Janice Brahney

Publications | Book Chapters

• Brahney, J., (2021). Dust and Fog effects on Inland Waters: The Encyclopedia of Inland Waters. Academic Press, Elsevier *

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Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

• González-Olalla, J.M, Brahney, J., (2025). Diverse dust sources and warming trigger cyanobacteria abundance in freshwater ecosystems in the western United States. Environmental Research, 278, doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2025.121663
• Wen, J., Chan, S.C, Aanderud, Z.T, Baron, J.S, Chandra, S., Elser, J.J, Leifi, D.T, Suenaga, E., Waring, B., Brahney, J., (2025). Experimental evidence of dust-driven shifts in production, chlorophyll a, and community composition in mountain lakes. Limnology and Oceanography, 70:7, 1913-1929. doi: 10.1002/lno.70061
• Nielson, J.R, Brahney, J., (2025). Quantifying Dust Nutrient Mobility Through an Alpine Watershed. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 130:1, doi: 10.1029/2024jg008175
• Belontz, S.L, Brahney, J., Caplan, C.E, Dillon, E., Yan, T., Dominguez, G., (2025). Combining Submicron Spectroscopy Techniques (AFM-IR and O-PTIR) To Detect and Quantify Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Snow from a Utah Ski Resort. Environmental Science and Technology, 59:26, 13362-13373. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.4c12170
• Chang, H., Granek, E., Gannon, A., Wolfand, J.M, Brahney, J., (2025). Convergence Research for Microplastic Pollution at the Watershed Scale. Environments Mdpi, 12:6, doi: 10.3390/environments12060187
• Brahney, J., Heindel, R.C, Gill, T.E, Carling, G., González-Olalla, J.M, Hand, J., Mallia, D.V, Munroe, J.S, Perry, K., Putman, A.L, Skiles, S.M, Adams, B., Aanderud, Z., Aarons, S., Aguirre, D., Ardon-Dryer, K., Blakowski, M.B, Creamean, J.M, Fernandez, D., Foroutan, H., Gaston, C., Hahnenberger, M., Hoch, S., Jones, D.K, Kelly, K.E, Lang, O.I, LeMonte, J., Reynolds, R., Singh, R.P, Sweeney, M., Merrill, T., (2024). Dust in the Critical Zone: North American case studies. Earth-Science Reviews, 258, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.104942
• Sujon, S., Fabiszak, A., Brahney, J., Moor, K., (2024). Wavelength Sensitive Plastic Photodissolution: Elucidating Quantum Yield Trends for Solar Activation Spectra. Environmental Science & Technology, 58:52, 23138-23147.
• Mangum, A.L, Carling, G.T, Bickmore, B.R, Webb, N., Leifi, D.T, Brahney, J., Fernandez, D.P, Rey, K.A, Nelson, S.T, Burgener, L., LeMonte, J.J, Thompson, A.N, Newingham, B.A, Duniway, M.C, Aanderud, Z.T, (2024). Characterizing variability in geochemistry and mineralogy of western US dust sources. Aeolian Research, 70-71, doi: 10.1016/j.aeolia.2024.100941
• Kopáček, J., Brahney, J., Kaňa, J., Kopáček, M., Porcal, P., Stuchlík, E., (2024). The concentration of organic nitrogen in mountain lakes is increasing as a result of reduced acid deposition and climate change. Science of The Total Environment, 950, 175363. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175363
• Farruggia, M.J, Brahney, J., Tanentzap, A.J, Brentrup, J.A, Brighenti, L.S, Chandra, S., Cortés, A., Fernandez, R.L, Fischer, J.M, Forrest, A.L, Jin, Y., Larrieu, K., McCullough, I.M, Oleksy, I.A, Pilla, R.M, Rusak, J.A, Scordo, F., Smits, A.P, Symons, C.C, Tang, M., Woodman, S.G, Sadro, S., (2024). Wildfire smoke impacts lake ecosystems. Global Change Biology, 30:6, doi: 10.1111/gcb.17367
• Daniels, J., Liang, L., Benedict, K.B, Brahney, J., Rangel, R., Weathers, K.C, Ponette-González, A.G, (2024). Satellite-based aerosol optical depth estimates over the continental U.S. during the 2020 wildfire season: Roles of smoke and land cover. Science of the Total Environment, 921
• Gianniny, G., Stark, J.M, Abbott, B.W, Lee, R., Brahney, J., (2024). Soil temperature and moisture as key controls of phosphorus export in mountain watersheds. Science of the Total Environment, 921
• King, L., Devey, M., Leavitt, P.R, Power, M.J, Brothers, S., Brahney, J., (2024). Anthropogenic forcing leads to an abrupt shift to phytoplankton dominance in a shallow eutrophic lake. Freshwater Biology
