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*Student or postdoc when manuscript was written.

*Burke, M., E. Marín-Spiotta, A.G. Ponette-González. Black carbon in urban soils: Land use and climate drive variation at the surface. 2024. Carbon Balance and Management 19, 9.

*Daniels, J., L. Liang, K.B. Benedict, J. Brahney, *R. Rangel, K.C. Weathers, & A.G. Ponette-González. 2024. Satellite-based aerosol optical depth estimates over the continental US during the 2020 wildfire season: Roles of smoke and land cover. Science of The Total Environment 921 171122.

Anderson, K., S. Tooth, D. Kim, L.M. Resler, D. Schillereff, J.W. Williams, D. Rocchini, A.G. Ponette- González, N. Kuhn, J.V. Brian. 2024. A horizon scan for novel and impactful areas of physical geography research in 2023 and beyond. Progress in Physical Geography 48, 3-23.

*Kang, K.A., E. Marín-Spiotta, Elliot Vaughan, C. Reid Ferring, A.G. Ponette-González. 2023. Soil black carbon increases under urban trees with road density and time: Opportunity hotspots for carbon storage in urban ecosystems. Environmental Management. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-023-01911-z

*Grider, A., A.G. Ponette-González, R. Heindel. 2023. Calcium and ammonium now control the pH of wet and bulk deposition in Ohio, U.S. Atmospheric Environment  310, 119986.

*Elderbrock E., A.G. Ponette-González, *J.E. Rindy, K.C. Weathers, J. Lee, Y. Ko. 2023. Modeling black carbon removal by city trees: implications for urban forest planning. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 86128013.

Van Stan, J.T., S.T. Allen, D.P. Aubrey, Z.C. Berry, M. Biddick, A.M.J. Coenders-Gerrits, P. Giordani, S.G. Gotsch, E.D. Gutmann, Y. Kuzyakov, D. Magyar, V.S.A. Mella, K.E. Mueller, A.G. Ponette-González, P. Porada, C.E. Rosenfeld, J. Simmons, K.R. Sridhar, A. Stubbins, T. Swanson. 2023. Shower thoughts: Why scientists should spend more time in the rain. BioScience 73: 441–452. Open Accesshttps://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/73/6/441/7191438

*Byers, T.A., J.E. Manuel, A.G. Ponette-González, T.E. Gill, G. Glass. 2023. Analysis of rain-deposited dust on polysulfone membranes using proton-induced X-ray emission spectroscopy. Microchemical Journal 192: 108928. Open Accesshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0026265X23005465

Ellis, J.L., *S.M. Thomas, *C. Kimpton, A.G. Ponette-González. 2023. Particulate matter filtration by urban vegetation at Charles Rice Learning Center. A study conducted by the Ecosystems Lab at the University of North Texas for the Texas Trees Foundation. Open Access: www.texastrees.org/reports-studies/

*Ellis, J., A.G. Ponette-González, M.J. Fry, J.A. Johnson. 2023. Reduced reflectance and altered color: The cost of external particulate matter accumulation on urban rock pigeon feathers. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11: 946624. Open Access:  https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.946624/full

Ponette-González, A.G., *D. Chen, *E. Elderbrock, Y. Ko, J. Lee, *J.E. Rindy, *T.E. Barrett, *B.W. Luce, K.C. Weathers. 2022. Urban edge trees: urban form and meteorology drive elemental carbon deposition to canopies and soils. Environmental Pollution 314120197, Open Access: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749122014117

Ponette-González, A.G., *H. Lewis, B. Henderson, G. Piñeiro, D. Carnelos, K.C. Weathers, D. Schwede. 2022. Wet nitrogen (N) deposition to urban Latin America: filling in the gaps with GEOS-Chem. Atmospheric Environment 278: 119095, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2022.119095

Ponette-González, A.G. 2021. Accumulator, transporter, substrate, and reactor: Multidimensional perspectives and approaches to the study of bark. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 4: 716557, https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2021.716557

LaFevor, M.C., A.G. Ponette-González, R. Larson, L. M. Mungai. 2021. Spatial targeting of agricultural support measures: Indicator-based assessment of coverages and leakages. Land 10: 740. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10070740

Van Stan II, J.T., A.G. Ponette-González, T. Swanson, K.C. Weathers. 2021. Throughfall and stemflow are hydrologic highways for particulate traffic through plant canopies. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 19: 404-410 (JVS and AGPG contributed equally and are listed as joint first authors)

