Scott Allen

Assistant Professor, Ecohydrology & Physiological Ecology

Department: Dept. of Natural Resources & Environmental Science
NRES Office: (775) 784-4020
Email: scottallen@unr.edu
Building: FA
Room: 217
Mail stop: 186
Website: ResearchGate
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Summary

Currently recruiting students to work on a variety of topics, including questions related to:

From when and where do plants take up water
How ecosystem disturbances versus physiological stressors interact with water and carbon balances
How changes in forest density affect the energy budgets and the partitioning between the relative roles of evaporation versus plant transpiration.
How do snowmelt and rainfall differently travel through ecosystems, hillslopes, and catchments

Education

B.S., University of Maryland, 2009
M.S., Oregon State University, 2012
Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 2016

Publications

Books

The Stable Hydrogen Isotopic Signature: From Source Water to Tree Rings

2022

In: Siegwolf, R.T.W., Brooks, J.R., Roden, J., Saurer, M. (eds) Stable Isotopes in Tree Rings. Tree Physiology, vol 8. Springer, Cham.

M.M. Lehmann, P. Schuler, M.-A. ’e Cormier, S.T. Allen, M. Leuenberger, S. Voelker

Journals

Isotopic evidence for seasonal water sources in tree xylem and forest soils

2024

Ecohydrology, 17(5), e2641

Floriancic, M. G., Allen, S. T., & Kirchner, J. W.

The Roles of Winter Versus Summer Precipitation in Supplying Evapotranspiration Across US Ecoregions: A Cross-Catchment End-Member-Splitting Analysis

2024

Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL109112.

Kesting, H. M., & Allen, S. T.

Young and new water fractions in soil and hillslope waters

2024

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 4295–4308

Marius G. Floriancic, Scott T. Allen and James W. Kirchner

This study illustrates how flow, storage, and mixing processes linking precipitation to streamflow and evapotranspiration can be constrained by measuring isotopic variability across different...

Shower thoughts: why scientists should spend more time in the rain

2023

BioScience, Volume 73, Issue 6, June 2023, Pages 441–452

John T Van Stan, Scott T Allen, Douglas P Aubrey, Z Carter Berry, Matthew Biddick, Miriam A M J Coenders-Gerrits, Paolo Giordani, Sybil G Gotsch, Ethan D Gutmann, Yakov Kuzyakov, Donát Magyar, Valentina S A Mella, Kevin E Mueller, Alexandra G Ponette-González, Philipp Porada, Carla E Rosenfeld, Jack Simmons, Kandikere R Sridhar, Aron Stubbins, Travis Swanson

Potential Effects of Cryogenic Extraction Biases on Plant Water Source Partitioning Inferred from Xylem Water Isotope Ratios.

2022

Hydrological Processes Volume36, Issue2 February 2022 e14483

S.T. Allen, J.W. Kirchner

Potential for significant precipitation cycling by forest-floor litter and deadwood

2022

Ecohydrology, Volume16, Issue2 March 2023 e2493

M.G. Floriancic, S.T. Allen, R. Meier, L. Truniger, J.W. Kirchner, P. Molnar

Localized augmentation of net precipitation to shrubs: a case study of stemflow funneling to hummocks in a salinity-intruded swamp.

2021

Front. For. Glob. Change, 07 July 2021

Allen, S. T., & Conner, W. H.