersheds of the world’s protected areas

    Open AccessXander Huggins, Tom Gleeson et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2023References: 2

    Protected areas are a key tool for conserving biodiversity, sustaining ecosystem services and improving human well-being. Global initiatives that aim to expand and connect protected areas generally focus on controlling ‘above ground’ impacts such as land use, overlooking the potential for human actions in adjacent areas to affect protected areas through groundwater flow. Here we assess the potential extent of these impacts by mapping the groundwa…

  • The importance of fit in groundwater self-governance

    Open AccessLandon Marston, Samuel C Zipper et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

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  • Alternative stable states and hydrological regime shifts in a large intermittent river

    Open AccessSamuel C Zipper, Ilinca Popescu et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Non-perennial rivers and streams make up over half the global river network and are becoming more widespread. Transitions from perennial to non-perennial flow are a threshold-type change that can lead to alternative stable states in aquatic ecosystems, but it is unknown whether streamflow itself is stable in either wet (flowing) or dry (no-flow) conditions. Here, we investigated drivers and feedbacks associated with regime shifts between wet and …

  • Assessing placement bias of the global river gauge network

    Open AccessCorey A Krabbenhoft, George H Allen et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2022

  • Quantifying Earth system interactions for sustainable food production via expert elicitation

    Open AccessAnna Chrysafi, Vili Virkki et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2022Cited by: 1References: 9

    Several safe boundaries of critical Earth system processes have already been crossed due to human perturbations; not accounting for their interactions may further narrow the safe operating space for humanity. Using expert knowledge elicitation, we explored interactions among seven variables representing Earth system processes relevant to food production, identifying many interactions little explored in Earth system literature. We found that green…

  • Pervasive changes in stream intermittency across the United States

    Open AccessSamuel C Zipper, John C Hammond et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Non-perennial streams are widespread, critical to ecosystems and society, and the subject of ongoing policy debate. Prior large-scale research on stream intermittency has been based on long-term averages, generally using annually aggregated data to characterize a highly variable process. As a result, it is not well understood if, how, or why the hydrology of non-perennial streams is changing. Here, we investigate trends and drivers of three inter…

  • The Water Planetary Boundary: Interrogation and Revision

    Open AccessTom Gleeson, Lan Wang‐Erlandsson et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020

  • Developing a sustainability science approach for water systems

    Open AccessChrista Brelsford, Marion Dumas et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2020

    Brelsford, C., M. Dumas, E. Schlager, B. J. Dermody, M. Aiuvalasit, M. R. Allen-Dumas, J. Beecher, U. Bhatia, P. D'Odorico, M. Garcia, P. Gober, D. Groenfeldt, S. Lansing, K. Madani, L. Méndez-Barrientos, E. Mondino, M. F. Müller, F. C. O'Donnell, P. M. Owuor, J. Rising, M. R. Sanderson, F. A. A. Souza, and S. C. Zipper. 2020. Developing a sustainability science approach for water systems. Ecology and Society 25(2):23. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-…

  • Land use change impacts on European heat and drought: Remote land-atmosphere feedbacks mitigated locally by shallow groundwater

    Open AccessSamuel C Zipper, Jessica Keune et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Heat and drought are projected to increase globally but may be mitigated or exacerbated by land use/land cover (LULC) change. Here, we show that remote land-atmosphere feedbacks caused by historical European LULC change led to widespread changes in the energy and water balances, drought, and heat. Using a continental-scale bedrock-to-atmosphere model, we find that LULC change following the Soviet Union collapse and European Union formation may ha…

  • Nonlinear groundwater influence on biophysical indicators of ecosystem services

    Open AccessJiangxiao Qiu, Samuel C Zipper et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Cited by: 5References: 3

  • Integrating team science into interdisciplinary graduate education: An exploration of the Sesync Graduate Pursuit

    Open AccessKenneth Wallen, Karen Filbee‐Dexter et al.ARTICLEJournal of Environmental Studies…2019References: 8

    Complex socio-environmental challenges require interdisciplinary, team-based research capacity. Graduate students are fundamental to building such capacity, yet formal opportunities for graduate students to develop these capacities and skills are uncommon. This paper presents an assessment of the Graduate Pursuit (GP) program, a formal interdisciplinary team science graduate research and training program administered by the National Socio-Environ…

  • Understanding relationships among ecosystem services across spatial scales and over time

    Open AccessJiangxiao Qiu, R Carpenter et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Sustaining ecosystem services (ES), mitigating their tradeoffs and avoiding unfavorable future trajectories are pressing social-environmental challenges that require enhanced understanding of their relationships across scales. Current knowledge of ES relationships is often constrained to one spatial scale or one snapshot in time. In this research, we integrated biophysical modeling with future scenarios to examine changes in relationships among e…

  • Changing groundwater discharge dynamics in permafrost regions

    Open AccessPierrick Lamontagne‐Hallé, Jeffrey M McKenzie et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Permafrost thaw due to climate warming modifies hydrological processes by increasing hydrological connectivity between aquifers and surface water bodies and increasing groundwater storage. While previous studies have documented arctic river baseflow increases and changing wetland and lake distributions, the hydrogeological processes leading to these changes remain poorly understood. This study uses a coupled heat and groundwater flow numerical mo…

  • Socio-environmental drought response in a mixed urban-agricultural setting: Synthesizing biophysical and governance responses in the Platte River Watershed, Nebraska, USA

    Open AccessSamuel C Zipper, Kelly Helm Smith et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2017

    Zipper, S. C., K. Helm Smith, B. Breyer, J. Qiu, A. Kung, and D. Herrmann. 2017. Socio-environmental drought response in a mixed urban-agricultural setting: synthesizing biophysical and governance responses in the Platte River Watershed, Nebraska, USA. Ecology and Society 22(4):39. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09549-220439

  • Urban heat island impacts on plant phenology: Intra-urban variability and response to land cover

    Open AccessSamuel C Zipper, Jason Schatz et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    Despite documented intra-urban heterogeneity in the urban heat island (UHI) effect, little is known about spatial or temporal variability in plant response to the UHI. Using an automated temperature sensor network in conjunction with Landsat-derived remotely sensed estimates of start/end of the growing season, we investigate the impacts of the UHI on plant phenology in the city of Madison WI (USA) for the 2012–2014 growing seasons. Median urban g…

  • Drought effects on US maize and soybean production: Spatiotemporal patterns and historical changes

    Open AccessSamuel C Zipper, Jiangxiao Qiu et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    Maximizing agricultural production on existing cropland is one pillar of meeting future global food security needs. To close crop yield gaps, it is critical to understand how climate extremes such as drought impact yield. Here, we use gridded, daily meteorological data and county-level annual yield data to quantify meteorological drought sensitivity of US maize and soybean production from 1958 to 2007. Meteorological drought negatively affects cr…