• Gonzallez Ollala, J.M, Powell, J.A, Brahney, J., (2023). Dust storms increase the tolerance of phytoplankton to thermal and pH changes. Global Change Biology, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17055
• Xiao, S., Cui, Y., Brahney, J., Mahowald, N.M, Li, Q., (2023). Long-distance atmospheric transport of microplastic fibres influenced by their shapes. Nature Geoscience, 16:10, 863-870.
• Wang, J., Guo, X., Brahney, J., Xu, Z., Hu, Y., Sheng, W., Chen, Y., Li, M., Guo, W., (2023). Growth of grasses and forbs, nutrient concentration, and microbial activity in soil treated with microbeads. Environmental Pollution, 324
• Murray, D., Neilson, B.T, Brahney, J., (2023). Beaver Pond Geomorphology Influences Pond Nitrogen Retention and Denitrification. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 128:4
• King, L., Brahney, J., Daly, S., Paul, M.J, Salk, K.R, Brothers, S., (2023). Primary production modeling identifies restoration targets for shifting shallow, eutrophic lakes to clear-water regimes. Freshwater Science, 42:1, 44-57.
• Huston, G.P, Lopez, M.L, Cheng, Y., King, L., Duxbury, L.C, Picard, M., Thomson-Laing, G., Myler, E., Helbing, C.C, Kinnison, M.T, Saros, J.E, Gregory-Eaves, I., Monchamp, M.E, Wood, S.A, Armbrecht, L., Ficetola, G.F, Kurte, L., Von Eggers, J., Brahney, J., Parent, G., Sakata, M.K, Doi, H., Capo, E., (2023). Detection of fish sedimentary DNA in aquatic systems: A review of methodological challenges and future opportunities. Environmental DNA
• Scholz, J., Brahney, J., (2022). Evidence for multiple potential drivers of increased phosphorus in high-elevation lakes. Science of the Total Environment, 825
• Xu, Z., Belmont, P., Brahney, J., Gellis, A.C, (2022). Sediment source fingerprinting as an aid to large-scale landscape conservation and restoration: A review for the Mississippi River Basin. Journal of Environmental Management, 324
• Lukens, E., Neilson, B.T, Williams, K.H, Brahney, J., (2022). Evaluation of Hydrograph Separation Techniques with Uncertain End-member Composition. Hydrologic Processes, 36:9, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14693
• Jiao, X., Dong, Z., Brahney, J., Parteli, E.J, Li, F., Augusto, M., Wei, T., (2022). Uranium isotopes of aeolian dust deposited in northern Tibetan Plateau glaciers: Implications for tracing aeolian dust provenance. Fundamental Research, 2:5, 716-726.
• Wu, R., Dong, Z., Cheng, X., Brahney, J., Jiao, X., Wu, L., (2022). Heavy metal levels and sources in suspended particulate matters of the glacier watersheds in Northeast Tibetan Plateau. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10
• Wen, J., Brahney, J., Lin, Y., Ma, Z., Sun, N., Zheng, J., Ji, H., Kang, H., Du, B., Liang, G., Umair, M., Liu, C., (2022). The scaling of leaf nitrogen and phosphorus along a phosphorus availability gradient in a subtropical forest. Plant Ecology, 223:8, 995-1006.
• Hammill, E., Pendleton, M., Brahney, J., Kettenring, K., Atwood, T., (2022). Metal concentrations in wetland plant tissues influences transfer to terrestrial food webs. Ecotoxicology, 31:5, 836-845.
• Evangeliou, N., Tichý, O., Eckhardt, S., Zwaaftink, C.G, Brahney, J., (2022). Sources and fate of atmospheric microplastics revealed from inverse and dispersion modelling: From global emissions to deposition. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 432
• Allen, D., Allen, S., Abbasi, S., Baker, A., Bergmann, M., Brahney, J., Butler, T., Duce, R.A, Eckhardt, S., Evangeliou, N., Jickells, T., Kanakidou, M., Kershaw, P., Laj, P., Levermore, J., Li, D., Liss, P., Liu, K., Mahowald, N., Masque, P., Materić, D., Mayes, A.G, McGinnity, P., Osvath, I., Prather, K.A, Prospero, J.M, Revell, L.E, Sander, S.G, Wright, S., (2022). Microplastics and nanoplastics in the marine-atmosphere environment. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, 3:6, 393-405.
• Jiao, X., Dong, Z., Parteli, E.J, Brahney, J., Wei, T., Augusto, M., Nie, J., Ren, J., Qin, X., (2022). Uranium Isotopic Composition and Constraints on the Provenance of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau's Surface Dust. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 127:3
