Publications

Note: Underlined names indicate Water & Carbon Lab group members.

1. P.O. Seibert, E. Camp, T.E. Dawson, and C. Gerlein-Safdi. Drought limits foliar water uptake in C3 perennial grasses. In review, preprint available on ESS Open Archive, doi: 10.22541/essoar.174395305.53667933/v1.

2. A. Scheliga, M. Girotto, C. Gerlein-Safdi. Anthropogenic processes and sea-level rise contributions with data assimilation of GRACE and GRACE-FO terrestrial water storage. In review, preprint available in SSRN, doi: 10.2139/ssrn.5192611.

3. R. Sokol, C. Gerlein-Safdi, M. Degli Espositi. M. Wallace, 2025. Climate change-induced extreme weather events alter the frequency of firearm incidents and child maltreatment cases in Wayne County, Michigan. Geohealth, 9, e2025GH001406, doi: 10.1029/2025GH001406

4.  Y. Xiong, E.A. Kort, A.A. Bloom, C. Gerlein-Safdi, T. Pu, and E. Bilir, 2025. Limited evidence that tropical inundation and precipitation powered the 2020–2022 methane surge. Communications Earth & Environment, 6, 450, doi: 10.1038/s43247-025-02438-3

5.  X. Lin, S. Peng, P. Ciais, D. Hauglustaine, X. Lan, G. Liu, M. Ramonet, Y. Xi, Y. Yin, Z. Zhang, H. Bosch, P. Bousquet, F. Chevallier, B. Dong, C. Gerlein-Safdi, S. Halder, R. J. Parker, B. Poulter, T. Pu, M. Remaud, A. Runge, M. Saunois, R. L. Thompson, Y. Yoshida, B. Zheng, 2024. Recent methane surges reveal heightened emissions from tropical inundated areas. Nature Communications, 15, 10894, doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-55266-y

6.  B. Dong, S. Peng, G. Liu, T. Pu, C. Gerlein-Safdi, C. Prigent, and X. Lin, 2024. Underestimation of Methane Emissions from the Sudd Wetland: Unraveling the Impact of Wetland Extent Dynamics. Geophysical Review Letters, 51, e2024GL110690, doi: 10.1029/2024GL110690

7.  S. Ruehr, C. Gerlein-Safdi, N. Falco, P.O. Seibert, C. Chou, L. Albert, and T.F. Keenan, 2024. Quantifying seasonal and diurnal cycles of solar-induced fluorescence with a novel hyperspectral imager. Geophysical Review Letters, 51, e2023GL107429, doi: 10.1029/2023GL107429.

8.  T. Pu, C. Gerlein-Safdi, Y. Xiong, M. Li, E. Kort, and A.A. Bloom, 2024. Berkeley-RWAWC: a new CYGNSS-based watermask unveils unique observations of seasonal dynamics in the Tropics. Water Resources Research, 60, e2024WR037060, doi: 10.1029/2024WR037060.

9.  M. Rowley, N. Falco, E. Pegoraro, B. Dafflon, C. Gerlein-Safdi, Y. Wu, C. Castanha, J. Pen ̃a, P. Nico, & M. Torn, 2024. Characterisation of a Californian coastal grassland along an elevational transect using a multidisciplinary approach in the critical zone framework. Earth’s Future, 12, e2023EF004208, doi: 10.1029/2023EF004208

10.  M. Li, E. Kort, A. Bloom, D. Wu, G. Plant, C. Gerlein-Safdi, and T. Pu, 2024. Large dry season methane emissions from wetlands in the Pantanal. Environmental Science & Technology, 58, 7, 3278–3287, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.3c09250

11. C. Gerlein-Safdi, P. Köhler, S. Wang, M. Flanner, G. Keppel-Aleks, and C. Frankenberg, 2023. Algae blooms on the Greenland Ice Sheet detected through solar-induced fluorescence, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 61, 1–9 , doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2023.3305194

12.  C. Gerlein-Safdi, A.A. Bloom, E. Kort, G. Plant, and C.S. Ruf, 2021. Improving representation of tropical wetland methane emissions with CYGNSS inundation maps, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35, e2020GB006890, doi: 10.1029/2020GB006890

