Publications

Recent Publications (2022-2026)

Bold indicates current faculty, current student, or graduate

• Brigino, T., Rains K.C., Guerrón-Orejuela E.J., Argueta, J., Bentz S., Walker C., Rains M.C., (2026) No groundwater, no fish: the critical role of groundwater in supporting non-glacial, salmon-bearing rivers in south-central Alaska. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 
• Kleindl, W.J., Church, S., Rains K.C., Rains M.C., Stein E.D., Suddreth M.K. (2026) Bridging functions and values: advancing wetland ecosystem service assessment through use of a service capacity index. Wetlands 46(25).
• Rains M.C., Rains K.C., Kleindl W.J., Hauer F.R. (In Review) Riparian Processes and Interactions. In Hauer FR, Tank J, Hall R, Lamberti G (Eds.), Methods in Stream Ecology 4th Ed. Elsevier, New York, NY
• Rains K.C., Lawlor S.A., Guerrón-Orejuela E.J., Landry S., Kleindl W.J., Rains M.C. (2025) Fewer Wetlands, More Drainage: Forensic Mapping of Wetland Loss and Drainage Alteration Illustrates the Hydrological Transformation of Coastal Watersheds. Wetlands 45(8).
• K.C. Rains, E.J. Guerrón-Orejuela (2025) Technical Report: Pilot Scale Development of a Septic-to-Sewer Conversion Prioritization Tool Using Analytical Hierarchy Process Phase III: Expansion. Prepared for: Office of Environmental Accountability and Transparency, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. DEP Agreement # AT020.
• Van Alphen, R., Rains K.C., Rodgers M., Malservisi R., Dixon T. (2024) UAV-based wetland monitoring : Multispectral and lidar fusion with random forest classification. Drones 8(3).
• Rains K.C., C.S. Bledsoe, T.E.C. Kraus, N. Wurzburger (2024) Evidence that ericoid mycorrhizal shrubs can outcompete ectomycorrhizal trees for nitrogen in tannin-rich litter Ecosphere 15:e4818.
• Laanbroek HJ, Rains M.C., Verhoeven J.T.A., Whigham D.F. (2024) The effect of intentional summer flooding for mosquito control on the nitrogen dynamics of impounded Avicennia germinans mangrove forests. Scientific Reports 14:2165.
• Lawlor S., Rains K.C., Landry S., Rains M. (2023) Forensic wetland and deepwater habitat mapping for setting pre-development conditions Wetland Science and Practice October.
• Rains, M., Schmidt, K., Landry S., Kleindl W., Rains K.C. (2023) Reorganizing the waterscape: asymmetric loss of wetlands and gain of artifical water features in a mixed-use watershed Wetlands 43 Article 91.
• Guerrón-Orejuela E.J., Rains K.C., Brigino T., Kleindl W., Landry S., Spellman P., Walker C., Rains M. (2023) Mapping groundwater recharge potential in high latitude landscapes using public data, remote sensing, and analytic hierarchy process Remote Sensing 15(10):2630.
• Leibowitz S.G., Hill R.A., Creed I.F., Compton J.E., Golden H.E., Weber M., Rains M.C., Jones C.E., Henry Lee E., Christensen J.R., Belmore R.A., Lane C.R. (2023) National hydrologic connectivity classification links wetlands with stream water quality. Nature Water 1, 370–380.
• K.C. Rains, E.J. Guerrón-Orejuela (2024) Technical Report: Pilot Scale Development of a Septic-to-Sewer Conversion Prioritization Tool Using Analytical Hierarchy Process Phase II: Landscape Vulnerability. Prepared for: Office of Environmental Accountability and Transparency, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. DEP Agreement # AT020.
• Stepchinski, L.M., Rains, M., Lee, L., Lis, R., Nutter, W., Rains, K., and Stewart, S., (2023) Hydrologic connectivity and flow generation from California vernal pool, swale, and headwater stream complexes to downstream waters Wetlands 43.
• Guerrón-Orejuela E.J., K.C. Rains (2023) Technical Report: Pilot Scale Development of a Septic-to-Sewer Conversion Prioritization Tool Using Analytical Hierarchy Process. Prepared for: Office of Environmental Accountability and Transparency, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. DEP Agreement # AT015.
• Gerlach M.E., Rains K.C., Guerrón-Orejuela E.J., Kleindl W.J., Downs J., Landry S.M., Rains M.C. (2022) Using remote sensing and machine learning to locate groundwater discharge to salmon-bearing streams. Remote Sensing 14(1):63.
• Flower H., Rains M., Taşcı Y., Zhang J-Z, Trout K., Lewis D.B., Das A., Dalton R. (2022) Why is calcite a strong phosphorus sink in freshwater? Investigating the adsorption mechanism using batch experiments and surface complexation modeling. Chemosphere 286:131596.
• Nowicki R.S., Rains M.C., LaRoche J.J., Downs C.M., Kruse S.E. (2022) The peculiar hydrology of west-central Florida’s sandhill wetlands, ponds, and lakes – Part 2: hydrogeologic controls. Wetlands 42:1-17.