• Burpee, B.T, Saros, J.E, Nanus, L., Baron, J., Brahney, J., Christianson, K.R, Ganz, T., Heard, A., Hundey, B., Koinig, K.A, Kopáček, J., Moser, K., Nydick, K., Oleksy, I., Sadro, S., Sommaruga, R., Vinebrooke, R., Williams, J., (2022). Identifying factors that affect mountain lake sensitivity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition across multiple scales. Water Research, 209
• Hammill, E., Pendleton, M., Brahney, J., Kettenring, K., Atwood, T., (2022). Metal concentrations in wetland plant tissues influences transfer to terrestrial food webs. Ecotoxicology
• Brahney, J., Mahowald, N., Prank, M., Cornwell, G., Klimont, Z., Matsui, H., Prather, K.A, (2021). Constraining the atmospheric limb of the plastic cycle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118:16
• Frei, R.J, Lawson, G.M, Norris, A.J, Cano, G., Vargas, M.C, Kujanpää, E., Hopkins, A., Brown, B., Sabo, R., Brahney, J., Abbott, B.W, Toor, G.S, (2021). Limited progress in nutrient pollution in the U.S. caused by spatially persistent nutrient sources. PLOS ONE, 16:11, e0258952. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258952
• Wei, T., Brahney, J., Dong, Z., Kang, S., Zong, C., Guo, J., Yang, L., Qin, X., (2021). Hf-Nd-Sr Isotopic Composition of the Tibetan Plateau Dust as a Fingerprint for Regional to Hemispherical Transport. Environmental Science and Technology, 55:14, 10121-10132.
• Murray, D., Neilson, B.T, Brahney, J., (2021). Source or Sink? Quantifying beaver pond influence on non-point source pollutant transport in the the Intermountain West. Journal of Environmental Management, 285, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112127
• Clancy, N.G, Brahney, J., Dunnigan, J., Budy, P., (2021). Effects of a diatom ecosystem engineer (Didymosphenia geminata) on stream food webs: Implications for native fishes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 78:2, 154-164.
• McKnight, E.A, Swanson, H., Brahney, J., Hik, D.S, (2021). The physical and chemical limnology of yukon’s largest lake, lhù’ààn mân’ (Kluane lake), prior to the 2016 ‘aäy chù’ diversion. Arctic Science, 7:3, 655-678.
• Brahney, J., Hallerud, M., Heim, E., Hahnenberger, M., Sukumaran, S., (2020). Plastic rain in protected areas of the United States. Science, 368:6496, 1257-1260.
• Elser, J.J, Wu, C., González, A.L, Shain, D.H, Smith, H.J, Sommaruga, R., Williamson, C.E, Brahney, J., Hotaling, S., Vanderwall, J., Yu, J., Aizen, V., Aizen, E., Battin, T.J, Camassa, R., Feng, X., Jiang, H., Lu, L., Qu, J.J, Ren, Z., Wen, J., Wen, L., Woods, H.A, Xiong, X., Xu, J., Yu, G., Harper, J.T, Saros, J.E, (2020). Key rules of life and the fading cryosphere: Impacts in alpine lakes and streams.. Global change biology, 26:12, 6644-6656.
• Clancy, N.G, Draper, J.P, Wolf, J.M, Abdulwahab, U.A, Pendleton, M.C, Brothers, S., Brahney, J., Weathered, J., Hammill, E., Atwood, T., (2020). Protecting endangered species in the USA requires both public and private land conservation. Scientific Reports, 10:1
• Brahney, J., Wetherbee, G., Sexstone, G.A, Youngbull, C., Strong, P., Heindel, R.C, (2020). A new sampler for the collection and retrieval of dry dust deposition. Aeolian Research, 45
• Blais-Stevens, A., Clague, J.J, Brahney, J., Lipovsky, P., Haeussler, P.J, Menounos, B., (2020). Evidence for large Holocene earthquakes along the Denali fault in southwest Yukon, Canada. Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, 66:1
• Brahney, J., Bothwell, M.L, Capito, L., Gray, C.A, Null, S., Menounos, B., Curtis, P.J, (2020). Glacier recession alters stream water quality characteristics facilitating bloom formation in the benthic diatom Didymosphenia geminata. Science of the Total Environment
• Crawford, J.T, Hinckley, E.S, Litaor, M.I, Brahney, J., Neff, J.C, (2019). Evidence for accelerated weathering and sulfate export in high alpine environments. Environmental Research Letters, 14:12, 124092.
• Kopáček, J., Kaňa, J., Bičárová, S., Brahney, J., Navrátil, T., Norton, S.A, Porcal, P., Stuchlík, E., (2019). Climate change accelerates recovery of the Tatra Mountain lakes from acidification and increases their nutrient and chlorophyll a concentrations. Aquatic Sciences, 81:4
