Publications

Arora, B., E. Seybold, and L. Jin, Editorial: Women in critical zone science, Frontiers in Water - Water and Critical Zone, DOI: 10.3389/frwa.2024.1404317

Grande, E., E. Seybold, C. Tatariw, A. Visser, A. Braswell, B. Arora, F. Birgand, J. Haskins, and M. Zimmer. Seasonal and tidal variations in hydrologic inputs drive salt marsh pore water nitrate dynamics, Hydrological Processes. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.14951

Thao*, T., B. Arora, and T. Ghezzehei, Impact of biochar amendments on soil water and plant uptake dynamics under different cropping systems, Vadose Zone Journal, DOI: 10.1002/vzj2.20266.

Grande, E., A. Visser, E. Oerter, B. Arora, E. Seybold, C. Tatariw, A. Braswell, M. Montalvo, and M. Zimmer, Flow directions and ages of subsurface water in a salt marsh system constrained by isotope tracing, Estuaries & Coasts, DOI: 10.1007/s12237-023-01237-3.

Deng, H., E. Sonnenthal, B. Arora, H. Breunig, E. Brodie, M. Kleber, N. Spycher and P. Nico, The environmental controls on efficiency of enhanced rock weathering in soils, Scientific Reports, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-36113-4.

Gilbert, B., S. Carrero, W. Dong, C. Joe-Wong, B. Arora, P. Fox, P. Nico, and K. Williams, River thorium concentrations can record bedrock fracture processes including some triggered by distant seismic events, Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37784-3.

Park, J., J. Mueller, B. Arora, B. Faybishenko, G. Pastorello, C. Varadharajan, and D. Agarwal, Long-Term Missing Value Imputation for Time Series Data Using Deep Neural Networks, Neural Computing and Applications, DOI: 10.1007/s00521-022-08165-6.

Faybishenko, B., B. Arora, D. Dwivedi, and E. Brodie, Statistical Framework to Assess Long-Term Spatio-Temporal Climate Changes: East River Mountainous Watershed Case Study, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, DOI: 10.1007/s00477-022-02327-7.

Arora, B., S. Kuppel, C. Wellen, C. Oswald, J. Groh, D. Payandi-Rolland, J. Stegen, and S. Coffinet, Building cross-site and cross-network collaborations in critical zone science, Journal of Hydrology, DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129248.

Stolze*, L., B. Arora, D. Dwivedi, C. Steefel, Z. Li, S. Carrero, B. Gilbert, P. Nico, and M. Bill, Aerobic respiration controls on shale weathering, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2022.11.002.

Grande*, E., B. Arora, A. Visser, M. Montalvo, A. Braswell, E. Seybold, C. Tatariw, K. Beheshti, and M. Zimmer, Tidal frequencies and quasiperiodic subsurface water level variations dominate redox dynamics in a salt marsh system, Hydrological Processes. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.14587.

Arora, B., M. A. Briggs, J. Zarnetske, J. Stegen, J. Gomez-Valez, D. Dwivedi, and C. I. Steefel, Hot Spots and Hot Moments in the Critical Zone: Identification of and Incorporation into Reactive Transport Models, In: Biogeochemistry of the Critical Zone, A. Wymore, W. Yang, W. Silver, B. McDowell, and J. Chorover (Eds.), Springer-Nature, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-95921-0_2.

Arora, B., A. Currin, D. Dwivedi, M. I. N. Fru, N. Kumar, C. L. McLeod, and D. C. Roman, Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) Science, Earth and Space Science, DOI: 10.1029/2021EA002120.

Varadharajan, C., A. Appling, B. Arora, D. Christianson, V. C. Hendrix, V. Kumar, A. R. Lima, J. Mueller, S. Oliver, M. Ombadi, T. Perciano, J. Sadler, H. Weierbach, J. Willard, Z. Xu, and J. Zwart, Can Machine Learning Accelerate Process Understanding and Decision-Relevant Predictions of River Water Quality?, Hydrological Processes, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.14565.

