Publications

For an updated list of publications, please visit  Dr Muller's Google Scholar page

Papers below are classified by topic (some paper are listed for several topics) -- please click on the reference to access pre-prints

Causal Inference and/or Attribution of Socio-Environmental Change

• Penny, G., Biswas, S., Mondal, S, Bolster, D., Tank, J. and Muller, M.F., “Using Natural Experiments and Counterfactuals for Causal Assessment: River Salinity and the Ganges Water Agreement”, (2020), Water Resources Research, 
• Perez Valentin*, J. and Muller, M.F., “Impact of Hurricane Maria on beach erosion in Puerto Rico: remote sensing and causal inference”, (2020), Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2020GL087306
• Muller, M.F. , Thompson, S.E. , Gadgil A.J, (2018) “Estimating the price (in)elasticity of off-grid electricity demand", Development Engineering, , doi: 10.1016/j.deveng.2017.12.001        
• Muller M.F., Yoon J., Gorelick S.M., Avisse N. and Tilmant A. (2016) "Impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on land use and transboundary freshwater resources ", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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  • ​​Yoon, J. Muller, M.F., Gorelick, S.M. (2016) "How the Syrian refugee crisis affected land use and shared transboundary freshwater resources", Planet Policy, Brookings Institution.​​

Water Cooperation and Conflict

• Kryston, A., Penny, G., Mondal., S., Bolster, D., Tank, J. and Muller, M.F. (In prep) "Informing the Ganges Water Treaty: Analysis of simulated transboundary streamflow and downstream salinity in Bangladesh"
• Penny, G., Muller-Itten, M., De Los Cobos, G., Mullen, C., Muller, M.F. (2020) "Trust and transboundary groundwater cooperation", Water Resurce Research (Resubmitted with Major Revisions)
• Roche, K., Muller-Itten, M. , Dralle, D., Bolster, D. and Muller, M.F. (2019) "Climate Change and the Opportunity Cost of Conflict", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America​
• Muller M.F., Muller-Itten M.C and Gorelick S.M. (2017) "How Jordan and Saudi Arabia are avoiding a tragedy of the commons over shared groundwater", Water Resources Research​

Large Scale Land Acquisitions

• Muller, M.F., Penny, G., Niles, M.T., Ricciardi, V., Chiarelli, D.D., Davis, K.F., Dell’Angelo, J. , d’Odorico, P., Rosa, L. Rulli, M.C. and Mueller, N. (2021) ”Impact of Transnational Land Deals on Local Food production and Diet Diversity”, (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
• Davis K.F, Muller M.F, Rulli M.C., Tatlhego, M., Ali S., Baggio J.A. , Dell’Angelo J. , Jung S., Kehoe, L., Niles, M.T. and Eckert, S. “Transnational agricultural land investments as an emerging threat to forests and biodiversity”,  submitted.
• Chiarelli, DD, Rosa, L., d’Odorico, P., Muller, MF, Penny, G., Davis, K., Mueller, N., Rulli, MC. “Agricultural water scarcity induced by Large Scale Land Acquisitions”, in Prep.

Remote Sensing, webGIS and geostatistics

Please click [here] for examples of webtools

• Mullen, C., Penny, G., Muller, M.F. (2020) "Assessing historic water extents in rapidly changing lakes: a hybrid remote sensing classification approach", Hydrology and Earth System Science (Resubmitted with major revision)
• Penny, Gopal, Connor Mullen, Diogo Bolster, Bruce Huber, and Marc F. Müller. "anem: A simple web‐based platform to build stakeholder understanding of groundwater behavior." Groundwater (2020).​
• Avisse, N. , Tilmant, A, Muller, M.F., Zhang, H (2017) Monitoring small reservoirs storage from satellite remote sensing in inaccessible areas, Hydrology and Earth Systems Science.
• Muller, M.F., Thompson, S, Kelly, M. (2016) "Bridging the information gap: A webGIS tool for rural electrification in data-scarce regions", Applied Energy
• Muller, M.F. and Thompson, S.E. (2015). A topological restricted maximum likelihood (TopREML) approach to regionalize trended runoff signatures in stream networks.  Hydrology and Earth System Science (19)
• Muller, M.F. and Thompson, S.E. (2013) Bias adjustment of satellite rainfall data through stochastic modeling: Methods development and application to Nepal. Advances in Water Resources (60).​​