• Courtney Mustaphi, C.J, Brahney, J., Aquino-López, M.A, Goring, S., Orton, K., Noronha, A., Czaplewski, J., Asena, Q., Paton, S., Panga Brushworth, J., (2019). Guidelines for reporting and archiving ²¹⁰Pb sediment chronologies to improve fidelity and extend data lifecycle. Quaternary Geochronology, 52, 77-87.
• Brahney, J., Ballantyne, A.P, Vandergoes, M., Baisden, T., Neff, J.C, (2019). Increased Dust Deposition in New Zealand Related to Twentieth Century Australian Land Use. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124:5, 1181-1193.
• Epperly, J., Witt, A., Haight, J., Washko, S., Atwood, T., Brahney, J., Brothers, S., Hammill, E., (2018). Relationships between borders, management agencies, and the likelihood of watershed impairment. PLoS ONE, 13:9
• Mahowald, N.M, Scanza, R., Brahney, J., Goodale, C.L, Hess, P.G, Moore, J.K, Neff, J., (2017). Aerosol Deposition Impacts on Land and Ocean Carbon Cycles. Current Climate Change Reports, 3:1, 16–31.
• Brahney, J., Menounos, B., Wei, A., Curtis, P.J, (2017). Determining annual cryosphere storage contributions to streamflow using historical hydrometric records. Hydrological Processes
• Brahney, J., Weber, F., Foord, V., Janmaat, J., Curtis, P.J, (2017). Evidence for a climate-driven hydrologic regime shift in the Canadian Columbia Basin. Canadian Water Resources Journal/Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques, 42:2, 179–192.
• Stoddard, J.L, Van Sickle, J., Herlihy, A.T, Brahney, J., Paulsen, S., Peck, D.V, Mitchell, R., Pollard, A.I, (2016). Continental-Scale Increase in Lake and Stream Phosphorus: Are Oligotrophic Systems Disappearing in the United States?. Environmental science & technology, 50:7, 3409–3415.
• Brahney, J., Ballantyne, A., Kociolek, P., Leavitt, P., Farmer, G., Neff, J., (2015). Ecological changes in two contrasting lakes associated with human activity and dust transport in western Wyoming. Limnology and Oceanography, 60:2, 678–695.
• Brahney, J., Mahowald, N., Ward, D.S, Ballantyne, A.P, Neff, J.C, (2015). Is atmospheric phosphorus pollution altering global alpine Lake stoichiometry?. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29:9, 1369–1383.
• Brahney, J., Ballantyne, A., Kociolek, P., Spaulding, S., Otu, M., Porwoll, T., Neff, J., (2014). Dust mediated transfer of phosphorus to alpine lake ecosystems of the Wind River Range, Wyoming, USA. Biogeochemistry, 120:1-3, 259–278.
• Brahney, J., Ballantyne, A.P, Turner, B.L, Spaulding, S.A, Otu, M., Neff, J.C, (2014). Separating the influences of diagenesis, productivity and anthropogenic nitrogen deposition on sedimentary δ¹⁵N variations. Organic Geochemistry, 75, 140-150.
• Brahney, J., Ballantyne, A., Sievers, C., Neff, J., (2013). Increasing Ca 2+ deposition in the western US: the role of mineral aerosols. Aeolian Research, 10, 77–87.
• Ballantyne, A.P, Brahney, J., Fernandez, D., Lawrence, C., Saros, J., Neff, J., (2011). Biogeochemical response of alpine lakes to a recent increase in dust deposition in the Southwestern, US. Biogeosciences, 8, 2689.
• Brahney, J., Routledge, R., Bos, D.G, Pellatt, M.G, (2010). Changes to the productivity and trophic structure of a sockeye salmon rearing lake in British Columbia. North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 30:2, 433–444.
• Brahney, J., Clague, J.J, Edwards, T.W, Menounos, B., (2010). Late Holocene paleohydrology of Kluane Lake, Yukon Territory, Canada. Journal of Paleolimnology, 44:3, 873–885.
• Brahney, J., Clague, J.J, Menounos, B., Edwards, T.W, (2008). Geochemical reconstruction of late Holocene drainage and mixing in Kluane Lake, Yukon Territory. Journal of Paleolimnology, 40:1, 489–505.
• Brahney, J., Clague, J.J, Menounos, B., Thomas, W., (2008). Timing and cause of water level fluctuations in Kluane Lake, Yukon Territory, over the past 5000 years. Quaternary Research, 70:2, 213–227.
• Brahney, J., Bos, D.G, Pellatt, M.G, Edwards, T.W, Routledge, R., (2006). The influence of nitrogen limitation on d15N and carbon: nitrogen ratios in sediments from sockeye salmon nursery lakes in British Columbia, Canada. Limnology and Oceanography, 51:5, 2333–2340.