Dwivedi, D., C. Steefel, B. Arora, J. Banfield, M. Boyanov, S. Brooks, X. Chen, S. Hubbard, D. Kaplan, K. Kemner, P. Nico, E. Ó’Loughlin, E. Pierce, S. Painter, T. Scheibe, H. Wainwright, K. Williams, and M. Zavarin, From Legacy Contamination to Watershed Systems Science: A Review of Scientific Insights and Technologies Developed through DOE-Supported Research in Water and Energy Security, Environmental Research Letters, DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac59a9.

Chen*, J., B. Arora, A. Bellin, and Y. Rubin, Statistical Characterization of Environmental Hot Spots and Hot Moments and Applications in Groundwater Hydrology, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, DOI:10.5194/hess-2020-343.

Venkatesh*, S., B. Arora, D. Dwivedi, S. Vezhaperambu, and M. V. Ramesh, Temporal Variability of Water Quality Parameters at the Elkhorn Slough Estuary using Wavelets, IEEE Proceedings on 6th International Conference for Convergence in Technology, DOI:10.1109/I2CT51068.2021.9418159.

Arora, B., P. Sullivan, S. Kuppel, X Yang, and J. Groh, The Future of Critical Zone Science: Call for Papers, Eos, 102, DOI: 10.1029/2021EO157965. 

Waterhouse*, H., B. Arora, N. Spycher, P. S. Nico, C. Ulrich, H. Dahlke, and W. Horwarth, Influence of Agricultural Managed Aquifer Recharge and Stratigraphic Heterogeneities on Nitrate Reduction in the Deep Subsurface, Water Resources Research, DOI:10.1029/2020WR029148.

Newcomer, M. N., N. Bouskill, H. Wainwright, T. Maavara, B. Arora, E. Siirila- Woodburn, D. Dwivedi, K. Williams, C. Steefel, and S. Hubbard, Hysteresis Patterns of Watershed Nitrogen Retention and Loss over the past 50 years in United States Hydrological Basins, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, DOI: 10.1029/2020GB006777. 

Graham, E. B., C. Averill, B. Bond-Lamberty, J. E. Knelman, S. Krause, A. L. Peralta, A. L., et al. and Contributor Consortium, Towards a generalizable framework of disturbance ecology through crowdsourced science, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.588940.

Rogers, D. B., M. Newcomer, J. Raberg, D. Dwivedi, C. I. Steefel, N Bouskill, P. Nico, B. Faybishenko, P. Fox, M. Conrad, M. Bill, E. Brodie, B. Arora, B. Dafflon, K. H. Williams, and S. S. Hubbard, Modeling the impact of riparian hollows on river corridor nitrogen exports, Frontiers in Water - Water and Critical Zone, DOI: 10.3389/frwa.2021.590314.

Sahu, R., J. Mueller, J. Park, C. Varadharajan, B. Arora, B. Faybishenko, and D. Agarwal, Impact of Input Feature Selection on Groundwater Level Prediction from a Multi-Layer Perceptron Neural Network, Frontiers in Water - Water and Hydrocomplexity, DOI: 10.3389/frwa.2020.573034/full.

Cheng, Y., B. Arora, S. Sengor, J. Druhan, C. Wanner, B. M. van Breukelen, and C. I. Steefel, Microbially Mediated Kinetic Sulfur Isotope Fractionation: Reactive Transport Modeling Benchmark, Computational Geosciences, DOI: 10.1007/s10596-020-09988-9.

Arora, B., M. Burrus*, M. Newcomer, C. Steefel, R. Carroll, D. Dwivedi, W. Dong, K. Williams, and S. S. Hubbard, Differential C-Q Analysis: A New Approach to Inferring Lateral Transport and Hydrologic Transients within Multiple Reaches of a Mountainous Headwater Catchment, Frontiers in Water - Water and Critical Zone, DOI: 10.3389/frwa.2020.00024.

Müller, J., J. Park, R. Sahu, C. Varadharajan, B. Arora, B. Faybishenko, and D. Agarwal, Surrogate optimization of deep neural networks for groundwater predictions, Journal of Global Optimization, DOI: 10.1007/s10898-020-00912-0.

Druhan, J., S. Guillon, M. Lincker, and B. Arora, Stable and Radioactive Carbon Isotope Partitioning in Soils and Saturated Systems: A Reactive Transport Modeling Benchmark Study, Computational Geosciences, DOI: 10.1007/s10596-020-09937-6.