13.  C. Ruf, C. Chew, C. Gerlein-Safdi, and A. Warnock, 2021. Resolving Inland Waterways with CYGNSS, 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS, 954-957, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554192

14.  C. Gerlein-Safdi, 2021, Seeing dew deposition from satellites: leveraging microwave remote sensing for the study of water dynamics in and on plants, New Phytologist, 231, 5–7, doi: 10.1111/nph.17418 

15.  M.M. Al-Khaldi, J.T. Johnson, S. Gleason, C.C. Chew, C. Gerlein-Safdi, R. Shah and C. Zuffada, 2021. Inland water body mapping using CYGNSS coherence detection, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2020.3047075

16.  C. Gerlein-Safdi, G. Keppel-Aleks, F. Wang, S.E. Frolking, and D.L. Mauzerall, 2020. Satellite monitoring of natural reforestation efforts in China’s drylands, One Earth, 2 (1), 98–108, doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2019.12.015

17.  C.L. Tague, S.A. Papuga, C. Gerlein-Safdi, S. Dymond, R.R. Morrison, E.W. Boyer, D. Riveros-Iregui, B. Arora, Y.G. Dialynas, A. Hansen, S. Krause, S. Kuppel, S.P. Loheide, and S.J. Schymanski, 2020. Adding our leaves: a community-wide perspective on research directions in ecohydrology, Hydrological Processes, 34(7), 1665–1673, doi: 10.1002/hyp.13693

18.  F. Wang, X. Pan, C. Gerlein-Safdi, X. Cao, S. Wang, L. Gu, and Q. Lu, 2020. Vegetation restoration in Northern China: a contrasted picture, Land Degradation & Development, 31 (6) 669–676, doi: 10.1002/ldr.3314

19. C. Gerlein-Safdi and C.S. Ruf, 2019. A CYGNSS-based algorithm for the detection of inland waterbodies, Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 12065–12072, doi: 10.1029/2019GL085134

20. C. Gerlein-Safdi, M.C. Koohafkan, M. Chung, F.E. Rockwell, S. Thompson, and K.K. Caylor, 2018. Dew deposition suppresses transpiration and carbon uptake in leaves, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 259, 305–316, doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.05.015

21. C. Gerlein-Safdi, P.P.G. Gauthier, and K.K. Caylor, 2018. Dew-induced transpiration suppression impacts the water and isotope balances of Colocasia leaves, Oecologia, 187:4, 1041-1051, doi: 10.1007/s00442-018-4199-y

22. C. Wright, A. Kagawa-Viviani, C. Gerlein-Safdi, G. Mosquera, M. Poca, H. Tseng, and K.P. Chun, 2017. Advancing ecohydrology in the changing tropics: Perspectives from early career scientists, Ecohydrology, 106:17, e1918, doi: 10.1002/eco.1918

23. C. Gerlein-Safdi, P.P.G. Gauthier, C.J. Sinkler, and K.K. Caylor, 2017. Leaf water 18O and 2H maps show directional enrichment discrepancy in Colocasia esculenta, Plant, Cell and Environment, 40, 2095–2108, doi: 10.1111/pce.13002

24. J. Cui, L. Tian, C. Gerlein-Safdi, and D. Qu, 2017. The influence of memory, sample size effects, and filter paper material on online laser-based plant and soil water isotope measurements, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 31, 509–522, doi: 10.1002/rcm.7824

25. F. Wang, X. Zhao, C. Gerlein-Safdi, Y. Mu, D. Wang, and Q. Lu, 2017. Global sources, emissions, transport and deposition of dust and sand and their effects on the climate and environment: a review, Frontiers in Environmental Science and Engineering, 11:13, doi: 10.1007/s11783-017-0904-z

26. E. Chang, A. Wolf, C. Gerlein-Safdi, and K.K. Caylor, 2016. Improved removal of VOCs for laser-based spectroscopy of water isotopes, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 30, 784–790, doi: 10.1002/rcm.7497