Professor, Geology & Geophysics
Director, Hydrology and Water Resources Graduate Certificate Program, Graduate School
Faculty Affiliate, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research

u0982409@utah.edu

Publications

• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: Wolf, M., Jamison, L.R., Solomon, D.K., Strong, S., Brooks, P.D. (2023) Multi-year Climatic Controls on Groundwater Storage in Seasonally Snow-Covered Headwater Catchments, Water Resources Research 59 (6), e2022WR033394Wolf, M., Jamison, L.R., Solomon, D.K., Strong, S., Brooks, P.D. (2023) Multi-year Climatic Controls on Groundwater Storage in Seasonally Snow-Covered Headwater Catchments, Water Resources Research 59 (6), e2022WR033394, 10/02/2023
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | WATER | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Grijseels N.H., Buchert M., Brooks P.D. & Pataki D.E. (2021). Using LiDAR to assess transitions in riparian vegetation structure along a rural-to-urban land use gradient in western North America. Vol. 14. Ecohydrology., 01/15/2021
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Christensen L., Adams H.R., Tai X., Barnard H.R. & Brooks P.D. (2021). Increasing plant water stress and decreasing summer streamflow in response to a warmer and wetter climate in seasonally snow-covered forests. Vol. 14. Ecohydrology., 01/11/2021
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Tai X., Anderegg W.R.L., Blanken P.D., Burns S.P., Christensen L. & Brooks P.D. (2020). Hillslope Hydrology Influences the Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Remotely Sensed Ecosystem Productivity. Vol. 56. Water Resources Research. DOI: 10.1029/2020WR027630, 11/01/2020
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Tai X., Mackay D., Ewers B., Parsekian A., Beverly D., Speckman H., Brooks P. & Anderegg W. (2019). Plant Hydraulic Stress Explained Tree Mortality and Tree Size Explained Beetle Attack in a Mixed Conifer Forest. (pp. 3555-3568). Vol. 124. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences., 11/01/2019
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | WATER | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Follstad Shah J., Jameel Y., Smith R., Gabor R., Brooks P. & Weintraub S. (2019). Spatiotemporal Variability in Water Sources Controls Chemical and Physical Properties of a Semi-arid Urban River System. (pp. 591-607). Vol. 55. Journal of the American Water Resources Association., 06/01/2019
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | WATER | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Follstad Shah J., Jameel Y., Smith R., Gabor R., Brooks P. & Weintraub S. (2019). Spatiotemporal Variability in Water Sources Controls Chemical and Physical Properties of a Semi-arid Urban River System. (pp. 591-607). Vol. 55. Journal of the American Water Resources Association., 06/01/2019
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Love D., Venturas M., Sperry J., Brooks P., Pettit J., Wang Y., Anderegg W., Tai X. & Mackay D. (2019). Dependence of Aspen Stands on a Subsurface Water Subsidy: Implications for Climate Change Impacts. (pp. 1833-1848). Vol. 55. Water Resources Research., 03/01/2019
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Fan Y., Clark M., Lawrence D., Swenson S., Band L., Brantley S., Brooks P., Dietrich W., Flores A., Grant G., Kirchner J., Mackay D., McDonnell J., Milly P., Sullivan P., Tague C., Ajami H., Chaney N., Hartmann A., Hazenberg P., McNamara J., Pelletier J., Perket J., Rouholahnejad-Freund E., Wagener T., Zeng X., Beighley E., Buzan J., Huang M., Livneh B., Mohanty B., Nijssen B., Safeeq M., Shen C., van Verseveld W., Volk J. & Yamazaki D. (2019). Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling. Water Resources Research., 01/01/2019 GLOBAL
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Love, D.M., M. D. Venturas, J. S. Sperry, P. D. Brooks, J. L. Pettit, Y. Wang, W. R. L. Anderegg, X. Tai, and D. S. Mackay, (2018) Dependence of Utah Aspen Stands on a Subsurface Root Zone Subsidy: Implications for Climate Change Impacts, Water Resources Research, DOI: 10.1029/2018WR023468, 12/17/2018
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: Neilson, B.T., H. Tennant, T.L. Stout, M. Miller, R.S. Gabor, Y. Jameel, M. Millington, A. Gelderloos, G. Bowen, P. D. Brooks (2018) Stream centric methods for establishing groundwater contributions in karst mountain watersheds, Water Resources Research, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR022664, 08/08/2018
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Tai, X., D.S. Mackay, J.S. Sperry, P.D. Brooks, W.R.L. Anderegg, L.B. Flanagan, S.B. Rood, C. Hopkinson 
(2018) Distributed Plant Hydraulic and Hydrological Modeling to Understand the Susceptibility of Riparian Woodland Trees to Drought‐Induced Mortality, Water Resources Research, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR022801, 07/02/2018 CANADA
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Perdrial, J., Brooks, P.D., Swetnam, T., Lohse, K.A._, Rasmussen, C., Litvak, C., Harpold, A.A., Zapata-Rios, X., Broxton, P., Mitra, B., Meixner, T., Condon, K., Huckle, D., Stielstra, C., Vázquez-Ortega, A., Lybrand, R., Holleran, M., Orem, C., Pelletier, J., Chorover, J. (2018) A net ecosystem carbon budget for snow-dominated, forested headwater catchments: linking water and carbon fluxes to critical zone carbon storage, Biogeochemistry 138: 225. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-018-0440-3, 04/06/2018 UNITED STATES
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: Harpold, A.A. and P.D. Brooks (2018) Humidity determines snowpack response to climate change, Proc Nat Acad Sci doi:10.1073/pnas.1716789115, 02/06/2018 GLOBAL
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: Tenant, C. J., A.A. Harpold, K.A. Lohse, S.E. Godsey, B.T. Cosby, L. G. Larsen, P. D. Brooks, and R.W. Van Kirk (2017) Regional sensitivities of seasonal snow cover to elevation, aspect, and vegetation structure in western North America, Water Resources Research 53, Issue 8, 6908–6926, DOI: 10.1002/2016WR019374, 10/16/2017 GLOBAL
• WATER | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: McIntosh, J.C., Schuamberg, C., Perdrial, J., Harpold, A.A., Vázquez-Ortega, A., Rasmussen, C., Zapata-Rios, X., Brooks. P.D., Meixner, T., Pelleteir, J., Derry, L., Chorover, J. (2017) Geochemical evolution of the Critical Zone across variable time scales informs concentration-discharge relationships: Jemez River Basin Critical Zone Observatory, Water Resources Research DOI: 10.1002/2016WR019712, 08/31/2017
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Tai, Xiaonan, D. Scott Mackay, William R. L. Anderegg, John S. Sperry, Paul D. Brooks (2017) Incorporating plant hydraulics improves and topography mediates prediction of aspen mortality in southwestern USA, New Phytologist, DOI:10.1111/nph.14098, 08/15/2017
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | WATER: Gabor, R.S., S. J. Hall, D. Eiriksson, Y. Jameel, M. Millington, T. Stout, M. L. Barnes, A. Gelderloos, H. Tennant, G. J. Bowen, B. T. Neilson P.D. Brooks (2017) Persistent urban influence on surface water quality via impacted groundwater Environ. Sci. Tech DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b00271, 08/01/2017
• WATER | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Swetnam, T., P.D. Brooks, H.R. Barnard, A.A. Harpold, E. Gallo (2017) Revisiting environmental gradient ecology: how topography trumps climate in determining forest carbon reservoir size, Ecosphere 8 (4), e01797. 10.1002/ecs2.1797, 08/01/2017 GLOBAL
• WATER | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Weintraub, S.R. P. D. Brooks, and G.J. Bowen (2017) Interactive effects of vegetation type and topographic position on nitrogen availability and loss in a temperate montane ecosystem, Ecosystems DOI 10.1007/s10021-016-0094-8, 03/15/2017