Tague, C. L., S. A. Papuga, C. Gerlein-Safdi, S. Dymond, R. R. Morrison, E. W. Boyer, D. Riveros-Iregui, E. Agee, B. Arora, Y. G. Dialynas, A. Hansen, S. Krause, S. Kuppel, et al., Invited Commentary: Adding our Leaves: A community-wide perspective on research directions in ecohydrology, Hydrological Processes, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.13693.

Tokunaga, T., J. Wan, K. Williams, W. Brown, A. Henderson, Y. Kim, A. P. Tran, M. E. Conrad, M. Bill, R. W. H. Carroll, W. Dong, Z. Xu, A. Lavy, B. Gilbert, S. Romero, J. N. Christensen, B. Faybishenko, B. Arora, E. Woodburn, R. Versteeg, et al., Depth- and time-resolved distributions of snowmelt-driven hillslope subsurface flow and transport and their contributions to surface waters, Water Resources Research, DOI: 10.1029/2019WR025093.

Arora, B., D. Dwivedi, B. Faybishenko, R. Jana, and H. M. Wainwright, Understanding and Predicting Vadose Zone Processes, in Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry: Reactive transport in Natural and Engineered Systems, 85 (1), DOI: 10.2138/rmg.2019.85.10. 

Grant, R. F., Z. A. Mekonnen, W. J. Riley, B. Arora, and M. S. Torn, Modeling Climate Change Impacts on an Arctic Polygonal Tundra: 2. Changes in CO2 and CH4 Exchange Depend on Rates of Permafrost Thaw as Affected by Changes in Vegetation and Drainage, JGR-Biogeosciences, DOI: 10.1029/2018JG004645.

Molins, S., D. Trebotich, B. Arora, C. I. Steefel, and H. Deng, Multi-scale model of reactive transport in fractured media: Diffusion limitations on rates, Transport in Porous Media, DOI: 10.1007/s11242-019-01266-2.

Arora, B., H. M. Wainwright, D. Dwivedi, L. J. S. Vaughn, J. B. Curtis, M. S. Torn, B. Dafflon and S. S. Hubbard, Evaluating Temporal Controls on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Fluxes in an Arctic Tundra Environment: An Entropy-Based Approach, Science of the Total Environment, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.251.

Dwivedi, D., C. I. Steefel, B. Arora, M. Newcomer, J. D. Moulton, B. Dafflon, B. Faybishenko, P. Fox, P. Nico, N. Spycher, R. Carroll, and K. Williams, Geochemical Exports to River from the Intra-Meander Hyporheic Zone under Transient Hydrologic Conditions: East River Mountainous Watershed, Colorado, Water Resources Research, DOI: 10.1029/2018WR023377. 

Engelbrektson, A., Y. Cheng, C. G. Hubbard, Y. T. Jin, B. Arora, L. Tom, P. Hu, A.-L. Grauel, M. Conrad, G. L. Andersen, J. B Ajo-Franklin, and J. D. Coates, Attenuating Sulfidogenesis in a Soured Continuous Flow Column System With Perchlorate Treatment, Frontiers in Microbiology, DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01575.

Dwivedi, D., B. Arora, C. I. Steefel, B. Dafflon, R. Veersteg, Hot Spots and Hot Moments of Nitrogen in a Riparian Corridor, Water Resources Research, DOI: 10.1002/2017WR022346. (Note: This publication was a featured article on the Water Resources Research website) 

Wainwright, H. M., B. Arora, S. Hubbard, K. Lipnikov, D. Moulton, G. Flach, C. Eddy-Dilek, and M. Denham, Sustainable Remediation in Complex Geologic Systems, The Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry, DOI: 10.1002/9781119951438.eibc2562. 

Arora, B., J. A. Davis, N. F. Spycher, Wenming Dong, and H. M. Wainwright, Comparison of electrostatic and non-electrostatic models for U(VI) sorption on contaminated sediments and the impact on reactive transport simulation, Groundwater, DOI:10.1111/gwat.12551.

Cheng, Y., C. G. Hubbard, L. Zheng, B. Arora, L. Li, J. Ajo-Franklin, and N. Bouskill, New generation modeling of microbial souring – Parameterization through genomic information, International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation, DOI:10.1016/j.ibiod.2017.06.014.

