Publications
A selection of research results
2020
Bastidas Pacheco, C. J., Horsburgh, J. S., Tracy, R. J. (2020). A low-cost, open source monitoring system for collecting high-resolution water use data on magnetically-driven residential water meters, Sensors, 20(13), 3655, https://doi.org/10.3390/s20133655.
Gan, T., Tarboton, D. G., Dash, P., Gichamo, T., Horsburgh, J. S. (2020). Integrating hydrologic modeling web services with online data sharing to prepare, store, and execute hydrologic models, Environmental Modelling & Software, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104731.
Gan, T., Tarboton, D. G., Horsburgh, J. S., Dash, P., Idaszak, R., Yi, H. (2020). Collaborative sharing of multidimensional space-time data in a next generation hydrologic information system, Environmental Modelling & Software, 129, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104706.
Horsburgh, J. S., Hooper, R. P., Bales, J., Hedstrom, M., Imker, H., Lehnert, K., Shanley, L., Stall, S. (2020). Assessing the state of research data publication in hydrology: A perspective from the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Incorporated, WIREs Water, e1422, https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1422.
Rosenberg, D. E., Filion, Y., Teasley, R. L., Sandoval-Solis, S., Hecht, J. S., van Zyl, J. E., McMahon, G. F., Horsburgh, J. S., Kasprzyk, J. R., Tarboton, D. G (2020). The next frontier: Making research more reproducible, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 1-10, https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001215.
2019
Tarboton, D. G., Richards, C., McKee, M., Torres-Rua, A., Neilson, B. T., Tullis, B. P., Rosenberg, D. E., Stevens, D. K., Horsburgh, J. S., McLean, J. E., Johnson, M. C., Dupont, R. R. (2019). The Utah Water Research Laboratory: Empowering water and environmental research in Utah and around the world, Water Resources Impact, American Water Resources Association, 21 (5).
Horsburgh, J. S., Caraballo, J., Ramirez, M., Aufdenkampe, A. K., Arscott, D., Damiano, S. (2019). Low-cost, open-source, and low-power: But what to do with the data?, Frontiers in Earth Science, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00067.
Buahin, C. A., Horsburgh, J. S., Neilson, B T. (2019). Parallel multi-objective calibration of a component-based river temperature model, Environmental Modelling & Software, 116, 57-71, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.02.012.
2018
Gibert, K., Horsburgh, J. S., Athanasiadis, I. A., Holmes G. (2018). Environmental Data Science, Environmental Modelling & Software, 106, 4-12, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.04.005.
Gibert, K., Horsburgh, J. S., Athanasiadis, I. A., Holmes, G. (2018). Preface to the thematic issue on Environmental Data Science. Applications to air quality and water cycle, Environmental Modelling & Software, 106, 1-3, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.03.020.
Buahin, C. A., Horsburgh, J. S. (2018). Advancing the Open Modeling Interface (OpenMI) for integrated water resources modeling, Environmental Modelling & Software, 108, 133-153, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.07.015.
Jones, A. S., Horsburgh, J. S., Eiriksson, D. P. (2018). Assessing subjectivity in environmental sensor data post processing via a controlled experiment, Ecological Informatics, 46, 86-96, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2018.05.001.
2017
Mihalevich, B. A., Horsburgh, J. S., Melcher, A. A. (2017). High frequency measurements reveal spatial and temporal patterns of dissolved organic matter in an urban water conveyance, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 189:593, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-017-6310-y.
Flint, C., Spackman Jones, A., Horsburgh, J. S. (2017). Data management dimensions of social water science: The iUTAH experience, Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), 1-9, https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12568.
Jones, A., Aanderud, Z. T., Horsburgh, J. S., Eiriksson, D., Dastrup, D., Cox, C., Jones, S. B., Bowling D. R., Carlisle, J., Carling, G. T., Baker M. A. (2017). Designing and Implementing a Network for Sensing Water Quality and Hydrology Across Mountain to Urban Transitions, Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), 1-26, https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12557.
Horsburgh, J. S., Leonardo, M. E., Abdallah, A. M., Rosenberg, D. E. (2017). Measuring water use, conservation, and differences by gender using an inexpensive, high frequency metering system, Environmental Modelling & Software, 96, 83-94, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.06.035.
Melcher, A. A., Horsburgh, J. S. (2017). An urban observatory for quantifying phosphorus and suspended solids loads in combined natural and stormwater conveyances, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-017-5974-7.
Morsy, M. M., Goodall, J. L., Castronova, A., Dash, P., Merwade, V., Sadler, J. M., Horsburgh, J. S., Tarboton, D. G. (2017). Design of a metadata framework for hydrologic models with an example application in HydroShare, Environmental Modelling & Software, 93, 13-28, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.02.028.
Hsu, L., Mayorga, E., Horsburgh, J. S., Carter, M. R., Lehnert, K. A., Brantley, S. L. (2017). Enhancing Interoperability and Capabilities of Earth Science Data using the Observations Data Model 2 (ODM2), Data Science Journal, 16(4), 1-16, https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2017-004.
