Publications

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Manuscripts under review

  1. Z. Perzan, K. Boye, J. R. Bargar and K. Maher. Solute release from floodplains during distinct types of inundation events: Insights from field experiments and reactive transport simulations. [link]

Peer-reviewed articles
(† indicates student author)

  1. K. Maher, D.B. Rogers, Z. Perzan and T. Kukla (2026). Surface proton buffering constrains alkalinity export from enhanced weathering, Environmental Science & Technology. [link]

  2. A. Rasmussen, K. Langenfeld, B. Tolar, Z. Perzan, K. Maher, E. Cardarelli, J.R. Bargar, K. Boye and C. Francis (2025). Floodplain nitrifiers harbor the genetic potential for utilizing a wide range of organic nitrogen compounds, mSystems. [link]

  3. L. Wang, T. Babey, Z. Perzan, S. Pierce, M. Briggs, K. Boye and K. Maher (2025). Quantifying groundwater response and uncertainty in beaver-influenced mountainous floodplains using machine learning-based model calibration, Water Resources Research. [link]

  4. T. Dai†, K. Maher and Z. Perzan (2025). Machine learning surrogates for efficient hydrologic modeling: Insights from stochastic simulations of managed aquifer recharge, Journal of Hydrology. [link]

  5. K. Maher and Z. Perzan (2024). Reactive transport as a scientific framework. In A. Shahar (Ed.), Treatise on Geochemistry (Third edition). Elsevier: Amsterdam. [link]

  6. T. Babey, Z. Perzan, S. Pierce, D.B. Rodgers, L. Wang, R. Carroll, J.R. Bargar, K. Boye and K. Maher (2024). Mountainous floodplain connectivity in response to hydrological transitions, Water Resources Research. [link]

  7. Z. Perzan and K. Maher (2024). Transport, dispersion and degradation of nonpoint source contaminants during flood managed aquifer recharge, Vadose Zone Journal. [link]

  8. Z. Perzan, G. Osterman and K. Maher (2023). Controls on flood managed aquifer recharge through a heterogeneous vadose zone: hydrologic modeling at a site characterized with surface geophysics, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. [link]

  9. Z. Perzan and T. Chapin (2023). WellSTIC: A cost-effective sensor for performing point dilution tests to measure groundwater velocity in shallow aquifers, Water Resources Research. [link]

  10. T. Babey, K. Boye, B. Tolar, M. Engel, V. Noel, Z. Perzan, et al. (2022). Simulation of anoxic lenses as exporters of reactivity in alluvial aquifer sediments, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. [link]

  11. Z. Perzan, T. Babey, J. Caers, J.R. Bargar and K. Maher (2021). Local and global sensitivity analysis of a reactive transport model simulating floodplain redox cycling, Water Resources Research. [link]

  12. Q. Li, L. Wang, Z. Perzan, J. Caers, et al. (2021). Global sensitivity analysis of a reactive transport model for mineral scale formation during hydraulic fracturing, Environmental Engineering Science. [link]

  13. J. Damerow, C. Varadharajan, K. Boye, et al. (2021). Sample identifiers and metadata to support data management and reuse in multidisciplinary ecosystem sciences, Data Science Journal. [link]

  14. J. Munroe, Z. Perzan and W. Amidon (2016). Cave sediments constrain the latest Pleistocene advance of the Laurentide ice sheet in the Champlain Valley, Vermont, USA, Journal of Quaternary Science. [link]

  15. A. Schroth, C. Giles, P. Isles, Y. Xu, Z. Perzan and G. Druschel (2015). Dynamic coupling of iron, manganese and phosphorus behavior in water and sediment of shallow ice-covered eutrophic lakes, Environmental Science & Technology. [link]