Brian E. Haggard Source Confirmed

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High Impact

Director

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

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37 h-index 214 pubs 3,871 cited

Research Areas

Harmful Algal Bloom Monitoring Machine Learning Applications in Ecology Water Quality Assessment Nutrient Dynamics in Aquatic Systems Phosphorus Cycling and Runoff Cyanobacterial Bloom Dynamics Environmental Monitoring Technologies Ecosystem Services Assessment

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OverviewAI-generated summary

Brian E. Haggard's research program focuses on environmental monitoring and the application of data science to understand ecological systems. His work has investigated the factors influencing harmful algal blooms (HABs), including the role of nutrient availability and the predictive capacity of chlorophyll and phycocyanin fluorescence. Haggard has also examined the fate and transformation of phosphorus in runoff, particularly in relation to poultry litter, and has studied water quality adjacent to swine slurry holding ponds.

His publications include analyses of microcystin production in cyanobacterial blooms, the relationship between physicochemical properties and toxins in freshwater systems, and the use of machine learning models for HAB monitoring and chlorophyll-a prediction. Haggard also studies how natural characteristics and human activities impact turbidity and ion concentrations in streams.

He is the Director of a research program at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Haggard is a highly cited researcher with an h-index of 37 and over 3,800 citations across more than 200 publications. He has served as Co-PI on an NSF-funded REU SITE grant focused on the assessment and sustainable management of ecosystem services at the nexus of food, energy, and water systems, totaling $387,283.

Metrics

h-index: 37
Publications: 214
Citations: 3,871

Selected Publications

Nutrient dynamics in restored and unrestored urban streams in the Piedmont ecoregion of South Carolina (2025) DOI
Prediction Of Chlorophyll-a As an Index of Harmful Algal Blooms Using Machine Learning Models (2024) DOI
Letter from the Special Issue Editor (2024) DOI
Total Microcystin Concentration Variability in Water Samples and Recommended Minimum Volume (20 mL) for Freeze Thaw Cycles (2023) DOI
Chlorophyll and Phycocyanin Raw Fluorescence May Inform Recreational Lake Managers on Cyanobacterial HABs and Toxins: Lake Fayetteville Case Study (2023) DOI
Informing Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Program Design and Watershed Planning: Case Study of StreamSmart Data Analysis in the Upper White River Basin, Arkansas (2023) DOI
Magnitude of External Phosphorus Loading Likely Reduces Effectiveness of Aluminum Sulfate Treatments for Management of Sediment Phosphorus Flux (2023) DOI
Measurable microcystin in Ozark streams was rare during summer 2018 baseflow conditions (2022) DOI
A Cost-Efficient Method to Remotely Monitor Streamflow in Small-Scale Watersheds (2022) DOI
Water quality concentration trends and loads identify management needs in the Lake Wister watershed (2022) DOI
Manipulating Microvolumes of Fluids By Redox-Magnetohydrodynamics for Applications in Chemical Analysis (2021) DOI
Natural Characteristics and Human Activity Influence Turbidity and Ion Concentrations in Streams (2021) DOI
Nitrogen form, concentration, and micronutrient availability affect microcystin production in cyanobacterial blooms (2021) DOI

Federal Grants 1 $387,283 total

NSF Co-PI

REU SITE: Assessment and sustainable management of ecosystem at the nexus of food, energy, and water systems

Cross-BIO Activities, RSCH EXPER FOR UNDERGRAD SITES $387,283

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