Grant, R. F., Z. A. Mekonnen, W. J. Riley, B. Arora, and M. S. Torn, Mathematical modelling of arctic polygonal tundra with ecosys: Microtopography determines how CO2 and CH4 exchange responds to changes in temperature and precipitation, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, DOI: 10.1002/2017JG004037.  

Yabusaki, S. B., M. J. Wilkins, Y. Fang, K. H. Williams, B. Arora, J. Bargar, H. Beller, et al., Water Table Dynamics and Biogeochemical Cycling in a Shallow, Variably-Saturated Floodplain, Environmental Science and Technology, DOI:10.1021/acs.est.6b04873.

Arora, B., Y. Cheng, E. King, N. Bouskill, and E. Brodie, Chapter 27: Modeling microbial energetics and community dynamics, in the Handbook of Metal-Microbe Interactions and Bioremediation, CRC Taylor and Francis Group, DOI:10.1201/9781315153353 

Arora, B., D. Dwivedi, N. F. Spycher, and C. I. Steefel, On modeling CO2 dynamics in a flood plain aquifer, Procedia Earth and Planetary Science, DOI: 10.1016/j.proeps.2016.12.103.

Dwivedi, D., C. I. Steefel, B. Arora, and G. Bisht, Impact of intra-meander hyporheic flow on nitrogen cycling, Procedia Earth and Planetary Science, DOI: 10.1016/j.proeps.2016.12.102. 

Arora, B., and B. P. Mohanty, Influence of spatial heterogeneity and hydrological perturbations on redox dynamics: A column study, Procedia Earth and Planetary Science, DOI: 10.1016/j.proeps.2017.01.046.

Dwivedi, D., B. Dafflon, B. Arora, H. M. Wainwright, and S. Finsterle, Chapter 20: Spatial analysis and geostatistical methods, in the Handbook of Applied Hydrology, V. P. Singh (ed.), McGraw-Hill.

Arora, B., D. Dwivedi, S. S. Hubbard, C. I. Steefel, and K. H. Williams, Identifying geochemical hot moments and their controls on a contaminated river floodplain system using wavelet and entropy approaches, Environmental Modelling & Software, DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.08.005.

Arora, B., N. F. Spycher, C. I. Steefel, S. Molins, M. Bill, M. E. Conrad, W. Dong, B. Faybishenko, T. K. Tokunaga, J. Wan, K.H. Williams and S. B. Yabusaki, Influence of Hydrological, Biogeochemical and Temperature Transients on Subsurface Carbon Fluxes in a Flood Plain Environment, Biogeochemistry, DOI: 10.1007/s10533-016-0186-8. 

Dwivedi, D., B. Arora, S. Molins, and C. I. Steefel, Chapter 19: Benchmarking Reactive Transport Codes for Subsurface Environmental Problems, in Groundwater Research on Exploration, Assessment, Modelling and Management of Groundwater Resources and Pollution, D. Thangarajan and V. P. Singh (eds.), CRC Taylor and Francis Group.

Mayer, K. U., P. Alt-Epping, D. Jacques, B. Arora, and C. I. Steefel (2015), Benchmark problems for reactive transport modeling of the generation and attenuation of acid rock drainage, Computational Geosciences, DOI: 10.1007/s10596-015-9476-9. 

Arora, B., B. P. Mohanty, and J. T. McGuire (2015), An integrated Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm for upscaling hydrological and geochemical parameters from column to the field scale, Science of the Total Environment, DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.01.048.

Arora, B., S. S. Sengör, N. F. Spycher, and C. I. Steefel (2015), A reactive transport benchmark on heavy metal cycling in lake sediments, Computational Geosciences, DOI: 10.1007/s10596-014-9445-8.

Steefel, C. I.,  C. A. J. Appelo, B. Arora, D. Jacques, T. Kalbacher, O. Kolditz, V. Lagneau, P. C. Lichtner, K. U. Mayer, J. C. L. Meussen, S. Molins, D. Moulton, H. Shao, J. Simunek, N. Spycher, S. B. Yabusaki, and G. T. Yeh (2015), Reactive transport codes for subsurface environmental simulation, Computational Geosciences, DOI:10.1007/s10596-014-9443-x.

