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Last published 2024
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Phillip D. Hays

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Associate Research Professor

Also affiliated: United States Geological Survey (1996–2019); Duke University (2012); Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center (2017–2020); Texas A&M University (1991–1994)

13 h-index 69 pubs 1,080 cited

  • Rivers
  • Arkansas
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Nutrients
  • Agriculture
  • Nitrogen
  • Tracheophyta
  • Wetlands
  • Animal Feed
  • Energy Metabolism
  • Nitrates
  • Calcium
  • Cations
  • Magnesium
  • Phosphorus

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Phillip D. Hays' research focuses on hydrology and water quality, with an emphasis on understanding the interactions between surface water and groundwater in Arkansas. His work investigates the impacts of agricultural operations, such as swine slurry holding ponds, on local water quality. Hays also studies the influence of land use and human activities, including highway construction, on stream chemistry and groundwater systems. His research has examined the potentiometric surfaces and water-level changes in key aquifers within Arkansas, contributing to a better understanding of regional hydrogeology. He has published 68 papers and has been cited 1,050 times, with an h-index of 13. Hays collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Metrics

  • h-index: 13
  • Publications: 69
  • Citations: 1,080

Positions

  • Associate Research Professor 2000–present
    University of Arkansas Fayetteville Geosciences ORCID
  • Senior Hydrologist 1992–present
    U.S. Geological Survey ORCID
  • Exploration Geologist 1985–1988
    Sun Exploration ORCID

Selected Publications

  • Evaluating groundwater–surface water interactions at selected streams in the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer, USA, and comparison to regional potentiometric surfaces (2025)
    Hydrogeology Journal 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • QUANTIFYING THE SHORT-TERM HYDROGEOLOGIC RESPONSES OF HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION IN HOT SPRINGS, AR (2024)
    Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America DOI OpenAlex
  • Relationships between land use and stream chemistry in the Mulberry River basin, Arkansas (2022)
    River Research and Applications 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Water quality adjacent to swine slurry holding ponds associated with a concentrated animal feeding operation (2022)
    Agrosystems Geosciences & Environment 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Phosphorus runoff risk assessment in karstic regions of the United States (2020)
    Agricultural & Environmental Letters 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Isotopes in karst waters and cave sediments (2019)
    Elsevier eBooks DOI OpenAlex
  • Coupling High-Frequency Stream Metabolism and Nutrient Monitoring to Explore Biogeochemical Controls on Downstream Nitrate Delivery (2018)
    Environmental Science & Technology 49 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Nutrient Concentrations in Big Creek Correlate to Regional Watershed Land Use (2017)
    Agricultural & Environmental Letters 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Carbon cycling in the mantled karst of the Ozark Plateaus, central United States (2017)
    Geoderma Regional 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Quantifying the variability in Escherichia coli (E. coli) throughout storm events at a karst spring in northwestern Arkansas, United States (2015)
    Environmental Earth Sciences 18 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Hydraulic and Physiochemical Properties of a Hillslope Soil Assemblage in the Ozark Highlands (2014)
    Soil Science 12 citations DOI OpenAlex

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