Buahin, C. A., Sangwan, N., Fagan, C., Rae, C., Maidment, D. R., Nelson, J. E., Horsburgh, J. S., Merwade, V. (2017). Probabilistic Flood Inundation Delineation Using a Rating Curve Library Approach, Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), 53(2), 300-315, https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12500.
2016
Jones, A. S., Horsburgh, J. S., Jackson-Smith, D., Ramirez, M., Flint, C. G., Caraballo, J. (2016). A web-based, interactive visualization tool for social environmental survey data, Environmental Modelling & Software, 84, 412-426, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.07.013
Horsburgh, J. S., Aufdenkampe, A. K., Mayorga, E., Lehnert, K. A., Hsu, L., Song, L., Spackman Jones, A., Damiano, S. G., Tarboton, D. G., Valentine, D., Zaslavsky, I., Whitenack, T. (2016). Observations Data Model 2: A community information model for spatially discrete Earth observations, Environmental Modelling & Software, 79, 55-74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.01.010
2015
Horsburgh, J. S., Morsy, M. M., Castronova, A., Goodall, J. L., Gan, T., Yi, H., Stealey, M. J., and D.G. Tarboton (2015). HydroShare: Sharing diverse hydrologic data types and models as social objects within a Hydrologic Information System, Journal Of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12363.
Buahin, C. A. and J.S. Horsburgh (2015). Evaluating the simulation times and mass balance errors of component-based models: An application of OpenMI 2.0 to an urban stormwater system, Environmental Modelling & Software, 72, 92-109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.07.003.
Jones, A.S., J. S. Horsburgh, S.L. Reeder, M. Ramirez, J. Caraballo (2015). A data management and publication workflow for a large-scale, heterogeneous sensor network, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 187:348, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10661-015-4594-3.
Horsburgh, J. S., S. L. Reeder, A. Spackman Jones, J. Meline (2015). Open source software for visualization and quality control of continuous hydrologic and water quality sensor data, Environmental Modelling & Software, 70, 32-44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.04.002.
Hale, R. L., A. Armstrong, M. A. Baker, S. Bedingfield, D. Betts, C. Buahin, M. Buchert, T. Crowl, R. R. Dupont, J. R. Ehleringer, J. Endter-Wada, C. Flint, J. Grant, S. Hinners, J. S. Horsburgh, D. Jackson-Smith, A. S. Jones, C. Licon, S. E. Null, A. Odame, D. E. Pataki, D. Rosenberg, M. Runberg, P. Stoker, and C. Strong (2015), iSAW: Integrating structure, actors, and water to study socio-hydro-ecological systems, Earth’s Future, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2014EF000295.
2014
Horsburgh, J. S., and S. Reeder (2014), Data visualization and analysis within a Hydrologic Information System: Integrating with the R statistical computing environment, Environmental Modelling & Software, 52, 51-61, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.10.016.
Horsburgh, J. S., D. G. Tarboton, R. P. Hooper, and I. Zaslavsky (2014). Managing a community shared vocabulary for hydrologic observations, Environmental Modelling & Software, 52, 62-73, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.10.012.
2013
Burian, S. J., J. S. Horsburgh, D. E. Rosenberg, D. P. Ames, L. C. Hunter, and C. Strong (2013), Using interactive video conferencing for multi-institution, team-teaching, In: Proceedings American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference Proceedings, 23-26 June, Atlanta, GA. http://www.asee.org/public/conferences/20/papers/6973/view
2012
Spackman Jones, A., J.S. Horsburgh, N.O. Mesner, R.J. Ryel, D.K. Stevens (2012), Influence of sampling frequency on estimation of annual total phosphorus and total suspended solids loads, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 48(6), 1258-1275, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-1688.2012.00684.x.
Ames, D. P., J. S. Horsburgh, Y. Cao, J. Kadlec, T. Whiteaker, and D. Valentine (2012), HydroDesktop: Web services-based software for hydrologic data discovery, download, visualization, and analysis, Environmental Modelling & Software, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.03.013.
Meals, D.W, Mesner, N., Jackson-Smith, D., Stevens, D., Horsburgh, J., Sorensen, D., Luloff, A.E., and D.L. Osmond (2012), Little Bear River Watershed, Utah: National Institute of Food and Agriculture-Conservation Effects Assessment Project, Chapter 21 in: How to Build Better Agricultural Conservation Programs to Protect Water Quality: The National Institute of Food and Agriculture-Conservation Effects Assessment Project Experience, Edited by D.L. Osmond, D.W. Meals, D.LK. Hoag, and M. Arabi, Soil and Water Conservation Society, Ankeny, IA, 387 pp. [PDF 2.8 MB]
Taurob, S., Pouchard, L. C., Noy, N., Horsburgh, J. S., Palanisamy, G., (2012), ONEMercury: Towards Automatic Annotation of Environmental Science Metadata, 2nd International Workshop on Linked Science 2012—Tackling Big Data (LISC2012) - LinkedScience.org, http://linkedscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/lisc2012_submission_5.pdf.