Presentations

• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: UVU Climate Change Symposium, 10/25/2017 GLOBAL
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Open Plenary, Chapman Conference on Catchment Science, 06/22/2017 GLOBAL
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: USAID World Water Day Forum, Salt Lake City, UT , 03/17/2017

Internal Service

• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | FOOD SYSTEMS: Hydrology and Water Resources Graduate Certificate Program, 01/01/2017-12/31/2017 GLOBAL

External Service

• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: Salt Lake City Climate Vulnerability Assessment, 01/01/2021-12/31/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Community Presentations on Utah water supply, 01/01/2021-12/31/2021
• WATER | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Wild Utah and Trout Unlimited stream restoration, 01/01/2021-12/31/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | WATER: Great Salt Lake Strike Team, 01/01/2023-12/31/2023
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Salt River Project, 01/01/2016-12/31/2017
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Healthy Headwaters Science Advisory Team, 01/01/2016-12/31/2017
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: Salt Lake City Public Utilites, 01/01/2016-12/31/2017

Professional Service

• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: ad hoc reviews, NSF , 01/01/2016-12/31/2016

Media

• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: Multiple television, radio, and print interviews throughout the year on drought, climate change, snow, and Great Salt Lake. Includes local outlets (e.g. KUER, KSL, SL Tribune, Deseret news), national (e.g. NYT, Atlantic, High Country News) and international (Swiss documentary on US water and climate change, Austrian TV series on US drought), 12/31/2023 AUSTRIA SWITZERLAND
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: Interview in High Country News Article on climate change and water supply, 12/08/2021
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: NBC Universal Interview on climate change and Great Salt Lake, 08/16/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: NBC Universal Interview on Climate change and drought, 07/22/2021
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: New York Times Interview on climate change and drought, 07/16/2021
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: Interview with Italian public TV, 07/07/2021
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: KSL Interview on climate change and drought, 07/06/2021
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: Utah Chronicle Interview on water availability and Climate Change, 02/11/2021
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: Multiple outlets sought interviews and reported on our 2018 paper in PNAS documented regional differences in snowpack response to climate change, 01/22/2018
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Interview in Arizona Daily Star, 07/25/2017
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Science Node Interview, 06/30/2017
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: Utopia TV Series Interview, 01/31/2017
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: Interview in Physics Today regarding climate change and water resources, 08/12/2016
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: KUER interview, 04/13/2016
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret News, TakePart, and ClimateWire all ran stories on our research examining the effects of climate change and water resources, 04/12/2016
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: ABC news interview on climate change and water resources, 04/12/2016
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: KSL piece on climate change and water recourses, 04/12/2016
• WATER | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Research spotlight on insect-induced forest mortality and water resources, 03/09/2016
• WATER: FOX News interview on water research, 02/26/2016
• WATER: AGU research spotlight, 02/18/2016

Awards

• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Elected Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 12/14/2021