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Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics
University of California at Santa Cruz

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HotI do not plan to admit graduate students to join the UCSC Hydrogeology Group during the 2024-25 cycle.

I do not plan to add postdocs to the UCSC Hydrogeology Group.

Interesting publications from the UCSC Hydrogeology research group - please download a preprint or see all available papers on the Publications page:
former student

Price, A. N., Fisher, A. T., Stauffer, P. H., & Gable, C. W. (2021). Numerical simulation of cool hydrothermal processes in the upper volcanic crust beneath a marine sediment pond: North Pond, North Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127, e2021JB023158. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB023158. Supplement

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Pensky, J., A. T. Fisher, G. Gorski, N. Schrad, H. Dailey, S. Beganskas, and C. Saltikov (2022), Enhanced cycling of nitrogen and metals during rapid infiltration: implications for managed recharge,Sci. Total Environ., 838, 156439, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156439. Supplement

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Gorski, G., H. Dailey, A. T. Fisher, N. Schrad, and C. Saltikov (2020), Denitrification during infiltration for managed aquifer recharge: Infiltration rate controls and microbial response, Sci. Total Environ., 727, 138642, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138642. Supplement

Gorski, G., A. T. Fisher, S. Beganskas, W. B. Weir, K. Redford, C. Schmidt, and C. Saltikov (2019), Field and Laboratory Studies Linking Hydrologic, Geochemical, and Microbiological Processes and Enhanced Denitrification during Infiltration for Managed Recharge, Environmental Science & Technology, 53(16), 9491-9501, 10.1021/acs.est.9b01191.Supplement

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Beganskas, S., K. S. Young, A. T. Fisher, R. Harmon, and S. Lozano (2019), Runoff modeling of a coastal basin to assess variations in response to shifting climate and land use: Implications for managed recharge, Wat. Resour. Man., 10.1007/s11269-019-2197-4.Supplement

Beganskas, S., G. Gorski, T. Weathers, A. T. Fisher, C. Schmidt, C. Saltikov, K. Redford, B. Stoneburner, R. Harmon, and W. Weir (2018), A horizontal permeable reactive barrier stimulates nitrate removal and shifts microbial ecology during rapid infiltration for managed recharge, Water Research, 10.1016/j.watres.2018.07.039.Supplement

Beganskas, S., and A. T. Fisher (2017), Coupling distributed stormwater collection and managed aquifer recharge: Field application and implications, J. Env. Management, 200, 366-379, 10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.05.058.

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Begeman, C. B., S. M. Tulaczyk, and A. T. Fisher (2017), Spatially variable geothermal heat flux in West Antarctica: evidence and implications, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 10.1002/2017GL075579.
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Neira, N. M., J. F. Clark, A. T. Fisher, C. G. Wheat, R. M. Haymon, K. Becker (2016), Cross-hole tracer experiment reveals rapid fluid flow in the upper ocean crust, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 450, 355-365, 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.06.048, 2016

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Winslow, D. M., A. T. Fisher, P. H. Stauffer, C. W. Gable, and G. A. Zyvoloski (2016), Three-dimensional modeling of outcrop-to-outcrop hydrothermal circulation on the eastern flank of the Juan de Fuca Ridge, J. Geophys. Res., 121, 1365–1382, 10.1002/2015JB012606.

Winslow, D. M., and A. T. Fisher, 2015, Sustainability and dynamics of outcrop-to-outcrop hydrothermal circulation, Nature Communications, 6, 10.1038/ncomms8567.

Winslow, D. M., A. T. Fisher, and K. Becker, 2013, Characterizing borehole fluid flow and formation permeability in the ocean crust using linked analytic models and Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis, Geochem. Geophys. Geosystems, doi 10.1002/ggge.20241.

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Lecher, A. L., Fisher, A. T., and Paytan, A., 2016, Submarine groundwater discharge in Northern Monterey Bay, California: evaluation by mixing and mass balance models, Mar. Chem., 179: 44-55, 10.1016/j.marchem.2016.01.001.

Lecher, A. L., Mackey, K., Kudela, R., Ryan, J., Fisher, A. T., Murray, J., and Paytan, A., 2015, Nutrient loading through submarine groundwater discharge and phytoplankton growth in Monterey Bay, CA: Env. Sci. Tech., 49: 6665-6673, 10.1021/acs.est.5b00909.

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Russo, T. A., Fisher, A. T., Lockwood, B. S., Assessment of managed aquifer recharge potential and impacts using a geographical information system and numerical modeling, Groundwater,doi: 10.1111/gwat.12213, 2014.

Russo, T. A., Fisher, A. T., Winslow, D. M, Regional and local increases in storm intensity in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA, between 1890 and 2010, J. Geophys. Res., Atmospheres, 118: 1–10, doi:10.1002/jgrd.502252013, 2013.