Ponette-González
, A.G., *M.L. Green, *J. McCullars, L. Gough. 2021. Ambient urban N deposition drives increased biomass and total plant N in two native prairie grass species in the US Southern Great Plains. PLoS ONE,  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251089 (open access!)(AGPG and MLG contributed equally and are listed as joint first authors)

Saad, S.I., J. Mota de Silva, A.G. Ponette-González, M. Naves Silva, H.R. da Rocha. 2021. Modeling the on-site and off-site benefits of Atlantic Forest conservation in a Brazilian watershed. Ecosystem Services 48: 101260

Pitre, C., A.G. Ponette-González, J.E. Rindy, *A. Lee, D. Doherty, M. Fry, J.A. Johnson. 2021. Bird feathers are potential biomonitors for airborne elemental carbon. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 193: 35, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-020-08804-2

Luce, B.W., T.E. Barrett, A.G. Ponette-González. 2020. PM2.5 variability along student cycling commuting routes: Hotspot identification using a low-cost particle sensor. The Geographical Bulletin 61(2): 105-113

Bremer, L.L., P. Hamel, A.G. Ponette-González, P. Vieira Pompeu, S. Saad, K.A. Brauman. 2020. Who are we measuring and modeling for? Supporting multi-level decision-making in watershed management. Water Resources Research 56, e2019WR026011, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR026011. Open access: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR026011

Albus, K.*, R. Thompson, F. Mitchell, J. Kennedy, A.G. Ponette-González. 2020. Accuracy of long-term volunteer water monitoring data: A multiscale analysis from a statewide citizen science program. PLoS ONE 15(1): e0227540. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227540

Hamel, P. L.L. Bremer, A.G. Ponette-González, E. Acosta, J.R.B. Fisher, B. Steele, A. Targa Cavassani, C. Klemz, E. Blainski, K.A. Brauman. 2020. The value of hydrologic information for watershed management programs: the case of Camboriú, Brazil. Science of the Total Environment 135871, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135871

Ponette-González, A.G., J.T. Van Stan, D. Magyar. 2020. Things seen and unseen in throughfall and stemflow. Pages 71-88 in Van Stan II, J.T., Gutmann, J.T., Friesen, J. (Eds.), Precipitation Partitioning by Vegetation - A Global Synthesis. Springer Nature, Germany.

Rindy, J.E.*, A.G. Ponette-González, T.E. Barrett*, R.J. Sheesley, K.C. Weathers. 2019. Urban trees are sinks for soot: elemental carbon accumulation by widespread oak species. Environmental Science & Technology 53: 10092-10101. (No distinction between first and second authors).

Barrett, T.E.*, A.G. Ponette-González, J.E. Rindy*, K.C. Weathers. 2019. Wet deposition of black carbon: a synthesis. Atmospheric Environment 213: 558-567. (No distinction between first and second authors). 

Arango, C., A.G. Ponette-González, I. Neziri*, and J. Bailey*. 2019. Western spruce budworm effects on throughfall C, N, P fluxes and soil nutrient status in the Pacific Northwest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 49: 1207-1218.

Decina, S.M., A.G. Ponette-González, J.E. Rindy*. 2020. Urban tree canopy effects on water quality via inputs to the urban ground surface. Pages 433-457 in Levia, D.F. (Editor), Carlyle-Moses, D.E. (Co-Editor), Iida, S. (Co-Editor), Michalzik, B. (Co-Editor), Nanko, K. (Co-Editor), and Tischer, A. (Co-Editor). Forest-Water Interactions. Ecological Studies Series, No. 240, Springer Nature, Switzerland.

Weathers, K.C., A.G. Ponette-González, T.E. Dawson. 2020. Medium, vector, and connector: fog and the maintenance of ecosystems. Ecosystems 23: 217-229 (No distinction between first and second authors).

Ponette-González, A.G., J.D. Collins, J.E. Manuel*, T.A. Byers*, G.A. Glass, K.C. Weathers, T.E. Gill. 2018. Wet dust deposition during the 2012 US drought: An overlooked pathway for elemental flux to ecosystems. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD028806.

Ponette-González, A.G., Y. Perroni, K.C. Weathers, P.A. de Souza*, F. García-Oliva, W.Z. de Mello. 2017. Nitrogen cycling in tropical Atlantic Forest differing in exposure to urban atmospheric N deposition. Plant and Soil 420: 451-465.

Young, K.R., A.G. Ponette-González, M.H. Polk*, J.K. Lipton. 2016. Snowlines and treelines in the tropical Andes. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 107: 429-440.