Pellerin, B. A., Bergamaschi, B. A., Horsburgh, J. S., (2012), In Situ Optical Water-Quality Sensor Networks - Workshop Summary Report, United States Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012–1044, http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2012/1044.
2011
Spackman Jones, A., D. K. Stevens, J. S. Horsburgh, and N. O. Mesner (2011), Surrogate measures for providing high frequency estimates of total suspended solids and total phosphorus concentrations, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 47(2), 239-253, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-1688.2010.00505.x.
Horsburgh, J. S., D. G. Tarboton, D. R. Maidment, and I. Zaslavsky (2011), Components of an integrated environmental observatory information system, Computers & Geosciences, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2010.07.003.
Tarboton, D. G., D. R. Maidment, I. Zaslavsky, D. P. Ames, J. Goodall, R. P. Hooper, J. S. Horsburgh, D. Valentine, T. Whiteaker, and K. Schreuders (2011), Data Interoperability in the Hydrologic Sciences, in Proceedings of the Environmental Information Management Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, 28-29 September. [PDF 1.2 MB]
2010
Horsburgh, J. S., D. G. Tarboton, K. A. T. Schreuders, D. R. Maidment, I. Zaslavsky, and D. Valentine (2010), HydroServer: A platform for publishing space-time hydrologic datasets, in Proceedings of the AWRA Spring Specialty Conference on GIS and Water Resources, Orlando, FL, March 29 – 31. [PDF 1.3 MB]
Horsburgh, J. S., A. Spackman Jones, D. G. Tarboton, D. K. Stevens, N. O. Mesner (2010), A sensor network for high frequency estimation of water quality constituent fluxes using surrogates, Environmental Modelling & Software, 25, 1031-1044, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.10.012.
Jackson-Smith, D. B., M. Halling, E. de la Hoz, J. P. McEvoy, and J. S. Horsburgh (2010), Measuring conservation program BMP implementation and maintenance at the watershed scale, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 65(6), 413-423, http://dx.doi.org/10.2489/jswc.65.6.413.
Piasecki, M., D. Ames, J. Goodall, R. Hooper, J.S. Horsburgh, D. Maidment, D. Tarboton, and I. Zaslavsky (2010), Development of an Information System for the Hydrologic Community, in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Hydroinformatics HIC 2010, Tianjin, China, September 7-11. [PDF 0.5 MB]
2009
Ames, D. P., J. S. Horsburgh, J. Goodall, D. G. Tarboton, T. Whiteaker, and D. R. Maidment (2009), Introducing the open source CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System desktop application (HIS Desktop), in Anderssen, R. S., R. D. Braddock, and L.T.H. Newham (eds) 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand and International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, July 2009, pp. 4353-4359, ISBN: 978-0-9758400-7-8. [PDF 0.9 MB]
Tarboton, D. G., J. S. Horsburgh, D. R. Maidment, T. Whiteaker, I. Zaslavsky, M. Piasecki, J. Goodall, D. Valentine, and T. Whitenack (2009), Development of a community Hydrologic Information System, in Anderssen, R. S., R. D. Braddock, and L.T.H. Newham (eds) 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand and International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, July 2009, pp. 988-994, ISBN: 978-0-9758400-7-8. [PDF 0.6 MB]
Neilson, B. T., C. Bandaragoda, M.E. Baker, J. S. Horsburgh, D. K. Stevens (2009), Watershed modeling for water quality trading, in Proceedings of the AWRA Summer Specialty Conference on Adaptive Management, Snowbird, UT, June 29 - July 1. [PDF 0.2 MB]
Horsburgh, J. S., D. G. Tarboton, M. Piasecki, D. R. Maidment, I. Zaslavsky, D. Valentine, and T. Whitenack (2009), An integrated system for publishing environmental observations data, Environmental Modeling and Software, 24, 879-888, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.01.002.
2008
Horsburgh, J. S. (2008), Hydrologic Information Systems: Advancing Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Observatories, Ph.D. Dissertation, Utah State University, Logan, UT. [PDF 8.0 MB]
Horsburgh, J. S., D. G. Tarboton, D. R. Maidment, and I. Zaslavsky (2008), A relational model for environmental and water resources data, Water Resources Research, 44, W05406, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2007WR006392.
Goodall, J. L., J. S. Horsburgh, T. L. Whiteaker, D. R. Maidment, and I. Zaslavsky (2008), A first approach to web services for the National Water Information System, Environmental Modelling & Software, 23(4), 404-411, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2007.01.005.
2006
Maidment, D. R., Zaslavsky, I. and J. S. Horsburgh (2006), Hydrologic data access using web services, Southwest Hydrology, 5(3). [PDF 0.5 MB]
2005
Neilson, B. T., Stevens, D. K., and J. S. Horsburgh (2005), TMDL development approaches, In: Total Maximum Daily Load: Approaches and Challenges, Edited by Tamim Younos, PenWell Corporation, Tulsa, OK.