Publications
100 years of California’s water rights system: patterns, trends and uncertainty.
Environmental Research Letters. 9, 10pp.
WaterRights_UCDavis_study.pdf (1.34 MB)
(2014). 
Addressing Nitrate in California’s Drinking Water: Executive Summary.
(Darby, J., Fogg G., Howitt R., Jessoe K., Pettygrove S. G., Quinn J. F., et al., Ed.).Addressing Nitrates in California's Drinking Water.
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COMBINED EFFECTS OF RESERVOIR OPERATIONS AND CLIMATE WARMING ON THE FLOW REGIME OF HYDROPOWER BYPASS REACHES OF CALIFORNIA'S SIERRA NEVADA.
River Research and Applications.
Combined effects study (1.19 MB)
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Ecology and Management of the Spring Snowmelt Recession.
Bioscience. 60(2),
(2010).
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(2011). Fish Invasions in California Watersheds: Testing Hypotheses Using Landscape Patterns.
Ecological Applications. 14(5), 1507-1525.
(2004). Flood regime typology for floodplain ecosystem management as applied to the unregulated Cosumnes River of California, United States.
Ecohydrology. 10(e1817),
(2017). A Freshwater Conservation Blueprint for California: Prioritizing Watersheds for Freshwater Biodiversity.
Freshwater Science. 37(2),
(2018). Freshwater conservation options for a changing climate in California’s Sierra Nevada.
Marine and Freshwater Research. 66, 266-278.
(2011). Functional Flows in Modified Riverscapes: Hydrographs, Habitats and Opportunities.
BioScience. 65(9),
BioScience-2015-Yarnell-biosci_biv102.pdf (327.28 KB)
(2015). 
Groundwater Database for California, Poster.
California Water and Environmental Modeling Forum.
(2010). Homogenization of California's Fish Fauna Through Abiotic Change.
(Lockwood, J. L., & McKinney M. L., Ed.).Biotic Homogenization. 259-278.
(2001). Hydrolapse Videography: A Coupled Hydroinformatic Stack for Improved Visual Assessment of River Dynamics.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Hydroinformatics.
Viers and Santos 2014.pdf (623.06 KB)
(2014). 
Hydrologic Response and Watershed Sensitivity to Climate Warming in California’s Sierra Nevada.
PLoS ONE. 5(4),
(2010). Hydropower Costs Of Environmental Flows And Climate Warming In California’s Upper Yuba River Watershed.
River Research and Applicatiions. 29(10), 1291-1305.
(2013). Hydropower Relicensing and Climate Change.
Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 1-7.
(2011). In bad waters: Water year classification in nonstationary climates.
Water Resources Research. 49(February 2013), 1137-1148.
wateryear.pdf (8.73 MB)
(2013). 
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Management of the Spring Snowmelt Recession.
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CEC_Recsn_Limb_Draft_Final_Report.pdf (8 MB)
Management of the Spring Snowmelt Recession in Regulated Systems (AGU 2013 presentation) (1.87 MB)
(2013). 

A Method to Consider Whether Dams Mitigate Climate Change Effects on Stream Temperatures.
Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
Viers_JAWRA_2011.pdf (94.01 KB)
(2013). 
Missing the Boat on Freshwater Fish Conservation in California.
Missing the Boat on Freshwater Fish Conservation in California (1.35 MB)
(2016). 
Modeling the Hydrology of Climate Change in California's Sierra Nevada for Subwatershed Scale Adaptation.
Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 45(6),
(2009). Montane Meadows in the Sierra Nevada: Changing Hydroclimatic Conditions and Concepts for Vulnerability Assessment.
Center for Watershed Sciences Technical Report. 63.
Montane Meadows in the Sierra Nevada: Changing Hydroclimatic Conditions and Concepts for Vulnerability Assessment. CWS Report (4.08 MB)
(2013). 
Multiscale Patterns of Riparian Plant Diversity and Implications for Restoration.
Restoration Ecology. 19,
(2011). Not all breaks are equal: Variable hydrologic and geomorphic responses to intentional levee breaches along the lower Cosumnes River, California.
River Research and Applications.
rra3159.pdf (6.52 MB)
(2017). 
Patterns of Freshwater Species Richness, Endemism, and Vulnerability in California.
PLoS ONE. 10(7),
Read full study (3.16 MB)
(2015). 
A programmable information system for management and analysis of aquatic species range data in California.
Environmental Modelling & Software. 53, 13 - 26.
Santos_et_al_PISCES-2014.pdf (2.98 MB)
(2014). 
Simulating High-Elevation Hydropower with Regional Climate Warming in the West Slope, Sierra Nevada.
JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT. 140, 714-723.
(2014). Stream temperature sensitivity to climate warming in California’s Sierra Nevada: impacts to coldwater habitat.
Climatic Change. 1-22.
(2012). Systematic Screening of Dams for Environmental Flow Assessment and Implementation.
BioScience. 64(10), 1-13.
Journal article (3.13 MB)
Appendix 1: Hydo model performance (108.16 KB)
Appendix 2: Flow-sensitive fishes (84.55 KB)
Appendix 3: Candidate dams (134.83 KB)
Appendix 4: Dam ranking (105 KB)
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Systematic screening of dams for environmental flow assessment and implementation.
BioScience. 65(6), 1006-1018.
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Water and Energy Sector Vulnerability to Climate Warming in the Sierra Nevada: Simulating the Regulated Rivers of California’s West Slope Sierra Nevada .
Our Changing Climate.
(2012). Water and Energy Sector Vulnerability to Climate Warming in the Sierra Nevada: Water Year Classification in Non-Stationary Climates.
Our Changing Climate.
(2012). Water-Energy Sector Vulnerability to Climate Warming in the Sierra Nevada: A Method to Consider Whether Dams Mitigate Climate Change Effects.
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CWS Technical Report 2011-001 (2.59 MB)
(2011). 
Why Climate Change Makes Riparian Restoration More Important than Ever: Recommendations for Practice and Research.
Ecological Restoration. 27(3),
(2009).