Joshua H Viers

Biographic Data

ID5655330
NAMEJoshua H Viers
GIVEN NAMESJoshua H
FAMILY NAMEViers
SIGNATUREVIERS J H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Merced
ORCID0000-0001-7957-7942
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Knowledge gaps, water caps and regulatory traps

    Open AccessGustavo Facincani Dourado, Josué Medellín–Azuara et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Knowledge gaps, water caps and regulatory traps: policies, practices, and lessons from environmental flow requirements in the San Joaquin River, California, Dourado, Gustavo Facincani, Medellín-Azuara, Josué, Fortier, Marie-Odile, Viers, Joshua H

  • Shorter growing seasons may moderate climate change effects on crop water demands

    Open AccessJohn T Abatzoglou, Lauren E Parker et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Rising evaporative demand (ETo) with a warming climate contributes to diminished water availability in water-stressed agricultural regions globally. While increased ETo typically necessitates increased irrigation, we explore how crop phenological response can moderate this challenge. Focusing on five key agricultural crops in California’s San Joaquin Valley (SJV), we employ coupled water balance and phenology models to project crop water demands …

  • Reliability and resilience of environmental flows under uncertainty

    Open AccessGustavo Facincani Dourado, Joshua H ViersARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Environmental water allocation in California is a complex legal process involving various government agencies and stakeholders. E-flow requirements can be based on annual runoff typologies called water year types (WYTs), which dictate water volume, timing, and duration. In this study, we examined hydropower licensing documents of the major water and power projects in the Central Sierra Nevada to catalog e-flow requirements by WYT. In this study c…

  • A typological framework of non-floodplain wetlands for global collaborative research and sustainable use

    Open AccessWenjun Chen, Josefin Thorslund et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Non-floodplain wetlands (NFWs) are important but vulnerable inland freshwater systems that are receiving increased attention and protection worldwide. However, a lack of consistent terminology, incohesive research objectives, and inherent heterogeneity in existing knowledge hinder cross-regional information sharing and global collaboration. To address this challenge and facilitate future management decisions, we synthesized recent work to underst…

  • Energy and water co-benefits from covering canals with solar panels

    Open AccessBrandi McKuin, Andrew Zumkehr et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2021Cited by: 1References: 3

  • Meeting ecosystem needs while satisfying human demands

    Open AccessJoshua H ViersARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

  • Years of California’s water rights system

    Open AccessTheodore Grantham, Theodore E Grantham et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2014

    For 100 years, California’s State Water Resources Control Board and its predecessors have been responsible for allocating available water supplies to beneficial uses, but inaccurate and incomplete accounting of water rights has made the state ill-equipped to satisfy growing societal demands for water supply reliability and healthy ecosystems. Here, we present the first comprehensive evaluation of appropriative water rights to identify where, and …