In-House Journal

Public or Trade Journal

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Technical Reports

AES Reports

Research Reports

• Kopp, K., Endter-Wada, J.L, Baker, M.A, Brahney, J., Chikamoto, Y., Kettenring, K., Neilson, B.T, Null, S., Rivers, E., Rosenberg, D.E, Schmidt, J.C, Shilton, R., Tarboton, D.G, Torres-Rua, A., Wang, S., Wheaton, J.M, Wurtsbaugh, W.A, Yost, M., Zhang, W., (2021). Utah State University 2021 Report to the Governor on Utah’s Land, Water, and Air.

Other Reports

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Other

Bulletins

Other

• Dong, Z., Brahney, J., Kang, S., Elser, J., Wei, T., Jiao, X., Shao, Y., (2020). Aeolian dust transport, cycle and influences in high-elevation cryosphere of the Tibetan Plateau region: New evidences from alpine snow and ice. Earth-Science Reviews
• Moser, K.A, Baron, J.S, Brahney, J., Oleksy, I.A, Saros, J.E, Hundey, E.J, Sadro, S.A, Kopáček, J., Sommaruga, R., Kainz, M.J, Strecker, A.L, Chandra, S., Walters, D.M, Preston, D.L, Michelutti, N., Lepori, F., Spaulding, S.A, Christianson, K.R, Melack, J.M, Smol, J.P, (2019). Mountain lakes: Eyes on global environmental change. Global and Planetary Change
• Brahney, J., (2007). PALEOLIMNOLOGY OF KLUANE LAKE. Simon Fraser University

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.