Michael Gooseff

Department: Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, and INSTAAR

Education: BCE, Georgia Tech; MS and PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder
Teaching: CVEN 5333 Physical Hydrology
Research: Modeling water quality in surface waters, contaminant fate and transport, ecosystem response to climate change, polar aquatic and general ecosystem research                 

Office:
ECAD 108
Engineering Center (Dean's Office)
1111 Engineering Dr., Boulder, CO 80309

SEEC S217
Sustainability, Energy and Environment Complex
4001 Discovery Drive, Boulder, CO 80303

Honors and Distinctions:

• Robert L. Stearns Award, CU Boulder Alumni Association, 2022
• Research Development Award, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, CU Boulder, 2019
• Fellow of the Geological Society of America, 2017
• 2012 Penn State Engineering Alumni Association Outstanding Teaching Award
• Harry West Teaching Award, 2011-2012 (Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Penn State University)
• National Academy of Engineering Frontiers in Engineering Education Symposium, 2011 (one of 65 selected participants from Engineering programs across the US)
• UCOWR Award for Education and Public Service to the MOCHA team, 2011

Recent Publications:
** denotes work done in collaboration with graduate students
* denotes work done in collaboration with undergraduate students

• *Bergstrom, A, KA Welch, and MN Gooseff. 2023. Spatial Patterns of Major Ions and Their Relationship to Sediment Concentration in Near Surface Glacier Ice, Taylor Valley Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 128, e2022JF006980.
• Ward, AS, SM Wondzell, MN Gooseff, TP Covino, S Herzog, B McGlynn, and RA Payn. 2023. Breaking the window of detection: Using multi‐scale solute tracer studies to assess mass recovery at the detection limit. Water Resources Research, 59(3): e2022WR032736.
• *Blaskey, D, JC Koch, MN Gooseff, AJ Newman, Y Cheng, JA O'Donnell, and KN Musselman. 2023. Increasing Alaskan river discharge during the cold season is driven by recent warming. Environmental Research Letters, 18(2): 024042. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/acb661.
• González-Pinzón, R, *J Dorley, *J Singley, K Singha, M Gooseff, and T Covino. 2022. TIPT: The Tracer Injection Planning Tool. Environmental Modelling & Software, 156: 105504.
• Hudson, AR, DPC Peters, JM Blair, DL Childers, PT Doran, K Geil, M Gooseff, KL Gross, NM Haddad, MA Pastore, JA Rudgers, O Sala, EW Seabloom, and G Shaver. 2022. Cross-site comparisons of dryland ecosystem response to climate change in the US Long-Term Ecological Research network. BioScience, 72(9): 889-907.
• *Singley, JG, K Singha, MN Gooseff, R González-Pinzón, TP Covino, AS Ward, J Dorley, and ES Hinckley. 2022.  Identification of hyporheic extent and functional zonation during seasonal streamflow recession by unsupervised clustering of time-lapse electrical resistivity models. Hydrological Processes, 36(10): e14713.
• Hensley, R, J Singley, and M Gooseff. 2022. Pulses within pulses: Concentration-discharge relationships across temporal scales in a snowmelt-dominated Rocky Mountain catchment. Hydrological Processes, 35(9): e14700.
• *Torrens, CL, MN Gooseff, and DM McKnight. 2022. Dissolved organic carbon chemostasis in Antarctic polar desert streams. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127, e2021JG006649, doi: 1029/2021JG006649.
• Gooseff, MN, DM McKnight, PT Doran, and A Fountain. 2022. Long-term stream hydrology and meteorology of a Polar Desert, the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Hydrological Processes, 36(6), e14623, doi: 10.1002/hyp.14623.
• *Emanuelson, K, T Covino, AS Ward, *J Dorley, and M Gooseff. 2022. Conservative solute transport processes and associated transient storage mechanisms: Comparing streams with contrasting channel morphologies, land use and land cover. Hydrological Processes, 36(4): e14564, doi: 10.1002/hyp14564.
• **Wlostowski, AN, MN Gooseff, and BJ Adams. 2018. Soil moisture controls the thermal habitat of active layer soils in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, 123(1): 46-59.
• **Webb, RW, SR Faccnacht, and MN Gooseff. 2018. Hydrologic flow path development varies by aspect during spring snowmelt in complex subalpine terrain. The Cryosphere, 12: 287-300.
• **Singley, JG, **AN Wlostowski, **AJ Bergstrom, ER Sokol, **CL Torrens, C Jaros, **CE Wilson, **PJ Hendrickson, and MN Gooseff. 2017. Characterizing hyporheic exchange processes using high-frequency electrical conductivity-discharge relationships on subhourly to interannual timescales. Water Resources Research, 53(3): 4124-4141.
• **Webb, RW, SR Fassnacht, and MN Gooseff. 2017. Defining the diurnal pattern of snowmelt using a beta distribution function. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 53(3): 684-696.
• **Webb, R, S Fassnacht, and MN Gooseff 2015. Wetting and drying variability of the shallow subsurface beneath a snowpack in California’s southern Sierra Nevada. Vadose Zone Journal, 14(8): doi:10.2136/vzj2014.12.0182. 
• **Langford, ZL, MN Gooseff, and DJ Lampkin. 2015. Spatiotemporal dynamics of wetted soils across a polar desert landscape. Antarctic Science, 27(2): 197-209.
• **Larson, LN, M Fitzgerald, K Singha, MN Gooseff, JL Macalady, and W Burgos. 2013. Hydrogeochemical niches associated with hyporheic exchange beneath an acid mine drainage-contaminated stream. Journal of Hydrology, 501: 163-174.
• **Ward, AS, *RA Payn, MN Gooseff, BL McGlynn, KE Bencala, CA Kelleher, SM Wondzell, and T Wagener. 2013. Variations in surface water-ground water interactions along a headwater mountain stream: Comparisons between transient storage and water balance analyses. Water Resources Research, 49(6): 3359-3374.
• **Kerr, PC, MN Gooseff, and D Bolster. 2013.The significance of model structure in one-dimensional stream solute transport models with multiple transient storage zones – competing vs. nested arrangements. Journal of Hydrology, 497: 133-144.
• Gooseff, MN, DA Benson, MA Briggs, *M Weaver, W Wollheim, B Peterson, and CS Hopkinson. 2011. Residence time distributions in surface transient storage zones in streams: Estimation via signal deconvolution. Water Resources Research, 47, W05509, doi:10.1029/2010WR009959.