Catchment Science

• Muller, M.F., Roche, K. and Dralle, D.“Catchment processes can amplify the effect of increasing rainfall variability”, in Review, preprint available at https: //doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10506264.1
• Karst, N., Dralle, D. and Muller M.F. (2019) “On the Effect of Nonlinear Recessions on Low Flow Variability: Diagnostic of an Analytical Model for Annual Flow Duration Curves”, Water Resources Research, doi: 10.1029/2019WR024912
• Muller, M.F., Thompson, S.E. (2018) "A value-based model selection approach for environmental random variables", Water Resources Research​
• Dralle, D., Karst, N., Muller, M.F., Vico, G. and Thompson, S. (2017) "Stochastic modelling of inter-annual variation of hydrologic variables", Geophysical Research Letters
• Muller, M.F. and Thompson, S.E (2016) "Comparing statistical and process-based flow duration curve models in ungauged basins and changing rain regimes." Hydrology and Earth System Science (20)
• Muller, M.F., Dralle D.N., and Thompson, S.E. (2014). Analytical model for Flow Duration Curves in seasonally dry climates. Water Resources Research (50).

Groundwater

• Mullen, C., Penny, G., Bolster D., and Muller, M.F. (In Prep) "Can distance-base agreements mitigate the overexploitation of transboundary aquifers?"
• Penny, G., Bolster, D., Muller-Itten, M., and Muller, M.F. (in Prep) "Competing incentives and poor groundwater quality in private water systems"
• Penny, G., Muller-Itten, M., De Los Cobos, G., Mullen, C., Muller, M.F. (2020) "Trust and transboundary groundwater cooperation", Water Resurce Research (Resubmitted with Major Revisions)​
• Penny, Gopal, Connor Mullen, Diogo Bolster, Bruce Huber, and Marc F. Müller. "anem: A simple web‐based platform to build stakeholder understanding of groundwater behavior." Groundwater (2020)
• Muller M.F., Muller-Itten M.C and Gorelick S.M. (2017) "How Jordan and Saudi Arabia are avoiding a tragedy of the commons over shared groundwater", Water Resources Research

Review Papers and Opinion Pieces

• Bertassello, L., Levy, M.C. and Müller, M.F. "Sociohydrology, ecohydrology, and the space-time dynamics of human-altered catchments", Submitted
  
• Brelsford, C., Dumas, M., Schlager, E., Dermody, B.J., Aiuvalasit, M., Allen-Dumas, M.R., Beecher, J., Bhatia, U., D'odorico, P., Garcia, M. and Gober, P.,Greonfeldt, D., Lansing, S., Madani, K., Mendez Barrientos, L.E., Mondino, E., Muller, M.F., O'Donnell, F.C., Owuor, P.M., Rising, J., Sanderson, M.R., Souza, F.A.A., Zipper, S.C., (2020). Developing a sustainability science approach for water systems. Ecology & society, (2).
• Muller, M.F. and Levy, M.C. (2019) "Complementary vantage points: integrating hydrology and economics for sociohydrologic knowledge generation", Water Resources Research
• Rahman, M. M., G. Penny, M. S. Mondal, M. H. Zaman, A. Kryston, M. Salehin, Q. Nahar, Islam, M.S., Bolster, D., Tank, J.L. and Müller, M.F.. "Salinization in large river deltas: Drivers, impacts and socio-hydrological feedbacks." Water security 6 (2019): 100024.​

Global Health

• Amrose, S., Gadgil, A., Srinivasan, V., Kowolik, K., Muller, M., Huang, J., & Kostecki, R. (2013). Arsenic removal from groundwater using iron electrocoagulation: effect of charge dosage rate. Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A, 48(9), 1019-1030