Russo, T. A., Fisher, A. T., Roche, J. W, Improving riparian wetland conditions based on infiltration and drainage behavior during and after controlled flooding, J. Hydrology, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.02.022, 2012.

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Racz, A. J., Fisher, A. T., Schmidt, C. M., Lockwood, B. S., Los Huertos, M., Spatial and temporal infiltration dynamics during managed aquifer recharge, Groundwater, doi: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2011.00875.x, 2011.

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Schmidt, C. M., A. T. Fisher, A. Racz, C. G. Wheat, M. Los Huertos, B. Lockwood, Rapid nutrient load reduction during infiltration of managed aquifer recharge in an agricultural groundwater basin, Hydrol. Processes.doi: 10.1002/hyp.8320, 2011.

Schmidt, C. M., A. T. Fisher, A. J. Racz, B. Lockwood and M. Los Huertos, Linking denitrification and infiltration rates during managed groundwater recharge, Env. Science & Tech., dx.doi.org/10.1021/es2023626, 2011.

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German, C.R., D.K. Blackman, A.T. Fisher, P.R. Girguis, K.P. Hand, T.M. Hoehler, J.A. Huber, J.C. Marshall, K.R. Pietro, J.S. Seewald, E.L. Shock, C. Sotin, A.M. Thurnherr, and B.M. Toner. 2022. Ocean system science to inform the exploration of ocean worlds. Oceanography, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2021.411.

Miller, K., N. G. Nylen, H. Doremus, D. Owen, and A. T. Fisher (2018), Issue brief: Groundwater recharge and beneficial use, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 10.15779/J22D1H.

Lauer, R. M., A. T. Fisher, and D. M. Winslow (2018), Three-dimensional models of hydrothermal circulation through a seamount network on fast-spreading crust, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 501, 138-151, 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.08.025.

Walter, S. R. S., Jaekel, U., Osterholz, H., Fisher, A. T., Huber, J. A., Pearson, A., Dittmar, T., Girguis, P. R. (2018), Microbial decomposition of marine dissolved organic matter in cool oceanic crust, Nat. Geosci., 11, 334-339, 10.1038/s41561-018-0109-5.

Escriva-Bou, A., B. Gray, E. Hanak, J. Mount, A. T. Fisher, G. Fogg, J. Gurdak, T. Harter, J. Lund, and J. Viers (2018), California's Water: Storing Water, 4 pp, Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco, CA.

Kiparsky, M., A. T. Fisher, W. M. Hanemann, J. Bowie, R. Kantor, C. Coburn, and B. Lockwood (2018), Issue brief: Recharge net metering to enhance groundwater sustainability, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 10.15779/ J2792D.

Harris, R. N., G. A. Spinelli, and A. T. Fisher (2017), Hydrothermal circulation and the thermal structure of shallow subduction zones, Geosphere, 13(5), 10.1130/GES01498.1.

Kiparsky, M., A. Milman, D. Owens, and A. T. Fisher (2017), The importance of institutional design for distributed local-level governance of groundwater: The case of California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, Water, 9, doi:10.3390/w9100755.

Fisher, A. T., K. D. Mankoff, S. Tulaczyk, S. Tyler, N. Foley, and the WISSARD Science Team (2015), High geothermal heat flux measured below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Science Advances, 1(6), 10.1126/sciadv.1500093.

Fisher, A. T. (2015), Groundwater provides and receives hydrologic system services Groundwater, 53(671-672), 10.1111/gwat.12358.

Fisher, A. T., Alt, J. C., and Bach, W., 2014, Hydrogeologic properties, processes and alteration in the igneous ocean crust, in Stein, R., Blackman, D., Inagaki, F., Larsen, H.-C., ed., Earth and Life Processes Discovered from Subseafloor Environment - A Decade of Science Achieved by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP): Amsterdam/New York, Elsevier, 507-551, 10.1016/B978-0-444-62617-2.00018-9.

Wheat, C. G., S. M. Hulme, A. T. Fisher, B. N. Orcutt, and K. Becker (2013), Seawater recharge into oceanic crust: IODP Exp 327 Site U1363 Grizzly Bare outcrop, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems (G3), 14(6), doi: 10.1002/ggge.20131.

Becker, K., A. T. Fisher, and T. Tsuji, 2013, New packer experiments and borehole logs in upper oceanic crust: evidence for ridge-parallel consistency in crustal hydrogeologic properties, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems (G3),doi: 10.1002/ggge.2020.

Fisher, A. T., Harris, R. N., Using heat as a tracer of subseafloor fluid flow, Geofluids, doi: 10.1111/j.1468-8123.2009.00274.x, 2010.

Fisher, A. T., Wheat, C. G., Seamounts as conduits for massive fluxes of fluid, heat, and solutes, Oceanography, 23 (1): 74-87, 2010 .

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