Arora, B., B. P. Mohanty, J. T. McGuire, and I. M. Cozzarelli (2013), Temporal dynamics of biogeochemical processes at the Norman Landfill site, Water Resources Research, DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20484.

Arora, B., B. P. Mohanty, and J. T. McGuire (2012), Uncertainty in dual permeability model parameters for structured soils, Water Resources Research, DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010500. (Note: This publication was featured as the most accessed article for Jan-Feb 2012 in Water Resources Research)

Arora, B., B. P. Mohanty, and J. T. McGuire (2011), Inverse estimation of parameters for multidomain flow models in soil columns with different macropore densities, Water Resources Research, DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009451. (Note: This publication was a featured article in EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union).

Arora, B., E. Goldstein, J. Gardner, M. Zimmer, and H. M. Wainwright (2021), Open-source AI-ready data for prediction of coastal water and carbon budgets under a changing climate, AI4ESP1004, DOI: 10.2172/1769758.

Arora, B., C. Shen, M. Zimmer, G. Anderson and D. Dwivedi (2021), Event-scale predictions of water and nitrogen exports in coastal watersheds, AI4ESP1005, DOI: 10.2172/1769706.

Faybishenko, B., L. Ramakrishnan, T. Powell, B. Arora, J. Wu and D. Agarwal (2021), On AI Prediction of Hydrological Processes Based on Integration of Retrospective and Forecasting ML Techniques, AI4ESP1042, DOI: 10.2172/1769756

Shirley, I., B. Dafflon, H. Wainwright, Z. Mekonnen, B. Arora, W. Riley and S. Hubbard (2020), Using a Bayesian Network to Identify Modeled Controls on Non-Growing Season Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in the Arctic, Proceedings of the Computational Methods in Water Resources 2020, pp. 1-2.

Arora, B., E. Brodie, Z. Mekonnen, T. Tokunaga, J. Wan, J. Steltzer, Y. Wu, and C. Steefel (2018), Linking Snowmelt and Nitrogen Cycling to Vegetation Community Dynamics along a Hillslope Transect, Proceedings of the Computational Methods in Water Resources XXII, pp. 1-2. 

Dafflon, B., E. Léger, Y. Robert, J. Peterson, C. Ulrich, S. Biraud, A. P. Tran, B. Arora, H. Wainwright, V. Romanovsky, and S. Hubbard (2018), Quantifying the Interactions Between Subsurface Hydro-Thermal Characteristics, Permafrost Distribution, Soil Physical Properties and Landscape Structure in an Arctic Watershed, Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Permafrost, Chamonix, 3 pp.

Wainwright, H. M., B. Faybishenko, S. Molins, J. A. Davis, B. Arora, G. Pau, J. Johnson, G. Flach, M. Denham, C. Eddy-Dilek, D. Moulton, K. Lipnikov, C. W. Gable, T. A. Miller, E. Baker, V. Freedman and M. Freshley (2016), Effective Long-term Monitoring Strategies by Integrating Reactive Transport Models and In situ Geochemical Measurements, 16162.

Arora, B., D. Dwivedi, N. F. Spycher, and C. I. Steefel (2015), Modeling carbon fluxes from a biogeochemical hotspot in a floodplain aquifer, Proceedings of the TOUGH Symposium, Berkeley, CA, pp. 456-463.

Wainwright, H. M., S. Molins, J. A. Davis, B. Arora, B. Faybishenko, H. Krishnan, S. S. Hubbard, G. Flach, M. Denham, C. Eddy-Dilek, D. Moulton, K. Lipnikov, C. W. Gable, T. A. Miller, and M. Freshley (2015), Using ASCEM modeling and visualization to optimize remediation strategies at F-Area Savannah River site, SC, Proceedings of MODFLOW and More 2015, Golden, CO.

Flach, G., H. M. Wainwright, S. Molins, H. Krishnan, B. Arora, J. A. Davis, A. Romosan, B. Faybishenko, S. S. Hubbard, M. Denham, C. Eddy-Dilek, D. Moulton, K. Lipnikov, T. A. Miller, C. W. Gable, and M. Freshley (2015), Advanced Simulation Capability for Environmental Management, Integrated toolsets and simulator to enhance public communication, 15156, No. SRNL-STI-2015-00027.