Ponette-González, A.G., H.A. Ewing, K.C. Weathers. 2016. Interactions between precipitation and vegetation canopies. Pages 215-253 in: Johnson, E. and Y. Martin, A Biogeoscience Approach to Ecosystems. Cambridge University Press.

Ponette-González, A.G., L.M. Curran, A.M Pittman, K.M. Carlson, B.G. Steele, D. Ratnasari, Mujiman, K.C. Weathers. 2016. Biomass burning drives atmospheric nutrient redistribution within forested peatlands in Borneo. Environmental Research Letters 11: doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/8/085003.

Ponette-González, A.G., H.A. Ewing, M. Fry, K.R. Young. 2016. Soil and fine root chemistry at a tropical Andean timberline. Catena 137: 350-359.

*Griffith, K.T., A.G. Ponette-González, L.M. Curran, K.C. Weathers. 2015. Assessing the influence of topography and canopy structure on Douglas-fir throughfall fluxes with LiDAR and field data. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 187: 1-13.

*de Souza, P.A., A.G. Ponette-González, W.Z. de Mello, K.C. Weathers, I.A. Santos. 2015. Atmospheric organic and inorganic nitrogen inputs to coastal urban and montane Atlantic Forest sites in southeastern Brazil. Atmospheric Research 160: 126-137.

Carlson, K.M. L.M. Curran, A.G. Ponette-González, D. Ratnasari, Rupsita, N. Lisnawati, Y. Purwanto, K.A. Brauman, P.A. Raymond. 2015. Consistent results in stream hydrology across multiple watersheds: A reply to Chew and Goh. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 120: 812-817.

Fry, M., A.G. Ponette-González, K.R. Young. 2015. A low-cost GPS-based protocol to create high-resolution DEMs for remote mountain areas. Mountain Research and Development 35: 39-48.

Ponette-González, A.G., K.A. Brauman, E. Marín-Spiotta, K.A. Farley, K.C. Weathers, K.R. Young, L.M. Curran. 2015. Managing water services in tropical regions: From land cover proxies to hydrologic fluxes. Ambio 44: 367-375.

Ponette-González, A.G. M. Fry. 2014. Enduring footprint of historical land tenure on modern land cover in eastern Mexico: Implications for environmental services programmes. Area 46: 398-409.

Carlson, K.M., L.M. Curran, A.G. Ponette-González, D. Ratnasari, P. Ruspita, N. Lisnawati, Y. Purwanto, K.A. Brauman, P. Raymond. 2014. Influence of watershed-climate interactions on stream temperature, sediment yield, and metabolism along a land-use intensity gradient in Indonesian Borneo. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 119: 1110-1128.

Ponette-González, A.G., E. Marín-Spiotta, K.A. Brauman, K.A. Farley, K.C. Weathers, K.R. Young. 2014. Hydrologic connectivity in the high-elevation tropics: heterogeneous responses to land change. BioScience 64: 92-104.

Fry, M.J., D.H. Hoeinghaus, A.G. Ponette-González, R. Thompson, T.W. La Point. 2012. Fracking vs. Faucets: Balancing energy needs and water sustainability at urban frontiers.  Environmental Science & Technology 46: 7444-7445.

Ponette-González, A.G., J.E. Byrnes. 2011. Sustainable science? Reducing the carbon impact of scientific mega-meetings. Ethnobiology Letters 2: 65-71.

Weathers, K.C., A.G. Ponette-González (No distinction between first and second authors). 2011. Atmospheric Deposition. Pages 357-370 in: Levia, D.F., Carlyle-Moses, D.E., and Tanaka, T. (Eds.), Forest Hydrology and Biogeochemistry: Synthesis of Past Research and Future Directions. Ecological Studies Series, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.

Ponette-González, A.G., K.C. Weathers, L.M. Curran. 2010. Tropical land-cover change alters biogeochemical inputs to ecosystems in a Mexican montane landscape. Ecological Applications 20: 1820-1837.

Ponette-González, A.G., M. Fry. 2010. Pig pandemic: Industrial hog farming in eastern Mexico. Land Use Policy 27: 1107-1110.

Ponette-González, A.G., K.C. Weathers, L.M. Curran. 2010. Water inputs across a tropical montane landscape in Veracruz, Mexico: synergistic effects of land cover, rain and fog seasonality, and interannual precipitation variability. Global Change Biology 16: 946-963.

Ponette-González, A.G.  2007. 2001: A household analysis of Huastec Maya agriculture and land use at the height of the coffee crisis. Human Ecology 35: 289-301.